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The Media Notices that Barack Obama is sort of Full of Crap

By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary)  |  October 7th, 2011 at 10:30 AM  | 

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If I were President Obama’s political team, the only hope I would harbor right now for Obama’s re-election would center on the President being able to hold the line with his base – which is to say, the national media. Based on the questions asked in yesterday’s press conference, it may be time for administration officials to start polishing their CVs for employment in the private sector. Obama fielded, by my count, three hostile questions on Solyndra, and one on the Fast and the Furious. Through it all, Obama continually attempted to return the conversation to his jobs bill which has literally zero hope of passing either house, and in fact is so doomed that it probably won’t even be brought to the floor, barring a major change in the political climate. Even this tactic failed to faze the press, who seemed to actually taunt the President over his inability to get anyone to care about his worthless jobs bill:

Q. And secondly, on your jobs bill, the American people are sick of games — and you mentioned games in your comments. They want results. Wouldn’t it be more productive to work with Republicans on a plan that you know could pass Congress as opposed to going around the country talking about your bill and singling out — calling out Republicans by name?

Q. My question has to do with your powers of persuasion. During the debt ceiling debate, you asked for the American public to call members of Congress and switchboards got jammed. You have done a similar thing while going around the country doing this. Talking to members of Congress, there’s not the same reaction; you’re not seeing — hearing about phones being jammed. Talking to one member of Congress, he told me there’s a disillusionment he’s concerned about with the public that maybe they just don’t believe anything can get done anyway. Are you worried about your own powers of persuasion, and maybe that the American public is not listening to you anymore?

Q Thank you, Mr. President. Anybody on Capitol Hill will say that there’s no chance that the American Jobs Act, in its current state, passes either House. And you’ve been out on the campaign trail banging away at them saying, pass this bill. And it begins, sir, to look like you’re campaigning, and like you’re following the Harry Truman model against the do-nothing Congress instead of negotiating.

 Both the tone and the substance of these questions should be worrisome to the White House. More worrisome, to some extent, should be the follow-up coverage from the press. It is one thing to notice that Obama is completely disconnected from the country at large and has no effective political power – it is quite another for the media to actually call out Obama on his favorite tactic of attacking strawmen instead of actual Republicans. In this Associated Press piece (via The Transom) the AP took the unusual step, in a piece dripping with sarcasm, of calling out Obama for lying about Republicans in Congress, opening the bidding by noting that “In challening Republicans to get behind his jobs bill Thursday. . . The rhetoric in the president’s quick-moving press conference dodged some facts and left some evidence in the dust.”

In less than three short years, Obama has gone from the President most beloved of the American media since JFK into an object of scorn for the very same media. If he’s lost his last natural constituency this thoroughly, his re-election chances look very dim indeed.

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  • DerKrieger

    We know that if the elections were held today that Obama would lose and we’d be rid of him. However, he is doing us an invaluable service in continuing to discredit himself and liberalism. Hopefully he discredits the Left so badly it cant ever recover.
    So should I be happy or not hat we’re stuck with him for another 15 months?

    • acat

      The reasons don’t really matter – “Stepping aside to spend more time with the family” or “medical issue” or whatever.

      At this point, as I think you’re alluding to, Obama generates negative coattails, that is, he makes it easier for the GOP.

      I expect, eventually, a committee of Dems from the House and Senate who are facing tough campaigns, possibly led by Dick Durbin (D-Il-knows-where-the-skeletons-are) to knock on the door at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, and have a frank and honest shouting match with Obama. And win.

      My hope, that you echo, is that he’ll be in the primary long enough to do maximum damage.

      Mew

      • blooch

        to the mix, such as:

        –When asked about the Republican Party’s strength, Biden said, “It’s strong enough to beat both of us.”–

        Beat you in parallel or serially, Joe? It sounds like he means that if Barry is decisively “beaten” in the polls and declines to run again, even ol’ Super Joe won’t be able to overcome the GOP Kryptonite if he runs in 2012. I know it’s a real stretch, but there seems to be something odd about Biden’s comments, image and presence lately, as if he’s being prepped for your scenario.

        And I bet PUMA Hillary’s whiskers are so long right now they’d put your’s to shame.

      • florajo

        Obama will continue stinking it up. I don’t think the Dems have a decent replacement.

        • acat

          Yes, Obama stinks. Worse, Obama stinks on ice, and will depress voter turnout in the down-ticket races.

          The calculus of the Dems is, therefore, not whether they can keep the White House (1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) but what they can do to protect the down-ticket races.

          Can they, for instance, limit the GOP to a handful – 4 or 5 – Senate wins with a different candidate? If so, then conservatives are stuck with the Lib-GOP wing (i.e. the Maine Twins, Scott Brown, Mark Kirk, etc.) and will need someone in the White House who can tell his or her own party “No.” .. and mean it.

