Obama: We’re going to have to control the media, starting with Fox News

Flopping Aces ^ | 05-13-15 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

 

The mask is off. No more pretending. The dictator is displeased and things have to change.

President Straw Man:

I think that the effort to suggest that the poor are sponges, leeches, don’t want to work, are lazy, are undeserving, got traction. And look, it’s still being propagated. I have to say that if you watch Fox News on a regular basis, it is a constant venue. They will find folks who make me mad. I don’t know where they find them. They’re all like, “I don’t want to work. I just want a free Obama Phone, or whatever.” And that becomes an entire narrative that gets worked up. And very rarely do you hear an interview of a waitress, which is much more typical — who is raising a couple of kids and doing everything right but still can’t pay the bills.

And so, if we’re going to change how Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) think, we’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues, and how people’s impressions of what it’s like to struggle in this economy looks like. And how budgets connect to that. And that’s a hard process because that requires a much broader conversation than typically we have on the nightly news.

As John Nolte notes, Barack Obama knows squat about being poor:

Obama attended prep schools as a child, lived with his well-to-do grandparents in Honolulu as a teen, where he attended Panahou, a fancy private school. Both of his grandparents were well educated; she even worked as the vice president of a bank. For a time, Obama had a nanny! From there Obama attended Occidental College in California, was well off enough to visit Pakistan for 3 weeks; he then attended two of the most prestigious colleges in the country: Columbia and Harvard.

The closest Obama has ever come to experiencing anything close to poverty was during his time as a community organizer in Chicago. And in that dynamic, the poor were just pawns for Obama to manipulate to achieve his political ambitions.

Obama knows nothing of struggle, or what life is like for those who do. And after 7 years of his failed economic policies, we also know he doesn’t give a damn enough about the poor to change his policies in a way that might actually help them.

Obama likes poor people fine — he likes them dependent on the government.

He also likes the news media to do what it’s told.

We have noted here that Obama famously said that he doesn't watch the news, asserting "Whatever they’re reporting about, usually I know."

And Obama doubled down, claiming that he doesn't watch cable news at all!

“He’s a voracious consumer of the printed word — even the electronic printed word — but he doesn’t watch cable news”

said Jay Carney.

But we all know what an incontrovertible liar Obama is. Obama has had a feud with Fox News for a long time. This from 2009:

And the White House has gone beyond words, reports CBS News senior political correspondent Jeff Greenfield. Last Sept. 20, the president went on every Sunday news show - except Chris Wallace's show on FOX. And on Thursday, the Treasury Department tried to exclude FOX News from pool coverage of interviews with a key official. It backed down after strong protests from the press.

"All the networks said, that's it, you've crossed the line," said CBS News White House correspondent Chip Reid.

Almost from the beginning Obama has sought to "delegitimize" Fox News:

[silverleaf]

got that right- a single woman working as a waitress raising “several kids” with no spouse or sperm donor support - is not doing everything “right”

[Faith65]

Great post.Thanks

[Roses0508]

BUMP

[SkyDancer]

Same here. Nothing to see. We have OTA, get what we want local. National and international news I get via PC.

[zzwhale]

THE CARCKHEAD CANT TAKE THE FACTS.......

[concernedcitizen76]

It reads like prophecy in parts.

JFK 1961: “Even today, there is little value in assuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.” (911)

JFK 1961: “It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. It’s mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.” (He was speaking about the Soviet Union then, but it sounds like references to USA 2015.)