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Media Stunned as ObamaCare Unravels
Pajamas Media ^ | Sept. 1 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 09/01/2009 7:37:18 AM PDT by AJKauf

So now the mainstream media is in catch-up mode. Having quietly fretted as Obama’s poll numbers drifted lower and misrepresented the extent of independent voters’ support, they now must explain that the town hall crowds weren’t simply crackpots or dupes of the insurance industry. Those people are actually quite representative of the electorate — especially the electorate willing to turn out to vote in the 2010 congressional elections. And while they swooned at Obama press conferences, the media must now admit that Obama has been colossally ineffective at persuading the public.

The “catch-up” phenomenon is nothing new. We saw it with the Iraq war surge. For months and months the military, a few stalwart senators like John McCain and Joe Lieberman, conservative media outlets, and bipartisan military experts reported back that the surge was making a difference. The New York Times, the weekly not-much-news magazines, and the network broadcasts kept mum. But then shortly before then-candidate Obama was to visit Iraq, the mainstream media rushed to close the gap between the reality on the ground and their own gloom-and-doom reporting. It was catch-up time. The surge hadn’t suddenly worked; its success just couldn’t be ignored any longer...

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0bama; 0bamaisfailing; bho44; donttreadonme; enemedia; fifthcolumn; givemeliberty; gop2010; idiocracy; liberalmedia; mccainordie; mediabias; mediaelite; msm; obama; obamacare; obamedia; palin2012; pravdamedia; takebackamerica; townhalls; treeofliberty; wakeupamerica
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To: GOPJ

I read that on FreeRepublic before Rush said it.


41 posted on 09/01/2009 9:31:10 AM PDT by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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To: HerrBlucher

It’s not just what’s written in HR3200, but what’s written in the referenced sections of the USC. IOW, HR3200 references those sections of existing laws, and makes changes to those existing laws. So, to understand what HR3200 does, you have to read it side-by-side with a copy of the USC.

It is a labyrinth of interconnections.


42 posted on 09/01/2009 9:41:35 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Diogenesis; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; maggief; GOPJ; stephenjohnbanker; Mr. Silverback; ...
What has enchanted you most in the first hundred days?

"Chilling out on the taxpayers' dime."

43 posted on 09/01/2009 9:45:38 AM PDT by Liz (When people fear govt, we have tyranny; when govt fears the people, we have freedom.)
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To: AJKauf
Now they are playing catch-up.

They're just doing what they're told.

44 posted on 09/01/2009 9:48:43 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Diogenesis

LMBO!!


45 posted on 09/01/2009 10:01:40 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Liz

“What has enchanted you most in the first hundred days? “

Watching Americans renounce the CIC..

(Communist in Charge)


46 posted on 09/01/2009 10:05:45 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Ole Okie

Wow!!! So what do you want to be when you grow up?
Seriously, good on ya. Hope you got plenty more where the first 83 came from.
Thank you for being here.


47 posted on 09/01/2009 10:12:08 AM PDT by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

We also need to sweep out the stinking RINOs like Juan McCain, Graham-nesty, Collins, Snowe, Crist, etc.


48 posted on 09/01/2009 10:43:17 AM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: Frantzie

Absolutely. RINO’s are as guilty of helping destroy our country as RATs, IMO.


49 posted on 09/01/2009 11:33:29 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: AJKauf
In sum: in their area of presumed expertise and where their journalistic efforts have been most focused, mainstream news reporting and punditry were the most inept and most inaccurate.

That is the price of partisan journalism. Where a commitment to a candidate or a point of view results in hostility and denial toward contraindicative data you've lost your ability to see the story, much less tell it. That explains part of the open anger we see evidenced toward the Tea Parties - the willingness to disparage the participants as "tea-baggers" and oppose rather than interrogate. The difficulty is not that some in the media are like this, because that's always been the case. The difficulty is that so many are now and all in a similar ideological alignment.

The author seems to agree:

It therefore shouldn’t come as a surprise that the mainstream media and their stable of Beltway pundits missed the boat on the public’s reaction to Obama’s health care offensive. Chatting mostly among themselves, susceptible to (if not anxious to pass on) Democratic talking points, and devoid of many (any?) conservative colleagues willing to challenge their assumptions, they are easily blindsided when reality intervenes.

Meanwhile Fox continues to dominate the ratings and their competitors seem baffled by it. At some point you don't even feel sorry for the strident, ignorant parrots anymore, you just turn them off.

50 posted on 09/01/2009 11:53:37 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: AJKauf
The media is about to unravel as well. They need to go bankrupt.
51 posted on 09/01/2009 12:41:42 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,truth. (member NRA)
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To: AJKauf

51 posts and no one commented that the headline should be “Media STUNED as ObamaCare Unravels”?!
Other than that, a great read.
Fairly short and deadly accurate.


52 posted on 09/01/2009 1:03:18 PM PDT by astyanax (I'm here to spread peace, love and happiness... so get the f*#% out of my way.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Do NOT underestimate the power of being a mere incumbant.

it is VERY VERY VERY VERY hard to unseat an incumbant. Jerrymandered districts, voter fraud establishment, and a media whorishly devoted to democrats make this still an uphill battle.

The only thing that will useat the MSM zombies is the bankruptcy of GE and advertisers pulling ads.


53 posted on 09/01/2009 1:26:10 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Billthedrill

the MSM thought FNC was essentialy current afair OReily and his psuedo populism. Instead Glen Beck is a black swan that has ratings which are throwing the rest into seizure.


54 posted on 09/01/2009 1:27:50 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: GOPJ

I missed this...thank you for posting it, GOPJ...


55 posted on 09/01/2009 1:34:37 PM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Mantra of the left: 'It's only okay when WE do it.'")
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To: Liz

My wife can’t stand to see nor hear 0b0z0, and I have the same problem with Herr Gibbs.


56 posted on 09/01/2009 2:40:23 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: Liz
Below we see an example the used of self medication to control costs under 0b0z0 care.

Free Dope will be a big hit with a high % of aging Boomer Hippies. MediCare costs will drop like rocks as this Change Generation lights up again.

57 posted on 09/01/2009 2:45:58 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: GOPJ
"financed by a country that's nearly broke"
58 posted on 09/01/2009 5:40:30 PM PDT by txrangerette (Just say "no" to the Obama Cult.)
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To: txrangerette

You’re right. “Broke” is correct.


59 posted on 09/02/2009 7:37:56 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." - - Adam Smith)
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