Further showcasing his inability to tolerate dissension, Barack Obama recently made a statement calling out media outlets often unsupportive of his leftist agenda.
He claimed that Republican lawmakers would generally be open to compromising with their Democrat counterparts but are afraid they will be “punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh.”
Obama made the comments in an interview that never explored the obvious liberal bias held by the overwhelming majority of news outlets.
In fact, he openly embraced what he called “more left-leaning media outlets” for their recognition “that compromise is not a dirty word.” He also suggested that he and his leftist cohorts in the Democrat party are more open to “buck[ing] the more absolutist-wing elements in our party to try to get stuff done.”
Plenty of media watchdog groups and conservative organizations lashed out at the president for his ill-advised verbal attack on an industry he despises.
Of course, this is far from the first time Obama has targeted a group or individual he deems unfriendly to his worldview. In fact, as author Ben Shapiro pointed out, he has taken aim at the same entities in previous remarks.
“He’s done this before,” Shapiro said, calling Obama “a bully.”
He continued, saying the president is “saying the media is not liberal enough. I think he wants people who don’t like him to be quiet.”
A respected Fox News personality, Greta van Susteren also chastised Obama’s generalization of her network.
Writing on her blog, van Susteren implied Obama is upset because he “wants his usual media pass and Fox challenges his policies,” which she said “happens to be the media’s job.”
She also lambasted the president’s implication that Fox News featured just one viewpoint.
“Some Democrats have told me that they want to come on Fox to discuss issues,” she said, “but they get heat from their leadership for appearing on Fox.”
Finally, she pointed out the absurdity of Obama suggesting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is open to compromise.
“He has not allowed a budget to get to the Senate floor for years to even begin a discussion,” she said. “The budget process is where all compromise begins and ends and ended it before it even got started.”
The Obama White House, and the president specifically, have called out Fox News on other occasions. While Obama implied the network’s viewers were “a little stubborn” in 2012, his then-spokesperson Anita Dunn described it three years earlier as “opinion journalism masquerading as news.”
Rich Noyes of the Media Research Center summed up Obama’s overarching complaint.
“The media has always helped shape the political environment,” he said, “but Democrats object to the conservative media now being able to.”
Noyes surmised the prevailing thought among leftists, saying “It was so much easier for them when the big three networks and The New York Times left out the inconvenient facts.”
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His word speak of compromise, means my way or the highway……ready to see him go down the road.
I agree okieflash, the man does not know the meaning of the word compromise! If he did, it would not have taken such a long time to come to an agreement regarding the fiscal cliff, or anything else for that matter. I also agree, I am ready to see him go down the road!!
Obama demonizes anyone who criticizes or opposes his diabolical agenda for America. As the President of the U.S. he’s gonna get criticism whether he likes it or not. If he “can’t take the heat he needs to get out of the kitchen” — get out of the presidency — get out of the USA. He’s like a child who’s been coddled all his life. This is very immature behavior. He has really never grown up. And he’s coddled and overly-protected by the lamestream media, Demonrats, Hollywood elite, Manhattan elite, etc.
The mighty, self-annointed Obama, claimed he would be the most transparent president in history. Yet, he cuts all of his shady deals behind closed doors. He belongs back in Indonesia. He can be their king. We don’t want one.
The only thing that’s transparent, is the fact that everything he says and does is a lie, he is unable to fulfill a single promise to the American people as a whole, and his true intention is to milk us for as much as possible, before we send him down the road! Is there anyone who really thinks Biden or Hillary have a chance to win a presidential election in 2016 after Obama finishes ruining us? We’ll be scraping the lot of them off the bottom of our shoes!
Purpleheart,
Haven’t you been listening, O’but*H*le is not just king, he’s G-d!!!!!!!! Didn’t you know???
