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Obama’s Media-Contrived Courage

By on 5.14.12 @ 6:08AM

We know who’s side the media are on — but does Mitt Romney?

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He should quote the statement about five years ago by Washington Post editor Marie Arana who said, “The elephant in the newsroom is our narrowness…. If you work here, you must be one of us. You must be liberal, progressive, a Democrat. I’ve been in communal gatherings at the Post, watching election returns, and have been flabbergasted to see my colleagues cheer unabashedly for the Democratic candidates.” And he should challenge them to report the stories they now bury, especially about Obama’s past.

It’s an opportunity for Romney to make the media a campaign issue. If he did, he could significantly boost his chances, and those of other Republicans, in November. It would take a courage that no Republican other than Gingrich has had. The anger at the press measured by that old Rasmussen poll hasn’t diminished; it’s grown and will continue to grow in the coming months as the Gatekeeper Media splash every real or imagined Romney misstep across the airwaves and front pages, ignoring whatever could hurt their candidate.

Make no mistake, Gov. Romney: Obama is their guy and you are their enemy. They will act accordingly. Will you? 

 

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About the Author

Jed Babbin served as a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He is the author of several bestselling books including Inside the Asylum and In the Words of Our Enemies. You can follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (135) |

spike59| 5.14.12 @ 6:19AM

media bias? i'm shocked, simply shocked...

Dick Nome| 5.14.12 @ 6:31AM

Just as lipstick on a pig doesn't make it any prettier, putting a cape on a wimp doesn't make him a super-hero either.

Jack in Wi.| 5.14.12 @ 6:56AM

The trouble with both Romney and Obama is that they are both a pair of phonies. They will say and do anything that they have to. All they want is the power. Both of them are puppets completly in the hands of their handlers and consultants. I can remember every fight or stupid thing I did in high school. It is hard to believe Romney didn't remeber this incident, if it happened. I expect Romney to fight as hard for normal marriage as he did in Masssacusetts, when he was governor.

Stan Redmond| 5.14.12 @ 6:44PM

But at least romney doesn't hate America and want to "Fundamentally transform" it

Paul Kotik| 5.14.12 @ 9:15AM

Nope.

You can't polish a turd.

spoofproof| 5.14.12 @ 6:27AM

Read British historian Robert Conquest's "Reflections on A Ravaged Century" for a detailed, scholarly review of Marxism. Marxist oligarchs may defend their bureaucracies as the best defense for the "good" of the people but history bloody history proves Marxism a failure. Richard Trumka & his bosses feed on fear and intimidation. Marxist oligarchs like Trumka & Barack Obama kill Liberty and murder Souls. The one-hundred years' march of Marxism in the U.S.A. has reached its highest point in the presidency of Barack Obama. Like Obama himself, Marxism in the light of Liberty is revealed for the sham it has always been.

Von Mises Jr| 5.14.12 @ 7:51AM

You mean "material productive forces" where society morphs from capitalism to communism to socialism where anarchy prevails due to everybody finally gets it and chants "Can't We All Just Get Along" isn't real?
Where's Perp. He still hasn't answered my riddle whether he is learned in "proletariat" economics and awry in his efforts to speak to the "bourgeoisie" at TAS; or Marx was a fool?
Perhaps Marx and Perp are fools?

Drunken Sailor| 5.14.12 @ 12:15PM

Perhaps????

Appleby| 5.14.12 @ 6:35AM

Romney has no courage -- if he has principles, they are clearly fungible, as he never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to articulate them.

Romney thinks we have only two choices to make: him or Obama. He has never heard of the two choices we all have: take it or leave it. He has got to start acting as if this is a dog fight and not a coronation, because there are plenty of people who don't think our only choices are crown Obama or crown him.

John Daniel| 5.14.12 @ 7:26AM

Would have been more impressed with Romney if he couldn't remember which fight he'd gotten into in high school they were referring to....

TLP| 5.14.12 @ 9:32AM

I've been told that I should rewrite this piece, from time to time, as a REMINDER of what's really at stake, this November.

If you look at this article, we've got so many, who sound like they're willing to, not only hack off their Nose to spite their face, but Blow off their Heads to spite their Hats.

We didn't get the guy or gal, we wanted.

No sh*t. Get in line. Maybe that's because, nobody threw their hat in the ring.

Mitt Romney is our Last Best Chance to continue living in a Free Country. Deal with it.

He's a Mormon, but the Church he goes to is NOT run by a White Hating, Jew Hating, America Hating, Farrakhan Loving, Marxist Pastor. He's never been raised in the Muslim Schools and Mosques of Indonesia, and he's never knelt on his very own Prayer Rug, facing Mecca, and Prayed to a God of Murder. In fact, I also know that he has never told anyone that The Muslim Call to Prayer is the most beautiful sound in the world. And, then go on to RECITE it.

His parents didn't consist of an Atheist/Communist/Whore, and a Muslim/Marxist/Whore Chasing/Drunk, who ran out on his Family, and died Drunk, in a Gutter, in Africa.

His Grandparents weren't Communists. Nor does he have any Mentors, in his Closets, who were Communists or Marxists.

He hasn't surrounded himself with Self Proffessed Marxists, or Communists, or Maoists, or Anarchists, his entire Adult life.

He's not friends with Unrepentant Domestic Terrorists.

He's never been a Coke Head. Never shook down businesses, with the threat of violence, while leading ACORN on Kamikaze Attacks, on the Banks in Chicago.

He's never Taught SAUL ALINSKY Workshops. Never bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.

Never pissed away $1,000,000,000 meant for Shovel Ready Infrastructure Jobs, on Public Sector Union Pals.

