Posted on 10/20/2008 2:01:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A conservative media watchdog says it's outrageous that Barack Obama is blaming a major cable news service for costing him two to three points in the polls.
In a recently published interview for the New York Times Magazine, the Democratic presidential candidate said: "I'm convinced that if there were no FOX News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls. If I were watching FOX News, I wouldn't vote for me, right? Because the way I'm portrayed 24/7 is as a freak!"
The Illinois senator continued, explaining that he is being typecast as "the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?"
Seton Motley, director of communications at the Media Research Center (MRC), says Obama's lashing out is evidence he cannot stand the idea that FOX News does not worship him like the majority of the mainstream media do.
"He's gotten unabashed, loving coverage from all three broadcast networks, the vast majority of the cable news networks, and every print publication you can imagine," says Motley. "It has been wall-to-wall glowing coverage."
FOX News, says Motley, has the "audacity to report on [Obama] as he is and quote him verbatim" -- and somehow, adds the MRC spokesman, the presidential hopeful credits that for a downtick of two or three percent in his polling. "[For him to single-out FOX News is] just a staggeringly myopic view of the media and how he's been treated during his presidential run," he says.
In contrast, Motley suggests that if not for the pro-Obama bias of The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media, John McCain would be up 20 percent.
Memo to Obama ... and the horse you rode in on.
Fairness Doctrine II
“In contrast, Motley suggests that if not for the pro-Obama bias of The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media, John McCain would be up 20 percent.”
Actually, Barry-ZER-O wouldn’t even be in the game.
If it weren’t for the liberal media, he would be 15 points lower — just ask Evan Thomas of Newsweek, who let the cat out of the bag one day.
We should start a pool - Which media giant will be targeted first by Chancellor Barry’s Truth Squads? Fox News or Rush? I need someone from Las Vegas to set some odds for this.
Very telling.... It really is all about going after anyone with views that differ from him or going after anyone who does not bow down to him.
I agree with this last sentence about if the other supposed “news” outlets reported instead of editorialized, McCain would be up 20pts.
If it weren't for the rest of the MSM, you would be down 15 points.
Now you know what it's like to be a republican watching every other news network.
CHICAGO POLITICS
BODY COUNT IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS
292 MURDERED IN CHICAGO
221 KILLED IN IRAQ
OUR LEADERSHIP IN ILLINOIS ;
SEN. BARACK OBAMA
SEN. DICK DURBIN
REP. JESSE JACKSON, JR.
GOV. ROD BLOGOJEVICH
HOUSE LEADER MIKE MADIGAN
ATTY. GEN LISA MADIGAN
MAYOR RICHARD DALY
ALL DEMOCRATS ! ! !
THANK YOU FOR THE COMBAT ZONE IN CHICAGO
OF COURSE THEY ARE BLAMING EACH OTHER.
CAN’T BLAME THE REPUBLICANS, BECAUSE THERE AREN’T ANY.!!!!!
STATE PENSION FUND $44 BILLION IN DEBT, WORST IN THE NATION.
COOK COUNTY (CHICAGO) SALES TAX 10.25%, HIGHEST IN THE NATION.
CHICAGO SCHOOL SYSTEM ONE OF THE WORST IN THE NATION.
THIS IS THE POLITICAL MACHINE THAT OBAMA SAYS HE COMES FROM
IN ILLINOIS.........AND NOW OBAMA SAYS HE’S GONNA “FIX” WASHINGTON POLITICS.!!!!!
SPREAD THE WORD ***** SAVE AMERICA
The truth hurts, doesn't it you communist POS.
Actually, that little sh!t doesn't have the right to brand the entire Fox network as a machine "out to get him."
Shepard Smith, Bill O'Reilly, Alan Colmes, Juan Williams, Nora Liasson, Chris Wallace and several other prominent FNC personnel kiss Obama's shoes on an almost daily basis.
The only REAL American on the entire network is Sean Hannity.
I am sure there are a few others, but Sean is really the only upstanding citizen on a regular basis.
Obama will probably try to kill Sean Hannity if he gets into the White House.
It's such a disgusting thought, but given how evil Obama is, I wouldn't put it past the communist b@stard to openly hunt and imprison or kill Americans who ardently disagree with him and his THUGS.
The Fox pundits' idea of 'fair and balanced' was kissing Barack on both cheeks.
He could well be 10 points ahead and we could end up with a druggie in the White House. The MSM reported on a wreck Laura Bush has a young person. They reported on W’s dui but no one reports on Michele’s attack on Jerome Corsi and her oforeign calls. The over look Obama drug use. Hell,America is stupid to elect this empty suit that no one has investigated.
Mr. Obama, Be ready to be the most detested man on earth. I have a dim view of someone who commands adoration.
The pompous nothing wanabe POTUS WANT medias under HIS CONTROL....
Kick this clown out and send him back in KENYA ZIMBABWE or IRAN
Actually, it’s his socialist policies that are killing him with conservatives.
Big bump!
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