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Canadian Commentator: The Press Gave America 'An Untried, Unknown,' 'Incompetent Figure As...
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Posted on 09/18/2011 6:31:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Canadian Commentator: The Press Gave America 'An Untried, Unknown,' 'Incompetent Figure As President' By Noel Sheppard Created 09/18/2011 - 9:09pm

Maybe what America's press really need is a Canadian television commentator to explain how atrocious their coverage of Barack Obama has been since the moment he tossed his named into the presidential ring in February 2007.

Although they may not be familiar with CBC's Rex Murphy, they should certainly heed the marvelous piece he wrote for the National Post Saturday entitled "The Media’s Love Affair With a Disastrous President":

As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack [sic] Obama’s rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign — and it hasn’t reclaimed them since.

Murphy then walked through some of the press's most egregious examples of malpractice:

Gliding past Obama's pretentions Ignoring his arrogance Not reporting his gaffes Side-stepping his connection to Rev. Jeremiah Wright Trashing Hillary Clinton Burning Republicans Ransacking Sarah Palin and her family

"Palin, in particular, stands out as Obama’s opposite in the media’s eyes," wrote Murphy. "As much as they genuflected to the one, they felt the need to turn rotweiler toward the other."

After offering further examples of so-called journalists' unforgivable obsession with attacking the former governor of Alaska, Murphy gave his strongest criticism.

"As a result, the press gave the great American republic an untried, unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent figure as President."

Murphy crescendoed to his spot on conclusion: "To the degree the press neglected its function as watchdog and turned cupbearer to a styrofoam demigod, it is a partner in the flaws and failures of what is turning out to be one of the most miserable performances in the modern history of the American presidency."

Almost on cue, "American Conservative's" Jim Pinkerton observed a few hours later on Saturday's "Fox News Watch" that some of Obama's enablers are starting to get it.

"There’s a strange thing happening in the media which is, I think, liberalism has sort of concluded that Obama is kind of a turkey, and they're sort of trying to distance themselves from him."

They might try, but too many observers know the truth: the press aided and abetted this national disgrace, and they're going to have a lot to answer for in the coming years regardless of how much they try to distance themselves from the current White House resident.

Hopefully more members of the foreign press will assist those of us in the States that have been sending out warning signals since February 2007.

Maybe with their help, the media malpractice will be totally acknowledged by the guilty parties, and America will never have to witness such a disgraceful episode again.

A conservative can dream, can't he?


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To: Nepeta

I must respond to your post. It is true that the left-wing CBC is “left-wing”, and hopefully they will be forced to stand on their own or fall (hoping for a fall), because I hate any of my tax dollars going to them, but .... on the other hand, how about NPR and PBS in the U.S? They aren’t biased? They aren’t left-wing? So a plague is on both our houses, right? But our “Fox News of the North”, our fledgling Sun News Network, is making headway here — maybe you should change channels..... besides, there are other networks in Canada other than the CBC. In my experience, Canadian television is a mirror-image of U.S. television, same shows, etc., except for local advertising. So don’t paint everyone with the same brush, we are very diverse in our makeup and opinions - and have you noticed we now have a majority CONSERVATIVE government? (We got OUR hope and change, lol!)


41 posted on 09/18/2011 8:37:16 PM PDT by border bud
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To: Sub-Driver
Maybe with their help, the media malpractice will be totally acknowledged by the guilty parties, and America will never have to witness such a disgraceful episode again.

We all know the truth of what will happen, and it isn't pretty.

It will be like Moses and the wandering Jews.

The press will not admit what it did, and change will not come until this generation of reporters dies off, including the likes of Jennings (already gone), Brokaw, Rather, Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Leslie Stahl, Bill Plante, Bob Shieffer, Harry Smith, Charlie Rose, Barbara Walters, Charles Osgood, and the rest of the elders.

Then we have the next generation to worry about, including Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, Ann Compton, David Gregory, Matt Lauer, et. al.

Never mind the newcomers.

-PJ

42 posted on 09/18/2011 8:37:31 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
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To: max americana

I am also just educating American Freepers.


43 posted on 09/18/2011 8:40:02 PM PDT by border bud
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To: border bud

SPOT ON!

See my post #40

and my little granddaughters LOVED the schools...and they got taught actual academic subjects - imagine that.

the whole family still maintais the friendships they made there...

I wouldn’t mind one minute moving to Nova Scotia - the values we USED to have.


44 posted on 09/18/2011 8:42:19 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: Sub-Driver

This whole thing was a setup from the beginning.

No candidate received Secret Service protection as soon as Barack did, who announced nearly two years before the election.

In fact, my memory recalls Secret Service Protection being extended only to prevailing nominees for each party once they are chosen.

And then we got served a pile of Shiite from the sands of Arizona in the name of Juan McCain.


45 posted on 09/18/2011 8:44:03 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: GOPJ
I don't think Noel Sheppard is Canadian. He lives in Pleasanton, CA, and was a business owner before becoming famous through Newsbusters.