Never ran around the World, APOLOGIZING for the United States.

Never Socialized our Health Care, Forged Documents, to put in place an ILLEGAL Drilling Moratorium, Shut Down a Pipeline from Canada, that would have provided a STABLE flow of Oil from a Friendly Ally, never RAN GUNS to the Mexican Drug Cartels, never had The Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Organization to the White House, for Tea, and $1.5 Billion, Cash, and HAMAS doesn't believe that he's "THE DELIVEROR".

And, if that's not enough for you?

He's never EATEN his dog.

He just put him on the roof of the Car.

Wake Up. Shut Up.

And, do what needs to be done.

Richard Ryan| 5.14.12 @ 10:00AM

Amen. I would much rather listen to a commited socialist than this BS about "they both suck......". It really gets old, and probably represents intellectual laziness more than anything else. For goshsakes, do your homework people....The differences in politics, worldview, character, etc between BHO and Romney are enormous.

Jim| 5.14.12 @ 11:32AM

I do have to hold my nose for Romney, but all you say is true, so true. I do wish another Reagan would come along.... Herman Cain sounded good, but they sure ran him off fast. I'd run myself, but too many issues with an ex, they'd have a field day with me! Not that that scares me in the slightest, just wish we could run on the issues, not what someone falsely claims about us...

Aleena| 5.14.12 @ 12:33PM

I couldn't agree more. At his core, President Obama hates this country and wants it gone. He has made a lot of progress. If he gets four more years, he will do everything he can to shred our Consititution and try to micro manage every aspect of our lives. Mitt Romney does love his country. If he becomes president, he will get the economy growing, work to regain respect for this country at home and abroad, reverse the endless writing of regulations, and make most of us feel that this country has a future.

downloader1964| 5.14.12 @ 12:57PM

Just one little quibble with your otherwise excellent post. You forgot 3 zero's in your figure. That should read "pissed away $1,000,000,000,000.....If only it would have been a billion.......

TLP| 5.14.12 @ 4:05PM

I know. I screwed it up the 1st time, and I screwed it up, again, this time.

I swear I'll get those 3 More zeros in there next time.

Can we PLEASE get an EDIT app on this site?

MyGirlFriday| 5.15.12 @ 5:26PM

Thank you TLP,
If they can't see the difference between Obama and Romney they should take their silly comparative comments over to the Huffington Post and perhaps they will enlighten them. Grrrrrrrr.

Darin| 5.14.12 @ 6:51AM

If Romney doesn't treat the media as an opponent which is strongly on the side of Obama, quite frankly he's stupid. Because cozying up to the media worked so well for McCain.

DTOM| 5.14.12 @ 9:47AM

Establishing a working relationship with the Democrat media is not an either-or proposition.

It is NOT just a case of either pandering to their every Democrat socialist wish and whim (the RINO approach) or waging all-out thermo-nuclear war on them (ofetn, but not always, the Gingrich approach.)

Reagan recognized them as the socialist lapdogs that they have been since the '50's. He catered to them but he never wanted or sought their approbation or approval. The voters are not stupid - ignorant sometimes, but ignorance is succumbing to the ever-more pervasive effects of the information/communication explosion that the new and social media have brought.

Romney should not openly war with the Democrat media, nor should he cater to them. They have to get stories from Romney - I'd hope that he would look at those interactions as opportunities to pose questions to the citizenry and the Democrat media that will illuminate the strengths of the conservative position and the entirely empty promises of the Socialist Democrats.

Calling them the

"Democrat media"

and the

"Socialist Democrats" would be a big help, IMHO.

Don't Tread On Me!

DTOM| 5.14.12 @ 9:48AM

...the WEAKNESSES of the entirely empty promises of the Socialist Democrats.

Mike 3/505| 5.14.12 @ 10:06AM

Governor Romney needs to take a page out of the media book written by the great Ronaldus Magnus. He, with malice and forethought, brought the media to heel, like a country cur dog. I remember to this day, when RWR told an impertinent media flack to "Shut up and sit down."

numbatdog| 5.14.12 @ 7:12AM

Don't forget the so called republican war on women, an utter lie which was first initiated by a member of the MSM at a debate even before any Dem politicians mentioned it.

All these examples are alarming in that the MSM seems to be not so much reporting on Democratic story lines but actually a part of the leftist campaign, sometimes preparing the ground in advance for a coming attack line.
This sort of timing takes insider planning and knowledge. Or at the least co ordination.

So I'm left to the sad conclusion that the MSM has totally lost it's morality and is a deep part of leftist political structure. It is simply using what (little) is left of it's past status as unbiased observers to present pre planned Dem attacks as news.

Kitty | 5.14.12 @ 7:16AM

(Psssst, that "who's" in the subtitle should be whose.)

Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.14.12 @ 8:59AM

There needs to be an editor for the headline and sub-headline writers around here somewhere...

Tiddly| 5.14.12 @ 9:47AM

And it's should be its.

Indy| 5.14.12 @ 7:25AM

Part One: The Fiction and Non-Fiction of Obama

POTUS in his own words
http://www.theblaze.com/storie.....-of-obama/

Part Two: The Fiction and Non-Fiction of Obama
http://www.theblaze.com/storie.....-of-obama/

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 7:26AM

I get tired of hearing how the "media" is left leaning and in Obama's pocket - when in another sentence you can boast the ratings of Rush Loudmouth and Fixed News. Do you know how stupid you sound, when we all know you have as much media on your side as anywhere. Idiots.

