Obama and the Media: Trouble in Paradise
There is also the boredom factor. Obama made the cardinal error of overexposing himself. It has been hard to avoid him in the nonstop flurry of press conferences, sporting event appearances, and interviews. After awhile the excitement wanes and what was a thrill for even the most intoxicated members of the media (he’s asking me a question!) becomes humdrum and dull. Especially when the president relies on the same strawman arguments and platitudes and there just isn’t much new or exciting for the press to relate.
In addition, Obama’s public standing has hit the skids. His polling trends are all one way and his aura of political ascendancy is crumbling. Polling data has come to occupy an ever-increasing share of political coverage and this presidency is no exception. The mainstream press, which made a fetish — incorrectly it seems — over his high standing, is now equally engaged with the new survey data. And it is hard to escape the conclusion that the numbers impact the coverage, tempering the enthusiasm for a president who can no longer be advertised, even by the most sympathetic members of the press, as the dreamiest ever.
Now we shouldn’t get carried away with the mainstream media’s newly found independence. The coverage of this administration is less hostile than anything George W. Bush received. The mainstream media trumpets many of the White House’s themes (e.g., the Republicans are obstructionist) and still ignores or minimizes bad news (Where’s coverage of the Black Panther case? Why no outrage over White House efforts to pressure the military over troop levels in Afghanistan?). But the fawning is less frequent and the criticism greater than in the early days of the new administration. Certainly the White House’s irritation has increased as its relationship with the no-longer-so-entranced media frays.
The question remains whether the flame can be rekindled or whether the Obama-media relationship is now assuming a more “normal” footing akin to that which other presidents have experienced. Much of the media invested its credibility, sacrificed its professional independence, and frittered away what remained of its journalistic reputation in helping to hawk candidate Obama.
The desire to help him succeed, and to defy critics who accused the press of shilling for the president, shouldn’t be minimized. So don’t be surprised if the lovers reconcile. Both have much at stake in keeping the embers burning.
Is it true that the N.Y. Times is going to start printing in red ink? They seem to have have such an abundance of it.
The MSM has no creditability left. They spent two centuries building it and six years destroying it.
It makes no sense to me. Socialism only needs one media outlet, since the news is tightly controlled. Why have the media types worked so hard to do themselves out of a job?
The MSM sold out for Obama. They have nothing if they start to bitch at their one true love. I can’t see them suddenly turning into journalists. They are deep in the mud of sycophant swamp.
Obama, on the other hand, never gave them any love. It’s a one way relationship. Obama will treat the MSM like dirt and they will smile and sing hosanna because being faithful to The One is all they have left.
The ones who have really blown their credibility are the MSM and now most Americans will never trust them again. Their blind head in the sand spaniel like devotion to the Mohammedan LIAR Messiah who anyone with even half a brain and with just a little bit of effort could see was a serial blatant LIAR an information and document HIDER a man with a highly questionable past some very unsavory associates and some very extreme left wing Socialist views. I think the American public will never forgive and forget a compliant in the bag media who helped dupe the ignorant masses and got the Obamanation elected no matter how much they change their tune their credibility is gone.
3. Pragmatist:
The ones who have really blown their credibility are the MSM and now most Americans will never trust them again.
Amen.
The occupational title ‘journalist’ has become a badge of dishonor. They are little more than political hacks.
I see it ending when some young whippersnapper who was not part of the MSM Gobama campaign gets a job at CBS or NBC. Some kid who walks in on his hind legs and realizes there’s a name to be made by investigating a big, juicy White House scandal. The story can’t be suppressed, a few others realize they’d better jump in or look like dinosaurs, and SPLAT — Humpty Dumpty.
First the media and then the obamaMadministration felt endlessly safe in mocking the general integrity of Americans and now, that has pretty much set the two of them up for well deserved escalation of disintegration and isolation. Couldn’t happen to a nicer couple.
The wedding is over. The bride, who was swept off her feet, is now finding that Mr. Dreamboat is a farter who lays on the couch all day and doesn’t do a damn thing around the house.
Yep, reality bites hard.
Just read an article-
NY TIMES looses another 29 percent advertising sales.
Couple of months ago it was 42 percent decrease and back at the end of 2008 it said their advertising had lost 30 percent.
Anyway 29 percent
——-42 percent
——-30 percent – if my figures add up that is
——-101 percent?
Either the mainstrain media is lying to us or they only have one guy selling Windex out of the trunk of his car.
When will they finally turn off the lights?
Crazy moonbat in 3…2…1….
Jennifer, you keep writing how the “slobbering love affair between Obama and the Media is on the skids”, but I’LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT.
There’s hardly a trace of it her in the D.C. area.
Of course, I certainly “wish” it were true but, unless I missed something, you don’t offer any concrete examples.
“Hope springs eternal”…and gets shot in the behind every time it does so in Washington….
The American public elected an inexperienced, untested, immature, egotistical, and radical Leftist named Barack Obama to the most powerful position in the world and they are now finding out just how big a mistake they made. Barack Obama has never managed more than two or three people in his life, he has never met a budget, and has never been faced with anything more difficult than extorting money from the Chicago Political Machine. As Senator, candidate, and President he has never been asked an in your face question, nor has be ever faced a hostile, difficult reporter, indeed, Barack Obama has only shown that he can turn the softest question into a 15 minute sermon. So now we wonder why Obama’s administration, filled with Clinton leftovers and failures and Chicago Machine pols is on it’s way to crashing and burning so soon? I am surprised Obama’s lasted this long!
The MSM is dead. Unfortunately at a time when we need a true watch dog more than ever, the MSM has sold it’s soul and is incapable of intellectual honesty. There is a very coordinated effort by the MSM to selectively ignore certain facts about this administration that are very important to the citizenry. Note the news cycle and how it is manipulated every time Obama starts to draw too much heat. Someone in the media pulls a CIA rabbit out of the hat, or manufactures some other non-story. TK’s death could not have been more fortunate since it once again offers a diversion.
Other than the internet bloggers, cable news, and talk radio our country is without a source of reliable REAL news.
That ultimately will seal the fate of the hacks at the NYT and MSNBC who deserve our scorn but I pray for our country right now because we are under seige and it is not being reported. That is criminal neglect!!
Tommy Gunn
Of course he treats the press poorly. It is classic for a bully to treat someone who has no self respect in such a manner. And because the MSM has no self respect they will never leave him. Never.
The US as it has been for centuries is dissolving before our very eyes. The press is a symptom, IMHO, not the cause.
Arhooley #5,
In reality, that idea of yours only works a la Woodward+Bernstein…that is to say:
when a motivated, young Democrat reporter gets something on a Republican.
Nobama 2012 @ #8:
Here’s how these ad revenue figures work. It’s not quite a straight addition.
Assume the sales figure before the end of 2008 is 100%. Then:
at the end of 2008, when sales were down 30%, they had 70%.
The next drop of 42% would be from the previous sales figure of 70%. In other words, the remainder of the sales they have from the period before the end of 2008 would be 70 x (1-.42) = 40.6%.
The next drop of 29% would be 40.6 x (1-.29) = 28.8%.
What all this means is that since the period before the end of 2008 when their sales started tanking, their ad revenues are down 71.2%. Not quite 101% but still really bad!
“Fawning is less frequent”
Sorry Jennifer, I like a lot of what you write and am interested in your perspective, but this piece misses the mark badly. Just because a couple of reporters are soul searching and a few fellow travelers are wringing their hands because the President isn’t lefty enough doesn’t change the fact that the MSM remains completely in the tank for this man.
Look at the nonprobing nature of the questions he gets asked. You rarely see a good question or confrontation for a non answer. This goes for Gibbs, as well as the President. The media should be dissecting this Obamacare business and is doing almost no analysis. They only talk about the horse race angle, who is winning or losing.
