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In reply to the discussion: Before you jump on Obama over the Monsanto amendment, take a minute and read this [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)103. Yes, the themes are exactly the same. May be in this book which I haven't read yet:
The Obama Hate Machine
NEW FROM BILL PRESS: THE BOOK THE KOCH BROTHERS DONT WANT YOU TO READ.
In Toxic Talk, Bill Press exposed the ways in which the extreme right-wing media has done an end run around the American voting populace by exerting a disproportionate control over open political debate. In The Obama Hate Machine, Press returns to show how the Right has taken rhetoric to slanderous new levels in attacking the nation's forty-fourth president.
But presidents have always been attacked like this, right? Wrong. As the author shows, while presidents and presidential candidates routinely have been subject to personal attacks, the outright disdain Obama's extremist opponents have for the facts has inspired an insidious brand of character assassination unique in contemporary politics.
Obama was born in Kenya... Obama sympathizes with Muslim terrorists... Obama is a communist who wants to institute death panels and touch off class warfare... The extent to which these unfounded assertions have taken hold in the American mindset shows just how ruthless, destructive, and all-powerful the right-wing machine hijacked by extremists in the media and fueled by corporate coffers has become. The author reveals how corporate interests such as the infamous Koch Brothers continue to steer political coverage away from fact-based dialogue into the realm of hysteria. Bill Press also observes this phenomenon is not limited to the airwaves and provides an Hate Obama Book Club list, calling out the scores of anti-Obama tomes and even some from the Left that have helped drag politics even deeper into the mud.
In his characteristic on-the-mark arguments sure to appeal to anyone on the Left or in the Center, Press shows how the peculiar nature of Obama-hating subverts issue-driven debate and threatens not only the outcome of the 2012 election but the future of the American democratic system.
http://www.billpressshow.com/obama-hate-machine/
Full video here at C-SPAN:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/304985-1#
NEW FROM BILL PRESS: THE BOOK THE KOCH BROTHERS DONT WANT YOU TO READ.
In Toxic Talk, Bill Press exposed the ways in which the extreme right-wing media has done an end run around the American voting populace by exerting a disproportionate control over open political debate. In The Obama Hate Machine, Press returns to show how the Right has taken rhetoric to slanderous new levels in attacking the nation's forty-fourth president.
But presidents have always been attacked like this, right? Wrong. As the author shows, while presidents and presidential candidates routinely have been subject to personal attacks, the outright disdain Obama's extremist opponents have for the facts has inspired an insidious brand of character assassination unique in contemporary politics.
Obama was born in Kenya... Obama sympathizes with Muslim terrorists... Obama is a communist who wants to institute death panels and touch off class warfare... The extent to which these unfounded assertions have taken hold in the American mindset shows just how ruthless, destructive, and all-powerful the right-wing machine hijacked by extremists in the media and fueled by corporate coffers has become. The author reveals how corporate interests such as the infamous Koch Brothers continue to steer political coverage away from fact-based dialogue into the realm of hysteria. Bill Press also observes this phenomenon is not limited to the airwaves and provides an Hate Obama Book Club list, calling out the scores of anti-Obama tomes and even some from the Left that have helped drag politics even deeper into the mud.
In his characteristic on-the-mark arguments sure to appeal to anyone on the Left or in the Center, Press shows how the peculiar nature of Obama-hating subverts issue-driven debate and threatens not only the outcome of the 2012 election but the future of the American democratic system.
http://www.billpressshow.com/obama-hate-machine/
Full video here at C-SPAN:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/304985-1#
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Before you jump on Obama over the Monsanto amendment, take a minute and read this [View all]
WilliamPitt
Mar 2013
OP
C'mon dion. Don't beat me up. I'm not the one who posted a blatant hitpiece with glaring omissions
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2013
#8
Understanding how things work and, hence, what our personal commitment to specific outcomes must
patrice
Mar 2013
#5
Don't feel bad about it. Your life is a success story. Everyone has triggers.
freshwest
Apr 2013
#131
If you're not providing them info that looks bad for Obama, they generally don't read it.
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#16
Hmm. Disruptive post by newbie accusing DUer of being 1% which has nothing to do with the subthread.
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2013
#82
Could it be the fact that he has had a Democratic Senate for the entire time -and a Democratic House
karynnj
Mar 2013
#115
Vetoing an entire spending bill over that one amendment and causing a possible govt shutdown...
Comrade_McKenzie
Mar 2013
#13
Which is why no one like Doc will ever sit inside the Oval Office. We had the chance to elect an...
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2013
#27
Lol, no one has ever succeeded in silencing me, so where you are getting this
sabrina 1
Mar 2013
#78
"And please post a comment of mine stating that 'people are trying to silence me'."
Sheepshank
Mar 2013
#81
Well, you already failed to produce your 'victim' posts so it's probably a waste of
sabrina 1
Mar 2013
#94
"to conflate all of this with the current bill is disingenious...to say the least."
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2013
#101
Well, you seem to be unable to point to the words in the rider that are so objectionable.
jeff47
Mar 2013
#88
Good catch MM. Another of DU's internet legends shot all to hell. I wonder if it changes anything
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2013
#30
Perhaps I was unclear in my post.. I have been telling them that they cannot hold this over the
glowing
Mar 2013
#61
Or appreciate the fact that there was a deadline or the government would be shut down.
freshwest
Mar 2013
#90
Is this what "activism" has become? I mean, what separates the left from the teabaggers now?
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2013
#98
Yes, the themes are exactly the same. May be in this book which I haven't read yet:
freshwest
Mar 2013
#103
Thanks fresh, I've been out of the loop for a few days, had a family emergency. I've bookmarked....
Tarheel_Dem
Apr 2013
#125
The communication is there. Get on the OFA email list and contact your representatives regularly.
freshwest
Mar 2013
#109
I appreciate this but there will be some who will still argue the obvious with you.
grantcart
Mar 2013
#37
Risk a government shutdown over a toothless rider that will die in six months.
WilliamPitt
Mar 2013
#45
Thanks. And those finger pointing need to change Congress next year and state governments quickly.
freshwest
Mar 2013
#92
Recipe for successful DU OP: hide facts, misquote and add hyperbolic outrage
emulatorloo
Mar 2013
#56
My God, Obama is likely going to be blackmailed by a veritable passel of poisoned pills: when will
indepat
Mar 2013
#60
That's an excuse, not a reason. It's it's always the same excuse used to screw us.
grahamhgreen
Mar 2013
#86
I don't agree. Imagine if they had attached an abortion ban in the same way.
limpyhobbler
Mar 2013
#104
^This^ What if someone put in a bill stripping the pre existing clause from the ACA?
Autumn
Mar 2013
#114