TIME Traveling: Lib Mag Transforms Obama From Socialist FDR to Conservative Reagan
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, January 27, 2011, 6:18 AM
Granted the liberal media hated Ronald Reagan.
But suddenly this popular president is useful to their far left agenda.
Forget for a minute that Barack Obama is the anti-Reagan in every way…
The latest issue of TIME Magazine compares Obama to Ronald Reagan.
Now they want us to believe that this big government FDR socialist is more like conservative Reagan…
NewsBusters reported on this transformation.
What a difference a shellacking makes . . .
Just after Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, Time photoshopped him into an iconic FDR photo at the wheel of a convertible, jaunty cigarette-holder in mouth.
Obama was riding high as the champion of the left, the promise and personification of a born-again big-government New Deal. That was then, this is the 9+% unemployment, recent-shellacking now. So with which president does Time now find it in the president’s interest to be associated? Why, Ronald Reagan, of course.
The new Time cover, unveiled by Time editor Rick Stengel on Morning Joe today, features a Photoshop of a smiling Obama and Reagan, the Gipper’s arm approvingly clapped around PBO’s shoulder. The legend: “Why Obama Loves Reagan,” [a symbolic heart in place of "loves"].
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 78 Comments
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Apparantly all media are pitching in, and helping to reinforce the new WTF theme of this administration. This WTF-Moment brought to you by TIME Magazine.
The All Real Numbers Symbol commented:
Obummer doesn’t like Reagan at all. Reagan was for freedom, loved America, and tried to cut government spending. Odummer wants none of those things.
Spider commented:
W-T-F-!
Did he join the Tea Party too?
Spider commented:
If you believe this BS: 1) roll up your copy of Time magazine, 2) smack yourself in the head with it.
destroyer of moonbats commented:
these ppl think we r really that dumb.
Cargosquid commented:
What is Time magazine again? Are they important or something?
WTF?
jetstream commented:
Nothing exposes a fraud more than comparing it side by side against the real thing. Keep it up dying media.
Buffalobob commented:
Next the MSM will have O on a cruise ship with Sharah Palin in Alaska. No lie is too great no lie is too outrageous.
Chisum commented:
Does this mean that the left will claim that BO had alzheimers while he was in office, too?
Zipity commented:
Odd how Obamessiah looks slightly taller on the cover, and yet they are both listed as being six foot one. Must be the way Obamessiah has his nose in the air, as usual. That humming sound you hear is Reagan spinning furiously in his grave, propelled by this crap, and that of his incredibly disappointing son Ron……
tommy mc donnell commented:
more lies from american tass.
Edouard commented:
What a truly unholy alliance that is, the feds & big media.
I swear, what whorish propagandizing.
Reaganite Republican commented:
The Bolshevik Boy Wonder is clearly no Reagan… and regarding issues of judgement, principle, character, political courage… and true leadership?
This Alinskyite punk Obama couldn’t hold The Gipper’s jockstrap.
RandomThoughts commented:
Good call, Zipity; they did manip Obama to appear slightly taller than Reagan. And you can bet real money that was deliberate.
Three things that photoshopped image is good for:
1. Serving as a reminder of how utterly worthless Time Magazine is.
2. Proving that there’s no level to which the msm won’t stoop in order to elevate Obama.
3. Providing an appetite suppressant (I lost all desire to eat and some of my desire to live after a mere glance at it).
Ed commented:
the lefts propaganda lies knows no bounds. to place Obama’s image next to the Gipper is sacrilegious! These leftist toilet papers they call magazines are shameless!
Spider commented:
When Sarah announces her candidacy on February 6th (Reagan’s 100th birthday), they can run a cover of the Gipper standing with his true heir apparent – Sarah “Barah cuda”.
Ladue Pundit commented:
In Obama’s ghost written book, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama expresses his distaste for Ronald Reagan and the policies RR espoused. Like his Marxist Muslim polygamist daddy, OB despises RR.
The msm is squarely at fault here for fictionalizing Obama as anything but what he truly is: a wealth confiscating, power hungry socialist who lies every time he draws a breath.
listinsgstarboard commented:
So.Wrong.
