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between 20 and 25 per cent. One senior black politician – a Democrat and a
supporter of the President – told me of the wrath in his community that a black
president appeared to be unable to solve the economic problem among his own
people. Cities in the east such as Newark and Baltimore now have drug-dealing
as their principal commercial activity: The Wire is only just fictional.

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"Leftists" and being turned into a socialist state.

"Obama's big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many
people watch Fox News as watch CNN." The Fox network is a remarkable
cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a
technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it
pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the construction of the
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against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservatives.
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the attack is being directed not at the leader himself, but at those around him.
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The root of the problem seems to be the management of expectations. The


magnificent campaign created the notion that Mr Obama could walk on water.
Oddly enough, he can't. That was more Mr Axelrod's fault than Mr Emanuel's.
And, to be fair to Mr Emanuel, any advice he has been giving the President to
impose his will on Congress is probably well founded. 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. The health care Bill, apparently so
humane in intent, is being "scrubbed" (to use the terminology of one
Republican) by its opponents, to the joy of millions of middle Americans who
see it as a means to waste more public money and entrench socialism. For the
moment, this is a country vibrant with anger.

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.

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COMMENTS: 533

I think America needs a bluecollar candidate this time. One who knows what it is like YoYo Stephens
to suffer the days in and outs of the new American Life. One that will not put up with on March 08, 2010
all the B.S. that seems to surround the whitehouse. One who can visualize the ideas at 09:31 PM
of creating jobs, one that is not reluctant to fine the hell out of major companies who Report this comment
profit 160 billion dollars a year. One who see's the actual problems that we as a
nation face. One who believes in NOT fighting a pointless war, draining more and
more from the economy and killing the soldiers who are fighting someon elses war.
One that will not keep governmental secrets from the nations population. One to put
the power into the hands of where it belongs, that is you and I! We as a nation have
absolutely no say so any longer about anything. If I was elected President, I would fix
all these problems from day ONE, and not just blow smoke up my citizens asses.
Lets face it, there is only one reason that hitler, oops, I meant Obama, won the
Presidency, and we will leave it at that. I am a blue collar nobody, but I have made a
success in looking out for other people, rather it be helping tha, gain revenue,
managing a budget, building up from being in the hole. POWER TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE!the rest is B.S. anyone have any comments you can contact me
bigchief30741@yahoo.com

I Obama's socialist program get's voted in, you can expect that there will be an GlobalSailing
exodus of doctors out of the U.S. Simple math. The place the world will go for wold on March 08, 2010
class medical attention will be India, if the flawed Obama/Pelosi/Reid government at 09:30 PM
healthcare bill gets passed. Bigger government is not the answer to anything, it is Report this comment
the problem! Big government is what stand in the way of economic growth in the U.S.

Ballack Obama has never actually run anything in his life. Anyone with an ounce of Gene Carr
executive experience would not have abdictated the formulation of the stimulous on March 08, 2010
package or healthcare reform to a congressional clique. That is elementary. at 09:30 PM
Changing his inner circle od advisors and enforcers will change nothing. It is Report this comment
Obama himself is the problem. We have an utterly incompetent US President.

Sure, Fox News dominates because they tell the truth while the rest of network news Rick Uhlig
fawns over Obama and the liberal left. There is a market for truth and Fox's success on March 08, 2010
tells us that most Americans do not want a socialistic state, and believe in our at 09:30 PM
Constitution. Report this comment
Here's another fact: one of the few newspapers (maybe the only major one) whose
circulation is actually going up is The Wall Street Journal. Check out their daily
editorials and you'll learn why The WSJ is gaining while most newspapers are
sliding into oblivion. Simply put, it the same reason Fox is successful.

Barak Obama is a complete disaster to common, ordinary, upright citizens. His shearwater
paradigm is strangely warped and twisted by those he associated with. He on March 08, 2010
repudiates free market capitalism, the goose that laid the golden egg for America. If at 09:29 PM
that weren't enough, he wants to spread the wealth of honest, hard working Report this comment
Americans around to those who never earned it and do not deserve it simply
because he believes that America has mistreated particular classes of people in the
past and he believes it is his time to right the wrongs that have been done. His ethos
was shaped by Jeremiah Wright, the fire brand American hater whose theology is
neither Christian nor American.

For the first time in recent history Americans, courtesy of cable news and the dwight canfield
internet, have a ring-side seat into the workings of the cleptocrats in DC lead by the on March 08, 2010
Thief in Chief....and the guy on the street is disgusted by what he sees. Big at 09:29 PM
government serves only itself.....at our expense. Report this comment
Cantillon - are you kidding me? Obama has blamed the Bush administration at Greg
nearly every turn since the day his swearing in was bungled. The whole thrust of his on March 08, 2010
administration has been to push the progressive agenda without a shred of at 09:29 PM
meaningful involvement from across the aisle. Until recently, when the election of Mr. Report this comment
Brown in MA forced him to at least publicly display a gesture of bipartisanship.

Conservatives don't blame Obama for the problems he inherited -- they have been in
the making for decades with help from hundreds of government and big business
leaders. But we sure do blame Obama (and Congress) for using the current "crisis"
to recklessly and arrogantly push through legislation and bailout spending that is the
exact opposite of what needs to be done to restore economic freedom, strength and
sanity to our country.

Obama, the community organizer, is a total failure and a tool to Wall Street and the jerom
elites. The destruction of the U.S. continues as 'the president' issues executive on March 08, 2010
orders going around congress and entangles the nation in nefarious UN treaties. at 09:29 PM
Things are going to get much, much worse, possibly fomenting full-blown revolution. Report this comment
No, I don't watch Fox news.

The only reason Obama won was because he ran against a horrible candidate, and Redgar
he lied his ass off to the American people. People should have seen that this was on March 08, 2010
going to be a hugly partisan administration as soon as Obama put Joe Biden on the at 09:29 PM
ticket, and added Rahm Emanuel, (the spawn of Satan,) to his staff. He's appionted Report this comment
tzar after tzar with questionable associations and radical political views. People are
finally waking up to this Communist in Democrat clothing, and they are pissed that
they were lied to over and over.

More people watched Fox in 2008 too. If Fox News is the problem, Obama wouldn't Teleprompter
have been elected. on March 08, 2010
at 09:28 PM
One problem is Obama's lack of experience. His organizing skills are about using Report this comment
the threat of the race card to avoid confrontation and gain more entitlements. Similar
attempts to rally Americans against Wall Street or Insurance Companies don't work.

The other problems documented in this article are on the right track. Republicans
made these same arguments during the election.

This country amazes me. To think it would take this long to see and understand the Rick mongello
socialist handwriting on the landscape of our country. I for one have been watching on March 08, 2010
since the end of Bush seniors(A new world order) first and thankfuly last term. at 09:28 PM
B Husein Obama and his left wing Democrat hacks did not work a miracle to take Report this comment
over our country, we the people gave it to them. Conservative voter apathy, big
business greed, and shear political ignorance paved the way for their victory. Now
these low life (Rham Emanuel) Democrat scum bags (Obama,Pelosi,Reed) are on
the run. The great silent majority has awakened, or maybe not? Let us not forget the
R.H.I.N.O's and other Republican moderates that were asleep at the wheel, while
our country was being hijacked by Bush, Clinton, and Bush. Not to mention over 20
years of a totaly ineffective Congress and House. Obama and his crew didn't do this
to us overnight, let's not forget that, not ever. All hail a resurgent and Conservative
America. I hope an able leader will emerge that can both read and interpet our
constitution under God. We Americans are waiting.

Mr. Huffer finds Fox News shocking because of it lack of impartiality? Ted
on March 08, 2010
What, then, does he think of MSNBC? Let me guess: Keith Olbermann is the middle- at 09:28 PM
of-the-road voice of reason and logic. Report this comment

Yes, Britain is surely the center of the universe with regard to professional
journalism. Page 3, anyone?

well articulated...now, for you Wilbur Tibbetts


o-belivers out there... what, if anything, is incorrect about these thoughts? An on March 08, 2010
example of not paying attaetion...Detroit is not O's fault..."Dtroit's collapse is a sign of at 09:28 PM
Obama's failure" What was written was O has be unable to help Detroit. Not that he Report this comment
distroyed it.

This is from the UK. Now correct me if I am wrong, isn't the BBC a bastion of leftist david
wackyness? Fox News has some conservative hosts as well as some liberal hosts. on March 08, 2010
These hosts will never claim to be something that they are not unlike the CNN, at 09:27 PM
MSNBC and AL Jezzera. Frankly, I hear more hate just surfing past MSNBC then I do Report this comment
in listening to Fox.
Your column fails to delve into just why Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore and other areas Jedi-Jurist
are so depressed. I would suggest you look at who has been in control of these on March 08, 2010
localities for the past 40 years. You will find, with little suprise, that Democrat leftists at 09:27 PM
and unions have controlled the vast majority of places like Detroit. Overspending, Report this comment
overtaxation, overregulation and unionization have all killed the golden geese, and if
the American person (not people) does not wake up soon, Detroit will be a sign of
things to come for us all.

If CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC were in fact impartial Fox News would not be James
absorbing all of their watchers and listeners. Fox like any other competitive business on March 08, 2010
saw a niche of unprovided information from those other, "impartial" 'news' outlets at 09:27 PM
and stepped in to provide what the public wanted to see and hear. Competition is Report this comment
good for business. Maybe CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS might finally get the message
and stop being the unimpartial state-run media outlets that they have become, of
late.

I don't understand the fixation on FOX news by you writers. Odumbo has ever major Harley2002
network and newspaper kissing his butt. Fox in only one channel.People tune in to it on March 08, 2010
because they know the rest do nothing but cover up and make excuses and NEVER at 09:26 PM
ask the hard questions of the Failure And Chief. I mean the idiot is still pushing the Report this comment
Death Care bill when we don't want it. His pathetic ego just can't accept a defeat.He
is a Marxist and cares about nobody but himself. He is a spoiled little brat who never
had to grow up as all has been given to him his whole life.

The senior Democrat that blames Fox News for their problems, is part of the Mark F
problem, also. Fox News may very attract 4 times the CNN viewers, but the network on March 08, 2010
news has 10 times the number of viewers that Fox has. The networks are all left at 09:26 PM
leaning. There is no unbiased reporting from the major networks. That seems to get Report this comment
overlooked.

Mr. Heffer is spot on for most of his observations; the one exception being his TheUnwashedMasses
characterization of Fox News. The reason that Fox News is so wildly popular is on March 08, 2010
precisely because most of the time it presents a viewpoint consistent with that of a at 09:26 PM
significant number of TV news-watching Americans. Most of us can sense when Report this comment
we're being "spun", and the old networks - ABC,CBS,NBC,PBS,CNN, and MSNBC
have engaged in blatant leftist spinning for years. Unless you have unusually short
memory, Fox news analysts were fairly tough on Pres. Bush and the Republicans
when they engaged in actions that went "against the grain" of the majority of middle
class American sentiment.

Mr. Heffer, Thomas


FOXNEWS actually gives EQUAL time to liberal viewpoints vs. conservative. On the on March 08, 2010
other news channels there is only ONE side presented.. that of the socialist LEFT. at 09:19 PM
Your article brings up some good points,, but you are LOST about the FOXNEWS Report this comment
channel and WHY it has been growing.

When was Detroit mighty. I lived most of my life just outside of Detroit and is was 'scott
never mighty. It was always riddled with problems. on March 08, 2010
at 09:19 PM
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Come on People. Stop lieing to others and lieing to yourself! Holly


The Democrats have had control of Detriot for many years and they and the unions on March 08, 2010
have destroyed that city! Now the Democrats are breaking down our nation the same at 09:19 PM
freaking way! Report this comment
For all of you that scream Social Justice, Lets me say this. You may get what you
think is payment for past wrongs but what you will have left of a nation will be
worthless just like Detriot

Jeez, reading the comments was much, MUCH harder than reading the article. To Markus
put my perspective on Fox News; yes, it is right leaning no matter how any one puts on March 08, 2010
it. People claim the usual line-up is fair and only guys like Hannity and Beck being at 09:19 PM
the far right, that's not what I see. Fox & Friends in the morning leans right, then it's Report this comment
decent until the afternoon, when the top "draws" come in. A truly "impartial" news
source would have Beck and Olbermann on one after the other. Or on the same
show, even. THAT is impartial as both are radical in their beliefs.

As far as Obama goes, I consider him weak. Very weak. The one thing I supported in
him was the "Public Option," and yet now that's practically off the table because
Democrats and Obama gave up on it once it got flak in Congress. The guy hasn't
stood his ground on beliefs until now, and now seems too late. The Republicans
are gaining steam with the outrage of the public. By and large, Obama is getting a lot
of flak, but most is deserved, unlike the praise he got during the election.
The sooner we vote this "failed social experiment" out of office, along with his Rationalist
"spawn of the devil" brother , the faster this country can start healing on March 08, 2010
at 09:19 PM
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Obama is a wolf in sheeps clothing and best decribed as a socialist - As Lenin said, citizen serf
"Medicine is the keystone to the arch of socialism" (see 'Obama's College Years: on March 08, 2010
Barry's Marxism' @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgOy71oa3hw). Thomas at 09:19 PM
Jefferson apparently saw Obama, Rhambo, Pelosi, etc. (ok Bush too) coming - "If Report this comment
once (the people) become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress
and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be
the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." & "When once a
republic is corrupted there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but
by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is
either useless or a new evil." - Something you Brits could learn from.

The lack of experience shows just how empty this suit is !! He does not think or act Henry Stumpf
like an American. He is not a true Christian, but favors Muslim. How in the world did on March 08, 2010
the "fools" of the voting public put these two in our White House??????? at 09:18 PM
Report this comment

The Tea Parties have done more for the conservative cause than the conservative Anil Petra
media, in my view. on March 08, 2010
at 09:17 PM
Meanwhile, it's absurd to hear a voice from a monolithic media culture criticizing a Report this comment
U.S. media network winning out in the marketplace of ideas, which is allowed to
operate relatively untethered, here. Clearly, the author does not believe in such a
marketplace.

We who believe that Karl Marx had it exactly correct have waited for the opportunity to firebrand
reorganize a fully developed industrialized country into a centrally controlled on March 08, 2010
economy.Managed by the enlightened elites for the benefit of the masses. at 09:17 PM
Some of the Anglo-Irish will resist but over time their numbers will be reduced.We Report this comment
also have an opportunity to redirect the education of the young to have a proper world
view and instruct them as to the need to redistribute the fruits of their labor for the
world good.
Control of the teaching and media class have insured a smooth transition and an
understanding of the bright new future that awaits the peoples sacrifice.We ahve
been able to convert the faithful to benefit of the collective state.
The auto industry is nearly in our grasp and the trade union movement will bring
undercontrol all manufacturing.The financial world has been made to see that
government control can mean success for those who contribute to a world view
organization.
We need only remove the chains of organized faith and the archaic morality to reach
the summit.
Individual free will has been replaced by the simplicity of educated group thinking.
When the people understand that there was never such a thing as individual
capital,thought and identity our job will be complete.
For a better good for all we can be one.

The mention of Fox News is correct. I know many who refuse to watch any of the expat99
network's programming solely because of what seems to be an open campaign to on March 08, 2010
remove the present administration. We can hear and read the terms "communist", at 09:17 PM
"socialist" "Marxist" and "fascist" used in the same breath to describe the Report this comment
administration as well as Obama himself. And, in turn, he is called a Muslim, 'not a
US citizen' among other things.

What are truly concerning are the apparent willingness of many US citizens to speak
out with loud voices and repeat the same slurs and claims, and the fact that they do
seem to have the loudest voice of all in the country today.

Anyone who speaks out against them for any reason (even if to point out the obvious
error in some of their wilder claims) is shouted down almost rabidly.

The future looks bleak for freedom, democracy, and honesty in the land that holds
itself up as a leading example of those things.

Added to which, it speaks volumes about the increasing willingness - or is it desire?


- of people to believe anything about anybody provided that it's told to them with
strong emotions, use of the word "patriot" and a waving flag.

But there are still those Americans who have a clue.

The end for Obama? I can only hope so. Each day more formerly mind numbed Kathy
Americans are learning who he truly is and what the results will be if he gets what he on March 08, 2010
wants. We've been led to believe that the rest of the world hates us. If true, think long at 09:17 PM
and hard before you wish for our demise. Report this comment

I predict the DNC will not allow Obongo to run again. I predict that in a year you will Douglas Cain
hear rumours of health problems and that he will announce he is not running for re- on March 08, 2010
election for 'health reasons'. at 09:16 PM
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Fox News is Obama's problem?!?Wow. It may as well be, but why have we not heard Michael Trillium
BEFORE some media being blamed by the Telegraph?? Like CBS, ABC, NBC, on March 08, 2010
CNN, NYT, Time, Newsweek being Bush's problem. at 09:16 PM
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"Obama's big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many Jim from Boston
people watch Fox News as watch CNN." on March 08, 2010
at 09:16 PM
There's a reason why CNN is known as the "Clinton New Network" and why Fox Report this comment
News dominates the ratings.

Because Fox News didn't fall for the Obama worshipping unlike CNN and even more
left wing MSNBC.

I have never read so much ignorant hatred as I have here. We know Obama is a John Z
failure but to blame it all on him is indicitive of the historical amnesia so many on March 08, 2010
Americans suffer from. The Boosh admn. run by zionist necons and their cadre of at 09:16 PM
corrupt clones aided and abetted the financial rape of America. The Boosh regime Report this comment
was one of the most corrupt and Constitution destroying crimminals of the 20th
century. besides getting us involved in Iraq and Afganistan based entirely on LIES
which was parroted by none other than guess who? Faux News of course. Shill O
Reilly is a proven liar. Glen Beck is just another overpaid corporate media whore and
Hannity is not a jounalist. Come to think of it, none of these people are journalists no
different than the rest of the mainstream media as well as the press.
Oh yeah, I just love the so called journalism on Faux news. let's see: there's a
police/car chase in L.A. 10 minutes of celebrity news, followed by a mugging in
Central Park and then the propaganda about our great success in Iraq( 15 sec.
worth)
As in the song "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley; "in the end , they haven't told you a
thing."
BTW Murdoch is a screaming zionist which means he hates America.

