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Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
14 September 2010
21 July 2010
Collusion
Sigh. Why I am not surprised by this.
Not much new under the sun, is there?'Excerpts published Tuesday by a conservative online news site suggest that a group of journalists from the mainstream media discussed ways to shield Barack Obama from criticism during the 2008 presidential election. Among the strategies put forward: call conservative critics racists. ... "The [JournoList] is troubling," says Jim Campbell, a political science professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo. "At one level it could be thought of as just colleagues throwing ideas out to one another, but from another standpoint it almost looks like collusion … where virtual talking points are shared and solidified in a group.”'
12 July 2010
21 January 2010
18 October 2009
UPDATED: No We Won't - Oh Wait, We Will
UPDATE 1: Link here to an interesting editorial on a better use for White House talent.
After throwing the equivalent of a four-year old's tantrum over the posturings of puffed-up opinion commentary on Fox, the White House has decided that it might be in its best interest to allow Administration officials to appear on Fox News shows after all. In the last posting, I discussed the increasingly partisan, and over-hyped coverage on all of the cable news shows (of course, both the left and the right have long concluded that media bias is rampant), and the increasingly competition between the various outlets.
What seems particularly ridiculous is the personal offense the White House seems to feel whenever Beck or Hannity goes off on a rant. I feel little sympathy for much of the sentiment behind those rants, but the President is supposed to be a little thicker-skinned than this. So what is Beck says something ludicrous - ignore it if possible, or rebut with facts. Don't scream, yell and cry for Momma. Like all modern politicians, Obama has made full use of the media when it suits his purposes, even 'permitting' ABC to broadcast, from the White House, a full-throated defense of his approach to health care reform. When the President of the United States engages in a particular attack on one media outlet, ignoring the bias of the very outlet on which those accusations are made (by proxy), he looks the fool.
After throwing the equivalent of a four-year old's tantrum over the posturings of puffed-up opinion commentary on Fox, the White House has decided that it might be in its best interest to allow Administration officials to appear on Fox News shows after all. In the last posting, I discussed the increasingly partisan, and over-hyped coverage on all of the cable news shows (of course, both the left and the right have long concluded that media bias is rampant), and the increasingly competition between the various outlets.
What seems particularly ridiculous is the personal offense the White House seems to feel whenever Beck or Hannity goes off on a rant. I feel little sympathy for much of the sentiment behind those rants, but the President is supposed to be a little thicker-skinned than this. So what is Beck says something ludicrous - ignore it if possible, or rebut with facts. Don't scream, yell and cry for Momma. Like all modern politicians, Obama has made full use of the media when it suits his purposes, even 'permitting' ABC to broadcast, from the White House, a full-throated defense of his approach to health care reform. When the President of the United States engages in a particular attack on one media outlet, ignoring the bias of the very outlet on which those accusations are made (by proxy), he looks the fool.
23 July 2009
18 July 2009
01 April 2009
Obama in Europe
This is hilarious. Thank you to the Christian Science Monitor for an early morning laugh.
01 March 2009
UPDATE: Worth girding your loins over
This posting has been updated to correct viewing problems.
This title and subtitle say it all:
Rush Limbaugh drew the battle lines:
"What is so strange about being honest and saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundations?" Limbaugh said.
While I agree with Eric Cantor, that we shouldn't hope for the total failure of the Obama Administration, Limbaugh has a point: it's OK to hope for the failure of certain policies. In particular, policies that are based on the abandonment of capitalism.
The battle lines are drawn. Where will you fall?
This title and subtitle say it all:
Budget Battle Begins: Historic Ideological Shift
Republicans Pick Apart Obama's Budget, Calling It the Return of Big Government
Rush Limbaugh drew the battle lines:
"What is so strange about being honest and saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundations?" Limbaugh said.
While I agree with Eric Cantor, that we shouldn't hope for the total failure of the Obama Administration, Limbaugh has a point: it's OK to hope for the failure of certain policies. In particular, policies that are based on the abandonment of capitalism.
The battle lines are drawn. Where will you fall?
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