President calls for end to partisan 'vitriol'

[theGinsue]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1437

Obama says Beck, Limbaugh fuel 'troublesome' political climate

In an interview with Harry Smith on CBS' "Early Show" Friday morning, President Obama called out Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh as purveyors of "vitriol" - creating a climate in which he's called a "socialist" and even a "Nazi."
Smith asked the president if he was "aware of the level of enmity that crosses the airwaves and that people have made part of their daily conversation about you." Obama replied, "When you've listened to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck it's pretty apparent." The rancor is "troublesome," he said, but he acknowledged it's also a recurring phenomenon.
"Keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of - this kind of vitriol comes out," he said. "It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious and people are feeling that there's a lot of change that needs to take place. But that's not the vast majority of Americans."

Walking with Smith on the grounds of the White House, the president said that he is "concerned about a political climate in which the other side is demonized" and that "everybody has a responsibility, Democrats or Republicans, to tone down some of this rhetoric." What's different about today, Obama suggested, is the way overheated rhetoric has moved into the mainstream.
"It used to be that somebody who said something crazy, they might be saying it to their next-door neighbor, or it might be on some, you know, late-night AM station at the very end of the radio dial."

Asked by Smith if the name-calling bothers him, Obama replied that all presidents develop a "pretty thick skin." Still, he added that he hopes that Americans will start to lose their taste for vitriol.
"I do think that there is a tone and tenor that needs to change, where we can disagree without being disagreeable or making wild accusations about the other side. And I think that's what most Americans would like to see, as well."

You can watch the interview at the site.

Sure, it's all the GOP's fault for not just giving up asnd doing whath teh Dem's tell them to do. What's the matter, Barry can't stand having people not goose-step to his cadence?

[Troublco]

I'm sure Vitriol is anything said by anyone that he doesn't like. Plus, now that he's getting what he wants, he starts trying to look like "The Peacemaker".

All he really did was show himself for what he really is.

[68Charger]

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Sure, it's all the GOP's fault for not just giving up asnd doing whath teh Dem's tell them to do. What's the matter, Barry can't stand having people not goose-step to his cadence?

This is just classic Narcissistic response... attack the accusers...
probably only took him this long because his advisers would tell him it's a bad idea...

it's an attempt to draw supporters into a folie à plusieurs ("madness of many").

NO, I can't back these claims up with credentials... but I live with an adopted child that has all the symptoms, so I've studied it... if the shoe fits...

[theGinsue]

Hey, I'll buy it! That's the explanation I had in my head (worded less eloquently).

[BadShot]

Oh yeah and "We the People" are just mindless frakking lemmings. I love the presumptuous and insulting assumption that talking heads such as Limbaugh and Beck have a deity like power of persuasion.

.... sorry there's a cliff we're all supposed to be running off of here somewhere isn't there?

What a gaggle of pretentious ass hats (POTUS and the Media)

[roberth]

The stupid SOB oughta look in the mirror at the source of all the vitriol. Arrogant bastard!

[sniper7]

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Sure, it's all the GOP's fault for not just giving up asnd doing whath teh Dem's tell them to do. What's the matter, Barry can't stand having people not goose-step to his cadence?

he just likes to call out the people who nail him on all his fuck ups in order to turn people against them. in may work for some...even though they are already on obamas side, but it just gives more publicity to Limbaugh and Beck so this is a good thing.

[sniper7]

I'm sure Vitriol is anything said by anyone that he doesn't like. Plus, now that he's getting what he wants, he starts trying to look like "The Peacemaker".

All he really did was show himself for what he really is.

he has done that a few times so far and I love to see him break out from the standard and show his true colors (no racist pun intended). he shows himself to be an arrogant asshole who cries like a little bitch when he doesn't get his way, wants to rape America of its name and will do everything he can to destroy it.

[theGinsue]

he has done that a few times so far and I love to see him break out from the standard and show his true colors (no racist pun intended). he shows himself to be an arrogant asshole who cries like a little bitch when he doesn't get his way, wants to rape America of its name and will do everything he can to destroy it.

Yeah, that pretty much sums him up.