Here is a nice catch by News Hounds that helps illustrate the hypocrisy of Fox News in terms of how it treats President Obama. Fox News, whining about mild criticism (depending on whether or not the following comments are put into context) from President Obama in isolated comments he has made about the media. Fox has been working hard to be the network of opposition and obstruction to President Obama and this current duly-elected administration that is leading the United States of America.
Here is an excerpt from the News Hounds blog about an exchange between Greta Van Susteren and Rick Santorum as Santorum compares President Obama to Venezuela President Hugo Chavez:
The segment began with Van Susteren playing a montage of Obama’s comments about cable news. Each clip was from a different setting:
- Referring to media coverage after Sarah Palin’s nomination for vice president in 2008, Obama said, “Cable was 24 hours a day (saying) Obama’s lost his mojo.”
- Speaking to his supporters, Obama said, “Instead of being preoccupied with the polls and with the pundits and with the cable chatter, what you guys consistently did was you just kept on working.”
- “They don’t want to be constructive, they just want to get in the usual political fights back and forth. And sometimes that’s fed by all the cable chatter on the media.”
- “I’ve got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration… That’s a pretty big megaphone.”
- “I don’t find most of the cable chatter very persuasive… It feels like WWF wrestling. Everybody’s got their role to play.”
Santorum reacted by saying, “This is an attack on Fox. This reminds me of what Hugo Chavez is doing down in Venezuela, trying to shut down the voice of opposition in the media. This is not good.”
Santorum took the president’s comment about Fox News out of context.
This is all old news, but naturally host Van Susteren (who is no liberal as proven by her spectator status in regard to the smear) and hardcore right-wing extremist Rick Santorum leave on the table no opportunity (large or small) to attack President Obama. And, as you might expect, he is once again compared to a leader (who is considered a dictator) from a foreign country. It fits right into the theme of the far right to paint President Obama as extremist, as socialist, as not one of us, as different, as exotic … so on and so forth.
The work of Fox News, to mischaracterize and demonize our president and commander-in-chief continues.
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