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The cold and calculating Barack Obama is acting like just another politician with some grand “political” plan of his, the local toilet paper roll POLITICO tells us. He takes the so-called “powerful opponents” of his agenda out there and tries to weaken them, so as to “pass his agenda.” He is Richard Nixon, minus all of the massive law-breaking.
Criminal acts, all:
President Obama is working systematically to marginalize the most powerful forces behind the Republican Party, setting loose top White House officials to undermine conservatives in the media, business and lobbying worlds.
With a series of private meetings and public taunts, the White House has targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the biggest-spending pro-business lobbying group in the country; Rush Limbaugh, the country’s most-listened-to conservative commentator; and now, with a new volley of combative rhetoric in recent days, the insurance industry, Wall Street executives and Fox News.
Mmm, tasty. Although we dare point out to Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen that it might take more than a “volley of combative rhetoric” to “marginalize” the insurance industry and Wall Street — especially the latter, what with it being, no exaggeration, the most powerful lobby in the history of human existence, with whom every politician now and forevermore will be in bed. They control the fucking money!
As for Fox News, well, who cares what those flappymouths go on about. But the “new” White House attitude of pointing out that Fox News is completely terrible has somehow riled up ABC’s Jake Tapper, who asked Robert Gibbs yesterday, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot man? Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one -
(Crosstalk)
Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.
Tapper: But that’s a pretty sweeping declaration that they are “not a news organization.” How are they any different from, say -
Gibbs: ABC -
Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?
Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o’clock tonight. Or 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a “news organization” — why is that appropriate for the White House to say?
Gibbs: That’s our opinion.
LEAVE MEGHAN MCCAIN AND FOX NEWS ALONE, FOXTROTTERS!
Obama strategy: Marginalize most powerful critics [POLITICO]
Jakes Tapper Challenges Robert Gibbs Over Fox News Claims [Huffington Post]
Does this mean that Barry is not really Jesus? Marginalizing the raving pack of lunatics that represent the modern GOP is certainly underhanded. Why it borders on telling the truth which as Jimmy Carter taught us is unforgivable in a politician. Shame!
And the way he does it by relying on facts and logic…, why, it is just un-American.
Don’t forget Lamar Alexander’s “enemies list” bullshit. Politico is so gullible.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28549.html
And, if Glen Beck is not a source of news, why is it that the voices in my head agree with the ones in his?
Let me put this in the code that Tapper will have trouble penetrating: What The Fuck is up with Tapper?
Apparently, this Obama = Nixon meme is the latest thing for all right-wing mouthpieces to repeat? I literally facepalmed this morning when a link to an article about “Obama’s Nixonian Enemies List” showed up in my RSS reader.
Ted Knight is looking positively EVIL these days.
Chew them up, spit them out. About time.
Jake Tapper’s begging for a toga party.
Of course, we all remember how open the Bush Administration was to the American Bar Association, Sierra Club and other organizations.
And lets not forget that Bush was so open to public criticism of his wars that he sent under cover FBI agents to spy on old women just so he could be informed of what they were saying.
That is leadership, bitches!
And then Rush was all like “They’re only 12 percent of the population. Who cares?”
Robert Gibbs is totally the most awesome press secretary ever. That’s our opinion. Fuck you very much.
Really, how hard do you have to work to marginalize Ted Baxter and Rush Limbaugh?
President ObamaThe Republican Party is working systematically to marginalize the most powerful forces behind the Republican Party./fixed
I swear FOX has gotten even nuttier since Hopey’s team said that.
Even though it’s taken a lot of months, it is pretty damn shocking to see a Democratic politician actually show that he has balls. No wonder the pearl-clutchers of the media our upset; he’s supposed to sit back and apologize to the Republicans for upsetting them.
Who is White House to determine what is a news organization? I sure see his point! They should just give out those nifty press passes to anyone who asks for one.
“Jeff Gannon totally deserved a Pulitzer. Or a Peabody. Or a Polk [somewhere].” - Jake Tapper
President Clinton’s strategy of margarinizing his enemies wasn’t always successful, but it was, more often than not, quite delicious.
When Obama, by “responding to his critics”, passes “legislation”, I, for one, will “starburst”.
Steve Ducey needs to do a “Special Comment”.
Advocatus_Diaboli: Awesome.
