Truth or Consequences: Big Media Pays for its Addiction to Obama’s Cult of Personality
By Ani on September 29, 2009 at 6:30 PM in Arrogance, Chicago politics, Hillary Clinton, Messiah, Newsweek, Obama Administration, Obama's Characteristics, Obamedia, Washington Post
In Newsweek, Howard Fineman opines about The Limits of Charisma. When sycophants like Fineman say “Mr. President, please stay off TV” and are worried enough to warn the President that it’s time to fish or cut bait, we are all in hot water.
My fellow writers and I have posted many stories these last two years detailing the same Obama shortcomings that Mr. Fineman covers here. But of course, we are just bloggers, the people who spread rumors and complain without cause. Right? In February I posted The Cost of Enabling Obama, detailing the dangers of pushing his cult of personality with no vetting. He had just been inaugurated and big media was still honeymooning, defending President Obama’s every move. That phase is over – much to the chagrin and dismay of our Celebrity-in-Chief.
Fineman states:
If ubiquity were the measure of a presidency, Barack Obama would already be grinning at us from Mount Rushmore. But of course it is not. Despite his many words and television appearances, our elegant and eloquent president remains more an emblem of change than an agent of it.
[snip]
The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches.
The phrase, “words, just words,” springs to mind. Fineman actually agrees with his conservative WaPo colleague Charles Krauthammer that our President is just a tad narcissistic. Fineman notes Obama’s “endless, worthy to-do list—health care, climate change, bank reform, global capital regulation, AfPak, the Middle East,” as yet has “no boxes checked “done.””
This is a problem that style will not fix. Unless Obama learns to rely less on charm, rhetoric, and good intentions and more on picking his spots and winning in political combat, he’s not going to be reelected, let alone enshrined in South Dakota.
Re-elected? Fineman states that reaching back rather than forward and making President Bush “the bogeyman” is “starting to sound more like an excuse than an explanation.”
Members of Obama’s own party know who Obama is not; they still sometimes wonder who he really is.
They never knew who he was. His proposals were and are, shall we say, elastic. Shame on them. They kicked the more qualified candidate to the curb when they had no idea who they were voting for or if he had a clue how to do the job.
In Washington, the appearance of uncertainty is taken as weakness—especially on Capitol Hill, where a president is only as revered as he is feared. Being the cool, convivial late-night-guest in chief won’t cut it with Congress, an institution impervious to charm (especially the charm of a president with wavering poll numbers). Members of both parties are taking Obama’s measure with their defiant and sometimes hostile response to his desires on health care. Never much of a legislator (and not long a -senator), Obama underestimated the complexity of enacting a major “reform” bill. Letting Congress try to write it on its own was an awful idea. As a balkanized land of microfiefdoms, each loyal to its own lobbyists and consultants, Congress is incapable of being led by its “leadership.” It’s not like Chicago, where you call a guy who calls a guy who calls Daley, who makes the call. The president himself must make his wishes clear—along with the consequences for those who fail to grant them.
Are you telling me Fineman just figured this out? We saw this coming from our living room couches nearly two years ago and we were not getting paid a salary to do it. You’d think someone who does this for a living would be a bit more perceptive. Fineman notes Obama’s admiration for President Reagan, who made his wishes perfectly clear when he took office and did not outsource his policies to the likes of a Nancy Pelosi.
Obama seems to think he’ll get credit for the breathtaking scope of his ambition. But unless he sees results, it will have the opposite effect—diluting his clout, exhausting his allies, and emboldening his enemies.
Again, Obama wants us to “applaud the tenor for clearing his throat.” Fineman states that cap and trade is dead for this year, health care is a long way from passage and his banking legislation reform isn’t making much headway either. He concludes:
Doing Letterman again won’t help. It may boost the host’s ratings, Mr. President, but probably not your own.
To make matters worse, the very teacher’s unions who helped to elect the President are now criticizing him regarding his new education proposals. You will not believe the title of the article in WaPo: Unions Criticize Obama’s School Proposals as Bush 3.
Ouch. How many times have all us wacky bloggers called him the same thing. Read the article here. The teacher’s unions now agree with us? Curiouser and curiouser.
A few days ago, the Los Angeles Times posted an article: Was Hillary Right on Iran? reminding everyone of Hillary’s efforts during the primary to caution Americans about the dangers of buying into the naivete of Obama’s foreign policy. Now they want to quote her? Now they want to stop making fun of her? Now they say she was right?
