Has there ever, in the history of the republic . . .

[iceman66]

been a mainstream media organization more openly contemptuous of a sitting president than Fox "news"?

It's a little before my time, but it seems that Nixon was shown more respect even in the height of Watergate . . .

[ddeclue]

1. Yes but you have to go back to John Adams.

:P

[Rex]

2. No, we have never had a way to reach so many stupid fucking idiots

as Glenn Beck does daily.

[Libertas1776]

3. The only apt comparison

that I can dredge up of a media organization(s) being so openly contemptuous of a sitting president would probably be a number of newspapers during the turn of the 19th Century, particularly during the Election of 1800. They certainly said some real fucked up shit about Adams. Of course, then again, that's print media. So to really answer your question if there has ever been a modern, mainstream televised and internet media that has ever so on and so forth; No, I would have to say that Faux News is really in some novel territory.

[onager]

4. Many times, e.g., FDR vs the Chicago Tribune...

The most famous was the long-running feud between Tribune publisher Col. Robert R. McCormick and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

McCormick complained bitterly that Roosevelt’s New Deal was a socialistic boondoggle that he feared would destroy Americans’ personal freedoms and rights.

Gee, THAT sounds familiar...

At one point, the Colonel, as he was known around the Tower, had a photo “cooked up to argue that soon the Social Security plot would have every working man tagged and numbered like a prisoner of war,” according to historian Frank C. Waldrop.

In the 1936 presidential campaign, McCormick instructed telephone operators at Tribune Tower to answer all calls with a declaration of how many days remained to “save the Republic” by turning Roosevelt out of office...

FDR once said of McCormick: “I think he must be a little touched in the head.”


http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2008/10/17/the-colonel-vs-fdr/

[anonymous171]

5. Ahh yes, that reminds me of this political comic they printed back then

Nothing has really changed. They still deride common sense as "socialism" and label madness as sound economic policy.

[Libertas1776]

6. The media by which the message is

delivered may evolve, but the message is always the same. Same BS in 1800, same BS in 1936, and same BS in 2009.

[Rex]

7. Is that a penis or is Stalin just happy to see me?

Is that a rabbit in your dicatorship or are you just happy to blame capitalism?

[chknltl]

8. KnRed for this most interesting old political comic.