Sunday Obamathon Turns Into Media Critique; Says Press is Perpetuating 'Rude' Behavior

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They say you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you. But the 44th President of the United States doesn't seem to be worried about that.

President Barack Obama, still with no fear of being overexposed, made the rounds on five Sunday morning talk shows on Sept. 20 to make another attempt at winning the hearts and minds over on his vague health care proposal.

According to Obama, alleging he wasn't doing any "media-bashing," mentioned the three major cable news networks by name, and said they were the ones enabling the "rude" behavior that some of their on-air voices have decried by giving it so much attention.

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"I think it's important for the media, you know - not to do any media-bashing here - to recognize that right now, in this 24-hour news cycle, the easiest way to get on CNN is or Fox or any of the other stations, MSNBC is to say something rude and outrageous," Obama said on CNN's Sept. 20 "State of the Union." "If you're civil and polite and you're sensible and you don't exaggerate the-bad things about your opponent and you know, you might get on one of the Sunday shows. But you're not going to be on the loop. And, you know, part of what I'd like to see is all of us reward decency and civility in our political discourse."

And this was a theme in his other appearances. He made a similar statement about being "rude" on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

"I think, that frankly, the media encourages some of the outliers in behavior, because, let's face it - the easiest way to get on television right now is to be really rude," Obama said on ABC's Sept. 20 "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "If you're just being sensible and giving people the benefit of the doubt and you're making your arguments, you don't, you don't get time on the nightly news."

Interestingly, Obama seemed to have no problem yucking it up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner with comedian Wanda Sykes, who said she hoped conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's kidneys failed. But the Commander-in-Chief urged those in Washington to "disagree without being disagreeable" and thus falling victim to the 24-hour news cycle.

"Well, look - I think that we have an obligation in Washington, as leaders, to make sure that we are sending a strong message that we can disagree without being disagreeable, without, you know, questioning each other's motives," Obama said on NBC's Sept. 20 "Meet the Press." "When we start caricaturing the other side, I think that's a problem. And unfortunately, we've got, as I've said before, a 24-hour news cycle where what gets you on the news is controversy. What gets you on the news is the extreme statement. The easiest way to get 15 minutes on the news, or your 15 minutes of fame, is to be rude."

Obama called the coverage of conflict "catnip to the media," which includes cable television and blogs.

"One last point I've got to make, Bob and that is I do think part of what's different today is that the 24-hour news cycle and cable television and blogs and all this, they focus on the most extreme elements on both sides," Obama said on CBS's Sept. 20 "Face the Nation." "They can't get enough of conflict. It's catnip to the media right now. And so the easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody. In that environment I think it makes it more difficult for us to solve the problems that the American people sent us here to solve."

Whether or not the media, or at least the media that is most sympathetic to the president's policies, will follow his advice remains to be seen.


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Okay- painful as it was, I

Okay- painful as it was, I watched the entire 3+ minutes of that video. My only question:

Does Mr. Manners here believe that he should employ this type of behavior during addresses to Congress?

Liberal Translation

You guys at the networks are not bashing conservatives hard enough.

 

I'm guessing none of the

I'm guessing none of the interviewers wanted to be rude after that little lecture, so no one asked him about this:

Obama Helps Strengthen GE-Putin ties

GE benefits from the decision to bail on defending Poland and the Czech Republic, and the US media don't care to ask him about it?

Exchange the words Obama and GE for Bush and Halliburton, and what do you think their reaction would be?????

h/t to well99 for the original link.

 

 

Obamathon

Good for you mothebelt.   Great comment.

Easiest way to get on TV?

Pres. Obama says "the easiest way to get on television right now is to be really rude."  It seems that the easiest way in reality is to become President.

"Fight the good fight every moment
It's your only way"  Triumph

Lies Are Rude

I'd say lying to people day after day, week after week, as the Bamster is doing on healthcare is pretty rude behavior. On top of that, he accuses others of lying in those same speeches where he lies incessantly.

OK for Obama to Lie

Well, it's pretty clear that according to the Dems & the press that it is OK for Obama to lie continually without calling him on it.

