Posted by
Mike Silverman on Friday, October 17, 2008 12:22:32 PM
Fox News was launched in 1996 as a competitor to CNN. Today, according to the polling agency Rasmussen Reports, 87% of people who regularly view Fox News say they favor voting for McCain. 65% of CNN's viewers say they will vote Democrat. 63% of MSNBC viewers are leaning toward Obama. According Neilsen Ratings..., Fox News Channel averages about 2.2 million viewers quarterly, CNN averages about 1.3 million, MSNBC about 867 thousand. According to Newsmax , in an interview that will run this weekend in the NY Times magazine, Obama rips Fox News as he says "“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,” , "Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak. I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?"
Well, now. Isn't this interesting? First, it's plainly obvious that Obama fears Fox News because it has the highest ratings and audience share of any cable news network and isn't biased in favor of him. Therefore, the truth might actually slip out about Obama on Fox News, and that just can't be tolerated by Obama. Obama must be able to manipulate the news media, and if he can't, then he attacks it. But , beyond that, his comment shows that he has some startling biases of his own. He believes you and I and everyone else who tunes into Fox News has a problem with people who drive Volvo's....?, that's an odd thing to pick on...., and we have a problem somehow with people who don't own a gun...?... a bizarre conclusion ...., and God forbid we encounter someone sipping a latte, that just drives us into the red zone..., which is an enitrely ignorant thought on his part. And do you really care if Obama reads the NY Times? I don't care what he reads. And, is he "portrayed as a freak by Fox?" , absolutley not. Now, yes, I do have a problem with people who are arrogant and liberal and politically correct. Looking at his comment, I think this is how he seems himself. No one knows better than Obama, what he is. His use of the word "freak" is probably the most telling. This smacks of VERY high insecurity. To paint with a broad brush 2.2 million people as seeing him as a Freak simply because Fox News is not biased, shows that he is angry, bitter, and self conscious.
- Mike Silverman.