Super Tough Guy and Fox News employee, Geraldo Rivera says he's considering a run for U.S. Senate in New Jersey as a...hold on....a Republican!! No one could have guessed that. Fair & Balanced.
*Update:
If Fox News was a real media organization what it would do is tell Geraldo that he is not going to be allowed on camera or radio until he makes his mind up. Utilizing Fox News resources to trump your possible run for Senate is a definite line crossed. Though I seriously doubt any Republican would agree with me.
Showing posts with label Fox News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fox News. Show all posts
Quickies- Fox News Cult Edition
- Fox News' Bill O'Reilly blames gays (and drug legalizers) for his make-believe War on Christmas.
- Fox News op-ed says women should feel liberated to be ruled by men and not give in to the pressures of its make believe War on Men.
- Fox News attacks the First Family for waging a War on Christmas because they have too many Christmas Trees in the White House. In 2011 the First Family had 37 Christmas Trees in the White House. That was too many for Republicans who called it going over the top. In 2012 they placed 54 trees, which Fox News called way over the top with taxpayer money especially as we approach a fiscal cliff. But in 2008, just days after the worst stock market crash and most dire economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Bush's had 49 trees and not one single word of admonishment from Fox News about how the Bushies were waging a War on Christmas or being extravagant with taxpayer money. In fact, George W. Bush's outright religiosity only made him a better president and steadfast leader.
- Fox News' Bill O'Reilly disparagingly admits Christianity is a religion. This squares against his War on Christmas theory that Christianity is merely a philosophy being practiced by different religious groups. Of course saying it's merely a philosophy allows it to circumvent the Constitution's separation of church and state clause, which allows the "philosophy" to legally control our government.
More Polling Gems
The most recent PPP poll sure is an attention grabber. As I listed below, the poll shows about 25% of registered Republican voters want their state to secede because Obama was reelected, which is just ridiculous in its own right. Well, that same poll also shows 49% of Republicans believe ACORN stole the election for Obama. Of course they believe his reelection was rigged. They are told nearly every hour on Fox News that Democratic voter fraud is rampant and that all the polls are skewed to favor the president. Except there is a tiny little problem with this latest conspiracy theory for 2012. ACORN is no longer in business. It closed its doors in 2010 and had no operational basis this election year. Let's not let facts stand in the way of a good Republican Conspiracy Theory, however.
*Update:
What was Point #3 I mentioned the day before the election? "3. Voter fraud. Black Panthers, Chicago thugs, and early voting stole the election."
Again, no I'm not that smart. It's just that Republicans really are that dumb and so easy to predict.
*Update:
What was Point #3 I mentioned the day before the election? "3. Voter fraud. Black Panthers, Chicago thugs, and early voting stole the election."
Again, no I'm not that smart. It's just that Republicans really are that dumb and so easy to predict.
Indeed Operating as a Wing of the Republican Party
So in spring 2011, Ailes asked a Fox News analyst headed to Afghanistan to pass on his thoughts to Petraeus, who was then the commander of U.S. and coalition forces there. Petraeus, Ailes advised, should turn down an expected offer from President Obama to become CIA director and accept nothing less than the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military post. If Obama did not offer the Joint Chiefs post, Petraeus should resign from the military and run for president, Ailes suggested.
The Fox News chairman’s message was delivered to Petraeus by Kathleen T. McFarland, a Fox News national security analyst and former national security and Pentagon aide in three Republican administrations. She did so at the end of a 90-minute, unfiltered conversation with Petraeus that touched on the general’s future, his relationship with the media and his political aspirations — or lack thereof. The Washington Post has obtained a digital recording from the meeting, which took place in Petraeus’s office in Kabul.
McFarland also said that Ailes — who had a decades-long career as a Republican political consultant, advising Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — might resign as head of Fox to run a Petraeus presidential campaign. At one point, McFarland and Petraeus spoke about the possibility that Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corp., which owns Fox News, would “bankroll” the campaign.How does Fox News answer to the revelation? Sure we reached out to the General but the whole thing was one of those funny haha jokes. We didn't really mean it. Dang liberal media can't even take a joke.
