Just a reminder (as if we needed one) that Obama would never have come close to the White House without the active and fanatical support of the media. Given the public’s distrust of the media, we should (as Ace suggests) tie Obama to his media enablers. As much as Obama is a failure, the media that elected him is a far bigger one.
hat tip -Ace of Spades HQ
by Rex Murphy
As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack Obama’s rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign — and it hasn’t reclaimed them since.
Much of the Obama coverage was orchestrated sychophancy. They glided past his pretensions — when did a presidential candidate before “address the world” from the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin? They ignored his arrogance — “You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” And they averted their eyes from his every gaffe — such as the admission that he didn’t speak “Austrian.”
The media walked right past the decades-long association of Obama with the weird and racist pastor Jermiah Wright. In the midst of the brief stormlet over the issue, one CNN host — inexplicably — decided that CNN was going to be a “Wright-free zone.” He could have hung out a sign: “No bad news about Obama here.”
The media trashed Hillary. They burned Republicans. They ransacked Sarah Palin and her family. But Obama, the cool, the detached, the oracular Obama — he strolled to the presidency.
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Every doubt they hid from themselves about Obama, every potential embarrassment they tucked under the blanket of their superior sensibilities, they furiously over-compensated for by their remorseless hounding of Palin — from utterly trivial e-mails, to blogger Andrew Sullivan’s weird speculations about Palin’s womb, musings that put the Obama “Birther” fantasies into a realm near sanity. (We are now seeing an echo of that — with a new book promoting all sorts of unconfirmed gossip about Palin, including her alleged sexual dalliance with a basketball star.)
As a result, the press gave the great American republic an untried, unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent figure as President. Under Obama, America’s foreign policies are a mixture of confusion and costly impotence. It is increasingly bypassed or derided; the great approach to the Muslim world, symbolized by the Cairo speech, is in tatters. Its debt and deficits are a weight on the entire global economy. And the office of presidency is less and less a symbol of strength.
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Read the rest – The media’s love affair with a disastrous president.
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Rex Murphy is a CBC commentator.
crap, he’s gonna give another speech
Obama will unveil a “deficit reduction plan” which will include $1.5 trillion in new taxes including an extra tax on people making $1 million or more
http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/09/time-for-an-invervention-obamas-on-a-tax-hike-bender/
I have simply learned to treat pretty much all information as suspect, especially from the big MFM, alphabet networks and dead tree dinosaur publications especially, until I do some homework.
@ momcat:
Today is when he said he was going to tell us “how”….
@ momcat:
Lovely. Look for the Stock Market to crash then. Every time that motherfucker opens his mouth the stock market goes down.
I was just thinking about this topic this morning. Obama is largely a figment of MFM’s imagination. He didn’t get to the WH on his own merits as he has none. As people lose their jobs, homes and savings; as our country goes down the drain… never forget (and never forgive) that the vile press is largely responsible for Obama and the damage that he has done to us.
Trying to fix things here in PA…
Next step – reform primaries.
Perhaps you guys are too close to see.
Might I suggest that the Tea Party manipulates the discussion to the extent that the Establishment Rhinos have to hold THEIR noses and vote for a Tea Party candidate.
How come you all assume that the RINOS always hold all of the cards. The Right have talk radio, Fox (partially) and the web. The MSM is yesterday’s technology and it’s showing. Information is about decentralization NOT BIG press! Obambi used to web to great effect in ’08. Use the salami tactics on the left guys. It’s not rocket science for heavens sake.
Just grab the initiative and make it fast.
Iron Fist wrote:
Read ‘em and weep.
@ huckfunn:
It’s a real shame.
There aren’t that many Progressives in this country that there should be such a disproportionate number in the MSM.
Watch out for Greece to default in about 5 weeks time. That will cause a cascade as the whole Euro is unstable and at the tipping point. That will take down the fragile US economy as well. Whoever picks up the dropped cudgels of fiscal responsibility will win in 2012.
Man up guys. Make that guy a Tea Partier.
Bumr50 wrote:
Signs of sanity at the CBC?
momcat wrote:
His speeches are the greatest tonic for insomnia.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Maybe. The MFM still swings a big hammer, though. For all the blogs, they have the AP and Reuters. Most news stories come from those two sources, whether you are watching Fox or reading the New York Times, or, for that matter, a story on Blogmocracy. We take a story and add our own content, of course, but the original reporting comes mainly from those sources.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
We’re trying in case you haven’t noticed!
