With Obama's School "Controversy," the Press Gets (willingly) Duped Again »
Posted By Progressive 3 months, 4 weeks ago in Political NewsAm I the only one feeling a strong sense of deja vu, now that the text of Obama's school address has been released and everyone can confirm the obvious, that not one of the idiotic claims made by the right-wing about how the President of the United States was going to "indoctrinate" school children was even remotely based on fact?
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Beau78903 months, 4 weeks ago
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The press wasn't "duped," it's simply no longer interested in reporting facts, which sell fewer papers and get fewer website visits than reporting inflammatory partisan propaganda.
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Lack of honesty in the media is driving polarization and will eventually lead to Americans living in two entirely separate worlds that are based on two conflicting sets of "facts" (if it hasn't already done that). And those different worlds have been created by partisans with agendas who want to manipulate the public.
The age of responsible journalism is over.-
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Progressive3 months, 4 weeks ago
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FTA (for those who drop and neg without reading the story to see the questions you've answered):
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Question No. 1: How many more times is the press going to get duped?
Question No. 2: How many elite media pundits will step up and denounce the transparent insanity of the school "controversy" now that even its ring leaders concede it was bogus?
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normallysilent3 months, 4 weeks ago
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Who was duped?
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After seeing how much controversy was involved, the embarrassment of one of his Czar (buddies) having to resign over the weekend and in light of continuing to loose support on a number of items.
How long do you think it would take to write a new speech to school kids?
Not saying this to be the case, We will never know. I think with less controversy on other items this would not have been given a 2nd thought by most but all people have to judge him on is what he has done so far and who he chooses as friends. -
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BB643 months, 4 weeks ago
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I think you're all wrong. The GOP doesn't have the power you guys continue to claim. We have talk radio and a few blogs. You have, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, PBS, BBC and any number of other news groups.
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What really concerned people, including conservatives and some liberals was everything being prepared for the day. Lesson plans and worksheets on how the kids can help the President? Sounds very close to some of the methods used by dictators. I'm not saying he's a dictator or terrorist or anything negative. What I'm saying is that it appeared to be one of the methods used by some of the bad guys, infiltrate through the youth.
I think if Bush or Reagan would have asked to do something like this, the left would have had the same problem. The original plan was very dishonest.-
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Progressive3 months, 4 weeks ago
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FTA:
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Why was it "news"? Because "conservative critics" had made a charge (that had no basis in reality). Because "conservative critics," who had no idea what Obama would say to students, had prematurely dreamt up some loony tunes claim about how Obama shouldn't be allowed to urge children to excel in school. And now with the text having been made public (and the damage already done to Obama), critics are shifting into never-mind mode. -
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antibrainwasher3 months, 4 weeks ago
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As usual, the ignorance of the con displayed in the ultimate lie, a lie you knowingly tell, over and over again.
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ABC is right wing, for profit, owned by a multi tiered corporate board controlled multi billion dollar corporation, Disney, majority owned by a banking cabal in Isreal, CEO Eisner thus proving by your ignorant statement you are a liar.
NBC, owned by General Electric, is a for profit multi board controlled conservative company producing nuclear power plants and jet engines. You are a liar.
CBS, Westinghouse corporate owned and operated for profit, right wing slant, multi tiered conservative controlled, thus proving you are a con liar.
CNN, owned by Time Warner, the largest media corporate empire in the world, conservative owned and operated, proving you are a liar.
PBS, public owned and currently directed by Bush appointee former chairman of the RNC, instituting a strict minute by minute fairness doctrine, thus proving you are one more con liar.
BBC is English owned and operated, so is completely irrelevant to any intelligent analysis of american media.
The american media is slanted far right to right, with the extremist Fox News owned by a billionaire extremist foreign national anti-american. -
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smithichie3 months, 4 weeks ago
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"What really concerned people, including conservatives and some liberals was everything being prepared for the day. Lesson plans and worksheets on how the kids can help the President"?
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This may be hard to understand for some folks but those 'concerning' questions are in context to the speech, which if you bothered to read or listen to means the way kids can help the President is by staying in school, working hard and listening to their teachers and parents.
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Jeboba3 months, 3 weeks ago
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REAGAN did do it and REAGAN did indoctrinate with policy. I don't recall we liberals having a cow over it like you nutbags did with Obama. Come on, tell us the REAL reason you object to everything Obama does. The REAL reason. You don't have the balls to admit it do you!?
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NoWayMan3 months, 4 weeks ago
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If I was in high school...
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and I heard I had to sit and listen to Obama's message, one word would have come to mind: boring.
but after hearing the cons speak out against Obama's speech, after hearing the cons tell us how much POWER our president has (presumably he has the ability to turn every child in america into a socialist with one speech), I'd be very curious, very interested in what Obama had to say.
and then when I'd heard his message, and realized it didn't brainwash me, and realized Obama actually wants me to push myself and do well in school, I'd have to wonder just what was wrong with all those conservatives in the first place. I'd have to wonder why do they hate the president, simply because he's so charismatic and his message is self-empowering? or is it something simpler, something more base and ugly, something as simple as black and white?
and that's how I would enter my adult life, wondering just whats wrong with the republicans for them to be so scared of and so hateful to our very own president for no reason at all.-
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awongscreen3 months, 4 weeks ago
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That might be you. For kids, and even quite a number of people who cannot analyse and separate lies from facts, lies repeated over and over again will be accepted as truth. This tactics or spreading lies has been used by dictators throughout human history. Now it is employed by conservatives with financial backings.
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I think obama failure is not crushing the lies completely and still dream about working with liars.
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Leemck023 months, 4 weeks ago
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I remember when President Herbert Bush did a survey to see it the military (Marines) would fire on American citizens. This is a little more radical than President Obama keeping to his promise. Addressing a group in one of the state runoff's he told the group not to disband the organization devoted to get him elected (when elected) because it was the same way they could be involved to make change. Him asking in a democracy for the youth to get involved is no where near a Machiavellian plot to overthrow the government in 8 years. Why can't we say "oh, he isn't asking to undo Posse Comitatus, so it isn't that bad".
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You know C-Span has a competition on topics like that. Are they grooming future automatons too?
Is the fear that Obama will brainwash them all before the conservatives get a chance to teach them to do the "Lockstep to a collapsed economy" on the theme of Tax Cuts?-
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Progressive3 months, 4 weeks ago
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Speaking of tax cuts, Reagan preached the tax cut gospel to America’s students:
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http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909030020
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MeaJen303 months, 4 weeks ago
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Republicans just seemed to be proactive, while democrats were reactive. At least according to this:
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buddhaed3 months, 4 weeks ago
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A teacher, calling a Tucson radio station, stated with glee that their school's audio/visual equipment failed and the Obama speech was not heard by the students. She thanked god for his divine intervention.
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I attribute the failure of that equipment to the fact that it is crappy and old.
I guess that teacher is not willing to help the President educate our kids. -
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