Now what do we do?
Yes, experience and policy knowledge actually do count for something. I guess all her “tea parties” all these years counted for something, too. Now she’s stuck making the best of the “new direction” he purports to represent.
Please pardon my dust for being a broken record, but I’ll repeat now what I wrote then: It is not possible for someone so inexperienced, with limited understanding of the tangled economic issues we face, a less than sophisticated understanding of foreign policy, or even the machinations of Congress, a man with no governing or executive experience, and precious little legislative experience to be able to step up to the plate at this critical juncture and perform miracles. Even to perform decently. That would be ridiculous. Nothing in President Obama’s life thus far has trained him for these challenges.
The true problem, greater than all of the above, is that his pathology involves his believing naively, or narcissistically, in his own ability to move mountains on the force of his own personality. And further, that the DNC elite and the media enabled him at every turn to believe this was true.
President Obama is going to Denmark to pitch for Chicago to host the Olympics in 2016, he is still campaigning 24/7 with a smile plastered on his face, pitching the same talking points that lack the same substance they lacked for the past two years. He has only had one conversation with Gen. McChrystal since he took command of the war in Afghanistan. As Commander in Chief, Obama appears to be taking the same level of interest he did when he was head of that subcommittee on European Affairs/Afghanistian while he was campaigning — the one where he did not hold one meeting in two years.
What has changed? Who is in charge if he is out there playing salesman in chief? And now Fineman et al want to tell the President to get off the TV screen and get down to work? Why? They enabled his “brand” at every turn. No wonder any news organization that has been mindlessly defending these actions has seen their readership and viewership take a nosedive.
Maybe we need a new influx of people in the pundit class. Fineman, Milbank, Olbermann, Matthews, Maddow, Alter, Klein, Mitchell, Kurtz, Dowd, Quinn, Noonan, Rich, Reich and the rest were too busy as Joan Walsh put it “singing along with his lyrics” to bother looking at him in an objective fashion. It is inexcusable that these pundits dare to complain about Obama now. The insults they directed at anyone not falling in line for their chosen candidate were and are disgraceful. How many of us lost friendships last year or were attacked because we refused to be a part of “Buying Brand Obama.” This is not about apologies or “I told you so.” This is about a genuine worry for our country and the direction it is taking under more inadequate and disingenuous leadership.
If a majority of voters insist on continuing to vote for style over substance, the prognosis is not good. Wake up, America.
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If we vote for a President who can actually do the job, we will be denounced as Racists (since we won’t be voting for Ozero). Of course we would be “Racists” for not voting for Ozero even if he was not running.
this from a blog elsewhere…its not original but describes Obambi and the JOB he really wanted…enjoy!
“The job Mr. Obama actually wanted was to be the Queen of England. He would have the planes and limousines, and the house, and the bands that play whenever he shows up somewhere without actually ever having to govern or to make a difficult decision.”
So Gore Vidal now regrets choosing BO over HRC:
(For entire article, go to memorandum.com OR to timesonline.co.uk)
Trixta, that BHO was the most intelligent person in the election process at that time is a palpable absurdity, since Hillary far outclassed him in every way, including intelligence. So my question is how could Vidal overlook this obvious fact and have some sort of change of heart that would make him choose BHO over Hillary? Has he been specific about what caused his change?
I think Vidal talked himself into it based on Obama’s speeches — which he did not write.
This is also couched sexism. It reflects a predisposition to a man being more intelligent than a woman. Nonsense of course. Sheila Bair of FDIC is a case in point — they paid lip service to her being Treasury Secy but that was about it. She would have been a far better choice than Geithner.
the sound of hands slowly clapping. clap. clap. clap.
…for him I’d only use one hand
for Ani, author of the excellent post
I would use the middle finger. I was constantly called a racist because I didn’t like Obama by friends. Makes me wonder if these people are actually racists and they were trying to prove that they are not.
Many, perhaps most, of us who opposed Obummer were judging him as MLK requested: not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character (or lack thereof.) How many of those who supported him can honestly say the same? My guess: they are either racists or poor judges of character.
Bullseye Ani!
The country is confronted with a multitude of serious and dangerous issues, and we have a president who appears more inept daily.
The media made a head-long rush into the Obama camp.
They and the public may value substance, once some hard realities sink in!
