Posted on 03/04/2009 10:10:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Besides Rush Limbaugh and CNBC's Rick Santelli, the Obama administration has a more generic media target: "cable chatter."
President Barack Obama used the phrase last week, when he said that some of the issues debated in his economic stimulus plan represented a very small part of the plan and "this sometimes gets lost in the cable chatter." It came up again Wednesday at a White House event, when Obama spoke about efforts to reduce government spending.
"I want to make sure everyone catches this, because I think sometimes the chatter on the cable stations hasn't been clear about this," Obama said, before repeating one of his arguments.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs noted that cable television doesn't always give a true picture of what the public wants to hear, in explaining why Obama had left Washington to help sell his economic plan in Indiana. Americans, he said, "are eager to know what's being done in Washington besides the same, old Washington arguments. They want to know what's being done to help them."
Limbaugh, who has said he hopes Obama fails, and Santelli have provided specific targets. Gibbs has been eager to take on Santelli, whose CNBC criticism that the stimulus plan was rewarding people who bought houses they couldn't afford has been seen by millions of people on the Web.
But in targeting "cable chatter," they're attacking a mind-set as much as specific outlets. Networks such as CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC have 24 hours to fill, thrive on conflict and are paying close attention to a new administration's first 100 days. Particularly in prime-time, many of these hours are dominated by people with strong points of view either way, and the administration may be sensing a backlash from a public tired of arguments.
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Nixon did, with Dan Rather in 1972.
During the presidency of Richard Nixon, critics accused Rather of biased coverage against President Nixon. At a Houston news conference in March 1974, Nixon fielded a question from Rather, still CBS's White House correspondent, who said, "Thank you, Mr. President. Dan Rather, of CBS News. Mr. President.. Mr. President.." The room filled with jeers and applause, prompting Nixon to joke, "Are you running for something?" Rather replied "No, sir, Mr. President. Are you?"
Dan Rather had it coming, though, don’t you agree?
They aren’t thin skinned at all. Dissension against the marxist dictator will not be tolerated in the new Amerika. Didn’t anyone get the memo?
“The One” does not take kindly to criticism!
How old is Oprah’s kid again?
He sure did, but Nixon was a sinking ship.
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Uh, typical from an empty suit...They have nothing!
obama’s on track to become the most hated president in US history. By all but those who can no longer think.
I already loathe him and the excrement he’s installed in his administration.
That's right. The US Open Tennis tournament ran long and Rather walked off the CBS Evening News set leaving dead air for 12 minutes. Bush called him on it several months later, as Rather tried to condense Bush's career down to his errors as VP. Bush responded by asking Rather if he wanted to be judged by posterity for walking off the Evening News set in a snit over US Open coverage. It was priceless.
Sadly, that's half the populace. Civil War 2 is coming.
The pointis to pigein-hole and intimidate thier enemies, tactics they would have called “Bushitler NAZISM” just a couple of months ago had WE done it.
Tae note of these two posts from KOS, if you want to know what they are trying to do.:
-”We WANT Rush Limbaugh to be elevated to “republican party leader”. We WANT the entire electorate to think that.
Because Rush Limbaugh is repugnant, foul, toad and right now, he is the representative of the party.
As long as the party ALLOWS him to represent them, he will continue to turn off independants and some less nutty republicans from the party. Limbaugh is the oozing pussy sore on the butt of the republican party and as long as he’s put out there in the fore, that is all people will see.”
-”But, yeah, this works.
Obama and DNC break off another 2% of the electorate from the GOPers, they get to dominate the 2010 and 2012 elections.
Middle of the Road voters — conservative financially, moderate for everything else — YES !!
The GOPers are in deep trouble.
The queue of subservient, bent over, ass presenting elected GOPers gets any longer — its over for them.
Limbaugh is physically repulsive.
I think it is possible that sucking up to Limbaugh will cost the GOPers that 2% of the electorate.
Vote ??? — Think George Bush. — Then think Rush Limbaugh. — Then try to vote Republican.”
Abject liberal insane hatreds aside, there is a CLEAR STRATEGY going on here.
No, I don't think so. Those that supported him so roundly are a fickle lot, that really don't know beans about politics. When times get really tough, which they will, and they see that they're not getting what they expected, they'll turn on him in a heartbeat.
Cable chatter, upchuck Schumer’s chattering class bla bla bla.
The rats are saying people are idiots and the rats are trying to run us over with intimidation and name calling.
I have just about had enough of their bullsh*t.
We need to start blacking some eyes and make them back off.
I have contempt for those politicians like I have never felt before. The pot is about to boil over.
It’s called FREE SPEECH, Barrack. Did you read The Constitution you are meant to protect? Nowhere does it say you are to belittle Americans. What a jerk you turned out to be.
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