Posted on 06/22/2016 7:10:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the swing of the Trump wrecking crane, President Obama's approval ratings have risen above 50 percent. The media see greater appreciation for his "competence" in office -- but, why? In the wake of the Orlando attack it's easy to ask, "How competent would the media have made President George W. Bush appear if an Islamic terrorist shot up a gay nightclub in Florida eight years ago?"
It seemed like every piece of bad news during the Bush years was somehow Bush's fault -- and proof of his incompetence. The media's attitude toward Bush was summed up in Bill Maher's diatribe to Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show": "The man is a rube. He is a dolt. He is a yokel on the world stage. He is a Gilligan who cannot find his ass with two hands."
But absolutely no one in the media wonders for two seconds if Obama looks incompetent when a terrorist calls the cops to declare himself an ally of ISIS and shoots more than 50 people, killing 49. Instead, the post-shooting "news" focused on how the Republican love of "assault weapons" and hatred of homosexuals are the obvious targets for blame.
What of Islamic terrorism? What of Obama's incompetence -- his very real refusal to even call the threat by its name? It doesn't matter if it's San Bernardino, the Boston Marathon, Chattanooga, Benghazi or Fort Hood. No terrorist attack has ever cast the slightest shadow over this president.
The same goes for hacking. When the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee computer network to gain opposition research on Donald Trump, who was blamed? The Washington Examiner wrote, "The White House reacted ... by complaining that Republicans have blocked additional money for funds to enhance the nation's cybersecurity."
Last summer, we learned that hackers -- presumably Chinese -- breached the Obama-run Office of Personnel Management and stole data from background investigations covering 21.5 million people, including current, former and prospective federal workers. A Media Research Center study found that broadcast news networks protected the president by refusing to criticize the administration in 90.2 percent of cybersecurity stories (139 of 154). The sample stories included reports of serious data breaches at the OPM and IRS, theft of emails from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and top administration officials, and possible hacks of major airlines and Wall Street.
Newspaper editorial pages only sometimes harshly criticized Obama on those issues. Last July, the Washington Post editorial board accused him of demonstrating "inexcusable negligence" on cybersecurity and being "way too passive about China."
Why isn't this news? Network anchors like Scott Pelley of CBS suggested the cyberattack was a problem for the whole country, not just Team Obama. In an interview last August, he asked Secretary of State John Kerry: "With all of the attacks that have come apparently from China on the U.S. government, there is a sense that the United States is unable to defend itself in the cyber world. How much concern should we have?" Kerry said the government was "fighting back" against attacks daily, but the cyberworld is pretty much "the Wild West so to speak."
Throw into this mix the scandal of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton using a very hackable private server for four years with no outbreak on competence from Obama officials. The media attitude is evidenced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who doesn't want to talk any more about those "damn emails." Meanwhile, no one wonders how Obama could be so cavalier about the cyberthreat she created.
To the press, Obama's competence is automatically assumed. It's a given like knowing the sun will rise in the east. Part of it is the press' personal attachment to Obama, and part of it is the hidebound liberal assumption that the party that grows government the most governs best.
Geeez....How many times did someone get in the Whitehouse despite the high security afforded the place?
Think about it.
IF a Gay nightclub was hit this way under GWB he would have all but pulled the trigger according to the leftist media.
Instead the least consequential President of my lifetime is allowed to skate thru.
If I were a Conservative appearing on any of these political shows I would bring this up OVER and OVER again.
Until now.
Remember, FRiends, all of this will change on the first day of the Trump administration: the economy will suddenly tank, homelessness will immediately increase by hundreds of times, children will begin starving to death on a daily basis, gun violence in inner cities will instantly become a national scandal, and the jihadists will experience an instantaneous change of fortune and be winning every battle in their war against us—and it will all be Trump’s fault. Nothing will have actually changed, of course, except the occupant of the Oval Office, but as far as the MSM is concerned, the whole tenor of the nation will have flipped overnight.
Thanks Kaslin.
And at the same time, 2/3’s of Americans think that the country is heading in the wrong direction. Also, the 2010 and 2014 mid-terms were massacres for the dems under obama’s watch. Yet zero is always flirting with 50% approval rating??
The numbers don’t add up. I don’t buy is approval ratings when the vast majority of Americas think are country is heading in the wrong direction.
That is why only a fool watches the MSM. You can almost predict exactly what they will say 100% of the time. So why watch ?
Because of those people that think the country is headed in the wrong direction, a large chunk of them think we are way to traditional/conservative and need to be full steam ahead socialist.
obama doesn’t get blamed for anything and he’s the architect of it all.. it’s scary to see such a charisma to hypnotize the people in those polls that favor obama. only one source for such a trait/power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09GBjzxYymQ&feature=share
He points out the creeping escalation of NATO armaments encircling Russia - and that things are spiraling out of control and nobody notices or cares to talk about the potential nuclear war that is now on the table.
NATO encirclement of Russia:
http://www.unitingfortrump.com/war-terror/nato-begins-encirclement-russia
All it takes is a Kremlin Coup to unleash a lot of nukes that are targeted to take out cities - lots of cities in the US, Europe and China and probably MECCA.
No one is paying attention to the nuclear elephant marching our way.
The left blamed GW Bush for 9/11.
‘All it takes is a Kremlin Coup to unleash a lot of nukes that are targeted to take out cities - lots of cities in the US, Europe and China and probably MECCA.’
If I could be in control of Israel’s nukes for a day, I would nuke every ME holy place off the map. I would probably hit the Paki’s too. Sorry about the Christians that may still live in those cities, if any are left alive, I am sure God can sort them out.
They sure did, totally ignoring that he had only been in Office a little over 7 month and that he only notified six weeks before that an attack is coming without given the exact time and locations of the attacks, meanwhile ignoring the fact that William Jefferson Clinton had been offered bin Ladin on a silver platter by the Sudan, which he totally ignored because he had “better” things to do.
Exactly.
Limbaugh Theorem - no matter how long Obama is in office, nothing is ever his fault.
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