If Robert used to be a Republican, I used to be Napoleon. You have a right to your JCIll
opinion, but please do not insult the intelligence of other readers by pretending to be on March 08, 2010
someone who you are not. There are very few former Republicans, but thousands of at 09:15 PM
trolls who profess to be. Report this comment

eMM said: "Idiots are the ones that are stupid enough to quickly forget that when OklahomaBound
Obama got on the wagon, it was ALREADY BROKEN!! He's only trying to fix what on March 08, 2010
OTHERS BROKE....GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS" Your right eMM, it was at 09:15 PM
broken before Obama took over, it was broken by the 2006 democratic Congress Report this comment
who continued the social engineering of Bill Clinton by forcing banks to give home
loans to people, mostly minorities, who could not afford those loans. Bush tried to
stop and regulate it, but the Dem controlled Congress would not allow it because
those loans were going to their welfare leftist supporters. Obama didn't start it, but
his party did and with his leftist super majority in power he has been trying to force
their progressive agenda on us, not in bits and pieces, but as an all-out assault. He
is is destroying our country, but in the end HE WILL BE STOPPED.

Yes, Obama is afflicted with "tunnel vision," a neurologicaol affliction associated with john brookes
episodes of "idee fixee," "ideological OCD," and culminating in "health care malaise on March 08, 2010
syndrome." The prognosis is grim. - Tea Party Patriot at 09:14 PM
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Childish Americas cast a vote for this person based on perceived skin color, making Jeanette
their vote racist by defiition. Dude's not black. He's supposedly half Caucasian, two on March 08, 2010
thirds Arab, one third African Negro. The constant drumbeat of black this and black at 09:14 PM
that is quite simply, RACIST. Bottom line, we behaved like children, now all Report this comment
Americans, and indeed the rest of the world, will pay the price. For our stupidity, we
deserve what we've got coming.

Obama's biggest problem is that Fox News gets more viewers that all the other hack beth
outlets combined? REALLY? That's IT? Wow. If they can't see the hand in front of on March 08, 2010
their face, they're in for a rude awakening come November 2010. Wow. Well, I guess at 09:13 PM
blaming on Bush has run it's course, so now it's blame it on Fox! Report this comment
Another democrat who figured out Obama is in over his head and wants to blame Zeked
republicans. Had the liberal press done their job during the election we would not be on March 08, 2010
having this conversation right now. Typical democrat - always someone else's fault. at 09:13 PM
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Bara Ombama is the Emperor Caligula of our time. Joseph Chiu


on March 08, 2010
at 09:13 PM
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"The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those Pitbullll
of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast on March 08, 2010
media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the at 09:13 PM
construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by "progressives" who Report this comment
now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion
and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects."

The author's first sentence proves the author to be either a hopelessley naive liberal
at best, or a complete raging leftist idiot, at worst. The second sentence undoubtedly
confirms the latter.

"impartiality"?.......LMFAO!

Obama is well spoken and handsum... I very proud to be an American that voted the Geoff
first negro president... the right wing religieus fanatics are to stupit to offer anything on March 08, 2010
nicer at 09:12 PM
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Robert, Frank Castle


on March 08, 2010
1. Cut EVERY government budget Federal, County, State by %2 every year until at 09:08 PM
income = expenses. Report this comment
2. Get the feds out of our lives. They are responsible for the defense of the country
and other tasks delegated by the constitution.
3. Let ALL school kids have vouchers at underperforming schools.
4. Stop TARP
5. Stop the Stupid Stimulus act
6. Elimate the capital gains tax
7. Eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax

This is just a start.

Now go pee yourself!

There is a serious issue here, and it's a matter of who individuals are as opposed to Individual
the state. Commenter MacAnou said it well, that we are (theoretically) self-ruled as on March 08, 2010
Americans, that a president is not a ruler. This is a struggle for the European at 09:07 PM
mindset (not all, mind you, but the standard). Self-rule is the very purpose of our Report this comment
Constitution, which is unique in its design as a largely immovable, immutable
foundation of government. Citizens' rights aren't given by the Constitution, but
protected by them. It does not empower government, but limits it. True, it has long
been ignored in large part, but here's the thing: A few comments here suggest that
Americans are barbarian for not being a people in "harmony" with a gently totalitarian
state. It's funny, but it's not individual freedom that is barbaric. No, rather
authoritarian government is, even if it says, "Now don't you fuss, sweetie" while it ties
you up and locks you in a closet.

John Black
It is a well known fact blacks can not lead.Just look at africa and you'll see the on March 08, 2010
results of so called black leadership..look what blacks have done to south africa. at 09:07 PM
Obama should be arrested for treason and usurping the presidency..he still has not Report this comment
provided a long form birth certificate.And he is obviously a dyed in the wool
marxist.JUst do the damn research and see who this man ..obozo emulates..ALL
COMMUNIST.
John Black
NEXT TIME
THINK WHITE

This Obama guy really doesn't know what he is doing. He scares me! N.L. Clark
on March 08, 2010
If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be at 09:07 PM
able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is Report this comment
more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men
behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush
to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90%
and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would
you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly
formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically
significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his
speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have
approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent
"Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who
cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in


front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and
continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had misspelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him
for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on
Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions
of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread
panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the
Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you
have made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and
incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the positions of 32 or more Czars who report directly
to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America,
would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even
though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more
than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years,
would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had spent more than all the Presidents combined since George
Washington, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and
impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in a short period
of time -- so you'll have 3 years to come up with an answer.

Do you miss George Bush yet?

As a conservative, I agree Obama has failed. I also think the backlash from Fox Sully
News and the Tea Party movement lacks credibility. Here are people who couldn't on March 08, 2010
care less about spending and big government when Bush and Republican were at 09:07 PM
running the show. America has become unsustainable and lacks the ability to Report this comment
change policy or try new ideas.

Most conservatives seem to blame government for all the issues we face. The reality
is government in conjunction with corporations and voter apathy have placed us in
this mess. Policies that outsourced our manufacturing base and removed common
sense financial regulations have taken a massive toll on our society and our
economy.
Fox News is an exercise of majoring in minors. The search for and exploitation of the
negative. It offers plenty of rage but little as far a solutions. If you can actually sit
through an hour of without being sick your intelligence should be questioned.

Obama's ideas may not be the answer however, the lack of ideas from the right in
the US gives me absolutely no confidence that we can effectively solve the problems
we face today.

The last point I want to make is that our country has become so partisan it
resembles an English football match. "Our side is the best" is just chanted over and
over again regardless of the facts. Politics have become sport here and have
completely removed any sense of honesty or commitment to making government
work for the people. The 24 hour news cycle, partisan blogs, etc. have fueled this
inferno to the point where no one can figure out what is real and what is rhetoric.

The fact that Bill Clinton is still considered the best prsident by the majority of the berndtc
people in the U.S., and the fact that President Obama would easily defeat "W" in an on March 08, 2010
election gives me hope for the U.S. We may beat this Republican recession and at 09:07 PM
pass health care reform yet. Report this comment

As an American and a Conservative, I applaud your observation that Obama’s Beetruck


radical, leftist policies are antithetical to the core values of most Americans and the on March 08, 2010
basis for at 09:07 PM
the populist backlash that have sent his approval ratings down the toilet. At the same Report this comment
time, allow me to react with utter disbelief that you choose to assign the popularity of
FOX news to mere partisan theatre, to do so ignores that FOX news best reflects the
values of its paying consumers, most of whom agree with your argument that the
leftist policies of this President have run afoul of the values that have made America
the world’s engine of economic growth, innovation, stability, productivity and
philanthropy by embracing small government, low taxes, individual freedom and a
strong national defense

If partisan theater drove ratings by influencing core values as you suggest, then
MSNBC - which is owned by corporate giant GE and whose unabashed lobbying of
the Obama administration undermines the very legitimacy of their news subsidiary -
spews the most vile political hate speech on cable news and would, using your
logic, match FOX viewer per bloodthirsty, partisan viewer. It goes without saying, and
watching for that matter, that MSNBC often fails to beat evening gossip talk shows.
As free citizens who are allowed to imbibe in a myriad of privately owned news
offerings, we vote with our ratings. In a free market where government does not own
the media, the news provider that can best reflect the views of the largest audience
wins. Overwhelmingly, the voters have spoken and we choose FOX because it most
closely matches our political beliefs and values.

Perhaps the bigger story is how Obama, a man with such obvious radical personal
associations - he did kick start his campaign from the home of a unrepentant,
domestic terrorist - was given a pass on what are radical, leftist ideological views.
What was seen as an advance in race relations, his election could, arguably, be
seen as a step back, after all, we failed to realize Dr. Martin Luther King's dream and
missed the opportunity to gauge the man by the content of his character.

To get a handle on how fast and how smoothly Obama has fallen from grace, this Matt
graph may be instructional: http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama- on March 08, 2010
Job-Approval.aspx at 09:06 PM
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@eMM Joseph Spierdalaj


Yep, that's Bush's fault ;) on March 08, 2010
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The mainstream NY/Hollywood media who invested their reputation on getting Vince Hugh
Obama elected, will not let him fail. Be assured they are searching high and low to on March 08, 2010
figure out a way to redeem his popularity. at 09:06 PM
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Your comments about President Obama rang true to me. It is true that the President A. D. Stewart
and his idealistic supporters have run into the proverbial wall. At this point it is not on March 08, 2010
clear if they will drive off the cliff but it is possible at this point that uncompromising at 09:06 PM
idealism will do that for you - does anyone remember Adolf Hitler's version of Report this comment
idealism?

I would say this however about Fox News. You are correct that they have become
very popular in the cable news business. However, you imply that it is they that is
stoking up the anti Obama feeling in the country resulting in his failures to date. Oh
contrer my friend. Please remember it is his party that has the balance of power in
Congress and it is only through bumbling within his own party that this result has
been produced. The noble opposition has cooperated with the refusal, but this is
purely a failure of one party with all the votes failing to compromise its way to
success. If he goes down as a one term president, he like Jimmie Carter will be text
book examples of what happens when narcissism meets idealism.

If any of the trillions Obama and Dems have spent worked this article wouldn't exist. rlaycock
The anger in the US has nothing to do with Fox News and everything to do with the on March 08, 2010
dishonesty and incompetence of Obama and the Democrat leadership. at 09:06 PM
Everything Obama does enriches his wealthy pals and hurts small businessmen, Report this comment
ranchers and farmers. His "Jobs Bill" is a clone of the failed bill Jimmy Carter
passed. It will accomplish nothing. There can be no surge in investment and hiring
as long as BHO and socialist pals are threatening every private business with
massive cost increases to pay for Health Care and Cap & Trade.
Until it's clear Obama has FAILED America will be held hostage to his party's
socialist ambitions.

Fox spews hatred like Morning Joe interviews conservatives...right? Gretel


Fox spews hatred like Oberman speaks kindly of conversatives...right? on March 08, 2010
If the MSM news really wanted some respect they would quit interviewing news at 09:06 PM
reporters and talking heads from Salon.com, HufPo, Politico etc.. Report this comment
Citizens of the USA are intelligent enough to see bias when it slaps us in the face.
At least Fox has pundits from both sides...and it is without a tingle up their leg.
If the MSM had just vetted one aspect of Obam's past we could trust them...but they
did not!

rofl@top comment hahaha


on March 08, 2010
It's Obama's job to at least try to fix the problems. He's not even trying. But man, I bet at 09:05 PM
those weekly parties at the White House are great! That's all that really matters to the Report this comment
democrat party, spend spend spend.

Obama, the change sucks J


on March 08, 2010
at 09:05 PM
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After reading all of whats wrong with the direction of this country, it would sure be John V.
nice to see someone do something in congress besides line their pockets with on March 08, 2010
money. And, If anyone had bothered to read the campaign promises of Robin at 09:05 PM
Williams and elected him over any Democrat or Republican, we would have no Report this comment
democrats or republicans and all so much better for it.

I wish I could disagree. Robert USA


on March 08, 2010
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It is amazing that people think the other networks are unbiased. If only you could Rico
have heard the curses and yelling at the liberal news reporting before there was a on March 08, 2010
Fox News. Fox News is doing well because the other networks are soo blinded by at 09:05 PM
their ideology and biases the couldn't recognize the opportunity. Report this comment

This is the most perfect, insightful, and truthful article I have ever read about the Pat Riot
Obama debacle!! You have accurately expressed the sentiments of millions of on March 08, 2010
Americans who have realized that we made the biggest electoral mistake in the at 09:04 PM
history of this nation. We only hope that we can survive long enough to correct it in Report this comment
2010 and 2012.

Listen, it started after the election. This bozo huddled with his genius economists stevo
and what did he do with all this planning? He left the stimulus to his left wing party on March 08, 2010
who thought they were Santa to their left agenda. The man is not presidential at 09:03 PM
material. No matter how good he appears during the campaign, no matter how good Report this comment
his speeches are, the office reveals the man, and Obama's weak, vacillating, petty,
vindictive, devoid of executive experience and not good at it.

Here's a REAL News Flash: jtsgrandmom


on March 08, 2010
Faux News is the apologetic sycophant of the RINOs. at 09:02 PM
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Many have awakened that when it comes to DC, the power play is between the GOP
and Democrats, to them, the people are non-sequitors.

There are THREE power plays now in America, the Democrats, the GOP and the
people.

The GOP has Faux as its voice, the Democrats, most of the other media.

The people are silenCED there, media won't even take a grass roots' ad.

But KNOW effectively, when it comes to governing, when push comes to shove,
BOTH Parties are Big Gov't parties and when pressed, they stand shoulder to
shoulder against the people.

THAT will be changing, soon.

545 on the Hill, all but Ron Paul must go.

FOX is where sane viewers go for a bit of common sense. If you want lib crazy you Ron
can go everywhere else. on March 08, 2010
at 08:59 PM
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Obama is like viagra for the conservative movement in the United States. His Jonathan
incompetence and his socialist policies will ensure that the Dems stay out of power on March 08, 2010
for at least a generation. at 08:58 PM
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If you buy a house in disrepair and bring a friend to visit, all the while complaining Wes
about the mess it is in, they would say "Wow you're right! Look at the terrible mess on March 08, 2010
you inherited." at 08:49 PM
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If you had that same friend visit a year later and nothing had been fixed or changed,
they wouldn't be blaming the previous owners any more. They would be looking at
you saying, "Why haven't you fixed anything!"

Wise up!

RunsOnCoffee
I am with Sicario. on March 08, 2010
at 08:49 PM
I will not vote for an incumbent of any party. After 3 elections, we shall see if it starts Report this comment
to change.

Is another massive federal entitlement program on top of the others no one knows Doug, Anchorage AK
how to pay for the change we need? Some have their doubts. For spirited and civil on March 08, 2010
debate, Fox News is the only game in town. at 08:47 PM
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Now Obama wants to sink us more into the vat of acid with tying ten and a half RUSSELL CHRETIEN
million illegals around our necks. he's nor bankrupting us fasy enough on March 08, 2010
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I'm guessing Mr. Heffer never contemplated the probability that the greatest vitriol Lee Tompson
would be reserved for his comments about FOXNews. on March 08, 2010
at 08:46 PM
What people of his "ilk" don't comprehend is that FOX has 4X the viewers because Report this comment
FOXNews reflects their view more closely (not exactly). In his world he's picturing 1.5
million viewers sitting around their TV sets exclaiming "why do I watch these
morons?"

This, in itself, tells me the elite are out of touch. More to the point, if Washington DC
truly wants to give the "folks" what they want...just tune in to FOXNews. They'll find out
exactly what that is.

So the proof is in their actions. Instead of "lighting a candle," they curse the
darkness.

Seriously, I used to be a Republican and even I can admit that FOX News has one Robert
purpose and that is right wing propaganda. on March 08, 2010
at 08:45 PM
Nice thing is I got smart and stopped watching it. Heck, the're more one sided than Report this comment
Dick Cheney/
When you weed out the childish rants by teenies who cannot spell, or apparently thx1139
read,('Berkley' and 'Matt 6:38 pm'), almost every comment here is supportive of Fox on March 08, 2010
news and negative about lying propaganda sheets like WaPo and the NYT. Almost at 08:45 PM
everyone is disgusted with the clownish would-be Stalinist in the White House, and Report this comment
many saw it coming.

The unbelievable nonchalance (Berkley) and almost total ignorance of facts (Matt
6:36 and Matt 6:43) shocks anyone who has spent much time reading or studying
actual history - not the pablum in the now worthless public schools. As many, many
now know, Fox is by far the most popular for one reason: it provides a source of
actual reality information to a public from which that type of knowledge has been
largely censored - BBC style.

What is most laughable, of course, is a Brit telling us how 'impartial' their so-called
'news' is.

For all you immature whelps, not yet able to speak or write intelligently, NO: Mr.
Obama will NOT win an election anywhere again. And this year's midterms will
probably be the biggest wipeout in history.

Watch and weep.

Just because unemployment numbers are slowing coming down, only goes to John
show that there are only so many jobs that can be cut. You cannot get more blood on March 08, 2010
out of the turnip, and a person who has lost all their blood, is not on the way to at 08:44 PM
becoming healthy. Every job in American that can be cut, has been cut. Skeleton Report this comment
crews work double time, for the same pay, and companies are at the bare
minumum in order to stay in business. This does not mean a recovery, it simply
means there are no more jobs to be lost. We have hit the bottom.

