Over at the Weekly Standard the Blog catches the exchange between Lester Holt and Mark Halperin in which Halperin says out loud what we’ve all known for a long time:
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“The Obama folks clearly know they’ve found some traction on this tax return issue with Romney,” said NBC’s Lester Holt. “And then of course late in the week comes this challenge–‘give us a little more and we won’t complain anymore.’ Has this issue come to the point it’s jumped the shark?”
“I think the press still likes this story a lot, the media is very susceptible to doing what the Obama campaign wants, which is to focus on this,” said Halperin.
No kidding.
Obama wants Ryan to be called “risky” and the press has done nothing but call Ryan “risky.”
A CBS story claims (without any attribution) that Romney’s advisers said Ryan was “risky.”
The people around Romney told him it was risky.
As the Republican presidential candidate prepared to pick his running mate, he kept in constant touch with his senior advisers. They met in small groups and alone with the candidate. He talked to a number of other friends and confidantes, soliciting advice and opinions.
Aides knew the decision was fraught, and they told Romney so. It was a choice, they knew, that would fundamentally re-shape the race for the presidency. It would acknowledge Romney needed to offer voters more than just being the guy who wasn’t Democratic President Barack Obama. And it would tie Romney to the architect of a highly controversial budget proposal that Democrats are eager to use to badger the Republican.
And somehow CBS knows this despite
This was the culmination of a methodical, highly secretive process that involved 10 top Romney staffers, a volunteer team of attorneys, a secret secure room in Romney’s Boston headquarters, and reams of paper on a long and then a short list of potential candidates.
So the top Romney staffers who kept the entire process a top secret let on that they felt Ryan was risky?
Not. Buying. It.
A Google search for “Ryan a risky pick” yields nearly seven million hits. Among them:
Paul Ryan A Risky Pick – The Hinterland Gazette | The Hinterland …
New Yorker: Paul Ryan – Mitt’s Risky Pick | Peace . Gold . Liberty …
WaPo: Paul Ryan is a risky pick for Romney
It’s far more likely Ryan’s being “risky” came from David Axelrod and the lapdog press dutifully obeys its master.
Just this morning Steve Peoples of the AP outed himself as another Obama sycophant. His article claims that Ryan has been ordered to avoid taking questions.
But Ryan has been directed to avoid taking questions from reporters who travel with him, and to agree only to a few carefully selected interviews. He is known for sketching budget graphs on napkins to explain his ideas, but this past week it was Romney who used a white board during a news conference to help detail his own plan — one he says is virtually identical to Ryan’s.
Who directed Ryan not to speak to the press? Peoples asserts this as fact without any kind of evidence and this story has been picked up all over the place. And Obama? When’s the last time he took a question from a reporter?
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President Obama hasn’t formally taken questions from the White House press corps in more than two months, while on the campaign trail in Iowa yesterday he made time for reporters from People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight.
His last news conference was at the G20 in June, when he answered six questions from three reporters on the European debt crisis, the conflict in Syria, and the notion of politics stopping at the water’s edge.
The White House press corps has not formally been given the opportunity to ask questions of the president on U.S. soil since his appearance in the Briefing Room on June 8 (when he said “the private sector is doing fine.“)
His last formal White House news conference was on March 6.
And that’s with proper attribution.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
An easy way to shut up Obama and the propaganda media about tax records, is for Romney and Ryan to tell them, “We will release ALL of our records, if Obama will releae ALL of his.” I don’t gamble, but I would bet that the subject would never come up again. It worked for Bush when the propaganda media demanded that Bush release his military records. Bush finally told Kerry, “I will release mine if you will release yours.” Nothing was ever said again.
@Smorgasbord:
Kind of makes you wonder why the Republicans don’t make that challenge.
Well, the issue with demanding that Obama release records is to tie Romney further to Trump and the birthers–not that they are necessarily wrong–but the media has soured the public on all of that talk that Romney is smart to steer clear of it.
