{"id":3152,"date":"2009-02-06T11:11:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2009-02-06T11:11:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:11:28","slug":"obama-lets-media-get-under-his-thin-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/obama-lets-media-get-under-his-thin-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Lets Media Get Under His Thin Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “true” Obama emerges from the propaganda cloud created and promoted by the mainstream media. It’s not a pretty picture.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pajamas Media<\/a> | Martha Zoller | Feb. 6, 2009<\/p>\n

President Obama has shown the dent in his shield. He\u2019s sensitive about what people think of him. That\u2019s understandable since there was very little negative coverage of him during the campaign. In addition, he had so much money he could drown out any negative questions about him. The networks and the mainline newspapers had to admit after the election they\u2019d been a little slanted towards Obama in their coverage. You can\u2019t blame them. As then-Senator Biden said during the campaign, \u201cI mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that\u2019s a storybook, man.\u201d <\/p>\n

The coverage of candidate Obama was like a storybook with a very happy ending. Even during the campaign, there were hints of the thin skin on criticism. He didn\u2019t want Maureen Dowd commenting on his big ears. His \u201cpeople\u201d tried to silence radio and newspaper voices in Chicago who were negative towards him. He threw reporters from newspapers that didn\u2019t endorse him off \u201cObama Air\u201d in the waning days of the campaign. He called out Sean Hannity and the Fox News Channel. Interestingly enough, when the Pew Research Center looked at the coverage of the candidates in the general election, Fox News Channel had almost an even split of stories about each candidate \u2014 they were indeed balanced.<\/p>\n

Then there was the appearance of \u201cpay to play\u201d during the inaugural coverage. ABC News was the big monetary sponsor of Obama\u2019s Neighborhood Ball and they were the only broadcast outlet to get an on-air interview with the new president on Inauguration Day. As a final nail in the Inauguration Day snub of the media, there was the swearing-in \u201credo\u201d and no broadcast media sources were asked.<\/p>\n

To make it up to the media, President Obama came down to visit the White House press corps and didn\u2019t get a warm reception on either side. So what\u2019s a guy to do? If President Obama doesn\u2019t like the way the media is treating him, maybe he should talk to former President Bush. The coverage of Obama is overwhelmingly positive and even in that context he complains. On top of that Robert Gibbs is so inept, he makes Scott McClellan look like Mike McCurry of the Clinton era \u2014 and that takes some doing.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s my advice to President Obama? I would tell him, \u201cMr. President, you are going to make people angry no matter what you do so do the right thing. You won by not much more of a margin than President Bush did in 2004 and it won\u2019t be enough to be reelected in 2012. Forget about making the special interests on the left happy; they are never happy. You won and they are still not happy. Abandon the stimulus package, extend the Bush tax cuts, cut capital gains taxes, and make government accountable and you\u2019ll win the first round. Oh, and don\u2019t watch television or listen to the radio, unless it\u2019s me or Rush Limbaugh.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Mr. Obama is fed up with his coverage now and thinks folks aren\u2019t being fair, he\u2019s on the way to a Nixon-like enemies list and that will just lead to sitting alone in the Oval Office swearing at people and that\u2019s not his style, or is it? The point seems to be lost on him that not everyone is going to like him, so he needs to be confident in his own vision to get it done even if it makes Nancy Pelosi frown. And that\u2019s saying something.<\/p>\n

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The “true” Obama emerges from the propaganda cloud created and promoted by the mainstream media. It’s not a pretty picture. Pajamas Media | Martha Zoller | Feb. 6, 2009 President Obama has shown the dent in his shield. He\u2019s sensitive about what people think of him. That\u2019s understandable since there was very little negative coverage … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,18,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-taxation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}