Just like Hugo Chavez, Barack Obama wants to ram his way onto your television sets.

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Maybe when he starts interrupting “Glee” and “American Idol” more people will wake up to this man’s intrusion on our lives.
Federal News Radio reported:
Everybody has heard the national Emergency Alert System (EAS). Those familiar “duck calls” that reassure listeners “THIS is a test…this is ONLY a test…”
The FCC is planning an upgrade to the tests by including presidential announcements in the system.
Lisa Fowlkes, deputy chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC, explained to the Federal Drive the Presidential Alert isn’t new.
“The primary goal is to provide the President with a mechanism to communicate with the American public during times of national emergency,” said Fowlkes. The change, she said, is that prior to last week’s order there was no rule in place to call for or allow a test from top to bottom.
Fowlkes said, “There’s never been a test from top to bottom where it’s issued by FEMA and it goes straight down to all the different levels of EAS to the American public. So this is a way for us to glean, okay, if there were an actual emergency and the federal government needed to activate the Presidential EAS, making sure that it actually works the way it’s designed to.”
Now that there’s a rule in place, the next challenges are going to be working with all the stakeholders on timing of the test and to reach out to the public so they understand it’s a test and not a real emergency, Fowlkes said.
“We want to make sure that it works the way it’s designed to,” Fowlkes said. “If there are things that work well, great. If there are things that don’t work well, we can work with EAS participants and with state and local governments as well as our federal partners to correct or or improve what doesn’t work.”
Castro does this in Cuba too, doesn’t he?
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Published May 22, 2012 at 5:04 am - 34 Comments
Kenny Solomon commented:
Will the first ‘Presidential Emergency Alert’ be ‘a national emergency’ for typical bitter God-clingers to surrender arms and get on the buses headed to the FEMA Camps, or will it be for Jews to get in the cattle cars ?
My money’s on both.
Kenny Solomon
The framers of our Constitution knew that the government should never have a monopoly on force. That’s why they articulated our God given right to self defense and ensured the right to keep and bear arms was written in our Bill of Rights. Let’s not forget: George Washington didn’t use his right to free speech to defeat the British. He shot them.
Sandy commented:
The more he speaks the more we vomit.
Wm T Sherman commented:
I think the first full-blown use of the new feature would probably be in early November, 2012.
tarpon commented:
This is a presidential emergency alert “those of you attending Sarah Palin rallies can be arrested” … end Presidential alert message.
Guest emergencies to be conducted by Hugo and Fidel as required.
Police state ahead … Be wary.
d_fitz commented:
“The primary goal is to provide the President with a mechanism to communicate with the American public during times of national emergency,” said Fowlkes.
That’s what Fox News is for.
lethargic commented:
Jim asks “That would make all feel reassured, huh?… Seeing Obama during an emergency.”
Only if it came at 3:00 am.
Bruce commented:
If you like Obamacare, you’re gonna LOVE Obamavision.
Someone needs to tell this guy that Orwell wrote fiction, not instruction manuals.
BurmaShave commented:
“Just like Hugo Chavez, Barack Obama wants to ram his way onto your television sets”
Just like Hugo Chavez indeed. It would appear that Zippy is using Chavez’s playbook for a lot of things.
Kenny Solomon commented:
By the way, this new upgraded emergency alert system is all-encompassing – including text messaging and the internet.
I’ll let that sink in for a second and repeat it in slightly different words.
This new upgraded emergency alert system is all-encompassing – including your cell phone and your computer.
One switch will do it all and hey, if you don’t realize it, all cell phones are now ‘smart’ which means they work using the interwebby thing via 3G and higher, plus those new cable TV boxes – two way communicating…… yeah. Two way communicating and maybe even without your consent and/or knowledge.
Adirondack Patriot commented:
The last person I want to hear from during an emergency is a community organizer with ZERO experience handling emergencies.
Joe Redfield commented:
Of course, the Prez would no doubt consider falling poll numbers to be a ‘National Emergency’.
exceller commented:
Please post the time and date for this test, so I can turn off all of my electronic devices well in advance. As it stands this guys stupid face ruins nearly everything on TV now.
