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Fox News vs. the Cult of Obama
Breitbart.com/Big Journalism | 5/28/2013 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 05/28/2013 7:12:28 AM PDT by FiddlePig

It is impossible to understand the Obama administration's uniquely hostile treatment of Fox News without understanding the self-image of the Obama team. On the one hand, the targeting of Fox News for isolation and surveillance suggests an administration so lacking in competence that it cannot tolerate criticism or scrutiny. On the other, the attacks suggest hubris, a confidence that few would ever object to its conduct.

That contradiction has a religious quality to it. Indeed, President Barack Obama has led an administration that has, at times, been more of a religious movement than a governing body. Obama has made miraculous promises of political and planetary transformation; he has encouraged a cult-like following, even among formerly skeptical journalists; and he has constructed a demonology of his opponents, real and imagined.

Obama not only shares his party's belief in its moral superiority but also embodies it in his own person. His preference for the word ‘I’ is but one symptom. In a recent, typical example, he told the media: ‘I've still got 60,000-plus troops in Afghanistan,’ as if those soldiers serve him personally and at his pleasure. The corollary: his critics must be motivated by personal hatred or bigotry, not any independent principles.

Unlike the Nixon administration, which was suffused with paranoia, the Obama White House suffers from an excess of self-regard. It is threatened less by opposition than by independence--and by the idea that we must be students of, not servants of, history.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alinskyjournalism; cult; democrats; enemedia; foxnews; obama; obamedia; religion; vanity
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Obama’s blind faith cult-like adherents don’t understand this (or maybe they do)… his is as much a "religious" agenda as a political one… he is god, infallible even when evidence shows otherwise. Alternative media (especially Fox News) too often throws reality into the cult narrative, and are therefore heretics to be punished… if Obama and his media cult could burn‘em as the stake, they would, but until then... IRS harassment and DOJ secret subpoenas must do.
1 posted on 05/28/2013 7:12:28 AM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: FiddlePig

“...IRS harassment and DOJ secret subpoenas must do.”

That’s likely only the tip of the iceberg. Certainly there are many untold actions taken by the Ultimate Leftist in Chief that are yet to be discovered. My guess is that many in the progressive MSM are aware of other actions of this ilk, and for obvious reasons stay quiet.


2 posted on 05/28/2013 7:20:47 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist
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3 posted on 05/28/2013 7:21:15 AM PDT by Slyfox (The red face of shame is proof that the conscience is still operational.)
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To: FiddlePig

Where’s the link?


4 posted on 05/28/2013 7:21:26 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: FiddlePig

The Obama cult like cults everywhere are eventually exposed for what they are and that knowledge becomes the source of its demise.


5 posted on 05/28/2013 7:22:05 AM PDT by Forty-Niner ( the barely bare, berry bear formally known as Ursus Arctos Horibilis...Hear me roar!)
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To: FiddlePig

“Understand yourself and understand your opponents and in one hundred battles you will not be defeated.”

If Obama was a cult leader, he would be wooing conservatives to join his cult. Obama is a con man and a thief. He is only out to make money for himself and his buddies. You can argue doctrine with a cult leader. You just throw a thief in jail.


6 posted on 05/28/2013 7:23:53 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: FiddlePig

It’s called “cult of personality.” Same methods as Chavez, who also went after and shut down critical media. Pray it doesn’t go so far as attempt to overturn Constitutional restrictions on tenure in office.


7 posted on 05/28/2013 7:25:15 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: FiddlePig

Maybe the administration doesn’t like the idea of reporting something supposedly factually, and then telling people to decide?


8 posted on 05/28/2013 7:27:45 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: FiddlePig
Alternative media (especially Fox News) too often throws reality into the cult narrative, and are therefore heretics to be punished ...

Very revealing that the same punishment is also given to the few (one?) courageous and authentic journalist within the lame stream media ...

Sheryl Attkisson

9 posted on 05/28/2013 7:29:12 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/05/28/Fox-News-vs-the-Cult-of-Obama


10 posted on 05/28/2013 7:32:29 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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The Obamanations see themselves as a tight-knit clique of socialists/communists/unions/progs/liberals----bound together by "enlightened" values — like reason, tolerance, diversity and equality......

Sound familiar?Mmmmmmm.........sounds an awful lot like the "People's Temple." Rev Jim Jones promised a "better life, hope and change.....and diversity." Tolerant and compassionate Rev Jim Jones brought lotsa Kool-aid (and cases of cyanide) for the diverse crowd that blindly followed him to a place "from which there was no escape."