Joanne commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZMJ2bUpEVE&feature=player_embedded
Nine minutes of Michael Savage to give you all a clear look into what is going on in America.
Joanne commented:
In SOTU speech Obama uses ‘I’ 55 times and ‘me’ five times. It’s all about him…duh.
aprilnovember811 commented:
This is absolutely sick!
Zipity commented:
Nine minutes of Michael Savage is 10 minutes too long….
Ed commented:
all Conservative magazines should have covers of Obama standing with Mao, Marx, and lenin. that’ll be more appropriate.
Rapid Gigabitz commented:
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Edouard commented:
Reagan would never, in 1000 years, use “Sputnik Moment” as any kind of favorable reference. Would Reagan praise a Soviet program, ever? Are you kidding? I mean, how ridiculous.
Reagan could never give such a fraudulent, inconsequential speech as we heard Tuesday night. Is Obama truly capable of acting effectively and truly ACCOMPLISHING anything on that long liberal wish list of his? Is anyone in this whorish media going to hold him to account for what he said the other night, given that none of them have bothered to hold him to account for what he said in his failed State of the Union speech from a year ago?
Mr Above His Pay Grade is closer to Chauncey Gardner than he is to Ronald Reagan.
ProLifer commented:
What scares me is that too many people believe this crap.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
OT from The Lid
“Latest Attack on Glenn Beck Shames The Rabbinical Profession and Desecrates God’s Name”
A must-read article exploring the ties between Soros and several hundred “Rabbis”.
Scare quotes quite intentional.
IOpian commented:
The Left simply does not understand Reagan or conservatism so in their minds they think they can make this comparison. It’s like thinking you can turn on a light and it still be pitch black, like thinking the mutually exclusive can coexist in a single entity. Just not possible.
If they truly understood these things they would see the light and their thinking would become rational, ordered and consistent and no longer liberal and unbound. Then they would see the absurdity of this comparison.
the wolf commented:
Prior to the last presidential election, Obama lacked any heft in his political resume, so the media had to cast him as something. In fact, Obama himself, abetted by the media, cast himself as something of a messiah. Having failed to lived up to the hype (by a rather wide margin), the media is now tasked with recasting Obama as something else entirely–in fact, something which is quite the opposite of what he actually is. As a study in propaganda, it’s interesting. The question is, is anyone falling for this steaming pile of horse manure?
Truck Driver Divorce commented:
I will not purchase a copy of Time.
I will not click on an article that links back to Time.
Time is a viper’s nest of Progressive Liberal lies.
jorgen commented:
He, Reagan was a real President. Commie Boy is not.
gastorgrab commented:
Obama is a natural born shape-shifter.
He’s been pretending for all of his life. His first full time job was as President of the United States.
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Edouard commented:
Notice how Obama can’t ever actually be himself and be successful.
No, first he has to be a simulacrum of FDR. Next he has to be photoshopped into the company of Reagan. (Think Reagan, grave, and spinning here.)
Obama is a Zelig. His faux character, ersatz soul, and put-on principles must forever be swapped out and re-packaged since he can’t really ever locate a character, a soul, and principles of his own. It must be a titanic job to be one of his handlers who are eternally tasked with propping up and dressing up this phony.
Mad Hatter commented:
Obama isn’t one tenth the man Reagan was.
avery commented:
I” knew Ronald Reagon he was my President, Obama is not a Reagon. Govement can not solve the proable, Govement is the proable “We win,they lose.
Listen up commented:
This is too stupid to be presented…are they all this dumb or do they think we are?
Listen up commented:
Burn Time Mags they makes lovely flames.
I cannot wait until their market is so small it will fit on the head of a pin…oh wait it is that small!
The All Real Numbers Symbol commented:
Well avery, you know what they say about government: “If you think the problems we create are bad, wait until you see our solutions.”
Carbon Pootprint commented:
The leftist Morons at Time used the wrong Reagan, should have used Jr of pmsnbc fame.
Militant Conservative commented:
Well….the reason my fellow president is taller than I am is that he is more full of that which he does not know.
