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President Obama Laments
Rush Limbaugh And Fox News’
Influence On Public Debate

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell

Original Article

Posted By:JoniTx, 1/27/2013 2:30:06 PM

In a soon-to-be-released interview with The New Republic, President Obama reportedly laments the negative influence Fox News and Rush Limbaugh can have on the congressional debate over various pieces of legislation. The president told TNR editor Frank Foer and owner Chris Hughes that “One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates.” The media can either help break or uphold partisan gridlock, the president said, adding that “If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest,

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MattMusson, 1/27/2013 2:32:44 PM     (No. 9142570)

QQQQ Mr. President.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Mike PHX, 1/27/2013 2:35:48 PM     (No. 9142575)

And the Michelle he rode in on.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: smoolie, 1/27/2013 2:38:56 PM     (No. 9142584)

Thats a bit one sided isn´t it Mr President? Is it alright for the left´s opinion talkers to spew their bile, but a conservative and a middle of the road news channel cannot.
I think this shows a "I am right and everyone who disagrees is wrong" attitude, sir.


Reply 4 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 1/27/2013 2:39:43 PM     (No. 9142585)

Shameless.

Does the pResident also lament this sort of thing, by an alleged "news" broadcast company?

"ABC Gives Sen. Menendez Six Minute Interview With No Questions About FBI´s Hooker Investigation"


Reply 5 - Posted by: happy conservative, 1/27/2013 2:43:52 PM     (No. 9142595)

Any opposition will not be tolerated.


Reply 6 - Posted by: rabbit, 1/27/2013 2:46:31 PM     (No. 9142601)

pot, meet kettle


Reply 7 - Posted by: ruready?, 1/27/2013 2:49:20 PM     (No. 9142604)

Note Obama´s lack of details as to why these attacks by Rush are not justified. Fox should not be mentioned inthe same breath as Rush.

Obama is out of gas morally, bankrupt financially and morally and maxed out on what he can do mentally, with the media and with spending (like a rock star).


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: StephaniePlum, 1/27/2013 2:50:24 PM     (No. 9142605)

The President says “One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates.” Does he even realize what he has admitted here.

This is what we have been screaming all along ... the media does shape the debate, always has shaped the debate while constantly claiming to be impartial. The President has made it clear that he needs the media to shape the debate in his favor for his efforts to prevail. The likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, who present a different side to the debate, must be silenced ! Anyone who doesn´t agree with him must be silenced ! Chilling ! And the President has just come out and made that pronouncement. Are the sheep listening?

/SP/


Reply 9 - Posted by: jalo1951, 1/27/2013 2:50:33 PM     (No. 9142607)

I have no doubt the king is upset. After all the low info voters are his base. Those of us who actually look for more balanced news are a threat. Remember the truth and facts are not the friends of the kingdom.


Reply 10 - Posted by: mitzi, 1/27/2013 2:52:43 PM     (No. 9142612)

Fox News and Limbaugh must be really, really powerful. More powerful that the president and all the Democrats in the House and Senate.

FNC and RL can leap tall buildings in a single bound!


Reply 11 - Posted by: Coy860, 1/27/2013 2:55:11 PM     (No. 9142621)

those free Obama phones help get his propaganda out to the dumb masses don´t they?
Provided the recipients can read text.


Reply 12 - Posted by: john56, 1/27/2013 2:56:06 PM     (No. 9142624)

Obama wishes for the good old days.

You know, when the king could lift his hand and say, "Off with their heads!"

And his minions would quickly do the deed.

All hail King Obama! May his name be praised and his word become law! (Just practicing for the underground resistance.)


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Poliskeptic, 1/27/2013 2:56:53 PM     (No. 9142625)

Kind and Dictators cannot tolerate any dissent.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Poliskeptic, 1/27/2013 2:57:13 PM     (No. 9142626)

re 14 Kings


Reply 15 - Posted by: vrb8m, 1/27/2013 2:58:00 PM     (No. 9142627)

Marxist coward. Thug. Infant.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Muguy, 1/27/2013 3:02:03 PM     (No. 9142635)

What kind of campaign did this man run?

