Posted on 08/07/2010 5:02:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
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David Letterman is a liberal kind of guy, and like many on the left, old Dave is kind of frustrated these days. A new Gallup poll has President Obama's job approval rating at just 41 percent, with 53 percent disapproving. Those are the lowest numbers Gallup has posted since Obama was inaugurated more than a year and a half ago.
So Dave is seeking answers to the president's diminishing popularity, and that kind of conversation usually involves the Fox News Channel, which is considered by the left to be all anti-Obama, all the time. Since I work at FNC, I dispute that perception. But there is no doubt that Fox News is the most skeptical TV news organization when it comes to analyzing the president.
Consider this: If Obama was being worked over the way President Bush was by the establishment media, his job approval rating would probably be in the 20 percent range. Remember the brutal media beating Bush took? Today, the mainstream press is largely neutral or positive on Obama, even as many Americans are having doubts about him.
But let's get back to Letterman. Speaking with far-left MSNBC News commentator Rachel Maddow on his program, Dave listened as she put forth the preposterous theory that Fox News wants to frighten white Americans by reporting negatively about black Americans. "Scaring white people is good politics on the conservative side of the spectrum, and it always has been. The idea is that you sort of rile up the white base to be afraid of an other, to be afraid of scary immigrants or scary black people..."
In the past, paranoid, dishonest rants like that would have been dismissed as fringe speak. But not anymore. Without a shred of evidence, a guest on Letterman's "Late Show" (which by the way gets trounced in the ratings by FNC every night) defines an entire news organization as a racist enterprise. And Letterman goes along with the program, adding: "These people are continuing to fan this flame and ... that is cancer."
Please.
The only people Fox News is scaring are far-left loons who see their shining city on the hill on fire. For 18 months, the United States has been governed from the left, and things are not going well. I'm sorry if this analysis frightens some folks, but when you spend a half-trillion dollars trying to stimulate the economy and you create just 600,000 jobs, well, people are going to notice.
When the war in Afghanistan turns chaotic, Americans are not going to be pleased. When the nation's debt is increased by more than a trillion dollars a year because of record spending, folks are going to get a bit nervous. So, in order to counter those realities, the far left must divert attention from them. Thus, the scary black people deal.
In reply, here's a Top 1 list for Letterman and his uber-liberal guest: The American people don't need to be "riled" up by phony race baiting. They are already riled up by reality. And the polls prove it.
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Marxists and socialists are happy with Obama.
Whites who voted for BO, in lieu of actually having black friends, are slowly waking up to the damage he is causing.
David Letterman is a closet racist - as are all the MSM cretins. They project their bigotry onto conservatives - because they can.
Better than his shows
Live by racism, die by racism.
BFF of billionaire tax cheat and fugitive Marc Rich
currently hiding in Switzerland
BFF of billionaire tax cheat and fugitive Marc Rich
currently hiding in Switzerland
And Bill Clinton too.
Are all ‘Rats like these???
Yes.
(I answered my own question)
Thank God for the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth
Precisely. Obama wouldn't be in office if the nation was anywhere near as racist as the left likes to portray it is. The racism has come from the administration, not the public.
Hypocrit! Good grief.
That has nothing to do with the article. If you can’t discuss the article then please stay off, this thread. Why don’t you make your own vanity thread attacking the author or any columnist you don’t like.
Letterman, once the ‘class asshole’, old now, is a ‘no class asshole’. With audiences of other aging ‘class assholes’.
Ohhh Dave....yer juss Sooooo kewl man!
It has effectively been conveyed to many that if one is born a non-black one must be a racist and since for many God doesn't exist, reparations are demanded to cleanse the soul.
GOD bless the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth too!
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Yeah. And conservatives are the bigots. Sheesh.
I know you do. I did not mean to offend you and I apologize
What really scares these people is truth.
Holy smoke—I didn’t know some people don’t know how to make any sense when they write something. I do now.
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