Internet kill switch, fairness doctrine, presidential emergency channel; is any of this bothering you people?
VeryConcerned commented:
Barack Hugobama in da hiz-ouse!
bg commented:
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sos’ ya won’t see scenes like these..
this video depicts one of the very first scenes i described here..
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Redwine commented:
If the new Congress doesn’t work right now to remove him (ignoring 2 federal rulings would make a good start), Supremo Barack Hussein will surely find a way to cancel the 2012 election under the excuse of a national emergency. He and his comrades are desperately trying to push us out on to the streets. Beware of the Soros-backed shadow government of “czars”.
Fionnagh commented:
I haven’t had a TV hooked up in over thirteen years. I wonder if I’ll have to pay a fine for “failing to have coverage.”
squeaky commented:
they do say an emergency on your part [as in obama] does not necessitate an emergency on my part. now maybe if the alert is to announce that the one will be seeking assylum outside the country [even better outside the solar system] ……hmmmm!!!! by way of iotw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCyPAaubENE
Binkless commented:
Sounds like ECOMCON
squeaky commented:
“…I’ll have to pay a fine for “failing to have coverage.” no problem – they’ll provide coverage while we stand in the soup line.
d.k. Allen commented:
The problem with these emergency broadcasts is that, being centrally generated, they’re unspecific, and often unhelpful. Last spring during a nasty thunderstorm, the local weather broadcast, which was very timely, indicating storm locations and warnings for specific neighborhoods, was suddenly interrupted by the idiotic emergency broadcast, which belatedly told us, in the most general terms, that *something* was impending, and that we should tune to our local stations.
Dude, I *was* tuned to my local station. It was already giving me all the information I could want. The life-saving information was FRICKIN’ INTERRUPTED by the stupid assinine emergency broadcast, telling me to do what i was already doing.
Now they want to interrupt *more* lines of communication?
The sheer stupidity of government-driven mandates is astounding. That they often cause more trouble than they resolve, is evident.
Your vote matters. Don’t be stupid with it.
MrGoodWench commented:
“The primary goal is to provide the President with a mechanism to communicate with the American public during times of national emergency,”
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What the he11 kind of national emergency is this regime conspiring errr…. planning for ?
toongoon commented:
I hate the idea of having to sit through all of stupid shout outs before even getting to the crisis.
bg commented:
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Redwine #15
he’s (not unlike the MB) way ahead of US..
NO NO NO, THAT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE g-D IT!!
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Madkangaroo commented:
Seems to me a law/regulation/order authorizing a prez to force broadcasting of his message would violate the 1st Amendment; how can the press be free if it can be forced to carry a message?
Stephen Morgan commented:
The only message I want to hear from the commie bastage is that his Kenyan ass is leaving office and taking his fat sow wife with him!
FU*K OBAMA commented:
Imam Obam’s first address on this system will sound something like this:
Comrades:
We have been in a great patriotic struggle against our foes the shelfish capitalists. They have opposed everything that makes our system fair and equal to all. They oppose our form of governance and we must begin the process of re-education before any additional elections are held again.
Due to the fact that America is now starving because of our well planned policies we must provide food at the local nutrition czar’s office in your neighborhood. As a result of the strife from the capitalists we now must encourage you to know that they are your enemy not the beloved government.
You will report immediately anyone who: owns a gun, who has gold coins, who barters for goods and services, who does not attend daily indoctrination sessions held at the local elementary school, who is frail and those that are obese and especially those that are Jewish. They must be re-educated at our new refurbished University , happily Named Obama University, Cuba. The FEMA trucks are already in place for the masses of conservates to receive their education.
Do not be alarmed, this is for the good of our cities, states, the nation and the world. Reassignments will begin immediately. If you voted for me in the last free election in America then you must produce your democratic voters registration card to avoid being re-assigned to Obama University in Cuba.
Dissent is not permitted as the harmony of the nation is at stake. Thanks you, the relocation czar’s representatives will be arriving at your door soon, just be patient and wait till they arrive to check you papers.
Bingo commented:
What the he11 kind of national emergency is this regime conspiring errr…. planning for ?
