Several things that I have heard
about the Media's Love Affair with Obama (and it's that bad to
Bernie Goldberg, who wrote a book called "A Slobbering Love
Affair" about the media coverage of the Obama campaign)
aren't fit for keeping conversations out of the gutter. They are 85
% or higher progressive Democrats and they figure that they, too,
will share in the power of their ideological brethren taking
control.
Fox is the only group apparently NOT following the progressive
narrative. And I think that's a good thing. Wish there were more.
David
If you
don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do
read the newspaper you are misinformed.--Mark
Twain
On 9/9/2010 12:47 AM, [email protected] wrote:
David :
What amazes me is the fact --it is a fact-- that the
Big 3 networks, plus CNN ( I won't
mention MSNBC since it is a bad joke ) simply no longer
care about ratings.
Katie Couric, after 2 years of hosting the worst rated
CBS news show ever,
while she isn't quite as bad as some predicted,
nonetheless has proven
basically a no draw. Last I heard Bob Schaefer did much
better
and he was a stand-in .
So, given the bad ratings at CBS , ABC follows with Diane
Sawyer, who is
even worse ? ? ?
Meanwhile, although she also didn't draw very well at
all, at least she was intelligent
and sometimes worth listening to, at CNN they axed
Campbell Brown . Maybe in
terms of ratings that was rational, but they replaced her
with Rick Sanchez,
a professional horse's ass. I mean, while he isn't
"evil," is there any other anchor
desk newscaster who is more basically uninformed ? The
only examples I know
of who are worse are two yuk-yuks at KMTR, a local NBC
station,
and not even Sanchez is that bad.
You'd think that with the success of Fox ( not nearly as
good as it could be,
casting for some of their news shows is sub-optimal, to
be kind ) that at least
one other network would get the idea and can its
Political Correctness ideology
and, like all good Americans, chase after the almighty
dollar.
But, no, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN would all rather lose a
lot of money
and insult Fox and the American public, and then wonder
what could be wrong.
Go figure
Billy
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In a message dated 9/8/2010 10:13:10 P.M. Pacific
Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I don't believe that there has heretofore been
in this country a political class as universally
arrogant, elitist, and flat out "out of touch" with the
voters in the country.
We have a columnist calling the voters 2 year olds
having a temper tantrum, the proverbial "stupid" call
out by Maureen Dowd, and the ultimate irony of seeing
Bill Maher implying brain damage and retardation. (Say
Bill, view any tapes of YOURSELF lately?) Not to mention
the near CONSTANT drumbeat of RAAAAACIST should one dare
to disagree with the Obamessiah. Of course, there's
always the "explanation" that it is too complicated for
me to understand.
The Democrats must want me to absolutely DESPISE them.
That's ALMOST the only rational conclusion.
David
If you don't read the newspaper you are
uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are
misinformed.--Mark Twain
On 9/8/2010 2:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Interesting panel of presidential speech writers
on C-Span yesterday.
A couple of the speech writers, in addition to
explaining the process of putting together
a White House speech, which is a committee
project, commented specifically on BHO's
speeches. Essentially they are great at build-ups
but abysmal on delivering the goods
in terms of specific policy proposals. Many are
also unfocused, a theme in the article
that follows. Too many bases are covered, and few
are covered well. There is also
a basic disconnect between the WH worldview and
public events, as if the admin
simply doesn't care about the issues that concern
the average citizen and is
ideology driven.
In fairness, two of the other speech writers were
party line Democrats who keep
the flame burning for Obama, but even one of them
had no problem, in terms
of analyzing the speeches professionally, in
pointing out that most have
been jumbled messes. The rhetorical style is top
rate, all agreed, but
in terms of message, well, strictly amateur.
Hence their ineffectiveness.
Billy
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from the site : Hot Air
Consensus: Obama, Democrats missed their window
posted at 12:55 pm on September 7, 2010 by Ed
Morrissey
Today is more or less the official opening of the
midterm general election, even though a handful of
states still have primaries in the next two
weeks. The consensus appears to be that Democrats
are heading to the woodshed, and perhaps to
minority status in both chambers of Congress,
thanks to economic policies that have left the US
with high unemployment, low consumer confidence,
and enormous public debt. Barack Obama spent the
weekend promising to pivot his attention to
joblessness, but three analysts say that the
President missed his window.
First, Byron York:
Two days before Christmas, Politico reported
that White House officials believed it would
last until February — after which Obama would
make a “very hard pivot” to the jobs issue.
But health care dragged on even longer; the
bill didn’t pass until March 21. Even then, with
his No. 1 priority accomplished, Obama did not
execute the long-awaited pivot and go full-tilt
on the economy. In fact, at times it was hard to
tell just what he was doing. “So has he already
made the hard pivot to jobs, or are we still
waiting for that to happen?” a reporter asked
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs during
that time.