Murdoch App Fails
Rupert Murdoch closes down his mobile app newspaper, Daily. Like most people I couldn't for the life of me figure out how the people who run Fox News could think they could actually infiltrate the Apple world. Though I will admit, it lasted longer than I thought it would. I even almost downloaded it once.
Shellshocked by reality
Startling read from CBS News last night about just how unprepared Team Romney was for defeat on election day. The story reports not one person in the Romney camp had any thoughts about losing the election. In fact, they were "shellshocked" to see the evening unfold the way it did.
I won't get into all the details here because I don't have much time this morning to cover it. But the big consensus is how could a huge campaign for the most powerful office in the world be so wrong? The answer is so simple that I think many people are overlooking it. It all boils down to the alternate universe created by Fox News. They truly existed in their own reality where they believed they couldn't possibly lose.
Sometimes I refer to this co-reality as the Republican Fantasy World. But whatever you want to call it, it's real. It is a dimension with its own facts, its own data, its own media, its own reality. The Romney Camp operated entirely engulfed in this universe never once peaking out to view reality.
Their world is a place where President Obama was so unpopular they thought Sarah Palin could have beaten him. She even said herself that she can't believe the results from the American people. It's a world where they believe the unemployment rate has been fixed by the administration to help his reelection. Where Obama gave guns to Mexicans so they would commit crimes here and he could finally institute his gestapo to come and take away guns from every American people. It's a world where they believe the president's approval rating was in the low thirties. Where the polls were being skewed in his favor to ensure his reelection. They are told all this stuff and much, much more every second of every day on their Fox News teevee sets. So the question is, how could you not believe you were going to win when you're whole life is consumed by a false reality?
I won't get into all the details here because I don't have much time this morning to cover it. But the big consensus is how could a huge campaign for the most powerful office in the world be so wrong? The answer is so simple that I think many people are overlooking it. It all boils down to the alternate universe created by Fox News. They truly existed in their own reality where they believed they couldn't possibly lose.
Sometimes I refer to this co-reality as the Republican Fantasy World. But whatever you want to call it, it's real. It is a dimension with its own facts, its own data, its own media, its own reality. The Romney Camp operated entirely engulfed in this universe never once peaking out to view reality.
Their world is a place where President Obama was so unpopular they thought Sarah Palin could have beaten him. She even said herself that she can't believe the results from the American people. It's a world where they believe the unemployment rate has been fixed by the administration to help his reelection. Where Obama gave guns to Mexicans so they would commit crimes here and he could finally institute his gestapo to come and take away guns from every American people. It's a world where they believe the president's approval rating was in the low thirties. Where the polls were being skewed in his favor to ensure his reelection. They are told all this stuff and much, much more every second of every day on their Fox News teevee sets. So the question is, how could you not believe you were going to win when you're whole life is consumed by a false reality?Math You Do As a Republican to Make Yourself Feel Better
Possibly the greatest Jon Stewart segment ever. The complete Fox News meltdown once they learn the president had been reelected.
Most Delusional Reactions on the right to Obama's Victory
It's already started people. Not even 12 hours after winning a huge reelection by a much greater margin than their Great Leader, they are already calling for Obama to be stopped and that the American people gave him no clear mandate to lead.
Fox News pundit Charles Krauthammer: “I think the real story here is that Obama won, but he’s got no mandate.”
Fox News pundit Dick Morris: "Morris agreed, adding however that “'we need to understand just how weakly this president was re-elected, by the skin of his teeth.'” The Republican party, he continued, needs to work with Obama “'when he’s positive,'” but “'otherwise, we need to stand up against this socialist agenda and stop him from fundamentally changing the United States.'"
Later, he added that “I think that what we have to understand is that this is a president that lost seven points of the mandate that he was elected for in 2008; he won by seven then, he won by one last night. And I think that the Republicans cannot be intimidated, they can’t be cowed. They’ve got to stand up and make sure that he does not make permanent these socialist, big government program that he’s been pushing since his first term.”
Let's see here. Again, these two idiots couldn't be more wrong. Currently Obama has over 50% of the popular vote of which he's up about 3 million votes with millions still to count. He also captured 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206. That isn't winning by the "skin of his teeth." Far from it actually.
