Posted on 10/14/2009 10:35:21 AM PDT by Joiseydude
The White House is making a profound political mistake by targeting Fox News and deliberately deciding to exclude them from interviews and access to the administration. And not only that, they are making a mistake on both a practical and a political level.
Frankly, it just doesn’t make sense.
On a practical level, targeting a news organization only redounds to one’s detriment. I have no doubt that Fox News will not change its coverage, nor should it, in response to statements from White House Communications Director Anita Dunn. Nonetheless, indicating that five separate Fox News programs will not have access to White House personnel simply raises a red flag.
Moreover, it represents a profound political misjudgment. It is a misjudgment to believe that because a network has opinion programs that present a different view from the administration that the network itself and its viewers are unabashedly hostile.
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profound political mistake?
COULD NOT HAVE POSSIBLY WISHED FOR ANY BETTER!
Go Fox! One honest news source is refreshing.
Maybe that isn't their purpose in this attack. Just maybe they are building a case to shut Fox down along with the Blogs and Talk Radio. I know, progressives would never even suggest such a thing.
FOX needs to find an Obama impersonator and let Beck do comic interviews of him....have HUGE teleprompters for the impersonator and always have them fail halfway through :-)
That would be great! Poke fun at Obama at every turn, we know he has extremely thin skin.
Fox bump in viewership!
“Maybe that isn’t their purpose in this attack. Just maybe they are building a case to shut Fox down along with the Blogs and Talk Radio.”
....absolutely!....they’re ramping up to impose the Fairness Doctrine....gonna try to put FOX and Rush out of business
I’m looking forward to see what Beck does with the hostage negotiator he’s looking for. He suggested that the white house may want to watch.
Its not just Obama with the thin skin, its his supporters too, they can’t stand for their master to be ridiculed....poor babies.
It's not misjudgment, in fact it is the first proper judgment call they've made.
Hey, great idea!
Then we could quote the dumb things the impersonator said and attribute them to 0bama!
(ref Tina Fey and Sarah Palin)
They have very good reason to desire the shutdown of all dissenting viewpoints and criticism.
Their ideology cannot stand up to a logical argument.
It will fail every time it is challenged.
True, I have been in chat rooms with some of them. It’s quite amusing to poke fun at their “hero”, they go ballistic. They have no sense of humor whatsoever! lol
George Bush may have been right not to get in a battle with the NY Times. But that is because he had no intention of shutting them down. He would have to deal with their counter-attacks day after day. Obama doesn't play by those rules, he is a Kenyan dictator, an Odinga. He is freezing the target before he goes after it. When he makes his move, his fascist horde will agree that what Fox does isn't "legitimate" news reporting.
Hey Anita, suck it!
It's misdirection. Fox needs to make it abundantly clear and pull the rug out from under them.
On another thread, I posted the following, which relates to this subject as well:
America's founding ideas of liberty were revolutionary in 1776, and they are revolutionary today! They exploded old concepts that some imperfect persons in a society were somehow entitled to make decisions for other likewise imperfect persons. They affirmed the "self-evident" truth that rights are not grants from government, but they are inherent in individuals, Creator-endowed, and, therefore, unalienable.
If today's youth and their parents suddenly were to be exposed to those common sense, "self-evident" truths explained in the writings of the Founders and Framers of our Constitution, they would be aroused to such action that the current Congress and Administration would be stopped in their tracks in their efforts to unconstitutionally "rule" this nation.
The problem is that the "censors" have, over the past several decades, removed those ideas systematically from the nation's textbooks and public discourse, and those who knew better did little to counter their actions.
Now, however, technology has made it possible to access the Founders' writings and to cause them to, once again, explode into the current debate.
Are there enough patriots who will cause this to happen?
Ideas have consequences (Weaver)! In the battle of ideas, the ideas of liberty will defeat the ideas of tyranny, if they are allowed to be read and heard, because they appeal to the innate desire for liberty in each individual.
Of course, the counterfeit ideas of tyranny must be masked in order for politicians to gain the kind of power that has occurred in recent times. To gain that power, such politicians "buy" votes with promises of "goodies" and false solutions to "crises." Once they gain the power, then the tyranny begins.
Hope and change that is acquired in order to gain power over other people's lives is not a revolutionary idea. It is as old as the history of civilization and leads to tyranny.
Where to, America?
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