"This naive act of manipulation has brought its own counter-counterattack, with an ghost
anti-Emanuel pundit drawing a comparison with our own Prime Minister and on March 08, 2010
ridiculing the idea that Mr Obama should start bullying people too." at 08:44 PM
Obama bullying someone!?! Get a grip! Mother Theresa could tell him to get Report this comment
screwed!

It matters little who is the President of the United States. The present crisis is a acudoc
crisis of the debt-based, fiat money system managed by fractional-reserve banks on March 08, 2010
worldwide. We have created a monster and shouldn't be too surprised that our at 08:43 PM
clever offspring is like Chucky on steroids. Report this comment

Strike at the root and return to a gold-backed currency. Require that loans only arise
from previous savings, andnot fractional-reserve flim-flam. It doesn't take rocket
science to understand the problem of fraud and dishonesty among the money
changers...even Jesus was driven to distraction by the greediness of these guys.

It's quite obvious that this author has never even watched Fox News. "rage 24 hours Bob Davis
a day"? Hardly. I guess this is what passed for journalism in the UK. on March 08, 2010
at 08:43 PM
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Yes, please keep trying to deflect BHO's problems by blaming it on the previous Dean
administration and Foxnews, that will go well with those with whom you disagree. on March 08, 2010
Uh, hello, the financial crisis was caused by issuing mortgages to those who cannot at 08:42 PM
pay them back, at the behest of Fanny May and Freddie Mac, both pressured by Report this comment
progressive politics to give loans to the under financed and irresponsible. Our
answer to that crisis is to print more money and just give it away? President
Obama's current popularity is of his own making, with his party's help. Most
Americans don't want a free ride, instead they want the freedom of self-responsibility
and self-determination. If you really wanted to understand the economic issue, take
a look at the Community Re-Investment act or the "Fair Housing" act. Both led to this
predicament, not conservative views (GWB wasn't a real fiscal conservative either).

Amen, Sisao Tresed


Spoken by a man who is looking in our window, and has NO side to take. What part on March 08, 2010
of his observation does the left see as WRONG? Forget about party lines! Put down at 08:42 PM
your party-think, and your union mantra, and vote for America! Find solutions, not Report this comment
blame. Find actionable ideas that benefit EVERYONE! This current plan is NOT
working! Wake up America...

We do NOT need large government programs to generate jobs. This administration GlobalSailing
and the Dems fail to recognize the obstacles they place in the way of job creation. on March 08, 2010
For example, over the past year proposal after proposal has been put forward to at 08:37 PM
reform health care, reform the financial system, increase taxes, and add regulations, Report this comment
all with the intention of making the United States a better and stronger country.

Yet, as a business, trying to understand which of these proposals might become


law, what their impact might be on business prospects and competition, and what
additional costs they might impose creates a great deal of uncertainty. It has led
many management teams and boards to spend inordinate time trying to determine
which investments we should make, defer, or cancel and which jobs to create,
maintain, or eliminate.

The removal of this uncertainty and the constant drumbeat of new threats against
various businesses would go a long way to allowing American entrepreneurial
energy to be unleashed.

A HUGE responsibility for this mess lies at the feet of the American press. Their TMan
demonstration of "an idiotic level of idolatry" is what has driven the popularity of Fox on March 08, 2010
News. Even those clinging to guns and religion know when they're not being told the at 08:37 PM
whole truth. Report this comment

I am surprised that so many people believe as I do, as revealed by these comments. Campos
I think we should take steps, pursuant to any such provisons in the Constitution, to on March 08, 2010
oust this man and all his czars from office immediately. The reason he has wanted at 08:36 PM
to close Gitmo is now revealed; he realizes that is where he should eventually be Report this comment
placed himself.

We had 8yrs of Mr Bush. Obama had the barely 2yrs and he is the cause of all major Dele
american problems.Wow.We must have pack of morons making stupid and on March 08, 2010
senseless comments. What do we call that,the same old racism.Wake up at 08:36 PM
american, you suppose to be christian, i thought better than muslim but where is the Report this comment
fairness and tolerance towards someone of different color. How do you people
sleep art night. We dealt with 8yrs of Mr Bush. Give me a break.Obama should wave
the magic twang and everything will be fine. Give me a break.People get a life.

Isn't it strange how often the initial comments on every political article come from the David
left? Even when the comments are 10 to 1 against the left's position. I wonder on March 08, 2010
why/how that is? Just kidding! I know! at 08:36 PM
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The problem is negroes promoted on the sole basis of the colour of their skin: it's Gary Prussen
true in business and government in the USA - ditto for women - women have been on March 08, 2010
promoted to ever higher positions but have never produced anything innovative or at 08:35 PM
profitable. This is the true cause of the decline of America. Report this comment

The author writes: Scott


on March 08, 2010
"The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those at 08:34 PM
of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast Report this comment
media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day..."

Stating that Fox News pours out rage is not impartial (or even true). The word
"impartiality" in English translates as "leftwing views only" in American.

Right on most parts but wrong about Fox News. They dominate the ratings because PAPPYJO
they tell the truth and people know it. on March 08, 2010
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Obama like Blair before him are plants by the NWO. Eazi Over
Does any one seriously think the majority of the people of America would have voted on March 08, 2010
for a foreign born Muslim if they had known the truth at the start of his electron at 08:33 PM
campaign. Report this comment

amazing what happens when an article gets linked to the drudge report. You get Brad
comments from the worst of America. The ones that eat, sleep and drink Fox News. on March 08, 2010
They think their getting something fair and balanced but it's the most biased News in at 08:32 PM
this country. Not only do these people use Fox for News but they seem to get their Report this comment
history lessons from it too. Obviousl most of these people never bother to read
books by historians or paid attention in school. America is as divided as it was 160
years ago. Time to either split in two or have an all out war.

Give a blackman a city, state or country everything gets worse! James mason
on March 08, 2010
at 08:32 PM
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Idiots are the ones that are stupid enough to quickly forget that when Obama got on eMM
the wagon, it was ALREADY BROKEN!! He's only trying to fix what OTHERS on March 08, 2010
BROKE....GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS at 08:26 PM
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I thank God for Fox News every day, if it were not for Fox the dissemination of OklahomaBound
information in this country would be akin to that of N. Korea or China where the on March 08, 2010
government completely controls the message and therefore manipulates reality to fit at 08:26 PM
their own ideology. Comrade Obama was elected because he was supported by a Report this comment
fawning liberal media who deliberately refused to vet him during the primaries
despite numerous question marks about his past and his radical associations.
Even now, a year after Obama's assault on the US Constitution, on our freedoms,
our wallets, capitalism and our military they still cover for this enemy of all things
American. No terrorist in the world is more dangerous to the US than our current
President and his democratic Congress. A house cleaning of our enemies is
coming soon like a Spring rain, you can count on it!

WANT REAL HATE NEWS? Turn the channel to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. Hate Charlize
like you've never imagined! on March 08, 2010
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I'm one out of 52,000,000 that didn't drink the kool-aid! IMPEACH the FRAUD NOW! ALJ
on March 08, 2010
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This is exactly why I have turned to the UK papers for more and more commentary. Dixie
They have no need to suck up to the Obamessiah. Excellent column. Thank you! on March 08, 2010
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ATTN: Messing with FOXNEWS is messing with "the people". They represent the John
majority of people in this country! FOXNEWS is thee one thing that's slowing this on March 08, 2010
country's descent into socialism! THEY HAVE MY FULL SUPPORT! at 08:25 PM
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This is one American who is 78, fought in the Korean war and was wounded and Hugh
now detests the son-of-a-bitch in the White House and his whole bunch of Chicago on March 08, 2010
thugs. My country will not be worth saving if that criminal crowd gets their way. at 08:24 PM
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This comment in the article: Jules Ovide


on March 08, 2010
"The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those at 08:24 PM
of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast Report this comment
media."

is one of the funniest things I have ever read. Does anyone in the world actually
believe that the BBC is "impartial" when broadcasting the news? It is the most left-
wing "news outlet" around. Anyone can see that. Anyone.

For those who believe it to be authoritative, the Bible teaches us to take care of the MKS
poor, the stranger, and the fatherless. It does NOT teach us to vote for a government on March 08, 2010
that will tax others to take care of the poor, the stranger, and the fatherless. at 08:24 PM
Compulsory "compassion" is a curse; voluntary compassion is a blessing. Report this comment

There's some real irony in this article. First the comment, "Obama's big problem," a Mad Jack
senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many people watch Fox News as on March 08, 2010
watch CNN." The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost at 08:23 PM
shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in Report this comment
the broadcast media." And then, "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." Fox clearly has its biases on display, but so do other cable
news networks as well as the "mainstream media." Further, news media in the US
of A has always been biased; it's never been impartial. Is this senior Democrat for
real or just an invention? Andy Jackson and other early presidents even founded
their own papers to get their own slant on programs and policies across to the
electorate. Obama's big problem is that he's never been remotely qualified for the
job. He presents himself well and can dish out all the right sound bites, but he's
never really run anything in his life. He comes across as a law professor more at
home lecturing during "teachable moments." He got where he is through Chicago
machine politics and by running against his predecessor's administration, a tanking
economy and an unpopular war. Once in office he turned over his major policy
initiatives to the poster children for shrill political partisanship, Pelosi and Reid. Until
the past couple of weeks he hasn't even had a health care plan he could remotely
call his own; he just promoted what Pelosi and Reid put together in their 2,000+
page tomes. He could have been a transcendent president had that really been his
intent; but I don't think it was. If not a socialist, he's a statist with socialist leanings;
the typical uber-liberal academic true believer in the monolithic state which should
be the be all and end all of existence.

THANK "GOD" FOR FOXNEWS!! Scott


on March 08, 2010
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I find it amazing that the American people who looked to Obama with such hope Cyan
have changed their minds about him - less than 2 years of his stipulated term. on March 08, 2010
Every one thought he could of and would of done it all but alas...... every one is NOW at 08:23 PM
seing he is just a man. A man like all of us. Report this comment
I am just one voice in the wilderness of unhappyness that has gripped the nation but
I am still willing to give him a chance. Yes he would make mistakes, yes he would
not be able to Satisfy each and every citzen but we all elected him. So I can not
understand why every one has changed their hope into discontent. He can not
change everything in 1 year nor 2 years, it takes time and you all saw something in
him that you was not seeing in Mc Cain!!!!!
So suck it up and stop whining. Each of us have a stake in this and every one
deserves a chance.

Anyone who watches Fox News and does not develop an admiration for the RedTruck
commentators and reporters is not being honest or sincere. on March 08, 2010
There is a group of bright, articulate, well researched and read people - with an at 08:22 PM
amazing amount of energy and dedication to the news - yes the news. Report this comment
Thank God for Fox News - where facts are put forth that "we the people" need to
know - deserve to know.

ADMINISTRATION;suck it up and take it like a man...if you know how. stop the tears! abby
when you ain't good, you ain't good! on March 08, 2010
at 08:22 PM
as far as a one term act...obama will find a way to enact marshal(l) law. that way he Report this comment
never leaves pennsylvania ave.

Before the 2008 election, I was convinced that Sarah Palin had more experience that Michael Waldron
Barack Obama. I might add, she has more common sense. It's too bad that most on March 08, 2010
Americans bought "change you can believe in." Before the election, I wondered what at 08:22 PM
that meant. It means nothing. The rest of America is beginning to grasp that. As for Report this comment
Fox News, I watch it all the time because I see stories there I could see nowhere
else. Only Beck and Hannity are not fair and balanced. The rest of the time, I always
hear both sides. The mainstream media here could relearn many journalistic
lessons from Fox. Shame on them.

Who owns the media/Hollywood? Why are there "dual citizens" running top levels of Tony
government? Why does AIPAC and the ADL dictate more than the people do? Who on March 08, 2010
owns the banks? at 08:15 PM
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Are Americans that stupid? Wake up already!

This article is just spot-on, except for the Fox News comment. Albertan
Is Heffer serious?? As a fairly frequent Fox watcher I've never seen an 'outpouring of on March 08, 2010
rage.' They have a surprising number of 'liberal' guest commentators. at 08:15 PM
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I am astonished that Mr. Heffer can actually believe that Fox news is biased and the Jeff Mosteller
other networks are not. This is an hilarious assumption. That Fox news is the only on March 08, 2010
outlet that allows conservative thought to be expressed does not make it at 08:15 PM
conservative. The other networks would exclude conservative thought entirely and Report this comment
characterizes conservatives as stupid and hateful.

Mr. Heffer then characterizes opposition to Obamunism as hate and his troubles
due to poor marketing. But his problem is not that he has failed to convey his
message but that the solutions he proposes have long ago been proven as failures.
Obama (and the American Left) simply refuse to believe it. The press didn't expose
his devotion to his failed socialistic ideals and the country, sadly, didn't demand
such exposure but now that its out there it is being rejected and Obama is seen in
the same light as LBJ and the worthless one Jimmy Carter.

"No, Jan, Fox News is telling you how you(and America) feels and you are buying it. " DRH
on March 08, 2010
Laughable. **You** know what **Jan** thinks better than Jan? Such presumption at 08:15 PM
doesn't say good things about your thinking processes. Report this comment

Fox News is not the reason for the rage as some stupidly suggest. It is only Mark Sivad
reporting what the other channels don't. on March 08, 2010
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How can you blame Fox News for Obama's failure? If they were as effective as you Phil Zaczek
erroneously claim, then why is there a Democratic ultra liberal President and a on March 08, 2010
Democratic majority on both houses? Fox did exist before the election too, and they at 08:12 PM
haven;t changed a bit. Report this comment

Obama is trying to destroy the American dollar on purpose. This is why the globalist Chris
elite manufactured his image and brough him to power. They know socialists on March 08, 2010
destroy economies and now they are all short selling the US dollar. Its a complete at 08:12 PM
disgrace that people cannot see this. The whole plan of Obama is to consolidate Report this comment
power in the banking system and to bring about a world currency. Americans must
be the most pathetically stupid bunch of people and they deserve everything they get
for electing this emporer with no clothes dictator. Wake the hell up America. When
George Soros visits the white house to meet with Obama, something is not right.
Wake the hell up!!!!!

One thing I got from Mr. Heffer's article is that he thinks the media has the ability to Mark Jackson
direct the general public's way of thinking, that the media has some sort of ability to on March 08, 2010
control how people think. That is exactly what the Liberal media does think, and what at 08:10 PM
they try to do. I admit, it works to some degree on some people. But, what Mr. Heffer Report this comment
does not understand is the majority of Americans are intelligent thinking people that
cannot be swayed by the media to think different then their principled beliefs, and,
that Fox is only resonating with what intelligent conservative people are already
thinking.

Fox is not causing conservative people to be angry and stand up to take a stand
against liberalism and socialism, we are doing it because we believe liberalism and
socialism lead to a dead end, and that our government is not representing us nor
has our best interest in mind. What Fox does have going for them is that they employ
a number of intelligent conservative people who correctly discern what is going on in
American politics and report, comment and editorialize on it. The liberal media can’t
stand that there are conservative voices in the media that counter their liberal voices
so effectively.

Both the Republican and Democratic political parties have too many selfish, self-
centered, power hungry career politicians in it for themselves. Both parties have
some very good people in them, but they are far and few between unfortunately for
America. I pray to God that He, God, would protect America and give us time to
correct our dire problems so our free and prosperous America will not disappear
forever. No nation has ever been perfect, but, no nation has been so giving and
sharing of its prosperity as America has, and the whole world will suffer greater than
it already does if America falls into the hands of socialists and communists
permanently.

You may think I am arrogant and egotistical. No, I desire to retain the prosperity I
had, and our nation had, so I can continue to share my blessing with families and
communities all over the world as I have to this day. I want to do this myself, face to
face with people around the world, and experience the reward, satisfaction and love
experienced by all involved personally. I do not want my government to kill my ability
to excel and prosper by my hard work, and then take the majority of the money I do
earn by gun point and rob me of the joy of sharing and participating in the lives of
others in the way of my choice.

I stand against the ideology of Liberalism, not people who are liberals. I stand
against liberalism because its ideology, taken to its logical conclusion, is
unsustainable, leads to socialism, degrades, demoralizes and divides people into
two classes, the ruling class (who know best), and everyone else (the idiots who are
too stupid to live right and do right according to the government). If that is what you
want Mr. Heffer, I stand against your ideology and will speak out against it, but in your
time of need, I will be there to help and share with you what I have.
Oh, so the problem is that more people can "see" what this Marxist administration is Drider
doing and THAT is the problem? on March 08, 2010
at 08:03 PM
The truth is that Fox does come from a mid of right stance but even knowing that Report this comment
doesn't hinder them a bit in providing both sides of any given point of view,
nowadays it is a breath of fresh air.

This article almost gets it right. The British news is not known for neutrality, and Poppaowl
people watch Fox News because they can tell when they are being lied to. The anger on March 08, 2010
there is real, not only from the right, and the middle, but even the extreme left are at 08:02 PM
starting to jump ship. A true phenomona when you consider where BHO was just Report this comment
one year age.

If you want to see spewing of hate, try turning on MSNBC in the afternoon! Andrew Lukes
on March 08, 2010
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"The root of the problem seems to be the management of expectations." HARDLY! DEMOBUTS
The problem is OBAMA and his hard-leftist ideologues that never surrender to on March 08, 2010
societal preferences of what they believe to be ignorant Americans. at 08:01 PM
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The biggest loss in jobs happened under which President? The two most expensive Robert
wars in history happened under which President? One of the biggest dips in the on March 08, 2010
stock market happened under which President? Some of the biggest corruption at 08:01 PM
scandals over lobbyists happened under which President? Report this comment

The only thing I can blame on Obama is that he should grow a pair and take on the
Party of No head on in the public eye. Let them be shown for their true colors - the
party which will prevent America from moving forward for the sheer purpose of
getting elected.