Compared to Bush's victory in 2000, it's a gigantic blowout. Even compared to Bush's 2004 victory where he only won 286 electoral votes and by a margin of just over 3 million votes, it's still a huge blowout. Plus, after 2004, Bush and Republicans did exactly what Morris is now saying isn't true: they claimed a mandate!! Bush himself said he had political capitol to spend.
So in what world does any of this make sense?
Barack Obama has been elected twice President of the United States by bigger, wider, larger and more popular margins than George W. Bush ever did. Being told he has no mandate, that he won by the skin of his teeth, that we must fight his socialist agenda and that America is still divided is pure treachery. No question, these people truly hate America.
Fox News pundit Charles Krauthammer: “I think the real story here is that Obama won, but he’s got no mandate.”
Fox News pundit Dick Morris: "Morris agreed, adding however that “'we need to understand just how weakly this president was re-elected, by the skin of his teeth.'” The Republican party, he continued, needs to work with Obama “'when he’s positive,'” but “'otherwise, we need to stand up against this socialist agenda and stop him from fundamentally changing the United States.'"
Later, he added that “I think that what we have to understand is that this is a president that lost seven points of the mandate that he was elected for in 2008; he won by seven then, he won by one last night. And I think that the Republicans cannot be intimidated, they can’t be cowed. They’ve got to stand up and make sure that he does not make permanent these socialist, big government program that he’s been pushing since his first term.”
Let's see here. Again, these two idiots couldn't be more wrong. Currently Obama has over 50% of the popular vote of which he's up about 3 million votes with millions still to count. He also captured 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206. That isn't winning by the "skin of his teeth." Far from it actually.
Compared to Bush's victory in 2000, it's a gigantic blowout. Even compared to Bush's 2004 victory where he only won 286 electoral votes and by a margin of just over 3 million votes, it's still a huge blowout. Plus, after 2004, Bush and Republicans did exactly what Morris is now saying isn't true: they claimed a mandate!! Bush himself said he had political capitol to spend.
So in what world does any of this make sense?
- 2000 election, you lose popular vote and win electoral college by 1 vote. Mandate!
- 2004 election, you win popular vote by a little over 3 million and electoral college with 286. Huge Mandate!
- 2012 election, Obama wins reelection with bigger margins than George Bush ever did. No Mandate, country is divided, we must stand up to his socialist agenda and fight him to save America!!
Barack Obama has been elected twice President of the United States by bigger, wider, larger and more popular margins than George W. Bush ever did. Being told he has no mandate, that he won by the skin of his teeth, that we must fight his socialist agenda and that America is still divided is pure treachery. No question, these people truly hate America.
The view from a different galaxy
Want to know how and why people who watch Fox News were so confident Romney was going to win and then so shocked when he didn't?
Think Progress has an excellent list of some of the brazen commentary on the right and how confident they were of a big win.
My favorites:
1. Dick Morris: “This is going to be a landslide.” The former Clinton adviser predicted a dominant Romney win, calling it “the biggest surprise in recent American political history.” Claiming that polls were oversampling Democrats, Morris wondered if “it will rekindle the whole question on why the media played this race as a nailbiter.”
3. Karl Rove: “At least 279 electoral votes.” “It comes down to numbers. And in the final days of this presidential race, from polling data to early voting, they favor Mitt Romney,” Rove wrote in a WSJ op-ed ignoring the fact that most polls showed growing momentum for the president. He predicted that Romney will win 51 percent of the popular vote and “at least 279 electoral votes.”
5. Larry Kudlow: “Yes, that’s right: 330 electoral votes.” CNBC personality Larry Kudlow bet Romney would “sweep the Midwest,” a point on which Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio beg to differ. He was so excited about his prediction that Romney would get 330 votes that he repeated it twice — despite the fact that he was making the call two weeks out from the election.
8. Dean Chambers: “The race has shifted profoundly in favor of Mitt Romney.”It appears the election has unskewed the unskewer. Chambers, the proprietor of the famous “correcting biased polls” UnskewedPolls.com, made two predictions before the election. While both obviously called a Romney win, the first one predicted a landslide — 359 electoral votes, even larger than Barone’s — the second, more sober assessment called a more modest 275. Chambers may owe Nate Silver, whom he described as “a man of very small stature, a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice that sounds almost exactly like the ‘Mr. New Castrati’ voice used by Rush Limbaugh on his program” in what appeared to be a takedown piece, something of an apology.
