Newsweek’s Embarrassing Homage to Obama

Pajamas Media ^ | July 14 | Carol Gould

[AJKauf]

The only time in my life as a broadcaster that I departed from impartial analysis was after 9/11, when I waxed lyrical about Donald Rumsfeld. He had united a fractured nation with his oft-hilarious press conferences. His wit and raw patriotism were an inspiration to many at home and to those of us suffering abroad in a fiercely anti-American world. However adoring the press was towards Rumsfeld, nothing equals in unctuousness a recent issue of Newsweek, “Obama on Obama.”

Journalists are supposed to be impartial in reporting on the peregrinations of leaders. Little wonder I nearly dropped my pizza slice all over my “Don’t Tread on Me” t-shirt when I saw the aforementioned issue of Newsweek with the president on the cover. Apparently this is the twenty-sixth time Barack Hussein Obama has been on Newsweek and Time covers since 2007. Newsweek was renamed Obamaweek on a Fox News panel show in mid-June and this made me happy because I thought I was overreacting when the text of the O feature began to muddle my grey matter.

It should be noted that I am not a rabid Obama-hater and have, in previous op-eds, noted the joy with which my late, devoutly liberal mother, a lifetime fighter for gay and civil rights, would have kvelled on November 4, 2008. My problem with Newsweek is that the man is being lionized before he has achieved anything great for our beleaguered nation....

[EyeGuy]

Even Newsweek could take lessons from the Obama lubefest that occurred in the broadcast booth at Busch Stadium in St. Louis last night with the shameless Joe Suck and Tim McKissAss.

I don’t think WW II Vet, Depression baby, Joe’s daddy, the legendary Jack Buck, would have been an Obama guy.

[EyeGuy]

Even Newsweek could take lessons from the Obama lubefest that occurred in the broadcast booth at Busch Stadium in St. Louis last night with the shameless Joe Suck and Tim McKissAss.

I don't think WW II Vet, Depression baby, Joe's daddy, the legendary Jack Buck, would have been an Obama guy.

[Signalman]

Newsweak is the house organ for the Obama bootlickers brigade.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

If you kiss 0bama’s ass in the broadcast booth, you might hate yourself in the morning, but at least you get to work next Saturday. If you show the slightest reservations about the WON, you might find yourself broadcasting Cape Code league games and parking cars.

[EyeGuy]

So you’re saying we have a totalitarian regime fully in place.

Gee, that didn’t take long.

Time for someone, somewhere to start showing some balls and PUBLICLY stand up to this ongoing destruction of our society.

I got Sarah Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Coulter and the Cheneys and not too many others....

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Not nearly a totalitarian regime...yet! 0bama has the instincts of a totalitarian, no doubt. In a totalitarian regime, no one would be allowed near the supreme leader who did pass a prescreening and the punishment for the slightest insult to his dignity would be a summary firing squad.

[Deb]

Of course the press was only respectful and admiring of Rumsfeld when they felt like he was the only thing standing between them and a terrorist-flown 747.

As soon as the country was made safe by the Bush policies, the media reverted to their natural Republican-hating state. Rumsfeld became a war-mongering, Iraqi baby-killer, Cheney was Satan and Bush was the village idiot who either knew about 9/11 and did nothing or couldn't connect-the-dots if they were located in his underpants.

[mosesdapoet]

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[Gator113]

Rumsfeld continues to stand tall in my book.

[Deb]

You missed one:

THE END OF DRY PANTIES
by
Eleanor Clift

[kjo]

What’s left to be said about Newsweak? Castro get the kind of coverage in Cuba this magazine give to Obama...

...only Castro gets more criticism.

Beyond embarrassing.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

That cover was by National Review and a hard copy was on page 40 (iirc) of a recent issue. Your remark is a little crude for the pages of NR, but spot on and funny.

[Spok]

Calling the adoration of the ‘Bama mere spin is a gross and distorting understatement. More accurately, it’s homage, worship, glorification...it’s almost as though the very survival of the MSM depends upon the marketing of the ‘Bama as the one true god. Maybe it is.

[gorilla_warrior]

In the doctor's office this morning there was nothing else to read except Newsweak . I could not find one article, not even a paragraph, that was not steeped in liberal fascist groupthink. One big tip-off to liberal bias is the use of adjectives and adverbs, which are largely unnecessary in factual reporting. Newsweak is the worst.