          Put another way, if they run Bill Richardson, do they pick up enough Hispanic voters to cancel out the losses among Black voters? If they run Hillary Clinton, do they pick up enough soccer moms (and how effective will Bill Clinton be in reaching out to blacks) to cancel out losses?

          In short, it’s like a doctor examining a patient with gangrene in the floot. They can’t save the White House, instead Dems have to be looking at how much of the legislative branch (and statehouse races…) they can save. Do they lose just the foot? Do they lose the knee?

          Mew

          • florajo

            Maybe this is what Reid’s thinking when he “fixes” Obama’s jobs bill. He’s separating his Dems from Obama (or trying to).

          • acat

            Hope that Obama will be on the ballot.

            Mew

          • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

            but I do NOT want to see any of these next year:

    • anotheraveragejoe

      how much collateral damage he would do to the country before it takes the Left to realize it’s not actually a good idea to loose a bull in a china shop.

      I don’t look forward to the proposition, but I would rather fight till my deathbed than in eight years be standing on the smoldering ruins of a once great nation and say “I told you so.”

    • cwfoster

      That there will BE elections! I’m thinking the AFL-CIO/SEIU purple people beaters will incite these mobs to riot and that will be the excuse to declare martial law, and suspend civil liberties. Take the scenario from there to it’s logical conclusion yourself.

      • kenchely

        Back in 1999-2000, there was a suggestion that Clinton was going to do that. It didn’t happen.

        I’m a conservative, too, but we shouldn’t get ourselves wound up in things that are extremely unlikely. It was unlikely then; it is just as unlikely now.

        As far as the “purple people beaters”, I would suggest that in any urban county where prosecutors are known to give unions an exemption from the law, we should be finding candidates for the prosecutorial office, be it called District Attorney, County Prosecutor or State’s Attorney. In places where the politics are so lopsided that a Republican can never be elected to that office–the last Republican State’s Attorney in Cook County was in the 70′s, similarly in Philadelphia (and the last Republican DA in Philadelphia was one Arlen Specter)–then, if the GOP wins the presidential election, US Attorneys with appropriate jurisdiction should look at federal prosecutions of Democratic hoodlumism. It is forever to the disgrace of the Bush administration that they didn’t prosecute those Teamster thugs who beat up that guy in Philadelphia in 1998. Probably too late on that one now, but not too late to prosecute the SEIU thugs who beat up a black guy in St. Louis calling him a n****r. Let’s start making thuggery have consequences.

  • carolina

    I would think the media must be feeling some pressure from the lack of attention/viewership/readership. Just how many letters to the editor can they ignore?
    I also imagine there has to be some serious grumbling in the background from Senate dems, and from dem operatives. BO’s admin is inflicting serious harm on the dems. Even the biased media should be ‘getting a clue’.

  • carolina

    I would think the media must be feeling some pressure from the lack of attention/viewership/readership. Just how many letters to the editor can they ignore?
    I also imagine there has to be some serious grumbling in the background from Senate dems, and from dem operatives. BO’s admin is inflicting serious harm on the dems. Even the biased media should be ‘getting a clue’.

  • izoneguy

    Ha!! Good luck with that. The idiots in this administration have poisoned the well that I cannot see anyone in private industry hiring them. The only openings they might get will be janitors at the local union hall or heads of depts in liberal academic circles. Or they could always work on Wall Street – as professional protestors!!!

    • acat

      Isn’t that where Dems usually go hide (erm, work) when they’re not running the country?

      Mew

      • DerKrieger

        “ruining” the country, I’m sure.

        • acat

          putting it exactly that way.

          I decided to be .. PC.

          Mew

          • AceInTX

            x

          • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

            I hear that Solyndra may be looking for a decent PR team . . .

    • redbudok

      up by the “too big to fail” banks as high ranking officers. As former players in the Obama administration, they will become valuable bankers, just wait and see…..

  • http://www.skiloveland.com skicougar

    Only reason Obama isn’t viewed by a large majority of America as now worse than Carter is because most of America isn’t paying attention. American Idol and hier Facebook page still comes first.

    It’s going to take a second recession to really get people’s attention on just how bad and inept Obama is.

    Unfortunately for the US, fortunately for getting Obama out; a second recession is coming.

    • DerKrieger

      It’s the entire liberal ideology that needs to be understood by the public. If the public simply views Obama as the problem rather than his entire belief system, shared by countless other influential people, then we won’t have succeeded in driving a stake through his destructive ideology. Liberalism itself needs to be discredited and its cheerleaders driven into obscurity.

      • justiceasking

        RedState readers on the whole are an outlier of the larger country and it’s zeitgeist. If you look at the trending of this nation over it’s history, it’s slowly and steadily on a progressive tilt, socially speaking: civil rights, voting rights, education, embracing of science and reason, the decline of religion, etc.

