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FOX News Won’t Roll Over – See Obama’s Comment below

Monday , October 20, 2008 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,441501,00.html

By Greg Gutfeld

So Obama thinks that FOX News has hurt him in the polls, saying that even if he watched us, he wouldn’t vote for himself either.

Now, I don’t think he’s wrong. I actually think FOX News does go after him. But hell, someone has to.

For my whole life, every network has been uniformly, heart-bleedingly liberal. Nearly every damn magazine, newspaper and after-school special spits out the same lefty assumptions — rich people greedy, Republicans bad, America evil — as though they are suffering from a Marxist version of Tourette.

And Obama is their guy.

That’s why today, every anchor has a woodie for him, and every star-struck pop singer offers the Messiah their services for free. And there’s the late night comics, who hammer Republicans seven times more often than Dems. It’s just too easy to be funny.

But despite all this, you still have twerps soiling their diapers over FOX News just because it won’t comply with an overarching liberal theocracy. You’ve got celebrity cretins like Tim Robbins, watchdog weenies like Media Matters and crybaby cranks like Keith Olbermann suffering seizures because FOX won’t roll over.

I say, stop being a bunch of pussies, you pretty much own the airwaves.

And as for you Obama, stop acting like a kid who complains because you got a 98 instead of a perfect grade. Seriously, you don’t need mindless obedience from everyone to win.

So Obama, if you’re expecting people here to kiss your ass, you’ll need to go elsewhere. I hear there’s a guy at MSNBC with a thrill up his leg dying to give you a sponge bath.

And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Hitler.

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The Obama Comment and I Quote “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.”

A conservative media watchdog says it’s outrageous that Barack Obama is blaming a major cable news service for costing him two to three points in the polls.

In a recently published interview for the New York Times Magazine, the Democratic presidential candidate said: “I’m convinced that if there were no FOX News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls. 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!”
 
The Illinois senator continued, explaining that he is being typecast as “the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?”

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Seton Motley, director of communications at the Media Research Center (MRC), says Obama’s lashing out is evidence he cannot stand the idea that FOX News does not worship him like the majority of the mainstream media do.
 
“He’s gotten unabashed, loving coverage from all three broadcast networks, the vast majority of the cable news networks, and every print publication you can imagine,” says Motley. “It has been wall-to-wall glowing coverage.”
 
FOX News, says Motley, has the “audacity to report on [Obama] as he is and quote him verbatim” — and somehow, adds the MRC spokesman, the presidential hopeful credits that for a downtick of two or three percent in his polling. “[For him to single-out FOX News is] just a staggeringly myopic view of the media and how he’s been treated during his presidential run,” he says.
 
In contrast, Motley suggests that if not for the pro-Obama bias of The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media, John McCain would be up 20 percent.