WTF?? AP Asks If Obama Is "Obnoxiously Articulate"

[Are_grits_groceries]

Political reporters have now toggled from worrying that Obama gets "too much" media coverage to asking whether he is "too" good at communicating through the media. Maybe even obnoxiously good. Maybe even -- here comes that loaded word from the primaries -- too articulate.

The AP's Liz Sidoti is on the case. And this is from a news article:

Obama has been a constant presence in the mass media as he expands the bureaucracy's reach into the private sector.... In doing so, he has created a quandary. Put aside for a moment the question of whether government is actually intruding into people's lives more than before. The point is that many people feel like it is -- in part because Obama doesn't stop talking about his goals. If President George W. Bush got slapped around for being inarticulate, is Obama obnoxiously articulate?

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/ap-asks-if-obama-is-obnox_b_322256.html

Their critiques get more surreal by the second.

[babylonsister]

1. Wow. His intelligence must confound their lack of. You're right, such

an ignorant thing to complain about. :crazy:

[wryter2000]

2. Good Lord.

The mind boggles. Maybe next week he'll be "disgustingly just" or "disturbingly decent" or "open-minded to the point of nausea."

[The Magistrate]

4. Not Only A Thing Of Beauty, Ma'am, But A Pretty Sound Prediction....

[wryter2000]

41. Why, thank you, sir. n/t

:hi:

[Cha]

8. LOL.."Open-minded

ad nauseum". The corporatemedia will do anything to bring down Dems Especially a Dem Prez.

Did the cm ever ask if bush were too inarticulate? Didn't think so..the internet had to point that out.

[blondeatlast]

26. You should maybne copyright those--or at least bookmark this thread.

"Disturbingly decent" has just the proper "hook" for a CNN crawl. Watch for it.

[wryter2000]

42. LOL

Somehow, I can't imagine Wolf Blitzer using it, except as one of those silly hooks. "Now, some say the President is disurbingly decent. Could this be the downfall of the Obama presidency?"

[EFerrari]

3. I hope people will now stop defending the AP.

They're spammers.

[redqueen]

15. LOL... people defend the AP? Here?

Really?

:rofl:

I tell ya... PT Barnum was spot fucking on.

[Solly Mack]

5. WTF does that even mean?

Stupid

[Incitatus]

44. Ever seen Idiocracy?

[Solly Mack]

48. Yes

[spanone]

6. they just don't 'get' a president who speaks in complete articulate sentences

[appamado amata padam]

7. This sounds like a slightly more subtle version of the -

anti-intellectual streak that is ingrained in our culture. Shame, the MSM is trying every angle they can to stir up resentment against the President.

[Cha]

11. Oh yeah! Like dumb 'em down and keep

'em voting repuke..like the "media" went after Al Gore for being a policy wonk and bush being ignorant as shit was good thing.

That worked out so well but the mediawhores love it. They like ruling America and took us into Iraq with their neverending pounding the drums of WAR.

[appamado amata padam]

18. It's troubling - they'll blame all of Bush's failures on

President Obama, and a lot of people will believe them.

[Cha]

24. Yes, they do and that's why PO's polls aren't

as high as they would be without mediawhore manufacturing and manipulation.

And, that is one of the main reasons Pres Obama has to get out and communicate with the Peeps..bc the "media" Fuck it Up.

[blogslut]

9. These damned flippity flops have lost it

Poor mainstream media. It's not as easy to manipulate public opinion as was before that evil Internet came along.

[asdjrocky]

10. Okay, maybe I shouldn't say this, being a white guy...

But isn't "obnoxiously articulate" just another way of saying uppity? Am I the only one that thinks this?

[blondeatlast]

27. That's what I was thinkiong as well! nt

[BluinTX]

39. Uppity

That is absolutely what was implied. You never heard the same ridiculousness regarding Clinton, or any of the Kennedys.

[chollybocker]

46. "The Password is ... Uppity ..."

You win the Bonus Point.

[Pirate Smile]

12. God, AP sucks now.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Only in America would the so-called "liberal" media find articulatenessto be an evil.

Stupid President isn't doing anything right - he's using complete sentences, complex thought, nuance, and he actually answers questions as fully as he is able to at the time of asking.

This is America! We worship sports and violence! We fear anything involving the mind, the intellect, or education!!!