        Economically speaking the trend is less clear. The boom of the 50′s and 60′s, via tightly controlled regulations and a higher tax rate on the wealthiest Americans, was good for all classes, not just the super rich as the last thirty years have been, thanks to deregulation and plummeting tax rates. The closer we get to pure free market capitalism, the greater the income disparity and the more the middle class as a whole falls toward poverty. It remains to be seen how America will deal with these facts. There’s the right way, and then there’s the Republican way.

        Whether or not Obama is reelected will hardly change any of this, despite what many of you hope. But like it or not, liberalism is here to stay. It was with us from the beginning. And it is that ideology, historically speaking, to which the future will always belong.

        • Repair_Man_Jack

          Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was magnificently right when he wrote the story Harrison Bergeron.

          To get a sense of what Liberal People’s Democracy is like, here’s the opening paragraph.

          THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General

        • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

          The closer we get to pure free market capitalism, the greater the income disparity and the more the middle class as a whole falls toward poverty.

          If you will do a bit of research — here, for instance — you will find that the rate of poverty was on a steady decline until the institution of Johnson’s “Great Society,” and has been steady ever since, peaking slightly during the significant recessions over the past 45 years. The middle class has been shrinking, but the loss to the middle class, statistically, has been those moving to the upper class or rich class. Poverty has not expanded, and your conclusions are a fallacy.

        • tommyc

          http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html

          The liberal idea that income equality bad is completely discredited.

          When the richest can afford spaceships…(will make sense if you watch the link)

      • bygeorge

        Kicking the Can…

        Oh!, were it so that the lame stream media would examine and dissect the perfidies and crimes conducted in the name of national politics with the same fervor and detail as ESPN did on Tony Roma?s last two minutes in the Dallas Cowboy?s losing contest with the New York Jets. If they did we might not be faced with the serious problems that confront us today.

        Our government is composed of a pod of fools (and criminals) who, like children playing in the street kicking the can down the road, continue the process until the can is so battered as to be unrecognizable as an original can. Sometimes they will even whack it with a stick! And, therein lies the problem. When we speak of kicking the can down the road, using it as a metaphor for not solving our problem (obscene government spending) but passing the problem forward for another group of witless politicians to solve, we totally lose site of the fact that the problem was the ?can?.

        I want to quote my good friend and sometime contributor, Jerry D. once again who copied me these words he sent to our national politicians:

        ?What disturbs me most about the spineless legislative eunuchs that represent us is not their inability to stand as Statesmen in the defense of their country, but rather their inability to even stand as MEN in defense of their families.
        How will they face their grandchildren when they ask, ?Gramps, why did you just sit there, mute as a stone, when MY future was being stolen??
        I don?t believe that Grandpa Saxby?s tale that he was once a signatory on a stern letter addressed to Harry Reid, is gonna cut it.?

        So, we have had no budget from the Democrats for over 800 days, yet we see them whining and blaming Republicans wanting to nix more taxes in the Continuing Resolutions to fund government, for a failure to compromise, thus threatening the shut down of government. Oh, the humanity! And now our President fans the fires of envy against those who produce work for Americans with the apparent goal in mind of pompously proclaiming ?rioting in the streets? and declaring that American is out of control and the people (the losers) can only be safe if he, in his infinite wisdom, declares marshal law. The beatings will not stop until moral improves! He is down to 38% approval rating in the popularity polls portending no hope of re-election, so his only plan is to create a civil war.I would have never believed I could utter such a thing but with this enemy of America occupying the Executive, obeying no laws and ignoring the Constitution, then I can now easily believe it. This man lies about the wealthy, lies about Green Energy, lies about our foreign commitments and doubtless lies about his golf score.

        We are now in a monumental clash between good and evil; between Capitalism, from which everyone can profit if they work for it, and Socialism by which everyone is provided for by the government, cradle to the grave. Of course, since the tax base of the producers will have dissolved under the failed socialist plan of wealth redistribution, then the freebies that government doles out will be only to the favored. All the rest of us will live as equals in rationed poverty, misery, hunger and early death. We will watch as our children and grandchildren dissolve into pliant boot lickers suitable only for refilling the ranks of previous, witless politicians who learned their craft at the knees of our spineless RiNO?s.

    • acat

      There’s a member of my household who was rather peeved at Obama because, back when he was acting on his belief that his voice is a cure-all, he preempted American Idol for more speechifying .. and the TiVo didn’t catch the time shift.

      His handlers have, apparently, figured out *not* to do that.

      Mew

      • http://www.skiloveland.com skicougar

        I’m not suprised when I hear stories like that anymore, it just gives me more reasons to drink to forget them.

  • SG_Lominac

    by the MSM prevalent of late. I always get a chuckle when Rush uses that line. I have wondered for some time if it’s the Clintonistas using their contacts to probe the lines for soft underbelly….and if they find it soft enough? Pure speculation on my part, it could be what it appears. The MSM losing viewer/readership propping up this inept tinpot.