Then came months during which Obama sometimes
talked about the economy and sometimes talked
about energy and sometimes about immigration and
sometimes the Middle East and sometimes about
other stuff. Watching the polls, Democrats
squirmed, seeing their hopes for November grow
dimmer and dimmer. Republicans looked on,
bewildered.
“I don’t get it,” GOP pollster David Winston
told me at the time. “I don’t understand what he
is doing. He’s not addressing the No. 1 issue
that Americans want him to address.”
Mark Halperin says
that it’s the White House that didn’t “get it,”
and that Democrats had plenty of warning. If
Scott Brown’s election surprise in deep-blue
Massachusetts didn’t wake them up, they have no
one to blame but themselves:
Even with Obama’s announcements this week
proposing new infrastructure policy and business
tax credits, the President’s party has done
little since Brown’s victory to improve its
standing on those priorities. House and Senate
Democrats have wasted the year futilely trying
to sell their past accomplishments, and the
President has been distracted by the BP oil
spill, the war in Afghanistan and negotiations
on the Middle East. Second, anti-Obama anger
over his record on economic issues will spur
Republicans and unaligned voters to the polls to
send a message to the majority party, while
Democrats, including the young and first-time
voters who propelled Barack Obama to the White
House just two years ago, have little enthusiasm
for casting ballots this time around.
So far, at least, Democrats have offered no
compelling case on the economy, either to
energize their base or take the edge off the
Republican assertion that voters need to send a
message to Obama and check his big-spending
ways. Polls show that the Republican argument is
connecting with likely voters even more than
with citizens overall.
Many months of mostly negative economic news,
particularly on unemployment, have left the
Democrats unable to build a
happy-days-are-here-again platform. Democratic
legislative achievements, like health care, are
being used against the President’s party, and
few Democratic candidates are touting their role
in these bittersweet victories. Road tests of a
variety of alternative messages (“It’s George
Bush’s fault,” “Republican control of Congress
would make things even worse,” “Republicans have
blocked progress in Washington,” “Republicans
want to take away your Social Security,”
“Republicans are wacky extremists”) have had a
very limited effect so far. In fact, every bit
of national and race-by-race polling data
suggests extensive deterioration of the
Democrats’ position as the year has gone on. One
sign of the Democrats weakness on the economic
battlefield: the looming fight over whether to
extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest
Americans, once seen by strategists in the White
House and on Capitol Hill as a huge opportunity
for their party, is now a face-off Republicans
are hotly anticipating.
Halperin uses the word “tsunami” to describe the
coming midterm prospects for the GOP. So does Politico’s Mike Allen:
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll out
Tuesday found that that the administration’s
“Recovery Summer” was a bust: In May, 40 percent
of respondents said the economy would get better
in the next 12 months. Now, that figure is 26
percent.
Democrats, it’s now clear, could lose bigger
than they did in the Republican revolution of
1994, which produced House Speaker Newt Gingrich
in a 54-seat GOP gain. This year, Republicans
would need a 39-seat pickup to seize control,
and forecasts for their gains run as high as 60
seats. …
In the ABC/Washington Post poll, an astonishing
92 percent of respondents described the state of
the nation’s economy as bad, compared with 8
percent who said it was good. (The figure was 90
percent in July, and peaked at 94 percent in
January.) For the first time in Barack Obama’s
presidency, the poll found that more people
disapproved of his overall handling of his job
than approved: 52 percent disapproved, while 46
percent approved.
And in another first, more people said Obama’s
economic plan was making the economy worse (33
percent) than thought it was making the economy
better (30 percent), while 36 percent said his
programs were having “no real effect.”
Poll after poll showed that the economy and jobs
were the highest priorities for American voters
all throughout 2009. Instead of focusing on jobs
and joblessness and implementing policies that
would actually address both, Democrats instead
focused on a health-care overhaul that voters
didn’t want. After they passed ObamaCare, the
White House decided to focus on a new law in
Arizona to enforce the immigration laws that Obama
more or less ignored, until the Gulf spill took up
most of their attention more than a month after it
started. The only focus on the economy came from
Joe Biden, who touted “Recovery Summer” while
economic indicators all went the wrong direction.
Voters have concluded that this administration
and its Democratic colleagues in Congressional
leadership either don’t care about the economy or
have no clue how to address it. They are
certainly not impressed with a President who promised a “hard pivot”
in December and took nine months
to begin executing it. Even the Titanic managed
to maneuver a little more quickly than that and
didn’t focus on rearranging deck chairs first.
Obama missed his window, and it’s far too late to
miss the iceberg now.
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