by zombieshootout

When Obama appears on television, it isn’t to deliver a message. He is the message.

Since taking office President Barack Obama has been on television 78 times, including speeches, national addresses, congressional hearings, talk shows, news interviews and public service announcements (not including repeat events in syndication or in commercials).  

During the same period of time, George W. Bush appeared on television (using the same metrics) 18 times, Bill Clinton appeared 6 times.

Quite frankly, the man is watching his own ratings. I truly feel that President Obama is addicted to his own popularity. It’s an easy observation. President Obama is watching us react to his television spots. Since Obama has no executive leadership record, no record of making things happen, he forever returns to the one thing that has defined his brief career, talking. 

I have never seen an American President “need” to be on televison as much as Obama.  However, were it simply a matter of appearing on television “a lot”, it could be dismissed as ego. But it is much more than ego. Before we get to that, here’s a little more data.

According to Neilson Media research, When Obama gave his Health Care Address to Congress, an impressive 52 million viewers watched. However, Neilson ratings also show a considerable reduction in viewers with each subsequent national address. Translation: Overexposure results in fewer viewers.

By contrast, when President George W. Bush gave his first Congressional Address, he had a respectable 39 million viewers. Obama knows that President Bush struggled in the polls during his second term in office, and he will stop at nothing until he has reached a higher replay value. Even despite a growing lethargy in viewership, President Obama appears to want, through shear force of will, to defy quantitative analysis, to retain his “star power” by doing the one thing he has proven exceptional at: talking.  

So why is this important?

As support for the Liberal agenda and President Obama continues to shrink we get hit harder with a never ending “Obamamercial”. It may be an address to the troops, a bill signing, anything so long as he is on television.  At the current rate he could reach 100 television appearances in his first year.  Add repeats, commercials and syndication and you have “All Obama, All the Time”, like Big Brother in George Orwell’s classic “1984″, where the reassuring, parental voice of the great leader forever echoes out of every television, inescapably.

I get the feeling that an “Uber-Orwellian” society is about to slap us so hard in the face that we dare not blink. Imagine seeing Obama’s face on every television channel, and hearing his voice on every radio station, as often as you see or hear campaign ads in the fall, but in this case it’s just one personality, the over-produced, highly-stylized, dear Leader. Sound far-fetched? Wait. There’s more. 

Now consider White House Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd and his desire for the FCC to have more control over broadcast content. Mark Lloyd is on record extolling Hugo Chavez’s masterful control over the media.

But wait, there’s more. Consider the many videos that have surfaced showing public school children signing songs to our great leader, the recent discovery that the White House is encouraging the National Endowment for the Arts to assist in Obama’s efforts to “fundamentally transform America” by creating artwork that is fawning of  Obama’s agenda, the tightly coordinated assault on FOX news (for daring to challenge his agenda) and, finally, an apple-polishing mass media that is so pro-Obama it may as well be an extension of the White House, and you can see how different the game is being played.

Think exponentially. Control is key, and total control is his goal. Build massive support through a never ending campaign, utilize the NEA, condone through silence teachers spending time teaching young children to memorize songs whose lyrics contain campaign slogans, launch a public battle against any part of the media that dares to disagree, and you realize this president is not interested in a vibrant exchange of ideas, but squelching every message but his own. 

Take away the divisions of which party we are in, voters need to know President Obama’s true agenda. 

Keep your eyes and ears sharp my conservative and libertarian friends. We the People need to separate fact from fiction. We the People need to push back each time President Obama attempts to eliminate discussion or dominate through presidential resources.

If you’re not already involved, here are two handbooks than can help: How to become an Activist for America  and Rules for Revolutionaries , both by Lady Libertas. 

WE NEED EVERYONE IN THIS TOGETHER!