There may be some gathering resentment, but the bloom is not off the rose. The MSM is largely incapable of analysis anymore. The alternative media does a much better job of exposing fact and analyzing events, legislation etc. It’s why I shut off their noise several years ago. The Sulzeburger papers and NBC, ABC and CBS are just not credible news sources anymore. That is the tip of the ice berg of the media that continues as the support mechanism and propaganda machine for the Administration and this Congress.
Jennifer, I hope the MSM can find their abilities again, but they havn’t so far.
Arhooley at #5,
Here’s the problem with your expectation that a reporters new found agression and career aspirations will create dogged pursuit. Editors. The MSM editors are not going to let it happen. They have no integrity.
Look at what the editors who work for Immelt are allowing to be reported. NBC is the worst offender because of the corporate decision Immelt makes to continue the fawning. You think those editors aren’t told what they can and can’t transmit?
Why should the Commander in Wee Wee have anything but contempt for the MSM that has relegated itself to a propaganda bureau. Propaganda bureaus are run and controlled by the state: they are turned on and off at President Wee Wee’s will.
Only objective news outlets are respected and at times feared, the MSM is an impotent and pathetic version of its former self; not only have they lost objectivity, they have lost credibility as well. The Commander in Wee Wee is not alone in viewing them with contempt, the American public holds them in contempt as well; consequently, they are no longer relevant, they have become inconsequential.
They have painted themselves into a corner and until management fires them and hires fresh new talent with unbiased objectivity, they will remain in the corner of fresh paint, the type that will catch them and hold them like flies to fly paper.
There is time for the MSM to rebuild, but there needs to be a bloodletting of pink slips before the public will even consider granting relevance to their reporting. Their propaganda roles are widely reported and is considered treasonous by an aroused public that is now incensed at having been manipulated by the once trusted and respected Fourth Estate.
I expect President Wee Wee’s Lame Brain Trust are telling him to charm the media back into his camp. But even if they kiss and make up it won’t last. Wee Wee’s arrogance and self delusion is so great he is the National Socialists’ own worst enemy. I would say pass the popcorn, but we have three more years of this disaster in store. And thanks to Glenn Beck we are finding out just how far the thugocracy is willing to go.
Are you still proud that you voted for Obama? Really????
Meanwhile, the indictment of Gov. Bill Richardson in a play-for-pay scandal is quietly swept under the rug when Eric Holder declines to prosecute. “There’s no story here,” says the MSM, “nothing to see folks; move along.”
I don’t buy it. The press is getting angry that the doofus is not radical enough.
Ms. Rubin:
“The question remains whether the flame can be rekindled or whether the Obama-media relationship is now assuming a more “normal” footing akin to that which other presidents have experienced.”
Not without a media “bailout”.
They can see the writing on the wall, and know what higher taxes and inflation are going to do to their employers’ bottom line, which means there will be layoffs and downsizing.
What’s a person with a resume of writing for the New York Times or broadcasting for MSNBC going to do to find work?
“Much of the media invested its credibility, sacrificed its professional independence, and frittered away what remained of its journalistic reputation in helping to hawk candidate Obama.”
See? Would YOU hire such an unethical person?
Thank god we have Fox News and people like Sean Hannity to shine the light of principled journalism:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908270045
Why do you people believe anything this guy says?
The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
I don’t trust the MSM and I don’t trust Obama. This article sounds nice, but as far as I’m concerned, I will not be happy until at least two MSM outlets go under. The MSM needs to pay for the damage that they have done to our country by offering one-sided liberal news reporting under the pretense of being objective.
ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and CBS are the propaganda tools of the left. Anyone who watches them or “trusts” any of the news they report is a FOOL.
A simple way for all of us conservatives to stand up to them is to NOT watch any of these stations. This way, they can’t use our viewership to help them get advertising money to stay afloat.
There aren’t enough liberals to keep all of these news stations alive. If we all avoid them, we can help shut some of them down.
Well, isn’t the media just responding to its messiah predictably? Obama knows that he won’t be deserted. The messiah says ” Are you also going to leave me?” The reply, “To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life!”
They will never give up on him. There is no one else to worship.
Take a step back.
Look at the Big Picture.
President Obama is doing well.
The Media? Always rushing to beat the competition and filling time (TV & print). Of course, they report about 5% of what’s going on. Weekly magazines have just a little more time to research and edit. Blogs? A path of rumors, egos and chaos, unless they get lucky with some truths. The ADD society thrives.
Experiment:
Get your favorite weekly magazine and read it two or three week later. You’d think the world is made of fluff. Even the jokes will taste stale. You will see lots of ‘crises’ gone away, your stress diminished and the world an almost happy place.
You’re dreaming!
He’ll come out of his vacation burrow with new instructions from the media monopolists and his radical puppeteers, and the pussycat oppositions will go on dreaming different escuses for not fighting.
“Obama doesn’t treat the press very nice”
Duhh.. What do you expect from the guy. He is an arrogant a** hole who expects everything to go his way.
News flash to the media. As far as Obama is concerned if you are not a compliant mouth piece for him you are the enemy.
The One does not need anyone else, much less you.
Of course you would have know this had you looked into the guy’s background a year ago but you (the media) were to busy kissing the guys butt to do that.
The media made their bed over the past year, now they get to lay in it.
This is a just a lover’s quarrel. They will kiss and makeup and once again, the media will be swooning. It’s a bit like battered spouse syndrome, isn’t it? No matter what he does, they will find an excuse for his unseemly behavior. But instead of placing blame on themselves, they will re-direct it to those mean Republicans. Don’t forget, Bush and Cheney have been/and continue to be, instrumental in his fall from grace. But they will forgive the love of their lives and take him into their warm embrace once again. Time heals all wounds.
The “Media” are supposed to be public watchdogs…they are supposed to protect the country from dishonest polititians. Make no mistake, most politicians are not honest. Like pretty much everyone else, they’re in it for the money. However, when the watchdog becomes a shill for one side or the other. The great mass of people will stop buying their product. Where is the media on these stories?
Charlie Rangel $3,000,000.00 mistake on reporting his income?
Black Panther voter inimidation, case dissmissed by Eric Holder’s instructions
Bill Richardson pay to play investigation stopped by “high ranking” Justice Dept official
…the list goes on…
Where is the reporting on these issues? On the internet where bloggers are the only only one reporting on all these stories that don’t fit the MSM’s narative. Why aren’t “journalists” asking those difficult questions, because they have a vested interest in ignoring them. That’s why all the of major print media is rapidly losing money and circulation. They’re aren’t reporting the news…just talking points.
26. TOhio wrote:
ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and CBS are the propaganda tools of the left. Anyone who watches them or “trusts” any of the news they report is a FOOL.
Peter writes: I watch local news at 5PM on WBZ. But as soon as the national news starts (CBS I think) I shut it off. I even change the channel on my cable box to something innocuous like Discovery or TruTV just so, in case there is some sort of feedback dvice in cable that lets them know what station a box is set to and try to count that as part of the ratings whether the TV is on or now, they cannot possible confuse me with some brain-dead mouthbreathing national news watcher.
For national or world news, I’ll check out the various stories I find on-line where I can at least compare what facts are presented and make my own judgement.
Idiotically fawning by media or not, one must respect (AND FEAR) Obama’s relentlessness in pursuing his plans for America’s destruction, internally and abroad – his latest foreign affairs move, ceding to Russia in the missile shield for Eastern Europe dispute has riled everybody on the belt from Finland to Bulgaria (and many they are, and uniformly America partisans they are).
Leaving aside the moral implications of the affair, i.e. America appearing increasingly as an mindless, vacillating opportunist, and the deeper political and military consequences of the affair, I’ll let again Talleyrand describe Obama’s action – “This is not a crime, it is much, much worse, it is a stupid thing.”
