Posted on 09/05/2009 10:23:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
All together now, let’s say thanks to Rupert Murdoch. The media mogul gave us Fox News and what Charles Krauthammer calls its “alternate reality,” a world view competing with that of traditional media that are shocked that anyone could believe theirs is not the only possible way to understand what’s going on.
If not for Fox, we might be less exercised as a nation about proposed health-care restructuring that would spend us into economic mayhem. If not for one of its stars, Glenn Beck, we wouldn’t have half as much publicity about the left-wing zanies the Obama administration keeps placing in positions of extraordinary power.
As columnist Krauthammer has observed, Murdoch spied an interesting “niche” out there - something like half the population, and that’s not hyperbole. The most recent polls show 40 percent of Americans identifying themselves as conservatives and another 35 percent calling themselves moderates. In my experience, the moderates don’t like the far right but also recoil in horror at the semi-socialist, big-government, tradition-mocking belief system that has come to typify the 21 percent of the population that calls itself liberal.
Of course, liberals don’t use the word “liberal” anymore. They are trying to escape their ignominy in the eyes of many by calling themselves “progressives.” By any other name, however, their political attitudes remain the same.
Fox News claims to be “fair and balanced,” to be non-ideological. Make of that what you will, but we can all surely agree that the network is more likely to do adversarial reporting on liberals than ABC, NBC or CBS, and more likely to lend a sympathetic ear to conservatives than they are. NBC’s cable manifestation, MSNBC, is far left as well as lewd, mean-spirited, condescending and sometimes downright hateful, as in Chris Matthews of “Hardball” saying former Vice President Dick Cheney “always wants to kill.”
Beck has gotten into trouble for his own inexcusable excesses, such as calling President Obama “a racist.” Some advertisers have fled the scene while hypocritical NBC newsmen say he should be fired, as if Beck’s offense was worse than what Matthews said or than what MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann says almost daily or than some of their own journalistic failings, such as inattention to the radicals Obama is bringing into his administration. Beck has done an enormous public service in talking about this.
A top-notch intellect Beck is not. Bill O’Reilly? Although failing to notice his outsized ego would be like failing to notice the Rocky Mountains while driving West from Denver to Utah, he has pluses, too. His show is often provocative and more worthwhile watching than most of what’s on TV.
Sean Hannity was better with a liberal sidekick, but does raise some great questions along with some that aren’t. Brit Hume is a classy newsman. Intellectuals include Krauthammer, now a regular and among the three or four best commentators in America. Juan Williams is a Fox liberal of the thoughtful kind I find myself admiring.
The test is not just in the tasting, but in the ratings. Fox News buries its cable news competitors not by a little, but a lot. When millions watch, millions react, politics is changed and America benefits. In my view.
Beck just got raised to the next level. You know the far left are going to throw everything at Beck including the Kitchen Sink.
AMEN! Great Post! I can assure You that YOU HAVE at least SEEN ONE!! OBOZO is a guaranteed RACIST of the Nth Degree!
Worded perfectly and he is right...Hannity was more watchable with a liberal to bounce off of.
Keith Olbermann’s head just exploded.
0bummer just hires, has beer with, and nominates racists.
This is full scale war. Let them bring it. We are only going to succeed in bringing more of the czars down all Autumn. I am so jazzed and psyched up for the Home Team! Rah!!
Glenn, Sarah and Rush are the truth-tellers and there are tens of millions of us that have their backs. The MSM and Obots are in a minefield without a map.
bttt
My husband would agree as well in regards to Hannity. Kristen Powers would have beena good sidekick imo. Don’t see her on Foxnews as much as before, though.
FNC’s Conservative guest blogger, Malkin, has spent hours exposing the corruption in the Obama Administration.
IIRC, Hannity originally broke the stories dealing with Wright, Ayers and Dorn.
Hannity’s panels almost always include liberals.
Murdock has out foxed the MSM and other networks numerous times.
It is amazing how they all sing from the same page. I don’t think Beck was wrong AT ALL for questioning if Obama is a racist. Evidence glore that he is a racist!
He is!
When I first came on the internet in the 90s, FOX was giving out free T-Shirts at its website and I got one (my cable company didn't care Fox at the time either)
Now you gotta pay for stuff.
:)
Mark Lloyd is coming and it won't be just Glenn Beck.
This diversity CZAR will use the power of the US government to destroy ALL conservative news outlets. We must be very watchful, the coming crap will probably be slipped into law a little at a time.
Don't trust any of these Obama commie bastards.
We are losing out country.
Everybody Must Do Something Everyday.
They are definately going to need us.
I'm happy to see that Obama and his thugs have finally made many Americans as mad as a stirred hornets nest.
We need to stay mad.
I still hate shepard smith...
Regarding Hannity and foils, I have a confession to make. Osama and several despots want to destroy this nation. I don’t need to hear *from* them, only *about* them, preferably that they are dead. Obama and many “progressives” are trying to destroy the nation I’ve loved, and I don’t need to hear *from* them... either. In some ways, “fair and balanced” is for the birds, and I turn away when any Fox “moderator” lets a “progressive” waste Fox’s time and mine.
Again, Hannity has broken the stories on Wright, Ayers and Dorn.
He has spent hours exposing/debunking the lies and myths dealing with global warming and Gore.
Hannity has worked tirelessly covering issues pertaining to the border.
Exposed nutjobs that have wanted to take down crosses, remove the Pledge from our public schools. etc..
Suppose to some those people have not wanted to destroy our country in some form or fashion.
Protected Americans from having their property taken from them by the government. (Eminent domain)
Many many other topics and issues he has worked on and exposed to the public.
Not to mention hours the hours he has put into raising money for the children of wounded and killed military personnel.
Murdoch can’t live forever.
and it will suck when he goes
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