Obama's Brown Shirts: First they came for FOX News...
Obama’s war with FOX News might be the most pathetic and cowardly act in his very short stint as our Nation’s leader.
It is nothing more than the President using his position as a bully pulpit to silence dissent and opposing opinions: the President doesn’t like FOX News because they don’t toe his ideological party line. And he wants them shut out and silenced.
And if you don’t understand why this is dangerous, then you’re probably too stupid to be reading this blog, so go away and go find something a little less difficult to read and understand…like the back of a cereal box. Or the Huffington Post.
In his latest attempt to control the media and their message (and to attempt to limit or eliminate news that makes him look like the inept political newbie that he is)…Obama tried to freeze FOX News out of the White House Pool access to his “Pay Czar” Ken Feinberg.
Despite the fact that FOX News is one of five news networks that funds the White House Press Pool. Much to their credit, the editors of the other four networks all stood by FOX News and announced that they would not participate if FOX News was excluded.
Probably not so much them “sticking up for FOX News,” as it was those other four networks afraid of the precedent that it would set (like in 3 years when a Republican lives in the White House again, and starts excluding them from all of their Press Conferences and not giving them access to White House staff).
That didn’t stop Obama from holding a secret, closed door meeting with Liberal, nose-up-his ass “reporters” at the White House (FOX News and ABC’s Jake Tapper, oddly, were not invited to participate), where apparently the primary topic of discussion was whining about getting their collective asses handed to them by FOX News at nearly every turn.
A more subtle President would have limited the conversation to such lofty and pressing topics as Iran, Afghanistan, and the outlook for health care reform. A more subtle man would have allowed these keen pundits and opinion leaders to connect the dots for themselves and marvel at the good fortune that led the Prom King to walk all the way across the high school cafeteria to sit at their table. “OMG” they would whisper to each other, “I am like, so glad we don’t hang with those mean Foxes that are always passing mean notes about The One.”
Well. Maybe subtlety is not in the Chicago playbook. Or maybe Obama thought his audience was too dumb to figure it out for themselves. Or both! The Obama Way is, if you have a message, grab a jackhammer
Remember back when candidate Obama said, “There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.”
Uh, well…like every thing else that poured out of his pie hole during the campaign, that was a lie too.
Ahh, remember these good old days?
http://www.first-draft.com/2006/10/catapulting_the.html
You conveniently forgot about this too:
http://www.talkers.com/images/whitehouse.jpg
LOL – once again, anything that doesn’t conveniently fit the conditioned biases of Wingnutria goes straight down the memory hole. In case you slept thru history class, here’s what a “dangerous” White House looks like:
There’s also this:
And this:
And this:
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III apologized to two newspaper editors yesterday for what he said was a recently uncovered breach of their reporters’ phone records in the course of a national security investigation nearly four years ago.
U.S.-led military strikes in the Iraqi capital Tuesday hit the hotel housing hundreds of journalists and an Arab television network, killing three journalists and injuring three others.
Peter Wehner worked for the Bush administration. The Bush administration, in eight years, conducted more abuses to the field of journalism than anyone I can recall. A partial recollection of the Bush administration’s wrongdoings include:
-Paying Armstrong Williams, Michael McManus, and Maggie Gallagher and others for favorable opinions about WH policies or to attack opponents of the WH.
-Planting Jeff Gannon to lob softball questions.
-Used reporters to out a CIA agent, then sat by and watched reporters go to jail to protect their sources.
-Fed reporters misinformation about WMD in Iraq, then used those reporters stories as corroborating evidence of the existence of WMD in Iraq.
-treated Helen Thomas like a leper.
-waged a coordinated campaign against NBC.
-kicked all the NY Times reporters off of their planes.
-the Pentagon Pundit program, which sold the war by planting former military officers on networks. Uncovering this story earned a journalist the fucking Pulitzer.
-Staged mock press conferences with FEMA employees pretending to be reporters.
-allowed Ari Fleischer to tell everyone (but directed at journalists) they needed to “watch what they say and what they do.”
Whats your obsession with President Bush Pat?
I sure as hell dont remember anyone drawing halos around his portraits or getitng kids to sing songs of praise for him or having his staff block out all media groups except fox when it came time for press meetings.