Barry’s most excellent flight is slowing down, soon to enter in free fall – love it.
TOhio at 26,
I agree and avoid watching the big three as much as I can. I don’t watch their other programing either, except for certain sports that I admit a weakness for.
The only way to hurt them is via their bottom line. I vote with the remote and urge others to do so as well. Same treatment for the print media. I am looking forward to their Chapter 11 filings.
Capitalism, ain’t it great? You don’t have to buy a crumby product if you don’t want to.
I’d like to believe that the MSM and Obama are splitsville but what we are seeing is the first lover’s tiff of the relationship. (“Oh honey – You’ve changed so much since we got married.”) They will kiss and make up when Congress comes back from recess and the real gloves-off, deep-and-dirty fight over health care begins. Don’t forget that the administration has a huge war chest (made possible in part by Big Pharma thank-you-very-much) that is going to be spent on print and broadcast advertising. These revenues will be especially welcome to the sclerotic newspaper industry and they will deploy their appreciation accordingly. “Blue Dog” Democrats may be waivering but the decision has been made to use the reconciliation process to ram a health reform bill through the Senate and that’s an end-game the media can live with. Whatever Krugman and the others are saying they are too emotionally invested in BO to walk out.
Re #28/vivo: [...] Take a step back. Look at the Big Picture. President Obama is doing well. [...]
Vivo & crack clinics – Barry’s doing well…
Barry’s doing well – and this when new details emerge that Obama NOT ONLY KNEW about the Lockerbie terrorist release beforehand, but actually IT’S HIM, WHO AFTER BEING CONTACTED IN THIS MATTER BY GADDAFFI, ASKED BROWN to support it.
Hey, that’s totally Obama – on one hand prosecute and jail CIA operatives, and on the other release from jail Lockerbie, 9/11 and other terrorists on humanitarian grounds.
Boy, does this guy hates America and the entire Western world!
Not a big Hannity fan, but quoting Media Matters is like quoting Der Sturmer to get an accurate critique on Hitler. Media Matters is the personal bullhorn of the fascist billionaire George Soros. His agenda is the end of American sovereignty and exceptionalism. He is the puppeteer and the O Dog is the marionette on the string . Obama’s shrinking crew of supporters and media lackeys are the idiot’s chorus at the backyard puppet show.
TO EVERYBODY – the latest about the nest of terrorists hidden in the White House -
Van Jones accusses America’s imperialism for causing 9/11 – on day after 9/11 Van Jones lead a demonstration claiming this – the manifesto has appeared on Internet (credit WND for the research).
Van Jones’ manifesto @
http://www.leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf
Read it – it will nicely round the image you have about Obama’s views about America and about the people who surround him in the white House (and save it – no one knows how long will it remain available)
38. trangbang68:
So, what did you think of Hannity’s comments in the video?
I normally watch BBC to get the anti-american version of the news, and then switch over to FoxNews for the pro-american version. It is understandable why euro snobs have the negative attitude of America if you watch any european newscast.
One of the talking heads said, “Obama is heavily invested in the narrative of failure.”
That phrase sticks as we have had to listen to the repeated” failed policies, economy built on a house of sand, the worst since the great depression, and the rest of the apology tour.
Of course the media eats that up because in that they are heavily invested and as they sell their 24/7 “ain’t it awful” alarmism.
They continually yell fire and push morbid fascination, holding down the adrenal buttons and rake in the dough. Why would they give up on Obama for something like dignity and journalistic integrity when they are so simpatico. His successes and failures will be their profits in their parasitic slobbering love affair. Maggots don’t care.
The obits have already been written before the death watch. They won’t change. Ain’t it awful? And they do warn of viewer discretion.
I would like for someone to investigate the white house press corps. We all know about Helen Thomas, but how many in the press corps take off their suit and ties, and wear ‘Che’ tee-shirts on the weekend?
I would be willing to bet $50,000 that 80-90% of the the white house press corps are liberal democrats.
Now and Then: “So, what did you think of Hannity’s comments in the video?”
Why do they matter? Last time I checked, Hannity wasn’t a news broadcaster, but an opinion commentator. Somehow the lefties always seem to conflate the two in an attempt try to convince everyone that the majority of news broadcasts aren’t biased in favor of their agenda. Go figure. At least Hannity openly proclaims his political allegiances.
P.S. I don’t think you’d accept analysis from the Media Research Center as satisfactory to your sensibilities, so what makes you think that Media Matters should be accepted as such by the conservatives here? Oh, that’s right — MM is credible because they say things you agree with.
Nobama
You have to multiply instead of addding:
(1-0.29) * (1 -0.42) * (1-0.30) = 0,29 so in three years they have lost over 70% of advertising revenue.
The “useful idiots” of the MSM won’t realize their predicament until they are standing in the bread lines along with the rest of us once the Obama team finishes off the economy. Cap and tax, health care “reform”, card check, and last but not least education “reform” will put the wooden stake through the heart of our economy just as the un-reconstructed Marxists that run Congress and the White House want.
Jennifer: If I published a weekly newsletter identifying all black people arrested for serious crimes during the passed week based on official police records, but ignored identifying all white people arrested for similar crimes, I would not be a journalist even though my reporting was factually correct. I would be a propagandist. I would be pushing an anti-black agenda. So it is with 99 percent of the main stream media. They are not journalists. They are propagandizing low-life shills pushing a leftist agenda. Tokyo Rose would be proud of them.
From 1959-63 I was in a high school that required 3 solid hours of homework every night, so I didn’t have much TV time. From 63-67 I was in a seminary under a monastic rule, no TV, no news papers, etc. In 67 I entered the US Air Force and spent a lot of years outside the US making news, rather than back here watching it on TV.
My point is that I never developed a TV “habit” like the rest of my generation. I’m 63 now and still prefer books over TV for entertainment. I get my news from the internet, from a wide variety of sites selected for their neutrality and factuality. When I want opinion I head for conservative sites because that’s where I stand.
Have you ever noticed that Great Britain (BBC) and other nation’s media refer to their reporters as “news readers” – that’s all they are. Somewhere along the line, the US media decided that having news readers to report the facts was not good enough anymore. So they created “journalists” and “investigative journalists” and blow-dried “personalities” to make the news and shape the news and convince the ignorant masses that “that’s the way it is…”.
I learned enough about marketing and psychological manipulation in grad school to realize why skilled ad agencies earn premium fees. The MSM are not reporting news facts, they are “selling” a product to the gullible masses. They do it so well that they “sold” us a defective president last November and still have many people convinced that he’s okay. You just have to ask yourself: who is their sponsor?
nowandthen, Like I said, I don’t care much for Hannity. I think he is often ill informed and somewhat vain. I first heard him when he was a local talk host in Huntsville, Alabama. He is truly an example of the Peter Principle in action.
That said, his comments are much less offensive than many I’ve heard about Kennedy. Kennedy while obviously a prominent politician has far more black marks than just the Kopeckne affair. His lying slanderous assault on Judge Bork is the most contributive factor in the bitter partisan political culture we have today. The whole Kennedy mystique escapes me. All three brothers and their numerous offspring are like clouds without rain, style over substance. Kind of like their brother by another mother, Obama.
trangbang68: a Kennedy “brother by another mother, obama”…great line! The liberal media are such a bunch of dunces.
The walls in their homes are apparently lined with floor to ceiling mirrors and they never let anyone else in the house, so it would never occur to them that anyone can actually WATCH THEM and LISTEN TO THEM and SEE HOW THEY ACT.
Watching them implode would be embarrassing if it weren’t so much fun.
No, the captive media is still, well, captive. My view is that the “key” captive media players were bribed or extorted long before the campaign and those who weren’t were so indoctrinated by their neocommunist co-workers and faculty that, when confronted by a black candidate, they had no choice but turn advocate. NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!!
