Team Obama: "We Control the Media"

[uptownlivin90]

I repeat,no Corporation that owns several Media Outlets should have ever been allowed to receive Bailout Money.

I repeat. I agree.

It is certainly no coincidence that GE-Owned Media Outlets like Newsweek,NBC,and the Washington Post have been found to be absolute Mouth-Pieces for this administration.

I repeat. I agree. They've been mouth pieces for the left for years BEFORE this administration, so it isn't any coincidence (and it's only a suprise to those that's had they're head stuck in the mud for the past decade) that they're pro-Obama... sicne he's a Democrat. If it was Hillary, or Biden, or anybody else... same results. Stop making EVERYTHING about Obama.

Oh... and the Washington Post Co and Newsweek are not owned by GE... try again.

They did receive Government Bailout Money and continue to receive it. It's just wrong no matter how the Hopey Changeys try to spin it. If Rupert Murdoch was given all those $Millions in Bailout Money,i'm sure the Hopey Changeys would have a completely different take on that. Hmm?

Yeah IT IS WRONG... unfortunetly for your argument that they're support of the democratic administration comes from them getting bailout money they got it originally from BUSH. Obama just said he was going to stop it, but didn't. Which is what he does about lot of things he says he's going to do.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Correction...Forget $Millions. GE has received a staggering $140 Billion in Tax Payer Bailout Cash. Yikes! Yea i'm sure all the Hopey Changeys would feel the same way if Rupert Murdoch received $140 Billion in Tax Payer cash. What a bunch of disingenuous hypocrites.

 

[uptownlivin90]

Correction...Forget $Millions. GE has received a staggering $140 Billion in Tax Payer Bailout Cash. Yikes! Yea i'm sure all the Hopey Changeys would feel the same way if Rupert Murdoch received $140 Billion in Tax Payer cash. What a bunch of disingenuous hypocrites.

I don't know about hopey changeys... but I would feel the exact same way... angry and disappointed... and hungry.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

You would think this would actually offend Journalists. The same White House Director of Communications,Anita Dunn,was also caught openly boasting about using Mao Tse Tung tactics to control the Media. This bizarre stuff should be alarming to all Americans and especially to all Journalists. Hmm?

 

[EriktheRed]

I saw this was another work of wingnut art by Frank, so I had good idea what I'd find when I clicked on this thread. I wasn't disappointed because one of the first things I saw before even reading the OP was this:

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Then I actually sullied my 'puter by following the link and found that the story in question was indeed a big, steaming pile of RW excrement.


Keep up the good work, Frankie!

 

[LibocalypseNow]

She clearly stated that they do control the Media. I'm actually very surprised that this doesn't offend more Journalists. This really isn't all that complicated in the end. Just listen to her own words. Enough of the pathetic spin & B.S. Just listen to the woman's own words. Nuff said.

 

[Charles Stucker]

News flash
Liberals took control of the media in the 1960's
Details to follow on 2100

 

[EriktheRed]

She clearly stated that they do control the Media. I'm actually very surprised that this doesn't offend more Journalists. This really isn't all that complicated in the end. Just listen to her own words. Enough of the pathetic spin & B.S. Just listen to the woman's own words. Nuff said.

She "clearly stated that they do control the Media" in the context of how they control their message to the media, which isn't at all the same as actually directly controlling the media as if it were Pravda, which is what the OP and WND are suggesting through their choice of title for this pile of dung. I think both you and Frank know this, too.

When you get right down to it, she admitted to nothing more than something past US governments and governments all over the world do. It's up to the media to ferret out what they're not saying.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

She clearly stated that they do control the Media. I'm actually very surprised that this doesn't offend more Journalists. This really isn't all that complicated in the end. Just listen to her own words. Enough of the pathetic spin & B.S. Just listen to the woman's own words. Nuff said.

Do you actually expect anyone on the left to give their honest opinion on this subject? They railed and bitched and whined for 8 years about the same thing with Bush yet when their own party apparatchiks do it.....it's OK all of a sudden.


Obama is just.....

 

[Charles Stucker]

When you get right down to it, she admitted to nothing more than something past US governments and governments all over the world do.

I'm not sure if you noticed, but the "true conservative diehards" are generally only worthy of snarky satire. You might want to save serious thought for those who might benefit.

