..."Obama's big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN."...

Gosh, and why would that be?  I can already see Obama putting some kind of penalty or tax on Fox for having the nerve to attract so many viewers.  (Or giving CNN and MSNBC some kind of bailout so that they can "compete" as it's "not fair" for so many people to be watching one channel.)  Unbelievable.

I may be a crapweasel, but I'm full of feck.

Oh my, this is just fucking sad.  Our country is in so much trouble and he's fucking tilting at Roger Ailes' windmills.  A fucking tv channel makes him this mad, but not Ackmandinnerjacket's nuke cruise missiles?

I cannot wait for 2012!!!

So Bush's only problem was that people watched things besides Fox News?  What was Carter's problem?

Atari.

Posted by: lorien1973 at March 08, 2010 01:04 PM (IhQuA)

Only until the machine is fully operational and under our control.

So Bush's only problem was that people watched things besides Fox News?  What was Carter's problem?

Atari.

Ed Asner said the same thing about La Prensa, the only opposition paper in Nicaragua, until the Sandinistas shut it down.

Makes you think.

This is going to go down in history as the most miserable presidency in history.

Yeah, what he said.

We use blood to make our matzo.

Posted by: Vile Roman at March 08, 2010 01:10 PM (iBzKc)

Liberals need enemies. They cannot build the Hate State without them.

It doesn't really matter who the enemies are, or if they even exist, because if you can get enough of the populace to hate them, you have power to do anything you want. 

Yep. It's Fox News. And Global Warming--don't forget that. They're the two horsemen of the Apocalypse. All the bad shiat in the world can be traced back to either Fox News or Global Warming.

3) Homeschoolers counting the number of species which got on the Ark.

Yep. It's Fox News. And Global Warming--don't forget that. They're the two horsemen of the Apocalypse. All the bad shiat in the world can be traced back to either Fox News or Global Warming.

4) Bitter clingers holding onto their guns and their bibles.

So, what of the 'Mandate' the Obots were trumpeting until recently?

Posted by: FUBAR at March 08, 2010 01:15 PM (1fanL)

To the liberal mind, removing opposing viewpoints is just as valid a solution as out arguing them. Better actually, because from their viewpoint, the 'stupid, moronic conservatives' seem to always be able to get the 'stupid, moronic public' on their side whenever actual issues are being discussed.

Remember that Obama was elected on image and promised tax cuts - not the hard left agenda he has been pursuing.

We use blood from the babies of Democrats to make our matzo.

fify

LOL, I posted a link to this on the ONT. I was hoping someone would do a full column on it. The article is chock full of money quotes.

But my favorite is the Dem who was saying that the black urbanites were mad at Obama because he wasn't solving their urban problems.

The Urban areas have been run by black Democrats for the last 30 or 40 years.  They caused the problems.

In other words, Obama's biggest problem is TV shows.

Yeah, the ones he stars in:  State of the Union speech, The Health Care Summit, his numerous speeches and occasional press conferences, etc.  People are growing weary of Teh Lecturer in Chief.

Posted by: Y-not at March 08, 2010 01:17 PM (Kn9r7)

It is rather like asking a fish the nature of water. But air? Now that is, to the fish, some bizarre stuff...

@55

We use blood from the post-birth-canal-and-the-mom-wanted-it-and-it-was-only-kid-number-one fetuses of Democrats to make our matzo.

Is there a sequel to this article?  Where conservative talk radio is compared to NPR, as another problem? 

I guess this is all part of the Dims' next legislative push - Fairness Doctrine

It's the epic failure of their ideas and their ideology, which is just inconceivable to them, they are that arrogant.

Another great money quote from this liberal paper:

The $783 billion stimulus package of a year ago was used to further the re-election prospects of many congressmen, not to do good for the country. America's politics remain corrupt, populated by nonentities whose main concern once elected is to stay elected; it seems to be the same the whole world over. Even this self-interested use of the stimulus package appears to have failed, however. Every day, it seems, another Democrat congressman announces that he will not be fighting the mid-term elections scheduled for November 2.

We use blood from the babies of Democrats to make our matzo.

fify

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2010 01:20 PM (7HgKe)

And I have the spectral evidence to prove it.