Short of a bloody revolution, we’re doing everything that we can.
We won’t resort to violence or lies, and in that regard we are limited as compared to the other side.
But I think we’re going as fast as we can!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Good point! I agree that’s why we have to push back against the GOP Establishment!
Bumr50 wrote:
These guys can’t hack it in the physical sciences so they gravitate to the soft liberal arts options everytime. You would be surprised how many ‘news hounds’ have an arts background. Show me ten engineers and i’ll show you 8 conservatives.
Iron Fist wrote:
You are absolutely right – he is toxic for our 401k’s, protfolios, IRA’s, etc.
@ Bumr50:
By seizing control of education, the left was able to seize control of the media. They desperately want to seize control of SCOTUS. Hopefully, there won’t be any SCOTUS turnover in the next 14 months.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Never underestimate the Sheeple who vote for shit like McCain in the primaries and will vote for Jeb in 2016 if we do not win next year.
@ Rodan:
I’ve got a thread in the hopper. Can you check and see if it has been scheduled?
Bumr50 wrote:
Indeed. We need to elect a good President and give him a House and Senate he can work with. Then we had better see some changes, or the time for torches and pitchforks may indeed be at hand.
Push back Rodan means … undermine them. These guys have skeletons aplenty. Out the bastards and make ‘em fearful whenever a conservative opens his mouth. Nothing succeeds like someone who is ‘winning’ it’s amazing how many former foes see it your way when you are winniung. The herd always goes with the flow.
make the flow go right and the fence sitters will fall into line every time.
He who dares wins!
DARE… soon!
Speranza wrote:
The sheeple always want to be on the winner’s side.
Make sure they see the conservatives as winners and they of all people will be your new best friend!
Use the financial collapse as ammunition.
Have a plan
Sell the plan whilst the left and RINOS wail
The sheeple love a winner who shows them a way out of a mess of their own making
BE that winner and have a plan when the approaching shit storm breaks
@ Aussie Infidel:
Personal attacks only go so far.
See my #7 for boring but REAL changes that we can make that will undermine the system that perpetuates the nonsense.
Bed awaits
G’nite all
@ Aussie Infidel:
Thanks for your encouragement!
@ Bumr50:
I agree. Win the small battles in the primaries.
Dig up the corruption at primary level and ‘out’ your RINO opposition. They have been in power in the GOP for waaaay too long and have built up a mass of corrupt practices.
Be the new broom and sweep the stables clean.
The sheeple will ove you for it because they secretly hate the silver spoon brigade for having something they don’t.
Trade on the human weakness and serve up RINOS on a platter to the baying mob!
Then pick up the dropped cudgles
G’nite folks
Which reminds me, I need to replenish the ammo stocks. And now I have to add 9 mm to that.
I admire Obama.
If I had his skills I would be President right now.
Speranza wrote:
Rex is conservative for the CBC. Not signs of sanity showing, just a token conservative that they keep on staff. He’s still to the left of most conservatives though, more centralist. His wiki says he defended his choice of Pierre Trudeau as a great Canadian a few years ago. That says it all right there.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I think that it would require a Herculean type solution. Brooms aren’t big enough, you need a river to flush them right out.
Great.
More sh*t to deal with.
Unions need neutered NOW, whether you favor them or not.
There is no way that 11% of the American workforce should hold this much sway.
@ Bumr50:
Sorry for the OT.
AADHD.
PaladinPhil wrote:
Too bad. I guess even the conservatives there are somewhat “liberal”.
@ Bumr50:
Its OK, You are smooth like that.
Can we just give the Obama/Soetoros a couple of billion and deport the whole family to Indonesia?
Prebanned wrote:
They’ll just just say “thanks, but no thanks.”
They’ve already grafted billions, and are perfectly happy in their current position which allows them to inflict maximum damage on a nation and economic system that they’ve hated for their entire lives.
Bumr50 wrote:
That is exactly right. Obama probably sees the billions stolen as “Reparations” for slavery that his ancestors never suffered. That is just the way he rolls…
I do not think Obama is being truthful with us regarding his past, but, His record as President is sooooooo bad He should be unemployed some time in January 2013.
@ Prebanned:
Otherwise America will deserve exactly what she gets.
Prebanned wrote:
Of course he’s not, that’s why all of his college records are sealed.
This sucks:
Great Depression II, but they won’t call it that for 20 years. If ever.