Is it the fact that a politician is playing politics that has their panties in a bind, or the fact that he is just so damned good at it?
IT’S THE WORD ASSOCIATION GAME!
Nixon as to Obama as Copier is to _____
a. Afghanistan
b. Sweaters
c. Layered laundry detergent
d. All of the above
If Politico and Jake Tapper keep this up then I “might” believe that they’re really just GOPer suckups.
“Marginalize enemies” = “Saul Alinsky OMG Nobama’z a RADICAL TERR’RUH’RIST!”
Wingnut code is so easy to crack, because they can only remember six things at any given time.
Marginalize the people who brought us two rotten wars, a wrecked economy and the scorn of the entire free world? Gee what an absolutely terrible mean thing to do.
Nobody puts Rush in a corner (because there is no corner he can fit in.)
shortsshortsshorts: Shredder? Digital camera?
SEND MER ROCK SALLT
shortsshortsshorts: e. Sweater Puppies.
RUPERT HIRE ME PLZ KTHX
/Tapper
Hard to know who’s the bigger tool: Jake Tapper or Mark Halperin. Hmmm….has anyone ever seen them in the same room together?
gurukalehuru: Seriously.
And why does Rush Limbaugh look like an Asian sumo supervillain in that picture??
First they came for the Fox News hairdos and screamers, but I was not a Fox News hairdo or screamer, so I stayed silent, etc.
ManchuCandidate: I dunno man. That Oxycontin and latino-boy-semen diet seems to be working out for him lately. You can almost see his second set of fat rolls.
Why does pussy Fox News need big brother Jake Tapper to defend it, or ask Gibbsie whether it is “appropriate” to call that spade a spade? Jake Tapper is a pussy too.
Holy Cow!!: Alexander talks about “street fighting.” I’m guessing that plaid-shirted over-entitled hillbilly doesn’t know too much about street fighting, such as it is practiced at 79th and Kedzie. Too bad some South Side pals of Barry can’t educate Alexander as to the error in his metaphor.
Did Barry just sink the bipartisanship!!??
NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo…..
shortsshortsshorts: Trick question. Answer: e. Bombing Cambodia.
V572625694: I thought the same thing. Tapper called Fox News a sister organization. I think Jake Tapper just called Fox News gay. Pretty soon Fox News and Jake Tapper are going to go to toga parties in Assville, NC.
Jake Tapper prefers boy brevity.
The whole chickenshit MSM has spent the last 10 years serving as the echo chamber for these bullies, thieves, sleaze merchants and cat skinners. And now some darkie and his pals object to their hate filled outpourings? How very uppity.
magic titty: That’s Rush Limbaugh?!
I thought it was a picture of Obama motorboating Juggs McCain.
Extemporanus: Someone throw that fucker a turkey leg! Looks like he’s about to start eating himself!!
Tapper: If Fox is not a news organization, Robert, how do you explain their major scoops on the “Giant Rat Seen At White House; Not On Visitor’s Log” and “Is Obama Trying To Marginalize Oxen” stories?
jagorev: That would require admitting that Nixon wasn’t such a great guy to begin with. Remember: “Nixonian” is a complement over there.
Jake must be banging one or more of those FOX bimbettes they have on at mid day. “Oh, Jake, did you hear those TERRIBLE things the White House says about us? I’ll tell you about it right after I finish sucking you off.”
Au contraire, they marginalize themselves.
Texan Bulldoggette: I did. And I had no idea they were both so flexible.
“setting loose top White House officials”
I think they picture this as Mr Burns releasing the hounds. And actually, I’d rather have hounds going after them. Yum yum.
“Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a “news organization” — why is that appropriate for the White House to say?” Don’t you see??? Fox is simply TOO BIG TO FAIL!
So Jake Tapper is still upset about making an ass out of himself?
HITLER made criticisms of his…ah…critics. And then he did other stuff to them so Obama is again close to being Hitler. Fuck it, he’s Hitler.
“That’s our opinion.”
Yeah, so fuck you!!!
I’m pretty sure Vandawipe and Moron basically just cut and pasted this article from the very same article they wrote (several times) about Bush doing the same thing. Which was an article they just cut and pasted out of an article they wrote about Clinton. Which they cut and pasted out of an article they wrote about HW. The only difference this time around is there will be a “This is Great News for the Republicans” article written the moment Drudge is done sucking their dick.