Prester John| 5.14.12 @ 7:37AM

CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, MSNBC, Wash Post, NY Times, LA Times vs Fox News, the Washington Times and....?

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 7:55AM

the Weekly Standard, the National Review, the Heritage Foundation, CATO Institute, ALEC, FBN, Neil Boortz, Monica Crowley, Pat Buchanan, Bay Buchanan ... shall I name anymore? You're a bunch of whiny, wimpy hypocrites that aren't satisfied with compromises - you have to have your way or the highway - like a bunch of 2 year olds throwing a tantrum. But you are losing your base over your antics - even those who should/could be on your side.

carnot| 5.14.12 @ 8:23AM

geeze.

pot.kettle.black.

Mickey| 5.14.12 @ 8:30AM

Clever little Purpie.
Name a couple of magazines and writers.
How about entire networks. CBS. CNN. ABC. NBC. MSNBC. NY Times. Wash Post.
Nobody takes you serious here Purp.

DTOM| 5.14.12 @ 9:57AM

Au contraire, Mickey!

I think Purp is a very serious useful idiot or a very serious unrepentant communist....

Don't Tread On Me.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:05PM

Aw, poor babies ... and you say this is a conservative country? If you believe that, you have no reason to complain - do you? Either you're an oppressed minority and justified to complain, or you're a majority conservative country and you have no justification to complain. Which is it? Victim or Victor? You can't be both.

W| 5.14.12 @ 7:12PM

As usual Purp makes an illogical argumeant..It does not matter whether conservatives are the minority or majority. If the media is biased we can point that out. And if the media were biased for conservatives then lefties like you could point it out.
You cannot be this dense and illogical and must simply be trying to divert attention to the obvious fact that the media is biased.

Prester John| 5.14.12 @ 8:37AM

You forgot the Wall Street Journal. In any event, are you seriously suggesting that as many people are influenced by the CATO Institute, ALEC, and Bay Buchanan (!!??) as they are by the major networks, major city newspapers, and public broadcasting?

Nice try.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:06PM

Oh, please... I don't buy your whining after 30 years of consistent increase in conservatism. You say this is a conservative country? If you believe that, you have no reason to complain - do you? Either you're an oppressed minority and justified to complain, or you're a majority conservative country and you have no justification to complain. Which is it? Victim or Victor? You can't be both.

DTOM| 5.14.12 @ 5:10PM

That's a bad slow stutter you got there, ol' purp!

Or are you so bereft of short term memory that you don't even know you are repeating yourself with in a two minute period?

Points to useful idiot as opposed to unrepentant communist...

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:57PM

Notice you didn't refute the argument - 2 times. Repeat, yes, and yet still nothing to rebut? All you can do is attack me? Are you 12?

W| 5.14.12 @ 7:13PM

Purp
Repeating a silly illogical argument does not improve the argument. You are trying too hard. Take a break, collect your thought, and try again.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.14.12 @ 9:13AM

"You're a bunch of whiny, wimpy hypocrites ..."

Yet you can't stay away very long.

Paul Kotik| 5.14.12 @ 9:17AM

Wow, thanks for the advice on how to keep people on our side. We'll be sure to follow it

Got that, folks?

Riff Raff| 5.14.12 @ 10:52AM

You have just described yourself.

As for media outlets, check out ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WP, LAT, etc... Most people get their "news" from the TV outlets noted and they get their "news" from the paper outlets noted. All are far left. All carry O'Bozo's water. Without mass media support, O'Bozo's campaign would collapse like a suspension bridge without towers. Face it, your boy would be toast without TV Media to lie for him.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:08PM

If you really believe that, you might as well sit out the election - you've already lost. It's hopeless, Romney's a plastic robot no one wants. And the media has nothing to do with it.

Riff Raff| 5.14.12 @ 9:40PM

I have news for you. Obama is a stupid dolt with absolutely no competence whatsoever. The ONLY reason anyone "wants" this idiot is because of the aforementioned "news" services and their non-stop propaganda campaign. But even their tireless efforts are starting to lose effect. One can only "hope" that the American people grow up and see your idiot hero for what he truly is, a puppet for marxists. I'm no fan of Romney, but my dog would make a better President than Obama. And my dog died. If you can't see the media propaganda for what it is, then you are quite naive and ill-informed. And no, this is not unique. Pro-government propaganda has a long (at least 2 millenia) and storied history and bozos like Obama have come and gone and done great harm while they were in power, like Obama is doing now.

Douglas| 5.14.12 @ 10:26PM

How exactly did your dog die? Was he running loose in the vicinity of Purp's house? Was there a blood trail?

David| 5.14.12 @ 11:38AM

Purp, I award you the Champion Moron trophy. I really don't think I have ever heard any adult argue like more of a 12 year old than you do.

Fact: The big 3 networks and PBS have a nightly new viewership of 22 million. Then add the liberal cable stations of CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC to that number.

Fact: The highest rated cable news show is on Fox, the moderate O'Reilly, and his nightly viewership is 3 million.

Well, at least you are off of your ridiculous homo diatribes.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:12PM

If you believe that all those networks are biased against you - can you explain the 50:50 division in this country? Your ridiculous. You completely ignore talk radio which is clearly more conservative than liberal.
Oh, and answer this - is it better for children to have a single parent or 2 same-sex parents? Is it better for children to allow 2 men or women to marry or to allow unlimited divorces for heterosexuals? If a mother and a father is what a child needs - why not ban divorce? And, denigrate or ban the single parent household? Take the children away.
Shall I continue? Or do you understand anything?

