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Former White House Reporter: Media 'Happy to Be Managed' by Obama
NewsBusters ^ | May 21, 2016 | 4:53 PM EDT | Tim Graham

Posted on 05/22/2016 2:39:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Retired USA Today White House reporter Richard Benedetto penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on Friday titled “How Obama Gets Away With It.”

He suggested “Usually when an incumbent president is leaving office and a slew of candidates are battling for his job, that departing chief executive’s record is a major campaign issue.”

But Obama’s record in office is not an issue. Obviously, one reason is the Republican establishment didn’t want Obama to be an issue, which is why they moved to take any budget fight with Obama off the table for the rest of his presidency. …

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: benrhodes; demagogicparty; liberalmedia; memebuilding; minitrue; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; richardbenedetto; stenographers; usatoday; wallstreetjournal; whpress; whreporters

1 posted on 05/22/2016 2:39:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Because they are not reporters.


2 posted on 05/22/2016 2:43:26 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God please save us from the democrats. And the republicans.)
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To: Olog-hai

The media sides with the destroyers


3 posted on 05/22/2016 2:45:27 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Olog-hai

P.T. Barnum used clowns and suckers quite successfully.


4 posted on 05/22/2016 2:54:37 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Olog-hai

Its no surprise that US citizens have held “journalists” in such low regard, year after year, near the level of support that these same citizen hold for congress or used car dealers.


5 posted on 05/22/2016 3:03:09 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Olog-hai

The current day media is what we have always called “kiss asses.” They kiss his ass to show their love for him. They have no thought pattern of their own. They have to rely on their daddy to give them their talking points. Bunch of kiss asses. Simple as that.


6 posted on 05/22/2016 3:05:09 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Read 1 Corinthians 15: verses 1-4. This is the Gospel of Grace, the ONLY WAY TO BE SAVED!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Never forget, the MSM is really the Liberal Propaganda Ministry.


7 posted on 05/22/2016 3:08:24 PM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: Williams

Also, more than average media personnel are homosexuals (Maria Shriver report) and homosexuals like that sort of thing.


8 posted on 05/22/2016 3:08:56 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Olog-hai

I think we all knew this. “Reporters” are just shills for the RATS.


9 posted on 05/22/2016 3:09:14 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Williams

Stenographers, more like!


10 posted on 05/22/2016 3:16:11 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Olog-hai; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner
Never fear!

When Trump aims his slings and arrows 100% at Clinton after the convention he will tie her right into the present failed adminstration.

Obama's sorry record will be totally excavated and formed into a huge mud ball of treason, fascism, incompetence, failure and division...and the ball will be attached in the middle of the back-to-back spines of Barak and Hellary just as firmly as Chang and Eng were attached to each other decades ago.

I love visuals!

Leni

11 posted on 05/22/2016 3:23:17 PM PDT by MinuteGal ( GO, TRUMP, GO !!!)
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To: MinuteGal

Anderson Cooper was just on Jeopardy and he looked like an idiot. He missed Man of Steel = Stalin. The celeb reporters were lobed softballs and couldn’t answer them.


12 posted on 05/22/2016 3:35:51 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Olog-hai

It’s amazing to see Obama polling at 50%+ as the biggest issue on both sides being Obama’s stagnant economy.

if you look at every poll, Obama is right at around 50% and yet in the same poll(s) the right track of the country is 25-30%, and yet Obama gets a free pass after 8 years.

The disconnect is unreal.


13 posted on 05/22/2016 3:50:08 PM PDT by nhwingut (Trump-Palin 2016 - Blow Up The GOP)
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To: Olog-hai

Obama gets a free pass from the press and a certain segment of the population because Obama is black and they don’t see the first black fail. Plus, Obama is a lib like most of the press so he gets a pass on that too.


14 posted on 05/22/2016 4:39:33 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34
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To: Williams

The “Reporters” are slobbering, mangy Lap-Dogs.


15 posted on 05/22/2016 8:47:05 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus headsConservatus)
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To: Oldexpat

Anderson Cooper was as dumb as a brick on Jeopardy. Wolfe Blitzer was even worse.


16 posted on 05/22/2016 8:50:02 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus headsConservatus)
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