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The Fox Effect
NYT, via Politico ^ | 10-15-08 | Matt Bai

Posted on 10/15/2008 4:19:21 PM PDT by xlib

“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,” Obama told me. “If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak! I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?

“I guess the point I’m making,” he went on, “is that there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism, and it’s powerful. People want to know that you’re fighting for them, that you get them. And I actually think I do. But you know, if people are just seeing me in sound bites, they’re not going to discover that. That’s why I say that some of that may have to happen after the election, when they get to know you.”

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Two thoughts: first, the obvious. He's complaining about the media?!? He'd have never gotten past Iowa without the complicity of the media. Second, "..if there were no Fox News..." sounds pretty ominous, given his campaign's repeated efforts to legally challenge his critics' right to speak, or to bombard talk shows with the radio equivalent of DOS attacks. What will he do as president about Fox & talk radio & the internet if this is how he reacts now?
1 posted on 10/15/2008 4:19:21 PM PDT by xlib
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To: xlib

Hey Barry, if the Gucci loafer fits, wear it!


2 posted on 10/15/2008 4:22:35 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: xlib

Poor bambi.

He forgets how he and his ilk worsen this divide by characterizing us as bitter rubes clinging to guns and religion.

Stuff a sock in it.

You have more in common with Mussolini than with the founder of the Democrat Party, Thomas Jefferson. After all, TJ was one of those slave-owning whities.


3 posted on 10/15/2008 4:22:46 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: xlib

Was this satire? I couldn’t tell.

If Obama said this, he’s on drugs.


4 posted on 10/15/2008 4:23:03 PM PDT by y6162 (uot)
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To: xlib

His master(s) have taught him well. Turn the “guilt” upon the guiltless for the things YOU are guilty of.

What a cunning idiot.


5 posted on 10/15/2008 4:23:07 PM PDT by mkcc30 (Undecisive?!? Why?!?! You either love the U.S. or you hate the U.S.)
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“I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal.”

You mean you aren’t, Barry?


6 posted on 10/15/2008 4:24:34 PM PDT by NeoConfederate
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To: xlib

SCUMBAG! If there was an honest media in this country the affirmative action, Marxist empty suit would be in PRISON now!


7 posted on 10/15/2008 4:25:02 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: xlib

Sure Barry, you ass hole. We have only Fox. You have the entire print media, all your contributors in the MSM, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, all of them telling us you are the savior. But, I like the Fox description you made up of yourself. At least you admitted it.


8 posted on 10/15/2008 4:25:12 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Your VERY LIBERTY is in jeopardy!!! We have to win this election or see liberty perish.)
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To: xlib

Just words... just speeches...


9 posted on 10/15/2008 4:25:45 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough (Music washes away the dust of every day life. ---Art Blakey)
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To: xlib

Keep talkin’ Barry... the more nonsense we hear from you the better.


10 posted on 10/15/2008 4:26:48 PM PDT by vortigern (Watch this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZxBX8sz3tO8)
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To: xlib
I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal.

I guess Fox hasn't reported on the Israel hating, slimy associations havin, lack of any actual documentation (e.g. College grades, SAT scores, health records, birth certificate, &c.) providing, Alinsky loving Communist. I guess that's what is meant by fair and balanced.

ML/NJ

11 posted on 10/15/2008 4:27:03 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: xlib
I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal...

Hey...he finally got something right. Idiot!!!

12 posted on 10/15/2008 4:27:39 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: vortigern

Eerie...I smell a Castro.


13 posted on 10/15/2008 4:27:44 PM PDT by Blue Turtle (I)
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To: NeoConfederate
I only have one word for you:

arugula

14 posted on 10/15/2008 4:27:50 PM PDT by elk
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To: xlib
Obey Your TV

15 posted on 10/15/2008 4:27:51 PM PDT by feedback doctor (The first female president will be a Conservative Republican)
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To: Westbrook

News flash! Pot calls kettle black!


16 posted on 10/15/2008 4:27:54 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: xlib

He does a pretty accurate self-description, doesn’t he?


17 posted on 10/15/2008 4:28:13 PM PDT by Pinetop
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I guess Fox is being excoriated for not hiring Keith Overbite and Chrissy Matthews to shower praise 24/7 on the messiah.

Look out Fox, the O goon squad is coming after you.


18 posted on 10/15/2008 4:28:44 PM PDT by dforest (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: xlib

Wow. Fox is biased....???

What about the other 200 outlets that are pro-Obama?

He is insane.


19 posted on 10/15/2008 4:29:15 PM PDT by wac3rd (Conservatives are not always Republicans.)
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To: xlib
We really don't need Fox News to show us you are an effete, latte-sipping person:


20 posted on 10/15/2008 4:29:16 PM PDT by keepitreal ("I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. . . until I don't.")
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