Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Obama, Fox News Channel and The Media

Most of the media continue to be a tool of Obama but there are some cracks in the media's protective wall around Obama beyond Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal and some talk radio. While MSNBC, the New York Times, Time Magazine and others still fawn over Obama and generate one mindless news report or opinion piece after another as they have for more than two years, not all media outlets are just parroting the Obama talking points each week.
National Public Radio (NPR), a very liberal leaning station, ran a public opinion poll (not a scientific sampling) on their website this week asking if the White House was correct in labeling Fox News Channel as NOT being "fair and balanced" or is the White House wrong and Fox News Channel is "fair and balanced". About 1,445,000 votes were cast (voting more than once was blocked). The result was 84% supporting Fox News Channel as being "fair and balanced" and only 15% supporting the White House accusation, with 1% undecided. Aside from the very conservative Sean Hannity and Glen Beck shows on the Fox News Channel, anyone who watches FNC would see fair news reporting throughout the day and several opinion shows that have balanced opinions being expressed. Even Glen Beck, who some may label as being somewhat paranoid, performed a valuable service by focusing attention on the corrupt and criminal ACORN and on the radical Van Jones when all other media ignored their actions and connections to Obama.
What would the New York Times, NBC, MSNBC, Time, etc. or NPR itself get in a survey such as the one about FNC?
The attacks on FNC by Obama and his cohorts is typical of what we have seen for the 287 days of the Obama reign. Any individual, organization, media or politician that disagrees with Obama's reckless spending, big government agenda and weak foreign policy is vilified, intimidated and outright lied about; this is the "Chicago Way".
This is Obama's new morality in government that he promised; it's new as Obama said, but people were fooled into thinking it would be better not worse. Instead, Obama's new morality is the "Chicago Way" and has been used by Obama at every step in his political advancement, not just for the first 287 days of his reign!

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