Posted on 07/19/2015 5:18:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
resident Obama’s press conference on his Iran “deal” this week is a case study in just how far journalism has fallen as a profession. The big stories to come out of the alleged most power man on the planet speaking for more than an hour had nothing to do with the United States effectively blessing a nuclear Iran. No, the big stories were Bill Cosby and the fact the president finally was asked a direct, difficult question.
The media elite quickly formed a protective circle around the president when CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett asked why the fate of four Americans held in Iran was not included as part of a deal in which Iran, by all accounts, demanded and got everything including the kitchen sink. The president became insolent, like a spoiled child hearing the word “no” for the first time, and the Royal Court of Journalists rallied to his aid.
Laments of the disrespectful nature of the question and outrage it was asked in the East Room drown out the fact the president had no good answer, that he had left those people out to dry for the sake of vanity.
And Bill Cosby? The president has agreed to lift the ban on conventional weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile technology to the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism and evil in the world, and one of the few people allowed to ask him about it personally chooses to ask about what an aging sitcom star may or may not have done a generation ago?
If that weren’t bad enough, Obama’s remarks on Cosby were the lead banner story on CNN’s website immediately after the press conference. Putting aside the fact the story was irrelevant to the issue or the nation as a whole, the president’s answer was less impressive than the Iran deal itself. “If you give a woman – or a man, for that matter – without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, that's rape,” he said.
Yes, Mr. President, that is pretty much the definition of rape. What other wisdom would you like to impart to us peasants? The sky is blue? The sun rises in the east? CNN would run either or those as breaking news for the next 24 hours.
It’s rather pathetic the president could speak for more than an hour and say nothing. It’s sadder still the media would accept that and report his platitudes as insightful nuggets of genius, then attack one of their own for doing the job the way they pretend it’s supposed to be done. There’s a reason the American people hold the media in contempt, and it’s not jealousy.
In between curtsies, the media managed to fully ignore the actual news.
Remember Obamacare? It’s not only the greatest thing since sliced bread, it’s so amazing that 97 percent of scientists surveyed believe it may have sliced the first loaf. It’s also going to kill people.
That’s not hyperbole, nor is it surprising, unless your worldview is bent through the prism of the likes of Krugman, Klein and the rest of the presidential throne-sniffing media.
In a story Wednesday, the Washington Post reported on a study finding, “Consumers who bought insurance on the health exchanges last year had access to one-third fewer doctors and hospitals, on average, than people with traditional employer-provided coverage.”
Did you hear about it? Did you read it? Was the president asked about it? Of course not.
Even if you read the Post, there’s a good chance you didn’t read about this because it was buried in the back of the A section. Call me old fashioned, but discovering that “Compared with traditional employer coverage, exchange plans had networks with 42 percent fewer cancer and cardiac specialists; 32 percent fewer mental health and primary-care doctors, and 24 percent fewer hospitals,” might warrant some additional inquiry.
Nope, not worth the time. Millions of Americans have lost their preferred health insurance, were forced into a government exchange and now will have a long wait to see a cancer doctor thanks to it, and the story is already dead.
The story, by the way, never once mentioned any of the following words: Obamacare, Obama, President or Democrats. It’s as if the law was beamed down from the Starship Enterprise right before it hit warp speed and disappeared. Magic.
It’s not news the media is biased. It’s not shocking a legacy-obsessed president would be more afraid of no deal than he would a bad deal, especially when he knows those charged with covering his actions are his biggest fans. What is surprising is the depths to which both freely go with a brazenness generally reserved for someone drunk beyond any state of self-awareness.
They say drunks have to “hit bottom” before they reform. Although the president has no incentive or real need to reform since he’ll never face voters again, the media will have to continue to work for a living after Jan. 20, 2017, and credibility is their currency. This week provided yet another example of the fact that, for the media, there is no bottom to hit. Just when you think they might have, they’ve always got a shovel.
Journalism is a movement, not a profession.
Our enemies remain ABCNNBCBS .. and the three newspapers they repeat endlessly: Times, Post and LA.
Herr Goebbles would be proud of our media; very proud indeed.
IMHO
You got it
He’s applauding them from Hell
Well said.
On December 17, 2008, in connection with a grand jury investigation concerning the Alavi Foundation and its financial relationship with Bank Melli Iran (Bank Melli) and two offshore entities controlled by Bank Melli—Assa Company Limited and Assa Corporation—Jahedi was served, as president of Alavi, with a grand jury subpoena.
The subpoena was directed to the Alavi Foundation and commanded the production to the federal grand jury of financial documents concerning the Alavi Foundation, Assa Corporation, Assa Company Limited, and the building located at 650 Fifth Avenue Company.
Jahedi was explicitly cautioned by law enforcement agents not to destroy any documents called for by the subpoena. The next day, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) personnel observed Jahedi discarding torn documents into a public trash can. Further investigation revealed that these documents concerned Assa Limited, Assa Corporation, and 650 Fifth Avenue Company.
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HOW COULD THE COMPASSIONATE CLINTONS POSSIBLY KNOW they received foundation donations from a ‘Front for the Government of Iran? The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation received $30,000 between April 2005 and March 2006, according to tax forms money from “a front for the government of Iran” called the Alavi Foundation.