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:29AM

Those you site are not 'MEDIA' [ie news media]dumbars. The MSM are those indicated by Prestor John, along with others. You're really stupid, obviously!!!!!!

c. j. acworth| 5.14.12 @ 7:56AM

....and the Keene Sentinal. (OK, Keene, NH has only about 38k people, but the local paper is in the tank for Barky.)

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:13PM

Boston Herald - not for Obama ... Chicago Tribune and Sun Times - not for Obama and on and on and on.

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:32AM

Bullexcrement! All Massachusetts newspapers are controlled by the Kennedys who politically and financially supported Obama and who were the reasons for his nomination and election in 2008, dumbars!!!!!!!!

Von Mises Jr| 5.14.12 @ 7:53AM

It's Perp the "proletariat." His mommy is a commie.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 7:56AM

Wow - now that's hard to follow. So profound. And, so respectful of someone's mother .... have you no shame? Have you no decency?

carnot| 5.14.12 @ 8:24AM

not when it comes to you!

pot.kettle.black.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:14PM

It figures - that's all you got .. .

DTOM| 5.14.12 @ 9:59AM

Purp,

Wouldn't you be proud if your mother were, in actual fact, a communist?

You write as though this were true...

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:16PM

You're ridiculous. You're so far right, I seem communist to you.. you wouldn't know a real communist if he bit you.

Riff Raff| 5.14.12 @ 11:42AM

No shame? No decency? Coming from you Prurp, this is a joke.

Von Mises Jr| 5.14.12 @ 5:37PM

Where's your ANSWER Perp? Troll, you still haven't answered my riddle whether you are learned in "proletariat" economics and awry in this effort to speak to the "bourgeoisie" at TAS; or Marx was a fool?
Perhaps Marx and you both are fools?
If you can't denounce Marx, you should be proud your mother is a commie!

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:58PM

Marx was a shit, as was Ayn Rand ... extremes on the same tree of ridiculousness.

Von Mises Jr| 5.14.12 @ 7:44PM

So are you saying you are not a Marxist?
So you must be an Alinskyite that just seeks destruction and has no plan after the chaos other than POWER?
Perpy, you’re a loser. You will get kicked to the curb by your heroes if they get POWER.
Come on Perpy, fess up to your Alinsky tactics. Is Satan your hero also since he won his own kingdom?

W| 5.14.12 @ 10:30PM

Von
You confused Purp by asking if he was a marxist. He thinks you meant Groucho or Chico or Harpo.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.14.12 @ 11:28PM

Purp reminds me more of Zeppo in that everything he says is completely forgettable.

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:35AM

No doubt you meant instead HARD TO SWALLOW [and quoting Old Barney no doubt]!!!!

Joellen| 5.14.12 @ 7:58AM

Ah Purp, so the true "intolerant" side of you comes out. Rush "Loudmouth" - why? Cause he dares to go up against those who wish to destroy this country and calls it as it is. "Fixed" news - again why? Because they dare to report, more often then the others, the facts. Purp, revealing your hatred, please dont be a further hypocrite and recite the Bible or our Savior ever again - you have lost all crediability.

Tim the Enchanter| 5.14.12 @ 3:16PM

Can't lose what you never had in the first place...

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:23PM

If you really followed up Fixed News "facts" and Rush's "facts" you would see the fallacy of their "fair and balanced " bs. But you won't, because you want to hear what they say and they know it. They ply their misinformation and propaganda to you and you swallow it hook, line and sinker.
Rush's recent diatribe against Sandra Fluke is a good example. He took her testimony for OTHER women's medical use of contraceptive drugs (2 million women use contraception, NOT for contraception, but medical reasons) and twisted her testimony to her having so much sex and wanting taxpayers to pay for it. That is what he does for each and every topic he covers.
Only the low information person will accept what Rush says on face-value. Fixed News is run by the Murdoch Propaganda Empire - nuf said on why they are a propaganda network (other than a few good reporters, which is sad for the reporters). Just watch their testimony in front of the British Parliament.

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:38AM

Dumbars, Fluke is/was a PROFESSIONAL PROTESTER for liberal causes, and was propagandizingly placed before congress to testify by Pilosi, just as Rosen was a plant by the WH to criticize Ann Romney. They all give BJs to the 1600-Chicago crowd!!!!!!!!!!

martin j smith| 5.14.12 @ 7:28AM

Do you recall that Lugar was un elected and one reason is that he was too willing to make deals with the Socialists/Communist Party. Mr Babbin --you are so right--but I thin the Obamas will help to learn because they will stab in tie and time again and then he will have no choice--because the voters are way ahead of Romney as to what is going on.

WickedDickie--Virginia| 5.14.12 @ 8:16AM

While the quote from WaPo editor Arana is obviously true, I think another rationale should be considered. That is the likelihood the Democrat Party of Death and His MarvelousMess Obama-ayers intend to subsidize the failing "newspaper" industry with our tax dollars.
We've heard for years that the tax-supported Public Radio/TV denizens have the latest equipment and much higher salaries than the "straight" media which has to make a profit.
One wonders how much wealthier Limbaugh, et al would be if they'd only ignore their principles, swallow their patriotic feelings, and join NPR.

Clint| 5.14.12 @ 8:16AM

The Mainstream Media's Investigative Reporters Can Chase DownWho Mittens Romney Gave Nuggies To In Prep School, Yet They Still Can't Come Up With Obama's Collegiate Records And Personal History At Occidental, Columbia & Harvard.

Affirmative Action, Foreign Student Application, No Honors As An Undergrad, Etc ?

Mickey| 5.14.12 @ 8:31AM

Good job Clint.
About time you focus on the enemy.

