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| Darth Splinter wrote: | | Distract Americans? You have to take your head out of the shitter. I didn't hear much of this news at all, and I'm an avid watcher and reader of all the stations. It always comes down to some Obamanical plan with you, doesn't it? |
Since when should a president care if a media station isn't treating him very nicely? FOX is the 'big bad guy' of news; they are the brutal "WE EAT POLITICIANS FOR BREAKFAST" station renowned for attacking Democrats and Republicans they find to be acting poorly. Obama gets praise from every other media outlet (okay, except George Stephanopolous SP? but he's from Cleveland, making him just too cool. FOX news praises him, and, I suppose, CNN on a lighter scale), and he only gets hefty criticism from FOX, which is focused on being cynical (it's arguable, however, that Bill O'Reilly is treating Obama well... moreso than any ordinary politician. I'm beginning to think O'Reilly is an Obama-supporter).
So, with O'Reilly out of the question (he's the 'Fair and Balanced' somewhat pro-Obama guy), that leaves two people left to be criticized.
Beck and Hannity.
Hannity's a partisan idiot, we all know that. But he's one commentator (I could forgive MSNBC if it was just Keith Olbermann and maybe three or four other commentators. It's their reporters I find ridiculously funny. ABC and CNN have a light bias in the same way FOX does, so I don't mind them).
Beck- he's non-partisan (he spends entire episodes BASHING the Republican party as traitorous idiots and progressive-lites.). He's a conservative, but that's no reason to dislike him. He's a fair person, but he's emotional about what he does (he's had an intriguing life), and considers himself to be a sort of 'sentinel' (which, as a commentator, he is supposed to be) against the government. Thus, he reports on the more outrageous areas of politics (what Obama's screwed up on) rather than the positive (what Obama's done right). He gives credit where it's due, and leads his show with mistakes (he's even installed a phone on his show which has a number given to the White House to correct mistakes ON THE SHOW... which... hasn't... happened?), but he's aggressive when he finds fault.
So... that makes one partisan commentator, Hannity, who isn't really the one the Obama administration attacks very often (okay, Gibbs called him an anti-Semite when Hannity had some radical on his show... who Hannity ardently disagreed with and fought against. The reasoning why Hannity's an anti-Semite? "Because you can't have people on you disagree with"...?)
Anyway, I rest my case.
There's a case one could make, and I'd debate against it, that FOX is conservative, and that would be a reasonable point. However, when someone called FOX "pro-Republican" that's a bit out of line...
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