Or why Obama’s minions want Fox News marginalized: They say things that are inconvenient for the administration. Things like pointing out that Obama has, in fact, been a serial breaker of promises:
He’s promised a public option for the uninsured, but then told politicians it would not be required for final passage.
He’s promised to win the “right” war in Afghanistan but is wavering on his support for his own military adviser’s request for resources.
He’s promised to close Gitmo but it sits open today.
He’s promised to create millions of jobs and not allow the unemployment rate to exceed 8%, but today it sits at higher than 15% in Detroit and is at nearly 10% nationally.
He’s promised to be the most transparent president in history but is conducting the final rounds of talks in the push for health care reform entirely behind closed doors.
He’s promised to put all legislation on the Internet for at least five days before he signs it into law but has not done this on any of the legislation he’s signed in the first year of his administration.
I’m not sure why the majority of the Nobel Committee thought he wouldn’t keep his promises, do you?
Obama has lied – repeatedly – to the left, the middle and the right. I sincerely doubt that he would know the truth if it bit him. Obama is all about Obama, not about this nation. His promises are meant to further himself. His promises are – and always have been – empty.
He’s not so much an empty suit and as completely empty promise. That’s why Fox must be silenced according to the White House. It shines a light into the void that is Obama.
Even if it was a Diamondback Rattler and bit him in the ass!
Obama sat in Reverend Wright’s church and listened to that contemptible man spew racial hatred and religious bigotry for 20 years, yet when asked for an explanation, Obama couldn’t bring himself to denounce the obvious philistine. No, Obama chose to indite his own white grandmother for her supposed racist fears of scruffy black guys hanging around at her bus stop.
This is the woman who raised him, the woman who took the bus to work so she could send Obama to expensive private schools, this is the woman Obama accused of racism. She deserved better, much better.
So, please don’t hold your breath waiting for this guy to keep his word. He’s not that much of a man, and he just hasn’t got it in him.
I think this whole Fox fight is funny. Every news orgamization has opinions, Obama just does not like theirs. I have seen people speculate that they are trying to discourage other news organizations from reporting news that Fox breaks. Could be.
I think it will hurt Obama, and the other media, far worse. AS you have pointed out, this makes them look very small. At the end of the day, the leader of the free world is picking a fight with a television station over their opinions. If he would only show half the spine to Iran.
It can backfire on the other media as well. To the extent they don’t pick up stories, they will look intimidated. Fox can then say we are the only place where you can get the truth. The rest of the media only repeats what the WH wants you to hear. Fox’ statement should read: we gladly express opinions that the President and his people don’t want you to hear. That is what media does in a democracy, assist in the discussion of important issues. If only one side, the government’s is expressed through our fellow news organization, then democracy suffers. We will not give in to WH intimidation. Hopefully, our fellow news organizations won’t as well.”
To the extent they do not report negatively on Obama, they have essentially openly acknowledged that they are nothing more tha Obama tools. What little claim to credibility they had left would be gone.