Iron Fist wrote:
Oh sure they will, never underestimate the treachery of the Fifth Column Treasonous Media, they’ll start calling it the Great Depression II 2 months after a conservative is elected in 2012.
@ doriangrey:
Yeah, before he (or she) even takes office. And then it’ll be a steady drumbeat of how awful it is even when (if?) unemployment drops back down to the level it was under Bush.
@ Iron Fist:
It will be called Great Depression 2 as soon as a Republican takes office.
Iron Fist wrote:
Needs a better name…
That sounds like a heroin smugglers boat…
Couple this with the writer for the San Francisco Chronicle
calling BHO a Lightworker, maybe there is media bias./
Aussie Infidel wrote:
@ Bumr50:
Well,. right now they are calling it the “Obama Boom™”, which sounds like a scam to me
Egypt bans export of palm fronds ahead of Jewish holiday of Sukkot
Agriculture Ministry to issue special licenses allowing import of lulavs from Spain, Jordan and the Gaza Strip, so that no major shortage is experienced in the run-up to the holiday.
Oh yeah it’s only about the Palestinians and not religion??? Another victory for obama’s foreign policy
@ Bumr50:
That’s right. He is their token conservative, but an astute observer none the less.
@ Iron Fist:
He’s supposed to be talking right now.
He LOVES keeping people waiting….
@ doriangrey:
Obama’s track record as President disqualifies him from holding public office.
It by itself would negate any other accomplishments that he might have.
@ doriangrey:
Or, Obama was cheating the Fulbright organization by claiming foreign citizenship when he was American.
Either way, not honest.
Have his grades been disclosed?
Overlook wrote:
Not a chance.
Given the extent to which they’ve been hidden, it’s questionable that they even exist anymore.
Bumr50 wrote:
They probably sleep with that LA Times tape of him with is pali friends
The dick is on tv again lying his ass off
That Fool is speechifying from the Rose Garden right
now.
He is talking about fiscal responsibility! He’s killing
me!
He is in full swing with class warfare & Republican
smearing.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Why would Israel want to put money in Egypt’s pockets anyway?
Speranza wrote:
Because palm fonts don’t grow on trees
obama is gonna scour the budget for waste? Hum? Does Solyndra ring a bell obama?
Everybody knows that the “poor” don’t pay any taxes.
He keeps on and on and on about this Warren Buffett thing…
My God, BHO is sounding like a stumble bum.
Get the hook!
Bumr50 wrote:
I think that Warren Buffet is an example of what is
wrong with public education.
The poor guy wants to pay more taxes, but he just
doesn’t know how to check the box.
OMG he’s quoting Washington…
Nevergiveup wrote:
I was going to suggest that we start with his paycheck…
So it’s not about numbers on a ledger, but it IS about math?
And “fairness”…
PFFFT!
Bumr50 wrote:
And there’s the difference between liberals and conservatives, in a nutshell:
Conservatives believe the tax system exists in order to raise revenue to pay for necessary functions of government.
Liberals believe it’s a way to redistribute wealth.
lobo91 wrote:
That’s probably classified by now. /
Speaking of fairness, why is the online content of all the US TV networks blocked in Kuwait?
It’s bad enough that I can’t get anything decent on my TV set here, but now they’re going to keep me from watching online, too?
This day just gets better and better…
lobo91 wrote:
Because they are so grateful we freed them in 91?
@ Nevergiveup:
Actually, they generally are, pretty much.
This is coming from the other end, not here. I know what it looks like when stuff is blocked on this end.
@ lobo91:
Maybe because you are out of country. I know in Canada I can’t get Hulu or other online content from the Alphabet networks. Is that the issue?
PaladinPhil wrote:
No idea. It just says “The content you are trying to view is unavailable in your geographic region,” or something to that effect.
*adds CBS and Fox to the list with Bank of America*
@ lobo91:
Okay, I get the same response up here north of the 48. Think of it as a glorified DVD region type of blocking. Nothing to do with Kuwait, but everything to do with how media shares their stuff.
From the liberal LA Times:
PaladinPhil wrote:
I’m an American, dammit!
I demand my right to watch CSI…
Bumr50 wrote:
As if anything in that “plan” was going to create any jobs “right now,” anyway.
I seriously doubt that a bunch of people are standing around waiting to start building crap like “high speed rail” to nowhere…
@ lobo91:
Someone on our side needs to spoof the old Wendy’s commercial:
“It’s a bill…”
“It’s a big bill…”
“It’s a very big bill…”
“WHEEEEEERE’S THE BILL?!?!?”
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