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:41AM

He doesn't have any choice now that his TOO SHORT SHORTS mentor and guru has flamed out from lack of support [except Clint & Jack of course]; and since Duke isn't running for anything!!!!!!!!!!

Clint| 5.14.12 @ 8:43AM

I Am Little Micky, The Liberal Obamatrons & You RINO-CINO BibiBot Faux Conservatives.

Minuteman78| 5.14.12 @ 8:58AM

To Mitt Romney: here's a freebie. "The mainstream media are not reporters. They are stenographers for the Democrat party."

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:24PM

That's why no one with a real brain believes you ... that's a ridiculous red herring. It's a known tactic for the righties - attack the media and stir everyone up. How dumb can you all be?

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:43AM

Try getting the POTUS' junk out of your mouth, opening your eyes and ears and turning on the MSM [ie the CLINTON NEWS NETWORK etc] for an enlightenment!!!!!!!!

Louis Jenkins| 5.14.12 @ 8:59AM

"But where are the stories of Obama's high school and college years?"

Those records are sealed. So we really don't know anything about Obama, except what he releases in his abbreviated personnally penned history. How convenient. It didn't happen unless Obama writes about it. Totally under his control.

DTOM| 5.14.12 @ 10:03AM

Listen to O read his own autobiography - he admits in high school to felonious drug use and underage alcohol abuse repeatedly. Do you really want to put a former (?) cocaine user back in charge of our national defense?

He described to bullying a girl! Oh it was OK - she might have been white? I'd love to hear Moochelle's take on that tale!!!

Ground Control| 5.14.12 @ 11:46AM

"Do you really want to put a former (?) cocaine user back in charge of our national defense?"

It worked for Clinton for EIGHT YEARS! Sheesh! How do we get bozos like these in office? Every time I look at the collection of clowns, criminals, and idiots in government I shake my head in amazement.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 6:32PM

Old News - but Richie Romney has NEVER been in charge of National Defense ... he's the risk. Obama got Bin Laden. What has Romney done?

W| 5.14.12 @ 7:19PM

How did Obama get Bin Laden? You can never answser this because he did nothing. The info to track down Osama was obtained by the CIA using the Bush approved tactics that you and Obama opposed and still oppose.
Obama was playing golf and had to be dragged into the meeting, put a jacket over his golf shirt, for the photo op when the SEALS got Osama. General McRaven, the CIA and the SEALS got Osama.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 8:11PM

You just won't give him credit, will you? The Commander-in-Chief gives the orders. None of the rest of the country or military could do that. He took the risk and deserves the rewards - as do the others who executed the plan. But - Just as George Washington didn't win the Revolutionary War alone, Washington gets the credit. So it is for Barack Obama.
George W Bush will get credit for ill-conceived War in Iraq and taking his eye off of Bin Laden and Afghanistan.
Obama gets the credit for ending the Iraq War and killing Bin Laden, with his decisions to change policies from Bush. It's that simple. In 3 years, Obama got Bin Laden - something that Bush and Darth Cheney couldn't do in 8 years. It doesn't matter what YOU think - that is a fact. Obama didn't need an invasion by a huge army get the win. Bush needed the invasion and still couldn't do it. We all know now that Republicans are wimps when it comes to defense.

W| 5.14.12 @ 10:08PM

George Washington was on the battlefield with his soldiers suffering, eating the same lousy food, freezing at Valley Forge, and risked his life.
Obama was playing golf when the SEALS put their lives at risk. Obama risked nothing as he was ready to blame McRaven for the operation of it went bad.
Obama did not end the Iaq War. He gave up and left, just as he will do in Afghanistan.
You are truly stupid.

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:45AM

Obama didn't get excrement, the Navy Seal Team 6 got him, dumbars! Hell, ya boy can't even find his way to the oval office without a teleprompter and a roadmap [course he knows how to find Columbia's hoesthough] !!!!!!

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:29PM

If Obama is that powerful, you better watch out. He was the most vetted man to run for president in decades. And, that was BEFORE he beat your guy, Grandpa McCain.

Prester John| 5.14.12 @ 7:05PM

Here are a couple of softballs that we're still waiting for:

So what were his grades at Harvard (remember the Bush vs Gore GPA battle in 2004)?

Or how about an article or two from the Harvard Law Review that he wrote? Or did they make someone editor who have never written for it?

Just askin'.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 8:16PM

Oh - yes, Harvard is in the habit of giving the Presidency (not Editor) of the Law Review to low GPA, unworthy candidates. yeah, your innuendo is truth, right Sunshine? You can't take that accomplishment away from him.
Idiotic.
Nevertheless, President Obama is a strong leader, a decisive leader, save the economy, and killed Bin Laden. Richie Romney laid of thousands, made his money off their backs, created Romneycare, and tortured his dog and high schoolers. America remembers who's best, and will vote accordingly.

W| 5.14.12 @ 10:10PM

The presidency was an elected position. Real members of law review write articles that are published in the law review journal. Bet you did not know that. Since you have nothing to do but flak for Obma why don't you find for us the law review article written by Obama so we can read it.

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:52AM

Yeah, the same ''''Harvard''''' that should have expelled Teddy Kennedy for flunking out and cheating on exams, but didn't due to DADDY JOE's threats and financial contributions??????

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:47AM

Yeah he was vetted by the MSM who thereafter DEEP SIXED UNDER THE RUG their uncovered material, just as is done in Venusuela, Cuba, Russia, China, North Korea, etc!!!!!!!!

Concerned Canadian| 5.14.12 @ 9:13AM

Someday history will be very unkind to the the media's willful neglect in reporting the facts that led to the decline of America.

