Oct 19 2009
Team Obama Losing The Fox Wars
One thing Americans universally despise is the Political Industrial Complex – those knattering know-it-alls who are the politicians, lobbyists and their media cronies who think God placed them on this Earth to tell the rest of us how to live our lives.
We are fed up with these arrogant know-nothings. We are fed up with the false promises, the grandiose schemes, the control freak nature of their ideas.
And now the Obama administration has crowned the champions of the little guy, of Main Street USA who feel oppressed by the Political Industrial Complex. The Tea Party crowd have their conduit. Â Team Obama went out and designated Fox News the one group outside the political industrial complex who will challenge the status quo ‘eff-ups in DC.
Fox News is now the designated enemy of what is wrong in DC under the Democrats. They are the champions of the jobless who are suffering from the failed liberal stimulus bill (which supposedly is working as planned). They are the champions of seniors who want to keep their Medicare benefits from the government’s death panels. They are the champions of the military and their families. They are the champions of those who do not buy into the CO2 madness and who don’t want to lose more jobs to Cap & Tax foolishness.
This weekend Team Obama ratcheted up the Fox Wars, and designated the news network as the defacto champion of everyone with a gripe or concern with DC. It was so over the top  that the administration actually came out threatening other networks to ‘not follow Fox’ – or else they too will get on the administration’s enemy list. This at the same time an Obama official proclaimed awe with one of the worst mass murderers of all time. I guess Hitler or Stalin just weren’t good enough compared to Mao.
Smooth move there Team Obama.
In response to these ‘attacks’ Fox has seen its viewership skyrocket, and Fox is now in full Briar Rabbit mode, begging for more of the briar patch! As the other news networks are seen as aligned with DC and the Democrats and Political Industrial Complex they will be the ones who end up losing viewers. MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC will all now be seen as the mouthpieces for the Political Industrial Complex (which is the enemy of Main Street USA).
The epitome of this was seen on ABC when former Clinton official turned journalist George Stephanapolous interviewed former journalist turned Obama official David Axelrod, where Axelrod warned the news media to be good or else. Nothing better exemplified the Political Industrial Complex and its brain dead stunts as this exchange.
The other news organizations will stay with Team Obama only briefly. As Fox grows and they lose viewers and money, they will have to join the rogue Fox News if they wish to survive. Business is business after all. And then you will see politicians on the left jumping ship soon after.
Apparently something like 17% of Democrats and 46% of independents watch Fox. 20% of this nation watch it every day. Therefore Team Obama just declared war on all these viewers by challenging their own integrity and choice in news sources.
Obama has lost this war already, they are just too inexperienced arrogant to see it. That is why they are flailing mad and Fox is grinning. Game over.
Update: Mary Katherine Ham has quotes from Helen Thomas and the NY Times telling Team Obama to stop the foolishness, and this great link to CBS News:
The Obama administration really needs to get over itself.
First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant.
Then, an anonymous administration aide attacks bloggers for failing to maintain a sufficiently pro-Obama slant.
These are not disconnected developments.
An administration that won the White House with an almost always on-message campaign and generally friendly coverage from old and new media is now frustrated by its inability to control the debate and get the coverage it wants.
Personally, I think this latest misstep is a clear signal the young and inexperienced team is starting to implode. Their ignorance may have included the idea that all a President has to do is wave his hands and DC jumps. I think they are starting to appreciate how well George Bush did in this sea of professional political sharks.
This weekend the blinders should have come off for all but the most partisan and far left moonbats!
Pinnochios’ Sat. address attacking Insurance Companies and profits was filled with distain, bordering on hatred of Americas finest institutions and her freedom to work and earn a living.
Only a Fascist that believes all money belongs to government and Government is the only mechanism for correctly doling it out could with such condescention, attack profits, free markets, Free SPEECH and the best healthcare system known to man.
