I Call Bullshit

clipped from www.northstarwriters.com In a devastating commentary in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Scott Gottlieb – a practicing internist, former official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute – demonstrated convincingly on Friday that President Obama simply doesn’t know very much about the practice of medicine.   If you want the details, read Gottlieb's piece. But I reference it here because it fits a larger and very troubling pattern about the president: The more he talks, the more he reveals himself not to understand the very subjects about which he waxes on with such seeming eloquence.   There is a name for a person with a talent like this: He is an expert bullshitter. President Obama is one of the most talented bullshitters I have ever seen. He knows all the tricks. He reframes every issue so he can keep it focused on the stuff he wants to talk about, and avoids having to address things he knows nothing about. I call bullshit.