Political Wrinkles  

Go Back   Political Wrinkles > Political Forums > The Media
Register FAQDonate Members List Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

The Media Discuss A newscast from a future we must never see at the Political Forums; This week, I decided to do something different – my column is in video form. It's a newscast from a ...

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 10-21-2008, 11:40 AM
foundit66's Avatar
Moderator
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: California
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,521
Thanks: 719
Thanked 1,387 Times in 890 Posts
Post A newscast from a future we must never see

This week, I decided to do something different – my column is in video form. It's a newscast from a future we must make sure we never see. In it, you'll get a glimpse into our nation should Barack Obama be elected president – complete with the kinds of people he'll appoint and policies he'll enact based on Sen. Obama's real promises, positions, record and advisers. It would be comical if it weren't so scary. It is an eye-opening look at what the future could hold if we don't do everything we can to prevent it.

I encourage you to watch it (rather than read it) and forward it to everyone you know in an effort to sound the alarm before it's too late … or the news we watch next January will look something like this:

Video at Web-site...

It's January 22, 2009, for 911 News, I'm Janet Porter. Two days after the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, the Middle Eastern reaction is the same. (VIDEO: TERRORISTS DANCING IN THE STREETS.) Obama campaign supporters from al-Qaida to Hamas to Hezbollah, to Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood, continue to dance in the streets.

The "Death to America Coalition" released a statement: "We have not celebrated like this since 9/11!"

President Obama thanked campaign contributor William Ayers by appointing him as director of Homeland Security. Ayers, who bombed the Pentagon, and after 9/11 said he wished he could have done more, in a statement released today, said, "Now I can."

President Obama's close friend, mentor and pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, accepted the appointment to oversee the president's Faith Based Initiative program with the condition he would quit calling for God to damn America in public.

Obama made good on his long-held campaign promise dating back to 1996, when he told the "Independent voters of Illinois" he would outlaw all handguns. Reiterating his words on the campaign trail, Obama told gun owners to "quit being bitter and clinging to the Second Amendment of the Constitution."

President Obama followed through on his campaign promise to sign the "Freedom of Choice Act" as his first act in office. (VIDEO FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD SPEECH MAKING PROMISE.) This effectively wipes out every pro-life law from parental notice to every ban on partial-birth abortion in all 50 states.
  • * NICKIE NAEVE, 14 year old: "Now that Obama's president, I can get an abortion and mom or dad will never ever know!"
  • * SANDY SLAUGHTER from KTAI (Kill Them All International): "You just worked 36 years for nothing! When Obama won we won! Ha!"
The only thing left of the abortion agenda not yet accomplished is the forced abortion policy of China.

It's been said the ACORN doesn't fall far from the tree, and with a message of gratitude for all their hard work in the elections, President Obama increased federal funding in his budget for the group best know for voting fraud. Senators were warned by ACORN if they voted against their increase in taxpayer funds, they would suffer an enormous backlash from deceased voters in their districts.

Obama said he misspoke when he referred to his health care plan as "socialized medicine," saying, "The term 'socialism' has been given a bad rap" and returning to the discussion of "government takeover of health care" and the fines for those who won't submit.

First lady Michelle Obama spent the day reading from her favorite books to elementary school children.
MICHELLE OBAMA READING TO CHILDREN: "Mr. Ayres knew America was a bad country so he and his lovely wife formed a club called 'The Weather Underground.' (To children) Can you say 'Weather Underground'?"

CHILDREN REPEAT: "Weather Underground."

MICHELLE: "They took action and stood up for what they believed (turning children's book page) in the Pentagon …"

CHILDREN: "Ka-Boom!"

JOHNNIE RAISES HIS HAND: "Mrs. Obama? Did Mr. Ayres ever say he was sorry for blowing up the Pentagon?"

MICHELLE: "No, but nobody really cares about that. Let's move to our next book, "Heather and Her Two Mommies aren't Proud of their Imperialist Country.'"
President Obama appointed his economic adviser and the former CEO of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines, as secretary of the treasury this week. Raines took office and promised to do for the American economy what he did for the housing industry. Referring to his campaign contribution to Obama's campaign, Raines was reported to have said, "That was the best $126,000 we ever spent."

As Senator John McCain predicted, the Russian aggression has moved to the Ukraine. Russian tanks rolled in and soldiers began to burn homes, schools and hospitals this morning. President Obama's immediate reaction was, once again, "We're not sure who's at fault, but this administration stands firm on the principle that we should all get along."

After he had time to talk to his 300 foreign affairs advisers, President Obama's official statement was: "Present!"

As was predicted, successful small businesses and job-providing corporations are closing their doors and moving overseas to escape the enormous tax hikes the Obama administration has imposed in an effort to use them to redistribute or "spread" the wealth. Another victim of this administration's class warfare is Joe the Plumber, who was made famous during the final presidential debate, who is moving from his beloved Holland, Ohio, to Holland. He said they're socialists too, but at least they're honest about it.

