It was earlier this week, on Monday, that Barry
“Almighty” once again bemoaned the political environment surrounding this
year’s presidential elections as he also called on journalists to hold
candidates and themselves to a higher standard.
Funny, he didn’t seem to feel that way either time ‘he’ was running for
president. In fact he preferred not
being held accountable for anything that he might have said or done in the
past, or especially when it came to the many baseless accusations he made
against his political opponents.
Barry spoke at the presentation of something called
the Toner Prize, which apparently is named for someone by the name of Robin
Toner, who was, or so I’m told, the first woman to be national political
correspondent for The New York Times. During her nearly 25 years there, Toner
was said to have covered five presidential campaigns. She passed away in
2008. Now I may be showing my ignorance
here, not that I care, but I never heard of her. Most likely because I make it a habit NEVER
to read The New York Times.
And then, in sounding remarkably like John
Kerry-Heinz from earlier in the week, Barry said that the number one question
he gets as he travels around the world, at taxpayer expense, is “What is
happening in America?” He said it’s because people abroad understand America is
the place where you “can’t afford completely crazy politics,” and they care
about the most powerful nation on earth functioning effectively. So am I to assume that for that last seven
years America has been seen as functioning effectively? Who knew?
Barry said, “We are all invested in making this
system work. We are all responsible for its success, and it’s not just for the
United States that this matters, it matters for the planet.” I thought this was a rather odd thing to hear
coming from a man who has spent nearly every waking hour as president doing as
much as he possibly can to prevent the system from working. In fact he has demonstrated, and more times
that I can count, that he doesn’t really NEED the system to work. In fact I would argue the Barry prefers
himself to the system!
Barry returned from his trip to Cuba last week and
recalled the news conference he held jointly with Cuban Dictator Raul Castro.
He described the event as remarkable as the two leaders were forced to answer
tough questions that were televised to Cubans, and the world. He said, “I don’t know exactly what it will
mean for Cuba’s future.” And he added,
“I think it made a big difference to the Cuban people. I can’t think of a
better example of why a free press is so vital to freedom.” So is he saying that because of this one
visit Cuba now has a free press?
Barry called on the broadcast networks and producers
to give reporters room to follow what he referred to as being their instincts
and to allow them to dig a little deeper.
Now I must admit that I find that as being a little odd, since in both
2008 and 2012 Barry seemed quite content with the fact that most reporters
employed by the state-controlled media showed absolute no interest in ‘digging
a little deeper’ into what was seen by many of us on the right as being his
very questionable background. We were
told there was no there, there.
And Barry went on to say, “A job well done is about
more than just handing someone a microphone. It’s to probe and to question and
to dig deeper and to demand more.” And
he then went on to say, “The electorate would be better served if that
happened. It would be better served if billions of dollars in free media came
with serious accountability, especially when politicians issue unworkable plans
or make promises they cannot keep.”
Perhaps if the media had dug a little deeper back in 2008 our country
would be much better off today. But
nope!
Barry said he understands there are pressures “to
feed the beast” with more gossipy, softer stories, but that leads to consumers
failing to understand the world as well as they should, which has consequences
for the country. But we are in a time
now at a time where our ‘news’ media is nothing more than a wholly own
subsidiary of the Democrat Party, whose purpose is to inundate the airwaves
with all manner of liberal propaganda.
Propaganda with the specific purpose of preventing consumers from
understanding the world as they should!
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