Obama Tells Black Media to Support Jobs Bill: ‘I Want You Guys to Pump This Up’
- Posted on September 14, 2011 at 2:59pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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President Barack Obama has been traversing the country trying to sell his jobs package to voters, but on Monday attempted a more direct route: He told a room including black media outlets to be sure to “pump this up” to their readers.
According to Politico, Obama made a “surprise appearance” at a White House question-and-answer session aimed specifically at the administration’s policies and their effect on the black community. The White House listed several black news organizations that were in attendance, including News One, Hello Beautiful, Black Planet, The Urban Daily and Grio.
“I want you guys to pump this up,” Obama said, prompting a few laughs from the crowd. “No, look, we are in a critical juncture here. I’ve been fighting for two-and-a-half years to get through this economic storm, and we have stabilized…but the unemployment rate is still too high, and too many people are still hurting.”
Obama predicted there would be “enormous resistance” to his proposal and said the voices of the American people need to be heard for it to pass.
“I need people to be out there promoting this and pushing this and making sure that everyone understands the details of what this would mean,” Obama said.
Politico reported that after Obama left, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said, “When the president heard we were here, [he said this was] another important audience for me to deliver my message to.”
(h/t Townhall)
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Comments (277)
HKS
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:30pmTalk about clueless.
Report Post »Spartan
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:29pm$5 for a dinner or $5k for an innoculation??? Hmmmm,,,,,,this is going to be a tough one????
Report Post »mils
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:06pmIt seems that the black community has to have some sense…enough to realize that they are being used.. they are suffering as bad as anyone else with no jobs..
he’s a joke. if blacks have no respect for themselves than to vote for this axxhole they deserve to fall. wow..unbelievable
this man has to be stopped. he has made a joke of the presidency and our country. “pump it up” his axx..
Report Post »DIDN’T NIKITA SAY THEY WOULD CONQUER US FROM WITHIN??? WAS HE REFERRING TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO COME????
banjarmon
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:11pmHEY BO…I’ll hepl you!!!…out of the oval office that is!!!!!
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:40pmWhat a child this man is. It‘s like he is on the playground trying to recruit thugs for a fight to steal someone’s bag of candy. How did we get to this point? God help us.
Report Post »rjoco1
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:29pmThis guy is a Clown. Not only that, his sidekick caboose dragging cheeseburger of a wife are racists too!
Report Post »Sy Kosys
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:28pmShouldn’t he get Bill Clinton on the stump too…you know, to “get out the ******* vote” ?
Report Post »jihadazzkicker
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:07pmI believe it’s “da cracka ” just wanted to help
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 5:35pmNah, because some of those New Black Panther folks wanna kill them some ******* babies, remember?
Report Post »TxMadMac
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:27pmLet me see. The last stimulus paid up the teacher’s, firemen‘s and policemen’s retirement and healthcare funds and no jobs were added to the work force. This sounds like just another round for his union boys and girls and no real help for the rest of America. Just more debt on the backs of the taxpayers. No thankyou mr president !
Report Post »kraphtsman
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:42pmGiven to whom he specifically addressed this speech, he‘d probably get more traction if he’d have mentioned something about doling out more of his “Obama stash” to a more deserving group of voters. That way, these shining examples of journalistic “excellence” would undoubtedly write between the lines that he promises to share more of the plunder with their black readership !
As if ANYONE in the room has ANY understanding of the economics being talked about ! All this is about is more oppressive federal taxation and wasteful spending…. wealth redistribution, Part III.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:27pmYeah…you fools…‘pump this up’ for obama. Afterall…he is black and blacks must do his bidding even if he laughs at you ‘usefull idiots.”
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:43pm“come on guys..can’t let the first black president fail…you feel me?”…wink.
Report Post »Will M.
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:46pmBill Clinton was the first Black President…
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:32pmABC, CBS, NBC —- YES SIR,
Report Post »How many time can we push our messiah’s “Jobs Bill” without looking like we have been bought and sold/ – Who cares our base buys anything we tell them to. It just those pain in the ar$e teabaggers that foul our message up with facts and figures and stuff.
jhrusky
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:53pm@jakartaman
Why are we all not calling/writing/emailing sponsors on ABC, CBS, NBC shows … the most rabid progressive anti-freedom shows and telling them how we are NOT going to buy their products because they are sponsoring anti-freedom, pro-marxist shows? We are strong enough that we can find one show to go after, e.g. Rachel Madcow, and go after those sponors strong enough to make a point. We need to hit these networks where it hurts them the most, and that is in their liberal pocketbooks.