Too bad Barry is still in bed with the drug companies.
ps: Obama, Harry Reed needs a call from you in support of the public option. mk?thx
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: FOILED! You SUNK MY BATTLESHIP.
*fapfapfap*
Jake, see if you can spot the pattern:
Doctor Phil is not a doctor.
Liberty University is not a university.
Hostess creme filling is not cream.
Lee Majors is not a major.
Tapper: “I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a ‘news organization.”
Translation: “I’m not talking about the evidence for saying that Fox News is or is not a news organization. I’m talking about how your comments affect Americans. Do you realize that by saying Fox News is not a news organization, you are hurting the feelings of thousands Fox News employees, hard-working people who love their children and their pets?”
sati demise: Let’s hope so. Bedding made JFK not a map-cap amphetamine-fueled baiter of a nearly pro-American First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, but a gunslinger, according to Stephen King. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7y2xPucnAo )
Not a banker-butt licker Margaret Thatcher, but…heheh (::ducks::).
Gibbs should have just started crying big boo-hoo-Beck crocodile tears.
In fairness, Nixon’s heart was black.
Scarborough had his righteous panties in a wad this morning. He doesn’t seem to get that the whole idea is to make people like him discuss whether or not Faux reports the news, not to come to any conclusions. This morning the White House put you down as “easy”, Joe.
jagorev: They are simply working their way backwards. First he was just the “same as George Bush”, then he was Carter, now he’s Nixon. Soon he’ll be James Polk. Whatevers.
I’d prefer he be Nixon, sittin’ at Cheney’s old 4th branch of the government desk, secretly listening into the republicans in congress prattle on their cell phones. Sometimes they might even talk about something other than diddling gerbils.
That’s it. You can consider yourself marginalized. Boo-yah!
….and as Judge Holden, Rush Limbaugh!!
Rahm Emanuel to White House Communications Director Anita Dunn has piled on Fox News by contending it’s not a legitimate news operation. All of the techniques are harnessed to a larger purpose: to marginalize [...] some of the most important policy and publicity allies of the national Republican Party.”
Wait, so this media organization, WITH THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES, an ally of the Republican Party like Politico said or is it whatever Trapper was whining about?
assistant/atlas: Awesome comment!
Alexander: Like the GOP doesn’t do the same thing. That’s scarcasm. Actually, you, Alexander, and all of the other corrupt, psycho cronies in the GOP have done the same thing for years–all of 2008, all of this year, and for the last 50 years. Alexander’s just as guilty as anyone. And when you have such completely psycho people ranting and raving like lunatics–avoiding and misrepresenting the facts and using racist, sexist and anti-Semitic language and basically coming close to libel and slander and defamation of character–then, yes, you better damn well “marginalize” your enemies. In fact, the enemy is indeed Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, O’Reilly, Beck, Palin, Alexander, Rove, Bush, and all of these other corrupt, misguided and wayward propagandists. And that includes the goons at Fox News. This White House is smart, this White House sees through the veils, and this White House is doing exactly what it should be doing. The era of these wayward psychos is long gone–in fact, it never was–and the White House is doing its best to have these morons finally just realize how insane they really are. That’s harsh language here, yes, but it’s true.
Additionally, this is a complete misreading of so many things on a journalistic and political level by the attention-desperate Politico thing, it’s just shameful. Politico needs to seriously reel in their desperate attempts to attract attention, and to focus on serious journalism for a change.
CAREFUL NOBAMA WERE FIGHTIN BACK *DIP*
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/20/795416/-John-Cornyn-physically-assaults-me
Why is Barack getting all Beyoncé on Rush and that other old? Not cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aASCZgbJxC8 (@0:24)
You rang?
Can’t wait to hear Gibbs say “flappymouths”, fits Sean , Bill and Glenn to a tea bag.
Except that Nixon was a REPUBLICAN!! If Obamarama were a REPUBLICAN, he could eat babies on national TV and these fools would all defend it.
I wish Obama would just carpet-bomb all these whiny pieces of crap.
those critics are already marginal when not considering the size of rush’s face.
BlueStateLibtard: You know who ELSE was bombed on the carpet? Oh, wait, um…sorry, I’ll clean it up.
