Fox vs Obama. A fair fight?

[AztecWilliam]

In one sense the open and obvious attempt by Obama and his intellectual brown shirts to destroy or at least marginalize Fox News is comical. What's next? Will the administration command that the incoming tide at Virginia Beach turn and go back out to sea? Yes, very comical.

On the other hand, what Obama is trying to do (let's not mince words; this supposedly open, honest, and post-partisan President is 100% behind this effort) is contemptible. Imagine the outrage if Bush had tried to intimidate MSNBC in this fashion!

www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/23/white_house_tactics_go_too_far.html

AzWm

[aztecwin]

This White House (such as it is) is in danger of increasing the power and viewership of Fox. The unintended consequence of trying to single out and isolate Fox News will be to draw viewers to the Fox outlets to see what all the fuss is about.

The White House makes itself a laughing stock by making Fox a big part of the news rather than the War in Afghanistan and how it should be conducted or the economy and how the Obama Administration can reverse the damage that it is doing by the out of control spending that is the ill targeted Stimulus Bill.

I have not even mentioned how the denial of free and unfettered access for the press may be unconstitutional.

[ptsdthor]

Obama's archetype national executive does it, expect Obama to be doing something similar soon.

edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/16/venezuela.broadcaster/

Also, watch for "localism" to be foisted onto radio stations soon.

newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/10/21/cnn-again-cites-liberal-study-talk-radio-pushes-localism

The choice will be:

1. Put potentially unpopular and bad local liberals on the air and lose advertising revenue in order to keep some profitable conservative talk shows.

2. Keep programming with conservative talk as is and face ACLU backed law suits.

3. Drop talk radio format.

I think the left would take #1, #2 or #3 but wants #3 the most. The light of day and an open debate of the facts is most damaging to the left's current agenda.

[aztecwin]

WH tries to muzzle The Press and pulls back a bloody stump. LOL

starturl.com/ymuje

[Bob Forsythe]

Tell me the right wingnuts can't do anything other than whine.

=Bob

[aztecwin]

Oct 29, 2009 18:34:11 GMT -8 Bob Forsythe said:

Tell me the right wingnuts can't do anything other than whine.

=Bob

Well thought out reply.