Posted on 07/20/2008 10:29:37 PM PDT by Red Steel
lol
No soup for you!
The freedom to reward friendly reporters and punish those who don’t toe the line is another luxury afforded to only liberal politicians. If McCain barred a hostile reporter from any event, there’d be hell to pay.
Hmm. I wonder if the press would call it “satirical payback” — ha ha! — if McCain barred a reporter from a flight?
They’d be on about this “assault on the first amendment” for days!
More proof Obama is a commie. If you don’t agree with him, he will shut you out and shut you down.
Could a Republican candidate get away with this kind of reward-and-punish treatment of MSM reporters? The Clintonistas did this kind of crap too, but if McCain tried it there would be headlines of outrage proclaiming his hostility to the 1st Amendment, how ‘thin-skinned’ he is, etc.
Will we see many articles about this episode proclaiming Obambi to be thin-skinned and hostile to a free press?
No, I didn’t think so. Double standards disgust me.
Thin skinned isn’t he?
How can he be President if he can’t take a freaking cartoon?!
BTTT !
His 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, recounts his idealistic effusions: “Change won’t come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots. That’s what I’ll do. I’ll organize black folks. At the grass roots. For change.”
The New Yorker should have known better. Haven’t they heard that Muslims don’t react well to cartoons?
You are correct. Obama is all about information control: Is Barack Obama Snubbing the Foreign Press?
The Foreign press may not ask "the right questions" like the tamed poodles in the American press corp.
...and so the Obama Enemies List begins.
So Barry Blyt draws a satirical cartoon trying to show how childish all the rumors are about Obama, and Obama feels he has to “retaliate”, and he takes it out on Ryan Lizza, who had nothing to do with the cartoon.
That’s what we need, a President who is thin-skinned and lashes out at innocent people when he feels he’s been wronged.
Obama and that thing he’s married to are very vindictive. There’s going to be a lot of “paybacks” coming down the road if he gets in. He will do everything he can to put Rush, Hannity, et al out of business! Since his “genius” pal trolls FR and keeps him up to date on how we’re picking on him, he’ll probably try to close FR down too.
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