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Reporter: Campaign journalists ‘swooned’ over Obama during off-the-record bar visit
Washington Examiner ^ | January 18, 2013 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 01/19/2013 8:51:22 AM PST by theruleshavechanged

“We were all, on some level, deeply obsessed with Obama, crushing hard, still a little love there. This was nerd heaven, a politico’s paradise, the subject himself moving among us — shaking our hands, slapping our shoulders!”

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; media; obama; partisanmediashills; reporters
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Gak! Get a room. .
1 posted on 01/19/2013 8:51:36 AM PST by theruleshavechanged
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To: theruleshavechanged
This is why America is in distress. The "Fourth Estate" has turned into a cheering section. And they are cheering for the bad guys.
2 posted on 01/19/2013 8:53:09 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: theruleshavechanged

What we have here is a personality cult. They always end badly.


3 posted on 01/19/2013 8:54:47 AM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: theruleshavechanged

America = Fantasy Nation

The cult of celebrity is helping to kill this nation.


4 posted on 01/19/2013 8:55:13 AM PST by mancini
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To: theruleshavechanged
In all seriousness... I for the life of me don't find Obama attractive in the least.

He looks sort of dorky to me. Small girlish body frame, big ears, a large mole on his face and weird bluish lips.

At best he is sort of cute in a dorky sort of way. But handsome? or Hot? lol not even close. Anyone who fantasies about Obama sexually must also have the hots for peewee herman.

5 posted on 01/19/2013 8:56:31 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: BenLurkin
This is why America is in distress. The "Fourth Estate" has turned into a cheering section. And they are cheering for the bad guys.

And they all swallow...

6 posted on 01/19/2013 9:02:45 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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To: theruleshavechanged

7 posted on 01/19/2013 9:04:25 AM PST by Dallas59 (America died a little bit more on 11/6/2012)
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t get it. Their children and grandchildren have to grow up in the same country as ours. What kind of future do they really see with this cretin leading the country? I know, I know, everyone says that they’re the elites but in the end they still live here and will be controlled by the same laws he’s imposing on us.


8 posted on 01/19/2013 9:07:57 AM PST by surrey
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To: theruleshavechanged
“The behavior of the assembled press corps was telling. Everyone, myself included, swooned. Swooned! Head over heels. One or two might have even lost their minds,” Hastings writes, as each reporter had a chance to speak personally with the president. “We were all, on some level, deeply obsessed with Obama, crushing hard, still a little love there. This was nerd heaven, a politico’s paradise, the subject himself moving among us — shaking our hands, slapping our shoulders!”

Fags and fag-hags. Every last one of them.

Campaign spokesperson Jen Psaki, Hastings notes, was furious and angrily phoned his editor Ben Smith for publishing details of the event. In response, the Obama campaign banished him from the campaign plane for a week.

Oh no! Daddy-fag is made at his sycophant faggots.

9 posted on 01/19/2013 9:09:04 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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You really have to wonder what kind of bizarre totalitarian utopia they believe in to want to impose it on their own children.


10 posted on 01/19/2013 9:14:09 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: theruleshavechanged

If this isn’t cult behavior I sure don’t know what it is!


11 posted on 01/19/2013 9:15:40 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Smokeyblue

“mad at”


12 posted on 01/19/2013 9:16:28 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: theruleshavechanged

This is one article worth perserving for the sake of real history. When our grandchildren ask us what happened to a once great nation, this will be but one example of how a cult of personality was used from within to destroy it. A reporter cannot be unbiased if they are swooning over whoever they are meeting. This very image is sickening for those that hold “freedom of the press.” Oh, and to banish a reporter for...reporting? Wow...that sure upholds their the whole idea of a “free press?”


13 posted on 01/19/2013 9:16:33 AM PST by EBH ( The 2nd Amendment exists for times like this.)
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there is NOTHING attractive about the whole obama clan..they are all a bunch of freaks that should be in a circus somewhere...


14 posted on 01/19/2013 9:18:48 AM PST by little-e (I'm not a racist, I hate Biden too..)
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To: cripplecreek

Setting up the world for a Star Trek type of living( without the space crafts of course). It’s permanent 1984 y and not man give a damn


15 posted on 01/19/2013 9:18:51 AM PST by shadeaud (We need to learn to know what our enemies are truly creating)
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To: theruleshavechanged
How many conservatives here swooned over Bush II? Bush I?

Probably none.

I admired Reagan. I know a lot of Freepers did. But would any have swoooned?

16 posted on 01/19/2013 9:20:30 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: shadeaud

Much like nazi progressivism. The people got exactly the utopia they wanted yet were unwilling to accept the reality that it was so it had to keep growing and becoming ever more oppressive.


17 posted on 01/19/2013 9:21:43 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: theruleshavechanged

Sort of reminds one of the adulation heaped upon Der Fuhrer by the German (and I might add some of the American) press in the 30’s. Hitler was the man, the father figure, the all knowing all loving provider of everything good for the German volk, until the trains started running full to the east on a regular basis but for some unexplained reason always came back rather empty.


18 posted on 01/19/2013 9:22:07 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: theruleshavechanged

Those journalists should go to the restroom and try to get ahold of themselves.


19 posted on 01/19/2013 9:23:09 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

“If this isn’t cult behavior I sure don’t know what it is!”
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“...they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?” Rev 13:4

“Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever!”

“Peace be upon him”


20 posted on 01/19/2013 9:27:27 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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