It would appear one person get it.
bg commented:
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FU*K OBAMA #27
The following is the speech President Obama will never
give to the Muslim world. But it never hurts to dream…
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IOpian commented:
Funny, we didn’t need this in 2001 when most of us heard in seconds that we were under attack. If something works, don’t try to fix it. Some systems, like water, find their own means of least resistance. Come to think of it so would our economy if these numb-skulls would leave it alone… but no… there has to be a rule.
On top of that, an emergency that happens quickly like a high altitude EMP burst to knock out our electrical systems will wipe out our means to get the damned message to begin with.
The best use of this system would be to teach weapons use and survival skills.
Rob Crawford commented:
Dear Leader keeps on pumping the Cult of Personality.
bg commented:
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just one of many tests.. and we think B
Hussein O is the one who’s failing so far??
ROTFLMBO AS SARCASTICALLY AS I CAN!! GAH!!
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ogee commented:
Is anyone else sick of this top to bottom crud too? I am sooooooo sick of it. He’s a dweeb puppet doing as he’s told by his marketers at our expense. Obots are all going down with the rest of us.
Belch!
Betsy Ross commented:
I know, we can also all have a portrait of barry in our homes, an 8 x 10 or larger is a must…
one including michelle anntoinette is optional…although given the super bowl menu they served it might not fit on the wall ; )
ogee commented:
Furthermore, with his 2 week or more repsonse time to events why even bother with this?
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing and a big fat nothing has been installed into the WH.
S. Wolf commented:
That’s an idea for tea party folk… Alinsky Zero with thirty second TV spots… ‘We interrupt this program to bring to your notice a National Emergency’ fade in Zero ranting…
Granny commented:
#34 February 7, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Betsy Ross commented:
I know, we can also all have a portrait of barry in our homes, an 8 x 10 or larger is a must…
one including michelle anntoinette is optional…although given the super bowl menu they served it might not fit on the wall ; )
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Yeah, I’ve gotta say, for all Michelle Antoinette gets in our collective face about our lousy eating habits and so on and so forth, she sure does set a PRIME example for us to emulate. I’m also a little incensed that we pay half-million bucks or so a year out for a staff of White House chefs and THAT was the best they could come up with? You would get better than that down at the local bar.
RS commented:
“Ecomcon”
Should be ready in May along with its companion internet off switch.
What could possibly go wrong?
John Lee Pettimoore III commented:
He won’t text my cell phone..I’m not hip and don’t have text service…and my phone is blocked from receiving text.
ogee commented:
Most people can’t stand to look at him and can’t stand his freakin voice and nonsensical verbage.
What’s he going to do, get on TV and say “uh, um, uh, um, tune in to your local TV”?????
When is he going to be out of there? Now is a good time.
Floyd Looney commented:
because lord knows during a dire emergency we don’t need local information on where to go, where not to go and such, we just need Dear Readers face on the screen. lol.
Redwine commented:
Exactly, bg (#24). Frightening prospects.
ogee commented:
He should just go play golf or go to the basketball court to pick up his man trick and leave us all the heck alone. He is one ugly MF’er. Jug ears and weird purple lips and bumpy jaw is not my idea of beauty. It hurts to look at him he is so ugly.
Neo commented:
Back in the 60′s there was this crazy idea that would have the President able not just to be able to address the nation, but to turn on your TV before doing so. The idea died a silent death.
thegoldman commented:
April 2012 ? he won’t be around to use it, can be repealed in Feb….
Andreas K. commented:
You don’t need an emergency broadcast.
You need canned food, bottled water and lots of ammo.
Granny commented:
#45 February 7, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Neo commented:
Back in the 60′s there was this crazy idea that would have the President able not just to be able to address the nation, but to turn on your TV before doing so. The idea died a silent death.
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Probably just got postponed for a while. I suspect that the same technology that lets you access your computer remotely would also with a little adaptation allow your TV to be turned on remotely. And I know that there is already both interactive TV and TV that monitors what you watch and serves up ads accordingly – ads you can interact with. (On some cable companies, the menu page).
eden commented:
I don’t need to hear, “uh, get to, uh, the, uh, basement” from this clown.