Well my friends, Obama has finally admitted to having a State Run Media (STM replaces MSM) . If only he could get that pesky FOX and those Conservative radio show hosts, led by that deviate Rush Limbaugh, in line he would have it made. Now it is scary when you think about how aligned the press is with the Government. Our forefathers once feared the press, as they (the press) were the defenders of Freedom and the bastions of Truth. But, alas, it’s not to be any more. It’s like the Light of Liberty is flickering
I agree with all of you . King Hussein thinks that ” compromise ” is what he wants , nobody else . Again , right before the general election , he comes out on the telly , saying that ” he will cross the aisle to work with anybody who wants to work with him ” , yet , he didn’t cross the aisle , and we are still waiting to work with the GOP . He didn’t want to , nor cared , if we went over the ” fiscal cliff ” , he would have got his tax raise anyways . And , remember , he ” promised ” to not raise or make a new tax on the Middle Class or the poor class , yet , his ” obamacare ‘ is NOTHING but a tax .
Please don’t forget, that by levying taxes against the wealthy, who own companies and corporation or own major stock and investments in the aforementioned, while getting hit with the tax will most certainly offset this, by charging the consumer more for “goods & services” !! Ergo, the middle class will indirectly be paying more for them, which in a sense, indirectly raising all of our taxes anyway!!!! Bravo, President O’but*H*le!!!
I disagree with all of those Americans (including my sister and niece) who say Obama is very, very intelligent.
Obama is so-o-o-ooo intelligent he is as dumb as dirt and his promises (?) are hollow, meaningless and inactionable! His doctor summed Obama up as follows: Dr. David Scheiner, MD, Obama’s longtime physician reveals the lack of humanity in Obama’s character and carelessness with which he enacted the entirely politicized health insurance reform, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often called ObamaCare.
Scheiner doubts the character of the man who holds the highest and most influential office in America: “I think there is too much of the University of Chicago in him. By which I mean he’s academic, lacks passion and feeling, and doesn’t have the sense of humanity that I expected.”
Perfectlyaged,
“that you expected”????? What more could you possible expect from a communist??? I take it that you aren’t up on the history of this planet???? Or else, you would recognize, Joseph Stalin, when you saw him????!!!
ruvenakiva..”that I expected” is included in a sentence of Dr. Scheiner’s…not my words!!!! You show a total lack of intellect and an inability to comprehend!
So BHO was voted in by a minor margin of the popular vote. Anybody know the numbers? Must have been some real idiots that voted for him after seeing what he did in the first 4 years. What a loser! This guy is the worst president since Wilson (well, FDR came close)
Personally, I don’t believe Obummer was voted in at all. Overwhelming evidence says he stole the election…again. Oh sure, they got the 47% to vote, but he stole the rest. Everyone knows it. If only we had a Congress with cajones to do anything about it. Or a SCOTUS that wasn’t on the take. What a sad time we live in.
Here is some back up for you if you post to another blog or repost here.
Voter fraud links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=Hbf3iaEbAuY&fulldescription=1
http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/04/colorado-counties-have-more-voters-than-people/
http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/did-obama-steal-the-2012-election/
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/forensic-profiler-obama-confessing-election-fraud/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/cuccinelli-seems-to-agree-voter-fraud-helped-obama/2012/11/27/c117aa0a-38e2-11e2-a263-f0ebffed2f15_blog.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/cuccinelli-seems-to-agree-voter-fraud-helped-obama/2012/11/27/c117aa0a-38e2-11e2-a263-f0ebffed2f15_blog.html
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/22-signs-that-voter-fraud-is-wildly-out-of-control-and-the-election-was-a-sham
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/12/In-Colorado-Ohio-and-PA-Some-Election-Results-Don-t-Quite-Add-Up
http://marketdailynews.com/2012/11/12/election-fraud-barack-obama-won-more-than-99-percent-of-the-vote-in-more-than-100-ohio-precincts/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/02/claims-increasing-switched-votes-in-ohio/
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/16/voter-rolls-in-ohio-are-bloated-experts-say.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/robbins-report/2012/nov/10/florida-vote-twist-more-ballots-voters/
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/26/is-voter-fraud-being-committed-in-ohio/
http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/what-luck-obama-won-dozens-of-cleveland.html
The truth is Obama’s worse enemy!
So, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh upset the boy who would be king? Go for it, and never let up.
Poor baby…. hate to see a grown man cry…. Obama is whining about Fox News… when he has all the other news companies in his pocket…. woe is me…. Here’s a hankie Obama… !!!