DC Tom Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 Yeah, that should go over well with the media. Seriously, these guys suck at damage control. A good first step at that would be to start creating more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCinBuffalo Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 (edited) Congratulations to the many media members who have showed an independence (that they rarely do) NYT, CNN, AP....etc: and turned down meeting with the Attorney General "privately" 7 Reasons Why the Media Shouldn't Keep Eric Holder's Secrets What "off the record" means and why it matters to you. http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/7-reasons-why-the-media-shouldn-t-keep-eric-holder-s-secrets-20130530 Unfortunately the WaPo & Politico are still in lapdog mode. The DNC wants everyone to fall in line......................lol As reported, the Obama administration is now trying to summon journalists for an off-the-record meeting with Attorney General Holder. Funnily enough, some journalists are refusing. Whatever happened to the most transparent administration evah?! And why would they want to privately meet with the James Rosen-targeting Holder? Would they be next? The DNC’s Woodhouse decided to spin by tweeting. It’s totally the journalists’ fault, you see. In fairness? Newscorp kept Fox News away from the meeting, but sent the Wall Street Journal. That's hedging the bet, to say the least. It's not like whatever the WSJ gets isn't going to be immediately pipelined to O'Reilly, Hannity, and Van Susteren. And the hilarious: putting Hannity aside, it's not like the other 2 weren't going to beat the hell out of this WH with what they have now, regardless. The 2X hilarious: Sean Hannity has come out of this situation looking both reasonable and vindicated, before we even know the rest of the story. Great Work Liberals! You've found a way to succeed in making Hannity look both serious, and reasoned. Sean could have spent the rest of his career trying really hard to accomplish Tim Russert status(who he says is his hero), and fail, but the idiocy, and the idiots, you support have handed him this status with 0 effort on his part. You've moved the goalposts, and the entire field, and made it so the slow kid gets a trophy for winning the game, just by standing still and holding onto the ball. NICE WORK Please continue to create reasons for me to laugh at you. Yeah, that should go over well with the media. Seriously, these guys suck at damage control. But, wait a second...is this really the Obama Administration's fault? Consider: if for the first 8 games of the season, the other team's defense just lets CJ Spiller run by and score TDs and rack up lots of yards, with no effort at all....wouldn't that lead to the O line, and Spiller himself, getting lazy/losing their ability to execute in a tough, competitive environment? What would happen then, if for the last 8 games the defenses played it straight? Would we blame the O for not being able to handle the new situation? How is this any different than how the media has behaved for the first 4 years vs. now? You could blame our offense for not staying disciplined, and doing the job despite the easy. But, wouldn't it be more accurate to blame the defenses, who have been complicit in letting you score so easily, and dumbing down the game...so that they ensure that you win, suddenly doing the job they should have been all along? IF the media had played any of this straight, and up to the level they displayed with Bush and Clintion: would Obama even be President? Of course not. Edited May 31, 2013 by OCinBuffalo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Serving the press If you can judge a man by his friends, surely you can judge a president by the complaints he cares about most. By that rule, it is revealing that President Obama, beset by scandals and anger across the land, is making the care and feeding of the media his first priority. The president ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to meet with journalists upset over prosecutors seizing Associated Press phone records and labeling a Fox News reporter a potential “co-conspirator” in a leak case. Obama also ordered Holder to solicit proposals for changing the rules governing such cases — and did it publicly to demonstrate his concern about “government overreach.” Leave it to the media barons to miss the irony — and the joke at their expense. The president who has made government overreach the defining issue of his tenure is now concerned about it when it gores their ox. Aren’t they special! Even more telling, Holder’s demand that the meeting be off the record didn’t bother some of the credulous people normally regarded as cynics. The Washington Post, one of the few organizations to attend, reported in breathtaking fashion that Holder “completely endorsed the president’s statement that reporters should not be at legal risk for doing their job.” Holy scoop! If journalists are good children, next week the president and the attorney general might deign to say they believe in the First Amendment — off the record, of course. No wonder the mainstream press is about as popular as an undertaker. It covered for Obama while the economy tanked and millions lost their jobs. Its loud outrage over American losses in Iraq under George W. Bush went mute when losses in Afghanistan soared under Obama. You would think the snooping on them would alert journalists that their biases had betrayed them, and that because Obama came after them, he would be absolutely ruthless with those who opposed him. But their callous indifference to other cases of government abuse of power reveals why much of the public correctly views the media as just another special-interest group. You’ve heard of crony capitalism — crony journalism is its grubby twin. Jay Carney, his press secretary, answered “yes” when a reporter asked whether Obama is satisfied with how IRS bosses responded to findings that agents targeted groups that might oppose his policies. That means the president is fine with Lois Lerner invoking the Fifth Amendment and refusing to answer questions. It means he is fine with other officials saying they couldn’t remember anything about targeting conservative groups, pro-life organizations and pro-Israel groups — except that they had nothing to do with it. Notice, too, that Obama didn’t order the new tax man to follow the Holder model and meet with the groups singled out. Nor did he demand the new boss offer assurances to all taxpayers that they would all be treated fairly without regard to their politics, and he certainly didn’t solicit public ideas about improving the IRS. Then there’s Benghazi, where our Libyan ambassador and three other Americans were killed on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. Carney called congressional probes “political” and said it was “a fake controversy” that “happened a long time ago.” The message for Americans concerned about the other abuses of power is clear — no presidential soup for you! The media get it all. That doesn’t mean Obama likes the media — it’s just that he needs them. If they get off his bus, there will be nobody left to hide the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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