Your precious little Obunghole is sliding down a very slippery slope he created and I am loving it… In 2010 we will make him a lame duck and he will be gone in 2012.
Compare and contrast. When placed in proper context, this meme emerges as yet another lame attempt by GOP, Inc. to create favorable news for themselves out of a thin air. Obama has merely confirmed Fox’s illegitimate status for those too busy to watch their little freak show on a regular basis.
Got rug burn on the knees yet?
Pat, perhaps when we get Obamacare, it will include some psychiatric treatment for you.
What Obama is less Nixonian, and more FDR. Not that I would expect you to know any history. So I will teach you some; FDR would literally call out reporters who disagreed with his policies. He would ban them from access to White House pressers. He would refuse to speak to them in any way and would not give interviews or release news items to the newpapers they worked for. Sound recently familiar?
But the press is greater than it was in 1933. We now have not only the print press, but radio, cable news, and satallite radio stations that are devoted to nothing but news. We have intenet news services and news blogs. We have expanded our ways of obtaining news, not just from a few of the priviledged presses that are shined down on by He Who Would Be King.
And I will remind you of one other little thing; at no other time did a prominent reporter try to take down a sitting president with fake military documents during war time. Dan Rather did. And what did Bush do? Did he call Rather out personally? Did he punish Rather’s station by refusing to talk to any of their reporters? Did Bush even ever mention Rather by name? No.
You see that is the difference between class and Chicago thruggry.
But at least I understand why you voted for Obama. You are too damn stupid to see anything besides a poster that says “HopeyChange”.
In the Second American Revolution, there will be bullets for Pat and his ilk.
There Robbie – you want dangerous? – Look here in your own backyard/sewer. It’s crawling with traitorous reprobates and child molestors like Sam here.
And keep lobbing those terroristic threats, you prick, it’s not protected speech just because it’s in the echo chamber here. Your opportunity to challege the authorities may just come sooner than you think when your local law enforcement comes knocking at the door of your double-wide.
Nobody put threats on you, paranoid Obot. Now for the libel and slander, I think a civil suit against you is in order.
Now do society a favor — go to the gun store, borrow a gun, and kill yourself. It might yield the shortest obituary in history:
Pat – a dead liar.
I’m calling you out too, pussy.
And keep lobbing those terroristic threats, you prick, it’s not protected speech just because it’s in the echo chamber here. POSTED BY PAT
He made no terrorist threats, you prick. You don’t get to make up your own definitions of criminal statutes.
Seems Pat proved your point, Robbie
Hey Pat…How’s it going LIAR!
How is that Mohammad from Yemen thing, or that lesbian daughter thing working for you these days?
Retire05…the reason Pat voted for the Obama was because he recognized a kindred soul. They are both habitual liars!
I think I’ll ask the Travis County DA’s office to define that legal term of art for us. Talk soon!
I think I’ll ask the Travis County DA’s office to define that legal term of art for us. Talk soon! POSTED BY PAT
Knock yourself out, prick. But, if I were you, I wouldn’t misrepresent what was posted, otherwise, the DA may think you are attempting to file a false criminal complaint, which really is a crime.
PatMohammed said that?I wouldn’t have known if you hadn’t posted it, I put his silly ass in scroll-over mode long ago.
A libturd asking a libturd DA to suppress free speech.
Synchronicity achieved.
LOL!
It ain’t free speech – look it up. Eliminationists like Sam are exactly why the Secret Service is now having to pull their staff off other assignments to protect the most-threatened President in the agency’s history.
Will the bullet Sam has reserved for me come after due process, or is that a librul notion too?
It’s not free speech in the sense this is a blog. However, it is protected speech as to state action which prevents criminalizing it.
And you look it up, jerk. Again, crimes have specific definitions. You don’t get to make up your own. Sam broke no laws.
p.s.: really delusional to analogize your self to potus.
back to fox… i just saw a commercial advertising the Wanda Sikes show coming up on fox late night. Olive branch or penalty?
HG, that is Fox broadcasting, not Fox News.
Separate entities.
Fox broadcasting hasn’t had a late night show to compete with the other networks, so it will be interesting to see if this alleged comedienne has any success.
I know I won’t be watching.