Comments on: Video: Tavis Smiley explains why he’s in the bag for Obama

By: Tavis Smiley of PBS: ‘We All Work For Barack Obama’ | BigMouthFrog

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:02:09 +0000

[...] And a bit later . . . SMILEY: There’s so much hype. So much hope. So much expectation. I don’t want him to falter in stepping into his moment because the challenges–to your point–are so great. And that’s not just a black thing. That’s an American thing, and I’m concerned, and I’m not the only one obviously who feels this way, I’m concerned about the people around him about what the people allow him, all these Clintonites. There’s a difference between being visionary and being revisionist. And what I’m sensing is, that we got a lot of folk that want to take us back to where we were, that’s revisionist. Can we be visionary? Can we really step into what this moment is? And that’s why I say I want him to be a great president. But we got to help. We can’t abandon him now. We can’t abandon our posts. What are we going to do to help make him a great president? [...]

By: threeCents

threeCents — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:33:01 +0000

I guess we can blame the media for Bush being a “bad” president?

I guess Obama can’t be a great president on his own?

Objectivity, anyone? anyone?!?

By: Kevin in Southern Illinois

Kevin in Southern Illinois — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:50:41 +0000

I love all the talk about hope and change

Haven’t heard a whole lot of HOPE from Obama since he got elected. Just gloom and doom, 1 trillion in new spending, Trillion dollar deficts for years to come.

Shouldn’t the job of a new President be to inspire and lift up his country?

By: Suitably Flip

Suitably Flip — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:38:40 +0000

Tavis Smiley Has a Greater Responsibility Than We Can Possibly Fathom…

On Friday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Tavis Smiley of PBS proudly acknowledged his solemn duty as a journalist “to help make Obama a great president.”

From NewsBusters:

Reacting to Harry Reid’s claim last week that he doesn’t work for Ba…

By: UnEasyRider

UnEasyRider — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:22:50 +0000

The whole country is drinking this chocolate Kool Aid and it’s making them drunk with power.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:36:53 +0000

Tavis Smiley is a racist imbecile without the sense God gives a dog, but I wouldn’t assign his stupidity to the entire media. You need to cast the net wider than stupid quotes from a nitwit who says that he votes based on race and gender.

By: On the Right

On the Right — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:28:01 +0000

Propagandist…

Video: Tavis Smiley explains why he’s in the bag for Obama
When I first saw the post at Newsbusters,
I thought, “Oh, come on — Tavis Smiley’s just making a harmless joke.”
Unfortunately, as Smiley continues explaining……

By: moxie_neanderthal

moxie_neanderthal — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:26:42 +0000

I especially enjoyed the jockularity of those assembled when they dismissed Reid’s comments that he doesn’t work for Obama. What a buffoon. Of course he works for el Presidente.

Sheesh, the deliberative body deliberates too much and the judiciary spends way too much time adjudicating. We need a streamlined political process if we’re ever going to achieve the change we really need.

By: rockmom

rockmom — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:20:28 +0000

Every time I see something like this, I imagine Barack Obama as Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles: "Oh, baby, you are sooo talented.....and they are sooo dumb."

By: PBS Anchor: “We all work for Barack Obama…We have to help make him a great President” « The IUSB Vision Weblog

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:54:07 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey from Hotair.com reads my mind: Well, one rarely sees the bias of the mainstream media laid out so baldly. Journalists like to claim that they exist to shine a light on the halls of power, to stop abuses and to expose malfeasance regardless of which party controls Washington DC. Smiley, who works as a journalist, sees his job instead as nothing more than a PR flack for power, a cog in what could become a propaganda machine to sell Obama’s “greatness” regardless, apparently, of what Obama actually does as President. [...]

By: GarandFan

GarandFan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:34:56 +0000

We’re going to hear four years of this crap as the country goes right into the dumpster. Why? Because there will be an excuse for each error, each mistake, each misstep; ’cause ya’ll don’t wanta be racist. The Chosen can’t make mistakes, until the MSM finally realizes that he pisses and takes a crap just like the rest of us.

