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The Four-Year Honeymoon (Will the press ever give Obama tough coverage?)
TWS ^ | January 14, 2013 | Fred Barnes

Posted on 01/05/2013 4:34:57 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Watching the press go gaga over Obamalamadingdong reminded me of what I read in history about the Russian media on Stalin and what happened in China and also North Korea. It’s exactly the same thing.


21 posted on 01/05/2013 5:15:05 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: sand88

Intermittenly means occasionally and he is right in that


22 posted on 01/05/2013 5:26:36 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: sand88; Kaslin
Along with that, the media seem fearful of offending Obama. This is a new phenomenon in presidential coverage. To my recollection, Obama is the first president to instill coverage anxiety, conscious or unconscious.

I thought this was an interesting observation, and I think it's true. They're actually afraid of him.

Part of it, of course, is the fear of saying anything negative about anybody with any African heritage, but I think they're also afraid individually of attracting negative attention from him.

He doesn't treat any of them very well - they are actually not allowed to sit in the same part of the plane, even though Bush and all other presidents used to let the press come and hang out with them while traveling, and he has incredibly few press conferences. Also, he was supposedly angered by what he perceived as questioning from one or two of them (back in the days when he had press conferences where they were allowed to ask questions that weren't pre-arranged and pre-approved) and eliminated them from the list of participants. I guess they're lucky that's all he did.

But I think they are afraid of him.

23 posted on 01/05/2013 5:34:59 PM PST by livius
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To: Kaslin

Scu&bags will not criticize fellow scu&bags.

IMHO


24 posted on 01/05/2013 5:47:21 PM PST by ripley
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To: AlexW; lurk

The ironic thing is it is against the presses best interest to promote communism and their boy Obama. Stalin didn’t need a big press corps. In contrast to our “free press” the Stalinist propaganda wing probably had thousands of fewer press agents.


25 posted on 01/05/2013 5:52:40 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (bahits.com)
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To: Kaslin
>(Will the press ever give Obama tough coverage?)"

Only when they run out or 0bammabrand anal lip balm.

26 posted on 01/05/2013 5:55:06 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: Chickensoup

Imagine if Bush had blamed everything that went on under his watch on Congress.


27 posted on 01/05/2013 5:57:41 PM PST by dandiegirl
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28 posted on 01/05/2013 5:59:31 PM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: Kaslin
Not just “No”, but “Hell NO!” The leftist MSM is the willing propaganda tool of the Donkeys, socialists, and Marxists. These people have sold their souls to the Dark Side and they are NOT redeemable.
29 posted on 01/05/2013 6:06:52 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: Kaslin

No.


30 posted on 01/05/2013 6:08:00 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: Kaslin

I’ve never seen anything like it. We’ve got a president that is, in effect, a dictator and the press seem fine with it. The next 4 years are going to be a dangerous downward spiral for freedom, liberty and American ideals.


31 posted on 01/05/2013 6:08:06 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: timestax
Print out at Kinkos and spread around.


32 posted on 01/05/2013 6:23:26 PM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: Kaslin

As non-conservative a president as Romney would have been, it beats having zero in the position because we would have kept Romney’s feet to the fire, as would have the press. Romney wouldn’t have gotten away with anything.

With zero in office, there is no press. It’s a fan club. And any objections we raise about him are either ignored or tossed aside with the claim of “racism”.

Thanks, again, to all of those who couldn’t vote for Romney. Enjoy the next four years of world adoration of zero.


33 posted on 01/05/2013 6:29:19 PM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: lurk

Nice, too bad MSM types don’t read here more often.


34 posted on 01/05/2013 6:40:02 PM PST by jughandle
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To: Jonty30

I just laugh at people now and tell em conversations over or rather it’s been aborted by obtuse idiocy.


35 posted on 01/05/2013 6:41:05 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Kaslin

“The Four-Year Honeymoon (Will the press ever give Obama tough coverage?)”

Mr. Barnes, if you are stupid enough to be asking this question, you simply don’t deserve the position in which you’re currently employed.

No use wasting my time to read your writing...


36 posted on 01/05/2013 7:03:03 PM PST by Road Glide
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37 posted on 01/05/2013 7:11:49 PM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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38 posted on 01/05/2013 7:15:36 PM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: Kaslin

The media has no gag reflex.


39 posted on 01/05/2013 8:54:27 PM PST by gotribe
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To: Kaslin

Who has challenged ‘The Media’ over their fawning regard for obozo? Unlike the president, members of the media NEVER subject themselves to a press conference. They never have to answer for their actions. Fred sits on panels on live TV, but I don’t recall him ever saying “you’re talking rubbish” to his co-panelists.


40 posted on 01/05/2013 10:12:26 PM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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