It certainly wasn´t about detailing all the great things he has personally done for our nation...

No, it was all about running against Fox and Limbaugh. He ran a smear campaign with his willing accomplices in the media.

Where is all the hoopla over the death of Trayvon Martin these days? The media had it on 24/7 for months trying to gin up that it was a racially motivated hate crime.

And believe you me, Obama´s media drained as much as it could trying to create a black vs white story that played well into the hands of the dictator. Once re-elected, it has been put on the shelf.

Limbaugh is public enemy #1 to those folks, and trying to blame George W. Bush won´t fly anymore, so El Rushbo makes a ready target. Fox news is no longer a valid target with so many libs on panels to make them "fair and balanced" to the RINOs and only mildly conservative "conservatives".

If it were not for Limbaugh and Levin, there wouldn´t be anyone to give an opposing view. Hannity used to stand on principle, but he is slowly going over to the RINO side. When he pals around with idiots like Bob Beckel and Juan Williams, he quickly loses his convictions.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Penney, 1/27/2013 3:03:15 PM     (No. 9142636)

He should, ´lament,´ the entrenched corruption oozing out from under all those slimy, ´rocks,´ in Boomtown instead of attacking the American citizens´ Constitutional Bill of Rights.

dem pols have no shame


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: JAN, 1/27/2013 3:06:08 PM     (No. 9142640)

Guess he knows full well that MSNBC is no match for Fox.

As for Rush......ha ha..let´s see Rachel Madcow, Chris-tingle, Schultz....no match for Rush.


Reply 19 - Posted by: wsdiego, 1/27/2013 3:06:27 PM     (No. 9142641)

It´s harder to brainwash when you get both sides of the issue! Is the democrats message so weak they can´t stand rebuttal? Must be so or they wouldn´t try so to control debate!


Reply 20 - Posted by: clw54, 1/27/2013 3:07:54 PM     (No. 9142644)

It´s hard to have a debate without opposing points of view. BHO is lamenting a debate is taking place, when he really wants propaganda and nothing else.


Reply 21 - Posted by: beth, 1/27/2013 3:08:19 PM     (No. 9142646)

He started his first term attacking Rush and now he starts his second term the same way. Pathetic and unpresidential.


Reply 22 - Posted by: maggie2u, 1/27/2013 3:08:57 PM     (No. 9142649)

If I may quote the smartest woman who has ever existed in the history of the world...

"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow, you´re not patriotic and we should stand up and say WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION."

Hillary Rodham Clinton
April 28, 2003
(forgive the capitals, but she was shouting this when she said it.)


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: Thos Weatherby, 1/27/2013 3:09:29 PM     (No. 9142651)

This is a calculated move the President to disarm any opposition. It´s part of a larger strategy to be very aggressive in turning as much public opinion against conservative views. This in part is the same thing that the Democrats are using in trying to turn a red Texas into a blue Texas. It´s not going to end and conservatives need to quit whining about it and take it straight on.


Reply 24 - Posted by: wsdiego, 1/27/2013 3:12:24 PM     (No. 9142656)

Conservatives say, We may not agree with what they say but we will fight to the death for their right to say it! This is not the communist mind set or in their vocabulary!


Reply 25 - Posted by: Watlines, 1/27/2013 3:14:35 PM     (No. 9142660)

The problem with our ever mendacious president is that he simply can´t handle the truth.

Rush is right and Fox is fair ...


Reply 26 - Posted by: gabula, 1/27/2013 3:20:03 PM     (No. 9142665)

Some great posts L Dotters, thanks to #9, #17 & #23!!!

Gabula


Reply 27 - Posted by: osprey21, 1/27/2013 3:22:47 PM     (No. 9142671)

Harden the QQQQ up, Barry!