When a Republican actually starts suggesting solutions to our issues instead of


chanting NO! and hugging on Sarah Palin I'll just pee myself.

"...a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied" potvin


on March 08, 2010
Huh? What? Who is this boob? Is he talking about jolly old England where the BBC at 08:01 PM
plies its trade? Pip pip old boy! The BBC is impartial? Better lay off that afternoon Report this comment
cocktail old chum.

Not Obama's men but OBama the Moron.......Obama maks policy. Look at Kenya, Rod Bowar
what has a Black accomplished except the creation of a Third World and now we got on March 08, 2010
one stupid Black in the WH trying to make America one alos. Take a good look, he's at 07:58 PM
the last one............. Report this comment

Cantillon - I must take exception to your charaterization of the poodle, John Kerry as Gerry Law
a "decorated war hero". Maybe that's what his press agent wrote, but the facts paint a on March 08, 2010
far different story. Perhaps you should read about it someday someplace other than at 07:58 PM
the DNC website. Bush did his time in the National Guard as a fighter pilot. Far from Report this comment
perfect, he is nonetheless, an honorable man. Kerry, the gigilo, is not. Obama is
nothing more than a sock puppet - a Saul Alinsky alcolyte and in pursuit of a "world
order" where the individual will no longer have to "worry" about taking care of himself.
If the Founding Fathers were alive today, they would be standing in the Senate
demanding his arrest and impeachment for maliciously violating his oath of office.

Yes Bill Clinton was a good foil for a Rep legislature because we basically liked him Feed Up
and believed he had the patriotic best intersts of the country at heart. on March 08, 2010
There is no such love for Mr Obama who's anti American anti White racism has at 07:50 PM
already been on full display. Report this comment

Anyone who believes that only Fox is "unbalanced" is a fool. One has only to watch Cat
the embarrassing fawning that the three major networks have done to see the truth. on March 08, 2010
at 07:49 PM
Who reported MSNBC's Chris Matthews' racist comment after the State of the Union Report this comment
message, "You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour." WHAT???

The White House can't control Fox news, so their tactic is to denounce and crush it.
I'm sure Hitler would have approved such tactics, just as Chavez does.

Obama is failing because his Chicago-style political tactics are so blatantly wrong.
And he just keeps promising more and more money... spending us into bankruptcy.
The so-called mainstream media here in America are little more than propagandists E. K. Gregory
for the Democratic Party and for President Obama. They function as Tass and on March 08, 2010
Pravda did for the Soviets. A number of people figured that out and turned to Fox at 07:48 PM
News. They want the truth. It's that simple. Report this comment

Worst U.S. President ever! This idiot is doing more to harm the U.S. than all of its John-Q-Public
enemies could hope to do in their wildest dreams. He doesn't know what a job is! on March 08, 2010
He sadly doesn't understand why the U.S. is a great nation. at 07:48 PM
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"The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those Garreth
of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast on March 08, 2010
media." at 07:48 PM
What you fail to acknowledge - is that Fox's success & popularity were made Report this comment
possible by the abandonment of said technical rule of impartiality by the rest of the
major media (CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc...). While Fox certainly espouses conservative
viewpoints, the fact remains that they cover alot of news stories which are blacked
out in the remainder of the media and as such, if it were not for Fox, many of these
issues would have gone unnoticed & unreported (Van Jones, Anita Dunn,
Climategate). The rest of the media would do quite well to move to the middle &
cease being mouthpieces for liberal ideals & Democratic party talking points if they
truly wish to bring down Fox.

Newark and Baltimore are bombed out; Detroit is decaying...All because of Obama. wonka230
Trenchant insight, dude! These cities have been gutted by decades of policies that on March 08, 2010
encourage companies to move their jobs overseas. Does Simon Heffer really at 07:48 PM
believe that Detroit's collapse is a sign of Obama's failure? I know this guy is British, Report this comment
but is he also retarded?

Wow, you were making sense there for awhile, right up to the point you lept off the Radical capitalist
cliff with the Fox News comment. Fox is the ONLY place you can get national "news" on March 08, 2010
in this country on the TV. at 07:47 PM
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Obama is so clueless that he is failing as predicted...fail you sucka bob


on March 08, 2010
at 07:47 PM
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I watch Fox news because it is the only network from which I can get the facts. Yes, Jim Richards
it's commentary is right biased, but it's news gives facts rather than mere data. I like on March 08, 2010
the president. I am proud that we achieved a national goal of electing a black man. at 07:46 PM
However, I also feel sorry for him because he simply is not up to the job. The nation Report this comment
is being run by his advisors, most of whom are dedicated to his vision of making
America a Euro-socialist nation. I believe he will fail at that!

You're all missing the point! Who owns most of the media? The television channels, me
newspapers, magazines, etc? All media has become is merely an outlet for garbage on March 08, 2010
in our communities, our country, and the world; it only shows the bad, the worse, and at 07:46 PM
the ugly! I think that the media is what is undermining our country, our rights, our Report this comment
individual morality- and it seems that we as a nation can't seem to be spoonfed
enought of the BS! WTF

Very good article. Re FOX and CNN:Fox does not pour out "rage" - its' News is Fair Pogo
and Balanced - its' Commentary is strongly laying out the history of Progressivism on March 08, 2010
and showing how Obama is trying to transform America. Americans do NOT want at 07:45 PM
that to happen; Report this comment
that is Obama's monumental miscalculation.
NB: The BBC can hardly be called impartial.

"Boy Dave" has a great suggestion for paying Congress..

Obama is an idiot, and those who voted for him are blind idiots. His ability to blow Dave Craddock
smoke is wearing thin on the American people. As with corporate management, his on March 08, 2010
supporters are not about to admit they were wrong, or dim sighted, so the mistakes, at 07:45 PM
errors, and personal agendas continue. God help us all. Report this comment

It was obvious to anyone who did a little reading about Obama's background that he EJM
was from the beginning a pure media creation, a community "organizer" with a razor- on March 08, 2010
thin resume and zero qualifications for the chief executive position of Togo, let alone at 07:30 PM
the USA. Report this comment

This purported constitutional scholar never wrote a notable paper on the


Constitution, a legislator who was more noted for voting "present" rather than
authoring any significant legislation, and who left the community he organized in
Chicago as badly off or worse than he found it.

He did manage to pick up some unsavory acquaintances in radical Rev. Wright,


unrepentant Weatherman underground bomber Bill Ayers, and shady real estate
crook, Tony Resco.

But to bring up any of this in the campaign was declared "racist" and drowned out by
the hosannahs of the second coming of the One.

In order to be disillusioned you have to first be illusioned, and Obama's approval


ratings are still amazingly only a bit below 50%. Many people are still hoping for
"change we can believe in."

Folks, it's not coming. It is not the fault of his advisors. This is who Obama is. A
talker, who has never done anything in his life except talk, and mistakes it for action.
A man who ingested the shibboleths of the left without thought and without question.
A man with tremendous self-regard, who has never run even a corner grocery store,
trying to dictate the terms of health care for 300 million citizens, or command the
seas to stop rising.

It's difficult for so many to wake up and realize that they have been had. One wonders
if they learned anything from it. It is bittersweet for those of us who were not fooled,
but still have to suffer this zero for nearly three more turbulent years.

Democrats are doing to America what they've already done to Detroit. marg
on March 08, 2010
You're surprised the rest of us are furious? at 07:29 PM
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Yes, the problem isn't an annual plan for over 1 trillion in govt. debt per year, or 15 Ertdfg
million unemployed and no hope in sight for job increases, or him not doing on March 08, 2010
anything useful about either of these while working on his own pet projects. at 07:29 PM
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The problem is he isn't legally allowed to silence Fox News and his other critics. If
only he could silence all his critics everything would be better.

Not for the economy, or jobs, or anything useful; but for his personal political future;
which is of course the important thing here.

So we should end the First Amendment and let Obama silence his critics to help his
political fortunes; even if it doesn't help anyone else in America.

And people say the liberal elite are out of touch. they also say water is wet oddly
enough.

The only thing osama obama has ever run - is this nation into the ground. Tom
on March 08, 2010
Community organizer con man. Every single thing he spouts is a lie. Great track at 07:27 PM
record. Report this comment

you don't need to watch Fox news to be outraged by the waste, duplicity and arrogant nmh
actions of the current administration. on March 08, 2010
at 07:27 PM
Its not healthcare, or cap and trade, its the economy stupid. Report this comment

The phenomenon alluded to is nothing new: it is known in legal parlance as Ghost of Ronald Reagan
resorting to "self-help." The People no longer believe that our elected leaders, nor on March 08, 2010
even our media are representing them or acting justly. Therefore the People are at 07:26 PM
taking matters into their own hands. It was entirely predictable and so is the current Report this comment
pathetic effort of republicans to attempt to glum on to this wave. Equally predictable
is the inevitable victory of the People and our Republic over these criminals--in office
and in media. Oh, and one caution to those in 'power' who might think they could bull
their way through with their power. Remember, we patriots drink TEA!

History in the making folks!

Fox News pours out 24 hour hate? Please verify your remarks with evidence Mr. Homer N. Jethro
Heffer. on March 08, 2010
at 07:23 PM
However accurate your observationa about Mr. Obama's first year unproductivity, low Report this comment
experience, poor staff, and inability to have a foreign policy may be they are tarnished
by your inaccuracy about Fox News. Beware of the fly in your ointment!

Wow. If you're in this stumbling administration you've got to take this article as a Dave Mann
stinging rebuke. You just don't have "it" and nothing in your makeup suggest you on March 08, 2010
ever will. Tell your boss to get a clue and get out of the way of The Tea Party and let at 07:23 PM
us do a man's job. Fold up your tents and ready yourselves for your due minority Report this comment
status and exit from the White House.

"FOX NEWS represents how a good majority of us AMERICAN'S feel!" John


on March 08, 2010
No, Jan, Fox News is telling you how you(and America) feels and you are buying it. at 07:21 PM
Report this comment
They will distort any story as far as possible and leave out facts that will make it a
non-story. Constantly. Glenn Beck is a master at this.

The "reporting" Fox does now, they would be destroying the liberl media for doing
when it was GW's watch and the country's financial system was collapsing. (And Fox
was ignoring back when GW was in charge.)

Now that Obama is in office, smears, distortions and just plain partisan bickering is
all fair game. The hypocrisy is astounding.

The very idea that British media is wind driven pure, without its own prejudice, is Paul Reese
laughably absurd. The BBC has a very distinct leftist, anti-American view that is on March 08, 2010
constantly on display. Please, spare the reader with mindless self recriminations at 07:21 PM
and just report the news. Report this comment

Lets see if we can figure out how we got to where we are, first let me say for the first Prophet
time there is something I blame Bush for Obama! Well he can't take all the blame , on March 08, 2010
after years of the msm to include the european media of calling the Bush at 07:06 PM
administration everything from liars to the ones the perpetrated 911 the 24/7 assault Report this comment
of the Bush administration along with his lack of caring what the media said after he
won re-election in 04, his amnesty for illegals to his blow up of federal spending in
the vaunted no child left behind, and medicare prescription drugs was only counter
balanced by his leadership on the war and his tax cuts that keep the countries head
above the water.

This lead to a perfect storm of a msm media frenzy if favor of Obama, this left the
American public ill informed, where upon they elected not only the least experienced
President but one who couldn't tell the truth if his wife's life depended on it.
The facts are the eyes have opened of the American public and because there is no
one leader to fill the void of leadership, we are seeing the groups like the tea party
form.
Things will not turn around until American business sees a clear leader emerge.
Than and only then will they start spending and hiring again.

I think someone needs to get him out of office before there is nothing left to salvege, Scott
I think this whole healthcare is a Big smoke screen to get more control over the on March 08, 2010
"average" person who can't afford healthcare. Why are we bailing out large at 07:06 PM
corpertions, when they are ripping us off with there scare tactics? Report this comment

During our election the citizens of other countries told us that we were fools if we Thunderstorm Patriot
didn't embrace Obama. An adoring press told us he was the answer to everything. It on March 08, 2010
has even been proven that he collected large amounts of his campaign money from at 07:06 PM
foreign citizens using credit cards that sought to influence the politics of our country. Report this comment

Now that Obama has been exposed as a fraud, where are all of you to apologize to
America for what you have inflicted upon us? I see the attacks on Fox News, but they
were the only network to tell us the truth about Obama. Everybody else was too busy
carrying his water.

While I can appreciate that the socialist loving Europeans want one of their own to
turn America into the cesspool that Europe has become we in America do not
appreciate your efforts. I do not donate money to influence your elections. I would
kindly thank you to stay out of ours.

The people who are against Fox News. You are arrogant to say the least, as if all Frank
these people who watch or listen to Fox News could not in any way know the truth or on March 08, 2010
process it, when in fact you are the ones who posioned yourselves to any truth. at 07:06 PM
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..............................
> The Fox network is a remarkable Lighthope
> cultural phenomenon which on March 08, 2010
> almost shocks those of us from at 07:05 PM
> a country where a technical Report this comment
> rule of impartiality is applied
> in the broadcast media.

What? What?!

What country is he talking about?

The country of media impartiality where the BBC admitted its own liberal bias? That
country?

"The magnificent campaign created the notion that Mr Obama could walk on water. jeff
Oddly enough, he can't." on March 08, 2010
at 07:05 PM
-Actually he can. In Mr. Obama's game of 12-dimensional chess, the right time to Report this comment
show it just has happened. Wise up people, the man is the savior to the world.
Accept it.

Interesting how anyone who is not a socialist is considered a rightwing extremist. keith
on March 08, 2010
we have a constitution, is it too much to expect our leaders to govern accordingly? at 07:03 PM
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Please be clear, Obama IS in fact a socialist at least, and a Maoist at worst. You can
tell by his teachings (Saul Alinski) and his friends (William Ayers, Rev. Wright, Van
Jones, etc...etc...)

Additionally, sorry to tell you, but a study by UCLA found FOX news to be the most
"un-biased" of the major news outlets. What bothers news people (and other leftists)
is just that, FOX tells the whole story, not just the version that Columbia Journalism
school wants taught, er...reported.

The flap over FoxNews makes it sound as if everyone is watching. But the evening Christopher Chantrill
NEWS reports on Fox only get 2.5 million viewers, as against 20 million for on March 08, 2010
NBCCBSABC evening news. at 07:03 PM
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It is the political opinion shows that everyone is talking about. That's where FoxNews
wipes the floor with the competition.

A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason 1GregM
from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries on March 08, 2010
his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly at 07:02 PM
whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. Report this comment
For the traitor appears not a traitor, he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and
he wears their face and their agreements, he appeals to the baseness that lies
deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and
unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so
that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.—
Marcus Cicero

I recall Tony Blair making the point that the BBC wasn't exactly impartial. I listen to it Matt M
several times per week and I feel that he is right. I really enjoy it and find it to be top on March 08, 2010
notch - but not impartial. A friend of mine who lives in Finland but travels extensively at 06:55 PM
throughout Europe describes most European media as "faintly anti-Western, Report this comment
generally pro-EU and quite reliable in providing the anti-American, anti-British angle
to a story".

The solution of course is to staff the media with vulcans or robots. Once you get the
people out of the news business, it will be impartial - not before. This is simply an
aspect of human nature. The graduates of the various American Schools of
Journalism are skewed left by having passed through those institutions and they
may not even know it. To dwell on a "left leaning conspiracy in the media" is to miss
this but to think Fox News is the only outlet that's not impartial is delusional.

The fundamental problem faced by the other tradional media in the states is they
think they're impartial and a very large portion of the viewing public disagrees.
Lacking a correct understanding of the nature of their problem, they are unable to
course correct and are doomed. In a free market that's supposed to happen to you
when you get this far out of sync with your customers.
As a fan of Fox News, I enjoy seeing "my side" well represented. Ratings wise, Fox
News is simply kicking the stuffing out of the traditional media. I think the traditional
media are biased left and I'm a conservative. From my perspective then, the media
wars are shaping up to be "my side" beating up "their side".

People who only recognize media bias on the right view see it differently of course.
They see it as Fox News beating up "the truth". I don't feel that is fair in that Fox News
clearly labels their opinion/editorial shows as such and makes no bones about the
fact that most of them are conservative. I consider their hard news reporting to be
less skewed to the right of center than CBS, CNN, New York Times, etc. are to the
left.

For most of 2009 not a bad word could be heard about Obama from 98 percent of welrdelr
the media and yet he was connected to ACORN which was connected to voter fraud on March 08, 2010
in several location, Obama was connected to and supported by known terrorists, at 06:54 PM
Obama and his family were the members of a Seperationist Church for 20 years. Report this comment
Obama's minsiter and mentor for 20 years was and is a racists. Obama voted
present more than any other State Senator. Obama's best friend and financial
partner is now in Jail. Since taking office Obama has told one lie after another and
he is such a great speaker that there are those that still believe what he tells them.
The last time trusted a person that said trust me it cost me a lot of money and
thousands of dollars in legal fees.

CAN'T OBAMA JUST CUT MORE TAXES FOR THE RICH?? db


on March 08, 2010
IT'S WHAT MCCAIN/BUSH/REAGAN WOULD DO!! at 06:53 PM
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Give the wealthy more money! It's the ONLY way to produce more private sector jobs,
feed the hungry, and clothe the naked!

GIVE THE RICH MORE MONEY! IT'S WHAT JESUS WOULD WANT!

And while you're at it, isn't it time to INVADE another nation illegally? H***, YEAH!

