Video: Sunday Talk Show Pundits Defend Fox News

Common Sense 2020 ^ | 2009-10-25 | LukeAmerica2020

[CyberRBTmail]

The Sunday talk shows featured a number of pundits who agreed that the White House war on Fox News had failed.

This past week, while the Obama administration delayed decisions on real threats around the globe, Fox News was declared to not be a news channel by Anita Dunn, Robert Gibbs, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, and Barack Obama.

This video composite features comments on these statements by Nico Pitney, Jane Hall, Amanda Carpenter, George Will, Laura Ingraham, and Cynthia Tucker.

Video: Sunday Talk Show Pundits Defend Fox News

[Vanders9]

Well I personally think Fox executives should be prosecuted for fraud and perjury. I mean how DARE they have a thought that does not conform to the new paradigm - and worse yet, they are actually SHARING those thoughts with other people!

If that’s not illegal in this brave new world, it certainly should be...

[jazzlite]

I have always believed that more resistence to this madness will come from Obama insiders and particularly media insiders who see and know more than they will talk about right now. Some may be very concerned for our freedom, but are afraid for their jobs, etc. Truth will come out if, as Beck teaches, people continue to “speak the truth without fear.”

[AlexW]

Stupid is as stupid does.
Obozo’s puppet masters must be on vacation.

[Bad Jack Bauer]

What shook up the media to come to the defense of Fox was not so much that the Whitehouse had declared war on it. The true, boot wetting, pants filling moment for the media was the implied threat that they could share the same fate if they followed Fox down that road. If Axlerod had not made such lightly veiled threat, I am sure the media would have gladly stayed on their knees and kept their faces buried in Obama's rear and left Fox on it's own. But the idea that their loyalty was not enough made them come up for air.

Reminds me of the scene in the old movie Flash Gordon where all the conquered civilizations are paying Ming the Merciless tribute. One has suffered so horribly under Ming's rule that they have no tribute to give except their loyalty. Ming demands of that civilization's king, "Show me your loyalty, then. Fall upon your sword." The King refused and was executed. The media's loyalty and admiration for Obama is true and Obama knows it. What Obama and Axlerod did not know was that like the defiant king in Flash Gordonthere are limits to how loyalty will allow someone to go. The mainstream media was not going to fall upon it's sword for Obama.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Look at the list of names the WH put behind their attack. They just spent a ton of political capital on what? A failed attempt to delegitimize Fox News?

Nope. There’s something else going on or coming soon. As is typical of Chicago-style thugs, maybe this was a test for the MSM to see how far they could be pushed. Perhaps it was a test for the public to see what we would allow. Maybe it was a coordinated effort between the WH and the MSM to establish some political capital for the MSM with the public.

It was such an obvious abuse of power that I believe we should look to see what else is going on.

[BigSkyFreeper]

LOL

[paudio]

When the political science department in my university held a seminar called, "Is it okay if 0bama does it?" and the discussions were about torture, war, human rights, etc., I realized that when the leftists started to question 0bama's inerrancy, they either started to use their eyes a bit. Perhaps the same realization happened to the MSM.

Still, I cannot brush off the feeling that it's probably a wishful thinking on my part.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Most think it's about how Fox News operates. What they don't see is that the White House singled out Beck and Hannity in their attacks. Neither of them are news anchors or journalists, but both are Conservative radio hosts.

This so called "war" was more about the Fairness Doctrine than Fox News itself.

The White House strategy was if they attacked Fox News, they thought they could convince enough people to pile on and then the White House along with Democrats could then point to that in Congressional testimony, as evidence that the Fairness Doctrine needed to be revived.

[GOP Poet]

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[CyberRBTmail]

Indeed. The other networks were concerned about the same type of censure and chose instead to stand together ... fully realizing the thinly veiled threat toward them for lack of obedience.

Once again, this WH has launched an ill-planned campaign to discredit any opposition. That’s how Chicago-thug-politics operates.

But, it was also an attack on Fox viewers who keep growing in numbers and against the talk radio shows of Beck and Hannity ... the two primary Obama opponents at Fox.

[octex]

Great tie-in with the “Flash Gordon” movie!

Hopefully, it’s not just the media that refuses to fall on the sword, but also the American people.

[octex]

True, that Beck and Hannity are the only Fox News folks that are really addressing the issues with their commentary. Each of them are pushing the main issues (or revealing them, as Beck is doing) that SHOULD be of concern to all American citizens.

O’Reilly seems more concerned at taking on tabloid issues and remains left of the middle, IMO. He can’t bring himself to say anything bad about the shameful Obama administration.

Shep Smith is basically a “San Francisco type” liberal metrosexual who does programs that are akin to grocery checkout tabloids. Don’t think the good ol’ boys in Mississippi (Shep’s roots) would think highly of his wimpy ways nowadays.

Geraldo, of Puerto Rican-American background, who is a racist to the extreme and wants amnesty for every illegal alien, constantly causes viewers on FNC to change the channel.

Greta has finally given up the Nancy Grace style of doing months of programs about missing kids, etc., as her program has become one of the more interesting of the prime time shows since she has begun providing more variety in her topics and including more conservatives.

[ConservativeWarrior]

Geraldo, of Puerto Rican-American background, who is a racist to the extreme and wants amnesty for every illegal alien, constantly causes viewers on FNC to change the channel.

Hear, hear. When are they going to dump that chump? He doesn't belong on Fox.

I tuned in over the weekend and saw him lambasting the Arizona sherrif. Geraldo was letting his pro-amnesty mindset show when he continually asked why the sheriff won't listen to the Phoenix mayor. The sheriff tried to explain that he doesn't answer to the city's mayor, and that the mayor was elected by only 70k people, while he himself was elected by over 800k. Geraldo wouldn't have any of it, and basically talked over the sheriff and called him a radical.

Geraldo needs to be sent back to hosting daytime "ghetto-gays are sleeping with my mom and my brother" shows.