I feel like this story chronicles a watershed moment, and you do it very well, Ani. Thank you.
Let the pain begin.
Yes, best article of the month. Let the pain begin for the one, and for his enablers. For the rest of us, maybe we might start to heal. It will be a long road.
Obama & his wife do NOT CARE about America !
They act as if they own Fort Knox.Fineman and the people like him should feel responsible for letting the country down by letting and enabling Barack Obama fool the people in voting for this most inexperienced presidential candidate in the American history.
Wake up, America!
Excellent post, Ani. Fineman was another one who was on Olbermann all of the time singing Obama’s praises, not bothering to actually VET him or anything, while being snotty abt Hillary. And NOW he’s getting the clue? Sheesh - I thought these journalists were supposed to be SMART!!!
Thanks, Ani!
Brainless seems to be in especially within the media. Plus these people are paid? May they all receive their pink slips asap!
“Who is in charge if he is out there playing salesman in chief?” Good question. I’ve known all along, as you say, from my living room couch, that it couldn’t be the “salesman in chief”. Also, it seems quite ironic to me that Obama is running off to Denmark to pitch for the Olympics in Chicago while one of his major political patrons, Jimmy Carter, distinguished his presidency by banning US participation in the Moscow Olympics…..because of Afghanistan…. I am getting dizzy. Can this be real ? Sad to say most of Obama’s supporters were in diapers back in the Carter years or not even born yet and don’t have a clue.
The pundits don’t have that excuse.
It will only take a few… ‘non GOP/Conservative’ types “complaining about brand obama… (other wise its just, those “”nasty Republicans”")…. And when that snowball starts rolling downhill, picking up all sorts of crap… ….well.. as we say here in Texas: Katy bar the door!!!
Is gross incompetence an impeachable offense? To live through four long and painful years with this pathetic clown and his fawning coterie, is way too long to wait.
It should be. They should have a probation period for their jobs just as most people do when they start a new job. If you don’t catch on with in 6 months or there are serious issues with your performance, out you go! Why not for POTUS or any of our elected officials? Let’s start a do-over clause in election laws.
In the interim, I’d be happy if someone can just get some of his documents publicized soon. I don’t give a crap where he was born, he has something to hide. Maybe his name isn’t legally Barack Hussein Obama, or maybe he lied to get student foreign aid. Any one of those things or whatever else he is hiding could get him impeached. Increase the hunt!
Then of course, if someone ever wanted to investigate his role in Operation board games, we could go with that! Evelyn Pringle has that story written already. Pity, it got ignored last year!
There are a lot of progress being made on the front of the natural born issue as we speak. Leo Donofrio is cracking the nutshell. (naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com past 3 posts)
Soon (not soon enough!)the smoke screen of his missing birth certificate will evaporate and the real issue of his British citizenship (still active to this day) acquired at birth from his father will come to the forefront.
I figured out how to get to Articles of Impeachment. Read, “THE END GAME.” http://jbjd.wordpress.com
Yes, all of these things may be true about Obama, but remember, Nancy said he had a “freshness” to him that made him qualified.
I think the expiration date has come and gone. Throw him out with the NYT.
CAROL HAKA
Yep, he’s lost that new car smell! And now we’re driving a clunker
Excellent post Ani! I knew that sooner or later, the media and the obots would have to face the fact that Obama should never have been elected President, or to any other political office, for that matter. He is nothing more than a poseur who isn’t equipped to do the job. I knew that eventually we would all be proven right about him.
So the same media that looked down their noses, sniffed, and derided those who wanted more than just hope and change are now saying we were right?
Frankly I could care less and wish they would STFU.
Many of us shed a tear at the joy of our fellow Americans who felt Obama’s election was the final repudiation of slavery and discrimination in this country whether we voted for Obama or not.
Many of us, despite our reservations, were willing to give the new administration a chance no matter our views. After all, with the GWB debacle, how bad could things get?
Apparently even Obama’s most supportive minions are just now realizing that things can actually go from bad to worse.
Failures of banks all over the country that were then bought up by the mega-banks. Rising unemployment. Growing the deficit, unlike most other Democratic Presidents, at a faster rate than his Republican predecessor. Keeping and following many, if not most, of the policies of his Republican predecessor.
Then there is Obama’s famous anti-war stance that has all but disappeared. What happened to his so-called support of gay rights while his own Justice department defends DOMA? Didn’t McClurkin et. al. give the GLBT community a clue?
