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Media Will Quickly Revert to Defending Obama, Attacking Republicans Over Scandals
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Posted on 05/18/2013 9:15:29 AM PDT by chessplayer

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The IRS, AP snooping, and Benghazi stories are already backfiring on the GOP. We already knew the media would write off Benghazi, but now more and more in the media are beginning to say the IRS had every right to do what they did and that obama had every right to snoop on the media. obama will come out of all this without a scratch.
1 posted on 05/18/2013 9:15:29 AM PDT by chessplayer
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Thus the bar gets lowered again.


2 posted on 05/18/2013 9:18:01 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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This an historic president...for the media that is. A black, socialist president-emperor is something they’ve been wishing and praying for (well, at least wishing for) ever since FDR was in office. McGovern got stomped (which shows you how socialist the rest of the country has become in forty years),Clinton was an opportunist, and now they have a real, socialist hero. They’re not giving up on him just because of a few messy scandals. And after all, it is Republicans and conservatives who are the victims in the Obama scandals. Well, a few dead Obama supporters in Benghazi, but I’m sure the media feels they don’t mind sacrificing their lives for Fearless Leader.(snicker)


3 posted on 05/18/2013 9:25:57 AM PDT by driftless2
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Well the best defense the GOP has is to say....okay....then when there is a Republican president again and he does this stuff, no howls please. Furthermore we have a Republican House, we’ll just see what laws, rules, etc. we can stretch. What? You don’t like that? Too f’n bad.


4 posted on 05/18/2013 9:27:34 AM PDT by sheana
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Of this I have no doubt.


6 posted on 05/18/2013 9:29:08 AM PDT by eddie willers
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The day of the hearing, MSNBC had some coverage,,,all in support of what the IRS was doing, of course. CNN ignored it completely, day and night.


7 posted on 05/18/2013 9:31:14 AM PDT by chessplayer
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They can’t keep the lid on forever.


8 posted on 05/18/2013 9:35:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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They’re not giving up on him just because of a few messy scandals.


He could disembowel a 2 year old child on the WH lawn and start cooking it and the media would ignore it or approve it.


9 posted on 05/18/2013 9:36:17 AM PDT by chessplayer
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Hate to admit it, but the hearings are a waste of time and taxpayer money.


10 posted on 05/18/2013 9:38:36 AM PDT by chessplayer
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The Press has changed the game in America's politics as well aa the direction of our country by its overwhelming bias.

They Will not deviate from this path unless and until something directly affects them.

As referenced by the fact that it took the media spying story to begin to get some of them to report anything about Obama.

They have to be addressed or we will lose.

11 posted on 05/18/2013 9:41:52 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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The MSM is made up of communists Democrats and are a huge part of destroying America. Ignorant asses failed to realize that what they are destroying is themselves also.


12 posted on 05/18/2013 9:43:08 AM PDT by Logical me
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Every politician and pundit needs to respond to this: THIS IS NOT ABOUT OBAMA. What this IS about is a government that is too big to manage while it rapidly dives deeper into each of our lives.
13 posted on 05/18/2013 9:47:35 AM PDT by vg0va3
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Chessplayer, it seems as though all your comments are about how hopeless everything is, we are doomed, etc. So you think Rs in Congress should do nothing about this? Just go take naps in their offices? What better suggestions do you have?


14 posted on 05/18/2013 9:49:10 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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The media are part of Obama’s personality cult. Throw them out, and they are lost, confused and afraid. They don’t like it on the outside. Of course they are going to rally around idol.


15 posted on 05/18/2013 10:01:27 AM PDT by pallis
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The Press has changed the game in America’s politics as well aa the direction of our country by its overwhelming bias.

They Will not deviate from this path unless and until something directly affects them.

As referenced by the fact that it took the media spying story to begin to get some of them to report anything about Obama.


They won’t deviate even if it affects them. More and more in the media are saying obama has every right to snoop on them.


16 posted on 05/18/2013 10:04:21 AM PDT by chessplayer
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So you think Rs in Congress should do nothing about this?


There is nothing they can do about it except stamp their feet and scream. obama knows it, the media knows it, and deep down inside I think the R’s know it, also.


17 posted on 05/18/2013 10:08:02 AM PDT by chessplayer
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“They can’t keep the lid on forever.”

Yeah they can.


18 posted on 05/18/2013 10:10:59 AM PDT by Luke21
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The R's have no choice but to stay on it. But Bozell is right, the media will ignore the scandals, be bored with them, or turn their guns on the Republicans. Ken Starr and Linda Tripp were the bad guys, not Clinton. It's the Twilight Zone.

Whatever the media highlights, repeats, and covers wall to wall becomes the template for the idiot brigades of Americans. Then there are the communist zealots who actually believe everything they are told.

Mixed in with the media brainwashing and conditioning is just enough weather, sports, local news, fashion advice, and celebrity gossip to make their political stuff seem normal to the lofo’s.

I don't watch them, not even Fox, but everyone I know does, and we are vastly outnumbered.

19 posted on 05/18/2013 10:18:48 AM PDT by Luke21
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Yes and no. The media will want to get back to their lap dog role, but there will be three problems.

(1)The Big Zero doesn't forgive. He prefers to punish.

(2) The press may be a little more skeptical and a little less cheerleader. They may actual try to present both an administration position and another perspective, which will infuriate the Administration.

(3) The MSM reporters are all about getting their names and stories as either the story on the front page above the fold or the teaser to the nightly electronic news show. That means scandals improve careers. If enough bad stuff is disclosed the will write about scandals rather than the cheer-leading they would prefer to write about.

20 posted on 05/18/2013 10:20:05 AM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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