What happens, however, is that people in conversations bring it up and that’s how the idea propagates (Romney release records? Did you know Obama has all these sealed records too?). I assume that is the plan. It might even be a huge bluff for Romney. We’ll see. Either way, I think Romney and the RNC have done lots and lots of research and projection on how the Obama campaign will move and react based on certain info. It’s a chess match, I’m sad to say, but it has to be done.
@Smorgasbord: I’m not so sure that is the way to proceed. I think the challenge should be more like, You apparently think I’m not revealing my tax returns for a reason. Well America thinks you are hiding ALL your records for a reason. Why don’t you fulfill your pledge to be the ‘most transparent’ president ever? What are you hiding in your records? Don’t you think America is entitled to know? Release your records.
Don’t promise anything in return. Then ‘if’ Obama should (which he won’t) release them, then he would have a valid reason to ask Romney. Not until then though.
DrJohn
I just heard about Aaron Klein’s book, he had research deep of the agenda of OBAMA IF HE WIN THE 4 MORE YEARS, HE WROTE THE BOOK TO TELL AND IT IS VERY SCARY FOR AMERICANS, LIKE HE SAYS NOT ONLY THE REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES BUT ALSO THE DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE VERY SCARE OF WHAT HE WANT TO DO, HE WILL BREAK THE BUSYNESS BY ENTERFEARING IN MAKING DECISIONS ON WHAT THEY SHOULD PAY THEM, HE WOULD TAKE FROM THE WELL OFF,
HE WOULD NATIONALIZE JOBS , MORE GOVERNMENT DEBTS ASTRONOMIC NUMBER ECETERA
OH YES I WAS FORGETTING THE BORDERS BEING ENCOURAGING THE ILLEGALS WITH AMNESTY
FOR ALL AND GIVE THEM THE VOTING POWER AS THEY COME. AND READ THE BOOK
HE MENTIONED AMAZONE, THAT WAS A WHILE AGO AT HUCKABEE,
Obama is transparent ONLY when it shows him in a [politically] good light….when he speaks off prompter to the press he divulges much of his ideology….which is questionable at best… Obama doesn’t like the ‘hard’ questions from the press… he cannot answer them without putting his foot in his mouth….
Obama is scared of tough questions like Jobs, the economy, his failed policies which ‘may’ come into question by courageous report(s) willing to ask the ‘tough’ question(s)…Obama knows and his puppet masters know he has no answers to those tough questions..
He is incompetent and does not want that to show in this election year….so lets ‘avoid’… tough questions…
This should be HUGE RED FLAG for the American people!!
I don’t know about anyone else but, I sure as hell tired of this man who hasn’t really done squat “on his own” lecturing to the American People…
@Ivan: Makes me wonder why your such an idiot. Our MSM is biased and there is no other way to explain their actions!!
@Ivan:
They could be waiting for the right time, perhaps the debates?
@Redteam: #4
I prefer my shorter version, but either way, it will shup up Obama and the propaganda media.
@Common Sense: There you go again—calling people names instead of using reasoning and evidence.
@Smorgasbord: Do you have a reference for that exchange between Bush and Kerry—I hadn’t heard that and would like to read about it.
@Liberal1 (objectivity): If you can’t acknowledge MSM bias then you are really hopeless. There you go again acting stupid.
@Liberal1 (objectivity): Didn’t read the article here did you?
Why should we be concerned if the president is bored with his state-directed media, he is a media whore and prefers the moronic talk shows and imbecilic rags, so what? He plays up to the brain dead and how best to reach them than through the semi-literate media. This is his core, these are the people who will try to reelect him. His literate followers are brainwashed Socialists to the core, he will never lose them; it is the indecision and frivolity of the vapid minds he must court. He casts himself well as a Useful Idiot and many of his fans love him in this role of phony celebrity.
According to numerous current and former Obama advisers who were interviewed for “Obama’s Last Stand,” an e-book out Monday published in a collaboration between POLITICO and Random House, Obama spotted a woman he knew was close to Sen. Marco Rubio in a Florida hotel lobby. “Is your boy going to go for [vice president]?” Obama asked her. Maybe, she replied.
“Well,” he said, chuckling, according to a person who witnessed the encounter. “Tell your boy to watch it. He might get his ass kicked.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79867.html#ixzz246nHuo6X
Try to imagine if ANY Republican had called a man of color that.
