Comments on: Obama’s Plan to Continue to Battle Smearers

By: Freelancer

Freelancer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:52:10 +0000

The obvious solution is for the media to shun Obama. If Blackouts work for him, they should also work in reverse. Obama needs to be put in the position of having to work for coverage and I think that is exactly what will happen.

By: Annie Sweetie Oakley

Annie Sweetie Oakley — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:30:53 +0000

Will he punish us with a baby??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL08s5uH8as

ps – that must be why FOX is acting so wimpppppppppy.

http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=20210273

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RBO News & Views: The Man in the Mirror Edition « — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:05:08 +0000

[...] “Fight the Smears” Campaign to Expand: Steve Gilbert at Sweetness & Light writes that two Obama camp sources report: Obama is planning to create an even more aggressive stance once [...]

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:33:45 +0000

Yes, I was going to mention Helen Thomas, who was unable to get a question to Bush or even Fleischer for years, not months. But there were other major news media as well.

Meanwhile, as McClellan points out, they regularly leaked to “favorable” media (Fox News, conservative talk radio).

Before Bush, every modern sitting president took questions from Helen Thomas, and all the major media outlets.

And it was certainly an obvious and effort on the part of Bush and his spokesmen to “punish” “hostile” news outlets. You’d have to go back to Nixon to find a president as blatant as Bush, and there were no media like Fox News attacking Reagan or G.H.W. Bush.

Even in the age of Google, Lexus/Nexus, and YouTube conservatives lie as if there were no objective reality.

By: Report: Obama to Adopt Aggressive Plan to Stifle Criticism : TrendPK.com

Report: Obama to Adopt Aggressive Plan to Stifle Criticism : TrendPK.com — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:17:57 +0000

[...] report here. The policy already seems to be in full force. Of Obama’s 5 press conferences, Fox News has [...]

By: Former Bush Voter

Former Bush Voter — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:45:41 +0000

The plan includes “punishment” to networks and other news sources that “get too close”, or investigate news that the Obama people determine are “off limits”. News organizations that violate these off limits areas will be subjected to interview “blackouts”.

You mean just like President Bush ignored Helen Thomas after she became overly aggressive?

By: quotecritter

quotecritter — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:19:56 +0000

Right now Fox is 0 for 5 in getting to ask a question at any of his press conferences