Obama is Crushing the Media Just Like the Soviet Union Did

Mark Steyn: Obama is crushing the media just like the Soviet Union did

By Jeff Poor  2/22/2013

On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Thursday, National Review columnist Mark Steyn argued that the media — despite recently taking umbrage at President Barack Obama’s lack of transparency on the golf course — are lapdogs not unlike the journalists coerced by the Soviet Union. 

 “There are lots of things to get upset with the guy over,” Steyn said. “The issue here is the gulf between what the president preaches and how he lives. … One Christmas vacation costs more than flying the royal family around the world for a whole year. … He doesn’t live like [the] 1 percent, he lives like the 0.00000001 percent.  He costs more money than every European royal family put together. There’s a disconnect here.”

 Steyn said the media are exacerbating that disconnect.

 “Essentially, Obama has achieved the same relationship with the press and the media and public information that the Soviet Communist Party had to jam radio transmissions and smash printing presses to achieve. Essentially these guys are volunteering to do for him what they had to be coerced into doing most self-respecting countries, and I think that’s the real issue here.”

Barack Obama has a Crush on Power

For links and the Audio of the Interview Visit the Daily Caller 

The Left Attacks Gun Rights Fast & Fuhrer-iously

Leftist trolls infest the comment boards, and thehill.com is no exception. On the subject of gun control, the poster in the image below cites misperceptions about Hitler and gun rights for the Jewish people. The left is desperate to disguise their effort as gun safety  and NOT gun control or anything 'unreasonable' . In typical leftist style, when confronted with a fact that refutes or diminishes their argument,  lie. The BIG LIE is the favorite of the left when it comes to gun control.  The following troll's post is classic propaganda technique in many ways, but the best place is just to start at the 'source' cited by the commenter 'dfstan'. I didn't receive a reply from 'dfstan' on that comment. 

Ask any Neo-Nazi, Hitler wasn't so bad. Only from a leftist.

 And, let's not forget:

“Jews (§5 of the First Regulations of the German Citizenship Law of 14 November 1935, Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 1333) are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority.”

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The Leftist propaganda machine is well funded through foundations and donors The media is an extenstion of Big Government and the Democrat party. Academia and 'community organizations' target the low information Obama supporters with a constant barrage of disinformation and calls to action. Gun Control is just the latest example.


The left uses emotional appeals and outright LIES to push for gun control.