Our President really needs a break from petty pesters. Networks like Fox News should just let him be. He should take advantage of his prerogative to spend Sunday mornings touting his so-called accomp- lishments on gentler, more sympathetic stations and needn’t be accountable to answer the really tough questions of which he didn’t have time to prepare.
Besides, his whining is really starting to get on my nerves.
Barack Obama is apparently so thin-skinned that he reminds me of one of those plastic people my biology teacher had at the front of the class in tenth grade. The one where you could see the organs and intestines and sinews. He has basically proven to be a big cry baby who relies on keeping his popularity above fifty percent via appearances on liberal news programs and late night television. When he sticks his finger in his mouth and holds it in the air, he must simply ignore the possibility that the cold feeling may be the rushing, mighty wind of dissent and voiced disillusionment.
He got spoiled in 2008 during the campaign when he was basically given a pass during the vetting process. The President to Be was never held to the fire and required to give us reasons of substance on which to vote. The focus was continually placed on his becoming the first American President of Color as opposed becoming the first American President of Principle and Vision in a long time. Now that the honeymoon is over, some of these people (though not many) have actually decided to start earning their paycheck as a journ- alist again and are finally starting to ask some tough questions. And his responses have been predictably professional: Leave me alone or I won’t be your friend anymore.
For the record, I get practically none of my news from any of the major radio stations or television networks – including Fox News. But instead of the President and his staff forming an arsenal (reactive or otherwise) against these organizations, why not just tell it straight?
I know that was an extremely naive question and would be asking a lot.
I actually know the answer, however, which is that they can’t on the grounds that it might incriminate them in front of the general public. When I use the word “incriminate”, I am not talking about actual crimes that would land them in jail, but “crimes of immorality” like the purposeful breaking of nearly every campaign promise to date. I realize that it is hard for politicians to keep every promise and it is even possible that some were made with good intentions (though that would also be brutally naive). But I have a strong hunch that there is more to Obama’s diss of Fox News than the idea that they just pick on him too much.
What do you think?
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Didn’t he also go after the washington post? Then there was the reporter during the campaign that was silenced by team Obama. It doesn’t matter which news organization, talking head, that makes a statement againainst Obama. All are treated poorly when not favoring the One. And lets not forget the love fest over him By Kieth Oberman who coined the term “The One”. “People have called you ‘the savior,’ ‘the messiah,’ ‘the messenger of change,’” said NBC’s Matt Lauer to Obama just two weeks before the nation voted.
Bias in the media? I don’t see it….
Erick,
Most politicians want to be loved, at least liked.
As for Fox News –Well? Anyway here is a link to one of the best looks at and explanation of what Fox News is. It seems that the heirs of the company that owns Fox News, can’t stand the way Fox News is run.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-09/the-fox-murdoch-feud/
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