This occurred years after law enforcement officials tied the group to Iranian radicals. “The center is funded by the New York-based Alavi Foundation, which law enforcement officials say is closely tied to the mullahs who dominate Iran,” the Washington Post reported in 2003.
More below
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So how'd that happen? Read on.
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME...the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation received donation(s) from the Alavi Foundation....a front for the government of Iran.
"Smile everybody. Another $100 million came in today."
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CUE LAUGH METER: the jubilant Obama HAD NO IDEA Iran was
sucking up, bribing the Clintons to undermine US ntl security.
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Obama's "oversight" in not getting Americans released via the nuclear deal, plus refusal to utter a discouraging word about "Islamic terror" is easily explained.
These entities control billions of dollars.
Obama is gearing up to cash in bigtime ala the Clintons---through his two Obama foundations (two that we know of). He needs two foundations to handle all the tax-free money about to troll in. ...from six-figure honoraria, multi-million dollar donations, lucrative consultancies, and, untold riches from insider business deals.
WHY WONT HE SAY "ISLAMIC TERROR?" Obama's suck-ups to Iran and his refusal to utter a discouraging word about "Islamic terror" is easily explained.
These entities control billions of dollars.
Obama is gearing up to cash in bigtime ala the Clintons---through his two Obama foundations (two that we know of). He needs two foundations to handle all the tax-free money about to troll in. ...from six-figure honoraria, multi-million dollar donations, lucrative consultancies and insider business deals.
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OBAMA'S SISTER IS A BOARD MEMBER OF HIS CHICAGO FOUNDATION
Maya Soetoro-Ng is President Obama’s sister and a specialist for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace. She is the co-founder of Our Public School, a non-profit that connects schools to their communities, and the co-creator of Ceeds of Peace, a peace education program that has been implemented in schools and communities around Hawaii.
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OBAMA's HALF-BROTHER HEADS THE SECOND FOUNDATION
Kenya-resident, Malik Obama in Muslim dress, holds up
photo of his half brother Obama in Muslim dress, taken
during an earlier visit.
MORE HERE http://shoebat.com/shoebat-foundation/obamas-wahhabist-fundraising-empire
BACKSTORY---The Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF) is run by Malik (in Kenya)---to honor Malik and Obama's late dad. It was fast-tracked by Lois Lerner for IRS tax-exempt status.
The BHOF is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.
As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the self-same IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status. The IRS thoughtfully gave the Obama Foundation retroactive fund-raising status.......which it stupidly never applied for.
To get tax-exempt status, the foundation cooked-up a mission statement: “to provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards in memory of dad---Barack H. Obama: in the region of his birth, Kenya, and beyond.” Its guiding principle is “the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers....."We seek to elevate the human condition so that everyone can live in dignity and truly enjoy having one another as neighbors.”
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
Despite raising more than $250,000, the alleged charity doesn’t seem to have done much. Its website claims the organization has built a madrassa and was building an imam’s house as well as some “proposed latrines,” but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was working to “mitigate social-shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and lack of community infrastructure in such basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance,” as the site says.
Alton Ray Baysden, a former Dept of State employee, allegedly a registered Republican, who helped start the Barack H Obama foundation, declined to comment before seeing copies of a reporter’s passport and govt ID, along with a description of the article’s “motivation” and “slant.”
Repeated reporters' phone calls went to the organization’s voicemail and were not returned.
...not unlike my morning movement.
The media is completely irresponsible. It hypes junk and suppresses information that does not support its agenda. It destroys good people and promotes those who hurt the country. It lies and distorts when reality would be embarrassing.
Ya gotta use the web.
Ya gotta be selective.
Ya gotta do a little research ON YOUR OWN.
That MSM is most useful when you find our the stuff THAT IT IS NOT GONNA REPORT.
The truth ‘is out there’ and is not really hard to find—just do it on your own.
I, personally, can’t remember when I last sat through a TV “newscast”. It isn’t worth the bother.
I’m not a fan of the msm, but what the piece leaves out, and what struck me immediately as I was watching the press conference live, was Garrett using the word ‘content’ in his question. I knew he was going to get backlash for saying it. Words are Garrett’s business. He could have used ‘satisfied’ or phrased it better, and wouldn’t have received the rebuke delivered by Obama and his peers. He gave Obama & the msm ammunition and they used it on him.
“Journalism is a movement, not a profession.”
For sure.
They have long been liberal activists. I’m constantly seeing grammatical errors, spelling errors, gross misunderstanding of the issues they’re writing/reporting about. A few even mispronounce words on TV!
Diligence and knowledge are not necessary. Their shallow, race-based, gender-based, sexuality-based biases are the only prerequisites to be a newswoman.
Newswoman or newsman I meant.
EVERY SINGLE OBAMA foreign policy backfired, not a single one turned out well. From Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Iraq and Yemen. To be honest, I never thought it was possible to do so poorly in every single one. The opposite always result of what he say will happen. Iran will be no different
The media is a barometer of the illness that has engulfed this country.
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