Posted on 06/16/2009 8:10:15 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
You can't be loved and adored by everybody, but if you're President Barack Obama and it concerns the media, you can come awfully close.
In an interview on CNBC's June 16 "Closing Bell" with the network Washington correspondent John Harwood, Obama reflected on the media coverage he has received to date. Harwood asked the president to respond to the claim that lack of media criticism has allowed him to "hurt" the country.
"When you and I spoke in January, you said, I observed that you haven't gotten much bad press," Harwood said. "You said, ‘It's coming.' Media critics would say not only has it not come, but that you've gotten such favorable press either because of bias or because you're good box office that it's hurting the country because you're not sufficiently being held accountable for your policies. Assess that."
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I just can’t stand this anymore...This guy is just ruining this country in record time...while we all just sit at our computers picking our noses...ENOUGH. What are we going to do? WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.
I seem to remember President Bush had a multitude attacking him. Never heard him whine though.
He sounds like a whining crybaby chump if he’s upset about one channel in a 500 channel universe. President Bush never had it so good. Even then, he wasn’t carping about it on the front pages of the libtard newspapers either.
Poor O... One network isn’t in his pocket... Oh the pain...
It's not about you, you self-absorbed narcissist (redundancy?). It's about your ideas. Your policies. Your thug tactics.
He has “one television station”...look at how stupid he is when not on prompter. If Bush would have referred to CBS as a “tv station” they’d still be laughing.
Buck Ofama.
OK... this has got to be one of the lamest administrations since Jimmy... first it was Rush and now it is Fox Network...
Hey Obama, how about solving some national problem instead of worrying about the media? You know... actually doing the job you were "hired" for?
Stop your whining Bari! ALL of the TV stations AND NEWSPAPERS attacked George W. Bush. Try to act like an American and suck it up. Stop acting like a little crybaby, you wuss.
>> while we all just sit at our computers picking our noses... What are we going to do?
I know what you mean. I’m out of snot. Especially that crispy kind that rolls up into a hard little ball that goes *plink* when I flick it at the wall.
Good grief. The Emperor has all other news channels and E! worshipping. Plus the fashion magazines are making his wife into a cover girl. Moreover, the Emperor has appeared on numerous covers of comic books. Gotta get them while they’re young.
>> redundancy?
Not in bambi’s case. He’s a narcissist-squared.
Have you EVER seen him without his nose up in the air?
The marxists know exactly what to do with the networks, and have full control of the American Corporations that own them, Fox is not owned by Americans.
Hussein has put them on notice that they are not to mess with him, and is even now setting up Fox the same way Chavez set up Radio Caracas Television.
The right should take a lesson from them.
Bingo! Bush had all the networks attacking him. Obama is such a skinny little thin-skinned kid he can’t tolerate anything but total support or else he pouts and cries. He’s about to find out this is not a Marxist country!
Lets Roll...I am with you
This is a warning to ABDNC not to question their messiah.
Pray for America
‘I’ve Got One Television Station....Attacking My Administration’
I ASSURE YOU HE WILL TAKE CARE OF THAT STATION BY THE END OF THE YEAR. WE WILL HAVE SOVIET STYLE MEDIA IN 2 YEARS TOPS.
But we just sit and watch it happen so..I guess we deserve it .
Isn’t it great how even babies can be President of the United States..they should lower the age requirement to 5 years old. Let’s see, Obama has EVERY SINGLE NETWORK in the tank for him. MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, CSPAN, Newsweek Magazine, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Good God do I Need to continue, yet this whiny little baby is complaining about ONE News Organization that doesn’t like him. Poor Obama, perhaps he made a messy in his diaper, Ok who wants to change him??
Obama needs his “enemies”. He just can’t imagine that anyone would disagree with him. You can’t attack him, because he’s “special”.
Barack Obama has never been legitimately hired for anything.
Placed, installed, elevated? Yes. Hired? No.
Hey, he didn’t even mention Free Republic!
He is itching to shut down Fox News, Chavez-style, as soon as he thinks he can get away with it.
The only thing these networks understand is money. Somehow you have to get to their source of income that allows them to spew their poison.
Oh, they won’t drink the kool-aid, eh?
If you don’t have the long form vault birth certificate, get out of the kitchen.
he’s just got his panties in a wad because Fox isn’t licking his colon clean the way the rest of the pukes in the media are.
Goes to show that these liberals are hypocritical, dangerous, scum that arrogantly demand what they feel they deserve. They can all go to HELL!!!
Notify sponsors that not going to buy their products advertised on ABC or NBC. Not sure where CBS is in the propaganda war. I say, support FOX advertisers & that’s it. Seems to be working with Letterman.
As long as there is one dissenting voice he will not rest.
They know exactly what they are doing these Marxist bastards.It’s textbook Communism in the works. They are moving at lightning speed so that by the time the average American moron wakes up it will all be over.Don’t doubt he;ll have the names of those of us on FR somehow.In the not too distant future we all may be having a late night knock on the door by ACORN .
“It’s very hard for me to swallow that one,” Obama said. “First of all, I’ve got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration,” he added, chuckling.
“I assume you’re talking about Fox,” Harwood replied.
“Well, that’s a pretty big megaphone and you’d be hard-pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front,” Obama said.
When did it become the job of the media to post POSITIVE stories on anyone??
“we all just sit at our computers picking our noses”
That is so gross. I usually just scratch my nads.
An internet boycott campaign of all their sponsors would be a good first step but that would involve conservatives actually organizing and that won’t happen easily.
You bet! Methinks that the “messiah” doth whine too much.
PLUS, these networks are ALL violating the Federal election laws by making corporate in-kind contributions to a political candidate. They should all be prosecuted and thrown in jail. Or, if the Revolution happens first,... well, ...
World's tiniest violin -- play it yourself Chairman Zero, I can't muster up enuf sympathy for your plight.
He owns about 10 banks, two huge automobile manufacturers and is about to create a global, financial regulatory body. What makes you think he can't just shut it down now?
I agree, Hildy, the DC March is one thing, but I’m not sure anyone is paying attention. There has got to be someone in the Congress that can take him to task for trashing the Constitution.
I saw the fellow on TV (Fox of course)that was fired from being the oversight of Americorps and he sounds like he is going to do something....what I don’t know.
I checked out your hotel for the March but I was looking for somewhere where the majority is staying. I guess I’ll stay at the Sheraton with the Freepers. Hope to meet you at the covention.
Gee, Obama we are tired of you attacking America.
Astute observation. Twitters to the ready....
The Messiah can’t stand the presence of infidels in his kngdom.
What you've got to realize is that a lot of people are upset, but, they won't demonstrate, or even speak out.
They are afraid they might offend someone, or afraid their customers won't approve, or their boss won't agree. There are at least 100 excuses you may hear. It's got to get bad, really rotten bad, to make them move!
My father was as conservative as they come. He used to say not to worry, the pendulum would swing back. It didn't, and it won't, without a shove!
If everybody likes you, if you don't have any enemies, you are a spineless jellyfish. There is no nice way to say it!
If something as sick as Iran can fall apart thanks to Twitter and the Soviet Union can fall apart thanks to fax machines, we don't have much to fear.
We are truly in a “ Cold “ civil war.
he even had MTV signing up voters (on the “Real World”, they went into the inner city to register Democrats last year). He also has had several reporters quit the media to join the WH and/or the campaign.
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