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Orson Scott Card: Obama and the Press
rhinotimes.com ^ | January 29, 2009 | Orson Scott Card

Posted on 01/30/2009 8:31:34 AM PST by Tolik

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1 posted on 01/30/2009 8:31:34 AM PST by Tolik
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2 posted on 01/30/2009 8:32:25 AM PST by Tolik
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To: Tolik

O is so arrogant that he thinks he got elected by himself. If the drive bys ever turn on him he is toast. Not that they ever will!


3 posted on 01/30/2009 8:35:15 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Tolik
and the press tries hard to pretend they are of the upper class, socially and intellectually...

Funny, when I was in school, those that majored in journalism did so because they were thought to be generally fairly stupid and couldn't do much else. I guess today's journalists confirm that assumption.

4 posted on 01/30/2009 8:37:05 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Kenyan Usurper - "Let his days be few, and let another take his office." Psalm 109:8)
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Inside news is the coin you spend to buy their loyalty. But Mr. Obama has never had to do this because they bestowed their support on him unearned during the campaign.

Yes, otherwise known by the somewhat misleading term "access." The Clinton people had to learn this lesson early on, but fortunately for Obama he has a number of their top professionals protecting him. Hillary's people, protecting him.

Heh heh.

5 posted on 01/30/2009 8:37:46 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: All
related to the subject of MSM integrity:

Featured on Rush Limbaugh 10/22/08:

Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?

and discussed here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110339/postss

 

6 posted on 01/30/2009 8:38:03 AM PST by Tolik
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Obama is an abject socialist...even a marxist ideolog when you consider his past assocciations and look at his 2001 NPR interview...and he believes he is a cut above everyone and should not have to be subjected to demeaning and searching interviews.

He is a true demagogue and he meant it (and is proving it) when he stated time and again during the campaign that he meant to bring fundamental change to America. He is going about doing just that and it reaches far, far beyond our deployment in Iraq.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

BARACK HUSEEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS

NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES

OBAMA, THE STOCK MARKET, AND ENERGY

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING

7 posted on 01/30/2009 8:39:26 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Tolik

Dang! I knew I liked Ender’s game, and the other article he wrote about the press’s horrid bias... Orson Scott Card definitely paints a good picture here.


8 posted on 01/30/2009 8:40:31 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Tolik

“Franklin Roosevelt knew this, and cultivated the press. So did Kennedy.”

Not to put too fine a point on it, so did Sadam Hussein. cf. CNN.


9 posted on 01/30/2009 8:41:38 AM PST by Locomotive Breath
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To: Tolik
OK, one more time, Orson...

Why are you a Democrat???


10 posted on 01/30/2009 8:46:19 AM PST by TChris (So many useful idiots...)
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To: ontap

They’ve invested too much in him to turn on him this soon. It will eventually come, but not until late in his term.


11 posted on 01/30/2009 8:48:46 AM PST by bgill
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To: Tolik; ontap; The Sons of Liberty; Billthedrill

The good professor has hit it on the head. Something none of us has picked up on beforehand.

Of course Obama is by nature arrogant and entitled. Of course he’s grown accustomed to the MSM fawning over him these past three years. Of course they want him to succeed.

But the beast still has to be fed. They HAVE to write about something these next four years and if he won’t graciously take them aside and feed them tidbits like a skilled operator, then they will HAVE to turn on him; simply to have something to report on and keep their phoney-baloney jobs.


12 posted on 01/30/2009 8:49:23 AM PST by sinanju
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To: Tolik
This guy, who got the gentlest treatment by the press in any political campaign ever ... clearly despises them as a nuisance.

The members of the press believe Obama sees them as a braintrust with whom he will consult and give marching orders on mutually-agreed-on policies.

Obama actually sees them as Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction--use 'em while needed, then get rid of 'em...before they start shrieking "I won't be ignored!"

13 posted on 01/30/2009 8:53:46 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life American Atheist)
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The fact is that the Press Brothel tripped over one another to give The One their love and will NEVER turn on their vacuous creation. Newspapers today qualify as organized prostitution rings. It is the public that will soon decide they’ve had it with The Messiah.


14 posted on 01/30/2009 8:56:21 AM PST by pabianice
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To: sinanju

I can’t wait till that happens. Usually, when a zero like 0bama is built up the way he has been, it isn’t long until there is a dramatic fall.


15 posted on 01/30/2009 8:56:38 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Kenyan Usurper - "Let his days be few, and let another take his office." Psalm 109:8)
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To: SeraphimApprentice; Interesting Times; zot

Card ping


16 posted on 01/30/2009 9:01:08 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead (3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87))
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To: TChris

cause his grandiddy wuz!


17 posted on 01/30/2009 9:05:15 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Tolik

Thanks for the ping!


18 posted on 01/30/2009 9:06:11 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“Usually, when a zero like 0bama is built up the way he has been, it isn’t long until there is a dramatic fall.”

This has been working its way into my expectations. I think the phrase “The higher they are, the harder they fall” will be very relevant in due time.


19 posted on 01/30/2009 9:07:34 AM PST by Flightdeck (Go Longhorns)
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To: Tolik
O has slipped the Press a special nefarious serum. They've drunk it right up... and that Chrissy Matthews gal had herself a full on kegger! :)


20 posted on 01/30/2009 9:09:40 AM PST by SparkyBass
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