For three years the press and the left have spent considerable time telling anyone who would listen that the Tea Party movement was a racist fringe group full of extremists. When Jared Loughner opened fire in Tucson the left blamed the Tea Party. When the truth finally came out it turned out that Loughner was simply insane with no coherent political philosophy, either left or right. The Tea Party had nothing to do with it.
Now we have a group of anarchists camped out all over the country. They’re not huge in number. They’re not winning the hearts of minds of the average American, but they have the sympathy of the left and the White House. It’s not surprising. Obama is friends with people who used to be in the Weather Underground and have an appetite for a New Left revival. The President went to a church for 25 years with pastor who blamed the United States for 9/11. The mainstream press that combed each Tea Party for nut jobs has remained silent at the violence and depravity of the Occupiers all over the country.
Isn’t it news that a protester pushed a police officer in front of a moving bus? The whole world is watching? Really? Where is the outrage at the sexual crimes at Occupy Wall Street? The politicians that are allowing this lawless anarchy to continue are cowards. This isn’t a peaceful group. If they are going to behave like animals it shouldn’t be allowed to continue. It would be in Democrats’ best interest to kill off this movement now. If this drags into next year it’s going to be an albatross around the party’s neck; 99 percent of Americans are sick and tired of OWS.
It’s been eleven days now since Jimmy Hoffa dropped his infamous “take these son of bitches out” comment at an Obama Labor Day rally. Why hasn’t the press been hounding the White House for an apology or at least a comment about Hoffa’s remarks? When Rep. Joe Wilson yelled, “You lie!” during President Obama’s health care pep rally, which was true by the way, it was all we heard about for days on end. The press has basically ignored this event.
Does anyone think the President Bush could have gotten away without having to comment about something like Hoffa’s slur? Faith in President Obama’s leadership is unraveling, but one has to wonder how much worse it would be if the press wasn’t in love with him.
President Bush received a never ending stream of negative press. What was going “wrong” in Afghanistan and Iraq was always headline news. It’s as if the wars ended the day Obama was sworn in. This has been the bloodiest year in Afghanistan since the war began, yet it’s not even news. The economy is in tatters and the President still blames Bush after spending over a trillion dollars. After receiving non-stop adulation from the mainstream media for four years how does Obama spin his way out of this? The American people have tuned it out. These are very strange days.
The level of press the mainstream media has devoted to Obama is unprecedented. The lovefest began on day one and it’s never stopped.
The nonpartisan research group Center for Media and Public Affairs along with California’s Chapman University released a study that found the nightly newscasts devoted 27 hours, 44 minutes to Pres. Obama’s presidency in his first 50 days. That compares to 7 hours, 42 minutes for Pres. George W. Bush and 15 hours, 2 minutes for Pres. Bill Clinton during the first 50 days of their first terms.
Not only has Obama gotten more coverage, but that coverage has been more positive than his predecessors.
On the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts, 58% of all evaluations of the president and his policies have been favorable, while 42% were unfavorable. That compares with 33% positive in the comparable period of Bush’s tenure and 44% positive for Pres. Clinton.
Wow, the press loves Obama even more than Clinton. The first 50 days of the Bush administration occurred in rather peaceful times. The economy was entering a small economic recession, but nothing close to what we’re facing today. That being said it would make logical sense that Obama would face harsher criticism during these perilous times than Bush received. Well, the press is basically an arm of the White House, except for Fox.
The first half hour of Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier,” which the study says most closely resembles the network evening newscasts, devoted 10 hours 24 minutes to the Obama administration, nearly as much airtime as CBS gave him.
But Fox News stands apart from its competitors here – only 13% of comments* were considered favorable. On ABC, 57% of the comments were favorable, compared to 58% for CBS and 61% for NBC.
Fox is definitely less friendly to Obama. Basically the idea of “objective journalism” is over. Each network is slowly but surely moving towards a niche audience. Fox was the answer to market dominated by liberal news coverage. Now that Fox has exploited this market MSNBC has tailored their news to liberals. That leaves CNN, ABC, and CBS in the lurch. They were already tilted to the left. What do they do now?
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