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Obama: Too Much Media Emphasis On Health Care Protests
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Posted on 08/15/2009 3:14:06 PM PDT by kcvl

U.S. President Barack Obama says news organizations are putting too much emphasis on scenes of hostile protesters at public meetings on his health care reform plan. The president received tough but polite questions from Americans Friday in the Northwestern state of Montana.

Mr. Obama said most meetings on his plan have been civil, and those that have been disrupted are in the minority. "What you have not seen on TV, and what makes me proud, are the many constructive meetings going on all over the country. Everywhere across the country you are seeing people who are coming together and having a civil, honest, often difficult conversation about how we can improve the system," he said.


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KEYWORDS: angrymob; arrogantbastard; firstamendment; obama; obamacare; obamavs1stamendment; obamavsamerica; obamavsamericans; townhall; townhalls
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To: kcvl

In other words: Comrade Obama has decreed that State Run media, Pravda (NBC), Tass (CBS), Izvestia (ABC) and other State Run news outlets are to stop immediately covering the dissidents.


61 posted on 08/15/2009 4:46:49 PM PDT by blasater1960 ( Dt 30, Ps 111, The Torah is perfect, attainable, now and forever)
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To: kara2008

Biden’s big surprise followed by the measures we “won’t agree with ... at first.”


62 posted on 08/15/2009 4:52:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye
I believe it is intentional: all the more reason to be concerned. My mind keeps flashing back to that scene at the end of Terminator 2, when Sarah Conner stops her Jeep in Mexico for gas, and the little boy scams her into taking her picture for a few bucks, and then points to a threatening sky and remarks: "There's a storm coming!".

There is.

63 posted on 08/15/2009 4:57:19 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

I wish I had the time to do this comparison!


64 posted on 08/15/2009 5:05:37 PM PDT by GoforBroke
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65 posted on 08/15/2009 5:05:55 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: mainepatsfan

[So I guess the MSM’s attacking of the folks showing up at the town halls isn’t working so phase two is to ignore them.]

You nailed it.


66 posted on 08/15/2009 5:25:53 PM PDT by KansasGirl ( Obama's heroes have always been left-wing radicals.)
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To: kcvl
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67 posted on 08/15/2009 5:30:22 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for the people to remain silent.)
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To: GoforBroke
Glenn Beck played a video comparison some time last week.

President Bush, as you said, welcomed criticism and protest as something fundamentally American.

Of course that's because he IS an American......

(Maybe the clips are in the Glenn Beck archives?)

68 posted on 08/15/2009 6:00:11 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: kcvl

Funny, we were thinking there was too much media emphasis on you, Obama.


69 posted on 08/15/2009 6:01:26 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: kcvl

Obama says news organizations are putting too much emphasis on scenes of hostile protesters


Isn’t this a goal of community organizing? One wishes to attract media attention to one’s cause. Alinski would be proud.


70 posted on 08/15/2009 6:02:44 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey (Experience the feel of 1930's Germany. Report your neighbor. flag@whitehouse.gov)
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To: kcvl
Says Obama: "Media attention on current and important issues is not required.

"All that is required, is cheerleading and rubberstamping my program."

71 posted on 08/15/2009 6:02:46 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("If they taxed condoms and toilet paper, they'd have us coming and going." - Lazamataz, 2002)
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To: mainepatsfan
Obama keeps this up Fox's cable ratings are going to be higher than ABC/NBC&CBS combined.

If they will not cover it, people will go to the networks that do cover it.

72 posted on 08/15/2009 6:08:15 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: kcvl
“TV loves a ruckus,” Obama said.

Is that why the media overwhelmingly voted for you, Mr. Obama?

73 posted on 08/15/2009 6:15:18 PM PDT by TheMightyQuinn
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74 posted on 08/15/2009 6:24:13 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: kcvl

Looks like Obama gets his talking points from Democratic Underground. I stopped over there a couple times the past couple weeks and I was reading this very same line he’s now touting. Attack the media coverage of protesters.


75 posted on 08/15/2009 7:12:53 PM PDT by eaglestar
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To: kcvl

Obama would better read the last Rasmussen poll:

Rasmussen: 54% would prefer no bill to current ObamaCare proposals

Thirty-five percent (35%) of American voters say passage of the bill currently working its way through Congress would be better than not passing any health care reform legislation this year. However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters (54%) say no health care reform passed by Congress this year would be the better option…

Among those not affiliated with either major party, 23% would like the Congressional reform to pass while 66% would rather the legislators take no action.


76 posted on 08/15/2009 7:18:44 PM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: Marguerite

Obama team doesn’t care what anyone thinks. They are damned and determined to pass this. It isn’t about health care or insurance reform. It is about government control over every aspect of our lives.

I can guarantee you that they have a bigger fight on their hands than they realize. Most people want to be left alone to live their own lives. Once they figure out this is about telling them they can’t the protests are going to get even bigger.

Obama reminds me of a punk *ss walking in to the boss’s office with his resume in a leather brief case with nothing on it!


77 posted on 08/15/2009 7:25:12 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

So true, and there is something seriously wrong with our government if the President is destroying our country.


78 posted on 08/15/2009 7:31:15 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: kcvl

“Obama team doesn’t care what anyone thinks.”

Sure, but an important number of democrats in the Congress care about their jobs and privileges; they know that if they vote the bill on party line, they will be fired by their constituents next year. Let’s wait and see how many of them are ready to commit hara-kiri.


79 posted on 08/15/2009 7:44:18 PM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: kcvl

god forbid the msm doens’t show all is well in shangrala .. it hurts “the One’s” image

repression of the media, socialist #1 prioroty


80 posted on 08/15/2009 7:47:37 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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