The media and Obama: Dutifully doing the bidding of the financial aristocracy

[Karmadillo]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/dec2010/pers-d28.shtml

The media and Obama: Image and reality
28 December 2010

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The shift on Obama exemplifies the ceaseless efforts of the corporate-owned and controlled media to artificially create political realities by means of image making. Obama’s election was largely the result of a media marketing operation, backed and financed by sections of the ruling class that saw the need for a change in image and personnel after the foreign policy disasters of the Bush years and in the face of public hatred for Bush and the Republicans.

Now, the media is seeking to repackage and repair the badly discredited Obama administration. Why? Because it is dutifully doing the bidding of the financial aristocracy.

Obama is presently being built up because he has made clear that his cave-in on tax cuts for the rich is only the prelude to a further shift to the right on social policy. Appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, a multimillionaire Chicago real estate investor who is described as Obama’s liaison to business, said Obama would focus in the immediate future on reining in the deficit and improving his relationship with American business.

The administration has already called for a freeze on non-defense discretionary spending and federal employee pay and backed proposals for cuts in Social Security benefits, increased taxes on consumption, and a broad “reform” of the tax system that will sharply reduce income taxes for the rich as well as corporate taxes.

The content of Obama’s so-called rebound is an accelerated attack on ever-broader sections of the working class.

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[bluestateguy]

1. I need an aspirin

The World "Socialist" website usually has that effect on me.

[Hannah Bell]

3. traitors selling out the new deal have that effect on me

[Supersedeas]

14. Multinational corporations trump that fair coverage of the interest of working Americans

After all, if multinational corporations didn't employer Americans, how could American possible get to work without them? /sarcasm

[Hannah Bell]

2. i just posted this, i didn't see you already had. truth hurts.

you missed this part:


The shift on Obama exemplifies the ceaseless efforts of the corporate-owned and controlled media to artificially create political realities by means of image making. Obama’s election was largely the result of a media marketing operation, backed and financed by sections of the ruling class that saw the need for a change in image and personnel after the foreign policy disasters of the Bush years and in the face of public hatred for Bush and the Republicans.

Now, the media is seeking to repackage and repair the badly discredited Obama administration. Why? Because it is dutifully doing the bidding of the financial aristocracy.

Obama is presently being built up because he has made clear that his cave-in on tax cuts for the rich is only the prelude to a further shift to the right on social policy...

Not accidentally, the media has in recent days largely dropped the Tea Party movement. Built up by the media in the pre-election period as a mass movement on the right reflecting popular angst over budget deficits and coercive government interference in the market, the Tea Party was used to shift Obama and the Democrats further to the right and engineer the Republican victory in November.

For the present at least, with that mission having been accomplished and Obama making all of the right moves, the Tea Party is being pushed to the background. It stands ready to be revived by the media when the ruling elite deems it politically expedient to do so.



http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/dec2010/pers-d28.shtml

[somone]

4. Highly recommended

[Karmadillo]

5. Kick

nt

[katnapped]

6. Un reccers will not be pleased

Too many people here not clapping...TSK TSK TSK

:sarcasm:

[cali]

7. nothing is as simple as that.

[Odin2005]

8. Rec.

[Fumesucker]

9. K&R, thanks for posting..

[FiveGoodMen]

10. "Obama’s so-called rebound is an accelerated attack on ever-broader sections of the working class"

Best. President. Ever.

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[Hydra]

11. Gotta love that they can sell that Meme

We've gone so far into crazy land, what would we actually do if we got a the Best President Ever? Riot in protest for someone actually helping us?

[Hannah Bell]

12. kr

[Catherina]

13. Too late to recommend. n/t