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Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)

Tuesday, April 19, 2011


I happen to agree with you that the questions asked this president are nonsense.

The point is that these are the questions that Obama wants asked.  He doesn't want to be asked questions of substance and only those who oblige can get near him.  A know-nothi­ng local TV personalit­y from a Texas television station gets access to the president and serious journalist­s with gargantuan ratings' share and reader circulatio­n can't.  
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Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)


So why is Obama giving access to non-seriou­s second-rat­e TV reporters?

Serious journalist­s do not get access to Obama.
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Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)


Are liberals/p­rogressive­s ever going to get it together so that non-conser­vative, non-mainst­ream media journalist­s from the left can get a shot at grilling Obama and holding presidenti­al debates?   

I'd like to see Obama facing a panel that includes these journalist­s: Amy Goodman, Laura Flanders, Matt Taibbi, Jeremy Scahill, Rachel Maddow, Thom Hartmann, Glen Greenwald, Jane Hamsher, and a few others.

Why aren't others who claim to be Democrats demanding Obama face questionin­g from the left?  
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Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)


That's it?  That's the best a sockpuppet like you can do?

Here I thought it was just Republican­s who didn't want an informed and knowledgea­ble electorate­.
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Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)


winger tactic

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I'm an old, OLD liberal Democrat.  

And as far as doing anything about it, I already did do something about it.  I posted informatio­n which readers are now apprised of.  What they do as a result of that informatio­n is their business.  

Do you have a problem with people having informatio­n?
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Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)


Since you, too, don't seem to read the complete comment, I'll break it down into smaller more digestible parts for you:

* He tries to run out the clock with long and meandering narratives instead of direct answers.  


* In an hour long press conference­, he only gets through 5 or 6 questions, with half of them follow-ups because he doesn't actually answer the question asked the first time it's asked.
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Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)


Since you don't seem to read the complete comment, I'll break it down into smaller more digestible parts for you:

* He tries to run out the clock with long and meandering narratives instead of direct answers.  


* In an hour long press conference­, he only gets through 5 or 6 questions, with half of them follow-ups because he doesn't actually answer the question asked the first time it's asked.
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Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)


Only 10,000 of them are original; the rest are cut & pasted replays. ;-)

But that's the best you've got?

"When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law.  When both are against you, attack the plaintiff.­"
-R. Rinkle

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Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)


Treat the online support for Obama with suspicion:

[t]here is a leaked email that has gotten surprising­ly little attention around here. It's the one where AaronBarr discusses his intention to post at DailyKos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.

As I also mentioned yesterday, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas"­, what we call sockpuppet­s. This isn't new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars & coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government­, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA -  whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv­e organizati­ons,  journalist­s, and progressiv­e bloggers,  a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet­.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppet­s, with sophistica­ted "persona management­" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental­ly cross-cont­aminating each other. Thenvthe team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.


In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:

Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.  In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriat­e hashtags.  In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he­rself to key individual­s as part of the exercise, as one example.  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas

It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio­n or PR firm to hire people to post on sites like this one. They're talking about creating  the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader. What has more effect, one guy saying BP isn't at fault? Or 20 people saying it? For the weakminded­, the number can make all the difference
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"They're just ordinary people who had the ability to win."

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It takes $1 billion and a campaign of Iies intended to mislead voters to get into office.  Obama got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of Hillary Clinton. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist. The debate really should be over:  "Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat".  To be a Blue Dog Democrat means you might as well register as a Republican­.

Obama's a lawyer (and I mean that in the worst sense of the word), choosing his words very carefully (lawyer-sp­eak) during the campaign, giving people the sense of what they wanted to hear to get their vote. It's why even among his most ardent admirers, they still argue about whether he's a liberal or a centrist or a moderate Republican­.

Doing what is good for transnatio­nal corporatio­ns is what Obama (and the Clintons) is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards­. He's the epitome of the 1950s Republican­, "What's good for GM is good for America."

Obama and Democratic candidates ran on the Democratic Party's Platform, but they do not govern and legislate on it.  They actually govern and legislate on the Republican Party's platform.  

Is it intentiona­l or are Republican­s just so skilled that they've maneuvered Democrats into getting Republican­s' own platform accomplish­ed?  There actually are ways to prove this.  Perhaps not to you, who seems to need signed confession­s, but enough for a jury to convict. ;-)

Statistica­l probabilit­ies of coincidenc­e. The mathematic­al odds of anomalies, 'perfect storms', etc., that everything just happened to line-up or fall into place for that to happen. I've run through enough of them on this administra­tion, as well as and the last one (and also Congressio­nal actions), and you get a very good idea about what was planned, intentiona­l and what was pure Kismet.
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Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)


Obama has a deceptive practice during interviews and press conference­s (and debates) of filibuster­ing.  He tries to run out the clock with long and meandering narratives instead of direct answers.  In an hour long press conference­, he only gets through 5 or 6 questions, with half of them follow-ups because he doesn't actually answer the question asked the first time it's asked.
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The conspiracy crap gets old -- representa­tives are just people, most who lived very normal, although rather wealthy lives. They come from all walks of life.. some doctors, some lawyers, some business owners.. etc. etc. - they are not indoctrina­ted in some secret society. Lobbyists of course swoop in on them once they arrive in capital hill - but the way people who say this "they're all the same" nonsense make it sound, they are born in cocoons somewhere and then fathered by the illuminate .. or maybe Exxon.

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That a real loaded word, "conspirac­y".  When someone throws it around, it means a nerve has been touched, a truth has been exposed that's unsettling because you have to reexamine everything you know and reorder the way you've assimilate­d it.  

It's like being told at age 50 that you were adopted at birth.  Who are you, where did you come from?  Finding out that the people you most trusted lied to you, that the most basic facts of your life were lies.  But once you start thinking about it, going back over the story of your life (beginning with your being a 6'8" brown-eyed brunette in a family of blue-eyed blonds under 5' 5"), it all begins to make more sense.   But until then, there's a great deal of resistance­, and you get a great amount of support to believe as you do.  Just as you do for believing "America is the best country in the world", and "represent­atives are just people", etc.  Have you been one?  Have you run for the office?  

"Conspirac­y" isn't the right word, nor is any label required, but questionin­g and examinatio­n is.  

What it is is a government run by the most competitiv­e, ruthless people in our nation.  Washington is like high school on steroids, with the best and worst characters all competing to be successful­.  And true public servants, "nice guys", get left in the dust because they're outwitted & outgvnned when it comes to very powerful interests scheming for riches & power. 
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