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Sunday Obamathon Turns Into Media Critique; Says Press is Perpetuating 'Rude' Behavior
Newsbusters ^ | September 20, 2009 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 09/20/2009 2:36:22 PM PDT by Rufus2007

They say you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you. But the 44th President of the United States doesn't seem to be worried about that.

President Barack Obama, still with no fear of being overexposed, made the rounds on five Sunday morning talk shows on Sept. 20 to make another attempt at winning the hearts and minds over on his vague health care proposal.

According to Obama, it alleged he wasn't doing any "media-bashing," mention the three major cable news networks by name, saying they were the ones enabling the "rude" behavior that some of their on-air voices have decried by giving it so much attention.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2muchfreespeech; 4kinghussein; bho44; fawningmedia; mediabias; obamathon
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Whining about the media. Makes me wonder if the media will report about this for two reasons - it looks unfavorably on them and it makes Obama look like a whiner.
1 posted on 09/20/2009 2:36:23 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007; USFRIENDINVICTORIA
'The question is,’ said Barack Hussein, `which is to be master — that’s all.’
2 posted on 09/20/2009 2:38:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: Rufus2007
FU BO
3 posted on 09/20/2009 2:38:44 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Democrat party has always been the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism and surrender)
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To: Rufus2007

Prediction: After this whiney media blitz, BO’s poll numbers will be at an all-time low.


4 posted on 09/20/2009 2:39:35 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Rufus2007
God, what a whining, petulant child he is.

Can we PLEASE have a "Reset Button" on this sham of an election? Geez.

5 posted on 09/20/2009 2:39:53 PM PDT by kromike
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To: Rufus2007

Guess Chris Wallace is right on. They are a bunch of crybabies.


6 posted on 09/20/2009 2:40:42 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: Rufus2007

They might push back a little on this. After all, he’s “their guy” and they sold all of their integrity to get him elected. Now he’s calling them out for not being supportive enough just because they don’t have anything left to give him. There comes a time when battered wife syndrome turns into rage.


7 posted on 09/20/2009 2:42:23 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Question O-thority!)
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To: Rufus2007

Obamas a cunning runt and excuse my dyslexia.....


8 posted on 09/20/2009 2:42:46 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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The communist in chief is just following the same playbook all of his marxist buddies use, vilifying Fox news and anyone else who tries to interrupt his stampede to socialism:

Press freedom concerns as Chávez cracks down on opposition media-Sept. 9, 2009

A leading Venezuelan TV channel, Globovision, could lose its broadcast licence for allegedly airing a viewer's text message calling for a coup and the assassination of President Hugo Chávez. The channel's owners may also face trial for trying to incite rebellion.

Globovision, a 24-hour news channel, is the last major channel on Venezuela's regular airwaves that is strongly critical of Chávez. Last month, the government closed 32 radio stations and two small television stations.

Telecommunications commission president Diosdado Cabello said last week that an additional 29 radio stations "will soon leave" the airwaves, adding: "We are acting within the law."

These moves indicate once again that press freedom in Venezuela is under severe threat. "There's a clear strategy to control the flow of information and restrict criticism," says Carlos Lauria of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. "It's aimed at building a communicational hegemony for the state."

9 posted on 09/20/2009 2:43:46 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Rufus2007

I can’t find anything in the Constitution OR the Ten Commandments about not being “rude”.


10 posted on 09/20/2009 2:44:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't remember Americans being called "racists" when we fought against Hillarycare.)
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Rude is in the eye of the beholder....kinda like racism....according to some...Joe Wilson was RUDE....but, NOT in MY book! In my book it is MORE than Rude to stand before Congress lying.


11 posted on 09/20/2009 2:49:01 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Democrat party has always been the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism and surrender)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Unless you agree with Obama, you’re a rude, stupid racist...


12 posted on 09/20/2009 2:49:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Being rude is when you tell the boy king no.


13 posted on 09/20/2009 2:53:26 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Sacajaweau; goodnesswins
I get sick of their "civility" rant also. Where was all of this need for "civility" during those eight years President Bush was in the White House?

Karma can be a real ....! What goes around, comes around.

14 posted on 09/20/2009 2:54:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't remember Americans being called "racists" when we fought against Hillarycare.)
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"When we start caricaturing the other side, I think that's a problem.....The easiest way to get 15 minutes on the news, or your 15 minutes of fame, is to be rude."

When BO reins in his own press secretary and chief of staff, I'll take notice. When he admonishes Pelosi, Reid, Dean and company, I'll take him seriously.

Until then, FU BO.

15 posted on 09/20/2009 2:55:22 PM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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Obama is unhappy with the media??? What he wants? Hail Great Obama the Messiah, our Father, Savior and Redeemer non-stop rather than interrupting it for commercials once in a while?!
16 posted on 09/20/2009 2:56:16 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: Rufus2007
It's a rats propensity to desert a sinking ship.

It may be, with the plummeting polls - combined with his whining calls to the media and pushing them to only report what and how he wants them to, that the MSM is getting a clue. They liked the part about being able to control the MSM to get him elected, but I don't believe they want to be controlled themselves.

They may be lining up on the stern, ready to jump ship.

May few of them know how to swim.

17 posted on 09/20/2009 2:59:40 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: Rufus2007

In a country where we have the Second Amendment as protection against a totalitarian Federal government, the vigorous exercise of the First Amendment doesn’t seem like such a far-fetched thing.


18 posted on 09/20/2009 3:01:44 PM PDT by TWohlford
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GWB never whined about the press nor his critics he just did his job. Chris Wallace was right they are crybabies and he is the CryBaby-in-Chief.


19 posted on 09/20/2009 3:09:04 PM PDT by vicar7
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Chris Wallace was right they are crybabies and he is the CryBaby-in-Chief

I believe Chris said that in his 30 years of work he never met such a bunch of crybabies.
20 posted on 09/20/2009 3:13:50 PM PDT by alecqss
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