DTOM| 5.14.12 @ 10:04AM

How about TODAY!

Mike G| 5.14.12 @ 10:58AM

I don't think so. Remember that the academics who write history books are liberals who agree with the media. And since liberals are teaching the future academics, the cycle will simply repeat, so future academics will also be liberals.
Wow--I'm getting dizzy.

DTOM| 5.14.12 @ 5:12PM

Not all history books are written by liberals. You need to get out a little more, eh? Do a little looking and you will be better informed...

Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.14.12 @ 9:21AM

My mother, who used to be an active Republican but is now an independent, has only basic cable, and has as her primary source of news the broadcast news networks. Consequently, she knows nothing about Obama, but the story of Romney cutting another student’s hair while in prep school 47 years ago managed to reach her.

The media has little impact on those of us who are engaged. The majority of voters are not. To be successful, the right needs to be effective in getting out its message to a plurality of the less engaged, or at least counteract the left’s effective control of most of the print and broadcast media.

Anthony| 5.14.12 @ 9:53AM

Everybody knows the media and the Obozo keepers are keeping a lid on the truth about Obozo's secret life.
Despite all attempts to hide and deflect the issue, Obozo's hidden past has now broken beyond the media's attempt at control, and has some folks FINALLY interested in who the hell their president is!!
The media and Obozo are frauds, and the nation is finally becoming aware of it. The world is crashing in around them, and their desperation is showing by their increased vitriol and hysteria.
Obozo will do ANYTHING now to win re-election and the media will help without any pretense of objectivity.
Funny thing about Barney Frank's "Profile in Courage", finally getting married now that he announced his retirement from congress.
Something tells me Obozo is about to top Barney Frank's announcment with a huge revelation of his own.

SUBVET| 5.14.12 @ 11:45AM

OBAMA'S...."Down Low Marriage".

rcb| 5.14.12 @ 9:53AM

I do have concerns that Romney will try to play nice and pull a McCain. He's getting ready to head into the shyt. He needs to get ready to get dirty and play dirty.

Controse| 5.14.12 @ 9:57AM

"It would take a courage that no Republican other than Gingrich has had" said Mr. Babbin. Did he mean no Republican candidate for President? Surely he didn't mean to leave out Gov. Palin.

Larry Engel | 5.14.12 @ 10:09AM

Well first you've got teach them how to read.

Jennifer| 5.14.12 @ 10:37AM

I think Obama made his "courageous" statement to distract everyone from the fact that his favorite Republican got ousted by a Tea Party conservative the previous night --and especially to cover himself from his own defeat by a jailbird from Texas in the WV primary.

ncatty| 5.14.12 @ 11:09AM

So Team Obama has scoured Romney's background and the high school prank is the best they can do? Another exploding cigar lit by Team Obama. Keep it up.

Frekki| 5.14.12 @ 11:22AM

The sister of the bullied boy (who died in 2004) says the incident never happened. Where did this story come from anyway?

Ground Control| 5.14.12 @ 11:50AM

Probably the same "typewriter" that forged the George W. Bush Air National Guard documents so effectively used by Dan Rather and CBS News.

David| 5.14.12 @ 11:24AM

Babbin is correct: The 40% or so who claim to be conservative need to make clear to the other 60% that this election is not Romney versus Bam Bam, but Romney versus Bam Bam AND the leftist media.

As Newt is so good at doing, and Santorum to a lesser extent, Romney and his surrogates need to demolish the premise of every silly question posed by the leftist media. That will be especially true during any debates.

Romney had better not back down.

David| 5.14.12 @ 11:30AM

ALbert, you said, "My mother, who used to be an active Republican but is now an independent, has only basic cable, and has as her primary source of news the broadcast news networks. Consequently, she knows nothing about Obama, but the story of Romney cutting another student’s hair while in prep school 47 years ago managed to reach her."

That is why I have been saying the Boy has a good chance to be re-elected. The vast majority of people get their news from the so-called MSM. A tiny minority get news from Fox or alternative conservative sites.

It was reported that 22 million viewers get nightly news from the 3 networks, PBS, and CNN.

Contrast that with the highest rated cable show, the moderate O'Reilly, has only 3 million viewers.

Looks like conservatives have a lot of educating to do.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.14.12 @ 2:24PM

"Looks like conservatives have a lot of educating to do."

Precisely. Though I doubt my mother will cast a vote for Obama, the likelihood is low that she will cast one for Romney, either. While Delaware, like so much of the Northeast, has voted for the Democrat in every election since 1988 (as former New Yorkers began to more heavily infiltrate the state), the electoral map will likely not be affected, except for those similarly situated just across the state line in PA, which could be in play this round.

If I were to put a slogan on it that reflected the current reality, it might be "Get educated now, or be re-educated later."

David| 5.14.12 @ 11:39AM

Purp, I award you the Champion Moron trophy. I really don't think I have ever heard any adult argue like more of a 12 year old than you do.

Fact: The big 3 networks and PBS have a nightly new viewership of 22 million. Then add the liberal cable stations of CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC to that number.

Fact: The highest rated cable news show is on Fox, the moderate O'Reilly, and his nightly viewership is 3 million.

Well, at least you are off of your ridiculous homo diatribes for a change.

davelnaf| 5.14.12 @ 11:49AM

No one—at least with any commonsense anyway—doubts that Obama’s two autobiographies were not just expressions of overweening narcissism, but were more likely intended as source material for journalists needing cover for committing journalist malpractice by not looking into O’s past.