BlueStateLibtard: I wish Obama would just blaze Ann Coulter’s saddle.
The next time Preznit Hopester or one of the staff is interviewed by someone from Faux they should say nothing, and pull out a piece of paper with this text on it: “Would you like some hot sauce to go with your Fairness Doctrine?”
“President Obama is working systematically to marginalize the most powerful forces behind the Republican Party”- isn’t that just part of “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”??
What are the most powerful forces behind the Republican party?
1) a bunch of incompetent bankers;
2) a bunch of incompetent manufacturers;
3) the Religious Right, with too many know-nothing factions to list;
4) immigrant-haters too lazy to do their own work;
5) war-profiteers who think China’s gonna keep on loaning;
6) media profiteers like Limbaugh and Coulter;
I’m sure others can come up with more.
Trig/Falcon 2032
Sleeves: I’m guessing Ann’s saddle might just be the herpes triangle. I wouldn’t want anyone to go there except Vitter.
BlueStateLibtard: Probably they will attack first, when some televangelist or megachurch cult leader tells their followers KILL THE LIBERALS! Their Rwanda-style rampage may seem to carry all before it at first, but the resistance will be terrible too, and will probably win in the end (if anyone “wins” a civil war).
problemwithcaring: Good pickup.
Good lord. You mean I wasn’t banned for that weekend stuff?
:::Sniff:::
This place is going to the dogs.
Or WOLVERINESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Whatever.
Scottie: Fifteen is my limit on die Gürtelrose ab Fruchtbarkeitsidol besteigen, baby.
Anna Von Shtupp: Du…du, du!
Why is Jake doin’ Major Garrett’s dirty work?
Jake Tapper! What a slapper.
Since Tapper thinks he has the same journalistic integrity as his colleagues at Faux New, I think it’s time the Administration shuns him. Jake, an “ass*hat”, minus the hat.
He can’t say it, so we’ll say it for him: “I’m Barack Obama, bitch!”
Who picked those photos? The glowing paleness of the white skin, the hideous bags and wrinkles– and there is Barry looking all young and attractive. The hidden message: brown is beautiful!
declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” since we fuck our sisters
jeeeezus mikey joseph mary, if barry really wanted to use the white house communications office to “marginalize” the gop, he’d hire the 10 best wonkette commenters to write press releases. fapping away at my own idea now.
“He takes the so-called “powerful opponents” of his agenda out there and tries to weaken them, so as to “pass his agenda.” “. And how, exactly, does this even remotely come close to the K street project?
mush: i just can’t deal with the idea that a democratic president with a democratic majority in both houses of congress would be so AUDACIOUS as to use his political leverage to influence debate and legislation. THIS IS JUST LIKE HOW MAO/STALIN/HITLER did it.
Neilist: no, but your new name is Harper.
Neilist: Like I read comments on the weekends?
zhubajie: 7) Skoalrebel
Neilist: Theoretically, you could get banned, if anyone read your comments.
Remember long time ago when someone under the name of Karl Rove, was sent out to break the proverbial legs of every single critic that ever disagreed with his boss? Remember when he intervened in local state elections to elect folks more akin to Bush? Remember when he went out proverbially knee-capping United States Attorneys? Remember when he was dropping the name of a CIA I agent, like, every other minute to intimidate her husband and destroy her life? Remember when he was totally deleting emails — the modern day equivalent of shredding documents and destroying tapes… — to protect his boss?
Fuck you, Politico, and the hyperbole-carrying horse you rode in on. Oh, and Jake? You so need to get laid this badly, dude.
Jim Newell:
Jim, here was Neilist’s terrible comment, and you can read my in kind response along with it:
“As a resident of S.F. at the time, I can say that Harvey Milk served at least one valuable civic function:
He proved at the S&W .38 cal. Chief’s Special remains an effective personal defense weapon.
Or even an offensive weapon.
Particularly when the barrel is placed against the back of the head.
Unfortunately, Supervisor Milk had to share the credit with Mayor George Moscone. Had it been otherwise, Milk might have qualified for a Nobel Peace Prize, too.?
Be swift, Jim.
Oops, here is the link.
Jake seems like a guy who used to sniff his (large, manly, unappealing) mother’s underwear (”women” like barbara bush don’t wear panties.) Probably still does, when home on holidays.
