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Obama Blames Conservative Media, Limbaugh and Fox News For Failures...Again
Townhall ^ | January 24, 2014 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 01/24/2014 11:38:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Earlier this week in the New Yorker, President Obama suggested his approval ratings are down because America is full of racists (the same racists who elected him, twice). Now, bonus excerpts from the same article by David Remnick show President Obama blaming his failures on Fox News while accusing the network, conservative media and Rush Limbaugh of turning him into a "caricature."

The president also complained that conservative media had created a "caricature" of him divorced from "reality" that made rallying voters from those areas particularly difficult.

"The issue has been the inability of my message to penetrate the Republican base so that they feel persuaded that I’m not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I’m somebody who is interested in solving problems and is pretty practical, and that, actually, a lot of the things that we’ve put in place worked better than people might think," Obama said.

Barack Obama is a practical person interested in solving problems? Is that why he told Congress last week that he's "got a pen" and executive power he isn't afraid to use it if they don't do what he wants? A reminder:

With his newly announced overhaul of National Security Agency surveillance activities, President Obama has once again hit a nerve with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.

The president, as he often does when facing a nettlesome problem, used his executive powers to implement changes.

Obama signaled at a recent Cabinet meeting, though, that more executive actions are likely ahead.

"I've got a pen and I've got a phone -- and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward," Obama said. He suggested he could use his phone to try and bring people together.

New poll numbers released this week by Quinnipiac show the majority of the country views Obama as untrustworthy and dishonest. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and conservative media didn't lie to millions of Americans by telling them they could keep their health insurance plans under Obamacare. In fact, all of these media outlets warned of the opposite years before the Obamacare exchanges were launched on October 1, 2013. Over to you, Neil Cavuto:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; rushlimbaugh; talkradio
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To: Candor7

I can’t stand to hear or watch the moron either. Something about prancing, homosexual, America hating, islamophile socialists just grinds my gears.


21 posted on 01/25/2014 3:53:51 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: ronnie raygun

Standard practice. Stalin railed against time “saboteurs’ and Mao against the “wreckers” when their stupid ideas failed.


22 posted on 01/25/2014 3:56:26 AM PST by Kanzan
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To: Paul R.

Just imagine if this dilettante had one - JUST ONE - even partially successful endeavor while in office. They would be trumpeting it as the greatest thing since the remote control.

Instead, he a) goes for his critics again while giving himself pathetic little ‘reviews,’ and b) has no choice but to stay in campaign mode talking about the next big idea that will remain an idea only. So bad are his yesterdays and todays that tomorrow is the only safe subject.

It has been educational, but very very painful, to watch a 21st Century superpower’s government and media bend over backwards to protect his fragile little ego (as they protect their own fantasy worldview) as if he were an emperor.


23 posted on 01/25/2014 4:26:57 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: All

Holds the world’s most powerful office, lives like a billionaire on our dime——but he’s still a “victim” after all these years (sob).


24 posted on 01/25/2014 4:27:08 AM PST by Liz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama signaled at a recent Cabinet meeting that more executive actions are ahead.

Obama will issue an E/O barring Christians from reciting Psalm 23---"thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me."

B/C in his hometown, Chicago, a rod is a gun........plus Obama is miffed that his incompetent Obamacare staff are being ridiculed.

25 posted on 01/25/2014 4:33:39 AM PST by Liz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Couldn’t possibly be that we understand and disagree, I s’pose...naaahh.


26 posted on 01/25/2014 4:37:25 AM PST by jagusafr (the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Mommy!! They’re laughing at me...”


27 posted on 01/25/2014 4:45:47 AM PST by jughandle
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To: jughandle

Don’t bother mommy - she’s busy sleeping her way through the Pacific Islands.


28 posted on 01/25/2014 4:55:14 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberalism has always been a house of cards. With the imposition of Obamacare, the people are beginning to see liberalism in a new light.

The house is beginning to shake.

Liberalism’s foundational tenets all rely on their ability to maintain a claim to the moral high ground. If their intentions are ever questioned, then the whole house, from abortion to caring for the downtrodden, loses it’s underpinning.

It’s not just Obama who is lashing out.

It seems to me all this is happening as a knee-jerk survival mechanism. Liberals’ fears are palpable. They lash out at those who represent conservatism, but their anger lies in the fact that their own actions have exposed them as not who they’ve always purported to be, with the American people.

Liberals in power can see the day now, when the moral high ground is no longer theirs. And it alarms them, and angers them.


29 posted on 01/25/2014 5:00:01 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: LeoWindhorse

“He’s a stoned Pharisee if there ever was one .”

And getting more stoned every day.


30 posted on 01/25/2014 5:30:41 AM PST by abclily
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“He suggested he could use his phone to try and bring people together.”

He was talking about the Obamaphones he has distributed all over the country. It was a threat. Nobody noticed?


31 posted on 01/25/2014 5:36:03 AM PST by abclily
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To: abclily
Odumbo is failing quite well all by himself, he doesn't need Fox or Limbaugh's help.

When oh when will America wake up and rid themselves of this pestilence?

32 posted on 01/25/2014 5:40:09 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he is whining like this, we have him on the run. Self pitying little rodent.


33 posted on 01/25/2014 5:42:06 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What he is saying is...All other media is on my side and agree’s with me.


34 posted on 01/25/2014 5:42:20 AM PST by Ouch (No B-HO in 2012)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

You are right. He’s flailing about needlessly.


35 posted on 01/25/2014 5:43:43 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: windsorknot
Is King Hussein too stupid to figure out that this latest rant doesn’t help his case?

It helps him with the base. It's the same strategy that got him elected the second time.

36 posted on 01/25/2014 5:44:08 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

37 posted on 01/25/2014 5:46:39 AM PST by McGruff (How's that Hopey Changey Thingy workin out for ya?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
hahahahahaha! don't you just love it when an incompetent imbecile (... an alleged braniac, no less...) tries to blame his many and fabulous failures on those who saw through his phony resumé from the start?

the rube is so stupid that he doesn't even realize how assinine, incongruous and improbable his excuses are, or how much more ignorant they make him sound. it is said that it's far better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open your yap and remove all doubt.

apparently nobody told His Heinous. LMAO

38 posted on 01/25/2014 6:31:07 AM PST by alcatrash (ipsos, baby. ipsos.)
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To: Yosemitest
Lol.. I used that pic (of demon/satan) for my first photoshop ;).. let me see if I can find it..

Found it..


39 posted on 01/25/2014 7:10:54 AM PST by Bikkuri ( those would have been affected.)
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To: Yosemitest

BTW.. not sure how long that will last before someone complains and it is pulled >.>


40 posted on 01/25/2014 7:12:03 AM PST by Bikkuri ( those would have been affected.)
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