 

[Maple]

Anita Dumb finally admits what even Helen Thomas finds painfully obvious: the American media is run out of the White House

White House boasts: We 'control' news media
Communications chief offers shocking confession to foreign government
Posted: October 18, 2009
7:11 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

TEL AVIV – President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference."

White House boasts: We 'control' news media

“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try. What the hell do they think we are, puppets? They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.” -- Helen Thomas

Better Late Than Never

FOX dug its own hole.. By giving soft interviews to republicans at election time, and by being so one sided.

The White house never said jack about trying to cut off FOX- They are just giving controlled STATEMENTS to avoid all the spin that whiny ass republicans just love to use.

Now, what is this? FOX is feeling the heat, because the conservative base is shrinking, and the liberal base is growing- and their viewing audience is diminishing? So, they take this comment from the white house calling them on how unbalanced they are, and suddenly there's a civil war all over again??

I swear, republicans will use any excuse at all to fucking start a war. Crybabies. Get over it.

I think you need to pay very careful attention to the two gubenatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, heavily democratic states that are about to vote Republican, and I can't wait until 2010 when you will see a sunami of change in congress and the senate.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

She clearly stated that they do control the Media. I'm actually very surprised that this doesn't offend more Journalists. This really isn't all that complicated in the end. Just listen to her own words. Enough of the pathetic spin & B.S. Just listen to the woman's own words. Nuff said.

She "clearly stated that they do control the Media" in the context of how they control their message to the media, which isn't at all the same as actually directly controlling the media as if it were Pravda, which is what the OP and WND are suggesting through their choice of title for this pile of dung. I think both you and Frank know this, too.

When you get right down to it, she admitted to nothing more than something past US governments and governments all over the world do. It's up to the media to ferret out what they're not saying.

Look. If you control what the media receives from you in the way of news...don't you in effect control what the media says about you?

Why is it so hard for you to grasp this concept?

When ANYONE controls what the media sees and reports it does a disservice to the American people and journalists everywhere.

 

[uptownlivin90]

She clearly stated that they do control the Media. I'm actually very surprised that this doesn't offend more Journalists. This really isn't all that complicated in the end. Just listen to her own words. Enough of the pathetic spin & B.S. Just listen to the woman's own words. Nuff said.

They control what they say to the media. They don't control the media.

Clearly the study I posted demonstrating that Obama's positive coverage is going down in most every news broadcasting station... they DON'T.

 

[uptownlivin90]

She clearly stated that they do control the Media. I'm actually very surprised that this doesn't offend more Journalists. This really isn't all that complicated in the end. Just listen to her own words. Enough of the pathetic spin & B.S. Just listen to the woman's own words. Nuff said.

Do you actually expect anyone on the left to give their honest opinion on this subject? They railed and bitched and whined for 8 years about the same thing with Bush yet when their own party apparatchiks do it.....it's OK all of a sudden.


Obama is just.....

My problem is when Obama does something that all the presidents have done in last couple of decades and manipulate the media it ALL OF A SUDDEN becomes some sort of communist conspiracy... rather then just how politics works in this nation. Politicians suck. They have for a long time.

 

[Annie]

She clearly stated that they do control the Media. I'm actually very surprised that this doesn't offend more Journalists. This really isn't all that complicated in the end. Just listen to her own words. Enough of the pathetic spin & B.S. Just listen to the woman's own words. Nuff said.

Do you actually expect anyone on the left to give their honest opinion on this subject? They railed and bitched and whined for 8 years about the same thing with Bush yet when their own party apparatchiks do it.....it's OK all of a sudden.


Obama is just.....

My problem is when Obama does something that all the presidents have done in last couple of decades and manipulate the media it ALL OF A SUDDEN becomes some sort of communist conspiracy... rather then just how politics works in this nation. Politicians suck. They have for a long time.

You just blocked out or ignored the right's criticism of GB1 & 2. Though you really should have noticed GB1 didn't get a second term. Suck it up.

 

[uptownlivin90]

Anita Dumb finally admits what even Helen Thomas finds painfully obvious: the American media is run out of the White House

White House boasts: We 'control' news media
Communications chief offers shocking confession to foreign government
Posted: October 18, 2009
7:11 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

TEL AVIV – President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference."

