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**jmichna** · 04-29-2009, 04:35 PM

Video: CNN's Aww Shucks "Top 10 Obama Faux Pas" Roundup Misses A Few Things

A perennial debate for conservative media critics: does the left enforce its increasingly tenuous hold over the airwaves by framing stories in a worshipful pro-Obama way or by using their gate-keeping privileges to ignore inconvenient stories? There's plenty of evidence for both theories. And every time you think it's leaning one way - say, the media's embarrassing slobbering over Obama's 100 days...

Obama worship, complete with halo images, has been noted before here on NewsBusters but it was nothing compared to current expressions in awe of The One as we approach his hundreth day in office on Wednesday. Matching the theme of "The Truth" painting is Joe Klein singing 100 day mark praises (while excoriating the "satanic" George W. Bush) of his beloved Barack... Chris Matthews, should audition to sing I Don't Know Why Why I Love Him to the tune of I Don't Know How To Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar to serenade "The Truth" painting when it is unveiled at Union Square on Wednesday.

... something like this comes out and tilts the debate the other way. Here's what CNN thinks were Obama's "Top Ten Faux Pas" during the first 100 days. The list is, on the whole, aggressively stupid:

Nothing about the tragicomic Gordon Brown DVD fiasco or on getting the Queen an iPod, both of which kept getting better and better as the DVDs turned out to be the wrong format and the iPod gift was megalomanical even by this President's standards.
Nothing about insisting to Austrians that they speak a language that exists only in Obama's mind. Nothing about visibly demonstrating to Iraqi troops that he has no idea what the different units in Iraq are. They might even have included the Freeman nomination and the Durban II trainwreck, though I can see how those were less "amateur hour gaffes" and more "shots across the neoconservative bow."

Oh - and then there was that $328,000 Manhattan photo op that the White House signed off on after being told it "might set off nightmarish fears of a 9/11 replay?" It happened a day before this list came out yet somehow never came up.

But tender clips of the First Daughters? Check. A montage of the the White House puppy? Check. 10 seconds of shamelessly goofing on Bush before delivering the list in a skeptical "these are what count as gaffes now" tone? Checkity ****ing check. Because even when The One deigns to mingle among mere mortals, his human bumbling merely makes his divinity more pronounced. More like an allegorical Bacchus than a Christ figure, but still thoroughly worthy of worship.

References:
* April Ratings: FNC Beats CNN and MSNBC Combined
* Figures: Obama's List Of Pre-Screened Questioners Emerges One Day After Media Celebrations Of How Obama Doesn't Pre-Screen Questioners (Plus: It's Possible That The MSM Is Making Up Excuses For Their Obama Worship) [MR]
* Strong Economy, Weak Coverage [TCS Daily]
* Obama Worship Goes Into Overdrive as 100-Day Mark Approaches
* Top ten faux pas [CNN]
* Four Theories Why Obama Is Throwing Britain Under The Bus [MR]
* Smart power: Obama gets the queen ... an iPod [Hot Air]
* Confirmed: DVDs that Obama gave Gordon Brown are the wrong format
* Confirmed: Queen's iPod includes Obama's speeches [Hot Air]
* Obamateurism of the Day [Hot Air]
* Obamateurism of the Day [Hot Air]
* Freeman On Iranian TV: "I Shouldn't Have Been Surprised" Obama Threw Me Under The Bus (Oh, And Israel Won't Survive) [MR]
* Durban II "Getting Worse Every Day", US Delegation Silently Accepting Vicious Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Clauses [MR]
* They say it was a training mission ... hhm ... the cost? $328,000+
* Smart power: White House freaks out New York with low altitude fly-by; Video: Panicked NYers run in the streets; Update: Obama "furious" [Hot Air]
* Wonderful: Feds Knew NYC Flyover Would Cause Panic, Proceeded Anyway [JWF]
Previously:
* Obama: You Know What The US Really Needs? A Market Intervention That Spectacularly Collapsed In Europe Last Week
* New Palin Smear: She Supports Hamas (Plus: Obama's Anti-Israel FP Sensibility, Support From Hamas)
* Breathtakingly Stupid VP Candidate Very Lucky The Media's In The Tank For Obama
[Newsbusters] [Hot Air] [Greta]
Omri | April 29, 2009 3:12 AM | TrackBacks (1) |

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And, topping off the Circadian Centenary Enthusiasm:
Pelosi on $3.4 trillion budget: “A statement of our national values”
By Michelle Malkin • April 29, 2009 01:54 PM

Our new “national values:” Reckless spending, massive government expansion, and the continued saddling of future generations with untold debt.