The captive media may be pissed, but not at Lord Obama. They are pissed at the strange Americans who do not see the glory of Lord Obama and the wisdom of his blather. Mention the Kenyan’s birth certificate, Palin or death panels and the captive media attacks those asking questions and ignores the mendacity or criminality of the administration administration and it’s familia.
I hate to say I saw this coming, but…
A long time ago, someone should have told the press that “he’s just not that into you.” It’s been apparent for quite some time that the love affair between Obama and the media is one-sided. The MSM fawns after her newfound crush day and night, attempting to win him over. For Obama, the more attention he gets from the admiring media, the more he despises her. He strings her along because she’s useful and he likes the ego trip, but the truth is that he’s already found his soul-mate – himself.
Now that Obama has lost some of his novelty and popularity, the MSM has taken a fresh look at him and realized that he’s not what she originally thought him to be. He’s rude, conceited, and honestly not that bright. The question is: which course will the MSM take? Will she play the part of the faithful lover, sticking with her abusive man to the end – ever hopeful that he will transform into the person she imagined him to be? Or will she turn on him like a woman betrayed – vengefully lashing out at him until he is a mere shadow of his former self?
The saddest part of this tragic love story is that in her pursuit of her newfound crush, the MSM has proven unfaithful to her original lover and provider – the general public. Our trust in our errant media will not easily be restored.
This sounds like hope & change. I wish it were true. This is at best a minor spat. First and foremost, the press are liberals. BO will throw them a crumb and they will once again swoon. Liberals are used to deceiving and being deceived. It is the only place they are truly comfortable. But hey, it could get interesting. If the press gets too disenchanted, someone will suggest their problem is due to their denied racism. And that will be that. Ask Bill Clinton.
The real problem the legacy news media have is that they are now promoting lies about “news” of which their remaining subscribers (older people) have direct knowledge. They promote the Obama propaganda about the townhalls and tea parties being astroturf to the very people who are attending. Actual knowledge of a story mis-reported is the quickest way to get people to let the subscription run out or watch Magnum re-runs at 6 pm.
It would be interesting to see the change in those who subscribe to newspapers over the next year.
It is a bit late but they are now moving to save their phoney baloney jobs even though it hurts to talk bad about their beloved.
Say, does anyone remember this exchange? And how offended “journalist” John Roberts was about it?
There’s no honor left among “journalists.” But there is a dominant dynamic — and that dynamic is what we must somehow undo.
Are you referring to Mr. Obama who personally thanked the media on election day for their help? Or when he stated at the news correspondents dinner, “you all voted for me”, and they all giggled? No, they still love Obama, but it is no longer a slobbering love affair.
It would be nice to have a truly fair and balanced network, but I do not expect it in my lifetime. NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS have always been biased toward liberal democrats, whereas FNC has always been biased toward traditional/conservative republicans.
Liberal democrats bitch and moan about Fox News’ bias, whereas conservatives have put up for decades tax money used to fund left-wing PBS and NPR.
I’m picturing something:
Barack Obama driving a shiny, jet black, Lincoln Town car, floored, flying down Socialista highway.
Accompanied by a pack of squished together slave media types cheering him on, it’s almost like kids out for a joyride lacking any sense of parental control, possible punishment or impeding doom. Oh, the giddy feeling of being above the law.
Actually, for me, there are some similarities to the old O.J. white Bronco chase, mainly in the eventual crack up of an illiterate, tremendously popular football player vis a vie an adoring public.
But OJ’s motives weren’t political.
He was a killer who’d snapped, and could sense he was about to lose it all. But confused the way side of the road imbeciles were cheering him on.
In Obama’s case, though, most people are seeing the thing unfold on television just rolling their eyes in disgust and amazement that this joy boy has gotten this far.
Of course, Obama and his journalistas are not to be taken lightly; their objective being to destroy private enterprise and ownership, the monetary system, and the freedom and liberty of the most responsible, inventive, charitable, courageous country on earth. Ever.
Relative to our self proclaimed annoying one, though, whose velvety speech hides a troubled hating soul, the shine is wearing thin.
The new car smell is now more like the odor that a two week old soiled diaper in the trunk would produce, and the severe accident Obama has thus far been lucky enough to avoid is becoming more and more imminent because the risks he’s running are to high, and even his luck is running out.
Incredibly, they sense the American people wish them a speedy arrival at their destination. But their self adulation has given them a false sense of reality.
For most Americans have caught on to their reckless schemes to destroy the ideals and traditions of a still proud nation.
When Obama and his boys face that realization it will be like a large American luxury car smashing into a Sherman tank.
Maybe candy and long walks on the beach will be out of the question.
But if any members of the mainstream media emerge unscathed, I guess flowers might still be appropriate.
hillary is really pissed.
she should have had that job.
the democrat party is a criminal organisation.
Now&Then,
Ever the useful idiot. You are a repugnant brain-washed tool of Communism and you don’t even know it. You probably believe that Alger Hiss, The Rosenbergs, Harry Dexter White, et al were not communists. You are in all likelihood an atheist, which is another way of saying that you are rudderless and will therefore believe in anything – global ice age, global warming, Y2K, Silent Spring, etc. You probably have no business acumen whatsoever, have not worked hard at producing anything north of a term paper in your life; have no savings to speak of; are probably a chain-smoker and/or recreational drug user; have many a failed relationship under your belt; envy others who are successful; live your life hypocritically (ex: big on environmentalism while flicking your cig butt out the window). Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
The throne-sniffing ignoramuses who work for the American media aren’t going to turn on Obama. The media business is the only one in the world that tells its customers and prospects, every day, to pound sand. As they march to their death they remind me of the Bolsheviks in the Thirties who sang Stalin’s praises right up till the moment the gun went off.
They think they will be part of the untouchable elite after the country is finally snuffed out; but they will be the first in the tumbrils.
Idiots.
Why would it be stated that he had overexposed himself, no Newsweek made the decision to plaster his face on the cover over and over and all media outlet perhaps except Fox News have him plastered all over almost each day and sometimes more often than that.
Personally I have been sic of him since before the election. Too bad the media doesn’t look at things the same way I as well as others do. The less I see or hear from him the better off I am. I wish he would disappear!
NOW AND THEN-How could you believe anything that comes from the mouth of a principled guy like your Messiah that got his start turning tricks for a Slumlord?
For many years now I have watched the main stream media side towards the left. Every election their bias gets worse, however in the REAL WORLD I see the poll numbers for are last president rising and Obama’s have steadily declined and in my opionion will keep doing so until, if he ever does …go more center. What comes around go’s around eventially and history will record todays media and the current president as incompident and complete failures in American History. Hopefully one day in the not to distant future America will wake up and discover politics should not be a clone of “AMERICAN IDOL”.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declined comment.
And their names are Pelosi and Reid. Obama couldn’t have buggered this up this badly without their expert help.
45. JFM:
Thank You..
My old school math wasn’t working.
30 more percent and the lights go out.
Uncle George should have realized that this one-note Johnny would get to be as predictable and boring as the latest episode of Scooby-Doo.
There are so many disturbing topics I could bring up about the corrupt media that was exposed in 2008. The most memorable was when the Rev. Wright speaches hit the airwaves, and after a second attempt to calm down concerns, Obama throws his reverand under the bus along with his white grandmother. And with doing so, he instructs the media to stop showing the reverands anti-american rants at his black seperatist/marxist church.
As expected, you never saw another recording from Rev. Wright on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC or PBS.
It must be an incredibly powerful feeling to have this kind of control over the so called mainstream media.
59. donttreadonme “You are in all likelihood an atheist, which is another way of saying that you are rudderless and will therefore believe in anything – global ice age, global warming, Y2K, Silent Spring, etc.”
