Posted on 12/13/2011 5:39:37 PM PST by Cardhu
Because Fox has put off the best Republican candidates, Barack Obama will be much less vulnerable at the election.
Whoever wrote the political rulebook needs to start rewriting it. It used to be an iron maxim that voters' most vital organ was neither their head nor their heart, but their wallet. If they were suffering economically, they'd throw the incumbents out. Yet in Britain a coalition presiding over barely-there growth, rising unemployment and forecasts of gloom stretching to the horizon is holding steady in the opinion polls, while in the US Barack Obama is mired in horrible numbers – except for the ones showing him beating all-comers in the election now less than 11 months away. Even though the US economy is slumped in the doldrums, some of the country's shrewdest commentators make a serious case that Obama could be heading for a landslide victory in 2012.
How to explain such a turnaround? In the United States, at least, there is one compellingly simple, two-word answer: Fox News.
By any normal standards, Obama should be extremely vulnerable. Not only is the economy in bad shape, he has proved to be a much more hesitant, less commanding White House presence than his supporters longed for. And yet, most surveys put him comfortably ahead of his would-be rivals. That's not a positive judgment on the president – whose approval rating stands at a meagre 44% – but an indictment of the dire quality of a Republican field almost comically packed with the scandal-plagued, gaffe-prone and downright flaky. And the finger of blame for this state of affairs points squarely at the studios of Fox News.
It's not just usual-suspect lefties and professional Murdoch-haters who say it, mischievously exaggerating the cable TV network's influence. Dick Morris, veteran political operative and Fox regular...
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
This article is wrong in almost everything the author asserts.
Oh, please. This article is absurd.
“The Guardian”....more left wing than NBC.
I agree Fox has been showing polls where Obama losing to both Newt and robot.
“The self-described conservative journalist Andrew Sullivan says...”
LOL!!!
“Even if Romney somehow wins the nomination, he won’t be “the pragmatic, problem-solving Mitt Romney” of yore, says [David] Frum, but a new Foxified version”
LOLOLOL!!!
Oh man, this guy is killing me!
Look to your own back garden, Limey. The UK is populated by dhimmis willing and eager to pay the jizyah. You’ve lost all right to criticize.
Including the words "a" and "the." Author doesn't understand UK politics, let alone US politics.
Who allowed MsNBC and CNN to manipulate the “debates”?..
What idiot(s) allowed this.. Republican officials have a death wish..
And FOX News don’t seem to see anything wrong?........
Well isn’t THAT SPECIAL?... A Very compassionate suicidal bi-partisanship..
I WANT NAMES... who allowed this,...
Horse sht!
And in addition to that, Fox’s commentariat seems to largely lean towards Mitt and it has been Mitt’s decision, not Roger Ailes’ decision, for Mitt to not come on Fox.
Author is an idiot.
Your opinion is as bad as the Guardian's.
OK, I’m listening:
Polls today show both Gingrich and Romney ahead of Obama ...(not much ....but ahead)
Yes, the article misses the mark. But I do see a very determined editorial level support for Romney by Fox News. It’s not out in the open like an endorsement would be but it is obvious to most Freepers.
Why would Fox do such a dumb thing? It hurts their reputation with their most loyal supporters (people like you and me) and it damages the image we have of basically good guys like Brit Hume and Fred Barnes.
TIN HATS ON
A possible answer: Obama/Murdoch backscratching. Murdoch lays off of Obama, supports Obama’s choice for the GOP nomination (Romney) and Obama calls off the dogs on the E-Mail scandal and the Justice Dept working to destroy the Murdoch empire. A few conservations over drinks with the right people would send the message. I think it’s been sent.
TIN HATS OFF
Anything from the nazis at the Guardian makes this story suspect, and adding Jonathan to the mix makes this story incredible and unbelievable.
Next...?
“This article is wrong in almost everything the author asserts.”
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The stupid Brits started going off the rails over 50 years ago.
The Guardian has replaced the old Soviet Pravda.
Please; Fox News could 'do more'; but, at same time; we must hope; they do not 'do less'. . .
A business is a business is a business....
So be it.
Like the "New York Times". . .or NBC/CBS and various 'alphabets'. . .everyone 'knows' who they are; and no one cares. As for 'old' Soviet public 'horn'; Pravda; while now 'defunct'; it's MO has not been forgotten.
Russian media has changed less, than they would have you believe. Journalists who 'tell the truth' of the matter - do so; with greatest risk.
Little has changed per media and the threats they live under; save the claims; that it has. . .
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