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Will the press ever turn on Obama…
Legal Insurrection ^ | July 30, 2013 | neo-neocon

Posted on 07/30/2013 1:15:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

…the way much of it has now turned on Weiner? That’s the question asked by a commenter at this post about The New Yorker’s new cover mocking Weiner.

My answer, in a nutshell, is no.

After all, there is no real cost to turning on Weiner. The election is not a national event. No one seemed to like Weiner all that much to begin with; perhaps the only people getting thrills up the leg about him might have been a few of his sext partners. Weiner’s misbehavior was sexual and simple to conceptualize, and most especially it was not political in nature (except for the over-arching issue of lying). Those who supported Weiner earlier and excused his personal failings—once—could rest easy in knowing that had shown them to be personally magnanimous. They had given him another chance, he blew it, and now by turning on him they’re showing they have morals and standards. Win/win.

And besides, his offenses had nothing to do with politics or policy. Abandoning Weiner now threatens no particular political or theoretical belief system of his previous supporters, and helps them look righteous and even-handed. And it doesn’t hurt that his activities lend themselves quite easily to mockery; the double-entendres just keep coming (oops!).

Nor is there any racial angle with Weiner; he’s Jewish, and therefore not of a protected group.

Obama is very different. For him, the press has compromised every ideal it professes to have. His sins are not personal, they are political abuses of power, and the abuses of power are for the most part in furtherance of the agenda of the left. For supporters and press to turn on him now would mean a re-organization of their much more basic belief system and perhaps even their politics. Even worse than that, it could mean saying the right was right about Obama all the time. That would be most threatening of all.

No, the only way the liberal press would ever really turn on Obama would be for not being leftist enough—for joining the conservative enemy, as it were. And although there were moments of that with Obama’s policies on Guantanamo, drones, and NSA spying (all of which involved him appearing, in the eyes of liberals and the left, to be too much like Bush in fighting Islamic terrorism—even though Obama refused to call it that), the Obama-dike of the MSM held.

It’s hard to imagine anything else that could ever threaten it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anthonyweiner; carlosdanger; media; msm; newyork; newyorkcity; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; weiner
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1 posted on 07/30/2013 1:15:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Is that a rhetorical question.

Because if they haven’t yet, I don’t know when they would.


2 posted on 07/30/2013 1:16:49 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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3 posted on 07/30/2013 1:17:30 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No.


4 posted on 07/30/2013 1:18:45 PM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: SMARTY

If they turn on OBAMA things will have to get real bad...Next up Hillary


5 posted on 07/30/2013 1:18:46 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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Is the earth flat?


6 posted on 07/30/2013 1:18:56 PM PDT by South40
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As Rush pointed out today, the difference between Clinton and Wiener is that Clinton never admitted anything.

Once you admit it, the press has no further use of you. They admire liars. They gushed over how GOOD Clinton was at it.

I don't see Ubama ever admitting anything, either.

7 posted on 07/30/2013 1:18:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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That’s like asking will Obama ever turn on Obama?


8 posted on 07/30/2013 1:19:05 PM PDT by aquila48
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With 80-90% of the MSM left wingers?

NO.


9 posted on 07/30/2013 1:19:44 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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Weiner; he’s Jewish, and therefore not of a protected group.


10 posted on 07/30/2013 1:22:06 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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Will the press ever turn on Obama?

People don't often turn on their progeny. For starters, it makes them look bad.

11 posted on 07/30/2013 1:22:17 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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The MSM understands perfectly who controls the checkbook. The self-acclaimed elite wannabee MSM cannot afford to do their job with honesty, integrity, or ethics .... they sold out a long time ago ... and they are treated just like the slaves that they have become.


12 posted on 07/30/2013 1:22:51 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The only growth industries left under Progressives are government and poverty.)
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“Will the press ever turn on Obama…”

???

Sure, Obama turns the press on, doesn’t he?


13 posted on 07/30/2013 1:23:14 PM PDT by Iron Munro (They Old. That's Old School People. We In A New School, Our Generation)
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For supporters and press to turn on him now would mean a re-organization of their much more basic belief system and perhaps even their politics.

It's nearly impossible for Marxists, secular humanists, and postmodernists to give up their world views because they are based on the results of the choice to not think, which means they are based on emotionalism and concrete bound mentality, which means that they do not have to be compatible with reality and can avoid thinking in principles of cause and effect.

14 posted on 07/30/2013 1:25:38 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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15 posted on 07/30/2013 1:25:50 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To paraphrase and old saying: “Is the Pope Muslim?”


16 posted on 07/30/2013 1:26:04 PM PDT by ProudFossil (" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
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For them to turn on Obama would be like taking a whole lotta cyanide capsules. They are the bigger part of the monster and can’t turn on him without some serious self-flagellation. I don’t see it happening because of how invested they have become.


17 posted on 07/30/2013 1:30:37 PM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Two points:

1. Weiner's initial lies in Congress WERE political. Weiner at first arrogantly accused the press of making up the story and tried to bully them into backing off. Then he claimed that his phone had been hacked, and only backed off of that when others demanded that the FBI investigate the hacking of a sitting Congressman's phone. Anyone who supported Weiner during this also supported his blaming of others, including bullying the press.

2. We need to redefine "the press" to include British and other foreign news outlets, too. Let's get the UK Telegraph, and even the Guardian to write what American outlets refuse to write. I recall press conferences from the past when a question or two was always reserved for a foreign journalist. Let's try to get the British press to write the pieces that Americans refuse to write.

-PJ

18 posted on 07/30/2013 1:32:10 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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How do you turn on your paymaster?

You’ve seen what this Marxist does to his “enemies”.....


19 posted on 07/30/2013 1:36:43 PM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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” the Obama-dike”

Okay, I’ll bite. Who is it?


20 posted on 07/30/2013 1:36:57 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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