Quite a list of assumptions. I am an atheist and I do not believe in – global ice age, global warming, Y2K, Silent Spring. Can’t comment on etc.
Would you consider anyone who does not adhere to your belief system rudderless? Buddhist, Hindu, Pagan, Gnostic, Arian, Christian etc.
I don’t think anyone with any sense thinks any media is unbiased. One must know the bias so that the information can be judged. I watch Fox News and I watch CNN. Fox definitely the more conservative and straightforward about it and CNN without doubt heavily liberal although they pretend to be unbiased.
I find MSNBC and ABC are too far gone to take seriously. They are as bad as the New York Times and Time and Newsweek magazines. They are irrelevant now. I would say something about CBS but really, who cares?
I do trust Hannity more than any talking head on any other network. He is a commentator so he will COMMENT but he does not lie as many others in the media do. He gives the news that he then comments on. His comments are comments and opinions, just because you don’t agree with his opinions does not make them lies. When other talking heads take a news story and falsify evidence or ignore any evidence that doesn’t support their bias that is lying. They lie by commission and by omission. That is the majority of media today.
The media has too much invested to quit now.
What you are ignoring is the shift in how people get their news. No longer do most Americans need a newspaper or the netowrk news. (Although we still like to read the paper with our morning coffee.) We get the news from Fox or the internet. We don’t need an overpriced talking head to tell us what’s happening. We’re getting the stories online days before they’re even reported on Fox.
Ironically, it’s the MSM lapdogs that get the press credentials and ask the questions directly to the President. They have the access and yet they fail to do the things that would boost their ratings and improve their standing…ask tough questions and not settle for the status quo answer. They keep denigrating the American public but calling protestors “racist” and “extremist”. Like Plaxico, they’re shooting themselves in the leg and can’t understand why they’re bleeding.
The love affair is still there. They’ll never give conservatives a voice.
This President and his administration cannot be trusted. With leaders like Pelosi and Reid who call this very hard working American, an un-American, then this just incites me to no end. How dare them. ABC and MSM in bed with the White House. Lie after lie. DOJ a corrupt agency. Attacks on the CIA. Is it no wonder Fox beats the pants off in ratings for news to the left who wants to see the dumbing down of the US.
Problem with a guy making vague promises to fix everything, is everybody who believed him expects him to fix whatever is on their own plate at the time. No way any human can meet such expectations. So all parts of the political spectrum feel let down.
Someone made the analogy regarding the MSM that we can’t take seriously cheerleaders who put on a striped shirt and go out to umpire the game. Wish I recalled who should be credited for it.
They have painted themselves into a corner: by assuming we were so credulous that they could sway us to the left, the only people with any trust in the MSM now are credulous leftists. They don’t have the time it would take to restore our trust, before they collapse financially. Don’t ask me how they get out of the corner – I don’t care. They made their bed and they can lie in it.
Now and Then questions how we can listen to Sean Hannity when he’s slobbering at the fount of MSDNC daily as we can tell from his inane posts. Anyone remember his famous “Reagan is rotting in hell.” comment yesterday? Intellectual prowess that screams MSDNC.
For the record….I LOVE SEAN HANNITY, RUSH LIMBAUGH, GLENN BECK among other conservative voices. In my book they are patriots sounding the bugle of freedom for those who are trying to forget.
It truly is a shame that the liberals have no one of any caliber to watch. They are too busy sniffing Obama’s socks to actually report anything but Michelle’s arms, Obama’s suits and the new White House dog. Rachel Maddow? Seriously? Talk about your “angry liberal”. Yikes. Chris Matthews? Softballs are his specialty. Keith Olbermann? He even stinks at sports reporting and watching him swap spit with Obama is entertaining but not “news” (Besides what’s with the Star Trek glasses?).
I can see why liberals are insane that conservatives have great voices in the media. Truly, there is no comparison. Fair and Balanced is how I like my news (and apparently so does the rest of the US as Fox News kicks butt in the ratings weekly). Sorry you like yours Obama-style Now and Then. When MSDNC actually starts reporting “news”, do let us know.
My favorite question these days is this:
What will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back?
Will it comes in the form of a criminally dropped Rachardson case. (don’t forget pee wee swore to uphold the laws of the United States).
Will it come in the form of a criminally dropped Black Panther voter intimidation case?
A Russian threat that makes Pee Wee back down in fear?
A racial slur directed at a soldier or another Campbrige police officer?
A medical insurance vote that tells all of us what we can do with our bodies?
The first real sign of hyper-inflation caused by trying to spend us out of a recession?
One more million dollar Obama pal tax cheat?
One more Obama apology to a two bit tyrant running a terrorist state?
One more statement that Obama would follow Osama to the gates of hell?
The White House chef overcooking a potato?
A member of the slave media who declares himself free and asks Obama why Nancy Palosi calls Americans at town hall meetings nazis?
Would will be the last straw?
How many more hours can we put up with this wind ut Pee Wee doll impersonator trying to destroy the greatest country on earth?
Is there anyone with half an ounce of intelligence who would vote once more to make this fecal fraud our commander in chief?
Have a nice day,
Rachel
Dreams.
The long march of the commies has conquered media and universities.
Agit-prop militants control the disinformation and the pseudo-education.
They will not stop.
Internet survives free and independent, THEREFORE the Supreme Leader will now get the power to shut it down. (See Drudge today)
It is not a chess game, it is not politics as usual, it is a war to conquer America.
The internationalist subversives KNOW that any further step in conquering ANYTHING in the world REQUIRES America TO BE SILENT, QUENCHED, OVERWHELMED AND DEFEATED.
The man in this administration is not Obama, is Soros.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
@24
The Obama “wee wee” drinkers much prefer the hard-hitting news of MSNBC. Heck, MSNBC’s motto is a throwback to the old Dragnet series…
“Only the facts were changed to protect the narrative.”
15. Chris in Toronto:
Good numbers, but not good enough for me; I want to see the “Old Grey Lady” busted for trying to sell crack!
Seriously; It would tickle me to death to see the NYT busted for some type of racketeering, and have the entire business prosecuted under the RICO Act. I can dream!
In Act III, Scene I of Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Caesar narcissistically pronounced how HE was the center of the universe, true fixed, and god-like, constant as the north star, about which all the other stars revolved. Unlike mere men of flesh and blood, HE was steadfast and unassailable.
Cæsar: I could be well mov’d if I were as you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me;
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
The skies are painted with unhumber’d sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine,
But there’s but one in all doth hold his place:
So, in the world; ’tis furnished well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That unassailable holds on his rank,
Unshak’d of motion: and that I am he,
Let me a little show it, even in this,
That I was constant Cimber should be banish’d,
And constant do remain to keep him so.
A short time later HIS fortunes changed. You might say, in a manner of speaking, “Even HIS closest friends turned against HIM.”
73. AThinkingPerson: “For the record….I LOVE SEAN HANNITY, RUSH LIMBAUGH, GLENN BECK among other conservative voices. In my book they are patriots sounding the bugle of freedom for those who are trying to forget.”
Of course you do. You are representative of that 20% of Americans who, rather than listen to objective, fact based reporting, prefer to get your “news” as glossy, shiny infotainment, read by non-journalists, designed specifically to stroke your ego and appeal to your most base emotions.
As long as there are ignorant Americans who would rather be told what they want to hear rather than the plain truth, there will be a lucrative market for FOX News and other peddlers of hate and misinformation.
13. SAF: The US as it has been for centuries is dissolving before our very eyes. The press is a symptom, IMHO, not the cause.
I have to disagree with you, SAF. The MSM has been far too complicit to be a symptom of the country’s decline. If they were merely ‘reporting’ (and I use that term extremely loosely), I would agree with you. But they are manipulating and mangling the truth and telling outright lies. BHO would never have been nominated, let alone elected, if it weren’t for them. If anything, he would have been a blip on the political screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIKPKjl0-pg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fatlasshrugs2000.typepad.com%2F&feature=player_embedded#t=96
Have a look at it.
