NY Times Still Finds Obama a 'Rock Star,' Rally Has 'Techno-Dazzle'
New York Times correspondent Mark Landler hyped Obama the “aging rock star” trying to rekindle the 2008 magic at a rally Saturday in Columbus. It also featured “digital gizmos” that “lent the rally the techno-dazzle of an Apple product introduction.”
The euphoria may be hard to recreate – the media hype then was more effective because it didn’t have three-and-a-half years of reality for rebuttal – but the Times is still deeply impressed:
At times, the rallies had the feeling of a concert by an aging rock star: a few supporters were wearing faded "Hope" and Obama 2008 T-shirts, and cheers went up when the president told people to tell their friends that this campaign was "still about hope" and "still about change."
....In Ohio, digital gizmos lent the rally the techno-dazzle of an Apple product introduction. Attendees could have their pictures taken and posted on a giant screen during the rally. They sent text messages to register for “Backstage with Barack,” a drawing to meet the president. There was also a mobile field office, where supporters sampled life as a volunteer in a campaign office.
No amount of show business, however, can replicate the euphoria of 2008, as some in the audience acknowledged. Roshni Patel, 19, from Columbus, said “the excitement is still high, though maybe not as high as four years ago.” But she said students credited Mr. Obama with trying to create jobs and fighting to keep interest rates low on student loans. “That means a lot to me personally,” she said.
Ms. Patel said she had not really focused much on Mr. Romney, but was inclined to stick with Mr. Obama. “People really think he’s done a lot,” she said. “He killed Bin Laden.”
With his bare hands! Supporters (and reporters) somehow cut out the military heroes when they start their political salesmanship.
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And yet when we accuse the
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 11:31pm.
And yet when we accuse the Left of hyping Obama up as if he were a rock star, they say we're full of crap.
Woopdeedoo! The 43 people
Submitted by ReaganRuled on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 11:39pm.
Woopdeedoo! The 43 people that bothered to show up and still have tingles of Hoax'nChains running down their legs were dazzled by the technotronical gizmos! Nothing to see here people .. he may be a total FAILure as p-Resident, but he's a silver-tongued, teleprompter-quoting, 25-handicap golfing, perpetually vacationing, party animal with a dazzling light show and styrofoam greek architecture.
Maybe he should have brought the Greek columns!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 11:48pm.
Did they happen to mention that the arena was half empty?
The Columbus Dispatch reports that Obama organizers even had people move from the seats to the floor of the gym in order to project a larger crowd on television.
But the techno-dazzle was awesome!
MB, it seems that Baracka has been having that problem
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 12:18am.
for quite a while now. I recall seeing other articles on the fact that he couldn't fill locations. Not to worry, I'm sure the campaign will start givin' (Barackaspeak) out Obama cash to fill the seats.
Yeah, right.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 11:59pm.
It used to be that presidents ran for re-election on a record. This one runs on the promis that he'll get it right in his second term!
the president told people to tell their friends [all the ones who weren't there!] that this campaign was "still about hope" and "still about change."
He'll really do it if we give him one more chance!!
Remember when he said if he didn't succeed in 3 years he would be a one-term president?
Remember when he said he was OK with being a one-term president?
You've fallen victim to one of [his] classic pranks. Bazinga!!
So the comrade Dear Ruler is still considered a rock star?
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 11:58pm.
Fine, then let us all vote in November to send this Kenyan commie mullah back under whatever rock it was he slithered out from under.
Seriously, we can't get rid of this colossal commie fraud soon enough.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
All Hail The Mighty Slayer of Bin Laden...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 12:00am.
Reducer of Student Loan Debt...
Increaser of Graduate Unemployment...
Decreaser of Drilling Permits...
Raiser of Gas Prices...
Blamer of Bush...
Claimer of False Credit..
Spender of Stimulus...
Dynamo of Increasing Debt...
Great Divider of Class, Race, Religion, and Gender...
You missed
Submitted by KornKing on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 8:46am.
Lowering sea levels
I was right
Submitted by frank_andrini on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 2:45am.
however I didn't realize HOW right I was about media bias until coming to Newsbusters.
Aging rock star or one hit
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 3:16am.
Aging rock star or one hit wonder?
May have been wasted; didn't sell out
Submitted by OhioHistorian on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:54am.
The picture I saw of the Schott was not full. There was lots of room to come hear the "aging rock star". Which surprises me, because OSU sits in the middle of Columbus, a high-crime city that continue to re-elect a totally D City Council, totally D County Comissioners (Franklin County) and a D mayor (Michael Coleman) who is an inept import from Toledo. We just don't seem to be able to fix the crime, much less the streets, but hey, maybe Barack Obama will buy the choo-choo that Mayor Coleman wants to go from nowhere to the suburbs at half the speed of the current traffic jam commutes.
