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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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15:03
fascist. rank. amateur.
no wonder chavez loves him so much.
10:17
Jawhol!
19:38
Cry Baby in Chief! Fox actually reports the facts, like high unemployment and skyrocketing deficits. Obama can’t argue with the facts so he has to whine about it and try to discredit Fox. It’s embarrassing to the office of the President.
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10:18
I know! How dare they do things like “fact check” a guest prior to their visit! What is the news business coming to nowadays?
15:30
Every administration Republican or Democratic, has complained about the news media interpreting the president’s statements, instead of letting them pass out unfiltered to the people. Nixon used to complain about that all the time, that he was rarely given the chance to communicate anything directly without some commentator telling people what was wrong with what he was saying. I think it is understandable that any leader wants his words to be heard directly, rather than filtered by the media, but I also think that most leaders have a limited ability to control that. What you might be complaining about is that Obama’s people seem to have done a better job of getting their guy’s statements out to the public in a direct fashion, than most politicians have been able to do.
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16:14
Goebbels was very good at staying “on message” too.