Elizabeth Sauls is a writer for the Beaufort Observer of Beaufort, North Carolina. It’s a little paper in a little town — area population around 50,000 — so it’s just the sort of town that New Yorkers or Chicagoans like to scoff at. But, Elizabeth Sauls wrote a piece that everyone should read.
Headlined, “Presidential Sleight of Hand Keeps Reporter Befuddled,” Sauls lays out with just the right amount of sarcasm, the lies, contradictions, misdirections, and un-American policies that Obama has haplessly stumbled into these last 100 days.
Presented as a letter to her “boss” Sauls is devastating in her critical attitude against all the lies of this president.
I’ll give you just a bit of flavor from the piece, but you really should go read it yourself.
I know I had promised the article you assigned this week but I have all but given up on writing it.
You see, I planned to write more about Obama’s search for housing for Guantanamo detainees. But, before I could get my computer booted up, Obama changed his mind and decided, rather than simply releasing them as he had said in his campaigning days, he would instead allow military tribunals for them and see how that goes. Ok, so I switched gears and started to write about that. He said one thing when campaigning; he does another when he gets to the White House.
The piece is also replete with numerous links to other stories so that you can find more information on the points that Sauls discusses in her hard hitting piece.
In any case Sauls’ piece is great, it is worth a read.
(edit to correct the state the paper is from)
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
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One of the commentors to Sauls' article
TNJim (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 3:08AM EST (link)said this:
“Spot on article….NOW…when will the rest of the presstitutes join in on the truth that Obama is playing the oldes of all scams…the shell game…WHILE WE ARE LOOKING OVER HERE HE SLIDES SOMETHING IN OVER THERE AND YOU ARE FOOLED ONCE AGAIN…..”
Presstitutes… That’s my new name for the MSM!
Kowalski.. Warner's right, the whole article's a must read! nt
TNJim (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 3:11AM EST (link)Absolutely agree! NT
RedInABleuState (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 3:47AM EST (link)The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. — Samuel Adams
Fantastic Article
Right_Again (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 8:25AM EST (link)Thanks for linking to it so we can read the whole thing. Elizabeth Sauls is a brave writer and the editors at the Beaufort Observer are brave as well. Now they never be called on for a question at one of Obama’s love-fest press conferences.
The MSM is so busy kissing up to Obama that they forget they have a duty to report more than People-style news.
I watched a former joke-writer for Jay Leno on Bill O’Reilly last night insist that Obama had done nothing funny enough to deserve a joke being written about it. He said that with a straight face… over and over.
Maybe he should start with Elizabeth Saul’s article and then consider the Statue of Liberty/Air Force One photo op. “Cinco de Cuatro” is also kind of funny for a president who recently chided Americans for not bothering to learn languages other than English. (For the record, I also speak Nihongo [Japanese]).
Just as this joker can see nothing funny about Obama, journalists in the MSM can see nothing wrong with any of Obama’s actions or policies, even those that change week to week.
I saw that too
red4ever (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 9:54AM EST (link)The guy said stupid is funnier than arrogance so that is why there were more Bush jokes. I then started listed all the stupid things Obama did from the minute he was sworn in.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante
A must read!
deevee Saturday, May 9th at 8:36AM EST (link)As good as it gets.
That would be Beaufort, North Carolina...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 9:00AM EST (link)Beaufort is in Carteret County, and it’s located on the Crystal Coast between between Morehead City and Harker’s Island.
The population of Beaufort is approximately 4,000.
Beaufort probably doesn’t even rate a “scoff” in liberal circles, but it may generate an eye-roll.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
That would be typical from them, yes
Neil Stevens (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 9:03AM EST (link)They do hate America so much after all. They tolerate big cities because big cities are immigrant magnets, so they get to call themselves ‘cosmopolitans.’
Remember the big stink lefty reporters made about having to go to Crawford?
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“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder
It's an "oasis" compared to Crawford...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 9:23AM EST (link)And, the fishing….
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
Although...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 9:20AM EST (link)The Beaufort Observer is named after Beaufort County, North Carolina. Which is located on the Pamlico River, about twenty-miles east of Greenville, North Carolina.
The Beaufort Observer
208 N Market Street
Washington, NC 27889
My bad.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
Beaufort County, NC
daves_not_here (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 9:02AM EST (link)Just a minor correction.
The Observer is headquartered in Washington, NC, a town of about 15,000. It covers a rural area of North Carolina. Not the Big City, like Beaufort, SC.
“The Beaufort Observer, Beaufort County Community News Source, Washington, Chocowinity, Aurora, Pinetown, Belhaven, Pantego, Pamlico, …”
“I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
Never ceases to amaze me how newspaper websites make it a chore
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 9:09AM EST (link)to figure out what state they are in. They simply don’t put their city and state at the top of the front page online and often nowhere on the frontpage. Its as if they want some kind of brand separate from their home city. TV news websites often do this as well.
I have written for newspapers for a decade and I laugh at how they rarely refer to the city even in the name, when they refer to their own employer.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Red State New Media
daves_not_here (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 9:52AM EST (link)The sound of crickets from the MSM about this administration is deafening, leaving the field wide open for alternative news sources and new media to steal a march on the established pros.
The Beaufort Observer is an online newspaper, founded largely because the established newspaper for that area falls into the typical pattern of liberal news media: turning a blind eye to anything that doesn’t fit their agenda, and glossing over any facts that don’t tell their story.
With fewer resources and lower budgets, but also without the baggage of old media, alternative news sources have an opportunity, IMO, to take market share from there more established mainstream competition. At the very least, new media can exert market pressure on the old to force change.