Thomas Alva Edison
"Would You Catch A Falling Star"
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:22am.
by JOHN ANDERSON
You know the crowd was very small for a country music show
But he faked a curtain call just like it was years ago
And then a lady grabbed his arm as he staggered down the aisle
And with all his country charm he addressed her with a smile
Would you catch a falling star before he crashes to the ground
Don't you know how people are nobody loves you when you're down
Pick me up and take me home and I'll bring my old guitar
Sing a golden oldie song if you'll catch a fallen star
He had a silver plated bus and a million country fans
Now there's just a few of us and he drives a little van
And they were beatin' down his door the lovely women left and right
And now he's on a hardwood floor a wonderin' where he'll spend the night
Would you catch a falling star before he crashes to the ground
Don't you know how people are nobody loves you when you're down
Pick me up and take me home and I'll bring my old guitar
Sing a golden oldie song if you'll catch a falling star
Sing a golden country song if you'll catch a falling star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIRTmUQZwnU
MidAmerica....
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:31am.
Very appropriate ;-)
Obama 2008: The question in
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:45am.
Obama 2008:
The question in this election is not ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’ We know the answer to that. The real question is, ‘Will this country be better off four years from now?’”
Four years later:
“The real question, the question that will actually make a difference in your life, in the lives of your children, is not just about how we’re doing today. It’s about how we’ll be doing tomorrow,”
H/T Weasel Zippers
We need to rephrase the question, MB.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 10:25am.
"Have you EVER been any worse off than you are now?"
"Has this country EVER been in as much danger as it is today?"
Knew then
Submitted by gwalt on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 8:07am.
In 2008 he was a bore and a boor. Nothing has changed. My wife mentioned how exciting it must have been for her delegate friend to meet Moochele and Brock. I simply stated that he would be the last person I would ever want to meet because he was such a snore. Turns out.....
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
Aging rock star is right. Did
Submitted by forest on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 9:11am.
Aging rock star is right. Did he have a mini stone henge on stage?
"a concert by an aging rock star"
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 10:32am.
You want an aging rock star for president, elect Mick Jagger!
He is eminently more qualified than the RBFSOB in every way, including he is actually an aging rock star.
I'd love to come back in 200 years and read what historians mark as the beginning of the end of the USA. It has to be 2006, the year that the American Socialist party gained control of both houses of Congress, and then set their sights on winning the presidency with a fraud of "an aging rock star," totally unqualified to do anything but destroy this country as we knew it.
I'd take Keeeeeeeef Richards,
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 2:52pm.
I'd take Keeeeeeeef Richards, actually - beneath that drug-addled, cigarette smoke weathered , lived-more-lives-than-TWO-cats, more valleys than the Grand Canyon face of his is a very well-read and intelligent guy....................and I don't think that he's the social climber and limosine lib that Sir Mick is - hell, Keeeeeeeeeeef actually MOCKED Jagger for being knighted!!!
And he did party with my son and some other SEALS down at the SEAL base in San Diego when his nephew, who was a SEAL there, got married.
WE killed bin Laden!
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 11:29am.
"He killed Bin Laden."
WHO killed bin Laden? WE killed bin Laden. We, the America people, who volunteered to be members of the military, who volunteered to be the CIA personnel, stationed here and overseas. We, who volunteered to travel thousands of miles to foreign lands, hostile lands, and be away from home for so long, who gave up our time, our homes, our jobs, our families, who gave so much, up to and including our very own lives, to defend and protect America. We, who support our troops on the field of battle and off. We, who volunteered to care for the injured troops, who carried home and buried, with honors, the fallen heroes, WE are the ones who killed bin Laden. Obama is only a part of that. Why is it that only he gets the credit?
These people act as if Obama is some type of Warrior King, who rode into battle on a War Horse, clad with gleaming armor, and who personally battled with bin Laden, who drove Excalibur deep into the heart of the beast. Nothing can be farther from the truth.
Obama's not a Rock Star anymore, He's this era's King Arther, this decade's Alexander the Great, a Wise and Powerful Warrior King. And that's the image he loves to portray while he sits safely, thousands of miles away in the White House Situation room, surrounded by he own personal Secret Service security detail, watching the true warriors do their job, watching THEM kill bin Laden.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Techno, drizzle drazzle, time for this one to GO home...
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 11:55am.
Tooter Turtle stuperman...
You Didn't Build That.
More like technofizzle
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 3:19pm.
He was planning on 20,000 in Columbus (a full house). 14,000 (70%) showed. If he gets 70% of the youth vote he got last time, there will be a politically technical term for him: Loser (at least of the popular vote).
Dennis Prager