President Obama responded, "That's OK, I'll get him with the global tax I tried to pass in the Senate."

The Osama bin Laden video released yesterday has been shown to be authentic.

OSAMA speaks in Arabic.

TRANSLATOR: I am looking forward to meeting with President Barack Obama without preconditions to negotiate our demands of "submit or die." We have much in common: the same supporters, the same allies and we both have friends who blew up the Pentagon.
....

And now the Obama administration is reaching the arm of censorship beyond radio into the television airwaves, starting with new … SCREEN TO SNOW.

Voice over: Help save Western Civilization. Vote McCain/Palin.

A newscast from a future we must never see

1) I think this pretty much epitomizes why I think WND is a pile of garbage...

2) I'm curious as to how many people will think of this as "vetting"...
__________________
"As in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing, when their credit ran out, the game stopped."
--Marriner S. Eccles, FDR's fed Chairman. (1951)
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to foundit66 For This Useful Post:
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 10-21-2008, 03:20 PM
faithful_servant's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Beautiful conservative Central Oregon
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,600
Thanks: 191
Thanked 351 Times in 297 Posts
Default Re: A newscast from a future we must never see

I'm curios as to how many people who read are intelligent enough to see it as satire...
__________________
~
~
~

Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."
Reply With Quote
  #3 (permalink)  
Old 10-21-2008, 03:32 PM
foundit66's Avatar
Moderator
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: California
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,521
Thanks: 719
Thanked 1,387 Times in 890 Posts
Post Re: A newscast from a future we must never see

Quote:
Originally Posted by faithful_servant View Post
I'm curios as to how many people who read are intelligent enough to see it as satire...
"satire" from people who embrace those "criticisms" of Obama, to an audience of people who embrace those "criticisms" of Obama?
I'm curious if you understand what "satire" means...

Just out of curiousity, when all this "Obama's a Muslim" crap and "Obama pals around with terrorists" crap comes out, do you think that's all "satire" too?

New Yorker Obama cover? THAT is satire.
The WND article? Unless you're claiming they are mocking the people who criticize Obama, then you don't understand what "satire" is...
Try looking up the word "hyperbole" instead...
__________________
"As in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing, when their credit ran out, the game stopped."
--Marriner S. Eccles, FDR's fed Chairman. (1951)
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to foundit66 For This Useful Post:
  #4 (permalink)  
Old 10-21-2008, 03:35 PM
faithful_servant's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Beautiful conservative Central Oregon
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,600
Thanks: 191
Thanked 351 Times in 297 Posts
Default Re: A newscast from a future we must never see

Quote:
Originally Posted by foundit66 View Post
"satire" from people who embrace those "criticisms" of Obama, to an audience of people who embrace those "criticisms" of Obama?
I'm curious if you understand what "satire" means...

Just out of curiousity, when all this "Obama's a Muslim" crap and "Obama pals around with terrorists" crap comes out, do you think that's all "satire" too?

New Yorker Obama cover? THAT is satire.
The WND article? Unless you're claiming they are mocking the people who criticize Obama, then you don't understand what "satire" is...
Try looking up the word "hyperbole" instead...
How about looking up "intentional ignorance" or maybe "partisan reactionism" or how about just plain "dumb"??? The article was pure satire, but you're too involved in your obsession over Sen. Obama to see it as it really is. Wake up and get a couple of new neural connections going this week.....
__________________
~
~
~

Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."
Reply With Quote
  #5 (permalink)  
Old 10-21-2008, 03:55 PM
foundit66's Avatar
Moderator
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: California
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,521
Thanks: 719
Thanked 1,387 Times in 890 Posts
Post Re: A newscast from a future we must never see

Quote:
Originally Posted by faithful_servant View Post
How about looking up "intentional ignorance" or maybe "partisan reactionism" or how about just plain "dumb"??? The article was pure satire, but you're too involved in your obsession over Sen. Obama to see it as it really is. Wake up and get a couple of new neural connections going this week.....
Okay. Evidently I'm going to have to drag you away from your preconceptions...

satire:
1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly

When a person writes something mocking a view-point THEY SHARE, that isn't "satire".
If Obama were to make further comments about "clinging to guns and religion", unless he were to actually make fun of HIMSELF SAYING IT, that wouldn't be "satire".

When a person who OPPOSES Obama puts up an anti-Obama hit-piece, that isn't "satire".

LOOK at the web-site itself.
LOOK at the links below the article. The ones that say "special RELATED offers:"
  • "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality"
  • "Obama Unmasked: Did Slick Hollywood Handlers Create the Perfect Candidate?"
  • "The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama's War on American Values"
  • "Avoid Obama Trauma" magnetic bumper sticker

This isn't "satire".
They are attacking Obama.