The list goes on and on. But the media elite, in their infinite wisdom, ignored the public pleas to at least try to find out who this guy really is and what he had actually done.
All of the pleas were dismissed as racism. I guess Fineman is now a racist too.
Great post. Thanks very much for your comment. The worsdt part of all of this is that these pundits and newscasters felt so comfortable trashing Hillary — they were so sure of themselves, so sure of Obama’s brilliance. Now — not so much.
They treated this entire election as though it were a new reality show — except even those are scripted so there’s no reality there. Now that the chickens are coming home to roost, they have the nerve to be mystified at how this could have happened.
He is still voting present. We need to ram through Health Care which will not go into effect until 2013 — but we have lots and lots of time to debvate Afghanistan when he already (supposedly) had a policy in place and lives are being lost daily.
“He is still voting present. We need to ram through Health Care which will not go into effect until 2013 — but we have lots and lots of time to debate Afghanistan when he already (supposedly) had a policy in place and lives are being lost daily.”
Excellent comparison, Ani.
Imagine how you would feel if your son or daughter was over in Afghanistan, risking their life, and you had to watch him fly to Copenhagen with Oprah in order to secure the Olympics for his corrupt Chicago cronies, instead of focusing on a clear and expedient strategy for the war? It’s embarrassing and irresponsible.
Alas, I wanted to feel this way about BO’s election, but his race-baiting, misogyny, and caucus shenanigans during the primaries made that impossible for me. Moreover, even if we grant that he was born in Hawaii (but I doubt it), his various fathers were non-US citizens at the time of his birth and adoption, respectively, therefore making his status as a natural-born citizen doubtful.
Great post! As Bill said a year ago: “This whole thing is the biggest fairytale I’ve ever seen”
I wish Hillary would do the right thing and resign. I finally had the time to read Bill’s 900 pages autobiography and these couple have no business cooperating with Obama, he personifies everything that the Clintons have been fighting against.
First there were the 2 separate school based video of children forced to sing the one’s praises, now this video of community-organizers praying to obama!
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/stunner-community-organizers-pray-to.html
I hope to high heaven this turns out to be a joke!!
I just read an article this morning by Richard Cohen, titled “The Campaign is Over, Mr. President”. Like Fineman, he’s finally opening his eyes and ears. Wasn’t he also one of those Rah Rah types who helped solidify opinion for Obama and against Hillary?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/29/campaign_is_over_mr_president_98489.html
Yes, basically.
Cohen actually had the nerve to say a few negative things about Obama before the convention last summer (while still comparing him to FDR and JFK)and he was roundly ripped for his trouble. So he went back to drinking the koolaid until now.
I was just going to find the link for that article, because this post reminded me of it too. Cohen was another unabashed Obama booster, and now he’s singing the same song. Boo-frickin’-hoo. As you said Ani, this was obvious to the rest of us 2 years ago–all of it. They actually wrote editorials about the irrelevance of experience, and joined in the Greek chorus chanting lies and smears against the Clintons (and anyone else who dared to point out the truth). Unfortunately, we’re all stuck with this vain novice now.
BO’s drooping numbers and the disenchantment stem not only from his overexposure but from the stark, ugly reality of those that he has surrounded himself with in the WH–the sickos, the radicals, the communists, the socialists–they’re all there and are being vetted by 20-something wannabe journalists. Hey mainstream media didn’t you know nature abhors a vacuum, somebody’s going to fill it. Just the other day on The View Arianna cited Summers and Geithner as two men who should not be associated with BO–wow–the tax cheat and the Harvard sexist pig are losing their former groupies–the times they are a-changin.
Arianna said this? Wow! I though Obie could do no wrong in her eyes. But what is fascinating in her analysis is that she (like most of his other critics) criticize everyone around him but magically make him exempt — as if this has nothing to do with his judgment, and he somehow stands above and apart. Er, aah, um, he is the President. He hired these people. He DOES have something to do with his own administration.
Wonder when Arianna will see fit to admit that part.
exactly; Zero is like god - he gets all the credit but none of the blame.
Yes, this has been their strategy all along. When Arianna and others starts making BO accountable for the people he surrounds himself with and his policies, I will start to listen.
A tad narcissistic, indeed. I remember coming across a quote of Obama’s in the beginning of the primaries. He was at some fundraiser and introduced Morgan Freeman like this, “He was God before I was.” Nuff said.