The Police Officer says that this “ISN’T AMERICA ANY MORE” and that we need his permission to express owr ideas.
(Hat tip: AtlasShrugs)
Thank you for the opportunity to comment
the big 0 and media are like a senator with a mistress, eventually she will forgive him or give him the boot. if this lovers spat is public, then the amount of pride will come into play. no guts, they will just quit printing magazines with their favorite man on the cover. if they have guts, we might get some worthy news. like why isn’t Eric(“we are cowards”)Holder going after the black panthers, instead of going after the national spy services.
21. TheSantaFean:
Saw that too and as a fellow New Mexican I have to say that I was not surprised. Richardson’s administration has to be the most corrupt in this state in a good long while. Meanwhile the working educators are making up the 90 million that got stolen from the retiree fund out of their paychecks.
I don’t think the MSM will ever give up its love affair with DohBama.
When his approval rating sinks to a single digit, the MSM will wail about how “racism” continues to rear its ugly head.
Don’t like Barry “Land Flaps” DohBama? You’re a racist, end of story.
You may think you don’t like the new Messiah because he wants to take most of what you earn and control every aspect of your worthless life, but that’s not the case, my friend.
You are a racist, plain and simple.
#79 Victor – The honesty of Fox is that they don’t hide the inclination of the views of each host. Hannity is a hard-right Conservative. He is not represented as an unbiased journalist. Beck is a full-bore Libertarian. No apologies. His is an editorialized news show. No pretending otherwise. Limbaugh is like Hannity.
O’Reilly is a center-right kinda guy, but it is an editorial news program (which has been #1 for… well, ever. Van Susteren is a liberal Dem, but she runs it as a news show and tries to keep it balanced. Shepard Smith is a flaming lib, but mostly keeps it out of his news show. The news shows functioning as news reporting try to stay balanced. The editorial news programs are honestly so. That’s all I care. When I know their motivations, I can use a pinch of salt.
The reason the other cable networks are being just clobbered by Fox is that they present their editorial news as unbiased reporting. It’s blatantly dishonest, and so, they’ve lost their credibility. No one wants to hear such propoganda. Fox is beating them all *combined*, as a result.
You are projecting, Victor. When you watch your liberal stations, you are getting slanted news. You are listening to what you want to hear.
73. AThinkingPerson:
“I LOVE SEAN HANNITY, RUSH LIMBAUGH, GLENN BECK . . . Fair and Balanced is how I like my news”
If those guys start telling you “We are the insane”, you’ll be faithfully repeating “We are the insane”.
Those guys belong in Comedy Central.
You always crack me up.
74. rachel peepers:
“What will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back?”
Offering you a trip to join the French Legionnaires.
Victor (Re #79): Let me guess Victor ole buddy. You think “enlightened” people get their news from MSDNC right? Or how about the Huffington Post eh Victor? Maybe The Daily Beast? Katie Couric? The NYTimes? The SFChronicle? C’mon Victor, let’s hear your “news” sources. The problem you have is that you ASSUME as liberals tend to do, that your choices are the only valid ones (hence Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emmanuel’s shock and awe that average Americans actually know what they’re talking about). Arrogance, Victor, is unfortunately a common liberal trait. I know, I know, I must be wrong because Arianna Huffington didn’t tell you that right? You also jumped to the conclusion that the 3 newscasters I listed were my only news source. Again, biased assumptions are a horrible liberal trait that you seem to be saddled with. You seem to be unable to wrap your head around the fact that conservatives do report news even though it might be (gasp) unfavorable to Obama.
Until you stop believing that Rachel Maddow is reporting “news”, you’re in dire straights there Victor.
PS… Your 20% remark is invalid. Fox News kicks all of the other news outlets every night.
59 treading all over you
Play nice now or “they” will censor you on Rule #3. You know who “they” are don’t you, Retread. “They” are the gremlins running around in your head. Those little furries who sing in high voices when you’re trying to sleep. Those little glints of light you mistake for ocular migraines that are really slivers of entrance into your parallel conservative universe where Bob Novak is lauded in death and Rush Limbaugh has his wrists permanently cuffed to his ankles. It’s OK, though. Don’t be afraid. It’s a little piece of heaven after all. And Rachel Peepers is there, always there, with an encouraging word and a double dose of Ativan. Rachel could you free yourself from your one-sentence paragraphs long enough to “fix” Retread? He’s feeling a little dope sick.
See, THAT is how you do this “taunt” thing. Why trowel out more clichés about atheism and unemployment? (By the way, you forgot “Cheetos” and “basement.”) You’re probably feeling a little itchy by now. That’s OK. Be patient. It’ll pass just as soon as the orderlies come to wheel you away to the “Analysis Suite.” Until then, take a deep breath and repeat after me:
I’ll soon be well I know I will
Once I pop a Peepers pill
My kingdom for a Sarah wink
That will take me to the brink
By way of her Alaskan prose
bursting forth with “Thar she blows!”
Oh blazing whip inside my head
Have mercy on this boy Retread.
And I thank you.
A little reality check for my arrogant friend Victor.
The news ratings: http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/cable-news
“”"”" is now finding that Mr. Dreamboat is a farter who lays on the couch all day and doesn’t do a damn thing around the house “”"”"
Well, during the campaign Michelle Obama described her husband as “stinky and snorry,” so it’s not like we weren’t warned.
It’s not that the bloom is off the rose. It’s that the public does not respect whores, and neither do their pimps. Obama will evince disdain for his whoring media, slap them around when they don’t produce enough, then will occasionally tell them how much he loves them and takes care of them, all while he enslaves them.
74. AThinkingPerson:
“I LOVE SEAN HANNITY, RUSH LIMBAUGH, GLENN BECK . . . they are patriots sounding the bugle of freedom”
You are beyond ridiculous. I’ve already exposed Hannity for the carnival bugler he is. Allow me to illustrate the deficit in your appraisal of the other side . . . Chris Matthews and his “softballs.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs
Ouch!
78. Cybergeezer wrote:
Seriously; It would tickle me to death to see the NYT busted for some type of racketeering, and have the entire business prosecuted under the RICO Act. I can dream!
Peter writes: You’re talking about a Justice Department that dropped charges against Richardson and the Black Panthers (a case they had technically already WON!) and is prosecuting the people who keep us safe from terrorists! You really think, even in your dreams, that these people would even contemplate prosecuting their cheerleaders?!?
@80
Try to wean yourself from drinking Obama’s wee wee… MSNBC, which is probably one of the sources you refer to as “objective, fact based reporting” has been shown (very recently) to doctor video when it does not support the conclusions they want people to draw.
Yeah, I believe Fox is biased to the right. On those occasions where I watch it, I do so with that in mind.
The other stations are equally as biased to the left… and people who maintain they are “objective, fact based reporting” are at best fools, at worst complicit in spreading propaganda.
Thank God. Another shot of Michelle in shorts and I’d puke.
NOW AND THEN: You got me confused. You’re capable of creative diction and turn of phrase but still enamored of a Messiah that required beagle-like suspension of disbelief. One one side you’re bright, but the other side you’re really dumbing it down. Now, that said, use of terms like “dope sick” evidence a desire to be much more street that you actually are. This tells more about you than I’d recommend.
Sorry, it’s too late. They sold out to become state run media, and they can’t go back now. Once you join, there’s no getting out.
As badly as Mr. Obama is running the country and as much damage to our economy, our national interest and our national security he seems to be doing, I think the shame of all this mess is the damage that Mr. Obamb is going to do when the next candidate of color tries to run for President. I imagine that it’s going to be another couple of hundred years before that is allowed to happen again, that a person of color is encouraged to run for President, and that is really the biggest crime of all.
