Posted on 05/20/2012 2:20:17 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Media says Obama evolved, not flip-flopped, on major issues through the years By Gregg Re - The Daily Caller 2:26 PM 05/20/2012
President Barack Obama has evolved — again. And again. And again.
In the week after the president voiced his sudden personal support for gay marriage, a move which two-thirds of Americans have concluded was primarily motivated by politics, liberal bloggers and media personalities have characterized the decision as an “evolution,” rather than a flip-flop.
That terminology attracted its fair share of scorn from right-wing publications, which argued that the media was giving the president a pass during an election year. But according to the media, the president has been evolving for some time now on a variety of issues.
The New York Times doubled down on the ‘evolving’ lingo Sunday by characterizing the president’s shift in Afghan war policy during his term as a personal evolution.
Over the past three years, the president has “narrowed the goals in Afghanistan, and narrowed them again, [and again]“, according to Sunday’s in-depth report by The New York Times. “In interviews over the past 18 months, Mr. Obama’s top national security aides described the evolution of the president’s views on Afghanistan as a result of three rude discoveries.”
The piece, whimsically titled “Charting Obama’s Journey to a Shift on Afghanistan,” subsequently attributes most of the president’s ‘evolution’ to retired Gen. David H. Petraeus, now the director of the CIA.
“Just think how big a reversal of approach this was in just two years,” one administration official told the paper. “We started with what everyone thought was a pragmatic vision but, at its core, was a plan for changing the way Afghanistan is wired. We ended up thinking about how to do as little wiring as possible.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Did the Daily Caller mean the alleged media or the real media such as Fox News?
From what I’ve seen, Obama hasn’t evolved enough. Enough said...
There is an ever increasing probability that many in the msm are on the take.
Note how they press the DNC talking points. Many may be in the bag for big money.
His birthplace also evolved. Back and forth. Amazing.
‘Evolved’ - no bias or favoritism there... /s
The word they were looking for is “mutated” not “evolved”. Too bad the media has such a limited knowledge. A good editor would have spotted this.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.