So much for a watch dog press - it is now a state-run press for the main channels and newspapers - guess they will get bailout money too.  Hmmmmmmm... curious how this works, isn't it?

So in review..

So in review, having the 24-hour news cycles and blogs help you win an election = perfectly acceptable. Having the 24-hour news cycle and blogs make your approval ratings plummet and your agenda hit a brick wall = civility-lacking indecency.

Got it.

My question:

Does he include all the idiots screaming "Racism!" in his description of attention-getting rudeness?

no more being rude, ya hear?

It's okay if you hide income from the IRS, funnel cash to your spouse's employer, lie about campaign contributions, hire communist wackos to work on your staff, take super sweet loans from banks that happen to be in your district, appoint your friends to oversee life-or-death policy decisions, and blackmail investment firms into taking bailout funds....

...as long as you're not rude on TV.

 

This from someone who gets

This from someone who gets on TV and calls his opposition liars, game-players, bickerers, fear-mongerers, and purveyers of misinformation.

He himself is incredibly dismissive and rude, yet since it's him, it's somehow perfectly okay.

This guy, more than anyone I have ever known, has the capacity of accusing people of doing something he's just done and sees zero irony in it.  It's almost as if he thinks he can get away with it.

Everything he accuses others of, he does, and does non-stop.

In addition, it's clear he really depises journalists, along with anyone who doesn't agree with him.  He hates the news and those who provide it; even the organizations that spend all their time kissing his butt.   I think he thinks that the news just gets in his way.  Along with journalists.  And just about everyone else.

Obama looks like...

Obama looks more like Chavez, Putin, Castro, and every other 2-bit dictator around the world doesn't he?  

His face pastered EVERYWHERE, preaching his ideology to kids; orchestrating business takeovers, muzzling, buying off, & controlling the press; ruining the currency; making his dreams into a cult following; forming a private army; de-stabilizing the economy; encoraging reporting of neighbors to 'the State'...

The list goes on and on. 

 

And his minions and demons

And his minions and demons in the media and lefty blogs call us racists.

"I dont need to read a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber."

Walter Brennan, The Colonel, Meet John Doe, 1941

I'm going off topic for a moment here...

and I realize that it's just plain rude to do so (maybe I'll get on MSNBC) but I just saw this on Drudge and thought you all might want to get a read on this absolutely fantastic idea brought forth by my two senators.

State ownership of the

State ownership of the press. Hmm, in how many dictatorships have we seen that before? Why, in all of them!

This is a very bad move for the country, and the newspapers (some) are jumping for joy. Says all you want to know about them and more.

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

celator~~

Any thoughts on how Mark Lloyd will advise Barry on this one?

 LOL No citizen's right

 LOL

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

Bailing Newspapers

I'm gonna blow a gasket if they do another bailout!!!

Shut up, crybaby.  You're

Shut up, crybaby.  You're a liar and a loser, and that's all there is to it.  Take your toys, go home to...wherever you're actually from...and have a nice bowl of fresh arugula.

You will go down in history as the all-time worst president.  Too bad--Clinton already beat you to the "first black president" title, so you won't even be remembered for that.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Arrogance

“Arrogance diminishes wisdom”
Arabian Proverb

The anointed one has calmed the waters, therefore...

Olby, Chrissy, Big Ed, it's no longer cool to be mean and hateful. Your Messiah does not approve.

 

The Fish Stinks From The Head Down

The rude behavior start with Obama.

The American public is fed up with his lack of integrity and finger pointing. 

 

Obambi is the least

Obambi is the least presidential president this country has ever had. - jackass

"Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink."  P.J.O'Rourke

A President of Convenience

How convenient that the "24 hour news cycle" was just great when Obama was trying to get elected; now that he's being criticized and questioned, it's not.

The narcissist-in-chief is nothing more than a big ole crybaby!  


Another one

Now the media is under the same bus he's thrown everyone else under. Michelle better watch her step! It's getting really crowded under there.

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

Bus

To paraphrase Roy Scheider in "Jaws":  He's going to need a bigger bus.

You got that right, Kat!!!

You got that right, Kat!!! ROTFLMAO "Jaws" is one of my favorite movies.

