These people just don’t get it:
“Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.” The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by “progressives” who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects. The public loves it, and it is manifestly stirring up political activism against Mr Obama, and also against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservatives. However, it is arguable whether the now-reorganising Right is half as effective in its assault on the President as some of Mr Obama’s own party are.
So let me see. Deficit being raised to astronomical levels, unemployment high and getting higher, housing market down in the dumps, pushing a bill that nobody wants, reading terrorists Miranda rights, putting those same terrorists on trial in the United States, closing gitmo, and making government into some socialist state to control every aspect of a persons life.
That’s not his BIG PROBLEM.
No, it’s Fox News and it’s “24 hr rage”
Guess they missed MSNBC during the Bush years eh?
Idiots.
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Yes, I’d say that is newsworthy. The fact that the other networks refuse to cover those stories explains their decline and exposes their bias.
So Obama’s real problem is that too many people learn things that don’t help him, by straying from the state media? Why doesn’t he go to Fox and do many many interviews, which would surely drive viewers away?
(From an e-mail I received over the weekend)
Let’s recap 2009 shall we?
These are just SOME of the stories that the liberal mass media either ignored completely or gave fleeting attention to:
1. The American people inaugurate a president with a total of 142 days experience as a US Senator from the most politically corrupt state (city) in America whose governors have been ousted from office.
The President’s first official act is to order the close of Gitmo and make sure
terrorists civil rights are not violated.
2. The U.S. Congress rushes to confirm a new Attorney General, Eric Holder, whose law firm we later find out represents seventeen Gitmo Terrorists.
3. The CIA Boss appointee, Leon Panetta, has absolutely no experience, has a daughter Linda, we find out, who is a true radical anti-American activist and a supporter of all the Anti-American regimes in the western hemisphere.
4. We got the second most corrupt American woman (Pelosi is #1) as Secretary of State; bought and paid for.
5. We got a Tax Cheat for Treasury Secretary who did not properly file his own taxes for 12 years.
6. A Commerce Secretary nominee who withdrew due to corruption charges.
7. A Tax cheat nominee for Chief Performance Officer who withdrew under charges.
8. A Labor Secretary nominee who withdrew under charges of unethical conduct.
9. A Secretary HHS nominee (Daschle) who withdrew under charges of cheating on his taxes.
10. Multiple appointments of former lobbyists after an absolute campaign statement that no lobbyists would be appointed.
All this occurred just during the first three weeks. . . but who’s counting?
America is being run by the modern-day Three Stooges ; Barry, Nancy and Harry and they are still trying to define stimulus…”it’s spending!!!”
The congress passes the $800,000,000,000 (that’s $800 billion) pork-loaded spending bill where the government gives you a smidgen of your tax dollars ($13 per week), making you feel so good about yourself [stimulated], that you want to run out to Wal-Mart and buy a new Chinese-made HDTV and go home and watch Telemundo!
Here’s the good news though – Obama took Air Force One to Denver to sign the stimulus package, wasting as much as 10,000 gallons of fuel OR 24 JOBS FOR ONE YEAR.
Don’t you just love hypocrites?
Obama went to the International Olympic Committee to have them choose Chicago for a host city, he failed.
Obama went to Copenhagen to lecture them on global warming, he failed.
Obama went to new Jersey to promote the Democratic candidate for governor, he failed,
Obama went to Virginia to promote the Democratic candidate for governor, he failed.
Obama went to Massachusetts to promote the Democratic candidate for senator, he failed.
Speaking of praying, Obama has now been president for a full year and yet he & wife (first lady) Michelle, the Christian family they claim to be, have not attended church since the inauguration.
Obama is the 1st president in history who did not attend any Christmas religious observance.
He must miss Reverend Wright!
And finally, he is the 1st president to remain on vacation after a terrorist attack.
But Fox News is his biggest problem. Well, it may be HIS biggest problem since they’re the ONLY ones reporting NEWS (truth) about this administration but it seems that OUR (taxpayers) biggest problem is in the Whitehouse and legislature.
CURT as a SUPERPOWER AMERICA HAS the eyes of the whole world and is always the one to give his blood and money to help poor countrys and defend their right to freedom so it cannot be otherwise,after how many years of being free the americans right to say no they have earned it with their blood and money for sure,bye
Typical Dem strategy, when the problem makes you look bad, misdiret it to something you don’t like even more. THen refuse to discuss it.