WOLVERINES!
Report Post »vinnymac46
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:26pm..hey guys who the hell cares what’s in it or how this thing is going to be paid for, just go out there and pump this up…can I count on you, lord knows the CBC counts you black folks to have no commn sense and just trust what I say…
Report Post »barber2
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:23pmOk. Black Caucus. Black journalists. If I didn’t know better, I’d think this guy was playing the Race Card….
Report Post »mattwakulik
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:24pmhe is like a rat cornered! he is doing anything and everything to help him get re-elected! it sad and pathetic!!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:32pmOOOOOH, a scared liberal, does it get any better than that? Tea Party, your winning. Keep up the pressure.
Report Post »platitude
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:53pmSo you are saying that you know better?
If I didnt know better, I would say that you like black cockus.
Report Post »chfields62
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 5:51pmWith black youth unemployment @50% and adult black unemployment at 13% and record numbers of blacks on food stamps and welfare, you think they’s wake up. But we know they will all go back out and vote for him again. What does that say about the black race?????? granted, there are some that have seen the light, but the everyday joe black are lemmings being led to the sea of more unemployment and oppression by thier “black” leader…they get what they deserve……
Report Post »alrunner58
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:22pmI’m having a blast watching this numb skulls desperation. Keep it up Barry you’re doing a good job at making America laugh in a time of crisis,
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:30pm@alrunner58 – I’ve thinking the same thing… everyday 0zer0 looks more and more desperate. I’m just waiting for him to show one of his “Temper – Tantrums” in public………
Report Post »can’t wait to see him leave the white-house…. ops… I mean Out-house with his tail between his legs…!
mrfunn
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:22pmConservative Nabs Naming Rights to ‘American Jobs Act’ After Obama Delay
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/09/14/conservative-nabs-naming-rights-to-american-jobs-act-after-obama-delay/
LOL
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:21pmThere have to be many ethical BLACK journalists out there, right? Some of you “guys” were reared right and your parents and grandparents would be mortified to see you serving this Uncle Tom faker-in-chief. he is not worth your reputations. Surely there is at least one BLACK REAL JOURNALIST who will stand up for the right way/ the correct way. We, and your race, are counting on you!
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:24pmNo racism going on here….just keep movin’.
Report Post »drago
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 5:54pm@Kickagrandma
Report Post »Milton Reid over at blackquilland ink.com does his best to counter our muslim racist in chief, take a look, its a black conservitive blog.
capecodsully
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:21pmHe’s pitiful.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:32pmJust Pitiful.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:40pmPitiful on so many levels. He’s actually demanded that the media go out and promote his policies..objective journalism be d@mned. He singles out the black media present to exploit that aspect. He tell us he’s been working on this for the last two and a half years…GARBAGE. His policies are anti-business and anti-growth. He’s spent the last two and a half years paying off allies and unions with tax payer money. He’s “pivotted” his attention to jobs at least 7 or 8 times I can think of off hand. He was dragged kicking and screaming into feigning he’s a deficit hawk by the landslide tea party victory in 2010. His budget earlier this year added 3.7 trillion to government spending. He wanted the debt ceiling raised “no questions asked” just a scant months ago while he himself voted against raising it (for political reasons no less) in 2006. The man is truly disgusting and plays games with the American people. Obama sickens me.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:25pmObama is beyond pitiful. He’s getting downright creepy. Check out a Drudge link of “The Hill” article where he tells an audience member “I love you back” and “…if you love me, you’ve got to help me pass this bill”. I don’t even know where to start with this one.
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:21pmRacist crap!
Obama is a nation DIVIDER!
Report Post »platitude
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:51pmIt is simpletons like you that reiterate, like sheep, the sentiments and slogans of proselytizers.
4 legs good two legs bad!
4 legs good two legs bad!
4 legs good two legs bad!
republicans good democrats bad!
I am so disgusted with group-thinkers like yourself, on both sides of the political spectrum.
Think for yourself, moron.
Report Post »drago
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 5:57pm@platitude aka encinom
Report Post »Yes, it is you encinom, because you cant post on here once, without name calling. Your one pathetic little creature.
platitude
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 6:49pmAre you saying that name calling is bad? Because you subsequently called me a pathetic little creature, which makes you a name caller and a hypocrite.At least I am only a name caller.
