The similarities to the "news" from North Korea, especially those about the so-called/claimed achievements of that midget Elvis-lookalike leader of theirs, is rather striking...
You mean how the U.S. Media is now claiming that Obama invented the steam engine and the helicopter. =DHey, they claim he's going to fix the financial crisis. Compared to that, Kim Jong's perfect golf round seems rather petty.
I saw, but did not read, a blurb about him swatting a fly.
QuoteI saw, but did not read, a blurb about him swatting a fly.
I read that piece. PETA was actually quoted, something about respecting all life. rolleyes
I saw, but did not read, a blurb about him swatting a fly.
I read that piece. PETA was actually quoted, something about respecting all life. rolleyes
Well not too long ago one of the talking heads in the state-run media did outright call BHO a God. So this kind of fluff is not surprising.
O rly? When/where was this? I hadn't heard.
Dick, I think part of what you're seeing an a shift in published content as a reaction to economic pressures. The print media had been a bit of a hold-out against what you saw happening with the vulgarization of television news. The publishing of "fluff," or emotive, content may be a business decision to combat market perceptions of the print media--i.e. that it is an old or boring medium that's for Grandpa. They've been losing readership for decades without really changing their business model.
Grumpy people like us now have to take the initiative to find multiple credible niche news sources to check online rather than going to the doorstep for the daily news. On a somewhat related note, it surprises and impresses me how relatively unbiased and fact-oriented NPR is compared to most commercial news sources. At least when they make a mistake or show bias, they'll read comments from their website that disagree with them the next day.
The same blurb had a sub-blurb :lol: of him taking another shot at Fox News for not sucking up to him and agreeing with everything he says. Metaphor? I know he would like to swat Fox News like he squashed that fly. Maybe somebody could do an edit to dub the audio of his comments about Fox over the video of His Nibs swatting the fly.What happened to the journalist who would take it as a badge of honor if a President or politician complained about them?
What I don't understand is how the other media outlets can condone his repeated shots at Fox. A President complaining about a dissenting media outlet? Can anyone there say "Hugo Chavez"? Can anyone there say "First Amendment Rights"? Obviously not.
I've got a new oxymoron...."Journalistic standards."
What happened to the journalist who would take it as a badge of honor if a President or politician complained about them?
What I don't understand is how the other media outlets can condone his repeated shots at Fox. A President complaining about a dissenting media outlet? Can anyone there say "Hugo Chavez"? Can anyone there say "First Amendment Rights"? Obviously not.
Using a candy bar for an example for those of you on the east and west coasts: The first bite tastes wonderful. The second and third may also taste good. After the 4th the taste begins to diminish; after the fifth, one may begin to pay less attention except that there is something in one's mouth; the sixth might start to become a chore to swallow; by the seventh and eighth..........one begins to feel satiated to the point where nausea overcomes delightfulness....and so on and so on.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/05/newsweek-s-evan-thomas-obama-sort-god
What happened to the journalist who would take it as a badge of honor if a President or politician complained about them?
When do they start painting murals of Obama on the sides of buildings or start putting up billboards with 'Papa' Obamas smiling face on it so that we can see him wherever we go? We can't be far from that point right now.
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f I saw any of those on a wall in my neighborhood, especially that last one, I would take some cardboard and make some stencils to say
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
In nice, neat, large letters. Then paint them right over the face of Big Brother.
Yes, I really would do that. Yes, I know it would be considered "tagging" by the authorities.
I'm expecting to see a headline any day now that reads, "Obama Farts"....sub-headline: "and it doesn't stink"
Speaking of slobbering love affair, did anyone else bother watching the ABC informercial last night?
Well, today saw yet another story in the Journal Sentinel about Obama's smoking. Don't worry, though, he's trying really hard to quit. He also promised Michelle that he'd quit after the campaign ended. That means that either his campaign is continuing (which it always seems to be), or that he lied to his wife, too. I'm aghast.
Maybe he didn't lie, but he failed. :Othe obama fail, imposable the one cannot fail. :angel:
Carroll woman's answer to highly visible Obama: Selling her televisions
By DOUGLAS BURNS
Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
A 78-year-old Carroll woman says she's so tired of seeing President Barack Obama on the airwaves that she's selling her television sets - two of them.
Deloris Nissen, a retired nurses' aide and former Kmart employee who was raised on a farm near Audubon, placed a classified advertisement with The Daily Times Herald for Friday's paper.
In the $5.50 ad, Nissen tells readers she has two television sets for sale.
The reason: "Obama on every channel and station."
In an interview Nissen said she is serious about selling two TVs - and genuine about her disgust with what she believes to be an overexposed president.
"I just got tired of watching him on every channel," Nissen said. "I thought, my gosh, does he ever stay at the White House?"
Nissen, who voted for U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the 2008 presidential election, said she could live with seeing Obama come on television to make serious announcements. But he seems to be on all the time, Nissen said.
When the president does appear on a channel she happens to be watching, Nissen said, she quickly turns.
"I have the remote real handy," Nissen said. "I have the batteries. I'm ready for him."
Nissen's annoyance with the president as a frequent presence on her television doesn't mean she'll abandon the medium altogether.
She's keeping a bigger flat-screen television and selling an older 20-inch Sony and possibly a 13-inch set.
"It's too heavy," Nissen said of the 20-inch TV. "I can't handle it anymore."
That said, she doesn't plan on selling it for less than $100 - even if Obama was just on Tuesday pitching his health-care-reform plans.
Obama's own advisers and political observers across the ideological spectrum have for months debated whether the now popular president is overexposed.
For her part, Nissen said she expects to take some flack for the advertisement in her local paper. After all, Obama did win Iowa and Carroll County in the 2008 election.
But she's not worried about any criticism.
"I'm an old lady, and I don't care," Nissen said.
She's keeping a bigger flat-screen television and selling an older 20-inch Sony and possibly a 13-inch set.
For a long time I've thought it would be a good tactic to have murals of Obama everywhere. The best would have his chin high up in the air (looking down his nose on the rest of us), and done really Soviet style.I recall reading that a public shool put up pictures of BHO in all the halls and classrooms . . . they did not have pictures of Bush during his term.
Well not too long ago one of the talking heads in the state-run media did outright call BHO a God. So this kind of fluff is not surprising.
???????http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/05/newsweek-s-evan-thomas-obama-sort-god (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/05/newsweek-s-evan-thomas-obama-sort-god)
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I apologize for the necropost. I couldn't help but think of this thread when I read this:
http://carrollspaper.1upsoftware.com/print.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=8449