Fox News–Something Fishy is Going On…
Posted on September 15, 2008 by David
I wouldn’t call it a guilty pleasure–I generally wince in pain at the bloviating ad hominems–but on occasion I will check in on Fox News to see just what garbage they’re spewing these days. Last night was one such occasion.
What I noticed caught me a bit off-guard. There was a story on the threat of terrorism, which started off with a historical gloss of Al Qaeda activity from the 1990’s to the present. While there were the obligatory-and-expected digs at Clinton’s supposed passivity, these digs were evenly spread when it came to GW’s first nine months in office. And still more surprising to me was the prominence that Fox not only gave to Obama’s prescient speech in 2002 about not getting bogged down in a dumb war, but also the readiness to take on McCain/Palin’s attacks on Obama’s wanting to read Miranda rights to terror suspects–in a truly fair-and-balanced approach, Fox showed that Obama’s views were otherwise.
All the while, the scroll bars (there are literally 4 different scroll bars now) were scrolling things like, Hillary seeking to mobilize women voters, Karl Rove saying that McCain’s ads are going too far (when the pot calls you black, you must’ve really gone far), and Greenspan criticizing McCain’s purported middle-class tax relief. In short, Fox was showing info-bites that one might find on the Huffington Post.
Now it’s old news that Rupert has been trying to cozy up to Obama, but was I witnessing something larger trickling down here? Surely just a few minutes is not scientific, but more evidence is surfacing that my experience was not a mere aberration.
Maybe I’m clueless and don’t recognize that there was simply enough red meat thrown by showing the word “Hillary” or by showing that Obama opposed the Iraq invasion like all the other anti-Americans, but if I am right that Fox is leaning more in his direction, what does this mean? Do the powerful simply recognize that an Obama presidency is inevitable? Or perhaps are they truly frightened that McCain might die, leaving my wacky Aunt Sarah in charge?
Or maybe more cynically they realize that with two unwinnable wars and a shit-tanking economy that there are no easy answers to fixing the Bush legacy, that the next president is doomed to a one-term clusterfuck of catastrophes, and they’re taking the bearish approach that the clusterfuck could have long-term residual impact on that president’s political party?
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