Posted on 11/01/2009 12:25:27 PM PST by 444Flyer
Good Morning America co-host Diane Sawyer on Tuesday helped promote an upcoming HBO documentary on Barack Obama and allowed producer Ed Norton to gush over the "zen" presidential campaign of the Democratic candidate. Sawyer breathlessly teased the program as "the Obamas behind closed doors. The grandmother who raised him and the man you’ve never seen."
Sawyer played several clips of the By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, a film that followed Obama and his family during the 2008 campaign. The segment, which ran six and a half minutes, will be supplemented by more promotion on Tuesday’s Nightline. When asked what surprised her about the Obamas, director Amy Rice enthused about "just how normal they were."
Norton was impressed with the "calm," "no-drama Obama." The actor continued, "And in a weird way, when you look behind the curtain with that team, they are really zen. It's amazing how zen they are."
To her credit, Sawyer did at least express some skepticism as to how authentic the whole project was: "Do you really think you saw the true family, though? Because as we know, when you set out to do these documentaries, everyone says complete access."
However, she didn’t ask any questions as to the left-wing bent of HBO and the network’s documentaries. Earlier in the year, the channel produced Teddy: In His Own Words.
Norton is a well known liberal activist and Hollywood star. On March 27, 2009, he appeared on NBC's Today to compare his Earth Hour documentary on global warming to the civil rights march on Selma. On April 22, 2008, he lamented how America lagged behind China when it came to banning plastic bags.
A transcript of the October 27 segment, which aired at 7:33am, follows:
(Excerpt) Read more at mrc.org ...
He’s zen, huh....that means the inside of his cranium is EMPTY.
For the likes of ABC and HBO, yes, Obama would be normal.
Hey! H-BeeeOHHhhhh and Larry David... GET A ROOM!
What a loser this one is going to be.
I wonder how many lies we can count?
ABC is probably heavily into buying “Fox Offsets” too...
Oh no! Now i can’t ever watch another Ed Norton movie again.
More propaganda by Obama controlled media. Does the GOP have the right to equal time and production costs?
I just keep a list of all the celebrities I will no longer support. The list keeps on getting longer and longer
I think it's coming!
That is a creepy picture....
NORMAL? He was raised outside the country, abandoned by two fathers, abandoned by his mother, packed off to live with his grandparents who put him under the tutelage of a communist pedophile, grew up with an anti-American chip on his shoulder, consorted with commies his entire life, has hidden the written history of his life and hired a terrorist bomber to ghost write a fabricated life story. This is NORMAL??
0bama’s isn’t into Zen. He’s into socialism and communism and making America into a loser nation. All 0bama’s dithering on Afghanistan...not very Zen. Just an indecisive a$$hole who is letting our men get shot up there unnecessarily
I think the Zen part is these liberals trying to say 0baama is clean and articulate a la Joe Biden
0bama being black but knows who to speak white for the libbie dumbasses. Using words like “sustainable” “renewable” “going forward”....that’s how to impress libs with your illogic n gobbledygook
Everything’s zen
Everything’s zen
I don’t think so
ABC announces its lineup for the new season:
Amos Zen Andy
Sanford and Zen
The Jefferzens
and the Movie of the Week:
Zen Like Me.
Excellent capsule biography!
I wonder how much time our soldiers in Afghanistan get for “zen” amid the heat, the destruction and the terrorists.
Does the fact that there are Generals asking for additional troops ever intrude into the “zen time” of this spoiled, accomplishment-free, grievance-ridden celebrity?
The basic idea of Zen is to seek the right or correct path in life without reference to scriptures.
Lot of Zen devotees end up lost Fur Shur (since there are many forked paths that lead to the wrong place).
Now that doesn't mean there's isn't a secret Japanese government cabal behind Obama's closest advisors, and maybe a Japanese agent or two hidden behind Michelle's ample girth pretending to be cellulite deposits.