Reply 28 - Posted by: Coy860, 1/27/2013 3:23:58 PM     (No. 9142674)

Everyone is spot on..Rush and Levin are at the battlefront.
Hannity needs to do some soul searching..
I do NOT tune in to hear liberals lie and go unchallenged. I do NOT tune in to hear him sheepishly admit that Obama won and we lost.
I do NOT tune in for him to give a platform to liberal callers and talking heads.
I am not entertained by the "Velmas" of this world either, Sean.


Reply 29 - Posted by: nonsense, 1/27/2013 3:30:01 PM     (No. 9142687)

This from the "revenge" punish your enemies team of ValJar and Mr. o.

Let´s think about this, Mrs. o. is about to unleash the flying monkeys of Organizing for Obama and the Advancement of communism in America Team to influence public opinion. Yet Rush, Fox, etc. are to sit down and shut up. Nothing unfair about her tactics, or those of the head of the communist group, Jim Messina.


Reply 30 - Posted by: MattMusson, 1/27/2013 3:40:14 PM     (No. 9142702)

Shame on the MSM for tolerating this. But they are so jealous of FOX and Limbaugh - they just pile on.

When I was a boy - an independent press was something we aspired to. Now 90% of the Media is a joke.


Reply 31 - Posted by: Keekng, 1/27/2013 3:44:45 PM     (No. 9142714)

Actually, Rush and FOX, against the rest of the media, makes it a fair fight.


Reply 32 - Posted by: Kurto, 1/27/2013 3:54:22 PM     (No. 9142727)

Hitler did not tolerate opposing views, either.


Reply 33 - Posted by: noproblems, 1/27/2013 3:56:45 PM     (No. 9142732)

i think we need more people like Romney and McCain who were afraid to take on this arrogant POS we have as president.

Maybe Ryan with his plan to balance the budget in 26 years?


Reply 34 - Posted by: JoElla Bee, 1/27/2013 4:08:26 PM     (No. 9142743)

Thank you, Mr. President, for insuring that Rush Limbaugh´s audience will continue to "grow by leaps and bounds".

Here is hoping that the influence of Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Herman Cain, and other conservative voices with daily access to a microphone will continue to grow and break through the leftist lies.


Reply 35 - Posted by: ruready?, 1/27/2013 4:14:06 PM     (No. 9142753)

Translation: "Rush kicked my butt."


Reply 36 - Posted by: tusker, 1/27/2013 4:18:16 PM     (No. 9142761)

Let Bow-Boy read: Fox (which is sinking into the middle to left column with it´s token idiotic paid liberals), Rush, The NRA which is us, and the Tea Party all of whom are in the process of wiping the floor up with Bow-Boy.

Rush will have a field day with this Bow-Boy whining tomorrow.


Reply 37 - Posted by: andyboy, 1/27/2013 4:18:30 PM     (No. 9142762)

It´s hard to tell whether Obama hates the First Amendment more than he hates the Second Amendment, although you get the feeling he "laments" the existence of the entire US Constitution.


Reply 38 - Posted by: ledbythnose, 1/27/2013 4:29:03 PM     (No. 9142785)

Expect to see Rush and Levin removed from the air waves. Unless the American People revolt over guns first.


Reply 39 - Posted by: hamrman, 1/27/2013 5:12:25 PM     (No. 9142872)

Is King Teflon afraid of the big bad Rush & FNC? Most despots can´t stand dissent...


Reply 40 - Posted by: roger h. cook,MD, 1/27/2013 5:13:24 PM     (No. 9142875)

This is a conserted effert to kill the voices fo truth.


Reply 41 - Posted by: judy, 1/27/2013 5:43:22 PM     (No. 9142933)

Tomorrow Rush & Fox will thank the won for the additional viewers & listeners....