I know. The sad part is, he probably thinks he has a charmed existence because it is all he has ever known. Who does anybody know that could be raised by rich white people yet be given every advantage of an underprivileged youth? Who among us could get into Harvard with grades we would be ashamed to let out, and with no visible financial means? Who among anybody we ever knew could be the editor of the law review simply because he was the least “black” of the black candidates… and have the same thing later propel him to be POTUS? Even Oprah said he was the one. No wonder he believes his own press. But Palin said it best, his pillars are made of styrofoam. Nobody is going to crash harder than he will. Yep, Cinderella is about to get her old pumpkin back, and the press will turn on him like the Bush 3 he is.
overheard on tv last nite…”the higher a monkey climbs a tree, the more you see his ass” nuff said.
Great post Ani! Wake up America indeed. It is painful to see the likes of Fineman now trying to save face. Disgraceful. They enabled this train wreck. Now we all pay the price.
It sucks to be right about Obama. Great article reminding us of everything we already knew and read a while ago on this very site. Everyday we are reminded of topics that should’ve been addressed during (at least) the primaries if not before. I thought I would stop being an angry PUMA by now–alas, that is not the case!
I know the feeling. I make every effort to let go my anger over the events of last year but I find it impossible to do so. The disrespectful and dishonest actions and the DNC and many in the media are such an injustice I cannot put it away.
I have moments when I’m calmer and more content than others, but the anger, the sense of betrayal will always be there. Many of us lost our Party, our belief system in that Party, friends, relatives, all to have yet another village idiot occupying Our House. And while he and his wife are flitting around being the most popular ever, our nation is teetering on the brink of economic catastrophe and our armed forces are being shined on so he and his wife can pitch the Olympics. Bitter indeed.
My husband and I were just talking about the boiling anger we still feel over this latest fraud president. We thought it might be therapeutic to have an effigy or cutout of BO in the garage so that we could yell at it whenever we wanted to let out some steam.
It doesn’t make it easy to “let go” when not one day goes by that he doesn’t do something major that really pisses me off…it doesn’t ever let up!
I can’t stand to look at him or hear him speak in haughty tones…my mute button is wearing out!
Well, I haven’t stopped being angry either….we had our chance to elect a real leader but thanks to a bunch of stupid people, we blew it.
We’ve heard for so long that people are finally wising up and the honeymoon is over with the media. I hope to god it’s finally happening.
i think the msm are finally waking up to the fact that they’ve been had. fox news has beaten them to every story and their ratings are in the toilet. little by little they are waking from their koolaid stupor (theres just so much they can ignore without looking like the fools they are). they will turn on him soon and it wont be pretty. too bad its too little , too late.
Remember all the letters and phone calls to the media who wouldn’t listen to an opposing voice?
http://www.operationcanyouhearusnow.com/
If you can, perhaps you’ll want to participate in another march — a march on the media.
An additional link: Find an event near you –
http://www.operationcanyouhearusnow.com/events/
Great news! I canceled my subscription to the local rag…and told them why. They’re already calling to offer me deals to re-up. It’s just so nice to be able to reiterate that I will no longer pay for biased coverage for Obama; no more ignoring our local Tea Party instead favoring a front page of a Mexican Festival in Salinas where the Mexican Flag is front and center…Why should I take a paper which is guaranteed to make me angry or depressed over the imbalance? The gal tonight was obviously black…and she didn’t ask me anything past the bias part and it was “OK, thank you”.
Ani, this one is for the history books. As always thank you.
My pleasure. I wish I had better news to report. No matter how angry I was at the primary shenanigans, wanting my country to succeed, I would much rather come here and post that I was incorrect in my original assessment. I cannot convey my sadness to you that I am not able to do that.
If this man had the good sense to know what he didn’t know, and while having the training wheels on, sit down and “hit the books” at every opportunity, I would forgive anything in the name of moving forward. But when I see an outrageous amount of money spent on the inauguration, using all the toys and continuous campaigning, continuing to play the race card to silence opposition — that tells me everything I need to know.
At this point, I’m praying for a miracle, particularly with regard to our economy and the Pres. making a good decision on Afghanistan.