The major problem, in my opinion, is that we have EXTREMISTS in government Susan Harkins
positions. Democrats and Republicans are, by their very nature, extremists. They do on March 08, 2010
not represent our Founding Fathers' principles, and support a much larger at 06:52 PM
interventionist, swollen, war-mongering government. We need more Libertarians in Report this comment
political offices if we are going to have any meaninful standard of living increase, as
they will go after dismantling the very core institutions and oppressive laws that
currently skew our politics/markets/society in a detrimental way.

British scumbags indeed. Buono


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gee, now we have the government trying to woo business with a 150billion dollar darrold barton
hiring incentive to put people to work....what should have been happening when oall on March 08, 2010
the greedy corporations were falling all over themselves to offshore their made in at 06:45 PM
american products to 3rd world countries in return for 'maximizing shareholder value' Report this comment
was congress should have been slapping on huge tariffs on said american
corporations if they wanted to sell in the usa instead of made in the usa that stood
for something one time....

As Shakespeare once said: Praetorian


on March 08, 2010
They (Obama supporters) will have thought they have bought their manhoods at 06:45 PM
cheaply... Report this comment

The BBC is impartial? Is this article self-parody or something? Because it's really, R. Fiore
really hilarious, intentionally or not. on March 08, 2010
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Before you comment, please note there have over 350 posts already and all that can Iggy Dave
be said has been said. on March 08, 2010
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British Impartiality? How dare you, you pompous hypocrite! The BBS itself has jimmy
admitted it is a left-wing, biased organization and does not care one whit. Your paper on March 08, 2010
and the Guardian share the same attitudes. You wouldn't know impartiality if it bit you at 06:43 PM
on the bum. Report this comment

@ Die Fledermaus Matt


on March 08, 2010
You wrote: "Fox' popularity is due to its finding a niche market in America: the half of at 06:43 PM
the country that's fed-up with the Jurassic media's relentless left-wing bias and Report this comment
reliable omissions of newsworthy stories that are inconvenient for the political Left."

Half the country? Really? 150,000,000 Americans are "fed-up" and watch FOX
NEWS?

You're clueless. FOX news get 3-5 million viewers.

And no Americans view FOX as "Fair and Balanced" as even my Right Wing friends
who watch it admit they do it for the "kool aid" affect.

FOX NEWS is a punchline to most of America, but most of America doesn't even
watch Cable News.

Obama will win again because he will get us out of the pit 8 years of Bush sunk us
into. And hopefully it will remind Americans that the GOP is the enemy of the
American dream.

Follow along with this stupid author who can't even realize Americans have made Douglas
Fox number 1 because we are angry. It's not Fox making us angry. on March 08, 2010
at 06:43 PM
Obama is such a dunce he couldn't make it through one year without dorking things Report this comment
up horribly.

The media is blaming those surrounding obama not because they are worse, but
because they dare not blame their darling boy.

If obama is smart, why not release his school records and let us see.

Who mismanaged Katrina? How about and idiot mayor and govenor, both
dummycrats. And who did the knuckleheads in New Orleans reelect? The same
idiot that couldn't manage the place to begin with.

Blaming it on FOX...too funny!! Only a Democrat would say that reporting the facts Greg - USA
and asking tough questions is a "cultural Phenomenon". Typical liberal...it's always on March 08, 2010
somebody elses fault. It couldn't be that Obama and his "Chicago starting line up" at 06:37 PM
are in way over their collective heads in this game of running America. Report this comment

The people of America don't like being lied to, And Obama makes Bill Clinton look
like George Washington.

From reading this article I get the impression that the author is critical of America as kevin davis
well as Obama for not looking more like Europe by this point. The rejection by many on March 08, 2010
across the USA (Tea Party, etc), is America's rejection of European socialism. at 06:37 PM
Obama is facing the same pressure as democrat moderates are not willing to vote Report this comment
for universal health care and jeopardize their reelection chances in October.
Furthermore, people are watching was has occurred in Europe with its failing
economy, Greece's insolvency (California is not far behind), as well as a president
who treats foreign policy as an afterthought. My opinion is that Obama is a one-term
president. IMHO.

Mr. Heffer......WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! Jan Kasza


on March 08, 2010
FOX NEWS represents how a good majority of us AMERICAN'S feel! at 06:37 PM
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Obama and Congress are purposely blaming FOX news for their problems, as a
way OF diverting attention away from what they KNOW, the american people really
don't want.

Do they really think we can't figure that out?

"WE THE PEOPLE" employ the President and Congress!

"WE THE PEOPLE" are paying the bills!

"WE THE PEOPLE" WILL NOT BE IGNORED!

WITH OR WITHOUT FOX NEWS......"WE THE PEOPLE" WILL BE HEARD!


It is sad that this type of insightful commentary comes from a news organization ra packard
outside our borders. This piece should have been written by domestic journalists. on March 08, 2010
Our journalism has been reduced to becoming mere loudspeakers for the current at 06:36 PM
administration. There is no critical examination of issues and facts. I would like to Report this comment
take the author to task on one point---Fox News does not spew hate 24 hours a
day...what you percieve as hate I see as a genuine out-pouring of frustration and
discontent, not hate. Thankfully there is at least one "pressure valve" in the form of
Fox that allows for this discontent to have an outlet. A Republic will never survive
without a meaningful and honest debate of the ideas that will shape our nation, for
better or worse.

Simon Heffer knows very little about America or Americans and it's glaring here. Matt
on March 08, 2010
Detroit was a lost cause years ago, and the "north and on the eastern seaboard, are at 06:36 PM
industrial wastelands" line is hilarious. As a lifelong citizen of New Jersey we are the Report this comment
least affected by the recession and nobody I know personally is unemployed. him
trying to portray America's power center as an "industrial wasteland" is beyond
hilarious.

The wastelands are the Red States that continue to elect Republicans who drive
them into the ground economically with their "Voodoo economics."

Mr Heffer seems to espouse the same failed economic ideas that Republicans
trumpet even after they've seen them destroy America Republican President after
Republican President. I imagine it's his ego that doesn't allow him to admit he's
wrong.

He also is pathetic in his portrayal of Barack Obama, who is still very popular despite
Heffer's hilarious belief that he's doomed somehow. Check the approval numbers.

The only thing more bitter than a Conservative's whining is a conservative's tears Mr.
Heffer. It's the economic polcies you've supported your whole life that has sunk
America, and once again your aristocratic take will be shown to be a sham when we
crawl out of this whole and Mr. Obama is in the lead.

And FOX NEWS does 3 million viewers. Let's not overstate the reach of cable news.
FOX NEWS viewers are average age of 55+ and most don't have computers let
alone internet connections. They're the old and ignorant for the most part (according
to the demographics).

5x as many people are watching re-runs of SEINFELD then Bill O'Reiily in the US.
You're in the bubble. But I'm sure you want to be there where it's safe.

CNN impartial, are you serious. The mainstream press, impartial? You must be simonn
joking. Liberals hate that other views are being presented and people are finally on March 08, 2010
gaining access to the truth. Liberals do not want freedom of speech and only wants at 06:35 PM
their lies to heard. Thank goodness for the internet, talk radio and FOX News. Lastly, Report this comment
Pres. Obama is out of his depth. His lack of leadership experience is evident and he
does not understand how the private sector works. Pres. Obama is far leftwing and
has no faith in people and mistakenly places all his faith in government.

Obama's original intent was to be a one-term president. Liken him to a suicide ernie labelle
bomber. on March 08, 2010
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Here's hoping, praying that the inexperienced Marxist megalomaniac from the CKAinRedStateUSA
cesspool called the Chicago Democrat Machine is done for. on March 08, 2010
at 06:34 PM
However, it may take more than the ballot box to defeat this thugs and his cronies. Report this comment

Given his administration's so far mind-boggling incompetence in the murky colin craig
business of government, only a quick economic recovery plus getting the troops on March 08, 2010
back home will save Obama. at 06:34 PM
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Why do some Americans accuse Britain of being 'socialist' when it's a democracy D
based on free market principles? And why is everyone still obsessing about on March 08, 2010
ideology so long after the Berlin Wall fell? at 06:33 PM
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Surely everything would be a lot clearer if people stopped trying to categorise
policies as right or left wing and instead critiqued them on the value of their content.

The claim that Fox News "pours out rage 24 hours a day" is outrageous, and proves Bloomington, Ill. (USA)
the author doesn't watch the channel or has an unusually low threshold of liberal on March 08, 2010
angst. Hannity can be annoying at times but he's nothing compared to Keith at 06:33 PM
Olbermann and Rachel Madow. Report this comment

As an American , age 71, I can only pray this would be the end of this socialist Glenn Koons
pacifist's power and agendas. He is the worst Prez in my life and I teach political on March 08, 2010
science and have done it for 50 years. His Dem minions in Congress are almost as at 06:28 PM
bad as this naif in the WH and few even understand the problem of our national Report this comment
security concerns.

By Simon Heffer Rodney Kosfeld


Published: 8:16AM GMT 08 Mar 2010 on March 08, 2010
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The first paragraph asserts: Report this comment

"The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those
of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast
media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: 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.

but the next paragraph admits:

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 unexamined worship of Obama by most of the media (everyone but Fox and talk
radio) got him elected. He was not capable of doing what he promised. The current
collapse is the natural result of his incompetence.

Pray to God and HOPE for this CHANGE. Lakeesha


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The media totally ignored Ron Paul in the last election in the US. It was because the Healthy sceptic
Warfare state/Welfare State regarded Ron Paul as the end of their scheming. on March 08, 2010
at 06:27 PM
Now, with the benefit of hindsight, it is clear to see that Ron Paul was correct about Report this comment
taxation, the US dollar, industry, borrowing, foreign policy, education, health care and
the need to reduce military interventionism. The problem was that Ron Paul was
right. Too many delusional entities in the US wanted to imagine that Ron Paul was
wrong, and to continue the farce. But Ron Paul got his analysis very much spot on.

But even if America decides to fix itself internally, the good news is that there are
cadres of well intentioned planner-fools in Brussels lining up to replace America as
the world's leading intervention agent and hyper power.

All Empires end in disaster. The Americans should have known this looking at
England in the 1970s. If they want to see farce, they need only look at Gordon Brown
and Britain today !!!

I too, wept when obama was elected. Not for joy but in fear for my beloved country, Blue Dog Yankee
the U.S.A. I wept because I knew who obama was, a socialist-marxist-communist. on March 08, 2010
Obama said if you want to know who I am look at the people I surround myself with. at 06:27 PM
One of those who leaps immediately to mind is Van Jones, as self avowed Report this comment
communist. Obama's problem is not Fox News. Obama's problem is we, the
American People. We know what he is attempting to do to us and we don't like it!
Obama out in 2012! (If not sooner.)

What this author fails to acknowledge is that many of those on the right who are William Bedloe
belittled as angry right wingers warned of Obama's inexperience PRIOR to the on March 08, 2010
election. Is credit given to them for calling it right? No - they are belittled even further at 06:27 PM
for their anger, which is now justified, in light of the fact that so many were duped by Report this comment
Obama's PR spin (hat tip to MSM for this, since not a single mainstream media
outlet - other than Fox - performed any substantive vetting of this Manchurian
Candidate). At least you have come around to see the truth - the leg tingling is still
happening here in the States among the fawning media elites. With Bush, blame
was always laid at the feet of the President (the buck stops here), and he was at
least man enough to accept blame. Obama is no man - he will throw anyone and
everyone under the bus to maintain his pristine image, and the gutless media will let
him get away with it every time. Anger? You betcha (to quote Sarah P.) - lot's of
anger...and it will only get worse. With the majority of Americans now firmly asking
Congress to focus on jobs and start over on health care, Obama is doing the exact
opposite - focusing on the disaster of a bill, and ignoring our economic reality. Da**
right we're angry...

Silly, Silly, Silly Berkley Williams


If I believe that artical I just as well believe the earth really is square. on March 08, 2010
at 06:27 PM
Economies boom and economies bust and it doesn't matter if a republican or Report this comment
democrate is president or if he has the house and senate or not. It's just the way life
is and we all might as well get use to it.
Yes a president and congress can make positive or negative changes but
economies are destined to follow their own path much like the weather and you can
only do so much to fix them when they cycle through and go bust. People like Harry
Dent jr. were writing about this collaspe long before it started and in fact when we
were stronger than ever. He even nailed the appox.date when it would start to
collaspe. We as a nation will rise again in 5- 10 years and it won't be the president
or the congress who raise us up it will just simply be the cycle of economies. We
were due for this and here it is. So turn off fox and turn off cnn because George Bush
didn't get us in this mess and Barrack Obama is not the bad president who can't get
us out of it. Its just the way the world goes. Read the newyork times and the wash.
post and be openminded and b/t the two you probally will find the truth somewhere
in there. as the saying goes the truth usally lies somewhere in the middle but you
got to work for it not just turn the tv on and let them spoon feed you their slanted
opinions which get your emotional juices boiling and make you come back again
and again so they make top dollar in their ratings. You got to work to get to the truth.
So I better follow my own advice and go read the NY times and the wash. post
Berkley Williams

GOD BLESS AMERICA Sicario


We gave obama a chance to do it, he is not the God we were told he was. Vote every on March 08, 2010
incumbent out of office in 2010 & 2012, maybe just maybe a new batch will start at 06:26 PM
listening. Report this comment

"This massive state spending gives rise to accusations by Republicans, and people Bernard of Mickleton
too angry even to be Republicans, that America is now controlled by "Leftists" and on March 08, 2010
being turned into a socialist state." at 06:26 PM
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Damn straight! The TAX-PAYERS pay the taxes that fund the $1.4 TRILLION dollar
DEFICIT that these buffoons have foisted on us, even if we vote for people who are
supposed to vote against these programs!!! The UNFUNDED LIABILITIES for Social
Security, Medicare, and the Prescription Drug Plan is a total of $107.7 TRILLION
DOLLARS!!! Our National Debt is about $12.5 TRILLION DOLLARS!!!

This author says that the USA DOES NOT have a WELFARE STATE?!?! We certainly
do not want to go down the "loo" like what is happening in England, the UK, and
Europe!

"Obama's big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many
people watch Fox News as watch CNN." The Fox network is a remarkable cultural
phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule
of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24
hours a day: 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."

LIBERAL LIE. FOX NEWS is the most FAIR AND BALANCED (as their motto says)
media outlet in the USA. All of my life we have had liberal TV networks, newspapers,
magazines, education, entertainment, and so on...

If ALL Americans watched FOX NEWS, Obama and democrats would be exposed as
the frauds that they are, and not covered by "Sychophantic" media buddies.

So it's all Fox News's fault? Well done. NowYouKnow


on March 08, 2010
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Before bashing Fox News as a 24-hour rage-fest, Mr. Heffer should check out what Steve Z
Americans think of it. According to a recent poll, which asked people whether or not on March 08, 2010
they believed what each TV news network was saying, ONLY FOX News was more at 06:25 PM
believed than disbelieved, by a 49%-35% margin. CNN was slightly negative, and all Report this comment
other networks were double-digits negative. Americans are tired of being lied to, and
that's why they watch Fox!

Obama's main problem is that the American people have him figured out. They
thought they had elected a common-sense pragmatist to solve their problems, but
they got a radical socialist who nationalized two car companies, quadrupled the
budget deficit, increased unemployment, and is trying to take away private health
insurance from 85% of the people. This has caused the 30% of pragmatic
"independent" (neither Republican nor Democrat) voters who decide elections to
rebel against Obama en masse.

Obama could save his Presidency by doing what Bill Clinton did in 1995--moving to
the center and working with Congressmen from BOTH parties. But Obama is
probably too obstinate and in love with his own ego to listen to the voters, and could
go down as our worst President ever.

"Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most dydx
of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism. The sound of on March 08, 2010
the squealing of brakes is now audible all over the American press; but the attack is at 06:25 PM
being directed not at the leader himself, but at those around him." Report this comment

Funny how this statement was preceded by an accusation that Fox News was not
impartial, yet no such condemnation was attributed to those who worshiped "The
One."

Also funny was how the news presented on FOX was lumped in with the opinion
shows that also air on FOX. Does Joy Behar blanketly represent CNN news? Does
Keith Olbermann reprensent the news attitude on MSNBC? BTW...isn't it funny how
reruns on FOX beat out the competing shows on CNN and MSNBC?

Actually, it's not funny. It's just biased. And many of us are just fed up with the liberally
biased media.

THAT's why FOX is blowing away the competition...by a margin of 300%... It's also
why liberally slanted "objective" news magazines like Time and Newsweek are
plummeting in their readership, and almost all newspapers in the U.S. EXCEPT the
Wall Street Journal are undergoing a similarly if not greater downward spiral in
readership.

To rephrase what someone said earlier here, being at the center when all the others
lean left makes you look like you're leaning right.

The big problem is Obama has proven to be much less intelligent than he, and his Matt
campaign made him out to be. That, combined with his unimaginable narcissism on March 08, 2010
has showed him to be completely inept as president. at 06:25 PM
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Obama's inability to form a cogent sentence without a teleprompter shows that he is
not the great intellectual/orator that he was made out to be.

His narcissism is becoming very apparent. His gift to the queen? An iPod full of his
speeches! His promise to his children of a family dog if the election was won - what
is its name? Bo - his initials - coincidence? I'm sure that's the name the kids came
up with - you would think they could at least spell Beau, the short form for
Beauregard!

He has turned out to be a complete menace!

Also, the statement - "country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the
broadcast media", to describe the country that created the BBC is laughable! Yes,
we get the BBC in the states, and can see how truely 'impartial' it is! LOL!