Reply 42 - Posted by: uno, 1/27/2013 5:51:23 PM     (No. 9142956)

If Rush is so wrong, then why not show him the errors of his ways Mr Obamboozler? Go on his show and debate him ... and if his home turf intimidates you so much invite him to the White House. Let´s see what you´re made of. We already know, it´s the rest of your feckless, dumbed-down, barely aware, dope-smoking, self-absorbed, media-influenced, celebrity-obsessed, Food-Stamp wielding, Escalade driving, Kool-Aid drinking, government-dependent, entitlement rich, busted-butt, free-loading, Obamaphone carrying, Low-Fo Federal teat-sucking posse we want to know!


Reply 43 - Posted by: Heil Liberals, 1/27/2013 6:36:45 PM     (No. 9143035)

FTA - He claimed that “leaders like myself—and I include Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in this—are willing to buck the more absolutist-wing elements in our party to try to get stuff done,” as opposed to the opposing party which he views as obstructionist.

Proof that this president is a dyed in the wool Marxist/Communist. He detests a media that questions he or his party´s agenda. How long until witch hunts for republicans begin? How long until we are called out and shamed for daring to embrace INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM over collective cowering before the state?


Reply 44 - Posted by: Pros7767, 1/27/2013 6:40:04 PM     (No. 9143039)

Glad to see I´m not alone in my feelings lately about Hannity. Rush and Levin are aces. Hannity spends half his show entertaining liberal callers. I can barely listen anymore.


Reply 45 - Posted by: artman1746, 1/27/2013 8:30:21 PM     (No. 9143172)

"RUSH LIES, RUSH LIES, RUSH LIES!" the liberals claim over and again. And they monitor every minute of his show ten hours each week.

But they come up with a "lie" that they try to discredit him with only once in a great while and it always turns out to be something they took out of context or something Rush said as a joke.

I can give you lies from Obama on a daily if not an hourly basis. So the liberals can only find a Rush "lie" a couple of times a year? Examples please from lying liberals!


Reply 46 - Posted by: jt26, 1/27/2013 8:31:27 PM     (No. 9143174)

I am done with Fox News Channel.
At his best Hannity was nothing but a cheap copy of Rush.
Rush and Levin are the best.


Reply 47 - Posted by: Pocket Aces, 1/27/2013 8:39:01 PM     (No. 9143187)

No.... He laments that there is any debate or dissent. Without Fox, Rush and a few others .... There would be no voice of dissent against dear leader


Reply 48 - Posted by: MMC, 1/27/2013 8:43:10 PM     (No. 9143196)

Rush gets free advertising... Living rent free in their minds!

Name one liberal radio show that isnt government subsidized.....


Reply 49 - Posted by: Salt5792, 1/27/2013 8:49:26 PM     (No. 9143206)

Rush is going to be on top of the world on his program tomorrow.

I´m sure he is smart enough to stay away from Fort Marcy Park.


Reply 50 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 1/27/2013 10:04:09 PM     (No. 9143303)

Hypocrite.

But, it´s ok when MSM drools and fawns over you but never question your actions. This is American. We are suppose to have the freedom to speak.


Reply 51 - Posted by: RoseOfTexas, 1/27/2013 11:27:55 PM     (No. 9143378)

Sounds like a few of our posters who frequently complain about El Rushbo or "talk show hosts" without naming names. (But as his show promo says, "When they say ´talk,´ they really mean ´Rush.´)

This won´t help Rush´s efforts to lower his profile.



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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,

Hillary Clinton: The clock is turning
back for women in America

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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering    Original Article
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained to the Women in the World summit in New York today that the clock is turning back for women in America. Clinton praised her own mother for helping empower her to success and marveled at the opportunities that her own daughter Chelsea has pursued. But Clinton warned that there is still so much to do to promote women´s rights in America. "As I look at all these young women that I am privileged to work with, or know through Chelsea, and its hard to imagine turning the clock on them," Clinton said.

White House Blames Jobs
Numbers on Sequester

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall    Original Article
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look

Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
‘They Want Me To Shut Up’

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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado    Original Article
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,

Trayvon Martin´s parents
settle wrongful death claim

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Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman    Original Article
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SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for

Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
Accounts at $3 Million

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee    Original Article
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per


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