Plundering is patriotic!

The House of Representatives passed a $3.44 trillion budget resolution for fiscal year 2010 Wednesday, approving most of President Obama’s key spending priorities and setting the federal government in a new direction with major increases for energy, education and health care programs.

The House on Wednesday approved a budget resolution measure by a vote of 233 to 193.

The resolution, which was approved by a vote of 233 to 193, passed in a virtual party-line vote. All but 17 House Democrats supported it, and no House Republicans voted in favor…

… “Today, for the first time in many, many years, we have a president’s budget … that is a statement of our national values,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said during the final debate on the House floor.

“What is important to us as a nation is reflected in this budget. It’s a very happy day for our country.”

Posted in: Nancy Pelosi, Politics

**WIFF** · 04-29-2009, 04:44 PM

You've done more research than the mainstream media on this?
Say it isn't so!

M-Roadster Fan · 04-29-2009, 05:11 PM

Nice rant. Bravo.

nickb · 04-29-2009, 06:09 PM

$958,904,064,000 down

$2,600,000,000,000 to go.

Nice!

**rpsmith** · 04-29-2009, 06:19 PM

At first I could not believe that cnn would publish anything negative about barry, but after watching what they considered his top ten I realized their reasoning. They are trying to show that he is "just human" like the rest of us, by doing this they are distracting us away from what he really has done.
President Obama’s Gaffes and Gimmicks

**XDConvert9mm** · 04-29-2009, 11:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by M-Roadster Fan

Nice rant. Bravo.

It sure was, wasn't it? There might just be a sliver of hope for you yet.

