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TOPIC: "Obama-Drooling Media Create Their Very Own Lame Duck" (Right Side News 1/23/10)


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Obama-Drooling Media Create Their Very Own Lame Duck


Written by Joan Swirsky
Saturday, 23 January 2010 15:52

 

That's right, and it wasn't only Katie Couric. For the past two years, when Obama was in campaign mode and after his Acorn-and foreign-money-fueled election, the entire leftwing media debased what once passed for legitimate journalism.

With absolute consistency, they:

  • obama-media2Failed utterly to vet an inexperienced, document-concealing candidate (we still haven't seen Obama's Illinois law license or an authentic birth certificate).
  • Failed to investigate the veracity of aggrandizing information spewed by Obama's spin doctors and then repeated their spin (they still say, for instance, that he was a law professor, which he never was).
  • Failed to conceal their stunning lack of objectivity through the soft-ball questions they asked and, as Bernard Goldberg says, their "slobbering" obsequiousness.
  • Failed to distance themselves from the leftwing radicals who see racism where none exists - and even echoed their paranoia!
  • Failed to camouflage their personal biases both for Obama and against any of his critics or political opponents and competitors.
  • truth_and_lies_tFailed to correct his virtual avalanche of lies, which John Ellis has catalogued in scandalous and chilling detail, saying that "the accumulated weight of Obama's deceit is overwhelming...as a result, this nation is now in a position where it cannot believe a word that he says, and that amounts to an unprecedented crisis of confidence in the Presidency."

TYRANNY OF THE AMERICAN MEDIA

As UK columnist and commentator Gerald Warner asks: "Why is it that the true view of Resident Barack Obama (you know, the illegal alien living over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington) is openly expressed in the major media around the world, but nary a word of it is printed in any of the newspapers in the United States? Increasingly, the red god of Islamic communism in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, is becoming more immune from scrutiny from the media out of fear of the race word. Whenever he is criticized for his un-American actions, his communist actions, or the out-and-out theft of the wealth of the American people, those who criticize him are accused of being racist. That's a First Amendment travesty."

That travesty is because most in the American media are liberals, including a majority of writers and TV and radio people who are not well paid but still thrilled to be working in the field.  Overwhelmingly they take their marching orders from their bosses. Which leads to the obvious question: Why are so many media moguls liberals-you know, the people who flourish in this competitive world, thrive on free-market capitalism, and like their taxes low and their government non-intrusive. ¬†Perhaps it's the megalomania that often comes with being a head honcho. Call it the oligarch mentality, liking the notion of the few at the top calling the shots for the many beneath them.

Or maybe it's the oh-too-cozy relationship between news and entertainment, the latter traditionally steeped in bleeding-heart causes and "feelings" and the former both eager and happy to be included in their lavish self-congratulatory affairs, the latest of which-The SAG Awards-led the "news" and featured Hollywood liberals dripping with bling while thousands of Haitians lay buried or dead beneath tons of rubble.

It is this same media that foisted Obama onto the national stage by failing to do their jobs professionally and with integrity. Like a collective of Dr. Frankensteins, they created their own monster. It is relevant to mention here that after nearly 3,000 innocent Americans were murdered by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001, one of Obama's closest friends and colleagues, Rev. Jeremiah Wright-who the media significantly chose not to expose for his rank anti-American, anti-white, and anti-Semitic ravings-whipped his congregation into a joyful frenzy when he said that the chickens (of revenge) had come home to roost (on American imperialism). Translation: Big bad America got what she deserved!

WHOSE CHICKENS ARE ROOSTING NOW?

In a variation on that theme, on January 19 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the chickens of fear and loathing of Big Government came to roost on the abomination known as Obamacare. What MA voters said to Obama and his radical conspirators in Congress was essentially Don't Tread on Me!

  • protest_signDon't ram your socialized medicine scheme down our throats.
  • Don't tax me to perdition.
  • Don't slash Medicare funding by a half-trillion dollars and then deny the existence of death panels.
  • Don't threaten and bribe your way to votes in backroom deals for this unconstitutional bill and think we won't notice.
  • Don't sneak in a provision forcing taxpayers to pay for the in utero murder of babies.
  • And don't think you're entitled to the seat Sen. Ted Kennedy worked tirelessly for over nearly half a century on the basis of an anemic campaign and a canned, teleprompter-assisted rah-rah speech.


Good Ole Massachusetts-and Good Ole America-doesn't deserve that!

And while you're at it, Mr. Obama, move to the center or even the eroding support you still have will vanish!

Yes, eroding support, and I'm not even talking about the Democrats in office who just last week were still sipping Obama's Marxist Kool Aid but are now doing Michael Jackson's backward moonwalk. Rather I mean the media lackeys who licked Obama's boots, created hagiographies, and threw their formidable reputations behind him, but are now fleeing what they clearly see as a sinking ship.

"He's Done Everything Wrong," wrote editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Reportand publisher of the New York Daily News Mort Zuckerman before he elaboratedon Neil Cavuto.

"I'm very disappointed. I voted for him. I supported him publicly and privately. In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It's now worse than it was. I've now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I've never seen before. It's politically corrupt and it's starting at the top. It's revolting."

And career-liberal Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and now publisher of The Daily Beast, tried to cover her tracks by pretending she wasn't Obama's biggest fan.

Even New York Times drooler-in-chief Paul Krugman is bailing: "I'm pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in."

But most of the liberal hacks on the alphabet networks and on CSPAN and CNN - not just Katie Couric but also Matt Lauer, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Harry Smith, Anderson Cooper, Soledad O'Brien, Andrea Mitchell, Norah O'Donnell, the list is endless - and also political scholars like David Letterman and Joy Behar, are still shilling, using the same blame-the-losing-candidate rationalization that didn't ring true even in the NJ and VA races for governor, where Republicans won handily in the "year of Obama." Imagine that!

HEADS UP KATIE & CO.

While you were drooling over Obama and shamelessly failing to report objectively on his words and actions, the little people of Massachusetts and throughout the country were watching and listening to you. Carefully.

More . . .

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Whenever he [Obama] is criticized for his un-American actions, his communist actions, or the out-and-out theft of the wealth of the American people, those who criticize him are accused of being racist. That's a First Amendment travesty."

That travesty is because most in the American media are liberals, including a majority of writers and TV and radio people who are not well paid but still thrilled to be working in the field.


This article is spot on about the media.  We Hillary supporters understood early in the 2008 primary season that MSM was in O's pocket. PUMAs organized a media protest in response to the bias MSM showed toward O and against Hillary.  I don't think any other group actually protested the media, and called them out on their bias.

The above statement (in bold) that American media are liberals is, of course, true - well except for FOX (unfair and unbalanced), which except for Greta is ultra-right.  However, this fact alone does not explain why members of the media would use their platforms to push a candidate on the public.  Being liberals explains why individual journalists and media moguls would personally support Obama, but it doesn't explain why they would be so bold as to violate the public's right to the truth, to objective information, to the protection of the principles of democracy.  It doesn't explain it, and it sure as hell doesn't justify it.  Nor does their personal preference for a candidate justify or explain the gross sexism and misogyny to which they subjected their candidate's opponent.

There are few broadcast news programs worth watching, given their efforts to manipulate the public in order to ensure the election of a particular candidate.  I would love to see another media protest - a huge one.





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