Obama, Top Aide Jarrett Reflexively Bash Fox News
President Obama drew “Turn Off Fox News” headlines on the Drudge Report when New York Times reporter Mark Landler noted in a pool report from a bar in Amherst, Ohio, that someone joked he was in a building with Fox on the TV.
Drudge also highlighted that top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett blamed Fox News for the impression that’s developed that Team Obama is waging a class war on the wealthy. As she relentlessly shoveled all the Obama talking points on July 1 at the leftish Aspen Ideas Festival, former Time editor Walter Isaacson nudged her about their public image:
ISAACSON: Sounds like a great vision. But so many businessmen and others have said that the message has become one of class warfare, attacking the rich, attacking people who make a profit, people who make jobs. Why is that that tone has been set, that people believe that this is a class war?
JARRETT: Well, they may be watching one particular network.
ISAACSON: CNN?
JARRETT: No.
The Aspen festival’s blog only included a chunk of Jarrett’s larger answer when it presented the highlights of the day:
"Anyone who has heard the president speak, he always says “this isn’t about class warfare—we cherish and want to nurture success. We just want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to be successful.” This is a country built on a strong middle class, which is good for business. If you’re hiring someone, you want to make sure they’re coming in qualified, with a good education." —Valerie Jarrett
As for the Ohio bar scene, BuzzFeed reported on Landler’s pool report to the White House press corps:
As he thanked the group for their support, one of them, Jeff Hawks, gestured to one of the TV's and said, "You're in a building that has Fox News on." Obama suggested that Hawks ask for it to be changed. "The customer is always right," he said.
Landler later added an update to add Obama spin: “he made the remark in a humorous exchange, as did in a subsequent exchange about arm-wrestling or playing basketball over the patron's vote.”
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Keep bashing
Submitted by spallatial on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 8:56am.
it just alienates 50+% of the electorate.
50%?
Submitted by gwalt on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 8:02am.
More like 70. Those polls over sample by 11-14% which means Repubs and Indys are way under sampled. He is in high twenties low thirties at best. Come Post-Labor Day and he will be permanently underwater.
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
"Obama suggested that Hawks ask for it to be changed."
Submitted by richflanj on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 8:29am.
Translated - "How dare you lowly peons!!!!! Why, FNC actually has the audacity to sometimes broadcast those who question my infinite wisdom!!! Switch to MSNBC immediately!!!"
Reply To Mark 81150
Submitted by GeneralAl on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 8:50am.
"He'll lose, because he can't go as hatefully negative as he will, and still have any public image positive about him afterwards."
I wouldn't be so confident. We thought he would lose in 2008, We thought Clinton would lose in 1996, and Bush 41 would win in 1992. We need the Scott Walker formula to win, GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
bho thumb syndrome
Submitted by knuckle_head on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 8:51am.
I have developed bho thumb syndrome over the last 4 years. When I see or hear him on TV I change the channel with my remote. It's a severe and debilitating condition. The only known cure is his defeat in the election. Note: the mute button malfunctioned during his inaugural speech.
Oh screw him already!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 8:52am.
Hey Soetoro and the horse you rode in on(meaning Jarrett), just a few words of wisdom for you.....
F*CK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON, YOU SORRY PIECE OF CRAP RFBPOSSOB!
Dictators have no place in a Free America and that's what everyone wants, a Free America, not a dictatorship banana republic like you are pushing hard for.
It's gotten to the point that now any time I even SEE that SOB's mug on TV or a website, I reflexively want to vomit, I'm that sick of him and his ilk.
That or throw something heavy at the TV, which I won't do because it just means having to replace the TV.
Sheesh, tell us what news source to not listen to, especially when he has all those other sycophants working for him, but that's someone never satisfied when they aren't all working for him.
Happy Friday in a foul mood!
-Jon
Oh, everybody leave poor BHO
Submitted by NCfairandbalanced on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 8:54am.
Oh, everybody leave poor BHO alone. He is the president. When he basically says "I don't want the truth on the TV, so turn something else on", they should obey. After all, he is the commander in chief.
Not the boss of me
Submitted by StarAZ on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 11:42am.
I am not in the military.
I liked Valerie Jarrett...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 9:07am.
...when she played Dr. Zira in "Planet of the Apes"...
AHA
Submitted by dmacleo on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 10:01am.
I knew I had seen her before.
:)
So why has the Department of Education failed so badly?
