The Obama Hypnosis Effect

By: Kelli Krauss


I think at some point during the primary season, Obama held a closed door meeting with those in the mainstream media and said this, "Look deep into my eyes. You are starting to feel very sleepy. I will count to ten and when I reach ten, you will come out of your deep sleep and believe the following until I clap my hands: Barack Obama is great, He will save this country, he will lower the sea levels, all his ideas are great, you will champion his policies even if they are at the demise of the United States of America, you will campaign, uh, I mean write glowing articles about him and how smart he is, you will not question anything he does or do any real reporting. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, wait, also, you must know that he is above everyone else and is God-like, ten. Thank you all for coming to this press conference and I hope that I answered all of your questions."

Apparently, Obama has not clapped his hands yet. This is the only explanation for Evan Thomas, editor of Newsweek saying the following, "Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn't felt that way in recent years. So Obama's had, really, a different task. We're seen too often as the bad guys. And he, he has a very different job from ... Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is - we are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something, I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above above the world, he's sort of God."

Mr. Thomas went on "He's going to bring all different sides together...Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn't even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He's all about let us reason together...He's the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that."

And to reinforce this idea even more, he said this, "We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it. But, he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways. "

Those in the mainstream media with the "thrills running up their leg" over Obama and starry-eyed reporting of him, they can't really believe what they are saying, can they? Do they realize how they look and sound to the American people with their reporting on this Administration, it's policies and the current party controlling Congress? I am convinced that at some point, they were hypnotized and will continue to be until their fearless leader claps his hands and they snap out of it. This is has to be the explanation for anyone believing that Obama is God-like, that it is okay for him to have condescension and think he is above everyone, and that as President of the United States, he is above being about America.

Wait a minute, there are many not in the media who think the same way. He must have somehow used hypnosis on the citizens of the United States and maybe the only thing to save you from having your mind taken over by the smoothness and ill-truths of Barack Obama was and is the shield of knowing the Constitution of the United States, the history of this nation, the true nature of the enemies we face and the promise of freedom and greatness that this country stands for. Yes, that must be it.

Will a real journalist please stand up?

By Lisa Farrar Wellman

For years conservatives have blubbered and blustered about liberal media bias. In the past the liberal agenda promotion was subtle, now the mainstream media is basically one giant cheerleading squad for Team Obama. What is obvious and maddening to you and me, is still an accepted form of journalism to many people. The problem is that most Americans either don’t recognize it for what it is or don’t know where else to turn for information. For all our technology and forward movement, Americans are still pretty traditional. They turn on ABC, CBS or NBC out of habit. They know the anchors. They know the sets. They know the basic order of the programs and they find it comfortable. Just because something has been around for a long time does not give it integrity or ethics. The networks are entirely lacking in both. Familiarity is the only thing keeping the networks alive and don’t even get me started on MSNBC. They don’t even pretend to report anything positive about free markets, the tea parties, Sarah Palin, or America for that matter.

One problem conservatives face is proving to others that the media only tells one side of the story. If you need help backing up what your gut has told you for ages, look no further than the Media Research Center. It’s hard to remember details from individual news stories and with MRC, you don’t have to. They do the hard work for all of us. Subscribe to their daily digest and get a succinct, easy to understand analysis of the previous day’s television coverage. Sure it’ll make you hot under the collar but we all need to remain that way these days to stay on top of what is happening in our nation and our world. Get mad and have the unbelievable statistics to justify your anger to friends and family. Show them the truth about network television (and most cable sources) and challenge them to avoid further brainwashing by finding a more trustworthy news source.

Americans need to take ownership in what they read and watch. They need to investigate for themselves so they don’t fall into the lazy and comfortable practice of being spoon fed just what the Left wants them to hear or see. The MRC arms you with the ammunition you need to motivate yourselves and others away from the Kool-Aid drinkers and back to reality.

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