To see what I’m talking about, go back to the Observer article and count the number of individual ads. Then navigate to theObserver’s mainstream local competitor, the Washington Daily News at http://www.wdnweb.com/ and count the ad(s).
Market influence. Still largely potential in this field, but it’s how change gets made in our society.
BTW, Elizabeth Sauls has several other articles on the Observer site. If you are interested try ‘Democrats Board the Love Train,
Embrace Your Inner “No”‘ at http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-c-2009-05-01-234112.112112_The_First_100_Days_of_the_Obama_Administration.html
or ‘National Prayer Day (Don’t)
If Obama refuses to see you, are you still there?’ on the editorial page.
“I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
AGREED THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED, but why don't they put the damn state they are from at the top?
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 11:39AM EST (link)so many other newspapers online whether they are deeadtree as well or not fail to do this. I just wonder if anyone knows why?
I suspect it is this desire to be seen as some kind of national brand or shame they all aren’t from NYC?
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
If there were more writers like Elizabeth...
realityunwound (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 9:25AM EST (link)then newspapers wouldn’t be like our personal liberties… dying a slow death.
http://www.realityunwound.com
I just wrote out a check to one of their advertisers.
Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 10:00AM EST (link)I enclosed a quick note telling them I had found them on page with Elizabeth Sauls piece.
I said I was so impressed with her clarity, I wanted to make sure the sponsors knew and enclosed is a check, etc.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher
ocleverone your name does you justice :-)....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 10:13AM EST (link)BRILLIANT I will say again BRILLIANT idea to to something with their advertisers….I just donated to J and J’s Homeless Pets which satifies two things one to support that wonderful write up by Elizabeth and I love animals and donate to those organizations all the time!!! Thank you for the again BRILLIANT idea!
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Aww thanks Jaded!
Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 10:29AM EST (link)That is very kind of you.
I figure if the advertisers start getting donations (or businesses get more business from the area) it will go further than just internet comments and will encourage the editors to rethink how to get to their bottom $$ line.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher
"Black is just a color."
blooch Saturday, May 9th at 10:27AM EST (link)Commenter Maria goes right to the crux of the problem, doesn’t she? Elizabeth Sauls probably favors secession, too.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
And blooch,
Warrior (Diary) Saturday, May 9th at 2:17PM EST (link)I’m trying to “relax” too, as Maria suggests. Also, commenter Paul cries “misinformation!”
Typical. If the Great O gets criticized, simply accuse the critics of LIES and RACISM! That meme has been old a long time now.
BTW, do you know how to recommend this (RS) piece? (I didn’t see a RECOMMEND button.)
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Not sure about the "Reco" button, Warrior
blooch Saturday, May 9th at 6:00PM EST (link)I go to “Help” and it says this:
“Why don’t I see the “Recommend This Diary” button?
The button is now located under the title block of posts. If you do not see
it, it is because (A) you are not logged in or (B) you are looking at your own
diary post. You are unable to recommend your own diary.”
I don’t see it either, so there must be a York Rite or something now for Reco privileges. Perhaps Neil or some other Elder of RS can illuminate.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
You can't recommend front page articles. -nt-
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Important principles may and must be inflexible. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Thanks, Brian (nt)
blooch Saturday, May 9th at 9:52PM EST (link)“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
I hate to ask
Warrior (Diary) Sunday, May 10th at 9:51PM EST (link)but what is a “front page article”? Why is it differnt from a diary and how can you tell?
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
When you go to Redstate.com
itrytobenice (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:08AM EST (link)There are a page of articles right there. Those are front pagers and only people with front page privileges and promoted diaries are there.
On the right hand side, there is a list of recommended diaries that are not front pagers and that have been recommended by other members. Beneath that is a list of all recent member diaries (some of which belong on the recommended list but sometimes slip under the radar). A person with time to look really needs to look in all areas to get the goodies of the day.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
and in the members diaries, there are sentances that pose as diaries.
gekster (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:15AM EST (link)They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
harder/harsher enforcement of site rules
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:34AM EST (link)would be nice – perhaps issuing a 10 day site suspension of the User on some offences BUT it is hard to enforce rules when the others break the rules (Short diaries [at times a Diary can be Short yet have facts, link references, and create a good long discussion - the trouble is some folks not recognizing the difference in how/whether they are created], 10,000 diaries on the same topic including several separate ones only hours apart from the same authors, etc…) to be enforced right on the FP!!!!! The people learn by the bad examples they sometimes see there!!!
In case someone comes through here that hasn’t yet done so – look over ALL of the related (new and old) RS:Help files – including the one in there about Exceptions To Rules and who can make them (if you haven’t been here forever, it ain’t you)!
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“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
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Thanks itry & JL
Warrior (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:09PM EST (link)Man, I’d love nothing more than to read redstate all day. It is an abundance of riches.
Alas, having to earn a living, I’m relegated to snippets here and there.
If Obama doesn’t spend too much more money, I might could retire when I’m 70…but I won’t hold my breath…
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
FP Diaries - understanding RS layout and some functions
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 7:15PM EST (link)Front Page (FP) Diaries are those that you immediately see when you go to the sites Main Link (Front Page / FP)…. FP Diaries do not show the recommend button because they are already prominently visible by being on the FP and don’t need recommendations (RECOs) to help get them noticed. RECO votes are tabulated and the ones with most RECOs go to the FP “Recommended Diaries” list on the right side of the FP (as itry has already side – I won’t repeat the other things he pointed out
)
Take Care – again, you may wish to review the RS:Help files for all the ins and outs, definitions, etc….
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)