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Obama: Too Much Media Emphasis On Health Care Protests
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-15-voa1.cfm ^

Posted on 08/15/2009 3:14:06 PM PDT by kcvl

U.S. President Barack Obama says news organizations are putting too much emphasis on scenes of hostile protesters at public meetings on his health care reform plan. The president received tough but polite questions from Americans Friday in the Northwestern state of Montana.

Mr. Obama said most meetings on his plan have been civil, and those that have been disrupted are in the minority. "What you have not seen on TV, and what makes me proud, are the many constructive meetings going on all over the country. Everywhere across the country you are seeing people who are coming together and having a civil, honest, often difficult conversation about how we can improve the system," he said.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angrymob; arrogantbastard; firstamendment; obama; obamacare; obamavs1stamendment; obamavsamerica; obamavsamericans; townhall; townhalls
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To: GeronL

He gets worse with each town hall he attends. He is killing this thing quicker than anyone.


21 posted on 08/15/2009 3:26:26 PM PDT by jennyjenny ( "The Harpoon")
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To: kcvl

Obama trying to calm the waters. Too Late, we’re pissed and congress is going to feel the heat.


22 posted on 08/15/2009 3:26:26 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
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To: kcvl

Obama is media over-exposed. It’s like being forced to watch Oprah 24 hours a day. After a while, even his adoring fans will want to take a Midol.


23 posted on 08/15/2009 3:27:07 PM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: joinedafterattack

He’s been answering the question for about 5 minutes now without answering it.


24 posted on 08/15/2009 3:28:20 PM PDT by jennyjenny ( "The Harpoon")
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To: jennyjenny

Ya, that occurs to me too. Is Obama not getting enough face time on TV? Heck he does town halls and he’s the center of attention. A presidential visit to all these towns across America makes him like visiting royalty. He is the focus of lots of attention.

If he had something to tell us, or good legislation to discuss, his arguments in favor of healthcare “reform” would be drowning out all the protests. It’s because the protesters are making inroads that he’s concerned. He and his Democrat flunkies don’t have good arguments in favor of their socialized medicine plans. And people are not buying it, so the Democrats are frustrated.


25 posted on 08/15/2009 3:28:22 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: kcvl

DEATH PANELS


26 posted on 08/15/2009 3:28:28 PM PDT by onedoug (SARAH!)
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To: kcvl

So when Barry tells his “home boyz” to “get up in their (our) face”, we are supposed to be compliant and scamper away, or do we “get up in their grill”? If anything escalates to “poppin’ a cap” in someones “ass”, shouldn’t it be traced back to Barry instructing his thugs to “get up in their (our) face”? Sorry for the ‘hood vernacular, but isn’t that the choice of language needed against the Long Legged Mack Daddy and his band of red ACORNS?


27 posted on 08/15/2009 3:29:20 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: kcvl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obXt3FUs-yQ


28 posted on 08/15/2009 3:29:54 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: kcvl

“We need to get back to calling Bush a chimp. That would be OK.....”


29 posted on 08/15/2009 3:30:03 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: mainepatsfan

When will the MSM discuss Obama’s use of Saul Alinsky tactics in trying to ram healthcare “reform” down our throats?

The attacking of the protesters is right out of Saul Alinsky’s playbook. Since the Democrats don’t have persuasive arguments in favor of their healthcare changes, they instead decide to attack those who oppose it.


30 posted on 08/15/2009 3:30:08 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: kcvl; All

Mr Obama, there is a thing called Free Speech..... It works both ways... I thought...


31 posted on 08/15/2009 3:31:24 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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To: FastCoyote
"After a while, even his adoring fans will want to take a Midol."

Not all.

Panties on terrorists head = torture.

Panties on Obama's head from media = adulation.

32 posted on 08/15/2009 3:31:49 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: kcvl

They are disruptive BECAUSE OF OBAMA. This guy is a congenital liar.


33 posted on 08/15/2009 3:31:53 PM PDT by FTJM
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To: Secret Agent Man

Speaking of telling everyone how to do their jobs, what about the car bailouts?

Where’s my stock dividend from GM? Aren’t all of us citizens supposed to get quarterly dividend checks?

Heck I’m surprised Obama doesn’t come out and say that they have factored in profits from the GM turnaround to help pay for healthcare.


34 posted on 08/15/2009 3:32:37 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Secret Agent Man

Speaking of telling everyone how to do their jobs, what about the car bailouts?

Where’s my stock dividend from GM? Aren’t all of us citizens supposed to get quarterly dividend checks?

Heck I’m surprised Obama doesn’t come out and say that they have factored in profits from the GM turnaround to help pay for healthcare.


35 posted on 08/15/2009 3:32:43 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: GeronL

“He just gave an order to his lackeys to knock it off with the news coverage. I think we can expect a marked decline in the coverage.”

Katie Couric didn’t touch the subject last night, instead they did a long piece on the free mobile clinics aiding ALL those Americans who can’t afford insurance.


36 posted on 08/15/2009 3:32:46 PM PDT by AuntB (Tired of D & R globalist power brokers? How 'bout HEARTLAND AMERICA PARTY? It's a state of mind!)
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To: kcvl
IOWs this is just another way 0bama is saying "Shut up you peons!"

FUBO

37 posted on 08/15/2009 3:33:18 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: kcvl

related:

Obama Launches Frontal Attack on Conservative Talk Radio

“The man that Obama appointed to be the ‘content czar’ for talk radio is Mark Loyd. Loyd wrote a book in 2006, published by the University of Illinois Press, entitled, Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America, in which he proposes, among other things, that private radio broadcasters be required to pay a sum equal to their total operating costs in order to benefit public radio broadcasting.

Forget for a moment that no business can survive by paying some other entity a sum equal to their total operating expenses. This, of course, would drive private broadcasters out of business. But look at what he is proposing. He wants public broadcasting to be funded totally on the backs of private broadcasters, many of whom operate in the red.

Such idiotic, mutton-headed notions would be laughable were they not dead serious.

And that’s not all.[snip]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2316908/posts?page=42


38 posted on 08/15/2009 3:34:32 PM PDT by AuntB (Tired of D & R globalist power brokers? How 'bout HEARTLAND AMERICA PARTY? It's a state of mind!)
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To: kcvl

when the camera swings away from him and his Islamic speech cadance, he just can’t stand it!!!!! Look At Me, Listen To Me, Look At Me, Listen To Me!!!

and he has the audacity to openly complain!! I complain because they don’t show enough of the SEIU and ACORNS.


39 posted on 08/15/2009 3:36:44 PM PDT by bareford101 (Be loud! We have nothing – NOTHING - to apologize for in fighting for our Country!!)
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To: Diogenesis
12/02/2008

The Senate Democrats have hired Abigail Vacanti, an anchor producer at CNN's American Morning, as their new press secretary, according to Senate Majority spokesman Terry Whitney. Vacanti replaces Ben Marter, who's headed to Washington, D.C. to become U.S. Rep.-elect Betsy Markey's communications director.

40 posted on 08/15/2009 3:42:47 PM PDT by kcvl
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