I am not encinom, but I am flattered that you think so. The dude has the guts to take on the herd.
He has the audacity to challenge the throngs of infantile true believers like yourself. People like you who champion individualism, but know nothing of it.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:19pmBarry really should be wearing that cowboy hat that idiot congresswoman was sporting,they’re both rodeo clowns.The only jobs the Marxist in chief can create are government jobs which destroy wealth,I say this to progressives and they just don’t get it,they think government is the answer to everything.
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:19pm‘
What do you mean by “You guys”?????
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Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:25pmas eric holder said “”"“ his people ””"” that is who, obama as done nothing but divide this country on racist,political,religious and financial sides,
Report Post »KodiakmanSD
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 5:59pmYou know if any “White” President would have said “You Guys” Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the ACLU and the CBC would be all over his lilly white butt calling him a racist! Typical reverse racism!
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:17pmAs you may know, Obama will go to dinner with you if you throw in 5 bucks for a raffle ticket. Now that is pathetic! Obama is now a game show.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:36pmIf I send him a $5.00 IOU will he pick me??
Report Post »NSDQ
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:16pmHmmm Didnt catch where he said they could go and read it? OH YEAH! They just should support it drone like and without question.
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:18pmAnd, he knows they will do it. He knows they are not true journalists, but apparatchiks.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:20pmway would they read it, george soros paid them to just do it.and apparently the new way to pass bills is just to say pass them and then we will fill in the lines later. congrees has become totally irrelevant.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:16pmThe flake is coming undone. If I were a lib, I’d feel sorry for him. They picked a winner in ‘08! Goodbye to liberal ideology. It’s being destroyed. And we love it!
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:38pmFTA: “Obama predicted there would be ‘enormous resistance’ to his proposal and said the voices of the American people need to be heard for it to pass.”
That should read “. . . the voices of the American parasitic class need to be hear for it to pass.”
Report Post »HumbleCitizen
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:42pmENORMOUS resistance IS the peoples voice!
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:16pmprop·a·gan·da
Report Post »Noun (präpəˈgandə)
1. Information, esp. of a [but not limited to] a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
2. The dissemination of such information as a political strategy.
vennoye
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:32pmIsn’t it interesting that propaganda has pagan at the heart of it???
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:50pmOrigin:
Report Post »1710–20; (Neo-Latin) short for congregātiō dē propāgandā fidē, or congregation for propagating the faith; propāgandā, ablative singular feminine gerundive of propāgāre; see “propagate”.
WhatsYerProblem
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:06pmIt also has the ‘ropaga’ in it, which is the Swahili word for ‘doofus’.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:15pmSame old song and dance routine; Mr Obama if your going to come up with a massive series of lies, then at least try o try for something original.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:14pmThe Inflatable Bill?
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on September 15, 2011 at 4:52pmThat’s what Monica said
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:14pmDesperation is a stinky cologne.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:13pmhe wants them to push this bill and force people to get on board with more stimulus bailouts for his big corporation and union buddies, but will not help the other 90% of Americans who are struggling to survive, but he still wants people to believe that they will benefit from this monstrosity of a freedom killer bill, and anyone and everyone who has be a wake can see that the money get down here, it only benefits his buddies, and if jobs are created, it will not be for non union workers, so he wants them to get and lie for him and to the people.
Report Post »WhatsYerProblem
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:12pm“ prompting a few laughs from the crowd”…
You can just here them thinking, “What, for free? Ha ha ha. No really. How much will you give me to ‘pump this up’?”
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:12pmUndoubtedly, the journalist replied, “Mr. President, will all due respect, it’s not our job to promote an agenda. Our job is to make sure that 1) the truth is known and 2) that both of us are telling it to the public.” Right? This is what they said?
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:15pmyou know they did, they just did not say it out loud, just another group of journalist who have been paid for by soros and who have sold their souls for the communist agenda. what a shame.
Report Post »platitude
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:57pmWhat, your shocked that journalists are not objective.
or do you just think that liberal journalists are biased
because fox new isn’t biased right? they don’t promote a conservative agenda.
feeble minded stalwarts like you are the problem, thinking that your side is exempt, bah.
Report Post »randy
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:07pmPathetic
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:16pmWorse than pathetic. He is now begging.
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:31pm“Pusher Man”?
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:39pmI think he meant “pimp” this thing up.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 6:33pmPut your hands in the air !!! Dance like you just don’t care !!!
Report Post »Pump up the vol….err…media support !!!