Obama quote from the Huffington Post
“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?”
Saying Senator Obama has received favorable media attention would be the understatement of the year. CNN and MSNBC in particular have been so pro-Obama in their coverage that they won’t even cover stories like Obama’s radical associations, his ACORN associations, or his ties with the Democratic Socialists of America, and don’t even understand the concept of objectivity. Senator Obama still remains unvetted by the media, and yet the one network that does report on his record, and is not openly leftist, receives the ire of the candidate who wouldn’t have made it out of the primaries if the media had done its job and reported on his record. Does Fox lean right? Yes. So do many American citizens. Conversely, most of the remaining news organization do more than just lean left, they promote a liberal/leftist agenda including Obama’s candidacy.
This is the most ridiculous comment Obama has ever made. Shows his true colors. Whinny complaining brat!
By: humanrace on October 16, 2008
at 1:18 pm
Quick! Get me a violin!!!!
Cry me a river, you rat.
By: MomInTheFlyOverZone on October 16, 2008
at 1:36 pm
OK, you’ve got to be kidding. To say he has not been vetted by the media either means that you have not been paying attention, you believe everything that FOX and the media on the right has been saying, or you are just out to say whatever you can to get people to believe your candidate is better. You should have been paying attention when Obama was running to be the Democratic candidate. Stories were being done about his so-called radical friends. So stop saying he was not being vetted. In addition, he has been repeatedly interviewed by every news organization.
“Does Fox lean right? Yes. So do many American citizens.” I Iean to the right on many issues, yet it doesn’t mean that I want my news anchors( not political pundits) to show their bias. Fox can have its Hannity and O’reilly, but it does not need to have it’s lead anchors showing their bias. The reason why people jump on FOX is because there is no hiding the bias. They openly talk about it. The other stations at least try to appear unbiased. Of course what gets me is there claim that they are fair and balanced. What hypocracy.
I would really love for someone to show me the true bias you say the other media has. Please stop acting like Rush Lindbaugh and Fox News who have learned that if you keep repeating something false over and over and over, that some will finally start to believe it. Again, I challenge you to show true bias, that they want Obama to win. Remember, just because they don’t report the same stories as FOX does not mean they are promoting the liberal agenda. There is plenty of things that the media drops the ball on, or does a lousy job truly reporting. But just because they don’t report how you want them to report does not make them biased.
By: your bro on October 16, 2008
at 8:33 pm
Here is a site showing how biased FOX News is….
It seems to me that FOX News plays on people’s ignorance and fear. What we really need to be afraid of is IGNORANT PEOPLE. Pathetic.
By: Yvonne on October 30, 2008
at 7:32 am