Today Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, Leader of the Free World and Champion of Free Speech declared War on Fox News Channel.
Using his Kapos, he has attempted a Blitzkrieg upon the Network.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox."While the other
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is "not a news organization."
"Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way," Axelrod counseled ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "We're not going to treat them that way."
Looking at the lead stories from the other networks it is no wonder that Obama wants Fox News to start looking like them. Instead of examining the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Healthcare, and the situation in Iran, viewers at CNN and other media outlets (to call them news channels would be erroneous) subject their viewers to Sexy Michael Buble jokes, bed-wetting, and Balloon Boy. Not exactly the hard-hitting stories. More like fluff for the masses.
Or the example of distinguished journalism by such
Mr. Sanchez once wrote:Rick Sanchez, Politically Correct Hack, pushes the pro-Obama agenda, flunked his course in objectivity at college, is openly anti-Semitic (he supports La Voz de Aztlan openly including their full anti-Semitic rhetoric), and is vying for the Joseph Goebbels award for Excellence in Journalism. Is it any wonder that a Conservative like Lou Dobbs (the only Conservative on the staff) is leaving CNN (Hostile work environment?).
Sanchez generated controversy on Twitter when he wrote in his account, "do u know how much money i’d make if i’d sold out as hispanic and worked at fox news, r u kidding, one problem, looking in mirror."
In response, Fox News anchor Julie Banderas wrote on Twitter, "As a wise Latina woman, I have no comment other than to say...if I were Rick Sanchez, I wouldn't look in the mirror, period."
A Fox News spokesman also responded with, "Everyone knows that Rick is an industry joke, he shows that he's a hack everyday. And he doesn't have to worry about working at FOX because we only hire talent who have the ability to generate ratings."
The last President who declared war on the media was Richard Nixon. He declared war on the Washington Post and New York Times. Look what happened to him. A fair warning to any President with skeletons in his closet.
President Obama thinks the heat is on now, just wait a bit. Think of what the heat will be like if and when Fox News start to investigate his private finances (Deep Throat did tell Woodward and Burnstein to "Follow the money.").
Nixon's approval ratings were very high when the Washington Post started to investigate Watergate. Obama doesn't have that luxury any more. Even Saturday Night Live and Late Night Comics are taking potshots at him:
SNL Obama Do Nothing Skit 10 3 09
View at YouTube.
The honeymoon is over President Obama. You better grow a thick coat, the satire and criticism is just going to get worse.
2 comments:
Every president since Nixon has bitched and moaned about media coverage - the president, any president, should just get over it.
Maybe Obama should just pull a page from Bush's playbook and hire a male prostitute (like Jeff Gannon) to lob him softball questions.
All media is wrong sometimes- the only way to stay informed is to get information from several sometimes contradictory sources then think for yourself. Thinking is a lot of work though - its much easier to find a "news" source that backs up opinions you already have and listen to the echo.
This is all about marketing- Fox caters to a conservative market and MSN caters to a liberal one, its about ad revenue and the bottom line, not politics. I never watch TV news- except maybe 60 Minutes, which remains great journalism. I much prefer newspapers and the internet.
Watched that develop on Fox this
evening. I hope the white house has as many barrels of ink as Fox.lol
Been meaning to check out your blog,
nice!
nbpundit
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