President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House. The results are transformational. With more technology, and fewer resources at many media companies, the balance of power between the White House and press has tipped unmistakably toward the government.
Rush Limbaugh takes a page from Michelle Obama’s playbook . . . kind of. The president’s demagoguery is way over the top, and the mainstream media is nowhere to be found.
The U.S. has been denied direct access to the only publicly known suspect in custody in connection with the September 11 Benghazi terror attack.
For generations the Republican Party has presented itself as the political home of Americans opposing ever-bigger government financed by ever-higher taxes. But the Establishment now appears poised to permanently disenfranchise middle class voters from the Party of Lincoln.
The president’s push for new gun control legislation has driven up demand for guns and ammo around the country, in some cases dramatically.
Attitudes toward immigration are polarized by party, according to another the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Seventy-five percent of Republicans think all or most immigrants should be deported, compared to 40 percent of Democrats who think the same.
Don’t expect President Obama’s Gun Control plans,or calls for a federal Minimum Wage hike, to go away anytime soon. Democrats believe they have a chance to use both issues to “campaign aggressively” in the 2014 midterms.
Longtime Obamacare foe, Florida Governor Rick Scott, did an about face and agreed to implement the first step of the controversial health care law yesterday.
Karl Rove is on the defensive as he struggles to explain his top-down heavy-handed schemes to select Republican candidates from Washington. He also lashed out at Bob Woodward after his assertion that Rove was trying to set up a “politburo.”
Perhaps the biggest argument in favor of Dolan’s selection as pontiff is that he is uniquely qualified to communicate the message of Roman Catholicism in the highly connected, 24-7 media driven world of the 21st century. More than any of the other contenders, his personality is reminiscent of the energetic, humble, and charismatic John Paul II.