Alter - "Obama’s enemies have painted him as an alien threat. Can he fight the flight from facts?"

[TomCADem]

Interesting read from Jonathan Alter. The interesting thing is that if President Obama loses in 2012, the media will then stop spreading corporate fed lies about the new corporate friendly Republican President. Then, the media will marvel at the Republican president's ability to connect with the American people the way they gushed about George W. Bush.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/28/alter-how-obama-can-fight-the-lies.html

“I’d like to burn them off,” says the Illustrated Man in Ray Bradbury’s 1951 science-fiction classic of that name. “I’ve tried sandpaper, acid, a knife.” Nothing works. More than a half century before head-to-toe tattoos, a time-traveling witch had painted colorful images on nearly every part of the man’s body. The elaborate stories they told made it hard for him to hold a job.

President Obama is our era’s Illustrated Man. His enemies—and even some of his ostensible allies—have been busy for three years painting Obama as some kind of alien threat. His name, race, exotic upbringing, and determination to reach out to moderate Muslims have given those who would delegitimize him a fresh palette of dark colors. The caricatures are almost comical, as the president himself recognizes. “Some folks say, ‘Well, you know, he’s not as cool as he was,’?” Obama said at a May fundraiser in California. “?‘When they had all the posters around and everything.’ Now I’ve got a Hitler mustache on the posters. That’s quite a change.”

Our maddening times demand that the truth be forthrightly stated at the outset, and not just that the president has nothing in common with the führer beyond the possession of a dog. The outlandish stories about Barack Hussein Obama are simply false: he wasn’t born outside the United States (the tabloid “proof” has been debunked as a crude forgery); he has never been a Muslim (he was raised by an atheist and became a practicing Christian in his 20s); his policies are not “socialist” (he explicitly rejected advice to nationalize the banks and wants the government out of General Motors and Chrysler as quickly as possible); he is not a “warmonger” (he promised in 2008 to withdraw from Iraq and escalate in Afghanistan and has done so); he is neither a coddler of terrorists (he has already ordered the killing of more “high value” Qaeda targets in 18 months than his predecessor did in eight years), nor a coddler of Wall Street (his financial-reform package, while watered down, was the most vigorous since the New Deal), nor an enemy of American business (he and the Chamber of Commerce favor tax credits for small business that were stymied by the GOP to deprive him of a victory). And that’s just the short list of lies.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Bill Clinton was defended passionately from the lies,

and even from the truth.

Obama.....not so much.

Wonder why such a different treatment?
They both ran on Hope. :shrug:

[RandomThoughts]

5. Because in Tweeties promo for Hardball.

He forms a triangle with his thumbs. Hillary was triangle candidate. Although I respect both Bill and Hillary, that is not the point.

But what is worse, a few that claim to be part of that don't realize the triangle also means change, delta. And they also don't know that the triangle gang is really the assembly line workers. They just don't understand that. They are the ones on soma and conditioned.

LOL,

So we know what A is.

We know what B is.

And now we know who the real D Delta's are,

The triangle gang, they just don't know they are on the assembly line just like the poor workers, even when you try to wake them up.


If it could be a brave world, maybe not new, maybe not with Soma and other things, but at least if it was brave, we would make big improvements.


Just a story, I don't follow that doctrine :) But weather a rich ceo or a line worker at a factory, people are still blinded by Soma.

[RandomThoughts]

2. So the media is lying to people?

What does that mean. And why do people believe the media in the first place?


Because people expect them to try and be honest, how much respect should a media that knowingly lies so that a person hurts their own interest get?

Some of the media should be looked at as part of the servants feeding the life of average people to the rich by repeated falsehoods to keep them from learning what they can do to make everyone's life better.


If you watched the Secret Of Oz video. Why hasn't the media shown something like that?

[DefenseLawyer]

3. They ALL know he's not an alien threat

It's just not fashionable to be an overt white supremacist in most circles these days.

[gateley]

4. Jesus, I never thought I'd see the day (again) but you're right. God. nt

[krabigirl]

6. Agree with everything except the war thing..how can you escalate Afghanistan and not be ro

Somewhat of a war monger?