Showing posts with label Liberal Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liberal Media. Show all posts

Monday, October 19, 2009

Obama's White House Claims Media Control

So says Anita Dunn, Comrade Chairman O's White House Communication's Director, and admirer of the murderous Mao, who had this to say in a recent video conference with the government of the Dominican Republic (emphasis mine):

"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.

"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.

"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it," Dunn said.

[...]

Continued Dunn: "Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying."
You will find the rest of the WorldNetDaily article here.

You can read Glenn Beck's take on Dunn here.

I find it not a little troubling (yet not at all surprising) that this particular White House has placed an admirer of Mao in charge of it's communications, as there is no shortage of people swirling around Obama who have a high level of admiration for the most murderous and freedom-robbing form of government the world has yet seen.

I truly am beginning to wonder just how many more Marxists/communists and their sympathizers are going to turn up in the current administration before the republicans get off the couch and start asking some tough questions.

To this point, they have had distressingly little to say.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

E & P: Congressional Hearings on The Future Of Newspapers

Via Editor & Publisher:
Congressional Hearing on the Future of Newspapers Set For Thursday

By Joe Strupp

Published: September 23, 2009 10:55b AM ET
NEW YORK While the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday takes up the issue of a federal shield law, another congressional committee in the House will be focused on the impact of the newspaper industry's financial problems.

Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), Chair of the House Joint Economic Committee (JEC), will convene a hearing "to examine contraction in the newspaper industry, the economic impact of the changing media landscape, as well as the future of the industry at large," according to an announcement. The hearing, titled "The Future of Newspapers: The Impact on the Economy and Democracy," will take place Thursday, at 10:00 am in the Cannon House Office Building.

"I am holding the Joint Economic Committee hearing to examine the importance of newspapers to our democracy throughout our nation's history and the treacherous economic landscape they face," Maloney wrote in a statement to E&P. "The witnesses will review alternative funding options for newspapers in our new and ever-changing electronic age. Since the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the federal government has acknowledged that the press is an institution which is afforded special protections by name. In this spirit, I think that the government can help foster solutions for this industry in ways which protect the independence of newspapers and enables their objective reporting to thrive in a new economic and media climate."

Among the witnesses scheduled to testify are Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, and Dr. Paul Starr, professor of sociology and public affairs, Stuart Chair of Communications and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.


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I smell another government bailout in the works, and that is not a good thing, particularly in this area.

It's bad enough that the Main Stream Media (MSM) is already in the tank for the socialists, but allowing them to eventually have ultimate control over the media (and that is where this is headed) would give us the one thing we should strive to avoid in a free republic:

A for-real State Controlled Media.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

If You Oppose Obama, Then You Must Be A Racist

I have been trying hard to ignore the cries of RACISM! that have been emanating from our friends on the left of late, and which are aimed at those of us opposed to the hideous, nation-destroying policies of Barack Hussein Obama. I understand why they are doing it, as they have run out of ways to defend the rapidly failing presidency of the former ACORN lawyer and community agitator, and are now reduced to scraping the bottom of their arsenal barrel in a desperate effort to try and save it for him.

Now they have gone out and dug up our 39th POTUS, affectionately known in my circles as Jihad Jimmy, and who proudly wears his antisemitism on his sleeve, to join them in hurling this ridiculous charge in a pathetic attempt to intimidate us pale-faces into silence:


What I find puzzling about the remarks of my former governor is they are coming from someone who is essentially occupying the 43rd spot on the POTUS totem pole. Why would he want to come to the aid of a man that is on a pace to possibly knock him up a notch?

This latest scheme by the left and their dog-washers in the State Controlled Media (SCM) to paint opponents of Obama as racists will ultimately backfire on them, just as their boycott of Glenn Beck and their attack on Rep. Joe Wilson did.

What is truly sad about this latest lefty lunacy is that it could very well damage race relations to a point that may take decades to repair. Isn't it strange how those who claim to support "racial harmony" are the first to fan the flames of racial division every chance they get?

Back when I was researching Obama, it quickly became apparent that he was no "uniter," but was, in fact, a divider. This prompted me to post on several Internet sites that, if elected, Obama could well set race relations in this nation back two decades.

I may have been wrong, as it appears he could set them back far further.

How unfortunate for America.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. -Dorothy Thompson