posted April 14, 2014 10:43 AM            

Of course we already know the press...who bill themselves as.."The watchdogs of the people's right to know" didn't bark, didn't growl but rather rolled over and licked the hand of their master...The Marxist Messiah, O'Bomber. We also know why. They're not journalists in any sense but rather, they're political activists posing as journalists.

It's comical that O'Bomber's Kool-Aid drinkers think they're informed on issues by political activists in the news media.

Sharyl Attkisson: Obama Has 'Chilling Effect' on Journalism
Sunday, 13 Apr 2014
Greg Richter

Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who quit CBS News last month, says the Obama administration has had a "chilling effect" on news organizations, successfully stifling stories it doesn't want running.

Appearing Sunday on Fox News Channel's "Media Buzz," Attkisson told host Howard Kurtz she was often pressured directly or through her supervisors to not report stories that were unfavorable to the White House.

Attkisson pointed out that while it is common for any administration to attempt to quash unfavorable stories, none have ever had the success of President Barack Obama's White House.

"There is pressure coming to bear on journalists for just doing their job in ways that have never come to bear before," Attkisson said. "But it is particularly aggressive under the Obama administration, and I think it’s a campaign that’s very well organized, that’s designed to have sort of a chilling effect and to some degree has been somewhat successful in getting broadcast producers who don’t really want to deal with the headache of it."

Some of the changes are political, Attkisson said. She said she has had editors on both sides of the political spectrum who have always put their own beliefs aside in the name of good journalism. But under the Obama administration, she said there seems to be a willingness to go along with the White House's wishes.

But she places some of the blame, too, on successful intimidation tactics.

"Why put on these controversial stories that we’re going to have to fight people on, when we can fill the broadcast with other perfectly decent stories that don’t ruffle the same feathers?" she said.

Attkisson asked to be let out of her contract early after her investigative stories began getting less airtime. She reported on Solyndra, Benghazi, and Operation Fast and Furious, all stories of interest to conservatives, but she also had reported unflattering stories on the George W. Bush administration during her two decades at CBS.

"I didn’t run into that same kind of sentiment [from the network] as I did in the Obama administration when I covered the Bush administration very aggressively," she told Kurtz.

She also defended coverage of stories such as Benghazi, which critics on the left, have said are political and therefore not worthy of investigative efforts.

"Watergate was at its heart a political scandal in every sense of the word, but it didn't mean it wasn't a legitimate issue to look at," she said. "But there's sort of this tendency now to use this strategy that says, it's political, therefore don't listen to it."

Ultimately, she said, she became uncomfortable convincing sources to go out on a limb and give her information on stories because they were important, only to have them spiked.

posted April 23, 2014 07:35 AM            

Let's write the day after the election headline now.

posted June 08, 2014 11:00 AM            

Talking about the bewildering decision to trade five “high risk” Taliban leaders for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on Lou Dobbs Tonight, psychology expert Dr. Gina Loudon said she has become “very, very concerned” that President Obama has become “irrational, erratic and perhaps not exactly what we might want to deem sane.”

Host Lou Dobbs asked Loudon about the case of U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who is currently imprisoned in Mexico after accidentally crossing the border March 31 with guns in his vehicle, a case which seems much less urgent to the Obama administration than that of Bowe Bergdahl.

But instead of talking about the Tahmooressi case, Loudon made the much more disturbing observation that Obama is exhibiting signs of “irrational” behavior:

DOBBS: The President hasn’t mentioned a word about Sgt. Tahmooressi held in a Mexican prison. Your thoughts on the distinction here between the two, in at least Obama’s mind?

Dr. LOUDON: You know, I will say to you, Lou, I am very, very concerned about the mental stability of this President at this point. Some of his behavior seems irrational to me. It seems beyond that of just a typical narcissistic, arrogant, sort of, ‘I’m a leader of a big country and I feel tyrannical at the moment’ kind of attitude. It really seems to me like this President is demonstrating behavior that is not only anti-American, but irrational and erratic and perhaps not exactly what we might want to deem sane.