I really think they believe this because all of liberalism is projection.  They are the ones who want to get the media monopoly so that there is no opposition to their view.

Apparently Fox News attracts viewers by their nefarious use of colorful graphics and pretty women and then people are propogandized against their will.

If the anti-Obama forces could just be shut up, then he would surely win.

The public loves it, and it is manifestly stirring up political activism against Mr Obama, and also against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservatives.

Once again, it's not Obama or the message/policy; it's a failure to communicate.

F'ing self-deluded assholes.

Obama really is just this side of insane.  If your personal reality comports so little with objective reality that you can't get things done, you're probaby crazy.

But my favorite is the Dem who was saying that the black urbanites were mad at Obama because he wasn't solving their urban problems.

The Urban areas have been run by black Democrats for the last 30 or 40 years.  They caused the problems.

You obviously did not get the memo.

Whitey has caused all the problems in the world, specifically white men, although we can push the envelope to include white women.

Democrats and Blacks SOLVE problems, they do not CAUSE them. And if there are problems plaguing Blacks, they are obviously not caused by their own actions. They are Perpetual Victims.

Just ask the people in Detroit. They'll let you know, they're minorities (even though 95% of Detroit is Black) and their leaders (who are all Black) have been getting the shaft from The Man for years.

/rant off, yeah, I know, totally racist, what ever.

But my favorite is the Dem who was saying that the black urbanites were mad at Obama because he wasn't solving their urban problems.

The Urban areas have been run by black Democrats for the last 30 or 40 years.  They caused the problems.

Posted by: Vic at March 08, 2010 01:20 PM (QrA9E)

For someone who can make the seas recede and heal the whole world, surely fixing Detroit should be easy, no?

Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 08, 2010 01:24 PM (ZJ/un)

HATE SPEECH!

Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 08, 2010 01:24 PM (ZJ/un)

Sure, marketplace of ideas.  But not the wrong ideas.

Obama really is just this side of insane.  If your personal reality comports so little with objective reality that you can't get things done, you're probaby crazy.

Posted by: Sweet Sassy Molassy at March 08, 2010 01:24 PM (vBieH)

Not just him, every effing person around him too.  That's scary.  There's no one to tell him, 'you're effing nuts!'.

Glorious.  The Libtards are always haranguing the rest of us about finding the "root causes" of problems, yet they refuse to do it themselves (just like every other time they get holier-than-thou).  Their failure to properly diagnose the cause of their problems means that they are doomed to fail in their efforts to fix those problems.  This is great in terms of the next election, but also probably means that those idiots will plow ahead with their commie BS and stuff it down our collective throat.  If they can, that is.  Let us hope there are enough decent Republicans and defecting Dems to stall these Bolsheviks until they can be voted out (assuming that we're allowed to have any more elections).

It really ought to be "Vulpo delenda est," I believe.

well, since 4 times as many viewers watch, shouldn't  Mr. President go on Fox News and answer questions??

OT: I just called Massa's office to encourage him not to resign, if anyone else would like to:  (585) 218-0040

What was Carter's problem?

Sweaters and rabbits. Mostly sweaters.

Posted by: Vile Roman at March 08, 2010 01:26 PM (iBzKc)

Actually it is interesting, when looking at modern Leftist thought I can't help but think of 1984. It is almost exactly what they want. No, not the rat/face cages - but only because they will do a better job with Newspeak...

well, since 4 times as many viewers watch, shouldn't  Mr. President go on Fox News and answer questions??

Seriously, if you were a Dem how long would you play the role of water carrier for someone as incompetent as Obama?

The "Faux News" card is ragged and torn at this point.

Liberalism = psychosis.

It can be the only logical explanation.

and also against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservative

Don't I wish.  The GOP frontrunner was on Fox News Sunday yesterday pimping his own government healthcare plan.

"What was Carter's problem?"

"Sweaters and rabbits. Mostly sweaters."

Sweater puppies, cuz he's a titty baby.

its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by "progressives" who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects. The public loves it, and it is manifestly stirring up political activism against Mr Obama, and also against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservatives.