As for his age, I will not hold his lack of experiance and age against him.
Pure symbolism over substance. Worthless POS.
mcc commented:
Re #18, Ladue Pundit:
“In that book, Obama says his strong feelings about the Republican president were part of the reason he decided to become a community organizer. “When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn’t answer them directly,” Obama wrote. “Instead, I’d pronounce on the need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds…”
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/new-op-ed-obama-praises-reagan-inspiration-95-autobiography-obama#ixzz1CGX2kpnz
Note he “couldn’t answer them directly” about what a community organizer does…
Here’s what James Lewis at AmericanThinker, “Sex and Sarah Palin,” has to say about BO’s early endeavors:
“Barack H. Obama has worked his whole life to be worshiped by the Angry Left as a communist organizer in the Saul Alinsky mold of radical culture war. (Yes, “communist organizer” is what Alinsky was, and proud of it. That label “community organizer” is just another twisted lie. They don’t organize; they make war on the most productive people, and they are proud of it.)”
AuntieMadder commented:
Barky’s 6’1″? I had no idea sh!t could be stacked that high.
AuntieMadder commented:
PS: The peeps at Time Magazine have lost their minds and, in their delusional state, believe they’re working at MAD Magazine.
squeaky commented:
and just what is it with community organizers. such as this former organizer who has launched a 400 signature [rabbis] petition to have Glenn Beck sanctioned from fox and criticized Sarah Palin for the term blood libel while having no apparent major problem with the
the actions of his side of the argument.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Greer
Ladue Pundit commented:
Obama admired the way Reagan captivated a nation; in reality, Reagan was a true leader and Americans were drawn to his ideas and hopefulness.
Edouard commented:
Notice how Obama can’t ever actually be himself and be successful.
Absolutely. Obama can print all the HOPE bumper stickers he wants, but real hope is not based on the concepts of class warfare, worship of China or Russia, or his perennial notion that the Feds be involved in every minute aspect of our lives.
jainphx commented:
The BOOK says that the people under an evil king are desperate, but those that live under a G-DLY king live in prosperity.
Which do you think we are living under?
So many lies this cadre has fostered on us, it becomes harder to separate. Reagan was a man and Obama is a spoiled little boy, there is no comparison, and the attempt at making it shows desperation.
HarryKovaire commented:
This is Doublethink applied.
“The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
– Part II, Chapter IX — The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
Jackie commented:
How disgusting to put that great American Reagan next to that arrogant lefty.
ss252 commented:
You think OBAMA really believes his own craaaap?
I am with #27…Many folks that will see the cover while in line at the checkstand, will think OBAMA is like REAGAN?
Pretty Scary…
Nanna1 commented:
I knew something like this was up when the news said he had taken a book on Reagan on vacation. I figured he was trying to learn how to act (things to say), to try and fool people, OR he was just putting out the story so he could say he loved Reagan. Either way, it is the usual lie. But I was sort of braced for this.
OnTheOtherHand commented:
I can see an ad coming with Obama riding a horse on the range, or maybe cutting down some trees.
If that doesn’t work, it’s off to the firing range or try to get some fishin’ in. Each attempt shows how cynical they are.
Barbara commented:
Nancy, or the estate of Ronald Reagan, should sue the bast##ds.
cheeflo commented:
When RR died, the entire country mourned and publicly demonstrated their love and respect for the man — tens of thousands of people lined up and waited for hours to view his coffin in the Capitol. The libs and the media (but I repeat myself) were unglued by that outpouring of reverence.
This cover strikes me as rather obscene.
kansas commented:
I can’t really see the Time cover all that clearly, but is Obama handing a real President a cup of coffee?
nj in fl commented:
God that is just revolting.
Looks like Odinga finally figured out what the rapidly increasing block voting among whites
(remember Luntz’s focus group) portends for the ’12 election and he’s going not so much for a Right turn as a White turn.
Its always going to be some kind of yuck with this guy, folks.
Calls to mind for solace Sarah’s superb and moving essay in USA today, particularly her evocation of the “privilege” of coming of age in the time of Reagan and the promise which that good fortune holds for American renewal.