White House boasts: We 'control' news media

“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try. What the hell do they think we are, puppets? They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.” -- Helen Thomas

Better Late Than Never

FOX dug its own hole.. By giving soft interviews to republicans at election time, and by being so one sided.

The White house never said jack about trying to cut off FOX- They are just giving controlled STATEMENTS to avoid all the spin that whiny ass republicans just love to use.

Now, what is this? FOX is feeling the heat, because the conservative base is shrinking, and the liberal base is growing- and their viewing audience is diminishing? So, they take this comment from the white house calling them on how unbalanced they are, and suddenly there's a civil war all over again??

I swear, republicans will use any excuse at all to fucking start a war. Crybabies. Get over it.

I think you need to pay very careful attention to the two gubenatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, heavily democratic states that are about to vote Republican, and I can't wait until 2010 when you will see a sunami of change in congress and the senate.

Just stop talking. Really. Virginia is not and has never been a "heavily democratic state". It's been changing to a moderate state over the past decade but that's only because of the DC suburbs. Virginia voted for a Democrat for the first time in what 60 some odd years in 2008. Again because of the growing DC suburbs, and because of younger voters. The only Democrats that win local elections in Virginia are the conservadems. Virginia IS move further right again, but it has never been "left" at all.

As for NJ I highly doubt there will be a republican governor. Corzine is very unpopular but there are alot of people in NJ that would rather literally watch their state fall apart then be caught dead voting for a Republican.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

This administration is becoming alarmingly arrogant. This is an issue that really should be alarming to all Americans and especially to all Journalists.

 

[uptownlivin90]

Do you actually expect anyone on the left to give their honest opinion on this subject? They railed and bitched and whined for 8 years about the same thing with Bush yet when their own party apparatchiks do it.....it's OK all of a sudden.


Obama is just.....

My problem is when Obama does something that all the presidents have done in last couple of decades and manipulate the media it ALL OF A SUDDEN becomes some sort of communist conspiracy... rather then just how politics works in this nation. Politicians suck. They have for a long time.

You just blocked out or ignored the right's criticism of GB1 & 2. Though you really should have noticed GB1 didn't get a second term. Suck it up.

Critizism of Bush is just that critizism of Bush. I really don't care if you critize Obama, I do that too. My problem is making Obama into a socialist dictator wanna-be when he IS NOT, he's just an American politician... and that's bad enough.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

My problem is when Obama does something that all the presidents have done in last couple of decades and manipulate the media it ALL OF A SUDDEN becomes some sort of communist conspiracy... rather then just how politics works in this nation. Politicians suck. They have for a long time.

You just blocked out or ignored the right's criticism of GB1 & 2. Though you really should have noticed GB1 didn't get a second term. Suck it up.

Critizism of Bush is just that critizism of Bush. I really don't care if you critize Obama, I do that too. My problem is making Obama into a socialist dictator wanna-be when he IS NOT, he's just an American politician... and that's bad enough.

Point understood...Obama IS just another politician who is there to represent the people. When he puts stories out that "they have complete control over" this does journalism a huge disservice because they think "well...Obama's team did all of our work!!! Let's just put it out like they gave it to us." I find this whole issue quite telling in that Obama seems to have pulled a page from Hugo Chavez's book.

If you control what the media sees and hears about you...you control the media.

Why is this fact so difficult to swallow?

 

[Annie]

My problem is when Obama does something that all the presidents have done in last couple of decades and manipulate the media it ALL OF A SUDDEN becomes some sort of communist conspiracy... rather then just how politics works in this nation. Politicians suck. They have for a long time.

You just blocked out or ignored the right's criticism of GB1 & 2. Though you really should have noticed GB1 didn't get a second term. Suck it up.

Critizism of Bush is just that critizism of Bush. I really don't care if you critize Obama, I do that too. My problem is making Obama into a socialist dictator wanna-be when he IS NOT, he's just an American politician... and that's bad enough.

Really? Where? Regarding the bolded.

Obama's administration has obvious inclinations not only to socialism via financials and health care, but also towards fascism regarding insurance companies' freedoms to communicate with their insureds without threat of IRS audits and other threats.