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A Hard Look at the President
New York Times ^ | April 22, 2012 | By ARTHUR S. BRISBANE

Posted on 04/22/2012 7:43:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

... Eight years ago, The Times offered comparably scant campaign coverage of the incumbent, George W. Bush, even as it blanketed readers with articles about Senator John Kerry and others competing for the Democratic nomination.

Now, though, the general election season is on, and The Times needs to offer an aggressive look at the president’s record, policy promises and campaign operation to answer the question: Who is the real Barack Obama?

Many critics view The Times as constitutionally unable to address the election in an unbiased fashion. Like a lot of America, it basked a bit in the warm glow of Mr. Obama’s election in 2008. The company published a book about the country’s first African-American president, “Obama: The Historic Journey.” The Times also published a lengthy portrait of him in its Times Topics section on NYTimes.com, yet there’s nothing of the kind about George W. Bush or his father.

Readers deserve to know: Who is the real Barack Obama? And The Times needs to show that it can address the question in a hard-nosed, unbiased way.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2012; failure; journalism; mediabias; obama; president
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1 posted on 04/22/2012 7:43:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"And The Times needs to show that it can address the question in a hard-nosed, unbiased way."

Sure. Yeah.....and monkeys may flight out of my butt.

2 posted on 04/22/2012 7:46:33 AM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 posted on 04/22/2012 7:47:17 AM PDT by Brandonmark (2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

After three years in office, it amazes me that we have to ask “Who is the real Barack Obama?” I think the American people know who and what he is. But....those that voted for him will not admit they made one hell of a mistake. Hopefully, they will come to their senses this time around and save this country from a dictator.


4 posted on 04/22/2012 7:47:34 AM PDT by RC2
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“I think they [the Times reporters and editors who cover the campaign and Washington] see themselves as aggressive journalists who don’t play favorites.”

If this clown thinks he’s innoculating the New York Times, he should know that his article only makes it look more ridiculous.


5 posted on 04/22/2012 7:53:43 AM PDT by Kanzan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The old Grey Dinosaur...maybe a little buyer's remorse, but still looking for the perfect socialist.
6 posted on 04/22/2012 7:59:36 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
feh...
7 posted on 04/22/2012 8:04:40 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dn't need n Weatherman t see which way Cmrade Chairman bama's wind

blws.

 

"Behind the Violence, Says Jane Alpert, Was Sex"

--November 09, 1981--
"The leaders of the Weather Underground, she believes, followed a similar pattern of constantly shifting sexual alliances..."

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20080637,00.html

"He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."

Source: New York Times, September 11, 2001: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

"...the Weathermen, when not engaged in group sex, committed such revolutionary acts as parading with a Viet Cong flag through a local park on Independence Day and spray-painting the walls of a high school with the slogans, "Off the Pigs," "Viet Cong Will Win," and "F#$k U.S. Imperialism."..."

Campus Wars: The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era

 

"What happens next bears watching closely, as does the response of the president, ex-Speaker Pelosi, and others on the left.  Encouraged by leftists in the Democratic Party and funded by left-leaning nonprofit organizations and celebrity contributors, Occupy Wall Street may in time morph into something resembling the radical factions of the late 1960s and 1970s."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/predicting_the_weatherman.html

The Osawatomie Coincidence

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2818309/posts


8 posted on 04/22/2012 8:07:13 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unless they start asking questions about the birth certificate, anything the New York Times writes pretending to vet the pResident is BS.


9 posted on 04/22/2012 8:07:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (For every black person murdered by a white, thirty-nine white people are murdered by blacks.)
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My comment just posted at times.com:
Funny how these "aggressive journalists" forgot to cover the Arpaio investigation which determined that Obama's Internet Birth Certificate and his Selective Service Registration are FRAUDS. They presented evidence too.

Do Times readers know who Mara Zebest is? I sort of knew who she was even ten years ago because she co-authored a couple of the books about Photoshop that are on my shelf. She asserts without reservation that Obama's Birth Certificate is a FRAUD. (Just Google her name and Obama's together and I'm sure you will find her report that never seemed to interest the "aggressive journalists" from the Times.)

Shame!

I post it here as I suspect that otherwise no one would ever see it.

ML/NJ

10 posted on 04/22/2012 8:09:29 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a load of crap.


11 posted on 04/22/2012 8:11:15 AM PDT by FreedomFighter1013 (Obama: Assistant Professor-in-Chief)
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To: RC2

After three years in office, it amazes me that we have to ask “Who is the real Barack Obama?”


At least we don’t have to wonder about the New York Times, an unabashed hardcore ideological propaganda mouthpiece for the Democrat Party and purveyor of the far left liberal agenda.


12 posted on 04/22/2012 8:12:45 AM PDT by Starboard
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Bookmark


13 posted on 04/22/2012 8:15:08 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I applaud The Times’s stated commitment to doing these kinds of stories. Readers deserve to know: Who is the real Barack Obama? And The Times needs to show that it can address the question in a hard-nosed, unbiased way. “

Hahahahahah. I’m sure the Simes will provide an “unbiased” look into the life and times of St. hussein.


14 posted on 04/22/2012 8:19:20 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Based on conversations with Times reporters and editors who cover the campaign and Washington, I think they see themselves as aggressive journalists who don’t play favorites. "

Bbbbwaahhashhhaa.

15 posted on 04/22/2012 8:20:13 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A Hard Look at the President


16 posted on 04/22/2012 8:21:30 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

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‘Who is the real Obama?’
You don’t know the half of it.

The best Obama exposure site on the net:

The Obama File
http://theobamafile.com/

The United States Library of Congress has selected
TheObamaFile.com for inclusion in its historic collection
of Internet materials
http://theobamafile.com/LibraryOfCongress.html

http://theobamafile.com/index_next_politics.html

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17 posted on 04/22/2012 8:25:02 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Readers deserve to know: Who is the real Barack Obama?"

This is the key here. NYT readers are self selected limo libs who are not interested in learning more about The W0n.

Most non-readers already know that Hussein is a Zer0.

18 posted on 04/22/2012 8:26:07 AM PDT by Paladin2
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19 posted on 04/22/2012 8:27:26 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ml/nj

I just left a post over there as well that should set the leftist off.


20 posted on 04/22/2012 8:30:57 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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