Protesters Gather Near Obama’s Vacation House
In an era when Cindy Sheehan can get basically unlimited media coverage for camping outside of President Bush’s house to demand a meeting with him, (even though she had already had a meeting with him), it seems odd that this protest goes almost totally unreported.
The media could not get enough of Cindy Sheehan and the likes but suddenly they don’t care about protesters who are interrupting the president-elect while he is on vacation ducking the Blogo controversy and Hamas/Israel conflict.
Even the article I linked to above throws a disclaimer on the protest held in front of a security checkpoint near Obama’s vacation house by saying that it doesn’t match up with the Cindy Sheehan protest. Why is that?
Protesters gathered to voice their opinions on the war on terror, the Gaza-Hamas-Israel conflict, and Palestine- important issues to say the least. The president-elect is going to have some difficult decisions to make. He can’t make everyone happy even though his glorious rhetoric made 52% of Americans believe that he could.
I think that this story was newsworthy, hell, it would have been newsworty over the last eight years. What changed?
Perhaps the media is just afraid to report stories like this. Let’s take a look at a few of the stories from the last year:
- Obama’s staff already threatened television stations with revocation of their FCC licenses when they spoke ill of him during the campaign.
- OBama has already thrown reporters off of his plane because they wrote articles for newspapers that he doesn’ like.
- Obama has sent out truth squads to harass people who ran television ads that he did not approve of.
- A sheriff already been investigated for using Obama’s middle name.
- An anti-Obama writer already been detained in Kenya suspiciously while he was on his way to a press conference.
- Obama’s campaign harassed a radio station that was critical of him.
Obama is already growing tired of the press and is ducking them at every chance. It appears that Obama has a thin skin when it comes to reporters and if you want to keep access to Obama you must not be critical of him.
Nobody wants to lose press credentials, licenses, or access to Obama so he has the press in his back pocket and it started well before his election.
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Let’s put this in perspective; 10 normal people, anonymous people, as far as the viewing public is concerned meaningless people staged a quiet protest outside Obama’s place. That’s just not news.
On the other hand most of what you say about Obama and the media is accurate, just not particularly applicable to this instance.
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An empty suit and thin skin? Not a good combination. Maybe he should stay in Hawaii. How did he handle winter in Chcago? Anyway, all of these separate elements make him sound like a stubborn brat who has to be right all the time. A know-it-all President? Oh boy, hold on to your butts!
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Jonolan, you are right, these are ten meaningless people. But wasn’t Cindy Sheehan just one meaningless person? That was considered news.
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Deb, maybe his empty suit is chaffing his thin skin and that is why he is so irritable.
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Mr. Pink Eyes,
Sheehan started off meaningless, but the media made a story out of her because of her son’s death in Iraq. She shamelessly capitalized on his sacrifice in order to become a celebrity spokesperson for the Left. It was “interesting,” so the media kept on covering her antics.
Those people in front of Obama’s place weren’t vocal or charismatic enough to draw the media’s attention. LOL If the media blitzed every anti-POTUS or anti-Govt protest that’s all we’d every see on TV.
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