  • johnt

    Considering the slime of this petty, hate filled little man this is a drop in the bucket, welcome but late and we probably won’t get much more. For this to happen the media would have to admit they blundered in creating this Frankenstein, not likely. Remember, most of the low life idiots in the press are sympathetic to his program of destruction. I guess they think they will be exempt from the painful results.

    • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

      When the greenies manage to shut down all the coal-fired power plants without nukes to replace them, the media morons will be turning hand cranks on their cameras and typing up their late-breaking stories on manual Underwoods.

  • jaykali

    It only took 3 years for Obama to finally get some tough questions. I was asking even 2 years in where are the tough questions? The only interview I can recall was Brett Baier’s interview where he threw some tough questions out and was roundly criticized by the media for dare interrupting Obama. Well the sheen has worn off, this is great news.

  • AceInTX

    The Media Notices that Barack Obama is sort of Full of Crap

    • acat

      that it is 100% pure crap?

      Sounds like a job for Mike Rowe.

      Mew

      p.s.

      • AceInTX

        I wonder though, does one have to be filled the brim before one is full of crap or can one be full of crap if one is only filled up to one’s eyeballs?

        But that’s a glass half empty glass half full discussion isn’t it?

        • AceInTX

          the evidence is building that Obama is full of crap at least somewhere between his eyeballs and brim

  • paulplantowin

    They jumped the gun. They got so juiced about this guy they couldn’t help themselves. The thrill up the leg bunch get as excited about Nobama as I would seeing Holder in handcuffs.
    But they never reckoned with a few items that have surfaced during O’s times.
    They didn’t see how destructive of the cause he would be if he failed utterly!
    They never considered the possibility of his ineptness being SO bad.
    And they underestimated the part of America that produced the Tea Party.
    I also think they underestimated the alternative media.
    now they are in a bind – screwed if they prop him up because of the damage he’ll do (that we are hoping for)
    screwed if they turn on him – the momentum they lose by such a tactic must be horrlble for them to contemplate!
    I’m a little too nervous that they’ll pull something out of their butts I’m missing to enjoy their dilemma fully
    But I’m seeing cracks more and more.

  • JimmyGee

    I’ve said this before in another post here on Red State. What you are seeing is the opening salvo from the MSM. Let’s not kid ourselves here. The MSM and liberals are many things, but stupid is not one of them.
    They knew that Obama was the tool to get them into the White House. They knew all about Obama thin skill-sets, that is why they did everything to hide them! Has anyone seen Obama’s college or law school records? They are all sealed! If it was a GOP president you know that there would be a army of DNC and MSM lawyers doing everything to get any sealed records opened!
    They also know that they are completely, totally, and utterly screwed come 2012. They are looking at losing EVERYTHING in Washington. The DNC and their minions like the MSM are starting to turn on Obama because they have to. He is so egotistical, self-centered, and narcissistic that he will not run “for the good of the country’” or “the good of democratic party.” It’s not in his entitlement DNA.
    The MSM would not dare ask a hard-ball questions without the consent of the DNC leadership. Period!
    The DNC is starting to lay the foundation via the MSM to force Obama to “reconsider” running for a second term.
    My opinion here is that the DNC wants Hillary for 2012, and they have to be very, very careful in how they show Obama the door.

    • paulplantowin

      is a double edged sword for them. They can’t get rid of him if he won’t go. Their own race card is a joker now!

    • avagreen

      She and her minions have been chewing away at his underbelly from day one.

      And, Soros has loosed the dogs of hell (the MSM) against O because of his inability to chew gum and talk at the same time. So, they are doing a number on him so they can save face and separate themselves from the total trainwreck he is/was/has become. (sortuv the same things you said.)

      The MSM, as you said, can only cover so much.

      However, then there is Van Jones and his tripe willing to do whatever is needed to continue the hold on the WH. ??

  • geckholm

    in time for the election. The new comeback kid.

  • Carol Tarasewicz

    But this has been going on all day and it’s now 12:52 am Saturday. I read the other posts first. I agree the DNC is going to get Durbin to give Obama tha walking papers, but Obama will pull the race card, I am at a loss except to say Obama has always been 100% phony and full of it, if you want to call it fertilizer, that’s fine. I have a rose garden but would not use Obama’s “fertilizer”.

    I think that the media is trying to find another fool for a candidate and my guess is Huntsman. I do not think the media is going to give up liberalism, that’s what they live for.

    • davesinsanantonio

      why Huntsman didn’t run as a Democrat in the first place. I wonder if he would accept the VP slot on a Hilarity ticket.

  • 2warabnvet

    is, in large part, a media creation. They cannot possibly turn against their Messiah.

  • hoootie

    “One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors.” Plato

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