The War On Fox News Reveals Obama’s Obvious Failings

Folks, if there is anything stranger than the people in Copenhagen awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, it is probably BHO’s full-out war on Fox News Channel.

You’ve probably heard the verbiage from Barack: warning cable news networks to not follow up on news stories originating from FNC – including the expose on ACORN and the radical backgrounds on some Obama appointees – and even tried to exclude Fox from network pool coverage.

By the President opting to go this route, he is telling us a little bit about himself:

Obama is a whiner. At almost every chance he gets, the president whines about the previous administration and how it is responsible for every problem he faces. He neglects to point out that in the examples he cites — as with deficit spending — he has made the problems worse.

Obama is fixated on spin rather than substance. Why else would he and his aides become so agitated about what a network is reporting? Obama’s decision to outsource drafting of healthcare legislation to Congress shows his lack of interest in performing the basic functions of his job.

Obama is ineffective. The spectacle of refusing to let Fox participate in a pool filming, then backing down when the other networks objected, shows that Obama is over his head. That same ineffectiveness prompted him to announce the closing of the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay without having any idea where he would send its prisoners.

Obama has no appreciation for the profit motive and its importance in America’s success. In warning networks not to follow Fox, Obama adviser David Axelrod said, “Mr. [Rupert] Murdoch has a talent for making money, and I understand that their programming is geared toward making money.” Never mind that Obama is making millions in profits from book royalties.

Obama is either oblivious or in denial of the fact that FNC has more viewers on a daily basis than CNN and BSNBC MSNBC combined. Fox News provides fair and balanced news coverage. Their competition does not.

If Obama and Co. actually watched Fox News, they would realize that the Administration doesn’t get blasted insomuch as there is a healthy amount of dissent. Oh, guess what? When there are dissenting points of view, the network does invite other folks to express their views – unlike the other networks.

If Obama actually appreciated the importance of the profit motive (of course, he doesn’t, he is a “community organizer” who graduated from Alinsky University), he would have reduced taxes to help small businesses expand and hire more workers – which means more taxes flowing into the coffers of the federal government. He would rather throw taxpayer money into government programs as part of the so-called economic stmulus package.

By the president pushing the “public option” and failing to include incentives to reduce health care costs, he is demonstrating the same lack of appreciation for the profit motive and the entrepreneurial spirit that has made the U.S.A. great. Some more observations about Obama:

Obama is weak. The press ganged up on the Bush administration, but unlike Obama, Bush never tried to isolate a news outlet. By showing how thin-skinned he is, Obama reveals his fragility. That is symbolized by his constant need to apologize to the world for imagined failings and by his hand-wringing, while finding time to play golf, about making a decision on his own commander’s request last August for more troops to fight the war in Afghanistan.

Despite his claims during the campaign that he would bring people together, Obama is the most partisan president in recent memory. As one example, Obama and the Democrats have entirely shut out the Republican leadership from participation in drafting healthcare legislation that will affect one-sixth of the economy.

Obama and his aides have a blatant disregard for the truth. They openly demonstrated that by saying that Fox is not a news organization, when anyone who has watched the network knows that it is. Criticizing Fox, Obama told NBC that if “media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that’s one thing. And if it’s operating as a news outlet, that’s another.”

The crusade agaisnt Fox by the Obama administration and their idea of “fairness” works in only one direction: the Republicans. One Campbell Brown of CNN asked Obama lackey Valerie Jarrett if Fox News was biased, she replied, “Well, of course they’re biased. Of course they are.” When asked by Brown whether Keith Olbermann over at MSNBC, who recently accused Fox News of being a bunch of racists, was biased, Jarrett clammed up.

Come to think of it, Obama, despite his aides’ lame attempts to isolate FNC, has claimed to “not lost any sleep” over the situation.

At the end of the day, Obama’s dissing Fox News and discouraging left-thinking news organziations from picking up their stories reveals Obama’s inner failings – and will ensure that he will be a “one-and-done” president. Jimmy Carter certainly must be proud.

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