95 Layer of Bill
I admire you trying to keep up, but for your own peace of mind pick somebody else. You know nothing about my street.
This is a test
99. Miss Yum Yum:
I think that people of color will always have a home in the conservative tent, because we’re not making an issue of their color. (Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal come to mind.) Give Americans a little more credit!
Jennifer,
Obama is a Socialist Democrat. The sycophantic media are also Socialist Democrats. Maybe they will squabble like siblings, but the love affair will never end. The ONLY real hope for liberty, is to throw all of the Socialist Democrats out on their collectivist ears in 2010.
89. Now and Then –
“Those little glints of light you mistake for ocular migraines that are really slivers of entrance into your parallel conservative universe where Bob Novak is lauded in death and Rush Limbaugh has his wrists permanently cuffed to his ankles.”
Could the “Then” have been Shakespeare in a past life?
Is the San Fernando Valley film industry “Now”?
92 Marc malone
Wow, quite the Superfly fantasy you got going there. Is that what happened when Bush invited Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz, Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved, Laura Ingraham into the Oval Office to talk strategy? Not that I wouldn’t mind giving Laura a few pointers on message discipline, but if you’re talking about the media and the administration making the beast with two backs, it don’t get much cozier than that. (Oops, yes it can. I forgot Armstrong Williams . . . and Cheney’s gardener planting stories inside the NYT, Judith Miller.)
I’d be remiss if I didn’t address 99. Miss Yum Yum . . . “I think the shame of all this mess is the damage that Mr. Obamb is going to do when the next candidate of color tries to run for President. I imagine that it’s going to be another couple of hundred years before that is allowed to happen again . . . ”
I think that speaks for itself.
102. arhooley:
“Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal come to mind.”
That’s two. Congratulations!
104. Mr Lucky:
Pray thee, by Orion’s jeweled sword to what do you refer by “San Fernando Valley film industry?”
I just have to share this . . . so I write the “Cheetos and basement” cliche thing up there in post #89 at 2:20 pm. Then at 3:57 pm, a scant 90 minutes later, over on the “Improbable Political Existence of Teddy Kennedy” column I see this . . .
127. chuck:
“And we can’t prove you’re living in your Mom’s basement and eating Cheeto’s, but the evidence for all is overwhelming.”
All politics aside, you gotta admit, that’s good. Come on, give it up. Right? Right? Yep.
The american people are not stupid, and know what is going on. After the election a pew poll revealed that 62% of Dems, and 90% of Pubs believed that the MSM were in the tank for Obama.
A pew study also revealed that MSNBC’s reporting was 5 times more negative toward McCain than Obama. Basically, there was no negative reporting on Obama at MSNBC, whereas the study did discover that Fox News reporting on the two general election candidates was equally 40% negative which is they way it should be in objective journalism.
To a leftist cultist this is considered unfair reporting.
The truly hilarious thing here is that the lefties are so devoid of factual or policy-based argumentation that all they can do is proffer video of one demagogue yelling at another.
Chris “leg tingles” Matthews, who was kicked off of covering his own network’s election coverage for his open bias, who jumped on the bandwagon attacking the Cambridge 911 caller, who famously claimed that “bloggers don’t fact check”, who cheered on a national magazine editor saying Obama was “sort of God” … the same Matthews who ruthlessly attacked Earth God Al Gore in the 2000 election … makes a no-name talk-radio guy look equally foolish. It’s the end of the world.
The more Obama tanks, the crazier the lefties get.
@107
> Pray thee, by Orion’s jeweled sword to what do you
> refer by “San Fernando Valley film industry?”
The same thing to which you libs refer to each time you use “teabagger”.
Don’t you even know your own talking points?
107. Now and Then:
Pray thee, by Orion’s jeweled sword to what do you refer by “San Fernando Valley film industry?”
Maybe, “Then” – Pray thee, by Pembroke’s jeweled sword to what do you refer by “San Fernando Valley film industry?”
“…and Rush Limbaugh has his wrists permanently cuffed to his ankles.”???
110 and 111 . . . I don’t blame you for denying the obvious. It’s all you have left.
@113
I, on the other hadn, DO blame you for your malice. It’s all you ever had.
I stopped watching MSM about a year ago. I decided that I was smart enough to be given the facts and to draw my own conclusions. I greatly resented being told by TV pundits what I was supposed to think or feel about an issue.
“Who plays first base for the Dodgers”?
On December 18, 1944, that was the kind of question asked by American units during the early days of the battle of the bulge because some German SS units were masquerading in GI uniforms.
The cultural differences were too great for Germans who spoke English to figure out simple questions like, “who plays first for the Dodgers?”
Fact is, I think you trolls are as American as Swiss cheese.
I surmise the socialist dimwits in here can’t answer the same type questions that Thinkingperson, malclave, steveg, steve, meryl, yumyum, marla et al would know in a flash. I think the trolls here not only are culturally alien but are UnAmerican. I think you’re trash.
Anyway, whoever comes up with at least two correct answers in the shortest time proves or disproves my point.
If a troll wins, about all I’m good for is trash talk.
So who can be the first to get two answers correct?
l. What were the Dodgers affectionately called?
2. What happened at Malmedy?
3. Who invented the Polaroid Camera?
4. What’s Namath’s nickname?
5. What’s an automat?
99. Yup.
Powell could have done us all a big favor by being the first black president in ’96. Whether or not he would have been a great president doesn’t really matter. Just being an ok president, he would have left the mold intact. This incompetent bozo has shattered it for at least a generation. I don’t know about a couple hundred years, but probably until these trolls inherit mom’s basement, anyway.
I do hope that we’ve learned our lesson forever that you don’t select someone from a state who’s governor is under indictment.
The the fawning was 95 percent then, and it’s only down to 87% now.
I hope the MSM suffers greatly for turning into Pravda.
Obama to strike back twice as hard?
- Attacks on talk radio
- Emergency Internet Control
- Boycott of Glenn Beck
- Boycott of Whole Foods
- The US Government attacks: CIA, insurance industry, energy industry, banks, Wall Street, ordinary tea-bag citizens…
- Who is next?
Seems to illustrate Machiavelli very well, [For heads of state it is] “Better to instill fear than inspire love.”
Now and Then is a juvenile troll and a useful idiot who thinks it is being useful. Do not feed the troll.
Soothsayer
Beware the Ides of March
Brutus
A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March
Commander Wee Wee
But I have CNN, NBC, MSNLSD, NYT, and Huffigton Post; what sayest thou to me now? Speak once again.
Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March. And your soul shall rise, Nevermore. Quoth the Raven.
“But there are other factors at work. For starters, Obama isn’t very nice to the media. It may sound petty, but his obvious and frequent contempt for what they do must be irksome to reporters who fancy themselves to be indispensable elements in the Obama revolution. He spits his disdain for the “24-hour news cycle.” The press is told to buzz off — there is no news to be had on his Martha’s Vineyard vacation (before the eye-popping decision to name a special prosecutor to go after CIA operatives). And for all the promises to be “transparent,” this White House, and Robert Gibbs specifically, seems to be one of the least forthcoming in recent memory.”
Have to respectfully disagree on this Ms. Rubin. “24-hour news” is code for Fox News, and despite a few more journalists here and there that are finally waking from there slumbers, the media is for the most part still eating from Obama’s hand. Gibbs’ press conferences are still mostly rehearsals for the comedy act he is planning on pursuing after 2012, and for the most part there has been no alarm at all by any of the major news outlets on stories that would have had them screaming bloody murder during the Bush years. For instance, can you imagine if Bush’s budget was revised by $2 trillion more than he promised just 3 months earlier? Can you imagine if Bush’s justice department dropped a voter intimidation case involving toothless KKK members wielding clubs? What if he had tried to ram a 1,000 page social security reform bill down everyone’s throats in 3 weeks? The MSM has a long way to go before they even remotely approach objectivity.
