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Obama: Fox News Is Keeping My Poll Numbers Down
This is just too good to be true. I had to laugh out loud when I read this. Barack Obama says even though he’s ahead in the polls, he’s convinced he would be even further ahead if Fox News didn’t exist.
“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,” Obama told me. “If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? 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?
“I guess the point I’m making,” he went on, “is that there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism, and it’s powerful. People want to know that you’re fighting for them, that you get them. And I actually think I do. But you know, if people are just seeing me in sound bites, they’re not going to discover that. That’s why I say that some of that may have to happen after the election, when they get to know you.”
What he’s saying is that the only thing standing between him and total media message control is Fox News. If Fox would just jump in the tank with the rest of the media he would have this thing wrapped up! Sorry Barry, some people actually give a shit about the truth.
Thank God for Fox News.
-Chris Jones
NY Times Still In Denial About Pro-Obama Bias
NY Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley wrote a shockingly ridiculous piece in today’s paper. Stanley rejected the claim that the media is pro-Obama, and said his trip overseas was only a big story because he already looks like he’s president. She went on to admire his confidence and “statesmanly restraint,” whatever the hell that is.
But it’s not pro-Obama bias in the news media that’s driving the effusion of coverage, it’s the news: Mr. Obama’s weeklong tour of war zones and foreign capitals is noteworthy because it is so unusual to see a presidential candidate act so presidential overseas. Mr. Obama looks supremely confident and at home talking to generals and heads of state, so much so that some viewers may find the pose presumptuous — as if Mr. Obama believes that not only is his official nomination at the Democratic convention in August a mere formality, so is the November election.
The part in bold is what I really can’t believe. The only thing unusual about Obama’s overseas trip is the obscene media amount of media coverage it’s receiving.
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