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OBAMA ADMITS HIS FEAR OF FOX NEWS

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.
 
 
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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN - IS NOT ONE OF THE MEDIA JACKALS

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:29:32 AM

Greta Van Susteren has been reprising the role of traditional reporting in a media age where others scoop up trash and toss it to the public for quick consumption. Greta has her broom out and she's sweeping away the garbage to get at the truth.
 "On The Record", Greta Van Susteren's highly rated Fox News show, went to Alaska Tuesday night to obtain first-hand interviews and commentary from locals in Wasilla and other Alaska towns to present a local perspective on Governor Sarah Palin's personal life.  As many know, a whirlwind of cut throat media hacks have been swarming like locusts into Alaska in an attempt to be the first with a handful of mud to throw at Sarah and her family. The problem they are encountering is that Sarah Palin hasn't strolled through the mud like a lot of other politicians. Rather than handfuls of dirt, they are only finding dust bunnies, and small ones at that. Greta took her microphone and cameras into Sarah Palin's native towns and cities and got real people on the record with thier honest opinions. It began with an exclusive and touching interview with Sarah's sister Heather Bruce. Greta talked with her about sibling rivalry, high school, the family's upcoming emotional  gathering for Sarah's son Track to wish him well in his deployment to Iraq, how the family members took care of each other and were able to cope with the adjustment to Sarah becoming Mayor of Wasilla and then Governor of Alaska. Every genuine look thus far at Sarah Palin's family has shown that she is well able to balance the responsibilities of her home life and her career.  Next Greta interviewed Pastor Kroon of Sarah's church in another exclusive where he explained at length the founding of the church by the regular citizens of Wasilla who got together and decided it would be a good idea to form thier own non-denominational church. She then talked to Sarah's former Pastor, Pastor Kalnins of the Assembly Of God Pentacostal Church that Sarah attended for a long time. Both men came across as honest men genuinely concerned with bringing religious values to the community. They are not Alaskan versions of "Pastor Wright" that some of the blood sucking vermin news media have desperately tried to make them out to be. And we saw some exclusive video from in the nside the Palin home with Sarah and Todd with thier children and Todd being questioned about how he feels in his role with the family. Though we haven't heard a lot from the First Gentleman, or "First Dude" as many refer to him, he came across as honestly loving his part in keeping the family a happy, healthy and unified. When he was asked if he felt intimidated by having a wife with such a powerful job, Sarah piped up and ( with an honest smile) she said that he's one of the toughest "Bosses" she's ever had when they go out on Todd's boat to run his commercial fishing business. Again Fox News and Greta Van Susteren should be applauded for not running with the frothing jackals who are only interested in gutting Sarah Palin's life story and destroying her personally, and instead present a clean and fair look at the reality of Sarah's personal life in Alaska.

- Mike Silverman, Milford MA

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NEWS MEDIA TAKE NOTE - SARAH PAILN WONT KISS UP TO YOU

Posted by Mike Silverman on Monday, September 08, 2008 11:13:50 AM
 

Hey, guess what Chris Matthews, Charles Gibson, Kieth Olbermann, Brian Williams, Bob Wodruff, Kaite Couric... you are not the ones who decide the presidency of the United States. The supreme self-aggrandizing elitism of the news media is on full display now over Governor Sarah Palin. They have decided for themselves that Sarah is only as good as she does in an interview with the narcissistic over-inflated tinhorn dictators of network and cable news. The pompous gas bags of the news inquisition think it is they , who will determine if Sarah sinks or swims. The only thing these yapping dogs with delusions of grandeur can affect is how quickly the loss of ratings points they lose themselves on a daily basis will proceed. Frankly they couldn't hold Sarah's briefcase let alone hold her position for 24 hours without crumbling like the false idols of truth they claim to be. But Sarah will give them some time to talk to her, question her, etc.., and they will regret it if they try to attack her on a personal level because they will not only get smacked down by Sarah herself but will sink clean out of site with whatever limited amount of viewers they still have left watching these news has-beens. Sarah said it herself in her speech at the RNC , she's not going to DC to please the media, and I suspect they won't be pleased when she's done granting them their demands for interviews.

- Mike Silverman

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Greta Van Susteren Doesn't Join The Attack Dogs

Posted by Mike Silverman on Sunday, September 07, 2008 6:22:44 AM

I hope a lot of people got the chance to see the excellent mini biography called "Sarah Palin, An American Woman" which aired on the Fox News cable station Saturday night. Fox News has its share of liberal takes, but it also has a reputation of looking clearly at all sides of a political matter. So I want to take a moment to thank the Fox News producers and Greta Van Susteren for presenting a fair look at Sarah's personal life and professional record. Greta is often pegged as a liberal, and yet liberals tend to hate her because she's not an extremist, has been critical of Barack Obama and hails from a small midwestern town and recently stated her view of midwestern values as a cut above the rest. Not the sort of things that would ingratiate her to the typical DC punditry. She has also been very fair on the record regarding Sarah Palin, chosing not to join the feeding frenzy of the left. Fox News has higher prime time-slot ratings than CNN, MSNBC, CBS news and NBC news, so it has to be a thorn in the side of the left wing hate-mongering attack dogs running the liberal meat grinder when Fox News puts such an unbiased report on the air about a Republican candidate. A lot of this mini-bio was in Sarah Palin's own words, from past interviews and recent exclusive interviews with Fox News.  How refreshing, letting viewers decide by letting Sarah talk about her family and career in her own words, and actually presenting her real associates, co-workers and friends talking about Sarah in thier own words. Even without shying away from mentioning potential local scandals such as the so called "troopergate" , this ended up a touchingly warm look at the Palin family and a fair review of Sarah's record. Sarah came out in a very impressive manner in this bio. I think anyone watching this would have to admit that Sarah is an impressive lady, hard working, loving to her family, politically successful, and geninuely honest about her feelings and her goals.
 
- Mike Silverman
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