The media would REAM them for it!
The individual would have been hounded from office!
Obama said that back in February!
The ”very susceptible media” let him get away with it.
Oh, and Obama surprised the WH press corps with a Q&A right now.
@Nan G: Love it the way he talks like some sort of a tough guy. I wonder if he ever had to back his words up to someone with something more than his mouth.
another vet
that’s what his followers should know what kind of president they have,
and that’s why they all should be scare stiff until he leave the office
@Smorgasbord: It doesn’t mattern really which way it’s stated, Obama is not going to release any personal info, it would mean he had to leave office, therefore, he won’t do it.
@Liberal1 (objectivity): #11
I can’t find the info, but I remember the incident. I don’t remember if it was from the news, or off the Internet. I am guessing it was from the Internet.
@Liberal1 (objectivity): #10
There are two easy ways to tell if a news media is liberally biased:
(1) If they call the USA a democracy.
(2) When they report about a politician being charged with a crime, and, if the politician is a democrat, they don’t mention it. If it is a republican, that is one of the first things mentioned.
If a person is OPEN -MINDED, they will notice this. Liberals won’t. This is the main reason the propaganda media is loosing viewers, listeners, and readers.
@Common Sense: #13
I have a lousy memory for stuff like this. I have started saving stuff like this, but that wasn’t in them. I don’t know where it came from, but I do remember it.
@Redteam: #18
If Obama released his personal info., he would wind up in Federeal prison for the rest of his life.
Seriously?
What ”event” is Biden going to in Tampa?
Is he planning/hoping to be spit on or glitter-bombed by a supposed RNC delegate?
Where in Tampa will he be?
No announcement yet.
Sympathy vote?
@ilovebeeswarzone:
Bees,
Turn the caps off and go to sleep.
@Smorgasbord:
@Smorgasboard
Where did you view Obama’s personal info?
@rockybutte: #25
Most of the info Obama has released about himself has been proven fake:
(1) ALL of the experts who examined Obama’s birth certificate have declared it a BAD fake.
(2) Obama is using someone else’s Social Security number. None of the democrats have denied this.
(3) Obama’s Selective Service registration card is a fake:
(4) Fox News interviewed 400 students from the same year Obama said he went to Columbia University. None of them remember him.
http://radiopatriot.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/nobody-remembers-obama-at-columbia/
(5) Several places that people have asked for info through the Freedom Of Information Act, the info has vanished. One place was LaGuardia Airport in NYC. Obama’s mother came back through there about the time Obama was born. Her passport info would be there. One week’s info for that time for ALL people passing through LaGuardia at that time are gone. There is even missing info about Obama from the National Archives. Remember when one of Bill Clinton’s officials took out a lot of stuff, even stuffing stuff in his socks? You would think that the National Archives would copy the info and let people see the COPIES.
Try to imagine if all of the above happened with George Bush. You and the propaganda media would have gone after him, and should have.
With Hillary Clinton getting ready to sign a treaty with the UN that gives them control of the guns in the USA, him making friends of our enemies, and him making enemies of our friends, don’t you think he has an agenda that isn’t friendly with America?
What if George Bush had said he wanted a civilian security force that was as strong as, and equally funded as the military? Wouldn’t you wonder why he would want a CIVILIAN security force when he would have the National Guard? The reason is simple: The president has no control over the National Guard until the governor of the state activates them and turns them over to the president. This is why George Bush couldn’t do anything until after Katrina hit. The very liberal governor didn’t want Bush to get any credit for helping the state. She let people die so Bush wouldn’t have gotten credit for helping them. Only AFTER the storm had passed did she permit Bush to go in, and them blamed him for sitting by and not doing anything before the storm, then taking too long to help after. He should have told all of this to the nation. I don’t know why he didn’t.
rockybutte
okay, but I don’t go to sleep without turning them off,
I always find it when I turn off my computer,
and then I tell my computer; ah no you did it again shmuck,
and he come back showing me a smurf on the screen.
he has the power over me, he knows I wouldn’t leave him.
