Obama Campaign Takes the Fight to FOX...

[bridgit]

'FOX News is in the desperate throes of backing a losing party. Despite what Megyn "Obama's Baby Mama" Kelly would have you believe, FOX has been the GOP's mouthpiece throughout this election, viciously maligning Barack Obama while pushing the party's conservative agenda. (For proof of just how much slander they have spewed, check out FOX Attacks Obama, FOX Attacks Obama 2, or FOX Attacks Obama Just Like Kerry.) In fact, I hold them as responsible as McCain's most bigoted supporters for stoking the racial prejudice and xenophobic hatred that we're now seeing in campaign events across the country. Amazingly though, the Obama campaign has begun calling out FOX for their loathsome media bias.

First, Obama criticized FOX on national television during the third presidential debate. Then, in an interview for The New York Times Sunday magazine, Obama told Matt Bai, "I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls." And now we have Obama staffers confronting FOX on their own network. Just watch as Bill Burton remains unflappable during this heated exchange with Kelly, who completely loses her cool.

In response to McCain's ludicrous attack on Obama for being "the Redistributor" of wealth -- an attack FOX has of course perpetuated and exacerbated with their Joe the Plumber socialist nonsense -- Burton calmly tells Kelly: "This is a fake news controversy drummed up by the all too common alliance of FOX News, the Drudge Report and John McCain, who apparently decided to close out his campaign with the same false, desperate attacks that have failed for months."'

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/105026/obama_campaign_takes_the_fight_to_fox/

[Historic NY]

1. I'm telling you once this election is over no Dem should ever..

give FOX anything...cut them off .

[bridgit]

2. I'm down with that, let'em shut it down and rerun Married With Children...

But not a peep out of us :thumbsup:

[wtmusic]

3. Better: Simpsons 24/7. nt

[bridgit]

4. i'll go for that

[rebel with a cause]

5. not fox but Jay Leno tonight to David Gregory.

"Obama has not had a news conference in a month. Don't you have a problem with this?" No real answer, so repeats the question. Gregory then says yes but blah blah blah and mccain blah blah blah. Leno began again on the press should hold Obama responsible and I changed channels. Can't stand the man.

[silex]

6. I can't remember...when was Mac's news conference..double standards

:grr: Being on Faux doesn't count.

[bridgit]

7. You mean Leno or Gregory? I think Gregory learned his lesson watching Matthews & KO learn theirs...

as he's been in a strange holding pattern lately but he has been working the WH press core, and asked hard Q's of the usual suspects. On the other hand, it's been a long time since Leno worked strip clubs for dollars an hour but he slips very easily these days into 'the rich guy thing'.

So I was wondering which one? Or was it more a stale two part soup served cold :(

[rebel with a cause]

8. Leno asked the question twice and made it sound worse for

Obama each time. Gregory actually tried side steping it, talking about how the way campaigns were now ran as far as the media was concerned. It surprised me that Gregory did not go on the attack of Obama, but then he may have after I changed channels because I was about to puke from listening to Leno's crap. I kept thinking of Michelle on there last night and how nice she was to him, and I wanted to just smack the man.

[MadrasT]

9. Leno is dead to me. I always liked Letterman better, anyway.

[rebel with a cause]

10. You and me too.

Leno has kissed too many republican butts for me to ever watch him again unless an Obama family member happens to be on his show. I will watch as long as they are on the screen and then change.

Yes about Letterman. He says stuff to the people's face the same as he does to their back, and does not change with the guest the way Leno does. Letterman is also a better interviewer when he get serious about it.

[bridgit]

11. Mm, got'cha. have it DVR'd will check but doesn't sound cool for Gergoary...

:(