Michael Savage - The President in the Rye: Barack Obama as Holden Caulfield.

PRESIDENT IN THE RYE: BARACK OBAMA AS HOLDEN CAULFIELD

I’M GOING TO TRACE THE LONG ARC BETWEEN THE CHARACTER IN THE “CATCHER IN THE RYE,” HOLDEN CAULFIELD, AND BARACK OBAMA, WHO IS STILL PLAYING THE OUTSIDER EVEN THOUGH HE’S THE PRESIDENT. YOU SEE, J.D. SALINGER, WHO DIED RECENTLY, WROTE “CATCHER IN THE RYE.” YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF HIM, BUT HIS BOOK, PUBLISHED IN 1951, WRITTEN IN 1945, IS STILL SELLING 250,000 COPIES A YEAR. IT’S STILL TAUGHT IN COLLEGES. AND THERE’S A REASON FOR IT. I‘M GOING TO TRACE THE LONG ARC BETWEEN THE CHARACTER IN “CATCHER IN THE RYE,” THE IMMORTAL TEENAGE PROTAGONIST, THE TWISTED REBELLIOUS HOLDEN CAULFIELD WHO WAS THE PREDECESSOR OF THE BEATNIK OF THE FIFTIES, THEN THE HIPPY OF THE SIXTIES AND THEN THE PROGRESSIVES OF TODAY WHO CONTINUE TO SEE THEMSELVES AS WORKING AGAINST THE SYSTEM OR WORKING AGAINST THE MAN.

AND IT LEADS US RIGHT UP TO BARACK OBAMA, STILL PLAYING THE OUTSIDER EVEN THOUGH HE’S PRESIDENT. BARACK OBAMA AT HIS STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH WAS FRIGHTENING. I DON’T KNOW IF YOU ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OBAMA AT THE STATE OF THE UNION. FORGET THE INDIVIDUAL POLICY STATEMENTS THAT HE MADE. SOME OF THEM WERE SO OBSCURE THAT THEY HAVE ONLY CIRCULATED IN UNDERGROUND COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS. I THINK THIS MAN HAS NO CONCEPT OF LIMITATIONS, EITHER HIS OWN OR THE GOVERNMENT'S. AND AS SUCH, OBAMA PLACES US ALL IN DANGER.

THE SPEECH WAS FULL OF BLUSTER AND BOMBAST, UNCTUOUS IN TONE, CONDESCENDING IN SPIRIT. WE THE PEOPLE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND HEALTHCARE. WE THE PEOPLE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND BUDGETS. WE THE PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION. WE’RE THE IDIOTS, AND HE IS BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT. THIS WAS AN ARROGANT AND AWFUL DEMONSTRATION OF A DELUSIONAL MAN TO BLAME EVERYONE. EVEN THE LEFT THINKS IT WAS MUDDLED. OBAMA DID NOT HAVE A COHERENT PHILOSOPHY. THE THEME OF HIS SPEECH WAS “I DON’T QUIT.” IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH AMERICA, DID IT? HIM INSULTING THE SUPREME COURT IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE WORLD.

THE MAN IS A DANGER. PELOSI IS AN OUT-OF-CONTROL EGO MANIAC. TWENTY PERCENT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT HEALTHCARE REFORM, MOST OF WHOM ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS OR ARE GOING TO PROFIT FROM IT DIRECTLY. TWENTY PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE REALLY DON’T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS FOR THEM, AND APPROXIMATELY SIXTY PERCENT SAID DO NOT DESTROY THE GREATEST MEDICAL SYSTEM ON EARTH. AND YET PELOSI, GETS UP AND SAYS WE ARE GOING TO DO IT, WE ARE GOING TO VAULT OVER, WE ARE GOING TO PARACHUTE IN. DROP DEAD PEOPLE, WE DON’T CARE.

THAT IS HOLDEN CAULFIELD. AND THAT IS BARACK OBAMA WHO IS STILL PLAYING THE OUTSIDER, WHO IS STILL PLAYING IN ESSENCE THE TEENAGE PROTAGONIST, THE TWISTED REBELLIOUS HOLDEN CAULFIELD IN THE PRESIDENCY. FROM THE BEATNIK TO THE HIPPY TO THE PROGRESSIVE TODAY. SALINGER WROTE "CATCHER IN THE RYE" ABOUT THIS CHARACTER, THIS YOUNG GUY WHO GOES TO A PREP SCHOOL, RICH KID. AND HE’S ALIENATED; THE CHARACTER IS AN ALIENATED CHARACTER, AND HE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT HE IS AND WHAT HE WANTS TO BE. AND WHAT WAS SALINGER TRYING TO SAY THROUGH HIS CHARACTER HOLDEN CAULFIELD? THAT THE KID WAS MIXED UP AND ALIENATED BECAUSE SOCIETY WAS MIXED UP AND ALIENATED. ALREADY AMERICA HAD HAD THE BIG CRACK- UP. AND BARACK OBAMA IS STILL PLAYING THE OUTSIDER, STILL PLAYING ALIENATED TEENAGER, EVEN THOUGH HE IS THE PRESIDENT. FROM BEATNIK TO HIPPY TO PROGRESSIVE.