Posted by
Mark Hume on Sunday, October 18, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Fox News has successfully accomplished something no other news
organization could (or wanted to): They made the Obama administration's
enemies list. Yes yes folks, the Fox News channel, or "Fixed" News as
Keith Olberman likes to say is public enemy #1 and the word has gone
out to all the news networks, both cable and local, that Fox News is
now considered an arm of the RNC, and therefore shouldn't be seen as a
news outlet because they constantly distort the facts, lie about the
administration, smear the president, and treat administration officials
unfairly.
You know, this would be funny as hell if it weren't so
unconstitutional and dangerous. Fox News is being attacked because they
do their job. Are there hosts on that channel who dislike president
Obama? Sure, but do they dislike him or his policies? One could argue
that Sean Hannity and Glen Beck would support Barack Obama if he were a
conservative, so you can throw the idea of personal hatred out the
window. But this latest ploy by the administration to rally their
hapless and pathetic followers is yet another example of the Obama
camp's thin skinned politically machine. And what of that machine? What
happened to the politically savvy, in touch, well connected
organization that used the internet like it's third arm? What happened
to this next-gen, advanced well oiled machine that took down the
greatest political machine in American politics, I speak of the Clinton
machine of course.
They handled the Clinton's' like Florida handled Charleston St. And
yet they have trouble with Sean Hannity and Glen Beck? Hardly two men
with any influence, I mean as far as the middle of the country is
concerned, beyond their loyalist conservative listeners, these guys
have nil in terms influence on the country. And yet, we're suppose to
believe that these two men are almighty harbingers of the political
power of persuasion? Something doesn't sit right with me.
I believe strongly in the 1st amendment and the freedom of the
press. Both in this case are under siege and we need to call the
administration on this Chavez like act. You see Hugo Chavez would often
ridicule and embarrass a media outlet that openly criticized his agenda
and asked him tough questions during his weekly press
conferences....(sound familiar?)
This obsession with Fox News ought not be swept under the rug or
dismissed as some petty quarrel between the administration and a news
network. This is serious because there are people in this
administration who take these fair criticisms as personal slights and
they'll resort to radical means to shut them up.
But I'm also curious as to why the administration doesn't seem to
have a beef with MSNBC or NBC, or even CBS (rhetorical of course) After
all they push an agenda, distort facts, smeared a president, and in
some cases they neglect facts altogether, let alone twist them. But
there is a distinct difference between MSNBC and Fox News, set aside
the brutal reality of Fox News dominating MSNBC and CNN in every
category every night like it's first and second nature to them. On
MSNBC one host gets tingly feelings and a thrill up his leg when the
president speaks, one host on Fox has the "Stop Obamacare Express"
On MSNBC one host, well all of them actually, bash Republicans,
accuse them of wanting the president to quote "get shot" or, accuse
them of being racist. The hosts on MSNBC call Americans who disagree
with the president, "Teabaggers" which is a term used to describe a homosexual sex act.
I guess you could say Fox has some skeptics but so does MSNBC. For
example, they have something on MSNBC called the "Sarah Palin
Chronicles" where they basically report on everything Sarah Palin, from
her resignation as governor of Alaska to what kind of food she ate. Not
only that but MSNBC led the way when the media firing squad took aim at
Palin during the campaign. David Schuster of MSNBC failed television
show host fame once referred to Palin as an idiot. So, can Sarah Palin
then accused MSNBC and David Schuster of stalking because they talk
about her all the time and devote a segment to her? Fox doesn't have a
segment called "The Barack Files" do they?
See, MSNBC is promoting an agenda, the president's agenda. As long
as they continue to attack Republicans, tea party protesters, Sarah
Palin or whomever so dares to criticize the massive spending, health
care overhaul, or any other regressive left wing policy of Barack
Obama, they're going to be targeted, marginalized, and hung out to dry.
Get me?
So this really looks like a Hugo Chavez move. And Obama wants to
make sure he looks above it all, even though he's ordering the hit. So
the attacks on Fox News will go on, it's the highest rated news channel
in the country right now and you know that comes with the territory. I
just don't know why they seem so surprised. That's my only criticism of
Fox, the fact that they seem so caught off guard knowing the type of
people they have on their (all two of them) and the fact that they
actually report news and not talking points or manufactured events from
the White House communications department.
But is Fox News the last line of 1st amendment defense? Are they the
example, or the first in many victims? What about Town Hall, News
Busters, National Review, Chimpy's Republican Revolution, the PUMA blog
site, Republican leaning and conservative Facebook groups, people who
subscribe to conservative magazines, the entire southern region of the
United States, the RNC, 45% of the American people, Hillsdale College,
Texas A&M, Rockford College, conservatives in Hollywood like Dennis
Miller, talk radio, 90% of country clubs in America, the church, the
health insurance industry, American business, the Chamber of Commerce,
Red State, and me. Everyone I named at one point criticized Barack
Obama's policies. So are they going to marginalize them and attack them
too? And when does it stop? How far does this game go?
When some Democrats step out of line, will they be attacked? Are
they going to shut us all down for exercising our constitutional and
god given right? Freedom of press my conservative hooligans, is a
precious right, though the press was hated by our founding fathers they
understood the importance of a press bound not by the chains nor
strangled by the coils of government. This administration doesn't seem
to get the relationship between the press and the state. You're not
supposed to use media outlets as your propaganda toilet Mr. Obama.
But this time I think he and his Mao loving advisers want to take a
huge brown cloud on the constitution. They have been so far, what would
make them stop now?