9. Newt Gingrich: “A Romney landslide.” The former House Speaker predicted that Romney will take 53 percent of the popular vote and at least 300 electoral college votes. “My personal guess is you’ll see a Romney landslide, 53 percent-plus . . . in the popular vote, 300 electoral votes-plus,” Gingrich said. He also predicted that Republicans “may come very close to capturing control of the Senate.” He apologized for the faulty call the morning after the election.
My particular favorite is #8 Dean Chambers, who looks exactly like you think he'd look. What a POS. He could not have been more wrong. But just think, if you watched a media network that ran these sort of self-confident predictions all day long and told you how the polls are all wrong and Romney is going to win big, you too would be shocked when on election day you find out nothing you had been told was true.
Think Progress has an excellent list of some of the brazen commentary on the right and how confident they were of a big win.
My favorites:
1. Dick Morris: “This is going to be a landslide.” The former Clinton adviser predicted a dominant Romney win, calling it “the biggest surprise in recent American political history.” Claiming that polls were oversampling Democrats, Morris wondered if “it will rekindle the whole question on why the media played this race as a nailbiter.”
3. Karl Rove: “At least 279 electoral votes.” “It comes down to numbers. And in the final days of this presidential race, from polling data to early voting, they favor Mitt Romney,” Rove wrote in a WSJ op-ed ignoring the fact that most polls showed growing momentum for the president. He predicted that Romney will win 51 percent of the popular vote and “at least 279 electoral votes.”
5. Larry Kudlow: “Yes, that’s right: 330 electoral votes.” CNBC personality Larry Kudlow bet Romney would “sweep the Midwest,” a point on which Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio beg to differ. He was so excited about his prediction that Romney would get 330 votes that he repeated it twice — despite the fact that he was making the call two weeks out from the election.
8. Dean Chambers: “The race has shifted profoundly in favor of Mitt Romney.”It appears the election has unskewed the unskewer. Chambers, the proprietor of the famous “correcting biased polls” UnskewedPolls.com, made two predictions before the election. While both obviously called a Romney win, the first one predicted a landslide — 359 electoral votes, even larger than Barone’s — the second, more sober assessment called a more modest 275. Chambers may owe Nate Silver, whom he described as “a man of very small stature, a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice that sounds almost exactly like the ‘Mr. New Castrati’ voice used by Rush Limbaugh on his program” in what appeared to be a takedown piece, something of an apology.
9. Newt Gingrich: “A Romney landslide.” The former House Speaker predicted that Romney will take 53 percent of the popular vote and at least 300 electoral college votes. “My personal guess is you’ll see a Romney landslide, 53 percent-plus . . . in the popular vote, 300 electoral votes-plus,” Gingrich said. He also predicted that Republicans “may come very close to capturing control of the Senate.” He apologized for the faulty call the morning after the election.
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| Dean Chambers, www.unskewedpolls.com |
Of course that's presuming Fox News viewers will actually be told that they were lied to. Not a chance actually. Instead they will be told that all their "unskewed polls" were correct right up until the hurricane hit and that changed everything. It's a lie to cover a lie. They will never be told that there was absolutely no reality to their belief that Romney had this in the bag and would win big. Their world will consist of a hurricane that changed history, Black Panthers and rampant voter fraud. Oh and media bias. The election was stolen again.
Dick Morris Triples-Down
No doubt Dick Morris hasn't a clue as to what he's talking about. Yet the right wing crazies love him. They pay him millions to appear on Fox News and tell them things they want to hear. Things like how Mitt Romney is going to win in a "landslide." You would think after being so wrong about so many things Republican Fox News viewers would have caught on to Morris' idiocy Oh no, they'll take his attempt to save face and largely blame his incorrectness on Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christy as the gospel truth.
But the more proximate cause of my error was that I did not take full account of the impact of hurricane Sandy and of Governor Chris Christie’s bipartisan march through New Jersey arm in arm with President Obama. Not to mention Christe’s fawning promotion of Obama’s residential leadership.