I'm wondering how Sarah

I'm wondering how Sarah Palin feels about this.  The pwess is being vewy vewy mean to Mr. Obama and they need to stop.

But it was o.k. during the election.  And it's o.k. for Obama to do when addressing Congress.

Thanks Mr. President, for once again telling us how to behave, and letting us know it doesn't apply to us.

Talk about rude!!!

How about the President asking Paterson to drop out of the Governor's race?

Looks to me like Obama hates black blind men.

Isn't there a special place in Racist Hell for people who hate black blind politicians.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

~~Cool

I saw that Michael Steele asked that question: Why would the president ask one of only two black governors not to run for re-election?

You know the race issue has blown up in their face when the black leader of the RNC asks that to the leader of the Democratic Party, regardless of his color.

→ I sure see it Keyser

Plantation Strawboss Howard Dean should speak up on this obviously racist behavior by the President.?

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

~~Cool

Crybaby in chief

Thanks to Jeff for reporting on this, and allowing the rest of us the relief of not having to listen to this whiny nonsense.

I guess rude is a difference

I guess rude is a difference of interpretation.  I believe rude is not opening records like one said they would do.  In fact more rude is to fight tooth and nail to open the most "benign" records.

Beyond desperation

Today ( Sunday) while driving I listened to Beyond The Belt Way Radio show, Aprox the last half hour. 

I heard the word tea bagger from a guest panel member no less then 7 times.

A  female caller said she was an independent and Tea Party participant ( " so your a tea bagger!" came from panel member in back ground) and disagreed that the GOP should stand up and tell those against the President's policies to cool it as was discussed on the show, she was called a Tea bagger not once but was put back online after a commercial so the person who called her a teabagger could now come to the front and continue the abuse where he proceded to call her a tea bagger 4 more times (maybe more) as she tried to express her position, He was child like in his desperation to reduce and lable her a Ross Perot groupie, a follower of some cult movement perhaps,  which she was neither, She said she belonged to no group, Just an Independant tax payer against massive spending and big government. 

It was the Bevis and Butthead radio hour and this program had the gall to say with glee that Palin was found to be a liar about the death panels as if that was an abomination!

These liberals are fast to attack with filthy sexual reference, slam the internet as being a sewer of misinformation and yet proudly display their own behavior and bigotry for the world to see and hear! 

I felt very badly for the woman caller and uncomfortable ,she clearly had no idea what she was being called? hence the repeated verbal abuse as it had no effect on her along with the over zelouse attempt to marginalize her, she did get her message across in the end, that the GOB dosent have rights to the tea party movement. I have heard hard working people being called many things and a lot of ridicule and snivling by the left has went on in their attempt to shut the debate  and disent down, including by Pres Obama and elected officals, imo It's not a cable issue but a desperation issue.    

I agree Terry, some of these

I agree Terry, some of these radio shows can be really rude to their callers. This obviously was a good example.

Terry if she caller didn't

Terry if she caller didn't know what the insult was then as far as I'm concerned it makes those who thew the insult look stupid and crude.  I still think Sarah Palin was correct about the death panels.  They simply don't call them that in the bill.  There will most definately be beaurocrats deciding on who gets what treatment. 

The more the liberals try to pretend protestors aren't what they are, the harder we fight.

Obama goes boo hoo hoo!

What a freaking baby!  Hey Obama!  If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen!  We all know Jimmy Carter is breathing a deep sigh of relief as he is no longer the WORST President in American History!  BHO is the owner of that title.

Really?

Obamy is crying that the press is being mean to him??  I'm in shock. Where have they been mean to him?  Fox is the only network that will even comment on his lies, but they do it so PC that it makes me question them too.  Obamy has and is on a free ride from the press and has not experienced any credible critisism at all. He is extreml corrupt, dishonest and racist.  He can't prove his citizenship and has spent over a million dollars so far to stop anybody from finding out what his citizenship status actually is.  He's blocked all his personal records and he's surrounded himself with some of the worse scumbags in politics.  His private deals with corporations and payouts to activists is criminal.  He should be investigated and if found guilty, sent to jail.   But since he's given a total free ride by "ALL" the news media, he's going to push it by complaining that they don't kiss is A$$ often enough!!!