Smorgasbord
hi,
can you imagine what will come out after he leave?, yes it will be quite a book to get, the writer must be at it as we speak, even some are already out, it will be the new education style of the young by deprogramming them and take out his communist mind probe he had done in targeting the weakest of this NATION,
who now are having ugly reply to their parents view of him and some prefer to go on the street,
to join the gansta perpetrate crimes without being punished or even reprimand,
this will not be an easy task for the next PRESIDENT, but he will be force to do it, so to stop the
propaganda cold, and replace it with the TRUTH,
YES, the writer will make a bundle on his book by telling all
as it really happen, no bullshit
BYE
@ilovebeeswarzone: #28
Don’t ecpect too many changes when Romney gets elected. The ones who donate the most to the republican party will still get whte they want, or they won’t donate again. At least we won’t have a president who wants to destroy the USA.
Smorgasbord
yes and more of, he will create jobs, he will do a lot more, than OBAMA EVER DONE,
we have to be more positives and get away from the negatives feelings which OBAMA ALWAYS GAVE TO THE NATION, WITH HIS ALWAYS BLAMED ATTITUDE, AND APOLOGIZE BECAUSE HE FEEL THAT WHATEVER HAS HAPPENED ON FOREIGN COUNTRIES IS THE FAULT OF AMERICANS,
WHICH IS THE CONTRARY PROVEN BY CENTURIES OF AMERICAN’S LIVES TO FREE THE WORLD,
NO MATTER WHERE THE ABUSE WAS,
MITT ROMNEY WILL CORRECT THE HEALTH CARE FLAWS FOR THE PEOPLE TO RECEIVE WHAT IS NEEDED NO MATTER THEIR AGE AND DISEASE, WE HAVE TO DIG ON MANY BEST THING WHICH WILL BOOST AMERICA ON A WHOLE ALSO, AND CURT HAS ENDORSE HIM TOO, HE SEE FARTHER THAN OTHER, BEING IN THE PUBLIC STAGE CONSTANTLY,
ALTHOUGH I must remind CURT, that he did not build his vantage car, no some one else did it,
and the road which was built before his car became a real beauty, he did not build that road,
so his car is not his,… who own the car? ah it’s OBAMA, NOT FOR LONG NOW.
HOPE THE FIRE HAS BEEN EXTINCT BY NOW, on your side of the ARISEN
BYE
@Smorgasbord:
@Smorgasbord
Thanks for going thru the bother of cataloging the references. Naturally, all of it is debunked in a variety of urban legend sites. I suppose that doesn’t make any difference to anyone who wants to think ill of Obama. My experience is that most people will continue to believe what they want to believe even if confronted with irrefutable evidence to the contrary.
@rockybutte:
Rocky, turn off your computer and go away you troll.
@rockybutte: Butte, the problem is there has been no ” irrefutable evidence to the contrary” or refutable evidence either. All the evidence is that you don’t know a damn thing about Obama. You do know for certain that he never attended Columbia University. If he had, there would be at least one Dimocrat in the world that was there and saw him and is proud to announce it to the world. Hasn’t happened. Not one.
Redteam
hi,
It’s incredible that OBAMA WAS EVER ELECTED,
NO BIRTH PROOF, INVISBLE AT UNIVERSITY, INVISIBLE SCHOOL APPEARANCE,
HE MENTION BEING A KENYA CITIZEN ONCE, HE WENT TO PAKISTAN WITH A QUESTIONABLE PASSPORT WHILE IT WAS NOT ALLOWED BY THE UNITED STATES, SO HE BROKE MANY LAWS,
AND WHO ARE THOSE WHO FOUND HIM WORTHY OF TAKING THE HIGHEST OFFICE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS COUNTRY OF THE WORLD,
IT HAS TO BE A PRANK MADE UP BY HIS FRIEND TO FOOL THE TOLERANT AMERICANS
THE ONLY THING WE WHERE ALLOWED TO HEAR IS THAT HE CONSUME A LOT OF DRUGS
WHILE A TEEN, IF YOU DO IT THEN, NOWAY YOU CAN STOP NOW WHILE YOUR MIND IS SCREWED
@ilovebeeswarzone: iLOVebEESwaRZOne, Yes, it’s strange indeed.