It made all the difference.Ummm you're still wrong little Dick. You're just as wrong as you have always been. There is no poll in the nation showing the hurricane swung the election to Obama. Obama was leading in electoral polling and in popular vote before the storm hit. The only polls, the only data that didn't show this were Fox's "unskewed" idiot polls. In other words, the polls Republicans swore up and down were the correct ones that turned out to be embarrassingly wrong are still what Republicans are pinning the reasons on for their huge losses. It's truly insane.
Easily Obtainable Data Destroys Fox News' Fantasy World
Yesterday I made my journey to the Republican Fantasy World to get a glimpse of how things are going for the people who believe Iraq had something to do with 9/11 and that George Bush was a popular president. Let me just say I wasn't surprised in the least.
Their big story was what they believed was a huge Obama flip flop on turning the economy around. As only Fox News could:
Economic data, however, suggests the complete opposite of what Fox News is reporting.
Since Obama made those comments to Matt Lauer in Feb. 2009:
*the unemployment rate has fallen from 8.3% to 7.9%. That's progress.
*the Dow has increased 6,200 points or 85%. That's the largest gain in the Dow since FDR. That's progress.
*GDP has risen 28.2% to an all time high. That's progress!
*corporate profits are at their highest point in history. Dare I say PROGRESS?
*And the deficit is smaller now than when Obama took office.
Obama has turned the economy around. It's plain as day. There's not one single economic indicator that isn't better now than when Obama took office. To deny this is to deny reality. And that's exactly what Fox News is doing. They want their viewers to believe that things are no better or are worse off than February 2009. There's not one single ounce of truth to such a notion, however. Anyone who breathes oxygen can easily see that Fox News has a vested interest in lying to its viewers and creating a Fantasy World for them to exist with their own set of made up facts.
The president absolutely lived up to what he told Matt Lauer in February 2009. Progress has been made. The economy has definitely turned around. Things are better now than in February 2009, by a long shot actually.
*Update:
I drew a picture to help those who still can't comprehend.
**Update:
To see just how bad things were in February 2009 check this Free Enterprise post out. Consumer confidence was at 37.7 it's worst measure ever at that time. Today it's almost doubled to 72.2, its best measure in 4 years.
New home sales decreased 15% to 331,000 units. Today new home sales are at 389,000, up 15% since February 2009.
Again, just more data proving progress has been made since Obama's Matt Lauer interview in February 2009. It would take an idiot to suggest otherwise. Or someone who refuses to live in reality, which would be idiotic in every sense of the word.
Their big story was what they believed was a huge Obama flip flop on turning the economy around. As only Fox News could:
The president has long been making the case that he just needs more time to finish the job he started. At an August 2011 fundraiser, he said: "When I said change we can believe in, I didn't say change we can believe in tomorrow."
The claim, though, that "we knew from the beginning" it would take more than one term is a departure from what Obama told NBC's Matt Lauer in February 2009. At the time, Obama said, "A year from now, I think people are going to see that we're starting to make some progress, but there's still going to be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."So in February 2009 President Obama told Matt Lauer that if by 2010 people don't start seeing some progress being made in the economy and if for sure in three years progress hasn't been made then there will be a proposition made of a one-term president. This is proof to Fox News and Republican voters that Obama said himself he should only have one-term and deserves not one more day to continue his policies because in their world things are worse. Actually in their world, things are the worst they have ever been and we are on the verge of economic collapse.
Economic data, however, suggests the complete opposite of what Fox News is reporting.
Since Obama made those comments to Matt Lauer in Feb. 2009:
*the unemployment rate has fallen from 8.3% to 7.9%. That's progress.
*the Dow has increased 6,200 points or 85%. That's the largest gain in the Dow since FDR. That's progress.
*GDP has risen 28.2% to an all time high. That's progress!
*corporate profits are at their highest point in history. Dare I say PROGRESS?
*And the deficit is smaller now than when Obama took office.
Obama has turned the economy around. It's plain as day. There's not one single economic indicator that isn't better now than when Obama took office. To deny this is to deny reality. And that's exactly what Fox News is doing. They want their viewers to believe that things are no better or are worse off than February 2009. There's not one single ounce of truth to such a notion, however. Anyone who breathes oxygen can easily see that Fox News has a vested interest in lying to its viewers and creating a Fantasy World for them to exist with their own set of made up facts.