-PJ

46 posted on 09/18/2011 8:44:26 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
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To: border bud
Amen.

See my post # 40 and 44

Got a bunch of sour-mouthed twits in here tonight. Makes me understand why so many of the great Freepers left FR

47 posted on 09/18/2011 8:45:25 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: maine-iac7

>I wouldn’t mind one minute moving to Nova Scotia - the values we USED to have.<

Are you sure you don’t want to move to vancouver or toronto? (snicker)


48 posted on 09/18/2011 8:50:01 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: maine-iac7

Not a bad idea — you’d be very welcome — and J D Fortune came from there too (lots of good-looking Nova Scotians.) That’s where my family settled originally, (”New Scotland”) before moving west to explore the mountains and the prairies. I have traveled extensively in the U.S. and Canada, and everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve been made to feel welcome and “at home”. There are only three states I haven’t yet been to - Hawaii, Alaska and Washington State. But Alaska is high up on my list.


49 posted on 09/18/2011 8:52:08 PM PDT by border bud
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To: max americana

Oh, most certainly.

While we in the U.S. view Canada as a “socialist” country there are many aspects of Canadian Confederation we don’t take into account. If we American’s had to pay a state, i.e. New York, to stay with us and support the Union..............I have no doubt the crap would have hit the fan decades ago. I do realize that what keeps Canada together as a nation is the distribution of tax revenues as opposed to some serious nationalistic heritage. We see their “national” health care system as a single entity while it is clearly not.

We Americans ponder the semi-routine referendums that Alberta and Saskatchewan have regarding Confederation and State-hood and say “whoa, wait..........another state?”

No, I get it entirely. Canada, as we know, is the North American country that is not part of the U.S. and so many within those borders will do anything to not be a part of the American association. The money’s too good to tether themselves to another country which might have other nationa goals or policies. Yeah. I get it..


50 posted on 09/18/2011 8:53:32 PM PDT by JoenTX (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: max americana; border bud
LOL How is it anti-Americanism? I’m just educating American Freepers that kanadastan ain’t the promised land that most Americans envision it to be

Well, max - may I call you max? - what you're actually doing is opining.

Opinions are not necessarily facts.

Opinions are like - ah - noses. Every ones got one.

51 posted on 09/18/2011 8:53:49 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: MAINE-IAC; border bud

Well, they are facts unless you haven’t been reading my posts.

I have nothing against border bud because he’s just defending canada. I;m cool with it. I make it a point that you made a personal attack with such comments such as sour-mouthed twit’ when I said nothing against you but with border b. YOU should have made the post to ME instead but you took the cowards way out...


52 posted on 09/18/2011 8:57:16 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: max americana
I did not call you a sour-mouthed twit - it was a generalized comment.

But if you choose to put the shoe on - your choice.

have a good one.

53 posted on 09/18/2011 9:00:28 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: Red Badger
They completely abrogated their proper and just responsibilities of vetting an unknown candidate for the most powerful post in the world...

Sure, but where were the senior Republicans? All it would have taken is a joint press conference by the House and Senate Republican leadership to blast every one of the styrofoam demigod's deceptions into full public view, no matter how hard the media tried to cover for him. They instead actively tried to discredit Obama's critics, and assured the voters there was "nothing to be afraid of."

54 posted on 09/18/2011 9:00:56 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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To: Personal Responsibility
as I hope this is the case I have to ask: How - exactly - will the press be held to account?

The media's most valuable asset is it's credibility, and it's very hard to regain once you have lost it.
I like many others has not read a newspaper in years nor watched the evening news on TV. It's full of distortions and omissions. I can get better information from the Internet including a variety of view points.

55 posted on 09/18/2011 9:01:58 PM PDT by oldbrowser (Obama is a one trick phony (wealth distribution).)
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To: maine-iac7

head to Nova Scotia..that’s where cowards who got caught lying on forums escape to LOL!


56 posted on 09/18/2011 9:02:34 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: oldbrowser
has = have.
57 posted on 09/18/2011 9:03:27 PM PDT by oldbrowser (Obama is a one trick phony (wealth distribution).)
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To: Red Badger
"I'm not worried about what anyone in the writes, it's what they didn't write that is the problem."

Please review this sentence you wrote.

Self-fulfilling prophecy perhaps?

58 posted on 09/18/2011 9:23:34 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: Sub-Driver
Canadian Commentator: The Press Gave America 'An Untried, Unknown,' 'Incompetent Figure As President'

But of course this Commentator is correct and all should know it by now. But I wouldn't count him out just yet. I will never underestimate the stupidity of the American Voter.
59 posted on 09/18/2011 11:52:58 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: max americana

I lived in Canada for twenty years, and you are correct in general. However, my friends are worried about what the crazy guy in the WH is going to do next.


60 posted on 09/19/2011 4:20:06 AM PDT by maica ( Multiculturalism is the smiley face of totalitarianism.)
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