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 9:29am.
". . . If you’re hiring someone, you want to make sure they’re coming in qualified, with a good education." —Valerie Jarrett
Agreed.
We now spend twice as much per student (in constant 1970 US dollars) than we did forty years ago, yet the commercial world reports that many applicants with HS diplomas are functionally illiterate and require remedial training. We spend more per student than other industrial countries, yet their students fare better on standardized tests. Many college grads can't find work because they spent 4 years and tens of thousands of dollars learning skills that no one wants. Obviously, it's not about the money; it's about the system.
So how did our education system, which now has more PhD's in its work force than ever before, get it so wrong? And will Jarrett and Obama tell us how pumping into a bloated, bureaucratic system is going to fix it if we don't remodel the system itself?
Hey, Gal.....Andre Carson has
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 9:30am.
Hey, Gal.....Andre Carson has a plan to fix our schools....they need to be modeled after Madrassas....with the Kor-AHN as their foundation!
Can you imagine if a conservative said our schools need to have their foundation in the Bible?
Great find, mb. Thanks.
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 10:52am.
You're exactly right. If a Catholic politician even hinted that public schools should adopt the fundamentals of parochial school methods, he/she would be headlining the evening news.
You can blame
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 6:29pm.
John Dewey, the "father" of modern education. He was sold on the Frankfort School, and he was determined to introduce "progressive" education in the US. He was in league with some of the major progressives of his time.
Here is a short piece on Dewey's Project on Progressive Education.
http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/articles/proged.html
Hopefully comrade Jarrett winds up in Leavenworth...
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 9:36am.
...in a cell right between Herr Erich von Holderen and that fraud of an illegitimate Kenyan POTUS Barry Hussein Barack Obama Soetoro, or whatever the Hell his real name is.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
If the Anointed
Submitted by nolefan2 on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 10:58am.
One ever comes in a bar where we're watching Fox News and tries to turn it off, he will be minus a finger. He is so full of himself it's pathetic and you can see Valerie Jarrett's drool all over his suit.
Fox and "bias"
Submitted by StarAZ on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 11:39am.
I emailed Bernie Goldberg the other day about my observation that Fox is getting kind of overbalanced toward the left side. Since I have this weird predilection for facts, I named a list of commentators and newscasters there I see as trending left. Juan, Geraldo, Liaisson, Tamara Holder, Folbaum, Beckel, Cavuto even (with his "I think THEY would say" stuff), Powers, Emihu Greene, Judy Miller, Ratner, Colmes, even Megyn sometimes, etc etc. Goldberg responded quite nastily saying I must prefer to just hear what I want to hear--which is not what I said. Sooo....Fox is not a bag of chips sometimes...but it's all we have. Studies I have seen show the right tends to watch more of the opposition than the other way around. I listen to NPR, read the Wapo, etc.
Well it's good
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 6:18pm.
To know what the enemy is thinking and saying.
Oh, well, never mind then....
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 3:38pm.
Jarrett: Anyone who has heard the president speak, he always says “this isn’t about class warfare—we cherish and want to nurture success.
Oh, well, if that's what he always says it must be true and we can just stop criticizing him. /sarc
But Val, why does he have to always say it? Could it be that his actions just don't line up with the words?
What does Jarret mean
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 6:14pm.
When she says "we want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to be successful " what exactly does she mean?
Doesn't that exist now? But when you consistently make bad choices, drugs, alcohol, quit school, gang banging, having children you cannot support, a total lack of morals, an inability to speak coherent English, and not willing to learn, how can anybody expect to be successful?
How is Shadow President Jarrett going to solve this, since her party has been preaching these things, along with a victim mentality for the last 50 years? What does she want to take away from the successful in order to make everybody successful?
A side note. My dad came out of the depression with a third grade education. He came from a poor dirt farming family. He was an inventor, a talented musician, a skilled mechanic and fabricator. He was self taught. He ran a small business employing one other person - an auto repair shop. He was respected in the community. There was standing room only at his funeral.
We were not rich, but we lacked for nothing. I had plenty to eat and clean clothes to wear to school and good leather shoes on my feet.
I suppose today we'd be considered poverty stricken and encouraged to take hand outs.
But dad never claimed victimhood. He never blamed rich people for anything. He was not in a union.
My point is promises and empty words make nobody successful. It's attitude and knowing right from wrong. We used to call that morals.
ok, I'm done preaching.