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Turning on Obama: Could it be that the liberal press has finally figured him out?
The American Spectator's The Obama Watch ^ | May 7, 2013 | Ross Kaminsky

Posted on 05/07/2013 4:10:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If ponies rode men and grass ate cows,
And cats were chased into holes by the mouse …
If summer were spring and the other way round,
Then all the world would be upside down.

Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing “The World Turned Upside Down.”

In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks in the “mainstream” media’s coverage of President Obama.

From reporters to opinion writers, from newspapers to television, after a mere four and a half years of economic fecklessness, foreign policy failure, unseemly narcissism, and a Nobel Prize for deeds to be named later, prominent liberal-leaning pundits and organizations may have finally realized that reality, if not journalistic ethics, demands a more clear-eyed look at the president they have been so deeply invested in.

Or maybe they’ve just noticed that their fawning and sycophancy has meant declining circulation and viewership.

But whatever the reason, the dominant establishment mass media’s turn is as remarkable as it is welcome.

The first major crack in the dike may have come from New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd in an April 20 piece entitled “No Bully in the Pulpit” in which she bemoans President Obama’s inability to pass restrictions on gun rights. It is not the liberal writer’s anger over the outcome that is surprising; it is that instead of the usual “it’s all the Republicans’ fault” meme, she lays the blame directly at the feet of the previously Teflon-coated president....

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: lamestreammedia; media; msm; obama; sycophancy; sycophants
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I'll believe it when I see it more than three times.
1 posted on 05/07/2013 4:10:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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pipe dream


2 posted on 05/07/2013 4:11:13 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column. They won’t betray the revolution.


3 posted on 05/07/2013 4:12:47 PM PDT by Wordkraft (Remember who the Collaborators are.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wanna believe it....

But we gotta watch the other hand....

WATCH THE OTHER HAND....

Been burned too much...


4 posted on 05/07/2013 4:13:01 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No. But hope I’m wrong.


5 posted on 05/07/2013 4:13:15 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NO


6 posted on 05/07/2013 4:13:35 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Cultural Canary

ping


7 posted on 05/07/2013 4:14:35 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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Turning on Obama: Could it be that the liberal press has finally figured him out?

Could it be that the liberal press is trying to regain credibility by finally telling the obvious truth - now that it can no longer hurt their chosen one? Could it be that they will spend three years regaining trust from the gullible so they can go all in on their chosen far left successor?

8 posted on 05/07/2013 4:15:23 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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nope...but they can’t cover his lies anymore.....


9 posted on 05/07/2013 4:15:43 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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I wanna believe it....

When you look back at Obama telling lie after lie after lie after lie and pulling stunt after stunt, I do not think this will make a hill of beans of difference. Remember when Ken Star released the tapes of Clinton and it was going to take Clinton down? There was nothing there. I even remember Rush saying after words that we were played.

This is going no where.

10 posted on 05/07/2013 4:16:08 PM PDT by BRL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who CARES what the lib media believe..? I’m done lamenting their view of the world.


11 posted on 05/07/2013 4:16:13 PM PDT by gaijin
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Turning on Obama: Could it be that the liberal press has finally figured him out?

The liberal press has known all along that Obama is a commie fellow traveler to themselves.

Their neck is in the noose too, and they are just trying to save themselves.

12 posted on 05/07/2013 4:16:16 PM PDT by meadsjn
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They’ve had him figured out since the beginning. More likely, they finally realized how stupid they sound making excuses for him.


13 posted on 05/07/2013 4:16:26 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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nope...but they can’t cover his lies anymore.....

We will find out tomorrow what free republic had figured out in 36 hours. Not going to matter

14 posted on 05/07/2013 4:17:35 PM PDT by BRL
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They aren’t turning on him. They are rebuking him for not getting the liberal agenda done.


15 posted on 05/07/2013 4:17:56 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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Also in response to Obama’s disastrous press conference performance, another liberal columnist, Frida Ghitis, says that the president is “failing on moral leadership.”

Why is she surprised? Obama has no morals ...

16 posted on 05/07/2013 4:18:11 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As the residents learned the hard way, beware when your enemy starts to get friendly. Don’t trust the media.


17 posted on 05/07/2013 4:18:13 PM PDT by sport
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18 posted on 05/07/2013 4:18:15 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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The Marxist media will turn on Obozo only when they find a better Marxist/Leninist.


19 posted on 05/07/2013 4:18:38 PM PDT by AlexW
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The first major crack in the dike may have come from New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd

Was it really necessary to bring her sexuality into this?

20 posted on 05/07/2013 4:21:55 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Fight Third-World Despotism. Overthrow Obama.)
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