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Gingrich: 'Press Corps Has Taken Such a Pathetic Dive' with Obama
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Posted on 05/02/2009 8:20:59 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: Carl LaFong

The MSM, the drive by media in our country have become a luaghingstock, a huge joke but nobody is laughing anymore. Liberal newspapers and liberal magazines and liberal television networks are going bankrupt by the dozens and I have absolutely no sympathy for them whatsoever. I hope and wish they all die a quick but particularly painful agonizing death.


21 posted on 05/02/2009 8:48:15 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Sub-Driver
...if you didn't know better, you'd think that he was practicing with his own public affairs people

Hey, Newt. These are his own public affairs people!

22 posted on 05/02/2009 8:49:51 AM PDT by Gritty (The Washington Press Corps is the most reliable Democratic voting bloc in the nation - Tony Snow)
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To: Sub-Driver

If they had “tough, serious engagement”, they would not be allowed into the Press Corp or never be called on again. It’s all controlled and phony.


23 posted on 05/02/2009 8:50:08 AM PDT by RC2 (WE ARE A REPUBLIC.......act like it.)
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To: GOPJ

Well-earning the handle “presstitute”.


24 posted on 05/02/2009 8:51:51 AM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find!)
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To: TomGuy

>>What real differences existed between Bush and Obama?

Bush was not an anti-American Marxist. Bush did what it took to keep us safe after 9/11.

I agree both that parties keep expanding government and stripping us of our Constitutional rights, but I think there is a substantial difference between Bush and Obama.


25 posted on 05/02/2009 8:53:40 AM PDT by Cara C
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To: jimfree

Pay, that’s the key, and the abscense thereof. The current fifth column is media whoredom, sluteredia ... disease ridden drek.


26 posted on 05/02/2009 8:54:59 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Sub-Driver
With Bobby "Gibbels" for a boss, what can one expect? ;-)


27 posted on 05/02/2009 8:56:40 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Carl LaFong
Ya, that had a nice affect.

Snicker :)

28 posted on 05/02/2009 9:02:15 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (I'd rather the world hate us then laugh at us)
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To: raptor29
Bravo to your post, I've been thinking the same thing for a while now.

Ya can't fight the enemy if you won't identify who and what they are.

29 posted on 05/02/2009 9:03:59 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (I'd rather the world hate us then laugh at us)
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To: Sub-Driver
They are. But not for press conferences. This is training for the Ministry of Propaganda.
30 posted on 05/02/2009 9:06:13 AM PDT by livius
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Our side is just so weak, at least those who are our supposed leaders. So afraid of criticism, so afraid of not being liked, so afraid of standing up for concepts and positions that have ALL THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE ON THEIR SIDE. It’s almost like we need one really tough individual to stand up and make a huge scene, and then not back down. Perhaps that will embolden the others. If not, well, we organize and get it done ourselves.


31 posted on 05/02/2009 9:07:48 AM PDT by raptor29
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To: boycott

These days, at times, it is like living in Bizzaro World for a child of the 70s & 80s. Who would’ve thought you sometimes would find more truth in Pravda, than US papers — well those U.S. that haven’t ALREADY failed as a result of lack of quality, bias and loss of relevance that is...

I’ve got a secret for the newspapers that’s better than a government bailout... Hiring credible journalists and not party hacks who know how to write an honest news article without injecting editorial.


32 posted on 05/02/2009 9:09:30 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Hell, the guttiest conservative I’ve seen in the past 6 months has been Miss California. What a joke our side is, bunch of wuss-asses.


33 posted on 05/02/2009 9:10:25 AM PDT by raptor29
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To: raptor29

It honestly as if there are no more Statesmen in Washington save for (hopefully) a very few whose voices are too shaky at present to speak up... You’re right the public has to do their part. I pray some good Statesmen/Stateswoman ;) can find the courage to step forward.


34 posted on 05/02/2009 9:11:54 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Sub-Driver
...they ought to be part of his PR firm.

Isn't the problem that they are part of his PR firm? Isn't that what the Begala/Podesta/Carville/Emanuel-arranged dinners with 'journ-o-lists' is all about?

35 posted on 05/02/2009 9:12:57 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: nobama08

When It took the National Enquirer to break the John Edwards baby story that the MSM chose to ignore, I eliminated all last purchases of newspapers and weekly magazines.

God bless the internet.


36 posted on 05/02/2009 9:14:00 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Sub-Driver

Good for Newt. Ridicule is the most powerful weapon our side has at the moment. We should use it often.


37 posted on 05/02/2009 9:16:30 AM PDT by skeeter (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you. Then you win - Mahatma Ghandi)
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To: oblomov

>>>>> They studied journalism so that someday they could effect “change”. <<<<<<<

This is absolutely correct and I have heard some whacky opinions from practicing journos about their own alleged powers of “objectivity” coupled with their bizarre (and conflicting) conviction that they know which “change” is best for everyone else.

H.L. Mencken properly understood his own role as both a journo and aesthete, and never took himself (or anyone else) very seriously.

He’d guffaw and snicker at today’s solipsistic “graduate students of journalism.”


38 posted on 05/02/2009 9:18:45 AM PDT by angkor
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To: raptor29
If not, well, we organize and get it done ourselves

I'm afraid you are right, question is how will it be accomplished.

The intimidation and ridicule from the left is quite effective and is in full power mode and they have mastered it's use and effectiveness, not to mention the willing media.

The recent attacks on Miss California should wake up a lot of people to their tactics (fingers crossed), she has a lot of courage to stand up the way she has. I personally hope she tells the pageant to stuff their crown after their threats against her. I don't mean to go off topic, but she has more guts to stand up then our "representatives' apparently do.

I have no idea how this will ultimately pan out but whatever it is, I don't think it's going to be pretty :(

39 posted on 05/02/2009 9:21:34 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (I'd rather the world hate us then laugh at us)
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To: skeeter; Sub-Driver

>>>>> Good for Newt. Ridicule is the most powerful weapon our side has at the moment <<<<<

And it is very definitely NOT what we are getting from proto-RINO Eric Cantor and his co-bipartisan accomplice Juan McQueeg.

Rep. Eric Cantor is on the fast track to being called “Eric Can’t” by his disappointed Virginia constituents.


40 posted on 05/02/2009 9:23:44 AM PDT by angkor
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