The president absolutely lived up to what he told Matt Lauer in February 2009. Progress has been made. The economy has definitely turned around. Things are better now than in February 2009, by a long shot actually.
*Update:
I drew a picture to help those who still can't comprehend.
**Update:
To see just how bad things were in February 2009 check this Free Enterprise post out. Consumer confidence was at 37.7 it's worst measure ever at that time. Today it's almost doubled to 72.2, its best measure in 4 years.
New home sales decreased 15% to 331,000 units. Today new home sales are at 389,000, up 15% since February 2009.
Again, just more data proving progress has been made since Obama's Matt Lauer interview in February 2009. It would take an idiot to suggest otherwise. Or someone who refuses to live in reality, which would be idiotic in every sense of the word.
More GOP Voter Fraud
Here's yet another story of Republican voter fraud you won't see on Fox News. A Pennsylvania man working for a Republican organization in Virginia was arrested for dumping voter registration forms in a back alley.
Now remember, if Obama is reelected it will be because of widespread voter fraud and intimidation-- just like the first time.
Now remember, if Obama is reelected it will be because of widespread voter fraud and intimidation-- just like the first time.
Because It Worked So Well Back Then
Echoing my point from the other day, Benjy Sarlin also takes notice that Romney's strategy is increasingly being copied from McCain's 2008 playbook.
The only thing Sarlin doesn't mention is the Republican belief that it's possible Obama might have had brain surgery. It's one of the most classic GOP stories ever told to get the public to distrust the president. And it was pushed by none other than the Republican media apparatus, Fox News.
There's no making this stuff up. They are that crazy. Like I said a few days ago. I believe Mittens' campaign is mere days away from a calling press conference together asking Obama to show his MRI scans.
The only thing Sarlin doesn't mention is the Republican belief that it's possible Obama might have had brain surgery. It's one of the most classic GOP stories ever told to get the public to distrust the president. And it was pushed by none other than the Republican media apparatus, Fox News.
There's no making this stuff up. They are that crazy. Like I said a few days ago. I believe Mittens' campaign is mere days away from a calling press conference together asking Obama to show his MRI scans.
Fox News tried to hush Romney's comments as long as possible
I sent a funny haha text to a Republican buddy last night trying to rile him up about Romney's version of the 47% in America. He had no clue what I was talking about. I jokingly text back saying "that's because Fox News hasn't told you about it yet."
I could not have been more right.
I could not have been more right.
When video of Mitt Romney dismissing 47 percent of American voters surfaced this afternoon, many media outlets found the surprising video newsworthy. Fox News, however, buried the remarks until forced to cover Romney's follow-up press conference late in the evening.
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CNN found this newsworthy, as did MSNBC. Fox News, however, ignored the story from 4 pm, when the video was released, until after 10 pm, when Romney addressed the video in a press conference.
Even then, in a segment during On the Record, Fox declined to show the actual footage of Romney at the fundraiser, or even quote from his statements. Instead, only Romney's press conference defending his remarks was aired.
Fox News to the rescue
Huck Imagines a World Without Fox News
Former Republican governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee gave up a pretty candid comment yesterday on his radio show that really won't surprise too many people.
Huckabee suggested that minus Fox News Americans would think Obama is doing a great job.
Secondly, without Fox News Americans wouldn't think anything. Republicans would though. Republicans would no longer have the most watched news program in the world touting lies like Obama is on a spending binge, or that Obama has grown government to unprecedented levels, or that Obama is a secret Muslim that hates America, or that Obama hates white people, or that Obama had secret brain surgery. None of that would be going on without Fox News. Or at least wouldn't be going on at the level it is currently.
Finally, the whole premise to Huck's comment is the classic tale of Republican ideology concerning Fox News. Republicans really believe that Fox News acts as a balance beam against the liberal media. They believe all other forms of media are liberal tree huggers and that only Fox counters such bias. They counter it not by pandering a Republican theme. No they believe Fox counters the liberal bias by reporting the Truth. If the Truth just so happens to lean Republican then so be it. You can't argue with the Truth.
