Obama Shows Weakness Towards Tyrants and Reporters

He gave away SDI to the Russians for their “help” in getting sanctions passed against Iran.  The Russians gladly took the SDI concessions then said nyet on Iran.  Obama is delaying making a decision on Afghanistan saying the whole presidential “voting thing” needs to be cleared up first.  And he picked a fight with Fox News which David Carr of the New York Times warned:

that the White House war on Fox “may present a genuine problem for Mr. Obama, who took great pains during the campaign to depict himself as being above the fray of over-heated partisan squabbling.”

“While there is undoubtedly a visceral thrill in finally setting out after your antagonists, the history of administrations that have successfully taken on the media and won is shorter than this sentence,” Carr wrote over the weekend. “So far, the only winner in this latest dispute seems to be Fox News. Ratings are up 20 percent this year.”

The question one has to ask themselves is: “What is Obama’s problem?”

This article clears up that question very nicely:

President Obama’s presidential campaign focused on “making” the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was “controlled,” White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.

“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control,” said Dunn.

“One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters,” said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama’s chief campaign manager.

“We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it,” Dunn said.

Continued Dunn: “Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying.”

You may see the video here.

Sir Barack Obama, Imperial Leader cannot be questioned.  I think they do that in North Korea, too (and a few other places with whom Obama has opened up a “dialog”).

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