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Obama's Media Free Ride
The American Spectator ^ | December 26, 2008 | Robert Stacy McCain

Posted on 12/26/2008 12:12:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

How long will the media continue its gushing adoration of Barack Obama? This is the question raised by the adulatory prose of The Washington Post's Eli Saslow:

Between workouts during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.

Such "reporting" ought to make Saslow a laughingstock among the hard-bitten cynics of the Washington press corps, because Obama's gym enthusiasm is not really "a new kind of presidential fitness." President Bush is ferociously fit, his mountain-bike sessions notoriously grueling. Bush doesn't make a habit of going around shirtless with the sun glinting off his pecs, but a couch potato, he ain't.

At some point, hagiographic treatment of Obama will end, if only because of market saturation. In 2008, Obama was featured on the cover of Time 14 times, and 11 times on the cover of Newsweek. and if the coverage wasn't always as schoolgirl-giddy as Saslow's, it was overwhelmingly positive. The news-consuming public will eventually tire of worshipful profile features and stenographic accounts of Team Obama's talking points.

The press corps' credibility and self-respect is at stake, when Obama feels no compunction about chiding the Chicago Tribune's John McCormick that he will "waste his question" by asking about the Blagojevich scandal.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
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Don't bet on it, Robert. They have an investment to protect.
1 posted on 12/26/2008 12:12:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Eli Saslow is a fag.


2 posted on 12/26/2008 12:17:14 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Communism. Our populace is not addicted to government handouts and control.

Is Obama another Castro, Stalin, Hitler, Pot, or Mao? Or a lesser Communist/Totalitarian like Chavez or Royal of France?


3 posted on 12/26/2008 12:19:57 PM PST by whitedog57
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; ZULU; justiceseeker93; freekitty; SouthTexas; BossLady; TXRed; Free ThinkerNY; ...

To clean this up for FR, I would say that a huge pile of Socialist Liberal feces can only be kept a secret for a few seconds before the obvious stench escapes. The same scenario will be accurate for the Messiah and the MSM. The stench WILL escape once the truth is found out and then American rage will erupt. Just my prediction.


4 posted on 12/26/2008 12:20:46 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I think you are right and it will show them all.


5 posted on 12/26/2008 12:22:27 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The press corps' credibility and self-respect is at stake

They don't have any left.

6 posted on 12/26/2008 12:23:49 PM PST by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It will not stop nor change as long as “The One” is in office and it will be the same for EVERY Democrat in ANY office.

The press is completely under the control of the Democratic Party and thus is nothing more than a propaganda piece for them.

The press with do anything to protect their Party and the scum bags in it.


7 posted on 12/26/2008 12:24:02 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The love fest will continue indefinitely, just as it did with slick willie. Hussein and the MSM have everything in common—contempt for the nation and the American people, knee-wobbling love for the “highly successful” nations of Europe, along with the hope of creating a socialist nanny state in which they are the chosen people and we the great unwashed. Don’t expect truth, facts or straighforward reporting of any kind in the near future.


8 posted on 12/26/2008 12:26:42 PM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: jimbo123

How long will the media continue its gushing adoration of Barack Obama?
My prediction is at least 4 years, and I think the folks in the media are hoping for 8 years of adoration.

They've invested way too much in this guy to allow him to fail. They will support him to the end, and they will actively defend him by trying to destroy anyone who publicly dares to question him.

9 posted on 12/26/2008 12:30:21 PM PST by cc2k
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“Eli Saslow is a fag.”

Bingo. I think fag should be taken off the N word list. It just fits so well.

Allowing fag to be put on the N word list was an unnecessary surrender to the gay agenda.


10 posted on 12/26/2008 12:34:52 PM PST by y6162 (ater)
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To: Bahbah

They don’t have any left.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Amen, brother! It is like worrying that a bum sleeping under a bridge might lose his millions.


11 posted on 12/26/2008 12:36:27 PM PST by RipSawyer (Great Grandpa was a Confederate soldier from the cradle of secession.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

One of these days he is going to have to actually do something, then we shall see. Or more correctly, then everyone that voted for him will see.


12 posted on 12/26/2008 1:04:48 PM PST by SouthTexas (And a Blessed Christmas to all!)
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How long will the media continue its gushing adoration of Barack Obama?

Forever.

The MSM is neither committed to truth, nor justice, nor even its own economic survival. It is only committed to its cause; which is the destruction of Western Civilization in general and the American Way in particular.

The MSM is a treasonous criminal enterprise which actively participated in electing an illegal alien Islamic mole as President of the United States. It will always gushingly adore Obama.

13 posted on 12/26/2008 1:12:35 PM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama still didn’t quite get rid of those man-boobs.


14 posted on 12/26/2008 1:18:40 PM PST by TheThinker (Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
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To: DakotaGator

I’m sure the media will find a way to keep Obama’s nose clean after his policies fail and taxes skyrocket. The boogeyman will be that evil GOP (nevermind the fact they’re not in power and don’t control the house or senate). A few bluedog dems may get thrown to the wolves but the MSM will *never* hold the real villains accountable.


15 posted on 12/26/2008 1:20:30 PM PST by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: jimbo123
Eli Saslow is a fag.

Might very well be.

16 posted on 12/26/2008 1:27:27 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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Obama still didn't quite get rid of those man-boobs.

Which raises yet another medical mystery about him: why are his breasts enlarged?

17 posted on 12/26/2008 1:31:28 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It isn't likely to stop. As you point out, they have an investment to protect. And let's face it, the once formidable U.S. press has devolved into a gaggle of teenage girls gushing over the latest cover of Tiger Beat magazine. It would be degrading if there were any room left in the MSM for degradation. We honestly don't know yet what Obama's policy will be regarding, say, environmental restrictions on petroleum exploration or international efforts to contain piracy in Somalia, but we do know that he has sixpack abs. I should think any credible media would be ashamed of that fact. Ours are neither ashamed nor credible.
18 posted on 12/26/2008 1:34:30 PM PST by Billthedrill
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He also looks like a guy who would seldom win an arm wrestling match or be able to help you move a piano.
As far as his basketball playing, I would not be afraid of running into a pick he set or taking a charge from him. In a skirmish, I’d take W over him, despite the age difference.


19 posted on 12/26/2008 2:32:34 PM PST by line drive to right
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To: Bahbah
They don't have any left.

Fully agree. The only thing at stake here is the length of time for the media to fold.

20 posted on 12/26/2008 3:28:39 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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