Sure, it is disingenuous for right-wing pundits to accuse Obama of dividing the country, considering the five-star job they have done in turning us against each other.
How have the right-wing pundits turned you guys against each other?
Posted on 10/25/2009 3:48:23 AM PDT by markomalley
Surely President Barack Obama and his advisers don't really think that their feud with Fox News will do anything but enhance the cable network's viewership. A deeper problem is what the flap reveals about Team Obama, which seems to be more comfortable with campaigning than governing.
I'm not happy about that. It does not fill me with glee to see Fox News star Sean Hannity joyfully replaying Obama's 2004 come-together speech about how we're "not red states or blues states" but "the United States of America" and asking where is Obama's promise now?
I don't agree with Hannity on much. He's only a tad more serious-minded as a news clown, in my grumpy view, than his colleague Glenn Beck. But, as much as my wife might run from the house when she hears me say it, Hannity's right on this one.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
“i know several who are Harvard grads.
Usually smart at something but dumb at most.”
LOL
They can write a 100 page ‘thesis’ but they can’t figure out a bus schedule.
ROTFLOL!!
I agree that Beck is doing the investigative journalism (while not even a journalist) that the MSM has refused to do .. because the MSM were too busy kissing up to the admin, but Beck does the job with a little humor.
Having met Beck, he is the real deal.
The admin is mad as hell that somebody would even dare to expose them .. and it’s a “stupid conservative” to boot .. how is that even possible ..??
Nobody was supposed to catch on until it was waaaaaaaay too late.
Actually, I believe Obama is a narcissist. My reason: He will not allow his military person to be the focal point of the war. The focal point has to be OBAMA!
While there may have been many issues with Bush, at least he was not a camera hog, and Bush allowed Petreaus (sp?) to be the face of the war.
This camera hogging is a major mistake for Obama, because now NATO has agreed with the General.
Ph.D means: “PUSH HERE DUMMY”
A Ph.D in Physics (who wrote books about the design of integrated circuits), gave me that funny quote. His books are a staple at the US Air Force Academy.
In the meantime, it seems Beck and Fox are just practicing those two constitutionally-protected freedoms.
"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. It behooves him, too, in his own case, to give no example of concession, betraying the common right of independent opinion . . . ." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1803.
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.
Sure, it is disingenuous for right-wing pundits to accuse Obama of dividing the country, considering the five-star job they have done in turning us against each other.
How have the right-wing pundits turned you guys against each other?
Glenn Beck says the only purpose of the Fox feud is to divert attention away from their outside-the-rules gambits to force “healthcare” on the nation.
Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Tip your server!
2. Doctors- perfoming unnecessary operations only to line their pockets.
amputating the feet of diabetics and taking tonsils out just for they paycheck....
Well husband has diabetes and still has both feet
and our son WANTS his tonsils out and we couldn’t find a surgeon who would remove them. You have to have serious tonsilitis several times in six months to qualify that that surgery.
Obama is such a liar
Clarence, no one cares what you think anymore.
Day by day new dissenter from the bombs support force step away from him......
I hope he ignores it....as I want him and his polices to fail.....FAIL
I wonder if he really went to class at Harvard or just up and got the customary A there. But his records are sealed.
Clarence and John McLaughlin still do.
Quite a stunner from a kool-aid drinker...
“I have come to the conclusion that people with Harvard degrees will consistently demonstrate a lack of the basic reasoning skills demonstrated by (for example) plumbers and vets.”
And moose hunting, gun toting, fisherwomen from Alaska...
Do you think this has any validity?
Why did the White House choose this moment to pick a fight with Fox News? This wasn’t a slip of the tongue by one person up there, it seems more like a concerted effort. So what are they trying to distract the media’s attention from this particular week? Or, more ominously, why is the White House throwing such political red meat to their base at this particular time? Is it to distract progressives from something the White House is doing behind its back?
My guess (which could ultimately prove to be wrong, of course) is that this whole fake (but shiny... oh, so shiny!) distraction was waved in front of the media in order to give some elbow room to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as they are doing the toughest work yet on healthcare reform legislation. That has been the real story of the week, even though it is mostly dueling rumors and leaks (so far).
Obama showed a masterful ability to distract Republicans earlier this year, by pushing so many issues simultaneously that the Republicans couldn’t react to all of them with sufficiently indignant rage, because there were just too many things for them to focus on. Rage diluted is rage denied, in other words.
You could even call it a variation on Ailes’ “orchestra pit theory.” In Roger Ailes’ own words:
“If you have two guys on a stage and one guy says, “I have a solution to the Middle East problem,” and the other guy falls in the orchestra pit, who do you think is going to be on the evening news?”
Providing a center-ring tiger fight for everyone in the Washington media circus to focus on has taken the spotlight off the closed-door negotiations which will ultimately decide what the healthcare reform bills from the House and Senate will look like. This is serious, serious horse-trading, and the last thing Pelosi and Reid need right now is screaming Republicans with nothing better to talk about. Hence, the Fox News tempest in a teapot was served up instead.
As I said, I could be wrong about that, but it seems like the most logical answer at this point. We’ll see... we’ll see. Maybe it’s all just Ailes contemplating a run for president, who knows?
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/friday-talking-points-99_b_332422.html
Talk about 100 back handed compliments. No wonder the Dead Tree press is dying.
Pray for America’s Freedom
We’ve been leaving our TVs on (with sound turned down) to FOX 24-7....Wonder if others are doing the same to get a bump in ratings!
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