The White House has lately been engaging in a war of words with Fox News Network. On September 20, 2009, President Obama refused to appear on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Obama snubbed Fox partially because of the unfavorable coverage Fox gave to Obama's healthcare plan. Wallace responded by saying that these were the " biggest bunch of crybabies he had seen from Washington." In October White House Communication Czar Anita Dunn called Fox News "A wing of the Republican Party." "They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air."
Fox News Senior Vice President Michael Clemente, who likenss the Fox News Channel to a newspaper with separate sections on straight news and commentary suggested the White House officials were intentionally conflating opinion show hosts like Glenn Beck with news reporters like Major Garrett." "It's astounding the White House cannot distinguish between news and opinion programming." I find it astounding the criticisms that the Obama administration uses against Fox news. CNN and MSNBC have their own opinionated television personalities as well such as Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman, and Anderson Cooper. ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN are all very liberal in their orientation and have been very supportive of President Obama's administration. MSNBC has undoubtedly been pro-Obama ever since he ran for president. There's no fair and objective news coverage on MSNBC. He has all the other news networks in his back pocket. Why criticize Fox? I believe Obama feels Fox is a threat to his agenda, especially in their coverage of the healthcare bill that's currently being considered before Congress. Also, conservative commentators such as Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have been hammering away at President Obama concerning his governance of the nation.
Fox news was founded in 1996 by Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Roger Ailes is the CEO of Fox News. Fox New's slogan is "Fair and Balanced." I will venture to say that Fox news isn't a conservative channel. Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteran, Geraldo Rivera, and Shepherd Smith aren't conservatives to name a few. The most outspoken conservatives on the news channel are Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. However, they are commentators and they possess the right to express their opinions in a similar manner as Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman do on MSNBC. Fox News is more "fair and balanced" than all the other news networks. President Obama wants to criticize Fox News for not being very objective in their reporting. Fox is no less objective in its reporting than CNN and MSNBC. However, Obama isn't critical of those news channels because they're very supportive of President Obama's agenda. President Obama is surrounded by czars in his administration that desire to silence free speech. They want to silence those that dissent with the Obama administration. President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela himself took control of the media in 2007. In 2006 Chavez announced that the terrestrial broadcast license for RCTV would not be renewed. It ended on May 28, 2007 and was replaced with a state network. Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd wants to control the type of information that's broadcast over the airwaves. Our First Amendment freedoms are under attack.
The Fox News Network is more supportive of Republicans than all the other cable news channels. However there are those on Fox that are liberal on some of their viewpoints. They're not all conservatives. Also, Democrats have been invited to appear on many of the programs and some refused to come. Whose fault is that? Just recently Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg appeared on the other news networks but wouldn't appear on Fox. And the Democrats want to complain about Fox catering to the Republican Party.
There are some topics that Fox won't cover such as the eligibility issue of President Obama. They won't delve into the issue of whether or not Obama is a natural-born citizen. They refer to those that dispute Obama's eligibility as "Birthers" just like the other pundits do. Fox news also won't cover topics relating to the North American Union or the New World Order for example. Also when an entertainment star dies such as Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith, to name a few, they'll spend endless hours of airtime covering the details surrounding the deaths of these media superstars. Personally I believe the news channel shouldn't be the place to televise continuous coverage of entertainment stars. Those types of news items should be relegated to the entertainment channels.
Bill O'Reilly in his Talking Points memo was mentioning reasons why he believed President Obama was so critical of the Fox News Channel. Some of the reasons why O'Reilly believes Obama is critical of Fox is because of Fox exposing Obama's associations with various radicals. Last year when Obama was running for president his associations with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers was revealed. Jeremiah Wright was Obama's pastor and he blamed America for 9/11 and was racist in his attitudes. Bill Ayers was a former "Weather Underground" terrorist and he was part of a communist terrorist group that bombed the Pentagon and other buildings in the 60's and 70's. Obama had ties with Bill Ayers back in the 90's and both served on the board of an anti-poverty group called "Woods Forest." Fox has also reported on all the radical czars that serve at the behest of President Obama such as Cass Sunstein, Mark Lloyd, John Holdren, and Anita Dunn. Anita Dunn said two of her heroes were Mao Tse-tung and Mother Teresa. Mao was a communist who took control of China. Another reason why Obama's probably critical of the news channel is the coverage Fox news did on ACORN. Fox news did an undercover videotape of ACORN employees giving advice on how to break the law to a pair of journalists disguised as a pimp and prostitute. Megyn Kelly taped a whole show uncovering the corruption that took place at ACORN a few weeks ago. Obama had ties with ACORN and ACORN even contributed to his presidential campaign. Then on top of that there are conservative critics such as Hannity and Beck continually hammering away at Obama's policies. Also much of the coverage on Obamacare hasn't been too favorable. I concur with O'Reilly's talking points.
I believe the Obama administration desires to silence all forms of dissent. Talk radio and Fox news are two of the targets that Obama is aiming at. I believe he wants to bridle them. In a fascist country, the dictator will seize control of the news media. That's what the communists in Obama's administration desires. They desire to silence all opposition. America is becoming a fascist country. It's very crucial during next year's election that we send home our Congressmen and Senators in droves. We need to drive these communists out of the White House and Congress. Time is running short. If we're going to reclaim America, we must do it now. America also needs to repent and turn to God. God is our only hope!
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