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Reporter Bob Franken Blasts Obama on MSNBC: ‘Most Hostile’ to Press 'in U.S. History'
Mediaite ^
| November 30, 2013
| Noah Rothman
Posted on 12/01/2013 9:26:39 AM PST by EveningStar
During a segment examining the complaints lodged by a group of photojournalists relating to how the White House manipulates public accounting of events by blocking independent photography, an MSNBC panel tore into President Barack Obama's handling of relations with the press.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bobfranken; freedomofthepress; msnbc; obama; whitehouse
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To: tet68
Reporters smell blood..scarlet billows start to spread.
Sadly much of the MSM has fancy gloves, though...they'll see to it that there's never a trace of red if it could lead to impeachment.
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posted on
12/01/2013 10:14:25 AM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Seaplaner
I'm searching for a
complete transcript of that video segment. There probably is one, but I haven't found it yet.
There is a partial transcript here, but it's far from complete.
To: JimRed
And the worse he acts, the more they (the press) worship him! Beaten wife syndrome.
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posted on
12/01/2013 10:20:16 AM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: FreeAtlanta
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posted on
12/01/2013 10:21:15 AM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: EveningStar
No one gives a damn about the press, Bob.
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posted on
12/01/2013 10:33:02 AM PST
by
chris37
(Heartless.)
To: EveningStar
The institutions of the family, the market, education, religion, the press, and government have traditionally been coexisting or competing sources of human authority, some, usually folks in government or religion, trying to control the others for their own benefit. But for utopian statists like Barry or Lenin or Stalin or Mao or Hitler or Muhammed (or even John Calvin who created the first totalitarian state in Geneva) who want to immanentize the eschaton, there can be no source of authority that is not directly and completely under their authority.
It is a mindset that is absolutely and completely contrary to everything our country was founded upon. There can be no accommodation with it that does not end with society being deeply wounded, perhaps mortally. In fact, the degree of accommodation to it is directly proportional to the degree of damage to be suffered from it. So when you hear "fundamental transformation" it means "complete destruction."
People should keep in mind that the founders declared independence from and fought a revolution against a level of government interference by England that was less than that of even the least intrusive of state or county governments today.
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posted on
12/01/2013 10:59:55 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: EveningStar
Don’t journalists like Bob Franken understand that it’s not enough for them to simply criticize Obama into the thin air? That they have a responsibility to expose Obama’s secrets to the public?
If Upton Sinclair had merely stood in front of Chicago’s meat-packing plants at the beginning of the 20th century criticizing their owners, we’d still be eating sausages filled with sawdust and mouse droppings. Instead, he went undercover into the plants and exposed their failings, which brought about reforms.
If all the media wants to do is present people criticizing Obama, they don’t have to pay journalists-in-name-only like Bob Franken to do so, they’d be better off interviewing much more colorful and interesting people in bars.
To: EveningStar
They just miss smelling the throne. They will still do The Won’s bidding without question.
To: JimRed
Yep. Every now and then they complain just a little. Then it’s right back to the worshipping. I know some voters who are like that, too.
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posted on
12/01/2013 11:45:46 AM PST
by
VerySadAmerican
(".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
To: Steely Tom
Of course their feelings are hurt. Their knees are bleeding and their lips are blistered and 0bama is complaining that they don’t love him enough.
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posted on
12/01/2013 12:28:58 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
To: TigersEye
Of course their feelings are hurt. Their knees are bleeding and their lips are blistered and 0bama is complaining that they dont love him enough.LOL - good one Tiger...
Ever wonder if folks in the MSM know how those of us in the Hinterlands feel about them ... are they oblivious to the public?
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posted on
12/01/2013 12:36:48 PM PST
by
GOPJ
("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
To: GOPJ
... are they oblivious to the public? I think so. That and they think everyone in fly over country are uneducated hicks that can barely write their own names. To them our contempt confirms their superiority. It's the same mindset that fanatics have.
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posted on
12/01/2013 1:08:46 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
To: TigersEye
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posted on
12/01/2013 2:09:22 PM PST
by
GOPJ
("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
To: GOPJ
Good article. Thanks for the link.
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posted on
12/01/2013 2:36:46 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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