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Obama goes after media for 'enemies list' rumor
The Hill ^

Posted on 08/11/2009 11:20:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama goes after media for 'enemies list' rumor @ 2:17 pm by Eric Zimmermann

President Obama attacked the media today for helping circulate a story that the White House is compiling an "enemies list."

"This is another example of how the media ends up just completely distorting what's taking place," Obama said. "C'mon, guys!" he added later.

The story started when the White House asked supporters to forward "fishy" claims about Democratic healthcare legislation, the goal being to check and refute those claims.

Critics said that forwarding emails would let the White House compile a list of political opponents.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), for example, has asked the White House to discontinue the program or clarify what it would do with the information it receives.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; anticonservative; bho44; bhofascism; bhohealthcare; democrats; enemedia; enemieslist; enemiesofobama; fishy; liberalmedia; mediabias; msm; obama; obamacare; obamalies; obamedia; snitches; socializedmedicine; warroom; whinerinchief; whitehouse
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1 posted on 08/11/2009 11:20:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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President Obama attacked the media today for helping circulate a story that the White House is compiling an “enemies list.”.....

WOW!....things are getting desperate!....the media goes under the bus time already?


2 posted on 08/11/2009 11:24:00 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Obama accusing the media of being biased? Against HIM!???


3 posted on 08/11/2009 11:25:53 AM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: Sub-Driver

Anyone who buys into this administration not haveing a
list of opponents is criminally gullable.


4 posted on 08/11/2009 11:26:26 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Rumor my ass!!! This marxist scumbag and his fellow travelers in the media are lying S’sOS. RIGHT ON THEIR WEBSITE, it asked citizens to report those who did not agree with ObamaCare.

WTF use would that be other to compile a list of those who aren’t buying his socialist BULLSHIITE.

Listen up you marxist punk. It ain’t a “rumor” that you palled around with terrorists. As Bill Ayers admitted after the election.

It ain’t a “rumor” that you have not released your birth certificate, as the media keep pretending. It’s under lock and key in HI archives.

It ain’t a rumor that you cap and trade is an energy tax on ALL Americans. It is that and much worse to boot.

We will expose you, you POS.


5 posted on 08/11/2009 11:27:25 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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Headline?

State controlled American media (SCAM) employees catch the ire of the Big Boss
Obama Upbraids SCAM Staff
"Not doing enough for me."

6 posted on 08/11/2009 11:28:32 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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He didn’t accuse them, but it WAS a warning.
Don’t cross your homie.


7 posted on 08/11/2009 11:28:33 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Well Zero might help the media a bit by not setting up an enrmies list office in the WH.


8 posted on 08/11/2009 11:29:58 AM PDT by rod1
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

SCAM instead of MSM. I like it!


9 posted on 08/11/2009 11:30:37 AM PDT by samsmom
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Well, this should be easy enough to dispel...someone file a Freedom of Information Request for any and all e-mails received at the website, and all persons who received these e-mails. That should do it.
10 posted on 08/11/2009 11:30:37 AM PDT by TheBlueMax ("Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. " (Ronald Reagan))
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.the media goes under the bus time already?
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They will still ‘pucker up to his posterior’, tho. Lapdogs are lapdogs. They’ll just hang their heads and give big ‘puppydog eyes’ after being scolded.


11 posted on 08/11/2009 11:30:52 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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They don’t want a list of “rumors”, they want a list of “rumor makers”. Big, big, difference.


12 posted on 08/11/2009 11:31:47 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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More lies from fearless leader.


13 posted on 08/11/2009 11:32:32 AM PDT by boomop1
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Scapegoating.


14 posted on 08/11/2009 11:32:46 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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He's blaming the media now?
Are they also just doing it because he's black?

15 posted on 08/11/2009 11:33:24 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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"This is another example of how the media ends up just completely distorting what's taking place,"

Meanwhile Röhm Emmanuel was writing down names of those reporters present and their facial expressions when His O-ness spoke his holy words.

16 posted on 08/11/2009 11:33:25 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama's medical nationalization bill reads like Atlas Shrugged with doctors instead of railroads.)
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Obama has already perturbed Helen Thomas (please, no pictures, lol)...and now he is taking on "the media" as a whole. LOLOLOL They will not be happy.

Note, however, he did not single out FOX, as he usually complains about that network being against him. And I am sure "the media" women are NOT happy with his " Come on guys" statement. Nothing angers a liberal woman more than being called a guy in those general terms!

This is getting real good. Obama will soon not know where to turn among the "new" friends. He will be stuck with only the Chicago bullies and Bill Ayers types.

17 posted on 08/11/2009 11:34:51 AM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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Obama HAS an enemies list. Democrats.com is providing the list of corporations he’d like to boycott advertising on Fox News.

2 are among the bailed out automobile manufacturers.

Obama pressures companies to withdraw advertising from FOXnews: Boycott these wimps!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2313013/posts

According to Democrats.com, Obama has pressured these companies into pulling their ads from FOXnews.

Let’s boycott these wimps and let them see that losing the mainstream dollar hurts more than losing the radical left dollar:

Campbell Soup

Chrysler

General Motors

Kellogg

Kraft Foods

Lawyers.com

Nestle

Pfizer

Proctor & Gamble

Progressive Insurance

http://www.democrats.com/boycott-fox-news-advertisers?ad=d0


18 posted on 08/11/2009 11:35:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: samsmom
Yes, it's a Limbaugh thing -- he sometimes says "state controlled media" but never SCaM.

He usually says state run media. I don't know why he doesn't just say SCAM, "state controlled media" was his idea.

19 posted on 08/11/2009 11:38:19 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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Please turn in your friends, relatives and neighbors to the White House DOMESTIC SPYING Program.
20 posted on 08/11/2009 11:38:41 AM PDT by cookcounty ("Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ---Yeats)
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