Spin City in NYTimes: 'In Airport Run-In, Democrats See Help for Obama Among Hispanics'
New York Times reporter Helene Cooper, touring the West with the president, claimed that the dust-up between Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama on an airport tarmac in Phoenix could help him among Hispanics: “In Airport Run-In, Democrats See Help for Obama Among Hispanics.”
A flattering photo from Las Vegas of Obama and some star-struck preteens was just part of the spin in her Friday story:
Democrats see the chance that President Obama’s heated exchange with Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona on the airport tarmac in Phoenix could help him with the Hispanic voters he came West to court this week.
The run-in, captured in a photograph of the governor wagging a finger at the president as they discussed her book, “Scorpions for Breakfast,” lit up Hispanic radio stations and blogs all over the state. While it is difficult to judge whether the moment will have any lasting impact, Hispanic leaders said that what is being dubbed by some as the “dustup in the desert” could play in the president’s favor given the unfavorable view many Hispanics have of the governor for her advocacy of tough immigration measures.
“For that incident alone,” Robert Meza, a Democratic state senator from Phoenix, said Thursday, “85 percent more Latin people will gravitate toward the president.”
Republicans saw the incident in another light. Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, told the show “Imus in the Morning” on Fox Business Network that Ms. Brewer had “very legitimate” concerns about the state’s border and that her tarmac exchange with Mr. Obama was another display of the president’s “prickly personality.”
Appearing on Fox News on Thursday, Ms. Brewer said Mr. Obama had walked off while she was still talking. “You know me, when I talk, I am animated and I talk with my hands,” she said, explaining her finger-wagging. “I suppose that the picture was probably shot when I was moving my hands around.”
After noting that Arizona is “a state Mr. Obama is hoping to put in play this election year,” Cooper let an anonymous administration official (granted anonymity for no valid reason) say it was a good day for Obama.
Publicly, the White House treated the confrontation with Ms. Brewer with a scripted, and bland, retelling. “Political theater,” the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, told reporters aboard Air Force One to Denver.
But privately, one administration official, when asked on Thursday about the Wednesday confrontation, offered: “Let’s just say I don’t think yesterday was a bad day.”
The Washington Times provided a less promotional outlook for Obama in the aftermath of the tarmac tiff:
President Obama chose an unusual way to begin the campaign year in Arizona, where he hopes to reverse Democrats’ losing streak -- by getting into a highly public confrontation with the state’s Republican governor.
Mr. Obama’s encounter with Gov. Jan Brewer at the airport in Mesa, where she was photographed wagging her right index finger at the president, captured their tense relationship over immigration, border security and federal gun-running.
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Keep Grasping at Straws, Libs
Submitted by NC Boy on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 10:25am.
We will find out if Obama + the media can beat the Republican candidate + the American people.
He did the same thing to Jindal and Perry.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 10:54am.
He ambushed Jindal over some routine letter and then pushed aside Perry like he had no right to be in his own state. These are elected officials in their own right who are constitutionally the chief executives of their own states. Obama has shown them no respect, and he is due no respect in return.
Excellent Point
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:04am.
Not to mention, O & Eric Von Holderin are suing Arizona, as well as supplying Mexican Drug Lords with guns.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Now wait a second.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:07pm.
That's how O'Bumbler is creating jobs. Somebody has to smuggle those guns and push those drugs. That's how are administration creates jobs.
Airport run-in? What's with
Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:17pm.
Airport run-in? What's with Obama and airplane-related incidents? He scares the hell out of New Yorkers flying low around Lady Liberty, he almost drops a frozen 'pee package' on some Occutards. his dog flies separately- so does the Portugese water-dog, he bows there, he skips like a homo around them. and then this. Maybe he should take the inter-continental railroad from now on.
LOL
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 5:27pm.
Funny stuff. Loved "his dog flies separately- so does the Portugese water-dog." Can you really tell them apart, other than the one walks on its hind legs and wears expensive shoes?
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
Two-sides to every story
Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:26pm.
I mean besides the fact that what they mean is "illegal aliens", we already have and had have Hispanic-Americans. I don't think that's who the Dems are counting on, like I said a million times, there are legalized immigrants here that don't appreciate the 'trespassers at will'. But I digress, what Dims see as a boost to them from this confrontation is also a boost against them from those of us that want immigration laws and the Constitutional rights of States upheld, and who believe it is Obama who is out-of-line.
The dog ALWAYS flies
Submitted by rockyracoon on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 5:18pm.
The dog ALWAYS flies first...no?!
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
⇒ True, Rocky
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 5:25pm.
And due to the nature of his position, to insure continuity, the dog is not allowed to travel with Joe Biden.
Little support for Obama on Immigration issues, nationally.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 2:41pm.
There's little support for Obama on illegal Immigration issues, nationally.
Last year's national polling by the very liberal/progressive Pew Center - on the Arizona bill - found exactly what polls have long told us. The Pew folks went right out and literally summarized those supposedly two most contentious measures in the bill (the ones Holder blocked - the ones that the boycotts were over) and found that nationally:
73% said they backed a measure requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status if police ask for them,
while 67% approve of allowing police to detain anyone who cannot verify that they are in the country legally.
And, they also uncovered this dandy:
just 25% support President Obama's immigration policy, which includes legalizing millions of unauthorized migrants
Of course, the national media sides with Obama - not with the American people on the very popular Arizona bill. In fact, let's call it a populist measure.
In CA - imagine this - the Los Angeles Times supported Gov Moonbeam's CA DREAM Act. So, when they polled - even though they pushed the poll and weighted it left - they found that statewide 55% opposed it, with only 40% supporting it. Well, don't headline that number - and the governor is free to go right ahead and sign it.
(;~/ gary
Complete Utter BS
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 5:18pm.
Propaganda served on a platter. Explain how people in the Hispanic community are so unaware of Brewer's and Obama's immigration policies that this 'dustup' will cause any significant shift in attitudes?
Zero news in this NYTime's manipulative piece of fecal material. Robert Meza is a BS artist of the Left.
Mee-za?
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 5:40pm.
Well, according to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Meza
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
Well, if he's openly gay
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 5:51pm.
That's a tough nut to crack. "Openly gay" certainly makes him THE spokesman for the Hispanic community.
I guess we're doomed and have definitely lost the Hispanic vote.
<snark this>
He is NOT the spokesman for Hispanics.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 8:45pm.
He is a spokesman for the apparatchik victimization-pandering Democrat party. He has two of their most desirable PC demographics: minority AND gay. Now if he were disabled and a teacher, he would be a Democrat wet dream. Make that "nocturnal emission" in medical-speak.
His last name is pronounced "may-za" in Spanish, but in conservative it's "lunatic fringe".