The fair and balanced network has a little problem, I believe, and one that the media never seem to address. If they are just another news organization and are defended by Howard Kurtz and Jake Tapper as such, then why do they employ almost the entire field of Republican presidential candidates for 2012?
At this point in time the leading candidates for the GOP nomination are:
Mitt Romney.
Mike Huckabee.
Sarah Palin.
Newt Gingrich:
So far Romney isn't on the Fox News dole yet, but how long will it be before he gets his own time slot in some form before 2012 rolls along? Huckabee has his own one hour show on weekends, Sarah Palin juts got hired and is making the rounds on the FNC shows so she can be trained for the future, and Newt is a fixture on the network as the conservative basher-in-chief and thought to be the next Reagan by some of their hosts.
Let's not forget that they immediately hired Karl Rove as their master strategist when he left George W. Bush's side.
This is just plain wrong in so many ways. And the media remains silent except for quick mentions about it.
Howard Fineman rightly calls Ailes a "kingmaker" and you can see that that's his goal.
Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum--which is why God created Roger Ailes. The president of Fox News is, by default, the closest thing there is to a kingmaker in Anti-Obama America. And that, in turn, makes him the de facto leader of the GOP. In a relentless (and spectacularly successful) hunt for cable ratings, Ailes has given invaluable publicity to the tea partiers, furnished tryout platforms to GOP candidates, and trained a fire hose of populist anger at the president and his allies in Congress. While Beltway Republicans wring their hands or write their tracts, Ailes has worked the countryside, using his feel for Main Street resentment to attract and give voice to this year's angriest--and most powerful--voter-viewers: those who hate the Feds, the Fed, and the Ivy League. It was Ailes who put the "party" in the tea parties by giving them a round-the-clock national stage. Next month Fox will have priority access to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville.
I haven't heard the media complain either that FOX is the only network that has access to the teabagger convention. Once again the Aile's machine chugs along and our country suffers for it as the MSM remains mute.
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And don't forget the many news media 'journalists' who are now working directly for Obama. of course, they are merely extensions of the news networks and channels that do the very same thing, with the exception (thankfully) of Fox. A link about them is below...
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/shocker_13_mainstream_media_journalists_have_now_gone_to_work_for_obama/
You are comparing writers getting work with the President as equivalent to one news station employing EVERY presidential candidate for one political party? Really? Are Goopers that insane?
"CBS News's "Face the Nation" is touting its line-up for it's up coming show. Coming Up: Jan. 24, 2010: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill".
For those keeping score, this will be McCain's 19th appearance on a Sunday morning talk show since Obama took office 12 months ago. That's an average of one appearance every 2.9 weeks for a year -- more than any other public official in the country.
Since the president's inauguration McCain has been on:
- "Meet the Press" three times (December 6, July 12, and March 29)
- "This Week" three times (September 27, August 23, and May 10)
- "Fox News Sunday" four times (December 20, July 2, March 8, and January 25)
- CNN's "State of the Union" four times (January 10, October 11, August 2, and February 15).
His appearance on "Face the Nation" will be his fifth in the last year (January 24, October 25, August 30, April 26, and February 8).
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The question is WHY? He is just an out of touch old man who is trying to be relevant but who is clueless on so many fronts.
CNN gathered up all the former Clinton workers, advisers, etc. except D. Morris - do you take issue with that as well?
Will it bother you when everyone from Obama's team goes to MSNBC in 2012 after he loses?
Sheesh..
So why do certain politicians get so much exposure and others so little? Ron Paul was a bigger presence in the last election than Huckabee, but how come he is hardly ever seen there? It is because his form of conservatism doesn't mesh with Ailles'.
Where would the so-called tea-party movement be right now if Fox hadn't provided it wall-to-wall promotion in the weeks before and put up maps saying 'go here to see your favorite fox news personalities!'
Fox News isn't simply using its access to be the kingmaker, it is using its entire staff to dictate the political agenda of the Republican party.
Crooks and Liars posted the Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread
crooksandliars.com
ABC's "This Week" - White House senior adviser David Axelrod; Sens. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
CBS' "Face the Nation" - Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
NBC's "Meet the Press" - White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show" - Panel: David Brooks, Savannah Guthrie, Clarence Page and Kathleen Parker. Topics: Will Obama Recalibrate His Agenda In Response To Voter Outrage? White Flight: Why Have Working Class Whites Abandoned Obama?
CNN's "State of the Union" - Axelrod; Menendez; Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
The thing about this lineup is that the republicans get to end the show with their unquestioned lies. Dems are always appear in the first part of these shows.
Crooks and Liars asks the question: Notice a trend?
BTW, if Working Class Whites have Abandoned President Obama in favor of the republicans then they deserve what they will get.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8471961.stm
Fox News also presented a graphic showing that the Lincoln-Douglas Debates were between Abraham Lincoln and the black abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
So THAT'S why there's so few walking plants these days! Fox is so informative.
"We had a university, the university, I think it's the University of -- I don't remember which university it is -- um, look at the pictures," Beck said.
Fox News pundit Liz Trotta, while discussing the idea of assa ssinating Osama Bin Laden and Barack Obama, said, "Well ... both, if we could!, " then laughed happily.
As Joseph Goebbels observed, "It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is, in fact, a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded to clothe ideas in disguise."
In a world now ruined by the Bush-Republican-corporate policies for which the Fox News served as head cheerleader, THAT is the mission of Fox "News."
these people-the teabagged,as well as the fnc personalities-still truly believe that its a grass roots movement.and they get wildly bent out of shape if anyone suggests otherwise.they honestly believe that fnc actually running ads(they RAN F'ING ADS!!) had no effect on their angry little intellectual hoedowns...