Posted on 05/16/2010 12:06:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Let's try a political thought experiment. Imagine that a few months after a new president takes office, his administration approves an offshore oil well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico. It is to be run by BP, whose employees were very generous donors to the president's campaign. The oil company airily dismisses the possibility of a catastrophic leak that might destroy the coastline. Nearly a year later, the president—to the dismay of his environmentalist supporters—says he wants to greatly expand offshore drilling. Soon after that, the BP well explodes, and oil spews into the gulf. It's clear to everyone that the blowout is a major catastrophe, requiring a federal mobilization. But the president's initial response is to say, in effect: do not worry, BP will pay for the cleanup. Eleven days pass before he goes to survey the scene.
Of course, this is a sketch of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and the president is Barack Obama. But here is the rest of the experiment. Imagine the reaction of Washington—the media, Congress, the "national conversation"—if the president wasn't Obama but George W. Bush. "We would be under siege," says Dan Bartlett, who was communications director in the Bush years. "There'd be calls for special prosecutors, investigations everywhere. The focus wouldn't be on what was happening out in the gulf—it would be on what happened in the West Wing."
Now, I hold no brief for George Bush, and I have no desire to launch a screed against the home-field advantage that Obama still gets in the non-Murdoch media.(continued)
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Maybe it has to do with the fact that you and the rest of the Media Clown posse never do any real journalism where he is concerned cause your too busy mindlessly propagandizing for him.
It’s time to start grilling the press.
“big boy” news conference
Now that is a memorable phrase which should be plastered on Zero.
They used to call another thug gangster Teflon Don, and he ended up rotting in jail until he died.
Just desserts.
Totally amazing how often he can stand at ‘his’ podium, look us all in the eye and explain how ‘the dog ate his homework’ and get away with it.
The other amazing thing is he can’t explain anything without a teleprompter. The creature is totally programmed by his handlers, whoever they are?
Ain't that the truth.
What the idiot Fineman doesn't admit is that the old MSM hitched its wagon to Obama, and if his administration implodes, he'll drag the rest of the drive by media down with him.
By this stage of the game, they have little choice but to cover for him.
>>The liberal media do not blame Obama because to blame Obama is to blame themselves- they created this monster.
*Ding!* *Ding!* *Ding!*
We have a winner! And worth saying again.
He has no ability to “shake off the blame” - it’s the media running cover for him that allows him to get away with it. But slowly, that facade is crumbling and the real Obama is becoming apparent to more and more people.
I don’t think that he’s really able to shake off blame except among his faithful. The rest of us still blame him.
A jive talking con artist. Not exactly a character trait you want in a “president”.
notice his tactics?
He NEVER defends; but ALWAYS attacks.
I think there's a lot of truth in what you suggest. But the familiar conservative diagnosis still holds: the underlying issue is that the (dying) elite media has slid so far down the slippery slope that it has lost touch with its historical roots in old-fashioned news reporting.
Journalism has always attracted crusaders -- nothing new about that -- but the "get the facts straight" tradition of beat reporting remained as an anchor. Somewhere along the line, as advocacy journalism became the normative standard, the anchor was cut loose. The MSM now overdoses us with pure advocacy in which awkward facts are simply ignored. Which, of course, is why the paying customers are leaving.
The Rookie will get his ass kicked in November 2012, so fawn away Howard, you idiot.
Yet, by comparison, he makes Slick Willy look like an amateur
I’ll bet if you go back about 15 years, you could find a Howard FIneman column marveling at what a good liar Clinton is.
This is the game. It’s rigged from the start.
They play slow pitch softball with Democrats, esp. Presidents, then watch in amazement as the ball goes sailing over the fence time after time. “Man, the guy can really hit home runs, can’t he-yessiree!”
They play hardball with Republican Presidents and not only just hardball - they grease up the ball with every substance imaginable, then excoriate the President for hitting grounders.
I wouldn’t be so confident that the DBM is going away any time soon. They are dreadfully sick, to be sure, but as long as they draw breath they will use every ounce of energy to prop up incompetent Democrats and take down unwary Republicans. They are still a huge force to be reckoned with. Heck, Kerry even said the support of the DBM was worth 15 pts. in an election. He knows the game.
Actually it is easy, he has no goals projected upon himself by anyone...it is all hope and change and blame Bush. The guy is nothing more than a 3 card monte dealer, now you see it, now you don’t. A shamster. One more thing, one could go broke betting upon an over estimation of the intelligence of the voters in this country: Exhibit A....Ozero.
The reason Hussein isn't at 11% approval rating right now?
The media's penchant for political fellatio while resting upon their industrial strength knee pads. They use them daily to satisfy Hussein and keep him from any significant, relentless criticism. Hussein is, by a country mile, worse than George W. Bush. But he'll never EVER EVER EVER face the relentless media scrutiny and attacks. Ever.
Hussein is their pimp. Their little tin god. Their hero.
That is why he avoided Fox interviews during the campaign. The alphabet networks and print media are keeping two businesses afloat. The knee pad and mouth wash manufacturing industries are making a ton of money.
He hasn’t avoided blame anywhere except in the media.....they kiss his ass, everyone I know, even those who will admit they voted for him, are unhappy with him....
It has less to do with Obamas ability and more to do with press inability.
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