WOW...and I thought they didn't get it. This is all true and the public loves it BECAUSE of its truth! Cannot they see that piece? The one about that the public really does want all of the liberal progressive crap to stop?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2010 01:29 PM (7BU4a)

Don't kid yourself - they want the rat/face cages, too.  The radical ones are the most hate filled people on earth.  You'll find Klansmen more temperate and peaceful.  If they could tie Beck and Rush up in a dungeon somewhere and torture them to death, they would do it.  They're the sort of people the Soviets recruited for the KGB. 

well, since 4 times as many viewers watch, shouldn't  Mr. President go on Fox News and answer questions??

That man is congenitally incapable of giving a straight answer to an hard question.  This flimsiness of character was revealed at that Health Care Summit where he lied, evaded, ducked and obfuscated every time he was confronted with the truth of the sham of his "health care reform."

blame Bush

blame Rushbo

blame Cheney

blame FOX News

blame the staff

blame the Congress

blame the electorate

gee Mr. Obama seems like you are running out of folks to blame ...

Ever seen a lefty react to the phrase "market place of ideas"?

I don't understand free markets.

Just ask the people in Detroit.

Hahahahaha; he mentioned how Detroit was being abandoned.  Just wait until Government Motors and Quistler fail completely because they never restructured to fix the problem.

Detroit will go back to what it was in the 1800s before industrialization. I just hope that we will be able to cut off ALL federal money to that pesthole by then.  

People that say "First" are, like, tottally gay, and stuff.

Right, mom?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 08, 2010 01:35 PM (UOM4

Hahaha!  Typical of all of them.  No genuine self examination at all.  Each is a little Hitler - but without the cleverness or personal charisma - screaming and throwing a tantrum every time they're confronted with reality.  They want to shout down the world.

Posted by: Bernie Goldberg at March 08, 2010 01:35 PM (iBzKc)

We call that a stimulus!

Fox takes a conservative tack in reporting the news=>

Fox has NEVER been conservative. It has had one or two conservative political commentators but the news has never been that way. They are just not AS liberal as the others.

Oh good lord, is there one Adult left in the Democratic party who will stand up and tell "The One" your ideas suck - do something different. One?

This presumes there were adults there to begin with. Actually, there were grown ups in the party decades ago, before the New Left moved into the positions of power. Now it's run by overgrown adolescents from SDS and Woodstock.

Posted by: rawmuse at March 08, 2010 01:38 PM (NeoZ2)

Why aren't we discussing more important matters?

Okay I'll start: Bingo.

We Shall Overcome

From the article: A thrashing of the Democrats in the mid-terms would not necessarily be the beginning of the end for Mr Obama: Bill Clinton was re-elected two years after the Republicans swept the House and the Senate in November 1994. But Mr Clinton was an operator in a way Mr Obama patently is not. His lack of experience, his dependence on rhetoric rather than action, his disconnection from the lives of many millions of Americans all handicap him heavily. It is not about whose advice he is taking: it is about him grasping what is wrong with America, and finding the will to put it right. That wasted first year, however, is another boulder hanging from his neck: what is wrong needs time to put right. The country's multi-trillion dollar debt is barely being addressed; and a country engaged in costly foreign wars has a President who seems obsessed with anything but foreign policy – as a disregarded Britain is beginning to realise.

There are lessons from the stumbling of Mr Obama for our own country as we approach a general election. Vacuous promises of change are hostages to fortune if they cannot be delivered upon to improve the living conditions of a people. The slickness of campaigning that comes from a combination of heavy funding and public relations expertise does not inevitably translate into an ability to govern. There is no point a nation's having the audacity of hope unless it also has the sophistication and the will to turn it into action. As things stand, Barack Obama and America under his leadership do not.

Hey ma, he said first! That's not, like, fair! Where's my pacifier!

Detroit will go back to what it was in the 1800s before industrialization. I just hope that we will be able to cut off ALL federal money to that pesthole by then.  

Posted by: Vic at March 08, 2010 01:37 PM (QrA9E)

I wouldn't hold my breath.  We're probably still dumping Fed cash into New Orleans, and that lost-cause city could easily be re-destroyed by the next hurricane.

Posted by: Reactionary at March 08, 2010 01:38 PM (xUM1Q)

“I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.”