Redwine commented:
Congressional Republicans do plan to block and tackle some of the regime’s power grab: http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2011/02/07/republican-plan-for-obama-regulations-revealed/#more-226072
Let’s hope that they succeed. Barack Hussein’s nefarious plans must be stopped.
Patriot Act commented:
I try to avoid conspiracy theorizing, but this really makes me wonder what kind of emergency they have in mind.
succotash commented:
My God we are becoming more like a communist country everyfreakingday. I feel like turning off every plugged-in thing in the house. Can’t stand to see these grifters anymore.
Truck Driver Divorce commented:
**QUACK** **QUACK**
WE INTERRUPT THIS MTV PROGRAM OF CHILDREN DOING DRUGS AND HAVING SEX TO BRING YOU THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM YOUR ROCKSTAR PRESIDENT
++++ WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EAST ASIA ++++
YOU MAY NOW RESUME VIEWING YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PERVERSIONS
TRE commented:
It’s FORCED ENTRY into your home. Perfect way for megalomaniac presidents and dictators to get more in your face.
Conservative to the Core commented:
It was past time to trash the tv anyway.
neverends commented:
And why is this latest effort any different from what Mubarak has been doing in Egypt for 30 years.
God save us from this wanna-be-dictator in the White House.
Fight for your liberty and freedom – much less say your life!!!
TiminPhx commented:
It says so much about how we all can’t trust this president and his goons to want to see him have this power. In the hands of others, even those I couldn’t stand like Carter, I didn’t fear something of this nature.
But with this guy, no way…
Bunni commented:
He’ll be using this when he & mooshell run out of porkrinds, forties & ripple too, no doubt.
Rock commented:
Of course we will have and wait till they pass the bill to see whats really in it. Like that’s worked so well in the past. Anyway why do we need this BS anyway, his chump in charge just calls the networks, and old WTF is in your face pdq.
Of course if said announcement was the whole of DC had just dropped in a huge sink hole at 3 AM I wouldn’t mind being woke up by the old duck call.
forty7th commented:
The FCC is planning an upgrade to the tests by including presidential announcements in the system
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Hmmm, how is including his announcements an upgrade? I’d rather just listen to those “duck calls”.
Redwine commented:
Remember what Barack Hussein’s comrade-in-arms, Meechelle, warned in 2008: “Barack Will Never Allow You to Go Back to Your Lives as Usual.”
AuntieMadder commented:
At times of national emergencies, I want the POTUS, no matter who s/he is (that means even this one), to be kept safe from harm. I don’t need or want him playing Daddy, speaking to me via my TV to reassure me or instruct me. There are numerous agencies and officials who are already assigned that responsibility.
AuntieMadder commented:
Redwine, every now and then one of them mutters something that isn’t a lie.
squeaky commented:
and we’ll have to shed our cynicism……fat chance. if people were a bit more cynical, barry would still be voting present.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Gl8aMOpcg
Militant Conservative commented:
#62 February 7, 2011 at 5:01 pm
AuntieMadder commented:
Your security is YOUR job not someone elses. Grow up, Andreas K said it well. Food , bottled water, ammo, and fuel.
Trust me this clown is trying to manufacture a crisis.
powder is dry.
I can already block cell phone and GPS. Already have an EMP safe box.
myohmy commented:
He already inserted himself on the Superbowl. He is everywhere, in your basement, under your bed, on your toilet and on your toothbrush. What’s the big deal?
AuntieMadder commented:
Militant Conservative, I don’t know what you read, but that isn’t what I wrote. Read it again.
gru57 commented:
I’m still waiting for the 10 story-tall portraits of the The One being unfurled from all the tall buildings around America. I guess it could be substituted with these “emergency” broadcasts in conjunction with The One pulling the switch on the USA’s Internet Stop button. Nah, that’d be too obvious ……. The One must have a lackey to blame in that and any other event.
Pat the First commented:
The last thing I want to hear his B.O.’s voice during an emergency. I would rather have him stuck in some bunker crying in a corner. I would not trust one thing that he said in an emergency.
Does anyone really think he or his advisors would know what to do with a real emergency? I mean one like 9-11. I don’t think so. And I don’t want to find out. The sooner this guy is out of office the safer we will be.
