President Obama’s war with Fox News is ridiculous. After discrediting Fox on the Sunday morning news circuit a few weeks back, the White House looks pathetic worrying about this channel and their obvious problems. Obama can’t bother with Fox News. The channel is insignificant and can’t get this much attention in light of our real problems. They are a sore thorn in the side of Obama and can be completely wrong in their reporting to help a story, but they are absolutely not worth it.
It should've ended when Obama sent this bird to Fox...
As someone who watches Fox News, along with MSNBC and CNN, Rupert Murdoch’s style of sensationalist and tabloid reporting is obviously prominent on the channel and it adds to the madness. They take pride in being the watch dog of this administration and their following is large enough to organize and have the mainstream notice, seen with the Tea Parties and Townhalls of the summer. They compare it to liberals against Bush and call the left hypocrites.
The investigations into Van Jones, the Rev. Wright, and Anita Dunn are great examples of attacks that have nothing to do about policy or the current state of the nation, but just unrelated stories used as deterrents to real issues.
Sure, Fox claims to be fair and balanced, which it’s really not, but the same could be said for all of cable news. MSNBC is guilty of the same type of slant as Fox News, but instead supports most of the actions and stances the left takes. It’s the left version of Fox, but actually presents real news and analysis that’s actually rational and factual. CNN on the other hand is, well, CNN.
Despite all of this against Fox News, it’s still is a valued news source by many and has the highest ratings of all news channels, which they will tell you every chance they get, especially Bill O’Reilly.
They are too much that it’s laughable. Some of their commentators are so out of touch with the world and can make no sense. Glen Beck cries on television every episode about fascism and Hannity wastes time talking about socialism.
Juan says there's no crying in baseball. Quit it, Glen.
The conservative view is an important one, but when organizations get away from the issues like Fox and devotes everything to attacking and then playing the victim, you lose credibility. Fox News has been losing credibility for awhile now and it’s because of the outrageousness of the channel. They need to take lesson from MSNBC and just focus on analyzing the news without an agenda. Form an opinion, but don’t sacrifice the facts and news the viewers deserve.
That said, this is an difficult battle for Obama and a fight not worth fighting. He is completely alienating the people who describe him as “Nixonian”, which is exactly what Fox wants. The media exposed Nixon as a criminal and Fox wants to do the same so badly with Obama, it’s pitiful. They don’t understand what America is facing and want Obama to fail. There is no need to truly and factually analyze his policies, when everyone around him is a socialist trying to take away the Second Amendment. People see a caricature of Obama on Fox.
I understand the danger with inaccurately reporting the news, but this is something the administration can’t worry about. Let the media attack and regulate each other. I love watching MSNBC call FOX out. It’s funny to see them get exposed. We don’t need the White House to let us know the deal with FOX. It’s all pretty obvious.
This gets in the way of actually reporting and analyzing the news. These news channels are too crazy and lose focus on what’s important, which distracts us from what we need to know… Maybe that’s what the government wants?
I don’t want to hear about any conspiracy theories, Juan….
You’re crazy. Absolutely nuts…It’s not that complicated. Do you like Fox?
Juan doesn’t necessarily like Fox, but loves Imus in the Morning, a show that starts at 3am west coast. Juan stays up all night to watch Imus…
Yeah you do, you stay up all night to Imus at 3am… He’s so stupid in that hat. Ha, look at that hair!