The real mystery isn’t why Obama’s going on the attack: it’s how dipshits like Limbaugh ever got popular to begin with - they’re so utterly repulsive (& clueless), you’d think they were sure-fire vaccine for decent ratings.
If all this noise leads to people saying “Rush Who?” in five years, Obama should get another Nobel … & a hummer.
More marginalization plz!
When Jan 20, 2010 comes, we will all sit around and digest 1 year of Obama.
This is preemptive misdirection. A little groundwork to play the blame game. Why does Obama have little to show for his time in office? Why has his agenda failed in the free marketplace of ideas? The answer will be: The unfair propaganda machine of the GOP. They must be silenced.
Think of it like Judo. The goal is not to snap your opponents neck, you just want to put him on his ass. Hopey had the Pubbers on their ass with all that “post partisan” chatter a few months ago but since then they’ve manage to struggle to their knees with the help of some ferocious teabagging. It’s a useful visual image, right now the Pubbers are supported by a tripod, one quivering leg is big business, one quivering leg is the Talibangelicals, the only solid support they have are the Teabaggers who are pressured welded to the taint of the RNC (whether the like it or not). So what does Hopey do? He leans down by the Teabaggers ear and whispers “you’re a whore for the Republican party”.
What can they do? Their noses are half-way up the rectums of his enemy and their mouths are full of his testes, if they release the GOPs’ dainties to howl “No We’re NOT!” Fat boy will be back on his ass, and probably never rise again.
I don’t always agree with Hopey but politically, he reminds me of Bruce Lee being facing the rejects of the “Mighty Wu-Shu Pan Mai Flying Fists of Death” martial arts school. He doesn’t really attack the Republicans as much as just getting out of their way so they can attack themselves.
I know, I know, tl/dr
Fox News are now Trotskyites?
dijetlo: Sheer genius!
Every time I hear Rush Limbaugh speak, it always features an allusion to ass. “Sit on a fire hydrant,” “bend over,” “grab your ankles,” and on and on and on, like some kind of fairy Julius Streicher.
And why is it that fascists are always demonstrating such a grossness of mind? Like the Nazis with their references to “syphilis,” “bacillus,” “lice,” “filth,” “maggots,” and “impurities.” It seems like it’s the case with all of them, no matter their location or origin, like they’re all reading from the same psychological play book.
I think maybe it’s a symptom of a low grade clinical paranoia. Because madness is the same in all times and cultures too. They’re mad. All of them. Mad as hatters and obnoxious, because as Robert Heinlein once pointed out, “Paranoia is a disorder that afflicts fundamentally bad people.” I think he was right.
Heheh: Talibangelicals, a lumpen bourgeoisie (in a country of no[t]-class-just-status chiselers)?
Dolmance: Yes, a line of thinking—a psychology of moralism—has disgust as the basic moral impulse, and so distinguishes ethics in a contrasted, rational domain. So a rhetoric of revulsion would be consistent with a moralistic approach to the development of a habitual propaganda.
And what we now call ‘mental illness’ was once called ‘moral imbecility’, contrasted with any identifiable organic, neurological syndrome.
I understand marginalizing Rush Limbaugh, but what did Bob Barker ever to him?
Dolmance: There’s a ‘liberation in loyalty’ participation mystique angle at work here. Also.
If Rush (a character act[or]) says these things, it creates the impression of confession, a permissive license for speech, speech without restraint for speech without consequence. Rush is confessing. So may you. Call in. (And they’ll use that intelligence for program planning.)
That license is maintained simply by party loyalty.
Dolmance: I mean, Jeff Christie has a _big_ ass.
zhubajie: 5) war-profiteers who think China’s gonna keep on loaning;
I used to worry about the Chinese cutting us off. Then I realized that would be the absolutely best thing that could happen for the U.S. so it won’t ever. At least not until we are well and totally fucked (debt >100% GDP).
Yeah, who gives a shit.
Sweet Baby Cheeses: You would too, if you were trying to play a leisurely golf game and one of THEM began marginalizing you by playing Journey all loud and stuff.
Neilist: your post, or Sean Young showing up on the Warner Brothers lot in a homemade Catwoman costume? The judges explain their selection for “Most Pathetic Bid For Attention” after these messages.
dijetlo: I need your newsletter and such.