Obama "said they were the

Obama "said they were the ones enabling the "rude" behavior that some of their on-air voices have decried by giving it so much attention."

"Yeah, guys, how DARE you give any coverage, no matter how minimal, to that march last weekend? As far as YOU'RE concerned, it never happened, see? Ya get me? This is a nice studio you've got here, it would be a shame if something... happened to it, y'know?"

 

"Four legs good... two legs better!" - George Orwell

Obama critizes media. 

Obama critizes media.  "Nothing personal guyss - just business."

"I dont need to read a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber."

Walter Brennan, The Colonel, Meet John Doe, 1941

Press promoting rude behavior?

Thats a laugh! So basically he is chiding his own propaganda ministers for covering anything the Conservatives do? This would be like Goebbels airing a protest in a concentration camp! If they don't cover it then it didn't happen is the totalitarian way of doing things! That is definitely Libnut thinking! If you look at any dictatorship today and in the past, the one thing they must control is the press coverage! They want to be able to marginalize and discredit any opposition so they restrict or prohibit coverage of protests or any other activities which put them in a negative light! That way you only hear their "version", without the possibility of a contradiction of their "rendition" of events, that's if they even acknowledge the occurrence of the protest or other event? So the result will be even less coverage by his propaganda ministers (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and others) of any protest or other activity which would make Obamessiah and his acolytes on the Left look bad! Looks like I will need to stick with Fox or check out the news from the UK for any kind of balanced coverage of any protests or anything here in the States? Can you say Government Central News Agency?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Obama said on NBC's Sept. 20 "Meet the Press." "When we start caricaturing the other side, I think that's a problem.

 HAS OBAMA WATCHED SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS?

Typical Obama lying to the American people again.

He likes to dish it out but he cant take it in return.

 

HILLARY CLINTON QUOTE:

"I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration,  somehow you're NOT PATRIOTIC. We need to STAND UP and say we're Americans, and we have the RIGHT TO DEBATE and DISAGREE with ANY administration."

Hillary a 'mobster'?

Funny that I never see this quote or the video come up on any of those shows in the leftist media when they're trashing the 'tea-baggers'?

What a bunch of liars and hypocrites liberals are. 

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Set the example, Mr. President!

You'll notice that Hillary said "WE"....that means herself and her liberal buddies and it means against any Republican administration.

With a Democrat in the WH it's just plain rude!

And I'm sure our President didn't have getting attention in mind when in a press conference he said that people were getting  all wee-wee'd up......

Set the example, Mr. President!

RUDE BEHAVIOR

Hmmm, so telling your minions to get in the faces of those with whom
you disagree (or calling them out) is not rude. Deriding one's vocation
when you are caught out is not rude. I guess we will have to wait for
another definition of rude from the messiah.

The voice

I can still recall those melodious tones of the fishwife voice when she made that quote.

Hmmm, telling your minions

Hmmm, telling your minions if the other side brings a knife we'll bring a gun, is not rude or inflammatory or out of bounds if you're the ObaWon Kenyabi, but calling the President and his minions liars for their knowingly false misstatements of their health care bills, is reckless inciteful and uncivil. Democraps always live down to their motto, do as we say you should do, not as you do.

Obama said that?

Funny, I thought his opinion is that politicians themselves are what was making it virtually impossible to get things done. It's getting harder and harder to figure out exactly what the President <i>really <b>means</b></i> from day to day.

Of course lately, I've been thinking perhaps it's a <b>good</b> thing when Congress can't do much of anything, because some things at which they <i>almost</i> <b>all</b> excel are spending tax dollars and money we don't have...<b>not</b> reading (<i>or even writing</i>) the bills they vote for...and <i>funding programs the majority of citizens don't want</i>.

By the way, I think the logical conclusion from the President's following statement would
be that he must be in favor of Congressional Term Limits. Wouldn't it?

<blockquote>

Obama said "...all they're
thinking about is just, ‘How do I get reelected?’ and so they never
actually get anything done."
source: http://bit.ly/8c0bW </blockquote>