In State of the Union, Obama criticizes "TV pundits" for "reduc[ing] serious debates to silly arguments"
January 27, 2010 10:23 pm ET
From President Obama's January 27 State of the Union speech:
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Mr. News
Storm clouds include more expansion of gov programs, the green dream (just ask T. Boone how that worked out), shaky response to terrorist threats and the continuation of Cap and Tax.
OFF TOPIC
You need to give my handle back. You besmirch both low brass players and the namesake you have bastardized and I know of where I speak regarding T Boone. He is a capitalist, venture capitalist, and corporate raider (par excellence I will add). The only green he has EVER cared about is the kind that has dead Presidents associated with that.
While you may share some of his conservative idealogy, you share none of his brains.
I should not ask if, I should be asking HOW SOON will they start Shout!
The Democrats seemed to be enjoying the tone and message while the Republicans seemed to be in a semi-disbelief but were tuned into the speech.
I think the Repubs will think about the challenge laid out by the President.
The real barometer of his speech will come from those darn TV/Radio pundits tomorrow. Their tone and limit of bashing will tell us how fearful they are. When Limbaugh starts pounding his desk, we'll know that the President just put the Republican Party on notice as he did in the speech.
The entire country heard the President tell the Republicans to PUT UP OR SHUT UP. I hope he continues to advise them of this.
And this is the point that MMFA makes when it posts articles about people in the media forwarding the conservative agenda by distorting information, cropping quotes, and omitting relevant information to educate their viewers/listeners.
And this is the same point I make when we have people posting about other topics besides the actual topic of the articles that MMFA writes. Those trolls try to derail threads so that we'll not have the serious debates our nations needs to have. The silly arguments poison the discourse our nation should be having.
It's toxic when TV pundits do it. And it's also toxic when rightwing posters do it here, and it's wrong for their derailing posts to get attention and responses that they don't deserve. It reduces the serious debates we should be having to silly arguments.
The great thing is that O'Reilly, Beck and Hannity are going to have a field day with this. They will be bragging about how he really meant them and that they are somehow under his skin. They love that bit of attention... it either makes them giddy or actually makes them angry. I'm guessing it won't be the latter seeing as how they are all common whores for attention like needy little teenagers these days... cue the ratings, as always.