Remember way back when there was a Republican president and the media would not have tolerated such abuses of power? Now, it’s just another outrage the MSM will stand silently by and condone. The MSM must be universally boycotted by conservatives and Republicans until it regains at least a semblence of objectivity.
I'm down to two off-air channels...PBS and NBC...and I'm thinking of starting to write NBC again. With new ownership, they may be amenable to suggestions. I may break down and get a digital converter...no gubment coupons, now, so few stock them...miss my FOX.
“The MSM must be universally boycotted by conservatives and Republicans until it regains at least a semblence of objectivity.”
Boycott their advertisers and write to them letting them know why you are not buying their products anymore.
Interesting that you mention that. I’ve been working on listening to Laurie Roth’s interview of Doug Hagmann and Judi McLeod from Canada Free Press, regarding the alleged threats made to the media heads if they reported on the eligibility issue.
The claim is that once before the election and once afterwards, Obama’s people (still listening for details over a 3-hour interview while my computer is messed up with a virus, but at this point Axelrod and Rahm have been mentioned by name) told the heads of Fox, NBC, CBS, and 2 large radio networks (that Hagmann declined to name) that if they reported on the eligibility issue (including place of birth, documentation about BC, passport, Pakistan travels, aliases including Barry Soetoro, Islamic schools, and any oaths of allegiance) they would be annihilated by just this kind of scrutiny of the media ownership (with anti-monopoly and diversity issues seeming to be the primary points of attack for legal harassment of these companies if they didn’t step in line with Obama’s demands.
At a meeting between the leadership and the top 4 anchors for one of those companies (I’m betting not Fox), according to the notes taken by the administrative assistant at the meeting (the only record of that meeting left by the time she returned to work the next day, since somebody had deleted all records from her computer by that time), somebody asked whether the media exec wasn’t angry at being threatened.
The response was that if it had been done by that (*&#&#(*# George W Bush then it would make them mad, but because it was being done by Obama they could understand where he was coming from.
Hagmann says he has records of these statements that he got when meeting with that administrative assistant 4 different times, collected according to PI license standards. He says he hasn’t come forward with the actual evidence because at this point his sources would not be safe if he did so.
After seeing Obama’s treatment of Gerald Walpin, the Chrysler attorneys, the AIG execs (”I’m the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks” - when the union thugs bussed people to encircle the AIG exec’s house), and now the Chamber of Commerce (for heaven’s sake!).... this would not surprise me in the least.
I remember there being a meeting reported where Roger Ailes told his people not to report on the eligibility issue. And I remember after the inauguration somebody from the Obama administration met with Ailes again; I remember Michael Savage actually saying something positive about Ailes because he needed our support when faced with this thuggery, so that had to be after I started back at this job, so sometime within the last year.
Anyway, this seems to be the way Obama operates.
And the media is fine with it, as long as it’s Obama doing it and not some (shudder!) conservative.