Plan for Obama greatness:

Have an "I've had it" press conference wherin you announce the wholesale firing of all the Chicago dumbshits, starting with rodent-faced Valerie Jarret, Emmauel, that world-class idiot Eric Holder, and all of the pie in the sky leftist advisors, since none of them matured past their sophomore term papers.  Then announce a new heading.  Something Clintonesque right now would save his presidency.

Posted by: rawmuse at March 08, 2010 01:42 PM (NeoZ2)

I think that may have simply been incompetent marketing that didn't include a language check, but your point is well made.

Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism.

The root of the problem is that Obama was and is unqualified to be President.  But Obama did not go through the crucible of having his background and beliefs tested by a skeptical media.  Instead, the media treated Obama with love and adoration, and failed. 

Now we are stuck with an arrogant ass who doesn't know squat but is so caught up in his own press that he believes he can do no wrong.

Help! I pivoted real hard and I think I broke my damn knee!

Owww!

Jane, in defense of your BIL, he's talking about an "Animal Farm" type of equality.  "Some animals are more equal than others."

Posted by: runningrn at March 08, 2010 01:41 PM (CfmlF)

True - and a good reference to a classic that gets scarier day by day.  There's a new-ish book out that is modeled on Animal Farm but given a modern context called Cry Wolf - A Political Fable.  The main focus is immigration, but the entitlement state and political corruption are also key elements.

From the article: A thrashing of the Democrats in the mid-terms would not necessarily be the beginning of the end for Mr Obama:

What they are missing is that this will not be the normal "thrashing".  This is going to be Democrat Armageddan.

Obama could very well have destroyed the Democrat Party everywhere but Sand Francisco, Chicago, and Detroit.

"Obama couldvery well   has destroyed the Democrat Party everywhere "

I say this as an Ex-democrat. And I know many many more like me who have reregistered as Independents or even republicans.

Rather soundbyte:  "He couldn't sell watermelons."

For someone who can make the seas recede and heal the whole world, surely fixing Detroit should be easy, no?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2010 01:25 PM (7BU4a)

one word: Chixulub

It would take a Herculean dose of humility to admit he fucked up, and he doesn't have that.

Ayup.

I disagree about Bill, though.  He was a smart, practical narcissist.  Less of one, sure, but a narcissist.  It was all about Bill.  Look at all the people he used and discarded.  IIRC, one of his callous, empathy-lacking statements about 9-11 was, to paraphrase, "I didn't have a chance like that to be a great president."  (I'd love to see the full quote again.) 

Obama is a dumb narcissist with half-baked ideas about changing the world.  More dangerous.

Clinton was the boy president.  And he was more of an adult than Obama. 

"Always leave yourself an out," as they say.

Hey, PA, the narcissist way out:  Blame the f'd-up state on everybody you just fired.  That way, you get to keep imagining you're awesome.  It's a win-win.  It's a way out.

But that would take a smart, practical narcissist.

CARTHAGO  CHICAGO DELENDA EST

_FIFY

Q: Obama's "big problem"?
A: Fox News

Nothing a lobotomy wonÂ’t fix.  That is why everybody gets FREE healthcare, including mandatory ‘treatmentÂ’, as determined by gobbermin officials.  They are there only to help us.

Brilliant. No matter what the issue the Dims have one size fit all talking points. Bush and Fox News excuses are on their speed dial

Fox News made my cake fall.

George Bush made my fridge break.

Posted by: Unschooled in the Romantics at March 08, 2010 02:05 PM (Zi+FQ)

It is the famous saying of Cato the Elder.  It means "Carthage must be destroyed."  Cato would use it in all of his speeches even if the topic had nothing to do with the great rivalry between Rome and Carthage.

 its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by "progressives" who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects. The public loves it, and it is manifestly stirring up political activism against Mr Obama, and also against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservatives.

HEHEHE it funny & sad...CUZ ITS TRUE!!!

The message, that is- and the sentiment of the right people of this country. I do find it funny though that FOX is the culprit in stirring up the piched-forked masses against O-blame-a. Its not, FOX is simply the biggest boogy man in the room and they are jealous of all the hotties FOX has. The internets is where the good people are gathering, sharing ideas and organizing. Oh, and don't forget the other MSM news outlets SUCK...people have good B.S. monitors and don't suffer fools for long, its that simple.     

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