Shoot the messenger
So a “technical rule of impartiality” applies to CNN, MSNBC, CBS and the rest??? Now THAT’S funny!!!
This is too funny! When does Obama take responsibility for HIS failed leadership? As sports fans, we demand the head coach or manager take responsibility for our favorite teams’ losses. As consumers, we demand the companies that produce our goods take responsibility for their products’ failures, and ultimately in this case the responsibility is demanded from the CEO or owner. In every other instance in life, we demand that the responsibility rests at the top, but in the case of government, we as a nation don’t demand the same. We allow them to place the blame on ghosts and straw-men instead of standing up and taking that blame themselves.
And this is what the anti-TEA party crowd doesn’t understand. That the movement is demanding that the politician’s take that responsibility when they don’t meet our expectations.
My father taught me that everyone makes mistakes, but that only those who are true and honest are the ones that own up to those mistakes and accepts the responsibility. I try to teach the same to my kids. One has to wonder then what these people’s parents actually taught them growing up.
PS – The too funny comment does not infer that I really find it funny. Quite the opposite in reality.
If we would simply just shut-up, drink the cool-aid, and let our elected representatives do anything they want, then we wouldn’t have this problem.
An inherent problem with propaganda is it is boring. People watch the news to learn what is happening in the world, not to be inundated with mindless babble from Obama’s Socialist sycophants and the praise Obama chants. Even Lemmings can become bored with witless talking heads trying to convince them of what to say and think.
Poor guy. It’s sad to think his opposition is in a position to criticize him. That’s never happened to any other president. He just has all the bad luck. May he should issue an executive order forbidding his subjects to watch Fox.
John Galt
Democrats don’t think they make mistakes. The have never accepted that they do and they never will.
Then again, maybe he needs to go to war with them again. That will bring their ratings up…again.
When I have gotten into a conversation with Obama loyalists and they start harping on FOX News, I relayed three things:
1) FOX News was in business during the 2008 Presidential Cycle. . .Obama still got elected!
2) I have not seen a law that requires me or anyone to watch FOX news, have you?
3) Pick a show(s) on any night and I will watch the selected shows on the same night — then
tell me what was untruthful or qualifies as a rage against O.
I have never gotten anyone of these loyalists to follow up on the challenge or to bring up FOX News — again.
Several weeks ago Mike’s America offered a list of symptoms for someone with narcissist-type tendencies, . . . I believe one of the symptoms included a tendency to place blame on anyone else but themselves. . . Is Obama going to try and close FOX News — who would he blame next and try to put out of business? and next? and next? Seems he would not be happy until all the news broadcast/printed originated from the White House internal news Team?
look here is the story! it is always our fault and never theirs! i hope that saves a lot of time now. you are welcome.
American Voter, you drove that one home with a twelve pound sledge!
@Skook — thanks!
Heh. “It’s Fox News’ fault!” That’s a howler.
Maybe it’s the Washington Post’s fault, too. They are now asking senior administration officials, separately, to name a foreign leader with whom Barack Obama has forged a strong personal relationship during his first year in office. A lot of hemming and hawing ensued…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/07/AR2010030702690.html
The world hates us more than ever thanks to B. Hussein Obama.
We’re deeper in debt than ever thanks to B. Hussein Obama.
The list goes on and on and on.
Worst president ever by far.
Obama’s “Big Problem” is an informed electorate!
Barbara
I realize that the left doesn’t see any mistakes in their actions, and that is part of their problem, since if something goes wrong in something they are involved in, it certainly isn’t due to their actions, and they quickly try to find a fall guy for their blame. For over a year now, Obama’s fall guy has been President Bush, though I think even they realize that placing the blame on the previous administration is wearing thin, so now a new fall guy or straw man must be found to blame.
Fox News is 24 / 7 disinformation. There is no excuse for this propaganda arm of corporate America to ever be regarded as News or any other form of legitimate information.
Many request FoxNews banned from public venues where people have little choice but to be exposed to it.
@Dennis Dillon:
And yet…Fox news regularly beats the cabal of leftist “news” networks every night of the week.
What more of an example does one need that leftists cannot tolerate the free exchange of ideas, because to make a leftist actually compete leads to failure. Hence the left arguing against voters having to show valid photo ID to vote because this is somehow an attempt to suppress minority voters – (that isn’t a bit racist assuming that minorities can’t figure out how to get a driver’s license?) yet to access the obamacare medical system, one is required to show a photo ID.
Leftists are utterly without shame, and morally bankrupt.