I’m so SICK of this guy...
Truth be known - you're not the only one suffering from Obama-fatigue:
Posted on 09/20/2009 6:11:28 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
President Obama turned media critic during his Sunday show marathon, zinging television news during interviews on CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC for making stars out of people who are "rude." Obama wants bookers to reward "decency" and "civility" in public discourse.
We'll see.
Obama seemed determined to make this point because the president used remarkably similar language during his interviews with Sunday morning show hosts, deploring the state of discourse, especially on cable news shows.
Obama, who also sat down with Univision, snubbed the outlet where many of his loudest critics have found a perch - Fox News.
The interviews were taped back-to-back Friday afternoon in the Roosevelt room of the White House. When I walked by the Roosevelt Room earlier on Friday en route to an interview with an Obama official in the West Wing, the room looked like a television studio, stuffed with lights, wires, cameras and other equipment.
Obama of course, owns the top bully pulpit, and can get on television almost at will. He's done more interviews at this stage of his presidency - eight months ago today - than George Bush and Bill Clinton. A standard Obama line through the years has been that you don't have to be disagreeable to disagree. But as he noted on Sunday, that does not get you on the news.
On CNN, Obama told John King, host of "State of the Union:"
"I think it's important for the media - you know, not to do any media-bashing here - to recognize that right now, in this 24-hour news cycle, the easiest way to get on CNN is or FOX or any of the other stations-MSNBC is to say something rude and outrageous.
"If you're civil and polite and you're sensible, and you don't exaggerate the-bad things about your opponent, and, you know, you might get on one of the Sunday show but-but you're not going to be in the loop.
"And, you know, part of what I'd like to see is-is all of us reward decency and-and-civility in our political discourse."
On ABC, Obama told "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos:
"I think, that, frankly, the media encourages some of the outliers in behavior, because, let's face it, the easiest way to get on television right now is to be really rude. If you're just being sensible and giving people the benefit of the doubt and you're making your arguments, you don't, you don't get time on the nightly news."
On NBC's "Meet the Press," Obama told host David Gregory:
"Well, look, I think that we have an obligation in Washington, as leaders, to make sure that we are sending a strong message. That we can disagree without being disagreeable. Without, you know, questioning each other's motives. When we start caricaturing the other side-- I think that's a problem.
"And unfortunately, we've got, as I've said before, a 24-hour news cycle where what gets you on the news is controversy. What gets you on the news is the extreme statement. The easiest way to get 15 minutes on the news, or your 15 minutes of fame, is to be rude."
On CBS "Face the Nation," Obama told host Bob Schieffer:
"And I have to, one last point I've got to make, Bob, and that is I do think part of what's different today is that the twenty-four-hour news cycle and cable television and blogs and all this, they focus on the most extreme elements on both sides.
"They can't get enough of conflict, it's catnip to the media right now. And so the easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody. In that environment I think it makes it more difficult for us to solve the problems that the American people sent us here to solve."
He oughtta know how much it helps.
Wouldn't trust Obama to get too close.
What a putz of a prez.
“Pay with a wave of your hand?”
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Banking/FinancialPrivacy/pay-with-a-wave-of-your-hand.aspx
Well, Diana, the wh should put a camera in my tv and watch the middle finger salute he gets every time he appears. You want rude, I got rude for you.
Remember, this is the guy who oh so subtly gave his opponents the finger when speaking before his supporters during the campaign...and the crowd went wild.
Dr. Krauthammer, when will you ever pick up the white courtesy phone?
Fidel Obama is just pissed Joe Willson popped Obama’s lies.
He doesn’t even make it a milisecond on my TV when I’m watching the local news. I never watch the national news.
I’m so SICK of this guy...
I thought partisan rhetoric and calling the last president a “liar” is how 0bama got his job.
It can easily be found. Why anyone thinks they can get away with ANYTHING these days is beyond me.
Heck, I posted this guys voting record and special interest group ratings every d@mn day for TWO YEARS while he was running for the Presidency from the Senate.
It’s not like information is hard to find. Yeesh! (’Yeesh!’ at him and the other dim-rods, not at you!)
Putz. You said it!
The media seems to be genuflecting a little less recently. They may alarmed at the bill coming up that would, in effect, nationalize them = with a bailout that would, at the same time, require themt to change their tax status -
control
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/59523-obama-open-to-newspaper-bailout-bill
also see FR thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344334/posts
The same old arrogant sounding sing-song, clipped word style of speech will become so tiresom that even if he has something of importance to say, nobody will want to listen.
I, for one, have already started turning off the radio, and muting the TV when Obama comes on. I admit right off that I never did like the way he spoke, or the way he looked or walked, let alone his far left fringe socialist politics and ideas. I figure several thousand people a day are getting sicker of this sucker..that pretty soon, his "base" will be down to the 13 or so % who would support him if he was caught in bed with a young boy or an old English sheep dog.
I use Obomba’s finger salute whenever I go by a car with an Obomba bumper sticker.....
He doesn't even get started here. I turned off TeeHeeVee news in 1981 (and everything else several years ago).
I may have been on local TeeHeeVee News this evening; I was certainly taped at a protest rally this afternoon by at least two local channels, but I'm not even bothering to turn on the toob to find out.
Hear the embarrassingly repetitive and pathetically scripted juxtapositions here (on NPR, of all places!):
Obama Defends Health Agenda In Sunday TV Blitz (heavily scripted and repetitive)
Truth be known - you're not the only one suffering from Obama-fatigue:
MSM made lying the road to stardom when it comes to the One.
He’ll have to shut up and live with it.
Goose for the gander and all.
Good gravy. What have you got against yourself.
I stopped on the 4th of Nov.
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