Posted on 01/01/2009 4:33:24 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama's paparazzi presidency By: Daniel Libit and Jeffrey Ressner January 1, 2009 07:21 AM EST
ABC’s Jake Tapper predicted this week that Barack Obama will be "the Britney Spears of 2009."
Considering that Obama was deemed by some to be the Britney Spears of 2008, it wasn’t much of a leap.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the cover of Us Weekly. While Obama’s political opponents were able to use his star power against him during the campaign – remember McCain’s “Celeb” ad? – the entertainment press’s fixation with the president-elect seems to be helping him as he prepares to takes office.
With a faction of compliant, adulatory and skin-deep chroniclers added to the media mix, Obama has found a consistent wing of support, one that can be used to upend the traditional political media apparatus, bringing new storylines to the fore and changing the game of how a president is covered.
“The number of eyeballs that read People magazine are enormous compared to political publications,” says veteran Democratic strategist Chris Lehane. “If you’re able to communicate through those outlets, you’re able to reach more people more quickly, without your message being ‘translated’ by the historic gatekeepers.”
The mainstream media caught a glimpse at the future last week in Hawaii, when resourceful paparazzi nabbed beefcake shots of the president-elect on the beach as well as shots of him at a memorial service for his late grandmother. All this, while the regular photo pool played by the rules and missed the shots.
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The bigger they are the harder they fall.
Obama deemed to be the Britney Spears of DC both have the same iq (0)the idiot is out of his tree but the msm loves him.
Well, unfortunately with this selfish, idiotic society we have allowed to fester today, is it any wonder?
Jive talking gets old with people, real quick.
All of this is preparing Obama to follow in the footsteps of Michael Jackson. He’ll become such a celebrity big-shot, he’ll become a joke and the entire world will turn against him.
Maybe this will help:
Shows one child under 18 and one child over 18 in the marriage, strongly suggesting Barry was adopted by Lolo.
You know that rules don’t apply to liberals! Whether or not Mr Soetoro ‘adopted’ Barry was just a convenience for the time = to get him into Indonesia, or into a school, or something expedient at the time.
He just got a ‘do over’ with his name, when he moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.
I wonder how he gets along with Pelosi and whether his is interested in her plans or not.
Anybody that thinks those people got those photos through some ingenious method will buy anything. Obama allowed those pictures or they would not have happened. The secret service would have made sure of that. If someone could shoot those pictures without Obama’s knowledge someone could also blow his brains out.
This will only feed his narcissism. It is interesting, though, how many people are willing to play along and feed Obama’s ego. Historically, these types of situations can come to a bad end - see, e.g., Hitler, Saddam Hussein.
BHO is gonna make his momma & poppa proud...
While I don't care for Mr. Lehane's politics, he has nailed what is, IMHO, the number one problem in America today, it's incredibly dumbed down populace.
Thank you liberals and the NEA. Your insidious* stealth campaign to destroy my country is working. Getting empty-suit nObama elected was a horrendous stunt.
Don't let the Imperial Federal Government brainwash and dumb down your kids. Private school or homeschool.
* working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way.
Private school or homeschool...
and Lobby elected representatives for Tuition Tax credits!
/I know, I know, it’s just a dream. But it could be a New Year’s Resolution for someone.
It has come to my attention (arghh!) that I posted a bum URL before. Here’s the correct one: http://decalogosintl.org/documents/Soetoro_Divorce.pdf
Soetoro divorce papers are in a PDF you can download from http://decalogosintl.org/documents/Soetoro_Divorce.pdf
The papers show two children in the Soetoro marriage: one child under 18 and one child over 18. Any guess who the child over 18 is? It’s highly likely it’s the person calling himself Barack Obama, the person formerly known as Barry Soetoro, who continues to hide his past. Who *is* “That One,”
really? Do you even know? It’s one thing for Chester A. Arthur to have successfully hidden that his father, William, was not a U.S. citizen when Chester was born; it’s quite another for Obama to think that the millions of people around the world who wonder why Obama refuses to release his full birth certificate are going to die without knowing the truth.
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