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NYT James Risen Says Obama WH Has Been ‘ Most Anti Press Administration ’
Posted on 12/26/16 at 11:36 am
Posted on 12/26/16 at 11:36 am
NYT James Risen Says Obama WH Has Been ‘ Most Anti Press Administration ’ Since Nixon - YouTube
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Posted on 12/26/16 at 11:39 am to cajunangelle
So the kids are saying, Daddy hates us?
Makes sense, press spent 8 years trying their best to get Obama's approval.
Makes sense, press spent 8 years trying their best to get Obama's approval.
Posted on 12/26/16 at 11:41 am to cajunangelle
The press corps was saying this around the start of his second term.
Posted on 12/26/16 at 11:41 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
These jackasses spent 8 years copping his stick, screw them.
If they had done their damn job 9 years ago and vetting his commie arse this country wouldn't be as screwed up as it is.
If they had done their damn job 9 years ago and vetting his commie arse this country wouldn't be as screwed up as it is.
Posted on 12/26/16 at 11:42 am to bamarep
Thread hijack:
Why can't someone find Obama's birth certificate in a public records request?
Guarantee you they could find mine in 30 minutes by looking at the first 3 of my SSN.
This shouldn't be that hard.
Why can't someone find Obama's birth certificate in a public records request?
Guarantee you they could find mine in 30 minutes by looking at the first 3 of my SSN.
This shouldn't be that hard.
Posted on 12/26/16 at 11:45 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Create an ‘Echo Chamber,’ Then Cast off Allies
How would the American people react to knowing that an administration, then still stinging from Republican critiques of its anti-Americanism and weakness on the world stage, was holding secret negotiations in Oman with the most powerful still-standing member of George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil”?
Under these conditions, Obama—with the help of an equally arrogant 38-year-old national security fabulist, Ben Rhodes (with whom he’s said to “mind-meld”)—succeeded in remaking the Middle East to empower America’s most hated enemy, the only United Nations member state committed to the annihilation of another state: the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran.
Rhodes and Obama knew that, for anyone but the hard-left to accept a deal with America’s bitter enemy in Tehran, a new narrative needed to emerge, even if it was relatively transparent nonsense. As Rhodes explained to his bemused interviewer, David Samuels, in a New York Times Magazine profile this weekend, it was first necessary to lie to a corrupted and inexperienced American media about all sorts of things, beginning with the nature and intentions of the enemy Iranian regime. Subsequent lies were caked on, as the White House took advantage of a dangerous mix of journalists’ ignorance, their ideological and partisan commitment to the administration, and, finally, their career aspirations.
Rhodes said, “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns… They literally know nothing.” Thus they will believe what he tells them. He also tells friendly non-governmental organizations and think tanks what he is telling the journalists. Those outlets produce “experts” whose expert opinion is just what Rhodes wants it to be. These ignorant young journalists thus have quotes that look like independent confirmation of the White House’s lies. Here’s how Samuels describes the scene:
In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. ‘We created an echo chamber,’ [Rhodes] admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly minted experts cheerleading for the deal. ‘They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.’ (emphasis added)
Of course, spinning reporters and promoting experts isn’t exactly new; it’s been standard practice in political warfare since the birth of the first press corps. What’s both new and frightening is what Rhodes’ and Obama’s effort furthers. As Lee Smith sums up in the Weekly Standard,
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Posted on 12/26/16 at 11:48 am to King Teal
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Why can't someone find Obama's birth certificate in a public records request?
Some African countries don't have birth certificates now let alone 50 years ago.
There was a LLWS baseball team from Uganda a few years ago that beat the Saudis in the regional but we're refused Visas to the US and denied a berth in the LLWS because they couldn't prove how old they were.
Posted on 12/26/16 at 11:51 am to cajunangelle
Sounds like hyperbole and sour grapes over Jeff Sterling's conviction under the Espionage Act. Risen was subpoenaed to testify regarding Sterling sharing classified info with him.
Posted on 12/26/16 at 12:01 pm to cajunangelle
Quite ironic considering the press has been carrying water for Obama his entire career.
Posted on 12/26/16 at 12:03 pm to King Teal
quote:
Thread hijack:
Why can't someone find Obama's birth certificate in a public records request?
Guarantee you they could find mine in 30 minutes by looking at the first 3 of my SSN.
This shouldn't be that hard.
Are you actually admitting to deflecting this thread? Well... I returned your shot.
Posted on 12/26/16 at 2:19 pm to cajunangelle
Can't stand Obama, but never have understood the birther issue. His mother is an American, which makes him an american citizen, regardless of where he was born or who his father was.
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