Redteam
I like it,
HIGH S, and low s,
Redteam
I’m listening to JOHAN STRAUS, DELIRIAN WALTZ ,
ON OUTSTANDING NEW YEAR CONCERT 2012 VIENNA,
ON YOU TUBE, YOU THAT IS ONE OF 2HOURS MUSICAL PIECES,
AS GOOD AS EACH IS,
YOU WOULD ENJOY, TRY IT, THERE IS HUNDREDS OF MUSICIENS IN THAT BEAUTIFUL THEATER,
and to end it all with the BLUE DANUBE WITH BALLET DANCERS
OOPS THERE’S ONE MORE THE RADENSKI MARCH, THE AUDIENCE CLAPPED ALONG
@ilovebeeswarzone: #30
I know things will be better with Romney, but I will wait and see how much better.
@rockybutte: #31
This is why I call myself a “neutralist.” Whenever I hear or read something new, I don’t agree with it or disagree with it until I get more info from different sources. I don’t belong to any party, so I don’t have to go along with anything any of them say. I go by facts. Anyone who can look at Obama’s birth crtificate and tell people it is real, ain’t going to be convinced of anything they don’t want to be. I have talked with people who say something about a person, but when I ask they how they know this, they finally admit that THEY JUST KNOW.
Smorgasbord
hi,
yes if they say they just know, it could be valid at times,
did you ever ask your mother something? and when she answered,
you must have said how do you know? [knowing you by now]
and she said I just know,
and you found out years after, that she was right.
bye
@Redteam: #33
You’re wrestling with a pig in the mud. He is enjoying this. Don’t let him take you down to his level.
@ilovebeeswarzone: #40
Nobody had to ask my mom anything. If you and her disagreed on somehting, no matter how small, you were wrong and she was right. I have listened to her argue with people to the point that they just wanted to change the subject or just walk away. This could be one reason I don’t like to argue with anyuone. If we disagree, lets agree to disagree, and stay friends.
When I see two commenters going back-and-forth over the same thing, when I see one commenting to the other, I don’t usually read the comment, since I know it will be the same stuff as before.
Smorgasbord
Why do I feel we had that same comment both, before?
yes we did,
best to you
@Smorgasbord: Smorgy, surely you aren’t ‘neutral’ on Obama. If you don’t think a person can just look at Obama’s fake birth certificate and know that it is fake, it’s only for one of two possible reasons. You haven’t looked at it or you’re in the tank for Obama. There is no alternative. If you disagree, go and look at it, don’t spend more than one minute, and you’ll be convinced beyond any doubt. If you aren’t, then you’re in the tank.
@Redteam: #44
I’m guessing this was meant for someone else, since I have said for a long time that Obama’s birth certificate is fake.
Smorgasbord
hi,
I knew you would come back to correct his comment,
@Smorgasbord: Smorgy, ok, so then how can you be ‘neutral’ on someone that is not even eligible to be in the office?
@Redteam:
Are you the same Redteam that posts over at Strata’s place?
@Redteam: #47
I call myself a “neutralist” in the sense that when I hear or read of something new to me, I don’t automatically believe it. I was “neutral” when I heard that Obama’s birth certificate could be fake, when I heard he is using someone else’s Social Security number, when I heard that his Selective Service card could be fake, and when I heard that he could be a Muslim. I am retired, and have plenty of time to read about stuff like this, and took a long time to form my oppinion about them.
It’s like the gays. Most of my life I wondered why anyone would CHOOSE to be gay. It wasn’t too many years ago that I finally figured out that we are born the way we are and have no choice in the matter, so I accept people the way they are.
I try to form my oppinons on facts, not how I would like thiings to be. I also try to be open to the idea that it is possible that there is a chance that I might be wrong. I believe that Obama is an illegal Muslim who wants to destroy the freedoms we have here in America. I also believe that everybody has the right to disagree with me. That is one of our freedoms here in the USA.
@Aye: Yes, I am. I haven’t seen your name there. Do you post there?