04-29-2009, 04:35 PM	#1
jmichna XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Western UP, near the Porkies Posts: 5,870	In Celebration of the First 144,000 Minutes.... Video: CNN's Aww Shucks "Top 10 Obama Faux Pas" Roundup Misses A Few Things A perennial debate for conservative media critics: does the left enforce its increasingly tenuous hold over the airwaves by framing stories in a worshipful pro-Obama way or by using their gate-keeping privileges to ignore inconvenient stories? There's plenty of evidence for both theories. And every time you think it's leaning one way - say, the media's embarrassing slobbering over Obama's 100 days... Obama worship, complete with halo images, has been noted before here on NewsBusters but it was nothing compared to current expressions in awe of The One as we approach his hundreth day in office on Wednesday. Matching the theme of "The Truth" painting is Joe Klein singing 100 day mark praises (while excoriating the "satanic" George W. Bush) of his beloved Barack... Chris Matthews, should audition to sing I Don't Know Why Why I Love Him to the tune of I Don't Know How To Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar to serenade "The Truth" painting when it is unveiled at Union Square on Wednesday. ... something like this comes out and tilts the debate the other way. Here's what CNN thinks were Obama's "Top Ten Faux Pas" during the first 100 days. The list is, on the whole, aggressively stupid: Nothing about the tragicomic Gordon Brown DVD fiasco or on getting the Queen an iPod, both of which kept getting better and better as the DVDs turned out to be the wrong format and the iPod gift was megalomanical even by this President's standards. Nothing about insisting to Austrians that they speak a language that exists only in Obama's mind. Nothing about visibly demonstrating to Iraqi troops that he has no idea what the different units in Iraq are. They might even have included the Freeman nomination and the Durban II trainwreck, though I can see how those were less "amateur hour gaffes" and more "shots across the neoconservative bow." Oh - and then there was that $328,000 Manhattan photo op that the White House signed off on after being told it "might set off nightmarish fears of a 9/11 replay?" It happened a day before this list came out yet somehow never came up. But tender clips of the First Daughters? Check. A montage of the the White House puppy? Check. 10 seconds of shamelessly goofing on Bush before delivering the list in a skeptical "these are what count as gaffes now" tone? Checkity **ing check. Because even when The One deigns to mingle among mere mortals, his human bumbling merely makes his divinity more pronounced. More like an allegorical Bacchus than a Christ figure, but still thoroughly worthy of worship. References:** * April Ratings: FNC Beats CNN and MSNBC Combined * Figures: Obama's List Of Pre-Screened Questioners Emerges One Day After Media Celebrations Of How Obama Doesn't Pre-Screen Questioners (Plus: It's Possible That The MSM Is Making Up Excuses For Their Obama Worship) [MR] * Strong Economy, Weak Coverage [TCS Daily] * Obama Worship Goes Into Overdrive as 100-Day Mark Approaches * Top ten faux pas [CNN] * Four Theories Why Obama Is Throwing Britain Under The Bus [MR] * Smart power: Obama gets the queen ... an iPod [Hot Air] * Confirmed: DVDs that Obama gave Gordon Brown are the wrong format * Confirmed: Queen's iPod includes Obama's speeches [Hot Air] * Obamateurism of the Day [Hot Air] * Obamateurism of the Day [Hot Air] * Freeman On Iranian TV: "I Shouldn't Have Been Surprised" Obama Threw Me Under The Bus (Oh, And Israel Won't Survive) [MR] * Durban II "Getting Worse Every Day", US Delegation Silently Accepting Vicious Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Clauses [MR] * They say it was a training mission ... hhm ... the cost? $328,000+ * Smart power: White House freaks out New York with low altitude fly-by; Video: Panicked NYers run in the streets; Update: Obama "furious" [Hot Air] * Wonderful: Feds Knew NYC Flyover Would Cause Panic, Proceeded Anyway [JWF] Previously: * Obama: You Know What The US Really Needs? A Market Intervention That Spectacularly Collapsed In Europe Last Week * New Palin Smear: She Supports Hamas (Plus: Obama's Anti-Israel FP Sensibility, Support From Hamas) * Breathtakingly Stupid VP Candidate Very Lucky The Media's In The Tank For Obama [Newsbusters] [Hot Air] [Greta] Omri \| April 29, 2009 3:12 AM \| TrackBacks (1) \| ******************* And, topping off the Circadian Centenary Enthusiasm: Pelosi on $3.4 trillion budget: “A statement of our national values” By Michelle Malkin • April 29, 2009 01:54 PM Our new “national values:” Reckless spending, massive government expansion, and the continued saddling of future generations with untold debt. Plundering is patriotic! The House of Representatives passed a $3.44 trillion budget resolution for fiscal year 2010 Wednesday, approving most of President Obama’s key spending priorities and setting the federal government in a new direction with major increases for energy, education and health care programs. The House on Wednesday approved a budget resolution measure by a vote of 233 to 193. The resolution, which was approved by a vote of 233 to 193, passed in a virtual party-line vote. All but 17 House Democrats supported it, and no House Republicans voted in favor… … “Today, for the first time in many, many years, we have a president’s budget … that is a statement of our national values,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said during the final debate on the House floor. “What is important to us as a nation is reflected in this budget. It’s a very happy day for our country.” Posted in: Nancy Pelosi, Politics __________________ Fight Organized Crime... next election, elect no one.** ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "It was often pointed out during the election that Obama lacked management experience. While having a president with no experience is bad, it's not nearly as bad as having a president with experience as a community organizer." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." - James Madison, Federalist No. 10
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rpsmith XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Somewhere near the Rockies Posts: 3,061	At first I could not believe that cnn would publish anything negative about barry, but after watching what they considered his top ten I realized their reasoning. They are trying to show that he is "just human" like the rest of us, by doing this they are distracting us away from what he really has done. President Obama’s Gaffes and Gimmicks
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