Remember, and rekindle, the best of times.
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befuddled commented:
the closest obama is getting to becoming Reagan is the loopy, Ron junior. when the press began reporting obama was reading a Ronald Reagan biography, we should have known it would be just a matter of time before the propaganda machine stopped celebrating the socialist, spendthrift in the white house meme and replace it with their new projection, the pragmatic conservatism, the second coming of Ronald Reagan. these media whores are despicable and their departure will not be missed.
anyhow, found a snippet of television on Discover,where the orange chopper people actually went down to Alaska and was greeted by then Governor Sarah Palin. they sat down and talked a little on her couch that had a big,black bear skin draped over it–yikes.I never understood why liberal women would try to knock her down for being so pretty, until i saw this video. until now, i always thought she was just a plain Jane type, just your average soccer, er hockey mom. Her charisma, beauty, and patriotism just shines through. this is the embodiment of what a Reagan revival would have been.
American Chopper meets Gov. Palin
katy commented:
It’s clear that part of the 2012 strategy is to target the Reagan Democrats and independents that were lost on 2010.
How absolutely transparent! They continue to believe we are dumb as bunnies!
right4us commented:
So, Obama is the new Reagan, the left is now saying. I would LOL if I wasn’t so absolutely disgusted with these outright liars, and pathetic degenerates.
How ironic that the left, in their willingness and zeal to deceive to try and gain an edge (when they are not trying to destroy) continues to expose their dispicable true nature.
Yet, how ironic is this from a couple of leftys?
(just skimming the surface of a “Reagan + idiot” web search):
http://www.liberalidiot.com/?p=3
Definition: Ronald Reagan
In the 1980’s Ronald Reagan was a silly old senile fool who had no business in serious politics and had dangerous ideas about how to grow wealth and defend America. Today he is one of the greatest presidents this country has known, especially since he is no longer a threat to liberals and we can claim Obama is just like him.
–
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/ronald-reagan/
“Everybody knew he was a dumbass. Ronald Reagan was famous for not understanding how government works and not particularly caring about it. His job was to read speeches off the Teleprompter, shake hands with foreign dignitaries, pose for pictures, and maybe go out and visit a flag factory or a steel mill every once in a while. Otherwise he was busy sleeping in, eating jellybeans, and watching television.
Even so, Reagan got deferential treatment from the press, so the news coverage almost always cast him in the best possible light. He was extremely comfortable in front of the cameras, as you would expect — after all, he had been a movie star prior to becoming a politician. And he could be disarmingly affable. He often shared jokes and anecdotes and brilliantly-scripted one-liners that sounded spontaneous. But none of that explains why the journalists decided to take it easy on him.”
right4us commented:
Oops – pasted a satire link/info (liberalidiot) instead of this one:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/4/81939/18748
“The ahistorical MSM analysis continues, remembering only the good Reagan of the last few years in dealing with Gorbachov and the fall of the USSR. It is only when and where Reagan broke with conservatism that we remember him as successful”
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Lib Mag Transforms Obama From Socialist FDR to Conservative Reagan
What was that old saying again about putting lipstick on a pig…?
maraz commented:
TIME has had Obama on the cover 22 Times (according to Brent Bozell)
Mark S. commented:
Unfortunately, as much as I would like for Time to just change their name to “Tass” or O-Lover or something that is much more truthful. The problem is that the average Time reader is going to see the cover/article and say “so what are you whining about Conservatives?”… when we all know the truth (and yeah, I remember that line from “Dreams..” being WIDELY used by lefties to show how he wasn’t a centrist either…)
Muffler commented:
Time has succeeded in getting a whole group of people irate about nothing. No one here can possible believe the picture and yes – Obama has moved center in many ways. I think people are just upset with Time not holding Reagan’s image as sacred. It’s not and that IS the American way.
Time isn’t Tass as most anyone would realize and if you don’t want to read it you have alternatives. Meanwhile just like all the media outlets in the US – they do stuff to appeal to emotions and do not offer any real information. Party on!