Dutifully, and even downright meekly, the mainstream media--including Fox News--is reporting on Obama’s wobbly and weak State of the Union Address this morning.
The shock value of his vow to act ‘with or without Congress’ went out with the tide weeks ago.
“After vowing in his State of the Union address to use the power of the pen to pursue his agenda in 2014, President Obama once again is hitting the campaign trail to tout his proposals--while countering criticism that his presidency has entered a lame-duck phase.” (FoxNews.com, Jan. 29, 2014)
Proof positive that the millions who switched to neutral television channels the moment SOTU coverage started last night didn’t miss a thing.
Just as they called it ahead of the shameful event, It was the same old, same old lies, lies and more lies.
They know one and all that Obama is not “once again hitting the campaign trail to tout his proposals”, facts prove he’s never stopped campaigning before and since his first election on long-ago November 4, 2008.
Portraying Obama’s presidency as one that “has entered a lame-duck phase” is at worst disingenuous and at best, totally missing the mark.
A ‘lame duck’ doesn’t venture far from the nest, puts his weapons aside and comes with adjectives like, benign, vulnerable and loud quacks aside, is seen, in general as not much of a threat.
Obama, with all of the weapons and cash on his side of the ledger, is a duck who strides across the country, leaving a wide wake of discernible destruction behind him. This is one duck boldly laying out the poison to stop patriots in their tracks; to choke off freedom from having even a faint voice.
Lost in a miasma of their own making, the mainstream media of the day harken to what they see as the safe, tried but not true expressions of the far distant past.
They fill the air with theories that other presidents have gone through lame duck-phases in their second terms. But the lame duck-phases of other presidents gone with a long ago wind, don’t matter anymore.
This is now and the Free West is under unrelenting Marxist attack.
The news of the day should start with the truthful, accurate fact that Obama is not like any other president. No other president has ever appointed himself as the chief and willful destroyer of America. And to find the bottom of the murky lake, media meisters should stop trotting out presidents whose terms ended a century ago.
While the mewling media presented their SOTU take the morning after the vainglorious event, this is the subject line Organizing for Action’s Jon Carson sent to the masses within an hour of Obama’s address: “That’s our president!”
As antagonistic and braggartly Carson’s message to the masses is, at least it wasn’t buried in the lame-duck fantasy.
They’re coming to get you, folks, and doing it with unbridled joy.
Now that they’ve reported “the news”, the mainstream media’s talking heads will line up to bore you over the all-but-useless boob tube.
Hopefully the self-important talking heads will be treated in the same fashion their master was last night. Tune them out, switch the channel.
The talking heads are paid handsomely by the networks to do their job. Doing their job should begin by reporting the truth.
Obama’s no lame duck. He’s the top duck bringing America down and quacking loudly as he goes about it.
Judi McLeod——Bio and Archives
-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