By: RalphyBoy

RalphyBoy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:49:38 +0000

Save it and all the other lefty media confessions, then replay them for 2012. The way Obie-One-Can Do No Wrong was allowed to sneak past the easily led in the country is a clear sign that public education works.
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But pain may wake the ~~masses~~ messes for the next go round, if it’s not too late by then.

By: landshark

landshark — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:00:04 +0000

But we got to help. We can’t abandon him now. We can’t abandon our posts. What are we going to do to help make him a great president?

Thank you, Tavis, for publicly (though tacitly) admitting that your guy is an empty suit incapable of becoming a great president on the strength of his own merits. That, unless he is propped up by the whores in the media, he will fail miserably.

I’ve gone to sleep with happier thoughts.

By: Cody1991

Cody1991 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:55:53 +0000

Entelechy on January 9, 2009 at 4:44 PM

Did you read Anthony Powell’s, “A Dance to the Music of Time”? I haven’t read it yet, but I recently watched the DVDs produced by the BBC (probably watered down).

I think that’s where we are, though, slipping away through complacency and laziness.

By: UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST

UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:45:50 +0000

Tavis,
Stop pretending it’s not about race.period.

I guess B.O. can be molded anyway michelle sees fit,as he voted “present” all the time anyway

Dear God are we in trouble
he really is …H.M.I.C.
(head moonbat in charge)

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:44:14 +0000

Stages nations progress through:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage’

What stage are we in?

Number 7

By: Cody1991

Cody1991 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:34:22 +0000

He is just one step on the ladder of evolution from Maxine Waters…

right2bright on January 9, 2009 at 4:16 PM

Wow. Those are rightin’ words if one had an IQ over 10. In this case it’s a moot point.

I was hoping Maxine Waters would get the Sec. Ed. post. lol My special delight (nightmare) is listening to Maxine discuss economic issues. It requires massive doses of Maalox or shots of vodka.

By: stefystef

stefystef — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:19:31 +0000

Oh, Smiley’s worried about the “Clintonites”???
Hmmmmmm, interesting.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:16:07 +0000

Tavis has been one of those “blame the white man” for everything.
He was Mayor Bradley’s pit bull on race, and his radio show was just to rail against the white injustice to the black man.
He is just one step on the ladder of evolution from Maxine Waters…a guy who almost made it through college, so he can put sentences together, but his thoughts are no more cohesive.
He has just one track…the white man has caused all the problems for the black man, the black man has never done anything wrong…ever…unless the white man was behind it.

By: The Ugly American

The Ugly American — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:11:49 +0000

Rainbow gas and unicorn mortgages for everyone!

By: Cody1991

Cody1991 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:07:12 +0000

We are so screwed…

Wyznowski on January 9, 2009 at 3:49 PM

Indeed. If anyone listened to Barry’s presser on the economy yesterday, it was never more apparent and quite chilling. This guy is no leader. What he did was use language to depress and frighten people into supporting more spending and programs that will allow him and lib Dems to launch programs that will alter and damage this country.

BO is depressing . Only a liberal could enjoy his rhetoric.

A true leader would have phrased the dialogue in an entirely different manner. What BO did yesterday was regurgitate the party line in order to panic people into supporting more spending reforms, more government to ultimately force more social engineering, inow, a push to the left to become more like the UK and EU. That is not what made this country great.

Barry and his lib Dem cohorts are way behind the global curve.

By: brtex

brtex — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:56:40 +0000

Sounds more like Stuart Smiley to me…

Ann on January 9, 2009 at 3:42 PM

He is liberal enough, he is black enough and doggone it, I want him to succeed.

You might have a point Ann.

By: latinchic

latinchic — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:52:53 +0000

Thanks Rae, I just emailed him as well.

By: UnEasyRider

UnEasyRider — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:49:58 +0000

I’m going to help Barry the way the media helped Bush. This guy is a racist.

By: Wyznowski

Wyznowski — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:49:54 +0000

We are so screwed…