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Farewell to a Decade of Media Drooling Over Barack Obama
MRC Newsbusters ^ | January 9, 2017 | Rich Noyes

Posted on 01/09/2017 6:26:33 PM PST by Cheerio

From the moment then-state senator Barack Obama showed up on the national stage to address the Democratic convention in 2004, the news media were in love. “Obama is a rock star,” NBC’s Andrea Mitchell exclaimed during MSNBC’s live convention coverage back on July 27, 2004. The next morning, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos echoed Mitchell’s enthusiasm: “He’s the Tiger Woods of the Democratic Party right now.”

When Obama ran for President four years later, news reporters led the cheers. “It’s almost hard to remain objective because it’s infectious, the energy, I think,” then-NBC reporter Lee Cowan confessed in an MSNBC.com video posted January 7, 2008. On CNN a few days later, Politico editor John Harris admitted: “A couple years ago, you would send a reporter out with Obama, and it was like they needed to go through detox when they came back — ‘Oh, he’s so impressive, he’s so charismatic,’ and we’re kind of like, ‘Down, boy.’”

As a candidate, the Associated Press celebrated Obama as “something special,” while as President-elect, the Washington Post drooled over his “chiseled pectorals,” on display during a vacation in Hawaii. As President, reporters touted his “prodigious talents,” his “amazing legislative agenda,” and his “huge achievements.” And as an individual, journalists fawned over Obama, calling him “one of our brightest presidents,” a “huge visionary,” “the perfect American,” “our national poet,” and “the most noble man who has ever lived in the White House.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: media; obama
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1 posted on 01/09/2017 6:26:33 PM PST by Cheerio
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To: Cheerio

Oh, the drooling won’t stop.


2 posted on 01/09/2017 6:26:58 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Cheerio

We know now, courtesy of wikileaks that the ‘Rats in the so called “news media” aren’t really cheerleaders.

They are Democrat Party operatives.


3 posted on 01/09/2017 6:28:42 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Cheerio

The left is drawn to evil like moths to a candle. There is no reasoning with them either. They will make bad decisions throughout their lives and blame their plight on those who made good decisions.


4 posted on 01/09/2017 6:30:06 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: dfwgator

It’ll continue for a little while. And he’ll do everything and anything to stay relevant. But if the Trump train starts rolling and things get better, he’ll be a thing of the past. Once scared journalists, that would have never thought to investigate him/his policies or write anything negative about him, will hopefully start to sprout up and show the world what a fraud and failure the man really is.

I, for one, still would like to know why he has a SSN from a guy in Connecticut...just sayin’


5 posted on 01/09/2017 6:30:25 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Cheerio

The descriptors used for obama are sickening.


6 posted on 01/09/2017 6:33:18 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Jan 20, 2017 Rich white man evicts black family from public housing)
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To: dfwgator

That bastard and his beard make me vomit, so for the first time in 8 years, folks will stop thinking I am bulemic!/S


7 posted on 01/09/2017 6:35:11 PM PST by MagUSNRET
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To: qaz123

Don’t kid yourself.

For 8 years, school children, especially ones in the urban areas, have been taught he is their god.

It will take years to undo his damage. And he has a much bigger following than Carter ever had.


8 posted on 01/09/2017 6:35:46 PM PST by del4hope
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To: Cheerio

Unfortunately the drooling will continue for at least another decade. The media simply loves the doofus.I can hardly wait for the cheerleaders in the media to convince the wookie to run for office in a few years. Just wait for the zero clan to move to a blue state for an easy win.


9 posted on 01/09/2017 6:36:36 PM PST by Fzob (Let the saving love of Christ be the measure of our lives.)
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To: del4hope

I’m not denying that. But I think, if Trump is as successful as we all hope, that obama’s legacy( as dismal as it is to any sane person) will truly unravel into a big giant heap of shit. And there just might be one, enthusiastic individual might just start putting the pieces together. A Breitbart or Hastings kind of person.


10 posted on 01/09/2017 6:39:54 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Cheerio

I could see Osama coming over two years out. He was the won nobody would say ‘no’ to. I saw Trump coming a long way out. He saw back in ‘10 that there was a movement big enough to take over, but it lacked a leader. I credit him for not trying to take over then, and I sure appreciate him as my Glorious Leader now.


11 posted on 01/09/2017 6:40:03 PM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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And there are other mysteries too. Why did his book publisher indicate that he was born in Kenya?? Where woukd the publisher have gotten such a notion??

Why did he tell George S. In an interview about “my Muslim faith” and had to be corrected by George? Would any of you ever misstate your religion in that manner??

When Obama declared his support for homosexual marriage, Newsweek put him on the cover with the caption “our first gay president”. Was that intending to send a message???

There are other mysteries too. Maybe years from now we will learn the truth.


12 posted on 01/09/2017 6:40:36 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Cheerio

The Democrat Party is no longer a political party; it has become an Obama Cult. The closest historic parallel we have to this Obama Cult is the followers of the James Warren (Jim) Jones Cult who, at the behest of Jim Jones, willingly killed themselves with cyanide laced Kool-Aid, and, of course, both Jim Jones and Obama were “Community Organizers,” and both were/are avowed Marxist Communists with membership in the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

The only difference between the Obama Cult and the Jim Jones Cult, other than the enormous size of the Obama Cult, is that Jim Jones offered his followers poisoned Kool-Aid at the end, and Obama is offering his followers revolution, but the end result is the same: their followers perish.


13 posted on 01/09/2017 6:41:21 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Cheerio

Sickening. Unfortunately, Obama doesn’t intend to just fade into the background and his media lackeys will be only too glad to help keep him in the forefront.


14 posted on 01/09/2017 6:41:48 PM PST by Avalon Memories (If Russia did influence our election, they did us a huge favor!)
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To: qaz123

Hopefully that one enthusiastic individual in AG Sessions.

:-)


15 posted on 01/09/2017 6:41:54 PM PST by del4hope
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To: Fzob
Unfortunately the drooling will continue for at least another decade. The media simply loves the doofus.I can hardly wait for the cheerleaders in the media to convince the wookie to run for office in a few years. Just wait for the zero clan to move to a blue state for an easy win.

School children sing praises to their savior Obama

Obama Youth Brigade March in Formation

6 Videos Of School Children Singing Songs That Praise Barack Obama

Our Hitler is our Lord


16 posted on 01/09/2017 6:59:41 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: dfwgator

I love when Obama said his administration has been scandal free, and the press runs with this nonsense. Sure, it’s been eight years of the media covering for him every way possible, because noway could they allow their affirmative action poster boy be seen as a failure. Scandal is nothing but a media creation.


17 posted on 01/09/2017 7:01:00 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Cheerio

A cokehead Communist fooled almost every Washington and New York journalist from day one.
18 posted on 01/09/2017 7:04:35 PM PST by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: Cheerio

How utterly vapid and empty are liberals? Go check the quotes in this article.

BUMP!


19 posted on 01/09/2017 7:06:17 PM PST by upchuck (Obama once thought that he belonged to the ages. Now he belongs in the rubbish bin. h/t D.Greenfield)
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To: dfwgator

No, it won’t. We’ll be subject to a daily assault of “what Obama said or did today”


20 posted on 01/09/2017 7:23:55 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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