Picking up on how CNN anchor Suzanne Malveaux hailed, as “a bold display of presidential concern,” President Obama hugging a woman at Wednesday's health care forum, Jim Pinkerton, on FNC's Fox Newswatch, pointed out that “in the middle of all of this Stalinesque fakery at this town hall meeting” Malveaux's characterization “is like Stalin putting Ukrainian family victims on his lap during the '30s.” To illustrate, FNC producers displayed a vintage poster showing Stalin hoisting a little child who held up a Soviet flag. During a discussion on the program aired Saturday afternoon about how all the questions at the town hall with Obama were pre-selected from online postings or came from invited guests, Pinkerton, a Newsday columnist, raised what Malveax said which NewsBusters had recounted:
In the middle of all of this Stalinesque fakery at this town hall meeting -- when Obama hugged that woman who was a plant, her cancer was real enough, but her being there was a total artifact of planning -- she [Suzanne Malveaux] said, quote, this is a quote “bold display of presidential concern,” end quote. Again, this is like Stalin putting Ukrainian family victims on his lap during the '30s.
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Network reporters swooned over President Barack Obama hugging a woman, who has cancer and lacks insurance, at his Wednesday “town hall” on health care, as both CNN -- where Suzanne Malveaux heralded the hug as “a bold display of presidential concern” -- and NBC failed to point out how all the questions (just seven in total) were pre-selected or from members of pro-Obama groups. Instead, NBC's Savannah Guthrie showed a kid in a video (“My mommy and daddy have small businesses, and we need health care”) before she touted how Obama “solicited questions on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and in person, with a hug for a woman who says she cannot pay her medical bills,” while CNN's Ed Henry related “he fielded questions from YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and a live audience.”...
Filling-in as anchor on CNN's The Situation Room, Suzanne Malveaux painted Obama as a combination of General Patton and Oprah as she set up Henry in the 6 PM EDT hour:President Obama has a message for some critics. He will get his way. Today he made a bold promise regarding health care reform. And, in a bold display of presidential concern, the President comforted a sick and emotional woman.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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come on
July 4, 2009 - 20:04 ET by candanceThat hug looked phoney and contrived. Call it propaganda by all means. But is it comparable to Stalin using Ukrainian babies? Not quite.
But is it comparable to
July 4, 2009 - 21:49 ET by Dan The Man 2But is it comparable to Stalin using Ukrainian babies?
You are right it is more incideous than Stalin's manuver. It is presented as an innocent bystander instead of a party faithful. Im sure those babies knew nothing about what was happening while the DNC plant knew exactly what was happening.
He will get his way
July 4, 2009 - 20:10 ET by ThisnThatWhether by deceite; lies; coercion; or thuggery -- he will get his way. He's God. The chosen one. And if you get in the way of "his way", you will be investigated, demonized, or removed from your current position (are you listening GM CEO, inspector generals out there, bank presidents, Joe the Plumber)?
And he will receive the unquestioned, full support of the MSM every -- step -- of -- the -- way.
...Until Sarah Palin begins to show up in force. Then "his way" will be stopped in its tracks.
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So Obama is fake faith healer
July 4, 2009 - 20:10 ET by sevenHe will fleece the flock for money.
Remember when he avoided military in Germany because the cameras couldn't attend?
Gomer Pyle
July 4, 2009 - 20:23 ET by slickwillie2001Surprise surprise; the woman he hugged happens to be a DNC employee! What are the odds she would show up at a Bamster townhall meeting?
But, she's an unpaid employee so she doesn't have health care. This is not unlike the democratics hiring ACORN paid protesters, paid below the minimum wage, to protest for a higher minimum wage.
Why are these people taken seriously?
Take a couple of hours
July 4, 2009 - 20:55 ET by IamTinmanAnd read "1984". It's obvious that Obama did!
Anderson Cooper
July 4, 2009 - 21:27 ET by GaiusBaltarAnderson Cooper claims to be an "objective journalist."
Well, lets take a look at his blog...
http://ac360.blogs.c...
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/03/it-came-from-walsilla/
Why would an objective journalist post this article in his blog?!
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count the change
July 4, 2009 - 21:37 ET by snaggletoothieI hope the woman had enough sense to check the contents of her wallet after the prez let go of her.
Truth Is Good
July 4, 2009 - 22:50 ET by rammingspeedSuzanne Malveaux et al are Stalinists. It is a perfect description of them. "President Obama is going to get his way." His way, the way of the dictator. And Ms. Malveaux swoons.
Pravda.
Der Sturhmer of Nazi Germany, my own little totalitarian comparison.
The current power of the Democrats emboldens these lap dog journalists to say what's really on their minds. It's truly sickening.
more change
July 4, 2009 - 23:38 ET by m1xramThis is change you can believe in but not the change you hoped for. Sure, he'll get his way, but who will suffer? Could it be the woman he hugged because she's too old? Or, maybe she won't be deemed worth saving by the health care system Obama's family will not be using.
He has already failed... his country.
Bold...
July 5, 2009 - 07:01 ET by P.J. GladnickToday he made a bold promise regarding health care reform. And, in a bold display of presidential concern...
Suzanne Malveaux boldly declared...
Upcoming "Word of the Day" selections from the White House...
July 5, 2009 - 08:10 ET by Mike BrattonTide.
Crest.
Safeguard.
Bounty.
Cheer.
Gain.
Scope.
Always.
That's the mainstream media's White House Word of the Day, sponsored by Procter & Gamble.
--Mike
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Bold Uncle Obama
July 5, 2009 - 08:33 ET by CTI wonder if anyone dared call Uncle Joe BOLD?
We are in
July 5, 2009 - 10:02 ET by American.Patriotserious trouble. As the old hag Helen Thomas pointed out, not even Nixon controlled the media like the current clown, uh,er,um POTUS
"When I look in the mirror, I say, 'He did not sell his soul for short-term politics.'" President George W. Bush, June 18, 2009
more wool over your eyes
July 6, 2009 - 11:34 ET by dmambrosenice news google search brought in this about the lady that got hug. I guess she organizes health care OPEN townhall meetings
http://www.swvatoday.com/comments/health_care_rally_held/news/5043/
I love the internet I
July 6, 2009 - 12:02 ET by dmambroseI love the internet
I wonder why she is not using VA benefits?
ABINGDON, Va. -- Debby Smith spent four years serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and 25 years working as an accountant before she found out she had cancer -- and now she can't get health insurance.
"Since ... I can't work, of course, I don't have health insurance, which means I have to pay out of pocket for ... all my prescriptions and all my doctor visits and everything, and if you don't work it's hard to do that," said Smith, 51, of Appalachia, Va.
"A lot of people, they think that people are just sitting around not doing any work just getting government assistance ... and don't try to do anything for themselves and ask the government to pay for everything," she said. "I'm not one of those people. ... I'd rather be working and doing my job and making a decent wage, but I'm not able to do that."
With 12 years to wait for age-related Social Security benefits, she relies on a hospital charity fund for twice-yearly cat scans; a pharmaceutical company's patient assistance program for help with her cancer drugs and her fiance, who pays $515 a month for her remaining medication and regular doctor visits.