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President Obama Laments Rush Limbaugh And Fox News’ Influence On Public Debate
Mediaite ^ | 1/27/13 | Andrew Kirell

Posted on 01/27/2013 12:44:38 PM PST by Libloather

**SNIP**

The president also conceded that “[t]he same dynamic happens on the Democratic side,” but in his mind, “the difference is just that the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word.”

He claimed that “leaders like myself—and I include Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in this—are willing to buck the more absolutist-wing elements in our party to try to get stuff done,” as opposed to the opposing party which he views as obstructionist.

“[T]hat’s one of the biggest problems we’ve got in how folks report about Washington right now, because I think journalists rightly value the appearance of impartiality and objectivity,” Obama said. “And so the default position for reporting is to say, ‘A plague on both their houses.’ On almost every issue, it’s, ‘Well, Democrats and Republicans can’t agree’—as opposed to looking at why is it that they can’t agree. Who exactly is preventing us from agreeing?”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debate; fox; limbaugh; propaganda; rush; rushlimbaugh; statemedia
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To: Libloather

I wish they would stop calling him “President”. I think “dictator” fits better.


41 posted on 01/27/2013 2:04:31 PM PST by kneehurts
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To: Libloather

Dear Bleater is really saying:

Why the f*&^ can’t this country be more like North Korea? Or Africa?


42 posted on 01/27/2013 2:20:37 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: Libloather

I wonder if Dear Leader is really under the delusion that Faux News is not in the tank for the Rats. Suspect it’s just a ruse.


43 posted on 01/27/2013 2:42:15 PM PST by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: Huskrrrr

Fox News Breaking: “Barack Obama may not be the most incredible person ever to walk the face of the earth. Hear both sides at 9:00”

Barack: “Wahhhhhhhh . . .”


44 posted on 01/27/2013 3:14:50 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Libloather
Libs negotiate thusly:

Whats mine is mine, whats yours is negotiable.

And, unfortunately for us, the RINO's agree.

45 posted on 01/27/2013 4:44:51 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Libloather

Even if he had all the media sewed up like he does with abccbsnbcpbscnnmsnbc and the newspapers, he still would have to blow out a lot of people’s brains to get total silence. The Marxists have a road they travel to mass murder every time.

The dems are running scared of the NRA, too. They are actually now outright denouncing the constitution of the US. Ultimately, the globalists know this is what stops them in the US.

The CEO of GE let slip a few weeks ago that the Chi-coms have a superior ruling system to us. He said they are effecient and can get things done. Now NBC has a special on ending the constituiton. Genernals Dempsey and Petraeous both denounced free speech around the fake video show and Petraeous has denounced the second amendment.

The elitists really are going to move against the constitution during the coming phase of globalization. The DOD and DHS has named people who are for the constituiton, domestic terrorists.

We have seen the radicals and heard their treason before...I have never seen them in such power before. I was never really afraid of them before.


46 posted on 01/27/2013 8:50:49 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: SueRae

Here’s the problem....more than fifty percent of the public is watching Fox News. When they do the ratings....the regular news channels (MSNBC, ABC, CNN, CBS, etc)....are stuck with low ratings, and thus low commericial advertising dollars. Everyone will still use them...but they pull out the ratings and comment that most people are watching Fox. So Fox is hurting all of them in the profit category.

Fox knows this. They’ve lined up the evening news and the only one that can compete against them....is the Comedy Channel, and History Channel’s Amish Mafia.

So they are complaining about this to the President, and hinting that this whole mess is going to trigger some downsizing in the news media if things don’t change.


47 posted on 01/28/2013 3:27:32 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

Makes sense..but have you EVER heard a public official name a particular station or radio personality by name? Time after time? He is SUCH a little man.


48 posted on 01/28/2013 3:38:50 AM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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