Hedgehog commented:
How have we managed to stay alive without the guy who throws like a girl and rides a girls bike while wearing a cute little helmet. Commie puke.
Rock commented:
The man is a walking disaster, his base on the Left thinks he betrayed them, the independents now understand, when his lips move he is lying, and the Right see him for what he is a Socialist looking to weaken America. He has bowed to our enemies, betrayed our allies, and ridiculed our Country. Nothing about this man and his heavy handed nanny wife gives America hope, only disgust at the failure of an American President. Jimmy Carter was a useful fool for the Left, this President is out of the box evil. As soon as he is on TV I turn it off, I rather watch Wily Coyote, at least his disasters are make believe.
lee commented:
OB and John will work on this both are ass
Buffalobob commented:
So am I to understand Obama will be preempting himself?
scituate_tgr commented:
Get ready for newspeak.
Barbara commented:
where’s my telescreen?
S. Wolf commented:
Redwine #61
These parts..
‘”Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
“You have to stay at the seat at the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama not just on Tuesday but in a year from now, in four years from now, in eights years from now, you will have to be engaged.”’
…’Does anybody on the left side of the aisle find this rhetoric a little creepy? Isn’t this describing an authoritarian presidency way beyond anything George W. Bush has done or proposed?
Do the powers of the presidency really encompass everything Michelle says Obama wants and plans to do? Based on this rhetoric, isn’t he actually running for messiah?’
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/10312/barack-will-never-allow-you-go-back-your-lives-usual
In eighty years from now..?? Zero isn’t a US president, he is a dictator in training pants.
MAJ Mike commented:
When that happens, I shall follow the advice of Marshal Murat. I will advance toward the sound of the guns.
dunce commented:
I am sure that i am one millions that immediately mute or change channels as fast as i can any time i see him tilt his head back and to one side like he smelled a feed lot as he delivers his lecture in his droning voice that says he would rather be shooting hoops. None of us would get what might be an importent message but on the other hand with his charteristic incompetence the message will be delivered too late to be usefull.
midusdew commented:
If the impostor gets on tv to give National Security alert it will be the Evil One is comming.
The one to worry about is the liar in chief.
This is starting get out of hand. Come on Justice to your job make him prove he’s Constitutionally eligible.
Joan of Snark commented:
Like he’s not on television enough already?
What’s next? Fireside chats?
silentcal_rox commented:
and, i’ll treat his “emergency” message as i do his teleprompter readings, with my remote to “Off” there is nothing this marxist has to say that will benefit any of us. 2011, ONE AND DONE, let ‘em burn Detroit . . . . again!
apodoca commented:
Sounds like he’s planning an emergency. WHen he loses in 2012, is he going to declare a state of emergency and come on the telly to let us know that we are not allowed to leave our homes since he’s declared martial law? Likely.
Sandy commented:
Its the damn big screen tvs — I knew when they first arrived on the scene we would end up with another big brother monopolizing the airwaves.
Sandy commented:
silentcal — In the movie 1984 you were unable to turn off the TV when Big Brother droned on. Expect it to be a feature of any new TV.
Freddy commented:
Top down command and control is the desire of this administration. This regeime wants to push ‘public service announcements’ directly from the White House.
Look for Obama to start small and then expand to daily tests and messages for the people to live their lives by.
Big L commented:
we can rely on the GOP to do their job to defund Lisa Fowlkes and the FCC twits to block this,right?
Uh no. There is one party with Tweedle dum and Tweedle-dee parts. DEm Lefty and Dem-light.
Dem lefty wants 5 yr Plans and to Rule. Dem-lite wants to have 3 yr Plans and go to the golf course.
Heaven forbid that the GOP wives couldn’t enjoy their friends in D.C.
Enforcer commented:
When one doesn’t comprehend the statement and addresses the poster to ‘Grow Up’ and then runs and hides is not acceptable! All hat and no horse.
wyattearp commented:
OBAMA-VISION is no biggy! Just VOTE with your REMOTE!
Airon Later commented:
So the modern American Right wants to know what the Obama administration has to say the very instance something happens in the world, but should that happen they are preparing to compare him to Chavez? You guys are hilarious.