Posted on 12/13/2011 5:39:37 PM PST by Cardhu
Because Fox has put off the best Republican candidates, Barack Obama will be much less vulnerable at the election.
Whoever wrote the political rulebook needs to start rewriting it. It used to be an iron maxim that voters' most vital organ was neither their head nor their heart, but their wallet. If they were suffering economically, they'd throw the incumbents out. Yet in Britain a coalition presiding over barely-there growth, rising unemployment and forecasts of gloom stretching to the horizon is holding steady in the opinion polls, while in the US Barack Obama is mired in horrible numbers – except for the ones showing him beating all-comers in the election now less than 11 months away. Even though the US economy is slumped in the doldrums, some of the country's shrewdest commentators make a serious case that Obama could be heading for a landslide victory in 2012.
How to explain such a turnaround? In the United States, at least, there is one compellingly simple, two-word answer: Fox News.
By any normal standards, Obama should be extremely vulnerable. Not only is the economy in bad shape, he has proved to be a much more hesitant, less commanding White House presence than his supporters longed for. And yet, most surveys put him comfortably ahead of his would-be rivals. That's not a positive judgment on the president – whose approval rating stands at a meagre 44% – but an indictment of the dire quality of a Republican field almost comically packed with the scandal-plagued, gaffe-prone and downright flaky. And the finger of blame for this state of affairs points squarely at the studios of Fox News.
It's not just usual-suspect lefties and professional Murdoch-haters who say it, mischievously exaggerating the cable TV network's influence. Dick Morris, veteran political operative and Fox regular...
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Like the "New York Times". . .or NBC/CBS and various 'alphabets'. . .everyone 'knows' who they are; and no one cares. As for 'old' Soviet public 'horn'; Pravda; while now 'defunct'; it's MO has not been forgotten.
Russian media has changed less, than they would have you believe. Journalists who 'tell the truth' of the matter - do so; with greatest risk.
Little has changed per media and the threats they live under; save the claims; that it has. . .
“Like the “New York Times”. . .or NBC/CBS and various ‘alphabets’. . .everyone ‘knows’ who they are; and no one cares.”
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That is because Americans, under 40 or so, have been dumbed down by Marxist media, entertainment, and educat6ion.
The old Soviet Union is being reborn in America.
It is anybody’s guess as to how totalitarian it will become,
but I am very pessimistic.
It is why I am happy to be retired and out of the new USSA.
America will never go back to the better days.
Pravda is still in operation, but I do not know how related it is the the old Communist version, and it has been several years since I have read the site:
www.pravda.ru
But hey; per 'Eastern Wisdom'. . .Everything Changes/Nothing Changes. And do not have to live 'long'; to see the truth in that.
An excellent point.
Today they showed Newt getting clobbered By Obama 51-40. All Republican Candidates are getting Hammered on these Cable shows while Obama is Getting Slobbering Coverage. NO ONE is Covering the scandals and Bald Face lying of his attorney General. People may not believe in Conspiracies ,but I would Like to Konw if there are any Traditional Americans Left anywhere,this Country is Going to have a Come to Jesus Moment soon and a Lot of People will die,and the rest will be asking How did this Happen ,the Resounding reply will be its those rich that did it. MORONS
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