It’s never pretty to see someone fall from the top even when they asked for it and deserve it. It’s just ugly and depressing to see what could have been great after GWB turn to mud. Will I feel bad for him when he is totally exposed and vilified by his own troops? No. I will see how he brought it all on himself by cheating and lying his way into office and I will only be interested in how we can persevere and save the country while he and MEchille slither back to Chicago to carry on their nefarious schemes outside of the WH instead crap we have to watch everyday.
You always think there’ll be satisfaction is saying “I told you so” but it is usually just sad. I frankly don’t feel like saying a thing to the ones beginning to wake up. I’ve said my piece long ago and let my silence be deafening. At least now I know who can think straight and who can’t.
I have no sympathy for the “Fineman’s” of this world. He and Olbermann were the main reasons I stopped watching MSNBC during the democratic primaries. I consider Fineman just as ego-centered as our President. Perhaps Fineman’s “awakening” is due in part to people not watching MSNBC nor reading Newsweek magazine. Maybe “baby racists” and the “case for killing grandma” on the recent covers of Newsweek didn’t increase their sales. So now Fineman’s going to belatedly vet the President thinking that will sell with the American public. But in my book, it’s too little, too late. I’m sick and tired of pseudo-journalists and commentators like Fineman who not only did not do their job but also did a “hit job” on Hillary. Now they are paying for it in poor readership and poor ratings. They deserve to fade into oblivion.
Well said, Cathy. I couldn’t agree more.
I just saw a sickening video on Naked Emperor News also on Flopping Aces…”Praying to Obama”. Looks like the red shirts are ACORN but others appear to be with the black ministers who are conducting the service…couldn’t get the link to copy. This is from Dec 2008. Combined with the school videos…I didn’t think it could get worse but it does…just keep getting worse.
Ani, you have every right to bring up your former post and words because you [and many of us here] saw through the Obama fog, that narcissism that claimed, as you rightly point out, that He could move mountains. Worse yet, He got others to believe the illusion. And it’s really all about the belief, forget the reality. How can so many Obamatrons still make their convoluted excuses, regardless of what Obama does? He’s broken every promise to the progs, yet still they defend him.
It’s a sickness.
Btw, I would say that when a leader is perceived as weak, it’s a clear danger nationally and internationally. This nonsense with Iran and stall on Afghanistan is a case in point.
If I had one of my kids in Afghanistan right now, my blood would be boiling. Piss or get off the pot, as my grandmother would have said.
And Harold Fineman? Too little, too late. Fool!
OK, let’s try this one…if at first you don’t succeed…
http://blip.tv.file.2658666
Nope, link doesn’t work, sorry. Go to Flopping Aces. They have it.
It’s up on youtube now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxLOvAlfUtE
applaud the tenor for clearing his throat
I put the line in quotes because it is from the play “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.”
I think it applies quite well.
Ani, what do you say to someone who just eagled a par 5? Well done.
When Hillary conceded BO went golfing.
When Iran is firing ballistic missles, he goes to Denmark.
The educators that are complaining now are surprised to have Bill Ayers’s education platform shoved down thier throats. …(Gomer Pile voice) Surprise Surprriise!
I love hoow you treat these “pundits” like the seeds from a slice of watermellon.
ptt..DING!
Tx.
Just treating them they way they treated Hillary.
Well, actually, I’m being a lot nicer to them than they were to our SoS.
Fineman is a dinosaur dying in the tar pit. The game has moved to FOX and the internet. The intellectual dishonesty of Fineman is the final nail in the coffin.
Yet Chris Matthews continues to shovel his manure in our faces nightly. The mcm have a growing obsession about FOX and are a twitter about their shrinking numbers. Their answer to the problem? Scream louder, interrupt more, belittle FOX at every opportunity, and if no opportunity presents itself, invent one.
The viewing public have made a clear choice, yet the mainstream media can’t face it. They get honest, investigation, honest debate on FOX. I say this as someone who use to revile FOX, but then, I started listening, really listening.
Glen Beck’s great crime? He believes in indepth reporting. Kudos to him.
Exactly right, and they look ever more desperate continuing to hammer away at Fox, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh and O’Reilly constantly. I’ve simply quit watching MSNBC, except for an hour or so of Scarborough in the morning. I see that Don Imus is coming back to television–to the 6-9 am slot on Fox now. That is an “in your face” to MS/NBC if ever I saw one. Scarborough’s “cuppa joe” will probably have a hard time competing with Imus on Fox. Don Imus must be spoiling for the chance to steal ratings from NBC in that morning slot.
