GOP.com er… FoxNews.com Manufactures Upset Liberals
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Sometimes Fox is probably more transparent in their water carrying for the right than they intend to be. In an article supposedly about liberal “frustration” with President Obama, they quote two specific individuals by name. One is Josh Gottheimer, formerly an advisor to the Clinton administration. Here is Mr. Gottheimer’s searing indictment of President Obama:
“You’re never going to make everybody happy all the time. That’s just the rule of politics,” said Democratic strategist Josh Gottheimer, a former senior adviser to the Clinton administration.
“I think he’s done plenty for the left, he’s done plenty for the center,” he said of Obama. “He’s got a philosophy. He made it clear when he was running for president that he was going to do what’s best for the country in very difficult times, and you’re not going to please everyone.”
Oooh. Burn. Obama’s gotta really feel that zinger. But it gets better.
The other person FoxNews.com quotes is Michael Gerson. Who is Michael Gerson, you might ask? Michael Gerson is a conservative columnist for the Washington Post and even better – the former speechwriter to failed president George W. Bush. Gerson comes to the shocking conclusion that President Obama has disappointed his liberal base. SHOCKING.
Not a single other person is quoted in the article. There are no data points cited to make the article’s main thesis (in fact, among Democrats the President has an average approval rating of 83.5%).
The article notes that Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett contributed to it. In recent articles discussing the Obama administration’s view of Fox, the White House and others have said that Garrett is not as biased as the rest of Fox. Maybe they should rethink that.
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Major Garrett asks Gibbs whatever’s on Drudge that morning
He used to have a 90% approval rating, and lets be honest, a lot of us don’t call ourselves Democrats anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i2kB8vHLUU&feature=player_embedded
The Obama White House attacks Fox/Glen Beck and Beck comes back with a hysterical round-house sending The Obama White House right to the canvas.
I told you this was a stupid/dangerous move.
I told you this was a stupid/dangerous move.
I disagree. No way would Fox News ever want to jeopardize their well-earned “Fair and Balanced” reputation.
All the fawning idiots who watch Beck and Hannity are too dumb to realize they are getting played for being the gullible chumps that they are. They don’t care about you at all, other than to know you’re dumb enough to believe what they say and to sit there long enough for the commercials.
Thanks, rubes. Fox appreciates your ignorance and inability to believe anything unless it comes from Fox. Hannity appreciates his millions, so does Beck.
Let me know when Fox News wins some elections for you.
Color me shocked, OW. I am just shocked that Fox News would do something like this. So unusual for them.
The Obama White House attacks Fox/Glen Beck and Beck comes back with a hysterical round-house sending The Obama White House right to the canvas.
You’re right about the “hysterical” part.
a lot of us don’t call ourselves Democrats anymore.
And a lot of the rest of us realize that sugarplums don’t grow on licorice trees.
Come on kids, that was pretty creative………..and funny.
A red phone to the Obama White House! The White House got played!
a hysterical round-house sending The Obama White House right to the canvas
Lemme check. Nope. Still standing.
Come on kids, that was pretty creative………..and funny.
I did chuckle a bit. Watching dingbats take pratfalls on teevee never gets old.
The golden age of the right-wing talkshow gasbag is drawing to a close. Beck is its death-rattle.
Color me as a disappointed progressive-but not badly so, because I wasn’t expecting a lot of progressive movement from this administration from the outset. He has refused to spend a dime of political capital in support of his nominees for administration positions, shown not a scintilla of leadership on health care reform, selling out progressives at every turn and has folded like a house of cards when Bibi Netanyahu dared to bite him back over the settlements issue and peace talks with the Palestinians. Where is there anything but lip service on DOMA and DADT? On Climate Change?
I never cared much for LBJ, but if he was in the White House right now, we’d already have a signed insurance reform law, with a better than even chance that we’d have single payer. Even the unlamented Tricky Dick proposed a better health care system than what Obama is prepared to sell out for. He refused to meet the Dalai Lama, for crying out loud. So far, what impresses me most is his mastery of the soaring platitude.
I feel your pain, RC, but I got two words for you: President McCain.
Also, RC, your comment about LBJ is interesting but I don’t know if I buy it. There was a lot of opposition that LBJ overcame to enact his civil rights and w.o.p. measures, but he was not doing it in the depths of a deep recession, and he wasn’t facing the army of corporate lobbyists with big barrels of cash like Obama is on healtcare. The way Washington works in 2009, I can’t think of anyone who could have gotten us as close to meaningful healthcare reform as Obama has, can you?
Wilbur-
McCain would have been an unmitigated disaster, Obama is merely a disappointment. My point about LBJ is that he took an active and at times coercive role in getting things passed, while Obama has been almost entirely passive-stirring rhetoric about the need for reform is no substitute for getting into the trenches. Every time there is a step back on essential reform policies, especially the public option, what we get is an “I can live with that” reply. Obama began his administration with a huge surplus of political capital and the power to spend it well. He hasn’t used any of it, and power unused is power lost. He has turned it over to the likes of Harry Reid, Max Baucus and Olympia Snowe.