Obama Finished??/ We certainly PRAY that you are Right for the USA cannot take Len
much more abuse from this Dilettante and his Lemmings!!! on March 08, 2010
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The president's problem is not FOX news; It is the fact that his agenda is completely Osu!
and utterly contrary to the American spirit of liberty and self-reliance. He said it on March 08, 2010
himself; he intends to "fundamentally change" the United States, and brother, we at 06:24 PM
ain't havin' it. Report this comment

While I would not characterize Fox News as biased as you do, Hannity is the one that lou korpas
goes overboard to me. But how can you not comment those pillars of impartiality, on March 08, 2010
Oberman, Maddow and chris Matthews. The mean spirited and utter unbelievable at 06:24 PM
personally negative drivel about people that they spout is embarrassing. Give me Report this comment
Fox any day, I can at least form an opinion from their broadcasts while I can only look
on incredulously at MSNBC. I rarely watch that network anymore even though I used
to quite a bit. Apparently the majority of people feel the same as I do. I am a
registered Democrat by the way, but the "hope and change" we were promised has
been one of the many disingenuous and disappointing comments from the Obama
presidency. I voted for the man, I should have known his strategy from the outset
based on his background in Chicago. I can't believe that he and McCain were the
"best and brightest" this country ha to offer. I am of the opinion that I can only "hope
for change" in November and beyond but with whom do we trust our future on?

Mr Heffer, maryo
You write "The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost on March 08, 2010
shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in at 06:24 PM
the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day:..." Report this comment
Either you have not watched Fox News or you have a penchance for prevarication.
Apparently you have not watched MSNBC either. This is the non-news organization
which pours out liberal LIES 24 hours a day.

A Vast Left Wing Conspiracy miker5


on March 08, 2010
Remember the 60’s radicals? The protests, the flag burning, the draft dodgers, the at 06:24 PM
drugs, the spitting on U.S. soldiers at airports returning home from Viet Nam? Ever Report this comment
wonder what happened to them and their ideology? They overwhelmingly ended up
in politics, journalism, academia and law. Not what most Americans would call
“honest work”, but nonetheless fields that have proven useful for promoting their
agenda. The one thing they all still have in common is their lifetime commitment of
undermining God, country, the family and the military. To achieve these ends, they’ve
orchestrated their efforts as follows:
- the ones that entered politics employ class warfare and racism to thwart our
Constitution and push their progressive socialist reform.
- the media cooperates by presenting the “news” with unending liberal bias in order
to desensitize the public to the liberal agenda.
- those in high school academia do their part by teaching political correctness and
revisionist history (America was founded by greedy old white men that invented
oppression and slavery) in order to dumb them down enough for their indoctrination
into hard core Liberalism in college. The goal is to turn out young adults that are
incapable of critical thought and will blindly accept the liberal propaganda that the
politicians and the media present to them.
- the lawyers—especially those in the ACLU—bring expensive lawsuits against
anyone who gets in the way, and the ones who become judges become activists,
and collaborate by interpreting the law in a manner that advances their liberal
causes.
These subversive components of the “Me Generation” and their unholy alliance have
relentlessly pursued their agenda for forty years. Their efforts finally came to fruition
with the election of Barack Obama and a Democratic majority in the House and
Senate.

And I quote, "One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the TheMadKing
President – told me of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to on March 08, 2010
be unable to solve the economic problem among his own people." at 06:24 PM
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His own people? He's the American President, not just President of black
Americans. It's this kind of divisive crap that is ruining America.

But I agree overall. Obama's Lefty Yellow Brick Road has ended at a brick wall.
Carter II. One and done.

anonymous @ 4:57..... jdub


on March 08, 2010
You sir are CORRECT!! at 06:23 PM
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Nothing else needs to be said.
All other comments are useless.

Anonymous @ 4:57, thank you!!

"Obama's big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many Griff - Minnesota, USA
people watch Fox News as watch CNN." on March 08, 2010
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Watching Fox is the only way we can get both sides of the story, including the Report this comment
perspectives our "Lame Stream Media" don't for fear of hurting Obamachev and/or
the liberal cause. That is why more people watch Fox than CNN.

Oh, and why is it a piece such as this, rife with patently obvious opinion, is classified PA
as "news". on March 08, 2010
at 06:22 PM
This is NOT "news" this is an opinion piece and needs to be classified as such. Report this comment

" 'Obama's big problem,' a senior Democrat told me, 'is that four times as many TParty4USA
people watch Fox News as watch CNN.' " on March 08, 2010
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So Fox is the "big problem" for Obama?

No, Obama's big problem is that he's a totally committed left-wing wacko who's
clueless about history, and the fundamental exceptionalism of Americans, and the
Constitutional basis for America's goverance.

Obama also fails to comprehend what "common sense" means.

As is typical of Obama and his minions who must always find someone else to
blame, the so-called "senior advisor" quoted in this article shoots at the messenger
rather than own up to the fact that his party put a grossly incompetent failure of a
man into the White House.

By the way, is the "senior democrat advisor" quoted in this article also an advisor for
Hugo Chavez by any chance?

Oh yeah,..that hatred spewing Fox news...there they go again deceiving the WBOB
public....never mind that they regularly beat all the other news outlets with audience on March 08, 2010
ratings.....they're all mind numb robots ....all of em...bunch dumb dumb dumby at 06:21 PM
heads. Report this comment

Ladies and Gentlemen; Bill Johnson


on March 08, 2010
Many of you on the left (and right) are begining to understand why many did not vote at 06:21 PM
for the current president. It was not because of his skin color, not because of his Report this comment
party affiliation, it was because his ideals and goals were not attainable and in any
event he does not possess the experience or talent to accomplish them. In addition,
if he were to accomplish his stated goals it would not be to the advantage of the
American citizen, it would be to their great detriment and to the county as a whole.
Let us put polemic discussions behind us and face reality, there are things in this
life that we want but can't and often shouldn't have. And just like in any employment
experience and realisic goals and methods trumps idealism and failed goals every
time.

Any time Obama enters a room , there is a good chance he is the least experienced william riker
person in that room. Candidate Obama had no executive experience and fooled a on March 08, 2010
center-right country with flowery speeches of moderation....the reality is far different : at 06:16 PM
Report this comment
- his budget package for 2010 opens the kimono on his vast vision for increasing
statism in the US...the government will increase spending from 20% of GDP to 24%
for 10 yrs...until public debt becomes an unsustainable 77% of GDP by 2020

- the health-care bill is a ponzi scheme composed of 10 yr of cuts to medicare and


increased taxes to pay for 6 yrs of expanding benefits to those without insurance. An
honest scoring concludes the bill adds another $2.3T in debt over 20 yrs

- And the process and style of governing is the most corrupt , and murky we have
ever seen. A huge majority of Americans do not want these bills, but kamikaze
democrats are ramming it down our throats with corrupt deals to senators in
individual states and ethics charges against congressman who vow to vote against
the bill.

The writer parrots an administration tune that Fox news has made it difficult to get
the real message out. It's laughable....never in our history has the majority of
broadcast , cable , and print media been so invested in a candidate and now a
president....media are following this president and his party off a cliff ...and Fox news
and alternative media are the only news sources that Americans trust these days.

Every democrat running for office in 2010 should be thrown out. The have proven
who they are ...radical statists in the pocket of unions, trials lawyers , big banks , and
george soros.

Fiscally conservative republicans and tea party candidates are the only hope to get
the country back on track
Fox news doesnt spit our rage .. its about the onyl network in the US that doesnt jimbo
slobber on and on about Obama with sugary stories . Fox doesnt ignore anything on March 08, 2010
that doesnt flatter Obama like most of the other networks do. Fox showed us what at 06:16 PM
was in this stimulus and all the pork filled projects and that is why it isnt helping Report this comment
America rebound. Now if only an American journalist had the gonads to find that birth
certificate and prove that Obama is not eligible to be Prez based on a Kenyan birth.
He is a total disaster as President.

The cluelessness of this writer is manifested most clearly in the statement that Fox Dr. T Furnish
New Channel "pours out rage 24 hours a day." Funny, I work from home doing my on March 08, 2010
Ph.D analyst-writer job and keep FNC on constantly and the only rage I ever see or at 06:16 PM
hear emanating from the TV screen is that of the Dems who show up on the station. Report this comment

You missed the obvious reason some many people are wathcing FOX News. It is truthBtold
because people are increasingly aware that that is the only news station to turn to in on March 08, 2010
order to get any semblance of the truth in the news. The others- MSNBC, CNN et al.- at 06:15 PM
are leftist jokes who make no effort to disguise their shilling for the Socialist-in- Report this comment
Chief. But, to listen to them when Bush was in office, you'd think he was destroying
the world instead of making it a better place, like he was doing. Elections in Iraq,
anybody?

"The $783 billion stimulus package of a year ago was used to further the re-election Danny
prospects of many congressmen, not to do good for the country." on March 08, 2010
at 06:15 PM
And guess which lone news organization was reporting that in the States? MSNBC? Report this comment
CNN? Nope.

None other than your "rage" filled network, FOX. But I guess the clueless, left tilted
euro-reporters like Simon Heffer will still be unable to crack the mystery of Fox
network's cultural phenomenon. They just can't figure out why so many regular
Americans want pointed critiques of the current administration when instead they
could watch gushing, glowing, uplifting accounts from so many other "impartial"
news outlets.

Mr. Obama is an incompetent leftist, like Hugo Chavez. Why the American people BertoGem
voted him into office I'll never know. I sincerely hope he is a One-Term-President. on March 08, 2010
Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish. at 06:15 PM
Report this comment

It is painfully obvious that the writer knows nothing about Fox News or the current walterrego
state of American Media. Like most liberal apologists and those who pose as on March 08, 2010
journalists without doing any research, he just parrots the Democrat talking points at 06:14 PM
about Fox and it's bias. Well here's a clue: Fox has a series of shows that are Op/Ed Report this comment
and they are clearly right-biased. They are very popular since they act as a
counterpoint to the leftist biased programs that pretend to be news when they are
not. Fox News is a different entity. It also reports on news events that the other
networks conveniently miss. That is not bias, it is just closer to fair and balanced
than their competitors by a wide margin. And Americans do have a defacto State run
media like you Brits do, because of the sycophants in the media. Thank god for Fox
and talk radio, the truth coming out is what is hastening Obama's political demise.
I spit on the socialists.

Southrons, hear your country call you, REL


Up, lest worse than death befall you! on March 08, 2010
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie! at 06:14 PM
Lo! all the beacon-fires are lighted,-- Report this comment
Let all hearts be now united!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!

CHORUS:Advance the flag of Dixie!


Hurrah! Hurrah!
In Dixie's land we take our stand,
And live or die for Dixie!
To arms! To arms!
And conquer peace for Dixie!
To arms! To arms!
And conquer peace for Dixie!

Hear the Northern thunders mutter!


Northern flags in South winds flutter!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Send them back your fierce defiance!
Stamp upon the cursed alliance!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!--CHORUS
Fear no danger! Shun no labor!
Lift up rifle, pike, and sabre!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Shoulder pressing close to shoulder,
Let the odds make each heart bolder!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!--CHORUS

How the South's great heart rejoices


At your cannon's ringing voices!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
For faith betrayed and pledges broken,
Wrongs inflicted, insults spoken,
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!--CHORUS

Strong as lions, swift as eagles,


Back to their kennels hunt these beagles!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Cut the unequal bonds asunder!
Let them hence each other plunder!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!--CHORUS

Swear upon your country's altar


Never to submit or falter--
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Till the spoilers are defeated,
Till the Lord's work is completed!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!--CHORUS

Halt not till our Federation


Secures among earth's powers its station!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Then at peace and crowned with glory,
Hear your children tell the story!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!--CHORUS

If the loved ones weep in sadness,


Victory soon shall bring them gladness--
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Exultant pride soon vanish sorrow;
Smiles chase tears away to-morrow!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!--CHORUS

Go Barack Go! Jimmy Carter


on March 08, 2010
I love this guy. at 06:12 PM
Report this comment

The last sentence in the opening paragraph in this story illustrates the great Dave in Georgia
disconnect between the writer (and the NYT) and what this country stands for. on March 08, 2010
at 06:12 PM
"If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons." Report this comment

RULE. RULE????

Presidents don't RULE. Not in America. Savvy Constitution?

No, I thought not.

@Barbara Mueller: Obama can't go down in history as the worst president ever - that TexasTom
honor belongs to George W. Bush. on March 08, 2010
at 06:12 PM
In the style of "Who let the dogs out": Report this comment
- Who let Osama go?
- Who went to war in Iraq over WMDs that were never found?
- Who mismanaged Katrina?
- Who cut taxes while the deficit grew?
- Who declared "Mission Accomplished" six years ago?

I don't know but it doesn't seem fair to write off Obama just over a year into his term.
Bush got eight years before every last thinking person in the USA was convinced he
was a total screw up.

Here's hoping, praying that the inexperienced Marxist megalomaniac from the CKAinRedStateUSA
cesspool called the Chicago Democrat Machine is done for. on March 08, 2010
at 06:12 PM
However, it may take more than the ballot box to defeat this thugs and his cronies. Report this comment
"This massive state spending gives rise to accusations by Republicans, and people Bernard M. Russelman
too angry even to be Republicans, that America is now controlled by "Leftists" and on March 08, 2010
being turned into a socialist state." at 06:11 PM
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Damn straight! The TAX-PAYERS pay the taxes that fund the $1.4 TRILLION dollar
DEFICIT that these buffoons have foisted on us, even if we vote for people who are
supposed to vote against these programs!!! The UNFUNDED LIABILITIES for Social
Security, Medicare, and the Prescription Drug Plan is a total of $107.7 TRILLION
DOLLARS!!! Our National Debt is about $12.5 TRILLION DOLLARS!!!

This author says that the USA DOES NOT have a WELFARE STATE?!?! We certainly
do not want to go down the "loo" like what is happening in England, the UK, and
Europe!

"Obama's big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many
people watch Fox News as watch CNN." The Fox network is a remarkable cultural
phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule
of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24
hours a day: 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."

LIBERAL LIE. FOX NEWS is the most FAIR AND BALANCED (as their motto says)
media outlet in the USA. All of my life we have had liberal TV networks, newspapers,
magazines, education, entertainment, and so on...

If ALL Americans watched FOX NEWS, Obama and democrats would be exposed as
the frauds that they are, and not covered by "Sychophantic" media buddies.

An individual form Delhi wrote why Detriot and American seems to cycle things over davidofne
and over and nothing gets done. First its the people's fault. They hear the promise of on March 08, 2010
jobs and benefits and what a politican can do YOU. But most have lost the iniative to at 06:11 PM
do anything on their own, blame everyone else ,but themselves for problems. Report this comment
Needless to say Americans are growing lazy. I can't tell you how many people here
try to screw the system for disability compensation without "real" injury.
Term limits of our politician which would help, but would you vote yourself of a job?
Politican as a career. Helping themselves day after day.

Not a word about the multi trillion taxpayer bailout to casino capitalism banksters? Ben
Barely a mention of the gargantuan defense budget? A typically misleading on March 08, 2010
'moderate' commentator. at 06:10 PM
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It's comforting that people on the other side of the pond recognize what is happening TheKid
to our fine country. on March 08, 2010
at 06:10 PM
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The lates polls from Newsmax/Zogby finds that berndtc


If Americans could have a former living U.S. president run the country and deal with on March 08, 2010
the problems facing the nation today, they would pick Bill Clinton. at 06:10 PM
Former President Jimmy Carter came in last. Report this comment
The poll also found that if an election took place today between Barack Obama and
George W. Bush or Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Obama would beat both
handily.
So there is hope for the U.S. after all.

FROM DAY ONE I THOUGHT YOU WOULD HAVE TO GROW UP , BEFORE YOU JOE HAVANAS
BECAME PRESIDENT. THERE ARE A LOT OF AFRICAN MEN IN THIS COUNTRY on March 08, 2010
THAT I WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR. IF YOU MAKE IT THROUGH THE 4 YEARS, GOD at 06:09 PM
PITY US.WHY DON'T YOU LET US KNOWABOUT YOUR HISTORY? Report this comment

It's a bit rich, being lectured on the impartiality of the press by the country that gave S. Weasel
us the BBC. Fox isn't NEARLY as far to the right as, say, Radio 4 is to the left. Those on March 08, 2010
Trots can work an anti- Margaret Thatcher joke into the food program. at 06:09 PM
Report this comment

Your characterization of the reporting of Fox News as "rage" is laughable and Andrew C
disingenuous. on March 08, 2010
at 06:09 PM
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I think that it is odd that everyone is defending Fox News when the article was about RunsOnCoffee
Obama. I have never seen such loyalty to a News program! I do not watch Fox on March 08, 2010
because they distort the facts. Just because MSNBC is a pit of venomous liars at 06:09 PM
doesn't mean that Fox is balanced. Report this comment

If there were a fair news organization they would report the facts.

The truth is that there is not a difference between Obama and Bush. Sure, one is
black and the other is white. Their policies remain the same. If you ignore the
speeches and look at their actions, you will see what I mean. Whoever replaces
Obama, whether it is in two years, or six, will not differ from the previous presidents.
I think that some Dems are beginning to figure this out with the "Change we can
believe in". Some of the "Tea party crazies" have figured it out as well and are not
rubber stamping Republican candidates.

AynRandWasRight
on March 08, 2010
The goal of President Obama and the Far Left seems to be "Death to America by at 06:08 PM
One Thousand Cuts.” Their Socialist Health Care Scheme is one more bone-deep Report this comment
slice. Outraged Americans can post their anti-Obama Administration comments until
the “Send” key melts, but the only message that will penetrate their arrogant skulls is
being VOTED OUT in November. I will crawl through seven miles of broken glass to
vote against President Obama and the Scoundrel Democrats!

