Posted on 11/03/2008 4:25:48 PM PST by Hadean
With precious little time remaining until the election, last week I sat down to watch as much Fox News as I reasonably could over a 24-hour period. As one might expect with Barack Obama so close to the presidency, the channel is in full nuclear meltdown mode; I was afraid the stench of desperation would waft out of the television set and into my studio apartment. Fox is going ballistic for good reason: These days, absolutely nothing is going right--in both declensions of the word. The paroxysms I witnessed hinted at an answer to a critical question: What will the opposition media look like during an Obama administration?
In this hour of GOP discontent, a split has occurred in the American right. It roughly looks like this: One group of conservative intellectuals--David Frum and David Brooks come to mind--has argued that the Republican Party is out of step with the country and unwilling to advocate an agenda for middle-class Americans. For its troubles, this faction has been attacked by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, who accuses Barack Obama of fomenting racism and lately seems to exist, along with his 20 million listeners, in his own universe. Limbaugh and his ilk (Andrew McCarthy and Mark Steyn on National Review's The Corner, radio host Mark Levin, and others) think the Republicans have run a weak campaign, and need to exhibit more anger and aggression in their confrontations with Democrats and the media. (Signs of clique membership: adoring Sarah Palin; cursing McCain for not bringing up Jeremiah Wright.)
As the right's main television outlet, Fox News's role in this debate--which is certain to become more heated after Tuesday--will heavily influence conservatism's next four years.
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My real hubby read this and now I’m in trouble....
You win!!! XD
I'll have it set to record the ABC, NBC, and CBS morning shows on Wednesday for the demonRAT "deer in the headlight" look.
REALLY looking forward to it.
“Fox truly felt like an alternate universe”
That’s how I usually feel about SeeBS news.
Yes, Obama will try to silence his detractors as all Leftist, facist dictators try to do; but this is still America, and we have our Constitution behind us and our memories of freedom to spur us on. Shut down talk radio? Go ahead, they'll just pick right up on satellite radio, (or as Michael Savage promises: "You'll still hear from me even if it's from a 500,000 watt transmitter on a boat floating around somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico"). Obama may even try to limit internet access and shut down conservative web sites, but nothing this facist scum will try to do will work for long. Freedom is embedded in the hearts of far too many Americans for our country to lie down and accept socialism, and his form of reverse racism. I sincerely pray conservatives will come out in droves tomorrow to vote, as never before, and bring this lying piece of excrement down and send him back to the dark shadows of Chicago politics where he slithered out from.
I quit watching Fox News weeks ago. With the exception of Sean Hannity, they have become so “soft” on B. Hussein.
Brit Hume tried to balanced what were the pundits saying but they were stubborn and kept insisting the polls were right and Obama’s going to win.
Not just that but FR will be shut down as well
Not just that but FR will be shut down as well
The smell is from the reporting, nothing else.
Article needs a big barf alert.
“They can all go kiss Obama’s shoes for the next 4 years for all I care”
There will be no shoe-kissing, ‘cause their lips will be firmly attached to the Messiah’s butt.
I hope to continue listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading Mark Steyn in the future, and admiring the pictures of VP Sarah Palin.
No “projectile vomit alert”?
Read my comment again. I stated up front that I watched only a little bit. It wasn't for me, so I turned off the TV. I didn't say anything about melting down and defecting to another news channel.
Giving equal time cheerleading Obama and McCain is not my idea of news. It may technically be fair and balanced, but it isn't intelligent, informative, or honest.
I read it the first time, thanks, which is why I made a comment in your direction. I even referred to the 'little bit' ... twice as a matter of fact, should you have any doubts that I understood what I read.
"I didn't say anything about melting down and defecting to another news channel."
Okay ... who said you melted down? You said that it 'looked pro-Obama' and that you 'had to turn it off'. So, do you just not watch the news at all? Get all of your news on FR -- because that would really give equal treatment to Obama and McCain, huh?
"Giving equal time cheerleading Obama and McCain is not my idea of news. It may technically be fair and balanced, but it isn't intelligent, informative, or honest."
I'm not a big fan of cheerleading either, which is why I try to watch some TV news than rely on republican-driven websites and radio. What is your idea of intelligent, informative and honest?
Same here......I hate Fox news......Shouldn’t they be worried about their jobs if their fearless leader gets in office??????
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