flyupsidedown
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Is the Federal Department of News Next?Ralph Alter
Barack Obama just dipped his toe into the ocean of government subsidized news and promptly suggested that the water is fine, adding that he is open to the possibility of jumping right in. The Hill reports B.O.'s seemingly innocuous response to a question regarding Congressional bills providing tax breaks for struggling news organizations:
"I haven't seen detailed proposals yet, but I'll be happy to look at them."
Keep in mind that when the student of Saul Alinsky looked at the banking and automobile industries, he decided to have the feds take control over them. Is a News Czar next or a proposal for a cabinet level Department of News?
The foundering Obama administration would love to shutter the widespread exposure his unenlightened economic policies and sophomoric foreign relations strategies receive from the alternative media. The chairman of the FCC will announce the administration's plan for internet regulation in a speech today before the Brookings institution. This is no idle co-incidence. A further examination of Obama's remarks indicate the understated desire to control or eliminate the information flowing from the blogosphere:
"I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding," he said. (ibid-The Hill)
Of course the only kind of mutual understanding the student of Chicago machine-style politics intends is an enforced one. It isn't "fact-checking" that concerns our first Marxist President, but the production of any facts at all regarding his union cronyism, support for radical leftist organizations like ACORN, and his weak-kneed apologies and the surrender of America's military prerogatives to the world's leftist thugs.
Is the elevation of Pinch Sulzberger to Federal News Czar next? Or would Czarina Arianna Huffington be a more logical BHO selection?
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Outsider
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Just more kicking and stomping. Perfectly understandable.
"Like my grandma always said: "Some folks are like little kids. and when you take their candy, they are going to kick and stomp." 
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flyupsidedown
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outsider: | Quote: | | "Some folks are like little kids. and when you take their candy, they are going to kick and stomp." |
I'm sorry, I don't seem to understand your analogy. Who are "like kids" and what is their "candy" that is being taken away?
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lemontrail
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I can't think of any news outlet that isn't already controlled to an extent by the Feds, not even Fox.
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flyupsidedown
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People are saying "journalism is dead" and I agree for those MSM gov't synchophants slopping at the tray of administration propagandists, but this also gives rise to those who will buck the trend. That is the spirit America is known for. I won't call it rebellion though that is what it is akin to, rather it is rugged individualism that despises the herd mentality of collectivist thinking. This type of freedom 'frightens' the sheeple masses and gives rise to all of the stereotypical name calling and slanderous labeling. There are those brave "journalists" who will inform and report "for the people" not given to a particular ideology. Patriot journalists we'll call them namely the blogoshere and more. There are abuses to be sure but there is bravery and sacrifice as well. Much easier to dress up and be just another pretty face spouting propaganda for the gov't organ. The blogoshere, town halls and teabagging are all part of a grander movement to wrest back the levers of power to the responsible local level away from the distant and unresponsive federal fist.
Long live rebellious, individualistic, constitutional, faith inspired freedom and anger against a growing federal tyranny. Sort of has a ring to it. Sounds like liberty.
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Outsider
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Fly you are finally starting to accept what has actually already happened.
| Quote: | | Long live rebellious, individualistic, constitutional, faith inspired freedom and anger against a growing federal tyranny. Sort of has a ring to it. Sounds like liberty. |
It was a slow process but the "rebellious, individualistic, constitutional, faith inspired freedom and anger against a growing federal tyranny" spoke last November. You missed the boat then, now it's too late. It ain't coming back anytime soon. So, I guess you'll have to just keep on kicking and stomping til you get tired of it. 
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flyupsidedown
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outsider: | Quote: | | It was a slow process but the "rebellious, individualistic, constitutional, faith inspired freedom and anger against a growing federal tyranny" spoke last November. |
You have them confused with starry-eyed, mesmerized, ill informed, socialist bent political messiah worshippers that hang their hope and faith on a man. A dangerous preoccupation but one that conservatives are used to seeing progressive liberals vaunt election after election. Always the "messiah". Obama is about as far from the messiah as you are from Rush Limbaugh. All his braggadocio about 'hope and change' ends up being centered around a doctrine of self-serving warmed over socialism tried and failed nation after nation. The biggest problems we now have as a nation are the entitlements bankrupting our populace. Bush tried to reform them and make them affordable and competitive but once socialistic programs are established it is like pulling molars without anesthetic.
Obama, and you, don't seem to have a clue that a tsunami is about to tidal wave your ilk out of office. Obama may not make it 4-years. You never know what can happen in the thin atmosheric civility we find ourselves in because of the "great uniter". My suggestion is put on your life preserver (jesus), jump off of the sinking ship (Obama) and swim for the solid conservative (constitutional) ground that made this nation great in the past. It is enough that because of Obama, in part, we are headed for economic disaster. "Run for the hills" wouldn't be too dramatic I think. Our dollar is nearing a death spiral and now we hear FHA is nigh to another major bailout. We need grownups back in the whitehouse not a "community organizer" in over his head thinking that the good ole boy politics of Chicago is enough.
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| Quote: | | Obama may not make it 4-years. You never know what can happen in the thin atmosheric civility we find ourselves in because of the "great uniter". |
Lets see. What could happen? The mad and angry could get a mob together and somehow over run the military and get at the president. Not likely. They could somehow get a mob together and force some kind of impeachment proceedings like under Newt. but that's not likely to happen since the repubs don't have the numbers. And even if some kind of wild far right dream of getting rid of the president did come to pass you would end up with old Joe and be right back at square one. No, the ballot box is probably still the best way to go and is probably the only way to ever get your candy back.
Frankly, I think the more likely outcome will be years and years of kicking and stomping, and if we have to put up with that, then bring it on. It sure beats the alternative.
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flyupsidedown
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"kicking and stomping" as you put it, is in reality legal democratic protest and discontent. It is just the prelude however to a greater political move resulting in a shift. Obama was a lark. Even his own base that elected him is in doubt and eroding, in less than the first year. He doesn't seem to grasp the office yet. He looks sillier and more petty as his term unfolds. His ill-qualification are no longer in doubt and the spell of enchantment and illusion of leadership has long been dispelled.
Europe is not impressed and except for the fascist kingdoms of the islamists he has no real international support or appeal abroad among western leaders. They can all see through him. His charm and presentation is a mile wide, but paper thin. Politicians, you forget, are creatures of self preservation and will repent of their Obamanations if the 2010 wave is severe enough. When informed people speak forcefully enough, not community organized illiterates looking for handouts, politicians will feel the heat. The 1.2 million marchers on Washington will only grow larger and more influencial as a political force. People are serious. Between a handful of progressive socialists in Congress, the president blazing their agenda, and the conservative majority of the American populace concerned for the future of constitutional government, it will be almost a coup in 2010. The organizing will be overwhelming, informed and from all sides, and it won't relent. Obama has not produced and it is getting more evident by the day, is incapable of sound judgement beyond the progressive ethos. In politics, when a vaccuum of leadership is perceived, power will step in. Once the smell of blood is in the water, even in less than a year, the political thrashing frenzy will only cease when the victim is consumed. See how many lifeguards will jump in to save a swimmer being thrashed upon by a multitude of sharks. He will be friendless and an icon for years to come, like Carter, of a weak ill conceived notion of a leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. You can't community organize your way out of of actually being president the way you community organized your way in.
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