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THE OBAMA WRAP ---These people are even scarier in triumph, when they've clearly mocked democracy and stolen the election. America has witnessed the consequences of a generation inculcated with moral relativity and situation ethics. The ghost of Saul Alinsky lurks behind M/M Obama, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Anita "Mao" Dunn, Valerie whatsherface, and the rest of the Ohaha ilk.

They clearly see themselves as "deconstructionists"----savagely committed to tearing down America's traditions. Every manaical official govt act is dedicated to chipping away at the bulwark of American freedoms.

The Obamanations are a virulent anti-American plague of religion haters.......vacant, surly Me-First humanoids who worship at The Church of Whatever Works For Me. Cadres of self-absorbed punks squatting in govt are clearly disturbed---obsessed with religious cleansing and kicking so/con Repubs to the curb.

The Ohaha savages duped the citizenry, led us over a multi-trillion dollar deficit cliff, into massive corrupt bailouts, and atrocities like amnesty.

Their motto: "Everything For Us--Nothing For You."

That same generation inculcated with \moral relativity and situation ethics has segued into The Entitlement Generation---better known as "Pay Me--I'm a Victim.

We need to remember that the Obamanoids are ruthless predators w/ no empathy for others and no remorse; anti-social psychopaths who recognize no moral boundaries--aggressively going after what they want, irregardless of the consequences to others.

Paraphrasing Saul Alinsky----the author of evil anti-religious satanism......"they do not have a fixed truth -- truth to them is relative and changing..... they are free from the shackles of dogma."

11 posted on 05/28/2013 7:33:40 AM PDT by Liz
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To: FiddlePig
obama i know nothing
   obama what is it you do around here couch liar
obama hang curtains

12 posted on 05/28/2013 7:34:15 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Forty-Niner

Obama is nothing more then a thug, carbon copy of Hitler or any of the well known dictators, tyrants and despots of all time. And.....he too will fail as they all did. The problem is, Obama will take this country with him, as did Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc.

The Roman Empire like our USA, who at the end of WWII was the most powerful, successful, free nation in the entire world as Rome was in her glory days. But.....power, greed, envy, politics brought Rome down to her knees when her armies failed, and people like Caesar, Nero & Caligula ruled as murderers and despots. Obama is in the exact same league as those thugs and ego-maniacs!!! Yes...freedom, liberty, individual accomplishment and success are the enemies of despots and dictators!!!

And...yes....just as the sheeple in Rome stood by and did nothing, the USA is suffering the exact same fate!!! I am the over-the-hill-gang...so I won’t be here to see the USA go south to final destruction which the Obamabots want so much!!! But....the young folks are not looking a bright and sunshine future. America is doomed!!! And.....by its own hand. Yes.....history does repeat itself!!!


13 posted on 05/28/2013 7:36:19 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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Oops my bad! Link: Read the WHOLE thing...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/05/28/Fox-News-vs-the-Cult-of-Obama


14 posted on 05/28/2013 7:43:48 AM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: Forty-Niner
The Obama cult like cults everywhere are eventually exposed for what they are and that knowledge becomes the source of its demise.

is it time for the "Red Brigade" to start pouring the coolaid?

15 posted on 05/28/2013 7:54:30 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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It is a badge of honor for FOX to have Obama single the network out for not joining the Obama-Arse-Licking-Media.
Too bad others in the MSM don't see the irony and implied insult of NOT being included in Obama's criticism.


16 posted on 05/28/2013 7:55:27 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Freebies, Home of the Enslaved)
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17 posted on 05/28/2013 8:35:32 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: FiddlePig

It should be “ evil occult “ not just cult.


18 posted on 05/28/2013 8:40:36 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: showme_the_Glory

They poured it long ago. It will soon be having an effect upon it’s drinkers.....cleanup on the left aisle!


19 posted on 05/28/2013 9:40:53 AM PDT by Forty-Niner ( the barely bare, berry bear formally known as Ursus Arctos Horibilis...Hear me roar!)
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To: showme_the_Glory

They poured it long ago. It will soon be having an effect upon it’s drinkers.....cleanup on the left aisle!


20 posted on 05/28/2013 9:42:05 AM PDT by Forty-Niner ( the barely bare, berry bear formally known as Ursus Arctos Horibilis...Hear me roar!)
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