Obama’s even lost Gore Vidal! Horrors!
From The Times September 30, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6854498.ece
Ani,thanks very much for this outstanding article and also for your remarks and responses to the various comments people have made. A really nice dialog. I agree with those who say you hit the nail on the head. (But your article had something more than just historical accuracy or perspicuous writing–something like feeling or passion or controlled emotion: very moving!)
Ani, I got spammed. Great read\.
I’m starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel… thanks Ani. Hillary deserved so much more than the crap the msm threw her way. They should have to eat shit for giving us the big zero- the one they carried across the finish line.
Another one of your great posts, Ani.
Gore Vidal even hates him…
September 30, 2009
US under Obama could slide into military dictatorship, says Gore Vidal
Tim Teeman
[...]
On Mr Obama’s plan to reform healthcare, he said: “He f***** it up. I don’t know how, because the country wanted it. We’ll never see it happen.”
And so much more from the inimitable Gore V.:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6854498.ece
Nice you finally noticed, Howard.
Yes, just another way of saying BO is a narcissist.
obama is worthless
I read a stat this morning that in 1950 there were more daily newspapers circulated per day than there were households.
Now the total penetration is just over half.
I hope that trend continues…go Fox!
Ani, you write very well, and I share your anger and disappointment!
Obama is finding out its no fun to be President. You have to actually think things through and make tough decisions, which he does not like to do. Like him or not (and in my case, NOT), George W. BUsh was a DECISION-MAKER. Now Obama has to deal with an extremely dangerous situation in Iran, the war in Afghanistan, complex health care issues, and what does he do? Go to Denmark to play games. Clearly he is not needed there. The U.S. Delegation is extremely large and Oprah and Michelle Obama have very loud voices. He would rather “Play” than actually “BE” president. Someone should remind him, Campaign mode is over. Late night TV appearances will not do it for us. I agree with the comment above by Pragmatist, Obama is worthless, but so is our media!!!
Who would have thought that GWB’s quote “I’m the Decider” would take on a whole new meaning in the face of BO’s vapid and purposefully ambiguous presidency? At least GWB was willing to be associated with his (disastrous!) policies. Obama … not so much.
Ani, it gave me such pleasure reading your post. I dispise the socalled jouralists who were so sure Mr. Obama was too brilliant to fail and so what if he didn’t have experience. I’ve been wondering for a long time just how much ACORN was involved in winning those caucuses for Obama. Will it ever see the light of day in the MSM? I’m still so bitter over the DNC”s nominating process that I can hardly see straight. No one will ever convince me that Hillary was not the best candidate. Just imagine if she were to go off campaigning for Chicago to get the 2016 Olympics!!! I can almost hear the screams!!
Thank you for this marvelous piece, for telling it exactly like it is.
Shit why can’t this country elect someone who has actually had a job. The anti war candidate What bull shit— He the biggest fraud like Acorn in the history of this country—-There will not be another democratic president for 20 years Hillary should resign instead of work for this incompetent By the way the Republicans are just as incompetent If you believe 85% percent of the people in this country are satisfied with their health care you are dumber than dumb. One more thing just because your dumb enough to sign up for the military does not make you a hero in my book just because you like to play army.
Hey I used to talk politics with a black Judge—- Said something negative about Obama the other day and he slammed my client in Court He can justify his actions at the Court of Appeals
Blacks are kicking whites butts They hold every high level government position in my county There are many talented individuals in the work force— In addition it’s a damn disgrace that 12% of the population can dominate professional sports Lazy white boys Tiger Woods is an American treasure
Poor old Bill Clinton according to Obama a distraction and racist working the media trying to save Obama’s sorry ass- Obama’s people ought to look at Bill Clinton’s economic record. They have short memories unless they are receiving a dumbed down message Yes we can! Yes you can what ? Further fuck up the country
Wonderful post Ani! We’ve got to keep the pressure on, and you’ve done so magnificently. I hope (there’s that word again) that as the coming weeks go by more of the MSM will come to the realization that they’ve been duped, and that ‘revelation’ will turn into the conventional wisdom.
You have to wonder how the vast majority of us here saw through Obama from the git-go but the Washington Hot Shots are just beginning to get it. It’s a pity that we all have to pay for the media’s blindsidedness.
They didn’t think that lack of experience or the proven ability to govern was an important attribute for a President.
Or perhaps they are just turning into racists….