{"id":1169,"date":"2009-10-21T13:08:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T17:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2009-10-21T13:08:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T17:08:46","slug":"obama-is-channeling-nixon-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/global-war-on-islamofascism\/obama-is-channeling-nixon-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama is channeling Nixon now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=618\">At first our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> was emulating the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1036\">worst President of the past 50 years<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=ZTViNzM0ZmUxOTdhMzU3MDYyZmIzNTdlNWFkMWVkOTc=\">overtly racist <\/a>Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n<p>Now he is taking a page out of former President Richard M. Nixon&#8217;s book of really bad things to do, and starting<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/19\/rove-obama-building-an-enemies-list\/\"> an &#8220;Enemies List&#8221; of American journalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This action raises this important question, &#8220;What does Barack Hussein Obama and his administration have against the First\u00a0Amendment\u00a0of the Constitution of the United States of America?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/constitution.billofrights.html#amendmenti\">the First Amendment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; \">Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.<\/p>\n<p>It is widely excepted that the free speech and press clause is focused on &#8220;Political&#8221; topics. \u00a0The American people have to be able to freely report on and discuss their government and the effects on them, in order to maintain a free society.<\/p>\n<p>Team Lightbringer doesn&#8217;t seem to be on board with this concept. \u00a0The Obama White House, through it&#8217;s official spokesmen, have publicly attacked members of the American News Media, and public figures, who have published stories that the Obama administration doesn&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to the classic liberals who stated, &#8220;I do not agree with what you are saying, but I&#8217;ll defend your right to say it&#8221;? \u00a0They seemed to have been replaced with thin skinned leftists who\u00a0viciously\u00a0attack anyone who dares to disagree with their agenda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/10\/todays-qs-for-os-wh-10202009.html\">Jack Tapper<\/a>, of ABC News seems to be the only member of the White House press corps with a functional set of testicles and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/10\/todays-qs-for-os-wh-10202009.html\">an understanding of the US Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 224px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Tapper: It\u2019s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations \u201cnot a news organization\u201d and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it\u2019s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one \u2013<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 224px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">(Crosstalk)<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 224px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 224px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Tapper: But that\u2019s a pretty sweeping declaration that they are \u201cnot a news organization.\u201d How are they any different from, say \u2013<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 224px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Gibbs: ABC &#8211;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 224px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tapper: It\u2019s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations \u201cnot a news organization\u201d and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it\u2019s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(Crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tapper: But that\u2019s a pretty sweeping declaration that they are \u201cnot a news organization.\u201d How are they any different from, say \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Gibbs: ABC &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?<\/p>\n<p>What is this White House afraid of? \u00a0A news organization that points out that Obama has admitted Communists and supporters of\u00a0pedophilia\u00a0 working for him? \u00a0Aren&#8217;t those actual facts that the American people should be aware of? Doesn&#8217;t the American people have a right to know just which health insurance officials are in those secret meetings with Joe Biden?<\/p>\n<p>Just to add to the stench of Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Enemies List&#8221; is the flat out hypocrisy of Team Lightbringer. \u00a0The White House talking Head Gibby\u00a0specifically\u00a0singled out two of Fox News&#8217; opinion format hosts, Beck and Hannity, as the reason for the <em>Obama White House War on Fox News<\/em> (which they are spending more time and effort than the war against Islamofascism being fought in\u00a0Afghanistan) at the same time they are bringing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1132\">MSNBC&#8217;s hate mongers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olbermannwatch.com\/\">Olbermann<\/a> &amp; Maddow, who are clearly lapdogs of the Obama Administration, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/20\/fox-news-yesterdays-off-the-record-briefing-with-obama-included-olby-and-maddow\/\">in for private\u00a0briefings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first our Dear Leader was emulating the worst President of the past 50 years, the overtly racist Jimmy Carter. Now he is taking a page out of former President Richard M. Nixon&#8217;s book of really bad things to do, and starting an &#8220;Enemies List&#8221; of American journalists. 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