It’s really not that big a surprise that the far right Fox News network was clearly disappointed that President Barack Obama destroyed the Republicans as he went to their retreat, took all of their questions and swatted them all down with relative ease. Crooks and Liars makes a great point that, instead of talking about the event, the Republicans had to punt (rethink strategy and ultimately go back to attacking the State of the Union address).
I like this paragraph from Crooks and Liars:
Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich attack the President’s State of the Union address as angry, whining, self-justifying, not exactly honest, petulant and unpresidential. Project much boys? Of course no mention of the verbal beating the House Republicans took from the President during their retreat that Fox decided to quit airing after it was obvious it wasn’t going well for them. Hannity was too busy doing what looked like a Presidential campaign ad for Newt when they weren’t attacking Democrats for the better part of this segment instead.
As we know, Fox News is where Republicans go to run the silent phase of their presidential campaigns (Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, etc.).
If President Obama had looked bad, Hannity and Bill O’Reilly would have hammered him with it all night long.
Instead, they pretty much ignored the beating President Obama gave the Republicans.
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The more it becomes painfully obvious that Fox is a propaganda machine for the GOP, the more its supporters will defend it. I saw a few conservative blogs make feeble attempts to spin the Obama smackdown in their favor. However, most of them chose to stay silent on the ass whupping Obama gave the GOP.
Did you happen to catch Roger Ailes' response to Arianna Huffington's question in which she asked why Fox cut away early from the Obama/GOP summit? I couldn't believe his answer: because we are the most trusted name in news!
Fox News has become the PR firm for the Republican party. I did see Ailes come up with garbage when Arianna Huffington confronted him on ABC. He was hiding and dodging knowing the facts were not on his side. Ailes was in full spin mode. I give him some credit for going on a program like that, but I shook my head as he was not man enough to admit how far to the right Fox has gone for the sake of ratings.
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