# Has the media "turned" on Obama? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 14, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-media-turned-on-obama/658323 "2013-05-14T16:36:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-media-turned-on-obama/658323/121 "2013-05-18T09:29:51Z")
And while we’re talking about the scandals, I blame the President for the fact that Tim Tebow hasn’t been signed yet. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-media-turned-on-obama/658323/122 "2013-05-18T10:19:18Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > And while we’re talking about the scandals, I blame the President for the fact that Tim Tebow hasn’t been signed yet. Well, I guess we know which messiah has the real power. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-media-turned-on-obama/658323/123 "2013-05-18T12:17:54Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > If cops were pulling over all black drivers as well as all white drivers that are speeding and driving drunk, it would not be a defense that the cops were also pulling over white drivers even if only white drivers ended up getting arrested. Assuming I understand you correctly, yes, it would. That is, assuming that, for the sake of analogy, there are only two races just like there are only two political parties. If not, then your analogy is flawed. Assuming it isn’t, you are just saying that all speeders and drunk drivers are being pulled over. You’re saying that race is irrelevant. Just like we’re saying that politics are irrelevant, since both parties are being “pulled over.” Once you get rid of the false political slant, you can come up with a much more rational reason for why this happened. [Here’s](http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/real-villain-irs-scandal-182512181.html) pretty much the real story, on a site as conservative as Yahoo! Finance. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-media-turned-on-obama/658323/124 "2013-05-18T12:20:59Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Whether or not the President had anything to do with the IRS scandal, it’s clear they were working for him politically. They may even have rigged some downballot elections for him, since liberal groups got speedy approval and many Tea Party groups had to disband. Or it was easier to identify conservative SuperPACs, and there were more of them. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-media-turned-on-obama/658323/125 "2013-05-18T12:37:59Z")
There were more of them, but liberal ones got fast approval. No one outside of the government is any longer making the case that there wasn’t targeting, they are just insisting it wasn’t politically motivated. That talking point will also fall apart in short order. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-media-turned-on-obama/658323/126 "2013-05-18T13:15:05Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Or it was easier to identify conservative SuperPACs, and there were more of them. Point of clarity, are we talking about Super PACs? The sort of political machinery that Steve Colbert made such droll fun about? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-media-turned-on-obama/658323/127 "2013-05-18T16:11:24Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > And while we’re talking about the scandals, I blame the President for the fact that Tim Tebow hasn’t been signed yet. wrong sport. Obama invests his time in [basketball](http://a.espncdn.com/media/motion/2012/0314/dm_120314_ncb_obama_bracket2012.jpg). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-media-turned-on-obama/658323.md?page=6)