Posted on 10/27/2009 6:05:25 AM PDT by Rufus2007
Let's say, hypothetically, someone was to make a disparaging statement about Fox News and conclude as a news outlet it is way outside of mainstream political thought. Well, then the follow-up appropriate question could be where does that put Fox News' competitors who get just a fraction of the cable news juggernaut's ratings?
Michael Wolff, a contributing editor and columnist Vanity Fair and CNBC regular, told MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews on his Oct. 26 program the White House strategy was to marginalize Fox News the same way conservatives once did to liberals, making "liberal" a word with negative connotations. However, he also made the bizarre conclusion that Fox News, which dominates cable news on a regular basis, is "not very popular."
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Socialists-communists-liberals-progessives!
conservatives-conservatives-conservatives-conservatives!
Yea,I get it!!
“Fox is not very popular in this country.”
Obviously, by “this country” he meant Iceland...
or Sweden...or Venuzela...or Cuba...or Tierra Del Fuego or...
maybe he meant Thailand.
Yeah...that’s it! Thailand!
I wonder what country Mike is in ,,,, because FOX is No. 1 across the board in my country .
What country you talking about Wolff?
Kenya?
In this country, Fox destroys MSNBC in the ratings war.
It was Vanity Fair. Of course they meant Thailand.
“Ahem”
“I meant, not very popular with effete aesthetes like myself who decry Fox News’ hatred of unicorns and sunshine.”
It’s like Yogi Berra said: “Nobody drives on the freeway any more... it’s too crowded!”
Thailand?
We are on to them. It won’t be so easy anymore.
This is the same guy who mocked Rush when he got his $400 million contract, saying “conservatism is on the way out, I don’t understand why he’s getting this”.
Even commie propaganda is getting boring now.
WalMart is not a very successful retailer.
Men seem to dislike bikini contests.
NASCAR is not a popular spectator sport in the south.
Chocolate and foot messages aren’t very popular with women.
I read stuff like this and shrug my shoulders ruefully.
They make their own reality, an Alice-in-Wonderland world that has these libs running around, disappearing down magical holes where the world works they way they think it should.
My liberal (credit to Rush Limbaugh for making that word a bad word) mother-in-law watches MSNBC all the time. During a recent visit she launches into an invective that I need to stop watching Glen Beck and Fox News and tune into MSNBC where I’ll get the common sense missing on Fox.
The woman’s 80 years old so I didn’t slap her.
Two things that are irrefutable proof of insanity. First is doing the same thing over and over expecting an eventual different result.
Second one, and the one my mother-in-law, Chris Matthews, even the vaunted White House of so much talent, is pointing a finger at everyone else and saying that THEY are the crazy ones, it is only The Wise I who is sane.
Cause this is essentially what these people do...and my mother-in-law. Fox gets over three million viewers during prime time night news and MSNBC gets 400,000.
But of course ALL those silly Fox viewers are the dumb ones and those few of us wise enough to watch MSNBC are the ones who see the way things ought to be and we should lead the world. We are the chosen ones.
It’s scary, seriously.
LOL! Well, someone forgot to tell all of the Fox News viewers!
Any photoshop savvy FReeper needs to make a Michael Wolf picture as Bagdad Bob with a ratings chart in the background “Fox News is not very popular”
Listen, these limousine-liberal elites are far removed from reality. They live the whitest of areas, usually have very little interaction with the so called people of that they champion, unless barking orders to hired help and they never send their own children to the very public schools that they subject everyone else to. They send their kids to the most elite schools.
Bet he didn’t know anyone who voted for Nixon either.
Any sixth grader can see Fox News brings a lot to the world and national news. But the WH activity is a hugely corrupt attempt to censor a free press, IMHO, it is impeachable for Barry and his minions to have instigated it, as such activity violates Barry's oath "to preserve, protect and defend" the US Constitution.
It's amazing that these things about "marginal" and "marginalize" should have to be explained, but I guess some people are thrown off by use of varying forms of the same root word.
HF
Like the New York columnist who said, “I don’t know how Rickard Nixon got elected! Nobody I know voted for him!”
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