Yes, Romney needs to begin slamming the corrupt MSM hard. These people want to put him on the defensive rather than criticizing their sainted O’s horrible record. Romney should be on particular guard for the kind of ‘journalist’ that recently asked him about his thoughts on medical Marijuana.

Tom Kyba| 5.14.12 @ 11:51AM

Romney needs just a bit of a Reagan injection. Just enough to learn to laugh at the media dinks as they ask him if he's stopped betaing his wife. No apologies, no attempt to have it both ways when contemplating another stupid "gotcha" attempt. Just chuckle and turn it back on them. Tell them the premise of their question is foolish. Laugh and laugh and laugh some more and keep doing it. It will drive them nuts and eventually force them to ask pertinent questions for a change. And as for the attempt by purp to cite "right wing media" as the equivalent to "left wing media". Wow, someone is still trying to push one of the most pathetic arguments in the history of pathetic arguments. Using the same logic, I will now argue that Reagan was a secret admirer of the USSR. No really. If you don't agree, I will just keep repeating the same thing over and over while sucking my thumb and rubbing my blankie against my cheek for comfort.

Obie Wan| 5.14.12 @ 12:14PM

The main stream media isn't operating under any illusions these days, people either buy the stuff they're dishing out because you choose to,or you reject it for what it is, generally speaking, an unfair,biased narrative of everything political from a left wing perspective. Romney has NOTHING to lose by going "Gingrich" on them. Let's be honest,the reason Gingrich was an early player in the primaries was because he was soooo good at telling the MM where to go !!!

Joe D.| 5.14.12 @ 1:13PM

Jeb is dead right. Other than the economy, this is one of the most winable issues. He needs to take on this ASAP. Gingrich was right. Hit a bully in the nose and he will back off, at least some. Shine a light on them and they will go hid in the darkness.

cicero| 5.14.12 @ 2:47PM

In as much as Newt was so good at thumping the mainstream media during the debates, and in as he had a terrific record as Speaker of the House, even though he upset his fellow get along Republicans, and in as much as he will be too old to run for national election after this time around, why not Newt for Vice President? Mitt can be Mr. Nice guy, and let loose Newt on the pack of rats on the other side.

tonypal| 5.14.12 @ 3:51PM

Cicero, one of the first rules of picking a VP candidate is that he cannot outshine the guy at the top of the ticket. Can you imagine Romney trying to rein in Gingrich? He has a better chance of winning New York than keeping Newt in line.

Anthony| 5.14.12 @ 4:40PM

I love the way some of Romney's staffers are talking about McLame's 3 major errors in the campaign, and of course, the "vetting" of the VP is numero uno.
These inside the beltway assholes have learned nothing, and continue to kid themselves in order to stay relevant.
Palin was a god send to McLame. It was McLame who refused to take on Obozo and campaign like he ment it. But Palin's sin was to outshine McLame and scare the shit out of the MSM. Hence, the attacks from both the Ds and the Rs.
McLame's fat, baldy campaign director, Steve Schmidt, still hides behind Sarah's skirt to cover up for his stupid campaign. When not blaming Palin, it was the Bush economy.
No asshole, it was your gutless campaign that refused to vet the empty suit Muslim Marxist who kicked your pathetic collective asses.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:34PM

Oh, yes, that's right. Sarah Palin never freaked when asked what newspapers she read - "All of them", but couldn't name one, not one. And her foreign policy credentials were so profound - "Putin flies over Alaska, and we keep an eye on him" .. and she "can see Russia from my house" ... Yeah, that had nothing to do with her downfall.

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:55AM

Palin's foreign policy experience can't compare with old 'SAME SEX MARRIAGE AND NO BIG F&*KING DEAL' JOE [the drunk] who slurred his words in an interview the other day, and has his wife run political interference for Mooch constantly, right?????

David| 5.14.12 @ 3:04PM

Nice thought CIcero, but Newt as VP means the election will be about him and not Bam Bam's record or Romney.

Santorum can attract the blue collar workers (including union types) conservative democrats, and conservative Catholics. I think Rick will be much more disciplined about what he says than he was in the primaries. He will not have to show he is the most conservative as in the primaries. He has the experience of running several elections in heavily democratic PA, always as the underdog, and won--------okay, except once.

Oldefarte| 5.14.12 @ 3:52PM

FATHER RON THROWS IN HIS 'TOO-SHORTS':

'.....NewsmaxRon Paul Says He'll No Longer Campaign for GOP Nomination Monday, May 14, 2012 02:50 PMRep. Ron Paul says he will no longer actively campaign for the GOP nomination, but will continue to work to secure delegates at upcoming Republican state conventions."Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted," said Paul, in a statement released Monday afternoon. "Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have."
But the longtime congressman from Texas, who's making his third bid for the White House, says he'll continue to try and secure delegates to the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., in late August."Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to take leadership positions, win delegates, and carry a strong message to the Republican National Convention that Liberty is the way of the future," adds Paul, in his statement.Paul's campaign had $1.8 million cash on hand in April.Paul is the last remaining major candidate still standing against former Massachusetts Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, after. Romney has secured 945 delegates, compared with 286 for Rick Santorum, 145 for Newt Gingrich and 99 for Paul, according to CNN. One-thousand, one-hundred and forty-four delegates are needed to clinch the nomination.......'

Clint| 5.14.12 @ 6:06PM

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" Gingrich: Conservatives Won't Let Wall St. And Romney "Buy Election"

"Look, the conservative movement is not going to sit by and let a Massachusetts liberal, who's pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase, pro-gay rights, whose Romneycare in two articles in the last 24 hours were described as the equivalent of Obamacare and who George Soros says is just fine. He'd be happy with either Obama or Romney [be]cause they are both the establishment -- that's just George Soros," Newt Gingrich told FOX News' Bret Baier on the campaign trail in Tampa, Florida.