Those who say Fox News is not biased are wrong. Those who say MSNBC and lisa
CNN are not biased are wrong. All media is biased! on March 08, 2010
at 06:08 PM
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The left is always lacking in intellect, just look at this writer of this story, but they SUSAN NEWPORT RI
always have plenty of hate and fear to spread, Fox News tells it like it is , and the on March 08, 2010
unsuccessful creeps on the left can't deal with it. at 06:02 PM
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I'm astonished by how out of touch this piece is. Well consider this: why do you A Yank
suppose Fox news has four times the listenership of CNN, as your writer claims? Is on March 08, 2010
it because so many American listeners are wacko? No, its because they have made at 06:02 PM
a concious choice among lots of choices, in a media market that is not monopolized Report this comment
by a single-minded clique whose mission it is to indoctrinate to hapless conformity.
And thank goodness we have choices.

Here's another data point: One reason why Fox is popular is precisely because it
offers a variety of viewpoints. The other "mainstream" media in the US do not offer
any balance at all, or if an opposing viewpoint is raised, it is caveat-ed, or belittled.

Actually, what we are seeing here in America is freedom at work, something that we
wrestled from England a couple centuries or more ago - shocking!

Obama's most effective assailant is himself. He thinks that Rod


socialism/Marxism/communism is the future of America. If America is to have future, on March 08, 2010
then federal spending must be curtailed. Reduced govt spending would allow at 06:01 PM
businesses and individuals to keep more of their money. Nobody, especially not Report this comment
central government, knows how to best spend their money.

Obama gravitates to centralization and increase of govt power. Such policy must
reduce individual liberty. Americans are rightly incensed.

the first poster i read here said this: daniel


"It is such a pity that McCain did not win the election. He was a man of substance on March 08, 2010
and I think very different from the Right Wing Republican image portrayed in the UK at 06:01 PM
media." Report this comment

i cannot help that the UK media lie to you about who or what a republican is but i can
tell you this: mccain would be no different than obama. republicans, despite what
your media tells you, are little different than democrats.

what you are not told over there about our country is this: we are mired in a situation
in which the republicans seek the defeat of democrats, and democrats seek the
defeat of republicans...

and neither side cares a lick about the people.


More Elitism - sub
on March 08, 2010
Well done. FOX is partisan in some cases (Hannity), more measured in others at 06:01 PM
(O'Reilly), but in no case is their "hatred being spewed." in fact, the entitlement to vile Report this comment
spewing is decidedly left-leaning. Witness Olbermann, Jannine Garafolo, Maher,
others. It is the "liberal elite" who demonstrate haughty impatience with the masses
when they dare to have an opinion. As for Obama, his arrogance and narcissistic
delusion know no bounds. Easily the most dangerous and self-involved man to ever
occupy the office. The real worry is that we are breeding an electorate dumb enough
to fall for this hyped-up narcissus.....

Obama is losing a lot of popularity all over the political spectrum. Obama, like most Zach Watkins
US politicians in the US are demagogues, liars, and frauds. Obama does hate on March 08, 2010
America, it's obvious to me and many other people. at 06:00 PM
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Simon this one sentence describes it all from your article, "Mr Obama benefited in DavidfromCT
his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated on March 08, 2010
with an astonishing suspension of cynicism." No press questioned this guy and its at 06:00 PM
beyond me how people for his Hype and Change. Same politics and no change.. Its Report this comment
a shame. I think millions would take back their vote now.

The problem with Mr. Obama is that he ran on transparency,a non partisan, bring Dan Mason
people together platform. on March 08, 2010
at 06:00 PM
It became apparent only days after he came into office that this was a bold faced lie. I Report this comment
grew up in Chicago and have seen this act all of my life. Say whatever you need to
get elected and then do what you want - people are stupid.

He said no lobbyists in the administration - they were in positions in the first month.

His stimulus plan was a totally partisan payback to his political friends that did little
other than subsidize state union pension funds.

All bills were written in secret and those democratic sheep in the congress admitted
they had not read the bills they were voting into law.

There were to be no "earmarks" (or special favors)in his budget. The approved bill
had 9000 earmarks.

The main stream media continued to worship him.


As Chris Matthews from MSNBC is quoted, "I feel a tingle in my leg when I hear him
speak". Yes,he really said that.

Fox news has pointed out the facts about what is happening. The public has
listened and there have never been so many people who understand so much about
how the government works.

His arrogance is reflected in his ongoing pursuit of the health care takeover bill
when dozens of polls show 60 % of citizens oppose it. And no poll shows over 45%
support.

I hope for the future of the US and the free world that the next elections will remove
his power and he will soon join Carter as one of the worst presidents in our history.

Buy the ticket, take the ride. The 52%'ers elected the Insane Clown Posse. PA
on March 08, 2010
at 05:59 PM
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Breaking from Newsmax.com berndtc


on March 08, 2010
Bill Clinton Bests Former Presidents to Handle Crisis Today, Newsmax/Zogby Poll at 05:59 PM
Finds Report this comment
By: Jim Meyers

If Americans could have a former living U.S. president run the country and deal with
the problems facing the nation today, they would pick Bill Clinton by a wide margin, a
Newsmax/Zogby poll reveals.

Former President Jimmy Carter came in last, garnering just 5 percent of support for
his taking charge.
The exclusive Newsmax/Zogby poll also found that, if an election took place today
between Barack Obama and George W. Bush or Hillary Clinton, Obama would beat
both handily.

I refuse to sit idle while I see my country turn into a Marxist, Socialistic cesspool. Anonymous
Every country that has violated property rights has turned into a Hell Hole and right on March 08, 2010
now if we do not stand for the One thing that has protected our Natural rights for at 05:58 PM
about 233 years......, we will lose the very thing that makes this country worth a damn. Report this comment

An Open Letter To The President, Congress and Supreme Court:

Sirs and Mesdames:

You have ONE JOB: Your only job is to do one simple thing, You SWORE an Oath to
uphold and defend the United States Constitution. That is your only job: HONOR your
Oath of Office and Protect and Defend the United States Constitution and defend the
Liberty of the People. Anything else you do is inconsequential.
1. Prove the eligibility of Obama by showing a real Birth Certificate with real facts.
The one on his website is not the official Birth Certificate.
2. Cease and desist all Co2 and AGW legislation until the Unbiased FACTS are
revealed. Do a complete Investigation of Climate Gate.
3. Cease and desist all deliberation on signing any treaty that cedes US Sovereignty:
this includes Copenhagen Treaty, Codex Aliminatarius, Health care legislation, Jay
Rockefeller’s internet control bill! This is an act of Direct TREASON ON YOUR PART
if you or anyone CEDES US Sovereignty to any entity or acts Contrary to the
Constitution.
4. CEASE and DESIST all unconstitutional laws that do not fall into Article I section 8
of the US Constitution. You have no authority to legislate on issues not specifically
enumerated in the US Constitution.

Aubrey
The Communist Party did after all whole heartily endorse Barry (ACORN S.E.I.U.) on March 08, 2010
Soetoro. at 05:57 PM
Report this comment

I am proud to say that my support of this Marxist and his clown car freak show of Jon Carry
weirdos has never changed. It is exactly the same as it was a year and a half ago. on March 08, 2010
Rock solid stable. at 05:57 PM
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"The $783 billion stimulus package of a year ago was used to further the re-election Danny
prospects of many congressmen, not to do good for the country." on March 08, 2010
at 05:56 PM
And guess which lone news organization was reporting that in the States? MSNBC? Report this comment
CNN? Nope.

None other than your "rage" filled network, FOX. But I guess the clueless, left tilted
euro-reporters like Simon Heffer will still be unable to crack the mystery of Fox
network's cultural phenomenon. They just can't figure out why so many regular
Americans want pointed critiques of the current administration when instead they
could watch gushing, glowing, uplifting accounts from so many other "impartial"
news outlets.

In short time, given his way, Obama would have the entire Nation looking like the Aubery
most Liberal city in the Nation, Detroit. The pic here is very appropriate. on March 08, 2010
at 05:56 PM
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regarding BO, Rhcrest


on March 08, 2010
A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason at 05:48 PM
from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is known and carries his Report this comment
banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly
whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself…
for the traitor appears no traitor: He speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he
wears their faces and their garments, he appeals to the baseless that lies deep in
the souls of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in
the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can
no longer resist. A murderer is to be less feared.” ~ Cicero

Tom M.
"The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those on March 08, 2010
of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast at 05:48 PM
media." Report this comment

Is the author trying to pretend the UK media is impartial?? They also gave Obama a
complete pass during the campaign...

You want to control who gets elected then get off you complaining ### and get Travler
involved starting with who gets selected to run for office in your own district.Dont wait on March 08, 2010
for one of the major parties to pick there person based on how much money they at 05:48 PM
can raise and who they can buy off. Report this comment
There is a solution
http://goooh.com

Aubrey
The Lib Dem Socialist Party has collapsed under the weight of their own Arrogance, on March 08, 2010
Ignorance, Irresponsibility, Deception and Liberalism. It is a beautiful thing to at 05:47 PM
witness. Report this comment

Elections of 2010 & 12 Cannot Come Soon Enough !!

Very nice article! Remember, Brits, it was you, too, who fell madly in love with the Terry
Community Organizer. Too, there were 55 million of us who saw through the media on March 08, 2010
hype for what he really is-a socialist who is very inexperienced. We will gladly trade at 05:47 PM
him for Margaret Thatcher! Report this comment

Where to start? How about a government that can't spend money it doesn't have fast Rob Brown
enough. A narcissist (what 2 autobiographies already), elitist lier with no experience. on March 08, 2010
A government that has taken over private industry and trampled the constitution. A at 05:47 PM
government that has stolen tax payer money to pay off its political supporters (glad Report this comment
the UAW needed my money more that I did).
Fox News attacks - forget CNN, how about NBC, CBS, and ABC. The treatment of
Dem vs. Rep. is laughably unballanced on these primary networks. ABC news for
goodness sakes did an informercial for Obama care in the whitehouse - I don't
remember Bush getting anything close to that. The mainstream press covered up
the Edward's affair until the tabloids forced their hand. Where was the serious
coverage of Obama's lack of experience (sure heard enough about Palin yet she
was up for VP, not Pres). Racial statements by Reid or Biden - just let a Repub say
what he did and not be run out by the networks. The US press is pathetic. I never
know what exactly they are complaining about on Fox,is it the actual news shows or
is it the opionion shows like Hanity, O'Rilley, etc. - news flash, they are OPIONION
shows, not news just like Mathews (tingle down my leg - forgot he was black),
Olberman, etc. Don't penalize them because no one wants to watch CNN or MSNBC
(one reason libs hate capatialism - you can't force people to like a bad product - just
ask the AirAmerica crowd)
The economy - Bush spent too much, no doubt, most Conservative didn't like him
because of it. However, Dems took over congress in 2006 including oversight of
banks and mortgage companies by good old Dodd and Barnie (Fannie Mae is doing
fine) Frank. I hope he and his ilk are gone as soon as possible - the only question is
whether Repubs can put up anyone worth voting for - sure didn't in 2008 (or 2000
and 2004 for that matter).

There is only one solution for America: Follow the U S Constitution as it is written. If Anonymous
you are working against the US Constitution You are the Domestic Enemy of the on March 08, 2010
United STATES! LIsten UP! at 05:47 PM
Report this comment
http://standupamericaus.com/from-willi-greg:21430
I refuse to sit idle while I see my country turn into a Marxist, Socialistic cesspool.
Every country that has violated property rights has turned into a Hell Hole and right
now if we do not stand for the One thing that has protected our Natural rights for
about 233 years......, we will lose the very thing that makes this country worth a damn.

An Open Letter To The President, Congress and Supreme Court:

Sirs and Mesdames:

You have ONE JOB: Your only job is to do one simple thing, You SWORE an Oath to
uphold and defend the United States Constitution. That is your only job: HONOR your
Oath of Office and Protect and Defend the United States Constitution and defend the
Liberty of the People. Anything else you do is inconsequential.
1. Prove the eligibility of Obama by showing a real Birth Certificate with real facts.
The one on his website is not the official Birth Certificate.
2. Cease and desist all Co2 and AGW legislation until the Unbiased FACTS are
revealed. Do a complete Investigation of Climate Gate.
3. Cease and desist all deliberation on signing any treaty that cedes US Sovereignty:
this includes Copenhagen Treaty, Codex Aliminatarius, Health care legislation, Jay
Rockefeller’s internet control bill! This is an act of Direct TREASON ON YOUR PART
if you or anyone CEDES US Sovereignty to any entity or acts Contrary to the
Constitution.
4. CEASE and DESIST all unconstitutional laws that do not fall into Article I section 8
of the US Constitution. You have no authority to legislate on issues not specifically
enumerated in the US Constitution.
5. Honor your Oath of office and OBEY Amendment 9 which states: "The
enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or
disparage others RETAINED by the PEOPLE".
And Amendment 10 which states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are RESERVED to the States
respectively, or to the People".
6. Repeal the Patriot act! It is unconstitutional because it violates the bill of rights
right down the line. Do I have to remind you that Amendment IV states: The right of
the People to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall
issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly
describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
7. Stay out of FREE SPEECH! Amendment I clearly states: "Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceable to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".

8. Complete Audit of the Federal Reserve. The FED is unconstitutional from the start.
The genesis of the Federal Reserve was passed with 3 Congressmen in the dark of
night. The constitution is very clear who is supposed to have the authority to coin
money: CONGRESS! You must STOP making unconstitutional laws.
9. It is not constitutional for you to allow the courts to pass laws according to Article
III. You are overburdening the system with bills and laws you KNOW are
unconstitutional.
The Constitution does not give authority to you, our government representatives to lie
to us and deceive us, nor does it give authority to the government to act without the
consent of the people. When government no longer looks out for the best interest of
the people, the government ceases to be the rightful, legitimate government, and as
such, it is time to abolish the entire government. "But when a long train of abuses
and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security".

The fundamental flaw in this mostly factual piece is the assumption that Obama's Bob Smith2
intent as president was to "improve" our country. Quite the contrary, his intent is to on March 08, 2010
"re-make" our country, not for the better, but as a European-socialist style country. at 05:46 PM
Hopefully, his extreme inexperience, combined with his ego, will prevent him from Report this comment
completing that goal, and leave him as another failed, one-term Democrat president.
Of course, if he is successful in "immigration reform", he will have successfully
signed the contract to destroy America.

Simon, people watch FoxNews because the other media outlets are dominated by Scott
left leaning Obama apologists. I don't care to watch the other outlets. Heck, Chris on March 08, 2010
Matthews admitted as much to having a man crush on "The One." at 05:46 PM
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The author writes: "America's politics remain corrupt, populated by nonentities J.D. Lees
whose main concern once elected is to stay elected; it seems to be the same the on March 08, 2010
whole world over." No kidding! Take away the power the "non-entities" have to run at 05:46 PM
people's lives. Let people be free to run their own lives. The more power politicians Report this comment
gather, the more the rot and ruin spreads.

Enjoy the bed which you have made America. You asked for it so heres the change Nunya
lol, rofl and roflcopter. Did I mention Im laughing at every fool who voted for hope and on March 08, 2010
change. You are the useful idiots so often referred to by Marx. I wish I could take at 05:45 PM
solace in that you may learn something, but you wont. Report this comment

MESSAGE FOR AMERICA, ERIC of RALEIGH


IF Fox News is so slanted and telling falsehoods, why isn't their competion on March 08, 2010
challenging them on facts. It seems Fox uses a lot of video and audio tapes to at 05:45 PM
support their point of view. The US Constitution is the biggest challenge to Obama, Report this comment
he's even said he felt it was flawed. The scary thing is the courts have distorted it so
much that the left has destroyed a lot of the original intent. One person on the US
Supreme Court is our entire check to Obama's power. I hate to say it,but... and the
military.

The difference with Fox News is that it tells the Truth and offers some balance to Adheeb
what you find elsewhere. However, I don't think Fox will make that much difference. on March 08, 2010
There are still about 47% of Americans satisfied with Uncle Obama's performance. at 05:44 PM
This is unimaginable but true. However, I take solace knowing that many of these Report this comment
simpletons are suffering too.

A good start would have been for Obama to stick to his campaign promises. Dorian Smith
on March 08, 2010
@Tony: Funny that lefties always call people on the right hate speakers, yet the first at 05:44 PM
thing you all do is start of with a string of insults. Report this comment
Congrats for pointing out one of the main reasons your party is and always will be -
fail-.

OBAMA IS A JOKE THat CONTINUES EVERYDAY. HE NEEDS TO FIND A THIRD david armour
WORLD COUNTRY WHERE THEY DO NOT KNOW THE fact about this man lies. on March 08, 2010
This lair needs to go ! at 05:44 PM
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Kudos to the author, well written, well stated and extremely insightful. A pleasure to J Bran
read. on March 08, 2010
at 05:43 PM
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TO:Karen Webb "I feel that there should be a cap of of 50 million £s that any one david
person in the world can have, the rest should be given back to the people, or put into on March 08, 2010
good use creating jobs" at 05:43 PM
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YES CARL MARX agrees with you, as does Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Obamao.

The assessment of FOX News in this article shows the same staggering ignorance J in KC
of the American public as do both major political parties. Elected officials of both on March 08, 2010
parties have shown contempt and criminal disregard for The People for decades. at 05:43 PM
They stand to reap a whirlwind of razor blades this November. Watch and learn, Report this comment
Europe.

Thank goodness we have the Telegraph reporting what the "useful idiots" in America Mickey
have failed to report! on March 08, 2010
at 05:42 PM
Fact is, the progressive left has not only damaged America, but these vile, corrupt Report this comment
traitors are well on the way to bringing down the Democrat Party! Sane Democrats
have become Independents that will will vote to save their country in the next
election.

We have a Communist wannabe dictator in the making that is an absolute disaster


to the country, our defense, military, economy and freedoms! Look at who his
mentors, friends and not czars are!

I'm an Independent that isn't overly fond of either side but this regime is not acting on
behalf of the American people. We are seeing the country under attack from what I
see as a deliberate plan to destroy the economy with their Hitler style "create a
crisis" which is right out of the Hitler playbook!

