Obama Takes Media to Task for Coverage of Racial Controversy, Wilson – FOXNews.com — He wants more civility. Nothing outrageous like shooting off your mouth abnout Harvard cops or calling a singer a “jackass” to get a cheap laugh. Oh, wait that’s what he did. So what is he talking about?
Diplomat. Financial regulator. Cheerleader. Doctor. President Obama’s worn all these hats since taking office. Now he’s assuming a new role: media critic. The president of the United States used the Sunday morning talk shows to broadly scold the news media for playing up what he called “rude” and “outrageous” political comments, and urge the 24-hour news networks to consider giving more of a platform to those who demonstrate decency and civility.
OK, let’s not do the ol’ apples and oranges juggle here. First of all, I hate it when anyone tells the media to report only “good news.” That’s a simplistic statement.
Second, I’m not sure that this is what he was asking. Yelling and ranting for long periods of time is not “news.” Also, it is not the same as a quick, if not particularly wise, response to a question/comment.
I find it interesting that those who dislike Obama say his supporters think he is God, yet they themselves seem to expect him to act like God.
Someone being human I can live with, but being a ranting nabob of negativity turns off my receptors.
What else should Obama have said about Kanye West and the way that he behaved? Kanye West IS a jackass.
Notice the source of the article that JCW quotes above? Yes, it is Fox news, the only network that didn’t get to participate in the interview cycle. Sour grapes? Or is Fox embarrassed that the President is making a not so subtle dig at them for making ignorant asshats like Glenn Beck into stars?
Oh John. I wish the president would “shoot his mouth off” more frequently when elderly citizens are put in jail for speaking harshly to authority.
Everybody know Crowley acted like an idiot. Why pretend otherwise?
Aaa Fox news again….the channel of the all white and over 50 Tea Baggers….rising up at the command of their Health Insurance\Drug Company\Am Radio masters
Boohoo the media whore is back on all the Sunday shows whining that everyone isn’t smiling with all his smoke blown up their asses.
We’re stuck with THIS jackass.
Hey John, did you forget why Crowley was arrested? For screaming at the cops to get the hell out of his house once that he had proven that it was his house. It was the cops behaving like the jerks that they are these days, where instead of saying “We are glad that there was no problem here, have a nice day” and then just leaving, they kept their tough guy act going after everything had been cleared up.
That is what Obama is complaining about… that the story about the improper way that the cops behaved gets completely lost behind some made-up scandal about Obama’s opinion about how the cops acted, (most probably based on Obama’s experiences with cops in the past.)
The real story is how Crowley was treated by the police… but that has been lost in your and Fox News’ single-minded obsession to criticize Obama
#6 Faxon
>> We’re stuck with THIS jackass.
Why are you calling yourself a jackass?
I hardly ever go there but here you go: http://www.happynews.com
I’m forwarding to theprez@whitehouse.gov
So did President Obama call Nancy Pelosi and tell her to stop calling people Nazis?
@Mr. Diesel.
Wow, that’s such an inept interpretation of what Obama actually said. Way to eat up that Fox news crap hook line an sinker.
Oh I guess Obama can’t have opinions now, the republicans might get offended.
I simply don’t care.
What I do care about is the offensive slogan on that tee shirt! I wish she’d take it off…
Double Think=President Hussein and every word that comes out of his racist mouth. Why is it that the first thing a Demoncrat does is to project their own beliefs everyone else.
What where is Eidunce? No comment on his Fuhrer and where’s Uncle Dave Stalincrapo? I would of thought they would be here blogging to protect der Fuhrer Hussein, oh well the Obama Kids and ACORN will be making house to house checks for papers and installing cameras in any “Extremist”, oh well maybe Amazon can pull 1984 so we don’t see any parallels – Remember Knowledge is Slavery
Whatever…………………………………
Traaxx
This article is so fractured with abridged quotes, I found it impossible to work out just wtf they were talking about. As far as I can tell, its about Obama having a crack at his more hysterical detractors. So what?
The problem with America: #14 Traxx
I think Obama just wants his supporters to stop playing the “everybody who disagrees with me is a ________” card because it isn’t working for him or the party.
If somebody on the other side is dumb enough to do that sort of thing I think he can live with it because it gains him support.
I think someone once said, “I can deal with my enemies but God save me from my friends.”
Obama just likes to hear himself talk.
#18, Tom,
That is pretty close to your heroes like Limbaugh and O’Reilly.
Yet worse, and taking a page from FOX, is Dvorak’s posting controversial stories just for the hits. So what if this was a poorly written article. So what if Fox is left out. Dvorak can just post some bullshit headline and watch the ditto heads come out of the woodwork. (see #14 above)
Kanye West IS a jackass, anyone who argues otherwise is right there with him. Plain & simple, any idiot can see that.
I’m not surprised at all that Fox News did not take the opportunity to interview Obama. They would never show a complete one-take interview with the President.
They are famous for taking little snippets of what he says and then stringing them together to make it sound like he said something completely different, or only playing part of a sentence setting up a premise and then not playing the second part of the sentence that explains the premise. Hannity and Beck are masters at this technique, with a best-known instance when Obama actually said “We’ve made some mistakes, but we’re working on not making any more”. Hannity only played the “We’ve made some mistakes” part and went on rants for months that Obama is apologizing to the world for everything we’ve done; is ashamed of our country; is unamerican; the most dangerous President we’ve ever had, etc etc.
Classic technique of a lawyer. You say “Yes I grabbed my gun and shot him as he pushed the knife against my chest”, but the lawyer only allows “Yes I grabbed my gun and shot him” into the record, making YOU the bad guy instead of your attacker.