And on a side-note, I can't help but think that maybe somebody should just argue Obama was "satiring" with his "cling to guns and religion" comment...
__________________
"As in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing, when their credit ran out, the game stopped."
--Marriner S. Eccles, FDR's fed Chairman. (1951)
Reply With Quote
  #6 (permalink)  
Old 10-21-2008, 08:07 PM
Kizzume's Avatar
Meow.
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Tacoma, WA USA
Gender: Male
Posts: 227
Thanks: 8
Thanked 85 Times in 56 Posts
Default Re: A newscast from a future we must never see

It's satire, pure and simple. Some right wingers may view it as humorous.
__________________
Reply With Quote
  #7 (permalink)  
Old 10-21-2008, 08:34 PM
foundit66's Avatar
Moderator
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: California
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,521
Thanks: 719
Thanked 1,387 Times in 890 Posts
Post Re: A newscast from a future we must never see

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kizzume View Post
It's satire, pure and simple. Some right wingers may view it as humorous.
Maybe the problem is that I see more of a distinct difference between "satire" and "sarcasm".
I think the article is hyperbolicly sarcastic. They are exaggerating the situation to an end, but not to an end which disagrees with the underlying mechanism...
But to be a "satire" you have to be making fun of the underlying thinking mechanism.

For example, a person who thinks McCain or the GOP are typically "racists" couldn't do a "satire" over pretending that a GOP meeting was a KKK rally.
(And just to set the record straight, I would also find that grotesque and inaccurate.)

Now, if a GOPer (or anybody else who disagreed with that mentality) were to do a skit or article on how a black person might automatically imagine white people with KKK hoods if the black person got cut off in traffic, THAT would be satire.

And as for "humorous", I put it in the category of "Ann Coulter" humor.
It's the "laughing AT the kid on the playground" humor...
Definitely not "laughing with..."
__________________
"As in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing, when their credit ran out, the game stopped."
--Marriner S. Eccles, FDR's fed Chairman. (1951)
Reply With Quote
  #8 (permalink)  
Old 10-22-2008, 10:36 AM
faithful_servant's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Beautiful conservative Central Oregon
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,600
Thanks: 191
Thanked 351 Times in 297 Posts
Default Re: A newscast from a future we must never see

Quote:
Originally Posted by foundit66 View Post
Maybe the problem is that I see more of a distinct difference between "satire" and "sarcasm".
I think the article is hyperbolicly sarcastic. They are exaggerating the situation to an end, but not to an end which disagrees with the underlying mechanism...
But to be a "satire" you have to be making fun of the underlying thinking mechanism.

For example, a person who thinks McCain or the GOP are typically "racists" couldn't do a "satire" over pretending that a GOP meeting was a KKK rally.
(And just to set the record straight, I would also find that grotesque and inaccurate.)

Now, if a GOPer (or anybody else who disagreed with that mentality) were to do a skit or article on how a black person might automatically imagine white people with KKK hoods if the black person got cut off in traffic, THAT would be satire.

And as for "humorous", I put it in the category of "Ann Coulter" humor.
It's the "laughing AT the kid on the playground" humor...
Definitely not "laughing with..."
You don't even care if it's satire, you just want to use it to justify your hatred of conservatives. You intentionally tried to make it look like a purely satirical article actually represented the views of conservatives. Your basic liberal "whatever it takes" attitude.
__________________
~
~
~

Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."
Reply With Quote
  #9 (permalink)  
Old 10-22-2008, 11:05 AM
foundit66's Avatar
Moderator
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: California
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,521
Thanks: 719
Thanked 1,387 Times in 890 Posts
Post Re: A newscast from a future we must never see

Quote:
Originally Posted by faithful_servant View Post
You don't even care if it's satire, you just want to use it to justify your hatred of conservatives.
You try so desparately to pretend that you know me, but you don't.
You can't read minds.
You haven't a clue.

This is in no way indicative of typical conservatives.
But of course, me saying that will in no way change your opinion on the matter...


Quote:
Originally Posted by faithful_servant
You intentionally tried to make it look like a purely satirical article actually represented the views of conservatives.

I have been trying to correct people in the claim that it is satirical...
And now you claim that I am trying to make it LOOK like it's satirical???

You understand even less of what is going on than I thought!

And moreover, it DOES represent the views of some conservatives.
It was a conservative that WROTE it.
The person who wrote it WAS NOT poking fun at conservatives.

You are so desparate to defend...
Defend EVEN THE EXTREMES...
That you can't recognize the conservative hands (and intentions) before your face.
__________________
"As in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing, when their credit ran out, the game stopped."
--Marriner S. Eccles, FDR's fed Chairman. (1951)
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On
Forum Jump

Search Engine Optimization and SEO Tools
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:27 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.3
Copyright ©2000 - 2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO 3.2.0