Posted on 09/28/2010 7:23:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: Fox News is 'destructive' to America By: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) - President Obama is pulling no punches when it comes to Fox News, declaring the cable news outlet to be "destructive to [America's] long-term growth."
In a more than 8,000-word interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Obama compared the cable news channel to papers owned by William Randolph Hearst at the turn of the 20th century that unabashedly pushed the media titan's own political views.
"You had folks like Hearst who used their newspapers very intentionally to promote their viewpoints. I think Fox is part of that tradition it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view," Obama told the magazine.
Officials in the Obama White House have long made Fox News a punching bag, launching a full blown offensive last year when aides declared the network to be "opinion journalism masquerading as news." Then-White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said the cable outlet "operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," and top aide Valerie Jarret called Fox "clearly biased."
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The Caliph Imam of the US issues a fatwa against Fox...
Yup, and Hearst totally destroyed America. I don’t know how we ever rebuilt...
The war Obama launched against Fox News worked so well last time. /s
Anyone remember Bush whining about one particular news network when ALL of them were negative about him?
This pResident is one spineless whiner..
Does using the word "I" 8,000 times qualify as an interview?
Obama sounds more and more like Venezuela’s Chavez every day.
Wonder if anyone has bothered to tell Barry that Hearst was a Democrat congressman?
I stand (sit) corrected.
“Hearst was a Democrat congressman”
Very good point. But history isn’t Obambi’s strong suit along with economics and leadership.
To be fair he can read a teleprompter better than just about anyone out there.
Hilarious stuff!
ABC NBC CBS CNN NYTIMES, etc., have been arms of the Democrat party for decades and now that somebody comes along with a mainstream point of view they squeal like stuck pigs! How cool is that?
” I will agree with one thing, the election of Obama and a large Democrat congressional majority has given FNC the biggest viewer boom in it’s history.”
And Limbauagh
And gun store owners
Poor democraps. Always the perpetual victim.
Yep, Bammy, we really, really, really do not like your agenda. At all.
“You can go to the Book of Esther too see how it ended for Haman remains to be seen how it ends for Hussein.”
I already know how that happy story turned out. I’m pretty handy with hammer and saw; need any help with the scaffold?
You forgot Gold!
How low do you have to go to do an interview with a relic-of-the-’60s publication that staffs itself by raiding Daily Collegian offices and campus Trotsky clubs of their most juvenile “angry young men with their fists in the air”?
Just wow.
;-)
Was this quote actually from Obama, or Hugo Chavez??????
“Wonder if anyone has bothered to tell Barry that Hearst was a Democrat congressman?”
I doubt faux-intellectual FUBO ever heard of Hearst until some wonk told him.
I think it’s great to call all of Zer0’s pronouncements and Executive Orders what they are - Fatwas.
Hearst also supposedly covered the Nazi persectecution f the Jews when others did not, and called for a Jewish homeland. I could see why the Thug In Chief would not like Hearst.
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