A version of this post is published at The People's View.
Cenk Uygur had a piece today on Daily Kos today that personifies the Professional Left's idiotic romance with conflict. Conflict not for any particular outcome but conflict for conflict's sake. Cenk opens with such a hubris:
Let me give you a small example nobody talks about, but I think is telling. After Gabby Giffords was shot, his administration indicated that he would do a major speech on gun control ... later. I told my audience that was not going to happen. Why? Because I know Obama. He hates, hates, hates conflict. And he would never take on an issue where he did not have overwhelming support. It's not in his nature.
Well, the truth is that the administration never indicated that the President would do a "major speech" on gun control - that was made up by the media. In fact, most sites that seem to have reported that there was going to be "a major speech" are right wing blogs. What the administration said, specifically, what then-Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, is as follows:
