Joe Conason: “Criticizing Fox News isn’t ‘Nixonian.’ But Fox News is: Pundits are making false comparisons between Obama and Nixon. They have no idea what they’re talking about.” “In a sense, Fox News Channel has never been able to overcome its nature as the offspring of Ailes, notoriously one of the angriest, toughest Republican consultants in politics, and Rupert Murdoch, the ruthless mogul whose political abuse of his news outlets became legendary long before he entered the cable news business. The objective for Ailes, as for Murdoch, is not fairness or balance; the objective is always to win by whatever means necessary. That includes marketing himself and his employees as high-minded truth-seekers and innocent victims of snotty liberalism — much in the mode of old Nixon.” — [ Read More ]
Erick E. Burns, President of Media Matters: Fox News Channel is twisting American politics in an unprecedented way, and too many members of the press still aren’t getting it. The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war aimed at destroying the Obama administration and its progressive agenda. Fox’s Glenn Beck said so himself last Friday, predicting that he would soon “take the administration down.” [ READ MORE ]
Beck expects something he’s “working on now” will “take the administration down“
Fox Complaining About Non-Invitation To White-House
In April another right-wing dumbNUT, Texas representative Betty Brown had this “brilliant” suggestion: “Asians should change their names to make them ‘easier for Americans to deal with.’”
……and Republican congressman John Culberson …yet another GOP MORON!
USATODAY — The doctrine of r-e-s-p-e-c-t: When Barack Obama ran for the presidency promising change, most Americans probably were not thinking that he meant foreign policy, at least other than Iraq. But hardly a week has gone by without a striking example of the president’s campaign to remake America’s relationship with the world.
(Obama: Accepts a book from Hugo Chavez on Saturday)
Nowhere was this more evident than at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend. Obama engaged in a much-noticed handshake with leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and delivered a speech pledging an equal partnership with Latin counties. Most remarkably, he reached out to Cuba, a move he initiated even before the summit by loosening travel restrictions on visiting relatives there.
As is the case with previous efforts in other parts of the world, it remains to be seen what tangible results can be achieved with this softer sell. But Latin America could be the perfect place to try it out. [ READ MORE ]
Kudlow complains about Obama and Chavez’s “Boyz N The Hood handshake”
1.Eugene Robinson (Pulitzer Prize Winner — 2009): When Slapped, Slap Back — It’s hard to argue with the results thus far from President Obama’s “no drama” approach to campaigning and governing, but I think he should learn to chew a little scenery when the occasion demands. Theatricality is one of the weapons in any leader’s arsenal, and a well-timed glower or growl can have more impact than a sheaf of position papers. There were a couple of moments at the summit, however, when Obama would have been right to throw off a little heat. [ READ MORE ]
Eugene Robinson’s Remarks On Winning Pulitzer Price
A day and a half ago, I blogged about the malicious insinuations by a cross section of ReTHUGlicans, regarding President Obama’s use of Teleprompter Technology.
This morning I came across Michael Gerson’s article posted on WashingtonPost.com — a forceful and eloquent defense of President Obama’s addictive use of Teleprompter technology.
Gerson writes:
“….it is a mistake to argue that the uncrafted (speech without a Teleprompter) is somehow more authentic. Those writers and commentators who prefer the unscripted, who use ‘rhetoric‘ as an epithet, who see the teleprompter as a linguistic push-up bra, do not understand the nature of presidential leadership or the importance of writing to the process of thought.”
“Governing is a craft, not merely a talent. It involves the careful sorting of ideas and priorities. And the discipline of writing — expressing ideas clearly and putting them in proper order — is essential to governing. For this reason, the greatest leaders have taken great pains with rhetoric. Lincoln continually edited and revised his speeches. Churchill practiced to the point of memorization. Such leaders would not have been improved by being “unplugged.” When it comes to rhetoric, winging it is often shoddy and self-indulgent — practiced by politicians who hear Mozart in their own voices while others perceive random cymbals and kazoos. Leaders who prefer to speak from the top of their heads are not more authentic, they are often more shallow — not more “real,” but more undisciplined.”
Obama’s goal at his recent news conference was less elevated — to express his thoughts on the economy with precision, as he faces a crisis in which a stray word could have a tremendous cost. [ READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE ]
I am yet to read an opinion better crafted than Gerson’s — enough to inform a fair-minded techno-midget, but probably insufficient to placate the “Rush Limbaugh – Sean Klannity – Bill Osama Bin O’Reilly” iron-clad triangle of delusioned THUG viewers and listeners.
According to a study by the Pew Research Center in 2006, for the People and the Press, Rush Limbaugh’s listeners placed second in the category of “high knowledge.” Seventy two percent of these Limbaugh listeners are “White Christian Males.”
High knowledge? I do not dispute that, but you wonder — why any intelligent person would want to listen (and believe in) to this twisted, racist, hate-filled, drug-snorting propagandist, and for that matter, to Gestapo maggots like O’Reilly and Hannity!
The video below offers some clues:
The answer is simple: The majority of Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Hannity listeners are BIGOTS looking for a FIX, the rest are divided into two groups — those looking for “Jerry Springer Like” entertainment, and those like me — who want to keep in touch with what the ENEMY is up to.
