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NYT’s Friedman: “Three Years Is Too Soon to Tell If the Media Blew It on Vetting Obama in 2008″ [Video]
On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, The New York Times‘ Thomas Friedman told Howard Kurtz that it was still way too soon to tell if the media blew it in vetting Obama when he was a candidate in 2008.
Kurtz: Given the limitations that we’ve seen in President Obama’s governing style, the fact that he comes in late and his—his critics would say he’s too much of a compromiser and what does he stand for and all that, did the media blow it in the portrayal of candidate Obama in 2008? Did we, were—were we swept along by the emotion of the Obama oration?
Friedman: Way too soon to tell that, I think—
Kurtz: Really? Almost 3 years in?
Friedman: Yeah, I think if — look, what have I been calling for, you know, the president to — and I think there is, we so desperately need a grand bargain that involves restructuring of debt, raising of taxes, cutting of spending and investing in the sources of our strengths, okay, as a country, from everything from infrastructure to government-funded research to education. It’s so clear that’s what we need. My personal frustration with Obama has been that while he—while he certainly tried that grand bargain for a little bit, it then, it just kind of went away. Well, it didn’t work. He said [House Speaker John] Boehner backed out. I don’t know who backed out. Whatever the point is—
Kurtz: Well, it takes two sides to negotiate—
Friedman: Exactly, there’s no question. But—but if I were Obama right now, I’d be out there with the American people every day on that bus tour: “I am for this grand bargain, here is what it means specifically, here is why it will work, here is why it’s the answer to our problems.” And my own frustration with Obama is that—is that—as a commentator now, who—who—who wants to get behind solutions, okay, and come out against obstruction, I don’t have a solution right now, okay, that I can say, “Here’s my guy who’s got my plan out there, I mean the plan I think will work best for the country.” And I think there’s a lot of voters who feel that way as well. A lot of Obama supporters who want to be supporting the president, but they don’t quite know what it is, you know what I mean?
Friedman just needs to admit that the media did blow the vetting of candidate Obama in 2008 and that thanks to a combination of Obama’s hopeful speeches, their hatred for George Bush and their liberal views, any chance for objectivity flew out the window once they realized that Obama could actually win the presidency.
Thanks in part to the media, we now have record budget deficits and national debt, higher unemployment and a credit rating downgrade to boot.
Too bad we can’t sue the media for perpetrating a massive fraud on the voters.
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Friedman is just another member of the journalism world that is an acilyte of the 60′s Camous Radicals and drinker of the “kool-aid”.
The media did report that Obama’s wife said her husband was Kenyan born.
You gotta be kidding me. The MEDIA didn’t do a fair job of vetting “Congressman” Obama? EVERY Congressman should go through a vigorous vetting/investigation before becoming privy to America’s sensitive information. It shouldn’t be up to the media, it should be up to the NSA. As for not having enough info to go on during his election…horse shi*. There were plenty of folks screaming that he was the most liberal congressman in the Demoncrat party. America didn’t listen. We’ve raised up a bunch of moronic Americans is what we’ve done. As an aside, Friedman is one of those morons.
Freidman and ALL the LapDog Media SHOULD have done vetting, BEFORE Obama was foisted onto
America-They Did NOT. They were ALL in awe of the ‘historyonics to be made by the lst black POTUS’
and rather than DO their jobs, they worshipped at his feet and wanted to be part of his History. Well, they ARE, as they are held responsible for what has happened to our nation-ALL Non-Obama voters & our citizens had to endure the ridicule, the attacks by the liberal media, as they “covered up his past”,
and chastised those who ‘didn’t buy his b.s. from day one. Your liberal/socialist/leftist voters with the
media’s help, put this man into Our Whitehouse, and as he brought about the Demise of America, YOU,
are a part of that history. By contrast, when you hear that McAmnesty had selected Palin as V.P., YOU
in the liberal lapdog media, couldn’t wait to smear her AND her family. Not that I love Palin, but you tend
to do the dirty work for your Democrat Liberal Leftist Party in personally smearing ANY and ALL of this
corrupt regime’s opponents. Look at it, this way, you are ALL continuing doing “Obama’s Dirty-Work,
as you go after each and Every Republican possible candidate. You especially love to smear ANY and ALL Conservative Women- You are utterly disgusting, dishonest and NOT journalists with integrity.
BTW: Freidman, Kurtz etal: If you want to know what was out there during his run, there WERE articles that tried to tell the truth about his “Hidden Past”, that you and your ilk chose NOT to see as you helped this fraud, so I’d suggest you go back and read an honest reporters articles and think of what HE tried to warn people about Obama, as you Hid and foisted his rise onto America:
@A.I.M.(Accuracy in Media) “THE MARXIST ROOTS OF OBAMA’S RAGE”-parts 1&2, 10/11, 10/12/2010
@A.I.M.- “OBAMA’S INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST CONNECTIONS” – 2/14/2008
@A.I.M. -”SOROS BETS ON U.S. ECONOMIC COLLAPSE”-1/16/2008
ALL THESE ARTICLES WERE WRITTEN BY AN HONEST, COURAGEOUS WRITER WITH INTEGRITY,
SOMETHING “ALL THE LAPDOG MEDIA FOR OBAMA DOESN’T HAVE, SO READ WHAT YOU ALSO, SHOULD HAVE BEEN REPORTING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT. EVEN NOW, AS YOU SEE HIM BRING (ARROGANT-his words) AMERICA DOWN TO HER KNEES AS HE FEELS WE NEED TO BE PUNISHED-JUST AS HIS FATHER & MOTHER FELT ABOUT OUR REPUBLIC.
WELL, LIBERALS, IF AMERICA GOES DOWN-SO DO YOU AS YOU HELPED HER DEMISE. THANKS FOR STILL CALLING THOSE WHO OPPOSED THIS MARXIST’S AGENDA, -Tea Party Participants, Terrorists, etc. When in fact, they love this nation, and were speaking out for YOUR rights also. These were hard working, tax paying Americans that spoke out against this regime’s oppression of ALL our rights. Shame on you, for still trying to make other people in America out to be the culprits, rather than the REAL CULPRITS-THIS REGIME OF OPPRESSION.
That writer/investigative reporter’s name IS: Cliff Kincaid
So do yourselves a favor, and read those three articles, and then let us know if YOU could have been a part of “Saving America, but instead chose to help destory her”
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