"People who watch Fox News really believe that they are engaged in a process that separates them from all the people who don't watch Fox News, namely that of Truth. These people believe that Fox gives them an access to truth that is denied to Americans who are brainwashed by the mainstream media. They really believe that Fox News is not just a network that counteracts the biased liberal media, or even a network that reports the stories that the liberal media ignore, but the only vehicle for Truth that exists."
Huckabee suggested that minus Fox News Americans would think Obama is doing a great job.
Speaking about America’s media landscape in general, Huckabee suggested that without Fox News acting as a counterweight to “mainstream media,” most Americans “will assume that Obama really is just doing a great job and he just can’t get those crazy Republicans to help him out.”Like I said, nothing shocking at all. But there are a couple things Huck is taking for granted here. The latest CNN poll has President Obama at 52% approval. In other words, most Americans already support the job he's doing despite Fox News trying their darnedest to bring him down.
Secondly, without Fox News Americans wouldn't think anything. Republicans would though. Republicans would no longer have the most watched news program in the world touting lies like Obama is on a spending binge, or that Obama has grown government to unprecedented levels, or that Obama is a secret Muslim that hates America, or that Obama hates white people, or that Obama had secret brain surgery. None of that would be going on without Fox News. Or at least wouldn't be going on at the level it is currently.
Finally, the whole premise to Huck's comment is the classic tale of Republican ideology concerning Fox News. Republicans really believe that Fox News acts as a balance beam against the liberal media. They believe all other forms of media are liberal tree huggers and that only Fox counters such bias. They counter it not by pandering a Republican theme. No they believe Fox counters the liberal bias by reporting the Truth. If the Truth just so happens to lean Republican then so be it. You can't argue with the Truth.
"People who watch Fox News really believe that they are engaged in a process that separates them from all the people who don't watch Fox News, namely that of Truth. These people believe that Fox gives them an access to truth that is denied to Americans who are brainwashed by the mainstream media. They really believe that Fox News is not just a network that counteracts the biased liberal media, or even a network that reports the stories that the liberal media ignore, but the only vehicle for Truth that exists."
Fox News: Terrorists Are Watching MSNBC
2012 is the new 2004.
It's all about who is the bigger, tough, more patriotic American and the answer always is Fox News-loving Republicans.
It's all about who is the bigger, tough, more patriotic American and the answer always is Fox News-loving Republicans.
Fox News Doesn't Like Slow Jam the News
As expected, Fox News didn't like President Obama's performance on Jimmy Fallon's show. There's really nothing the president can do that Republicans would support, like, talk good about or halfway think is good for the country.
It's just like Sean Hannity's new found love of teleprompters now that teleprompter-loving Mitt Romney is the nominee. When it was thought that Obama was the only person in the galaxy to use a teleprompter it was because he was pre-programmed as a Manchurian Candidate. But now, all of a sudden, Hannity calls it "smart."
It's just like Sean Hannity's new found love of teleprompters now that teleprompter-loving Mitt Romney is the nominee. When it was thought that Obama was the only person in the galaxy to use a teleprompter it was because he was pre-programmed as a Manchurian Candidate. But now, all of a sudden, Hannity calls it "smart."
Doocy Has to Apologize Again for Making Stuff Up
Fox News morning show host and fellow Republican Steve Doocy had to once again offer a correction about lies he spoke on the air concerning President Obama. And as you would expect, he did it in Fox News style.
Let Them Stay Stupid
I really have no particular interest in Ted Nugent. I couldn't even tell you what he said, or didn't say for that matter. He isn't known for being one of the sharpest tools in the shed. But who cares? Let him say whatever he wants. People that are prone to believe Nugent aren't all that trustworthy anyway. And people who are more inclined to get their politics from him are resoundingly stupid. Let them stay that way.
Sure I know he gets to go on Fox News and say all kinds of mean things about the president-- something the right would never tolerate about their own president. Yep, that's what happens. But consider this. More people watched Elmo today than did Fox News. Let them be stupid. They are their own worst enemies, trust me.
Sure I know he gets to go on Fox News and say all kinds of mean things about the president-- something the right would never tolerate about their own president. Yep, that's what happens. But consider this. More people watched Elmo today than did Fox News. Let them be stupid. They are their own worst enemies, trust me.
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