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MSNBC Anchor Frets: Why Hasn’t Obama’s Election Ended Terrorism ?
News Busters ^ | December 1, 2008 | Rich Noyes

Posted on 12/01/2008 10:07:55 AM PST by RobinMasters

File this one under “Deluded Expectations.” During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, daytime anchor Alex Witt seemed frustrated that the election of Barack Obama 23 days earlier — and the accompanying “global outpouring of affection, respect, hope” — had not caused an end to terrorist violence.

Talking with correspondent John Yang, who was covering the Obama side of the story, Witt conceded that while “you certainly can’t expect things to change on a dime overnight....There had been such a global outpouring of affection, respect, hope, with the new administration coming in, that precisely these kinds of attacks, it was thought — at least hoped — would be dampered down. But in this case it looks like Barack Obama is getting a preview of things to come.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alexwitt; bho2008; enemedia; india; mohammedanism; msnbc; mumbai
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To: mrmargaritaville
“It’s hard to believe that anyone in America is this incredibly stupid.”

Pretty easy for me to imagine. Look at whom our fellow Americans just elected President.

61 posted on 12/01/2008 10:51:51 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new enviromentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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To: RobinMasters
daytime anchor Alex Witt seemed frustrated that

Doesn't his last name begin with a "T"?

62 posted on 12/01/2008 10:52:56 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
There can’t be people this stupid.

Yes, they can, if they are fed daily dose of commie propaganda by "American" media.

63 posted on 12/01/2008 10:55:46 AM PST by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee!)
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To: east1234

Yup, I’ve been screaming since before the election, forget the economic crisis, this country has a rather FAR MORE profound mental health crisis on it’s hands!

The election simply further confirmed it.

IF there would still be a majority of people voting for the zero after ACORN fraud was removed, then we’d know for certain the kooks are officially now running the asylum.


64 posted on 12/01/2008 10:59:43 AM PST by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: RobinMasters

Can these people really be this stupid?


65 posted on 12/01/2008 11:00:38 AM PST by sneakers
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To: null and void

It is consistent with their worldview.

When a person commits a crime, it’s because of an institutional failure, and conversely, if the right institutions were in place, with the right people in charge,

there would be no crime.

They thought Barry was THE answer/solution.


66 posted on 12/01/2008 11:03:54 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: RobinMasters
such a global outpouring of affection, respect, hope

Sounds like a graduate of the school of self-esteem.

67 posted on 12/01/2008 11:03:57 AM PST by RightWhale (We were so young two years ago and the DJIA was 12,000)
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To: RobinMasters

WTF did he expect??? Of course there’s going to be un upsurge in terror now that a weak dhimmi has been “elected.”


68 posted on 12/01/2008 11:04:23 AM PST by ScottinVA (Gloucester County, VA -- Standing for America! 63% for McCain-Palin on 4 Nov)
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To: MrB

And BTW, haven’t the murders in Chicago stopped yet, now that Barry is going to Washington?!???


69 posted on 12/01/2008 11:05:53 AM PST by ScottinVA (Gloucester County, VA -- Standing for America! 63% for McCain-Palin on 4 Nov)
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To: MrB
They thought Barry was THE answer/solution.

They were wrong.

What's that word?.. Ah yes.

SCHADENFREUDE!

70 posted on 12/01/2008 11:15:23 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: RobinMasters

Alex Witt = The lights are on, but nobody’s home.


71 posted on 12/01/2008 11:21:28 AM PST by cblue55 (Save yourself from the matrix - blue states take blue pill; red states take the red pill)
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To: F16Fighter
Sheeeeeet....this next four years is gonna be entertaining.

I feel bad for the tens of thousands who will die, who otherwise would not have.

72 posted on 12/01/2008 11:21:39 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Never underestimate the ability of a liberal to deny reality and attempt to change the rules to do s)
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To: mrmargaritaville

No it isn’t.


73 posted on 12/01/2008 11:22:56 AM PST by onedoug
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To: RobinMasters
Terrorists do not discriminate against color, creed nationality, gender, political persuasion. They hate everybody equally.

And they don't know the words to "Kum-by-a", and they're not will to learn.

74 posted on 12/01/2008 11:23:54 AM PST by oyez (Justa' another high minded lowlife.)
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To: RobinMasters

Did the false messiah disappoint his followers? Could the kool-aid effect be wearing off?


75 posted on 12/01/2008 11:25:32 AM PST by Godsgirl
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To: RobinMasters
That's what I was expecting. All terrorism was due to GWB invading Iraq, as Obama said, so this is WOT armistice
76 posted on 12/01/2008 11:26:21 AM PST by sickoflibs (McCain asks: "Did you stupid conservatives really believe me? HA-HA-HA, wait til 09")
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To: RobinMasters; conservatism_IS_compassion

This is a very good example of the completely delusional worldview fostered by the media-industrial complex and its detestable allies in the academic world. One local media-conformist suggests in all seriousness that “we should bomb them with FOOD” as a way to end terrorism. Another whines that “the poor Palestinians just need a place to live.”

They really believe that terrorism is our fault, or, more accurately, they feel a compelling need to claim that they have such a belief. It is their default position and they will cling to it regardless of facts or events.

Facts and events don’t matter to the media-conformist left. Their worldview is a fantasy ideology, it is not driven by facts or by what the believer may or may not perceive as objective reality (assuming that they have such perceptions at all). It is driven by the ideological script, the compelling need to conform to the fantasy ideology as a statement of identity and affiliation.

It is important to understand that this worldview is an artifact of media culture, and not a product of genuine political ideology. Many conservatives like to say that the “MSM” are the propaganda arm of the Democratic party. I contend that it is really the other way round: the Democratic Party is the political arm of the media-industrial complex. The political left has not hijacked the media, the media culture has hijacked the left.


77 posted on 12/01/2008 11:32:20 AM PST by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: RobinMasters

And there you have it folks!....the deluded world of liberalism!


78 posted on 12/01/2008 11:33:19 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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79 posted on 12/01/2008 11:38:16 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: RobinMasters

Moonbats will be moonbats.


80 posted on 12/01/2008 11:39:42 AM PST by SouthTexas (Remember, it took a Jimmy Carter to bring us a Ronald Reagan!)
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