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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on October 19, 2009, 06:06:44 PM
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(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/img/dunn_anita_yt.jpg)
The Obama campaign's press strategy leading up to his election last November focused on "making" the media cover what the campaign wanted and on exercising absolute "control" over coverage, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told an overseas crowd early this year.
In a video of the event, Dunn is seen describing in detail the media strategy used by then-Sen. Barack Obama's highly disciplined presidential campaign. The video is footage from a Jan. 12 forum hosted by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in the Dominican Republic.
"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," Dunn said, admitting that the strategy "did not always make us popular in the press."
The video drew attention after Dunn kicked off a war of words with Fox News last Sunday, calling the network "opinion journalism masquerading as news." The White House stopped providing guests to "Fox News Sunday" in August after host Chris Wallace fact-checked controversial assertions made by Tammy Duckworth, assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Dunn complained about the fact-checking last Sunday. In the January forum, she provided details about the lengths to which the Obama campaign went to control the media message.
She explained that the campaign favored live interviews so that Obama's words could not be edited -- "so that what the voters heard we determined, as opposed to some editor in a TV station."
She said Campaign Manager David Plouffe put out Web videos so the campaign could avoid talking to reporters and focus the media message.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/19/white-house-official-says-obama-team-controlled-media-coverage-campaign/
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Complained about fact checking. That says it all folks.
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**** her and **** the administration
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Frackin Commies.
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What is worse is the press actively connived at this. They fell down on the job, then bent over.
and then they wonder why they have a worse reputation than hookers and three card monte dealers
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If the press had made even a feeble effort to do their jobs, this president would never have been elected. They simply allowed him to be shown in a totally false manner.
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With all of the early videos out there telling that Obama was the FIRST Kenyan elected as senator, the people stating that he was born in Kenya, his attendance to Indonesian schools, and his failure to bring forth his birth certificate and release his school records (through college), I still question his legitimacy. It wouldn't surprise me if the press completely disregarded and omitted those facts.
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I'm not so sure "controlled" is the word for it any more than one could have claimed to rape the willing.