Obamist Media Hype Reaches Epidemic Proportions

MASSIVE 'O' - VERDOSE

Verizon's Obama-Calls Prove There's No Escape





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It's a question non-believers have been asking for months: why do Barack Obama's supporters consider him a deity? Are their lives really that devoid of core values?

Frankly, if a certain segment of the American population wants to worship the president as their god, however, it's their business (even if disturbing). Where we must draw the line, however, is with their attempt to force the rest of us to comply.

Adding an alarming Big Brotherish element to Obama Overload is Verizon, which has been robo-calling its customers en masse, urging them to watch their Messiah's ascension on Tuesday. That follows an earlier move by Comcast to create an all-Obama cable channel.

On Wednesday, your Radio Equalizer received one of these rambling messages at EQ HQ. For the full story, see our sister site covering New England media issues.


Apparently, so did millions of others, according to the Boston Herald, where media reporter Jessica Heslam and WRKO host/ Herald columnist Howie Carr have both weighed in on Verizon's ill-considered move for Friday's editions of the paper.

First, from Heslam's coverage:

Brace for a wild ride on the Inauguration Day hype machine: It’s All Obama, All the Time starting right now.

In fact, the unprecedented Obama coverage and hoopla is so intense, even his fans worry the president-elect will find himself facing an impossibly high bar.

“That’s part of politics, but when the expectations get blown out of proportion, so do the disappointments,” said Boston-based Democratic media consultant Michael Shea. “It’s almost inevitable that after a honeymoon period, people come to see things they don’t like.”

Comcast is giving its New England customers on-the-house access to HBO Sunday night for the opening celebration of Inauguration Day.

Viewers who want even more can go to the cable service’s On Demand feature and hear the president-elect’s biography, various speeches and take a virtual White House tour.

Not to be outdone, Verizon Fios has been dialing up customers to let them know of their onslaught of Obama coverage.

Next, from Carr's column:

It was the all-Obama Comcast channel that drove me over the edge.

Finally, I thought, this was the last straw. I would cancel Comcast and switch my cable service to Verizon. But before I could make my move, somebody called and told me that Verizon was robo-calling its customers and telling them to watch their Obama-mania special.

So I turned on the radio and heard an ad for some Obama commemorative coins. I clicked that off and went to the mailbox and saw Newsweek. Guess who was on the cover? I flipped on the Internet and went to Drudge, and he had a headline about Time magazine running its 13th cover in a year on you-know-who.

And the mainstream media wonder why they’re going out of business.

All I can say is, thank God for the NFL playoffs. That’s the only TV I’ll be watching this weekend. This is one of those historical moments - like the death of Princess Di, or anything involving the Kennedy family - where the only way to avoid the overkill is to go to total radio silence. It is for moments like this that the Turner Classic Movie channel exists.

Speaking of the NFL, the Obama-ites have cut up the coverage so everyone in TV can have a piece of the pie, just the way pro football does. Even HBO - but what if you need a bailout to pay for the monthly charges? What if you don’t have Internet access to watch the ABC webcast on Tuesday night?

Beyond the intrusive nature of pro-Obama messages coming from a phone company, it was the tone that was particularly aggravating. Why does Verizon assume that everyone is an Obamist? The body-snatchers haven't grabbed all of us, at least not yet.


But even that might be tolerable, if not for other disturbing developments on the Obama cult front. First, led by Jose Serrano (D-NY), some House Democrats are seeking to repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment in order to pave the way for Obama to potentially serve as America's first President-For-Life.

From Rush Limbaugh's show:

These are the smartest people in the world, and they get away, whether they're in Chicago or in Washington, of acting in the stupidest ways you can possibly imagine educated people to act. Jose Serrano, a Democrat congressman from New York, has proposed an amendment to the constitution to repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment. Now, for those of you who voted for Obama, the Twenty-Second Amendment is the amendment which limits the presidency to two terms of four years. Jose Serrano not waiting for the inauguration, they want to eliminate the Twenty-Second Amendment so that Obama could perhaps serve forever.

Finally, one of Limbaugh's key affiliates plans to muzzle his live commentary on Tuesday. See that story here.

So for those of us who have yet to be sucked into this frightening cult, we are left with one question: will his followers come around on their own, or will they need a full deprogramming? How far can they take this before it all comes crashing down?



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