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Obama wants a one-party media. (Obama to media - Obey)
Times247 ^ | 04/04/12 | Jeff Kuhner

Posted on 04/05/2012 6:03:48 AM PDT by lward99

resident Obama is trying to impose ideological conformity on the press. He is demanding that the media more favorably report his positions and present him as a pragmatic centrist. During a recent speech to journalists, he denounced their supposed equivalence on the burning issues of the day. Instead, Mr. Obama insisted that they portray his leadership in a more glowing light. He brazenly violated media independence, putting government pressure on journalists akin to that in authoritarian socialist states.

“This bears on your reporting,” Mr. Obama said to the Associated Press. “I think that there is oftentimes the impulse to suggest that if the two parties are disagreeing then they’re equally at fault and the truth lies somewhere in the middle. And an equivalence is presented which I think reinforces peoples’ cynicism about Washington in general. This is not one of those situations where there’s an equivalency.”

Read more: http://times247.com/articles/obama-wants-a-one-party-media#ixzz1rAd4iItQ

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kuhner; mainstreammedia; obama; press
Obama to media - Obey.

Media to Obama - Standing Ovation

1 posted on 04/05/2012 6:03:56 AM PDT by lward99
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To: lward99

Just like a liberal...

No matter how much you give them, they always want more.


2 posted on 04/05/2012 6:09:18 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: lward99

The Marxist in Chief has exposed the medias agenda and they will go down with him in November.


3 posted on 04/05/2012 6:11:22 AM PDT by liberty or death
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To: lward99

Yep. The apprentice dictator speaks and all of them, Fox included, will fall in line.


4 posted on 04/05/2012 6:15:01 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: liberty or death

The First Fool already sassed SCOTUS, and one of the consequences of that are due in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today at 10 AM.

Now, the First Fool is fooling around with “those who buy ink by the barrel”.


5 posted on 04/05/2012 6:19:41 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: lward99

THe MSM is already portraying him as he demanded. And he whats then to go even further. obamma has gotten so many passes.


6 posted on 04/05/2012 6:21:58 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: lward99
Obama to media - Obey.

Just associating the sentiment with the image...


7 posted on 04/05/2012 6:24:19 AM PDT by C210N (Mitt "Severe Etch-a-Sketch" mcRominate-me)
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To: GladesGuru

If only 10% of them would do their “Job”, that ink might be worth something. There needs to be a healthy fear of what this Marxist and his followers want. It’s not free speach.


8 posted on 04/05/2012 6:24:46 AM PDT by liberty or death
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To: lward99
This is a joke, right?
I mean, if the state-sponsered media were any more obvious in their allegiance to 0 they'd be wearing his d@mned patch on their sleeves!
9 posted on 04/05/2012 6:26:51 AM PDT by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
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To: lward99
resident Obama

LOL!

10 posted on 04/05/2012 6:32:07 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: lward99

Leftist never change. Ovomit is no different than Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, or any other despotic socialist who has inflicted ruin upon the human race. It isn’t enough that subjects accept the end result, they have to believe in the means that gets them there, however wrong that may be.


11 posted on 04/05/2012 6:32:11 AM PDT by pallis
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To: lward99

Heil, Usurper!


12 posted on 04/05/2012 6:50:31 AM PDT by bgill
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To: lward99

>>> obama-wants-a-one-party-media

I dispute the above claim.

Obama doesn’t want “One-Party” per se, what he wants is the media’s devotion to HIM and what HE represents, even if he had to hijack ‘Democrat’ party name for it.

So many creepy things so far (to a normal person in US) can trace their parallels to happenings in pre-Soviet era. The problem is our children weren’t taught and learned from history.


13 posted on 04/05/2012 7:04:29 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Sorry, not just pre-Soviet, but Mao, Chavez, other communists/dictators, etc.


14 posted on 04/05/2012 7:06:09 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: lward99

“(Obama to media - Obey)”

And they replied with “how high?”


15 posted on 04/05/2012 7:06:16 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: lward99

The press is already on their knees in front of Obama - what more could he ask of them? (Sound in the distance of a zipper being pulled down...)


16 posted on 04/05/2012 7:27:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hoodies - because you can't kill a security camera for snitchin' - - freeper tacticalogic)
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To: lward99
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17 posted on 04/05/2012 8:09:00 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory." -- Nancy Pelosi)
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To: liberty or death

“There needs to be a healthy fear of what this Marxist and his followers want.”

There most assuredly is such a fear.

Note all the carry permits, gun sales, and the level of awareness of issues regarding the Constitution.

;-)


18 posted on 04/05/2012 9:45:18 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: liberty or death

No, it’s not freedom of speech OR freedom for Americans. Does anyone have any doubt of this now?


19 posted on 04/05/2012 10:03:58 AM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Oh God....IF ONLY he would go back to where he came from (Hell?).


20 posted on 04/05/2012 10:04:56 AM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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