99. Miss Yum Yum:
“when the next candidate of color tries to run for President.”
Decent, intelligent people don’t care what color is running.
I never trusted the mainstream media, mostly because I know a lot of the people in the industry. In college, the journalism majors were pretty uniformly either nuts or very stupid, or both. They wanted to “change the world” and they wanted to do it by reporting the news. Huh? It never made sense to me. Then I got it, they wanted to change the news in order to change the world. Which, I don’t care if they change it for the better. But, these morons could screw up a one car funeral. And so, today we have news rooms populated with legions of these impaired types who could not think rationally if you had a gun to their heads, and think getting a news release from elected pols constitutes heavy investigative reporting. It was all entirely predictable, the same way you can usually see a train wreck coming.
The Brothers Emanuel Part Two: Rahm, the Jewish Himmler
(Please see “The Brothers Emanuel Part One: Ezekiel, the Jewish Mengele,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1188.)
If Ezekiel Emanuel is Obama’s Josef Mengele, then Rahm Emanuel is his Heinrich Himmler. Dr. Mengele was Hitler’s “Angel of Death,” Himmler his architect of merciless devastation and the Holocaust.
As Obama’s Chief of Staff and Senior Aide to the President, a heady position often termed the second most powerful in Washington, Rahm is charged with the duties of choosing and supervising the White House staff, determining who gets access to the president, and managing the flow of information the president sees and hears.
Above all, his responsibility is protecting the president’s interests and in that role he has great latitude in this administration, enabling him to set policy and to execute whatever measures as necessary to CTPA, Cover The President’s Ass.
There’s no doubt he’s been brutally efficient in the execution of his office, . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Vivo, Sport, just keep telling yourself that decent, intelligent voters don’t care what color is running. You actually might have something there. But, hey, wait a cotton picking second.
96% of your black brother and sisters voted for Obama. Is your point that most of them are dumb as dirt? Apparently, color did matter to them, old boy.
I’m concerned about your powers of reasoning. Perhaps you should get you GED, and then go on to major in college logic.
Then you could make something of yourself other than a laughing stock.
94. Peter the Bubblehead:
It took the brains of Barack Obama to uncover that Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that Hillary was always talking about (CIA)!
If Justice isn’t too overwhelmed with this trick, they can prosecute our military for winning past wars. After all, Baracks dream is to have a “civilian force with the authority and budget as large as the U.S. military. It might be his next edict.
126. rachel peepers:
Hey! two sentecnes inone paragraph. Twice! You’re coming around in form. Now let’s address that content thing.
“Perhaps you should get you GED, and then go on to major in college logic.”
Stanford, right? You go to Stanford? Are you a natural-born American citizen or a naturalized American citizen or just visiting?
116. rachel peepers:
I’ll take “What happened at Malmedy” for $1000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBlEkJSo2kM
The Msm(Marxist syncophat Media) now realizes that the communist slug phony illegal alien closet moslem doesnt respect them? Since when did he EVER respect anything that didnt annoint him KING? We have about 15% of the population ingrained in Law,Academia,Media ,and politics that have ingrained a hatred of freedom and capitalism in every fiber of there being. I for one,will not live in ANY state where I cannot carry my Caltech 380 or enjoy freedom from ridicoulus taxes and regualtion. As my wife says, shed rather be judged by 12 of her peers than carried to her grave by 6 of them. So guess what Marxist Sympathizer Media-I hope you all go out of business and the Rush Limbaughs, Sean Hannitys and the Pajamas medias of the world CRUSH your scummy hate freedom arses to extinction.
Now and Then,
I hope any medical coverage reform has a
mental health care provision.
For your sake.
Ta-ta
Rachel
vivo wrote:
“Decent, intelligent people don’t care what color is running.”
Moderators:
I think that rule #6 ought to contain a comment regarding this kind of race-baiting. Vivo’s comment is the lowest form of communication
131. rachel peepers:
Yeah, Malmedy.
How about that?
I guess that trash talk was my prize.
Thanks.
I’ll cherish it always.
Its nice that everyone’s feeling a vondication rush, but take a step back and swill this awfully bitter vindication for a bit. And put the party hats away.
In 2008 the democrats put up an inexperienced, left-leaning but very articulate, appealling man that won–over a honorable military man who regretably could not explaint to anyone–even himself–why it mattered if he won. The GOP simply had no one the public could trust. Nothing has changed. The GOP overall still has no vision other than re-gaining power for its own use. “I’m not as bad as them,” is about as far as the GOP goes.
After losing congress in 2006, we might be lucky enough to get some balance in 2010, but effective control is beyond our reach as long as GOP congressmen fly off to foreign junkets and vote for pork like everyone else.
There are to be sure a lot of dissapointed voters out here: but don’t count those votes just yet. They need someone to vote FOR; someone they can trust. Where are those candidates?
PS to Peepers: you might actually be on to something–finally–in that the GOP ought to try talking to people about normal concerns and in normal language, and stop looking at wine lists with pundits and reporters. They won’t of course. They have lost contact with real people. But is a good idea.
#134….I do not know much about him, but republican Marco Rubio has done exactly what you suggested. We will see in 2010 if it pays dividends.
I’ll believe that there’s “Trouble in Paradise” when a reporter at Barry’s next press conference asks the following question:
“Mr. President, Captain Connie Rhoades on August 28th , just 2 days ago, filed for a “temporary restraining order” against you. Captain Rhoades, whose case was filed in West Texas, is asserting that you are Constitutionally ineligible to serve as CIC. This TRO is exactly the same as Major Cook’s.”
“My question, Sir, what steps will you take to satisfy the persistent rumors of eligibility?”
126. rachel peepers:
“Vivo, Sport, just keep telling yourself that decent, intelligent voters don’t care what color is running. You actually might have something there. But, hey, wait a cotton picking second.
96% of your black brother and sisters voted for Obama.”
They are not YOUR brothers & sisters?
Interesting.
Apparently you don’t know that every rule has its EXCEPTION. These black voters are the exception to the rule in this election.
They need more than a GED at Stanford, you know?
Your typing class is not enough.
128. Now and Then:
126. rachel peepers:
“Stanford, right? You go to Stanford? Are you a natural-born American citizen or a naturalized American citizen or just visiting?”
Regardless, she’s in the wrong sanitarium.
132. GB:
“vivo wrote: “Decent, intelligent people don’t care what color is running.”
Moderators:
I think that rule #6 ought to contain a comment regarding this kind of race-baiting. Vivo’s comment is the lowest form of communication”
That was my answer to 99. Miss Yum Yum:
“As badly as Mr. Obama is running the country and as much damage to our economy, our national interest and our national security he seems to be doing, I think the shame of all this mess is the damage that Mr. Obamb is going to do when the next candidate of color tries to run for President. I imagine that it’s going to be another couple of hundred years before that is allowed to happen again, that a person of color is encouraged to run for President, and that is really the biggest crime of all.”
GB: do you know HOW to read threads?
My comment was not the lowest form of communication, it was directed to the lowest common denominator, people like YOU!
vivo:
“My comment was not the lowest form of communication, it was directed to the lowest common denominator, people like YOU!”
I realize it was a response to 99, and it was STILL race-baiting. You can’t control your biases to save your life.
138. GB:
What’s ur problem with race? Is it a taboo for you? Is it ‘race-baiting’ if I ask you what’s ur ethnic background?
The msm incompetence is not new, it has been going on for all of my adult life and I am 64. The 60′s seems to have begun their sinking into irrelevance. As time has gone by they have become more arrogant and irrelevant. They are pretty much DOA now. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of marxist soon enough.
vivp, vovp – ? whatever
I don’t think that this conversation needs to include race, but you keep on keepin’ on.