"Now, the conservative movement isn't going to sit back and say 'Oh yes, let's let Wall Street, and Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney buy the election. So you're going to see a real grass roots fight. It will be people power vs. Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney," he added."

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 11:59AM

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Clint......$.25
Jack......$.72
Duke.....$1000
Gomer...$1
Hee Haw International.....$10000
Double-Wides of America.....$5000
BBQ Worldwide.........$200
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anthony| 5.14.12 @ 4:30PM

Obozo had the hutspah to tell the women grads at Barnard College to "fight for their seat at the table".
I wonder if any of these lefty babes remembered that it was Obozo who bitch slapped Hillary out of the presidency? Or, do they even care?
If Romney's campaign staff had half a brain, or an ounce of guts, taking Obozo in this election would be like picking low hanging fruit.
This guy Obozo is a walking gaffe, like his lilly white assed clown of a Veep.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 5:47PM

You hit it on the head - Romney's campaign is as inept as the nominee to be is .... All LOSERS.

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 12:01PM

Those 'losers' are going to run your domestic terrorists out of DC and back to Chicago and/or the ME, where they belong in November!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cicero| 5.14.12 @ 4:32PM

I respectfully disagree on Newt stealing the show. He knows that this is his last shot at the national show. He will be a team player, just as he was for Reagan. Nice book ends to his career. He will make Biden look like the jackass that he is, and will give Obama no place to hide. This will leave Romney the main stage to inform the voting public exactly how a real business manager will manage the business of the people.

J.C.Eaton| 5.14.12 @ 4:41PM

I muster with the majority of readers here who would have preferred someone other than Mr. Romney to take the Conservative fight to the incumbent burlesque of a President. But I've got what you"ve got. Before I refuse to aid Mr. Romney, I'm going to periodically remind myself that if a mad-dog was coming at me, I'd use the baseball bat at hand rather than the nuke I didn't have.

Bill| 5.14.12 @ 6:00PM

FL has a constitutional amendmend banning gay marriage (I'm a proud Floridian). Why cannot we have one in the federal level? Gay marriage is anepidemic and must be stopped.

Purp| 5.14.12 @ 6:33PM

Hahaha - an epidemic.... what a foolish position. FL will change - you'll see.

Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 12:02PM

Go back inside your closet!!!!!!!!

POST American| 5.14.12 @ 10:37PM

----Again, more psychic driving of 'rainbows'
at KEY points in the unfold.

Remember, even putting aside last week's
sobering interview with Joel Skousen in studio
about a coming, engineered conflict with
RED China, perhaps kicked off by an
invasion of South Korea by the longtime
RED China puppet state of North Korea
----it might be enlightening to consider
the rainbow in classic Chinese culture.

(BTW --S. surmises 15 American cities would be
destroyed, but the rest would, in a manner,
survive, to be 'rescued' by the ever ready
forces of enlightened Globalism and
aggressive EUGENICS management
----soon even assisted by the then
'sobered' and 'enlightened'
---RED Chinese. Again, anyone who's
studied China knows, things like mass
Halocausts are mere speed bumps)

--SO, the rainbow within Chinese cosmogony?

Why, it is nothing less than a symbol of profound
cosmic disharmony, -----and even a herald
of cataclysm.

------So keep on going kiddies! ---Git!

---------'Lepra--CONS' and 'Lucky Charms'

------------JUST KEEP GOIN'!

------------------(Cause OPRAH loves you!)

-----------------------That's right!

Thorvald| 5.14.12 @ 10:38PM

The "courage" Li'l Barry had (and, to date, the only courage we can ascertain), is the courage to take it "raw" in Pock-E-stahn on his student sojourn there ((passport details uncertain/hidden/we-could-tell-you-but-we'd-have=to-kill-you) one summer long ago (what's to have sex with if you're a horny (benefit of the doubt) American (benefit of the doubt) male? (benefit of the doubt)). Courage comes from Free Will. Does his religion even permit that? Does Romney's? (I'm jus' askin' if we're that effed, is all.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.14.12 @ 11:38PM

While I don’t wish to indulge in speculation about anyone’s sexuality any more than I wish to question what religion they profess to be, I have observed a bit of an anomaly. There seems to be quite a bit of homosexuality in Islamic countries, but very few admit to being a homosexual. Why hasn’t Somalia become a gay tourist destination in the way that Haiti once was?

POST American| 5.14.12 @ 11:48PM

------------------------FINAL WORD------------------------

One and ALLLLLL! ----TAKE HEED the signs!

And KEEEP your eyes on the rainbow
----rising, ominously, in the East.

FUKISHIMA -----to TIBET ----take HEED!

--------AGAIN, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED---------

DaneChile| 5.16.12 @ 1:21AM

There is no question in my mind that this was all meticulously planned and it started with:
1. WaPo discovering this haircut thing about Romney. They see multiple opportunities here so
2. Get to Dan Savage and tell him to make his speech to the HS journalists very inflammatory IOT to get the subject of homo-bullying to the fore. Then
3. Arrange with Moonie Clooney to have a Hollyweird fund-raiser on a certain date, leading to
4: Make the non-announcement that fires up the weirdos and other libbies the day prior to the Hollyweird money-fest.
5. Add the new Weird Line of products (that were procurred two weeks prior) to the online store on the same day as the announcement and
6. WaPo publishes the "damning" story showing Romney as a homo-bully.

They are clever. This was well planned, coordinated and executed.

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