[gratuitous]

14. Bush got "slapped around for being inarticulate"?

Boy, I sure don't remember that! If Stupidhead said something sub-moronic, it either got cleaned up between his fumble mouth or overlooked entirely until a “clarification” was issued to make him sound almost human-like in his gibberings. I surely don't remember the popular media indulging any slapping around of President George W. Bush for his verbal gaffes. In those days, it was unacceptable to criticize our popular war-time president, as that would have given aid and comfort to America's enemies!

[Angry Dragon]

47. When God picks......

you to start wars and save the world it is hard to find faults with the man:evilgrin:

[rucky]

16. I thought the AP was a newswire service.

that reports - um - news.

:shrug:

[redqueen]

Shyeaah... right!

The AP has been showing their ass for years. You can set your watch by them.

[Vinca]

17. Oh, yeah. It's much better to have a blithering idiot front and center.

:sarcasm:

[Orsino]

19. "Uppity." n/t

[blondeatlast]

37. +1. nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. Yeah, and Abraham Lincoln was downright reprehensible

FDR and JFK too. Obama needs to throw in some terms in his speeches like "peeance freeance" and "food on yo' family" and he'll be allright.

[FlyingSquirrel]

21. HAHAHHA!!! Stop talking about your goals, President Obama!

A minute inadvertent moment of honesty from AP, they want him to just shut up already and quit telling the American Public what he's trying to achieve. Keep 'em in the dark and feed 'em horse shit, that's what they like and what they're used to under Bush.

[Cali_Democrat]

22. Remember folks, Liz Sidoti is the AP reporter who ripped Obama and gave McCain doughnuts

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/06/ap-scribe-who-s.html

So much for the "Liberal Media" :eyes:

[kestrel91316]

23. Yeah, the nerve of him to sound more intelligent than our previous

drunken cretin in the WH.

[FlyingSquirrel]

25. The last paragraph was priceless:

I've debated the "overexposure" concern troll question myself, in meta-television segments, naturally, and the whole thing feels like the the media is eating its own tail and jumping the shark all at once. Sorry that wasn't more, you know, articulate.

[blondeatlast]

29. Best. Response. Ever.

:rofl:

[eppur_se_muova]

28. Is Liz Sidoti obnoxiously inquisitive? People are saying. nt

[Vickers]

30. Liz, maybe it's just that you're "insufferably douchebagged" or even

"unbearably fuckknobbed."

:shrug:

Oh, how I wish we had Idiot George back on the international stage, mispronouncing words, groping heads of state, and trying to exit locked doors.

:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

[LibertyLover]

31. After 8 years of Bush II's battles with the English language,

the vast majority of which were defeats for Bush, the US media is just not prepared for a chief executive, any chief executive, whose communication skills rank above at least average and in President Obama's case, excellent. They have forgotten what it's like to listen to have a president who, when he speaks, does not committed Hague-level atrocities against English.

[TwilightGardener]

32. Idiocy. Journalism is scraping the bottom.

[Barack_America]

33. Wow. Way to show your ass, AP.

[sinkingfeeling]

34. Liz is the same 'reporter' that gave McCain donuts during the campaign.

AP writer rips Obama, gives McCain doughnuts (true story)

As Dana Milbank wrote in the WaPo:

So much for the liberal media.

John McCain and Barack Obama both appeared before the nation's newspaper editors yesterday. The putative Republican presidential nominee was given a box of doughnuts and a standing ovation. The likely Democratic nominee was likened to a terrorist.

"We spend quite a bit of time with you on the back of the Straight Talk Express asking you questions, and what we've decided to do today was invite everyone else along on the ride," Sidoti explained. "We even brought you your favorite treat."

McCain opened the offering. "Oh, yes, with sprinkles!" he said.

Sidoti passed him a cup. "A little coffee with a little cream and a little sugar," she said.

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/06/ap-scribe-who-s.html

[lpbk2713]

35. OMFG. Do they get their ideas from OxyRush?

It looks that way. Tomorrow's poll ... "Is President Obama too uppity for his own damn good?"

[RedCloud]

36. After 8 years of W, their brains are too weak for thinking.

[thecrow]

38. Are stupid people the New Elite?

:rofl:

[ecstatic]

40. He's a breath of fresh air!

WTF? Don't know whether to laugh or get angry at that question.

[troubledamerican]

43. AP = GOP

[busybl]

45. the last eight years have caused them to forget English