There must be something we can eat
Maybe find another lover
Should I fly to Los Angeles
Find my asshole brother
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Dave’s on sale again
We kissy kiss in the rear view
We’re so bored
You’re to blame
Try to see it once my way
Everything zen
Everything zen
I don’t think so
Raindogs howl for the century
A million dollars at stake
As you search for your demi-god
And you fake with a saint
There’s no sex in your violence
There’s no sex in your violence
Try to see it once my way
Everything zen
Everything zen
I don’t think so
I don’t believe that Elvis is dead
I don’t believe that Elvis is dead
I don’t believe that Elvis is, Elvis is
There’s no sex in your violence
(And the artist? BUSH!)
If you don’t mind, I am saving that as a text snippet! Very, VERY well said.
LOL
abandoned by two Muslim fathers one of whom sent him to Koran memorization classes
He’s a marxist...as is a number in his administration! How is that normal in a country predicated on freedom and limited government. Our forefathers would roll over in their grave. In fact, I’m pretty sure they already have! When are our conservative leaders going to address this publicly..and with some ferosity please!
obama is a creepy person
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Or maybe both.
“...allowed producer Ed Norton to gush over the “zen” presidential campaign of the Democratic candidate.”
Ed Norton? I thought he died...he committed sewer side...
I haven’t had HBO at all. Too dang expensive for a worthless tv station. About the only good thing it ever had was the Sopranos. Now you can buy them on DVD...what would I need HBO for?
Rev. Wright’s racist Black Liberation Theology “church” is about as zen as goose stepping.
This will either brigng out the remote or a barf bag.
“they are really zen. It’s amazing how zen they are.” “
Such shallow, new age stupidity.
We need a real man (or woman) for a president. Not a non accomplished, shallow, new age dunce.
Remember when Big-Mouth, “Everybody-hang-dry-your clothes” Babs called Andre Agassi zen. Now we know he was a drug user. Perhaps it’s drugs that makes one zen.
Heh, yes... I would think that anything HBO thinks is normal would be abnormal to most of America - but what the hey...they are a movie channel and know best by rating what America watches...
Well...HBO, think of DEXTER and then think of most of America thinking like him... Wow...that almost sounds like a threat - my bad, just thinking about the ignoring the law and getting off without any consequences. The public will eventually take action...
So ABC is urging viewers to watch another channel, which presumably costs them revenue. I guess that shows us how much they are committed to the left wing agenda. This sound much more like a big campaign ad than a “documentary.” Like they would ever admit that.
Well no... both have the same agenda but they do offer different and usually exclusive propaganda...heh. Would not be a stretch for both to advertise the benefits of the other.
By the time The Zen One leaves office, at the end of a term or no, all that will be left of his messianic reputation will be the sound of one hand clapping.
Cast:
* Will Smith as "Benny", the mixed-race Manchurian Candidate running for President
* John Ratzenburger as "Moe", the bumbling, well-meaning, completely wrong, gaffe-prone VP candidate
* Robert Downey, Jr as "Bahm", the Jewish political strategist who sends dead fish to political opponents
* Tom Cruise as the inventor of Astro-Turf political movements (reviving his type-cast roll in "Tropic Thunder") who has to edit out four-letter words before loading the Teleprompter for the candidate
* Omarosa Manigault Stallworth as Rochelle, the America-hating wife of the candidate
* Joe Pesci as "Jerry", the social gadfly, gay, drug provider who 'entertains' the candidate in a limo while the candidate held state office prior to running for President.
* Forest Whitaker as the mean spirited, America-hating, libertion-theology-based pastor of the candidate's church
* Jamie Foxx as the gay choir director mysteriously killed for "knowing too much" about the candidate's private life on the down-low
* Playing themsleves, many media anchors and talking heads will make cameo appearances as they transform from cheerleaders for the candidate to cheerleaders and propagandists for the President as he enters office. Several were screened to make sure their legs tingled well enough for the big screen
Coming to you, hopefully before the 2012 election cycle.
I canceled my HBO last Thursday when I heard about this.
ROTFL! Are you a writer?
....just a Freeper...
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