Profits provide for jobs,
Profits provide for a rising stock market,
Profits provide for a standard of living,
Profits provide for a return on investment,
Profits provide for a 401K or IRA increase thus a retirement fund,
Insurance Companies provide a way of paying for heathcare,
Insurance Companies provide for the freedom to purchase catestrophic, or comprehensive or none at all depending on a free persons needs,
Insurance Companies pay doctors, nurses and hospitals the moneys they need to stay in business where as government run medicaid and medicare do not.
The distain, the ignorance and the arrogance was on full display by Pinnochio and Axelrod and Stephanopoulis.
This gives me hope that the regime just did itself in.
One way or another this ignorance and arrogance will bring this regime down. the American people will not tolerate having their companies bankrupted, their paychecks confiscated, their 401 Ks and IRA’s further eroded by such empty headed fascists.
One way or another this will end badly for Pinnochio.
I believe it is time for another march on D.C. and this time while the pols are in town. A march so big that they cannot pretend not to see ,so large that it surrounds their playground and work places and will not let them out.
It will be interesting to watch who will stay hitched to Pinnochios’ wagon and who will bail from the Titanic as it heads for the bottom.
The American people have some house cleaning to do and after the administration is done the enablers must be also.
Ignorance and arrogance are both unattractive qualities and together are a recipe for FAILURE!
You say his administration is failing. So what. What good is that going to do us after Obama signs the treaty in Copenhagen? What good is any of this going to do us after congress passes the healthcare, cap and tax, the 2nd stimimlus and immigration reform? In 9 months this guy is well on his way to turning this country into a communist country and the public is totally unaware. What will he accomplish in the next 3 and 1/4 years? What happens when all the coal miners and associated workers in energy lose their jobs? Obama is working for all this. He is making it happen so that everyone will turn to government for help. This is his plan.
I have tried to tell people this is happening but even to myself I sound hysterical. But I tell like it is in a calm factual manner. They don’t believe me or say there is nothing they can do about it. I feel like Cassandra.
By the time Obama finishes attacking all those who make a living in this Country, who will be left to pay his salary? The list grows by the press conference, all those connected to the medical industry, those who produce energy, those who produce news, the Chamber of Commerce, next it might be the military industrial complex if McCrystal doesn’t get into line. Every complaint is characterized with they are just trying to make money. Obama should be happy, 7 million don’t have a penny to rub together, they can’t do him any harm.
I hate to think where Obama is going with this. If I were open to conspiracies I might think he really thinks like some of those Czars he keeps hiring.
I began my boycott of the alphabet shows several months ago in a transitional manner. Now it is a 90 percent boycott. Do like Dancing with the Stars and Castle.
I understand from Fox that many primary shows will focus on service (servitude?) to the government.
GAG.
I did not want to be counted as a viewer of the Neilsen ratings and hoping that if I watch online streaming videos of these TV shows, I would not be counted.
Guess the only way to not be counted is to wait until those DVDs are released and made available for rental? Guess by buying or renting them does count.
The sad part is that many Democrats and liberals do not believe that we are already on the road to serfdom / tyranny. They don’t believe any of it to be true.
Guess they will either fall in line or be caught unawares.
Hard to believe that Obama still has a 50 percent approval rating.
Lurker—the Taliban also has around a 50% approval rating I am sure. Based on the wonderful political combination of ignorance and intimidation.
And the admin would have us look to who for infomation—why CNN of course. Add CNN anchor Rick Sanchez to my enemies list and after his performance against Rush and Sheriff Joe Arapio add libeling slanderer to his status as a murdering drunk. Good role models bobo—but then again you never had any yourself.
Perhaps it would be easier to make up the shorter list of who this administration has not taken a shot at.
“…appreciate how well George Bush did in this sea of professional political sharks.”
Indeed and I hope the far right appreciates it as well.
Yes, the old libs in the WH with their old liberal ideas just put the media in an absolutely no win situation, ie, they must be shills for the administration or “watch out! It (the FoxNews attack) could happen to you!”
Makes Blagoivich (sp) look like Mother Teresa, no?
Chicago thuggery ain’t gonna work no more. ‘Bout time.