This was clearly underway as the Democrats took control of Houses of Congress
taken over in the 2006 elections. The objective was to hurt the economy in time for
the 2008 election. Yes, really, those daily conference calls with Moveon/Soros. They
should be charged with economic treason!

The Obama's theft of trillions is just part of the Cloward-Piven agenda to overwhelm
the system. These thieves have run up more debt in a little more than a year than all
the presidents combined and that includes two world wars and a civil war! Interest
only is costing us billion of dollars a day.
We are $$$$$$$$$$$$$14,000,000,000,000.00 in debt with more coming if they get
their way. Unfunded Medicare/Medicaid/SS/VA to the tune of $$$$$$55 TRILLION.

Now we have a bunch of hacks at best and vile communists at worse on a mission
to take over heath care. These imbeciles that have bankrupted Medicare now want to
use it as the shining example of what the rest of us should have? What exactly is the
definition of insanity? This has nothing to do with "health" but will most certainly have
a whole lot to do with death!
These are not for the benefit of us, this is nothing but another power grab to take
over another industry. They have already bankrupted everything they have their dirty
little paws on and now they want control of our health care...the socialist take over of
the most private part of our lives...for us but not for them or their union thugs.
If this is such a great bill why did they exempt themselves, unions, federal
employees? WE ARE PAYING FOR THEIR FEP HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN!
This regime is has brought in the freaks from the 60's & 70's with their hate America,
hate business, hate the military mantra. Professional hacks that have never worked
a day in their lives. Still using the Cloward-Piven agenda to overwhelm the system.

Obama and everyone associated with his regime (robbers, looters, lairs and
traitors) should be in prison with Madoff.
--
As a Russian leader once said, "we will destroy you not with missiles but from
within." We are now beginning to see the handwriting on the wall. This was our first
inept and uneducated generation and they only needed a slick and glib flim-flam
man... Ladies and gentlemen meet Barack Obama..."THE ONE"!

Excellent article, tell it like it is! Too bad no one listened a year ago when we Jon
predicted this would happen. on March 08, 2010
at 05:42 PM
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OUR God is failing,.I warned EVERYONE that Our God's failure would result in a feeed
MASSIVe swing to the RIGHT. on March 08, 2010
at 05:42 PM
Ron Paul for president. Roll up the Borders. He will Let EVERYONe in the World Report this comment
Know that the STORE IS CLOSED and if You wanna play YOU PAY. THE EVEN
FIELD IS COMING. lets see china compete. WW-3 in 8yrs or less with China.

They bemoan that 4X as many people watch Fox news as CNN. And that they report boB
rage, etc. Could it be that maybe the people are FEELING rage? And let's not forget on March 08, 2010
that CNN came first. Fox News had to beat them at their own game. I DEFY you to at 05:42 PM
watch CNN and not see the bias there, and then watch Fox News and NOT see Report this comment
them reporting both sides. Just the fact that they report both sides is what makes the
left think they are biased. Again, they can't win the battle of ideas, so let's either try
censorship, and say the viewers are stupid. Either way, it points out a lot about the
left.

Great article, and well said. For the second time in my life, I am ashamed of my cj
country. The first time carter allowed 52 Americans held hostage and tortured by on March 08, 2010
Iranian terrorists, and now this administration which seems heck bent on destroying at 05:42 PM
our Republic. Report this comment
As the overwhelming audience numbers favoring FNC suggest, the sleeping giant,
the American people, is waking up. And the giant is pissed off but good.

The US economy will not recover any time soon and here is why: david in Texas
1) Socialist wealth redistribution big government spending cannot restart an on March 08, 2010
economy it can merely lessen the pain short term at 05:42 PM
2) America was saved from a recession after 911 by the Bush tax cuts but we now Report this comment
lack the political will to keep them going and restart the economy because they were
so effectively demonized by the left for the past 9 years

We will now languish in a lost decade ala Japan while China grows and owns our
debt.

Way to go Obamao - are you happy now?

Living half way round the globe, we read with amusement the comments about Ramesh Parida, Delhi
Obama. I don't understand why Americans are so impatient. The ghostland in Detroit on March 08, 2010
and Michigan did not come about overnight. It was due to the wrong policies of GWB. at 05:34 PM
And what, I daresay, would have happened if John McCain had won. He would have Report this comment
'bombed, bombed, bombed' Iran with Fox News squealing with delight and this act
warming the cockles of Tories in London. But then the world would have been
thrown into an unretrievable situation. Give Barack his due five years, and then begin
quibbling. The auto majors in the US had been facing stiff competition from the Japs
ever since Bill Clinton was President, and the same was aggravated during the
GWB years. I do not understand why the Americans forget their immediate history so
soon. And all fears about Obama making the US a totalitarian, Communist state is
all hogwash.

Lots of good comments... More Elitism


on March 08, 2010
Your analysis of Fox News is wrong, as others have said. They inform people what's at 05:33 PM
going on in their government, and--since they know the facts--the public is justifiably Report this comment
angry. I watch Fox News, and do not see people "spouting rage." I see the news
reported fairly, and I see pundits saying why they don't agree with current policies,
then explaining WHY. I also see debate of different points of view on shows such as
Hannity, OReilly, etc.
Don't make the mistake of thinking the American people are stupid. The Obama
administration is making this mistake, as many others have throughout history.

I dislike Obama because he is dishonest, and a coward. If he would just come out
and admit the authoritarian utopian vision he has for America, I would at least have a
shred of respect for his honesty.

The authors claim that the BBC operates with an eye to impartiality is hilarious. He Andy
must not watch it very often. on March 08, 2010
at 05:32 PM
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if these DEMS and Obama cram in the socialist transformation and force a tyrannical benny mahtz
oppression on over half of americans and continue policy that accelerates the on March 08, 2010
corruption and destruction of our country... at 05:32 PM
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then there will be a real john galt effect, and our real leaders will have to destroy the
country to remake it.

And lessons from our last overthow of a tyrant will be retaught most enthusiastically
to those in DC who betrayed the people and the constitution. Fiercely.

Sic Semper Tyrranus!

It's all Fox's fault? Fox is as out of the tank as NBC, CNN, etc are in the tank. I don't Captain America
need media to tell me what to believe. That's why I was born with a logical brain. I on March 08, 2010
don't watch Fox and yet am able to form an opinion of my own that holds to the at 05:32 PM
following tenets: 1. The Obama administration is a failure, 2. The Bush Report this comment
administration was not conservative, 3. Both parties are contributing to the current
morass, 4. Palin, Romney, et al are not The Answer, any more than Obama was, 5.
Too many wars without direction, too many taxes without representation, and too
many representatives with no mission, and, 6. Personal freedoms have hit an
iceberg and the ship of state is taking on water. And the band plays on...

It's all Fox News' fault! They are twisting peoples' minds so that they don't J Ryan
understand what a wonderful job Obama is doing! on March 08, 2010
at 05:31 PM
Ha ha ha. I don't know which is scarier: that the Dems truly believe this or that they Report this comment
know it's false and proceed along anyway.

Of course we all would like the Government to solve all the Countries problems jim hurt
without raising taxes or going into dept, but to think that is possible is just plain on March 08, 2010
stupid. at 05:31 PM
This administration has a good track record of getting things done. Considering the Report this comment
hole we were in a year ago, the results so far are pretty good. President Obama has
lost popularity because he is a pragmatist and irritates both the left and right
extremes. Not only do I wonder if anyone could lead the USA but why would any sane
person want to.

I list of all the legistative highlights so far can be found at:


http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/signed-legislation

Don't blame Fox News for the arrogant nasty bu##er in charge - this is his first job del
and the radical hippie sixties mob of drunkard, drug taking lefties in charge whose on March 08, 2010
brain cells equal less fingers than I have on both my hands. They don't know dem or at 05:31 PM
repub America is a CONSERVATIVE nation and they have attacked all that is sacred Report this comment
to them - freedom - the Constitution etc etc - what the heck did you expect from an
idiot - Einstein?

Mr. Obama is a symbol of what some Americans thought a president should be. He catherwood
is not a real president. on March 08, 2010
at 05:31 PM
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I like all these morons that knock Fox News, do they think ABC, CBS,NBC,CNN, SUSAN NEWPORT RI
NEW YORK TIMES,AP.......are down the middle, these dwindling alleged news on March 08, 2010
outlets are all failing, because the general populations see's them for what they are, at 05:31 PM
mouth pieces for the fringe kook left. Obama clearly lacks the intellect to solve any Report this comment
problems this country faces, that is why he never released his grades from his
affirmative action years at Harvard. the democrats have to divide and hate monger to
get what they want and people are sick of it.

Waaaaa.... "Fox News...." Nittnay


on March 08, 2010
Boo friggin' hoo at 05:31 PM
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Did they just come into existence on 1/21/09? I seem to remember Obamamania at
it's peek being covered by Fox News.

Fox News presents both left and right views? Ridiculous. Also, the reason Obama is Stu in Iowa
having such a tough time is he handed the keys of his campaign machine over to on March 08, 2010
the DNC. That was in incredibly bad mistake because people did not want to be part at 05:30 PM
of the Democratic machine. Report this comment

The funny thing about Fox is that it is one of the few news outlets that calls it like it is. Patrick, Washington, DC
I've seen many in the GOP run afoul of Fox. Don't confuse Sean Hannity and Bill on March 08, 2010
O'Reilly with the news reporting of the network - the news reporting is rock solid. at 05:30 PM
MSNBC however is a complete joke. Report this comment

These are the REAL problems for this administration.... Susan


on March 08, 2010
1. Stimulus Bill - The American people said NO....they did it anyway. at 05:30 PM
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2. Omnibus Bill - The American people said no....they did it anyway.

3. Radical Selections of Important positions - The American people said no....they


did it anyway.

4. Takeover of Banks and financial institutions - we said NO....they did it anyway.

5. Takeover of the Car Companies - we said NO....they did it anyway.

6. Telling the World that we are not a Christian Nation...You may not be a Christian,
but our country WAS founded upon Christian principles, and these very prinicples
that has made us Exceptional!

7. Apologizing for America - This is a throw off of you and me...it doesn't matter to a
man who wishes to be a superstar on a World Stage.

8. Cozying up to Leaders and countries that hate us (i.e. Iran) and making enemies
of those that are our friends (Israel)....where has that gotten us?

9. Hollywood - Anytime hollywood goes full throttle to endorse and uplift a politican or
president, is when I get very unconfortable. Most people with common sense and
reality thinking brains, could care less what Hollywood thinks!

10. Healthcare, we keep going over the same old stuff, the more we hear, the more
we don't like...but yet, they continue on pushing it through!

11. Telling us, the sky is orange, the sun is black, the grass is purple, and telling us,
you need the government's help to succeed or fail......when really we KNOW the sky
is blue, the sun is bright, the grass is green AND, it is in rising when we fall and
succeed on our own that truly makes us stronger and better.

Shall I go on??? This is WHY this man and his agenda will NEVER work in
AMERICA!!!! We love our country to much to allow it!

"There is no point a nation's having the audacity of hope unless it also has the W. Hume
sophistication and the will to turn it into action." Powerful. Might I add, as college on March 08, 2010
tuition continues to increase and availability and quality of courses decrease, where at 05:30 PM
will this sophistication come from? We need to invest in the people who, without Report this comment
having a say, this trillion dollar debt will fall on...not re-electing the corrupt and self-
interested.

Treachery, thy name is Obama. America "ain't seen nothin' yet" he said and he DisturbedMary
meant it. So stripped naked with his bones exposed, he keeps going. Our Messiah on March 08, 2010
will make his final push on Good Friday. We are a rotted out America. at 05:29 PM
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Maybe Obama is doing the right thing, directing the total colapse of the USA and Tom Gleason
converting it into a totally non functioning socialist state - so in that respect he's on March 08, 2010
highly succesful, maybe the most succesful president to transform a nation in all of at 05:29 PM
history. Report this comment

When the Los Angeles Times endorsed Obama LAObserver


on March 08, 2010
"we endorse him because he is comfortable with his own lack of experience. at 05:29 PM
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So...no vetting there.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a bold prediction: Obama will go down Barbara Mueller
in history as America's worst president ever. I can say this with such assuredness on March 08, 2010
for one simple reason: If America is ever foolish enough to elect a worse president, at 05:28 PM
there will no longer be an America. Report this comment

It is such a pity that McCain did not win the election. He was a man of substance and bluestapleuk
I think very different from the Right Wing Republican image portrayed in the UK on March 08, 2010
media. at 05:21 PM
Obama was picked up as a 'messiah' figure by the BBC and much of the media Report this comment
here.
I found it distressing that 95% of blacks voted for him purely on the basis of his
colour - it would seem. Could you imagine the outrage if 95% of the white electorate
had voted McCain! Funnily enough, it will be those black voters that will turn against
him the most when he doesn't deliver what he has promised, and they realise the
only option for a better life is to do what everyone else does, work hard and turn their
backs on crime.

Just goes to show that a great campaigner does not automatically mean a great jimmy
leader. The voters will hopefully learn to look beyond the hype, the spin and the on March 08, 2010
slogans. Hillary would have done better. at 05:20 PM
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Obama is showing himself as an affirmative action empty suit who was elected by Gary
voters who were dumbed down by awful public schools (in the American sense of on March 08, 2010
the term) and insipid television. at 05:20 PM
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Obama is an omen of decline.

I think that the FOX News channle is the least biased of all the stations and without toledofan
it, Americans wouldn't know the truth. FOX ews isn't the bad guy, its the mainstream on March 08, 2010
media that has given Obama and his administration a pass. Obama has at 05:19 PM
surrounded himself with like minded people who all agree with his ideology, so, Report this comment
what do you expect?

It's funny to hear liberals bash Fox News all the time because it leans to the right. Pete
MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC are all leftist media organizations who operate on March 08, 2010
under the mask of objectivity. So what is the score? The score is ... left-wing at 05:19 PM
networks 5, right-wing networks 1. Liberals you should not complain. You just don't Report this comment
like Fox News' ratings, that's all. As for Obama goes, Americans got another Jimmy
Carter.

It would do well to remember the actual facts about Obama's lack of experience and the_evil_Bender
his political extremism. All of this was and continues to be covered up by a slick PR on March 08, 2010
campaign and a fawning compliant media. at 05:19 PM
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Obama spent something like 150 days in the senate before being elected president.
Before that he was simply a "community activist" in the streets of Chicago working
for corrupt entities like ACORN.

His political philosophy is way outside the mainstream. His father was a Kenyan
marxist economist and by all accounts his American mother was far to the left. The
US media has by and large dismissed the importance of his 20 year association
with the black liberation theologian, Rev. Wright. Even if you ignore his prior
associations, he has in fact appointed many SELF DESCRIBED communists and
socialists to positions in the federal government. How many more clues do you
need?

In effect, Obama is nothing more than a far left academic/theoretician who has never
really accomplished anything before being elected president. Even Hillary Clinton
said he had accomplished little more than giving nice speeches.

Some of us knew that Obama is a snake oil salesman since the 2007. The press in Steven A. Collins
this country abdicated their responsibility, and acted as would a group of teenage on March 08, 2010
cheerleaders during the campaign. at 05:18 PM
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Cantillon, are you serious? Obama uses every chance he gets to blame Bush and EllipticSmile
the Republicans, what you said is patently false. on March 08, 2010
at 05:18 PM
Kerry a 'decorated war hero?' You must be drinking some extra strength Euro brand Report this comment
kool-aid. I don't know what 'war hero' means where you're from but in America he
sure as hell is not one.

Although we agree on one point, one term and gone.

Hillary 2012!!! Lot5


on March 08, 2010
at 05:17 PM
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Mr. Heffner's words that "a technical rule of impartiality applied in the broadcast Karen Rice
media" negates everything else in his writing. IMPARTIAL??? The MEDIA??? Their on March 08, 2010
hypocrisy & blatant leftist slant when reporting what they consider political news but at 05:17 PM
which is really just polling data is positively stunning!!!! About as "impartial" as the Report this comment
head of the DNC. There's a reason why so many people watch Fox News & it is
precisely due to it's impartiality. Motto: "We report the news, you decide." Far cry from
CNN.

We need the Democrats. PA Coug


on March 08, 2010
Look what happened when the GOP thought it had total control. At root, that is what at 05:09 PM
brought Obama to power. Report this comment

Without a healthy Democratic party, the GOP is worse than useless--it becomes first
the majority party and then naturally progresses to a social compassion party that
couldn't play fair with the taxpayers if it tried.

Taxpayers see the irredeemable corruption of the GOP and fall victim to the lies of
the Obamunist left, and here we are.

If the Dems could maintain a healthy, American party that can provide robust
opposition to the GOP without going all Obamunist, they could act as a check on the
GOP to keep them from getting too corrupt.

But here's what's going to happen: the incorrigible corruption of the Obamunists is
causing the mightiest backlash since the Civil War in this country, and it's going to
throw the Democraps out of power for a generation because we've now seen them
unmasked.

If they pass healthcare via reconciliation, we will repeal it via reconciliation.

Bet on it.

And they won't return to power in my lifetime.

Foxnews is watched by more people than all the other cable outlets combined. Why, Sir Walter Wedgie
because americans can get the truth there. Obama was right, CHANGE IS COMING. on March 08, 2010
Just not the kind of change he expected. WE ARE TAKING AMERICA BACK!!!! at 05:08 PM
Obamas presidency is in shambles just like the democratic party. Republicans Report this comment
WILL take over both houses in november and Obama will be a one term failure. He
reaped what he sowed.

Spare me the FOX News bashing. What bothers our Democrat socialists who had penny
the airwaves tied up until FOX came on the scene is the audacity of anyone on March 08, 2010
expressing an alternate political view. Progressives don't want a level playing field. at 05:08 PM
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What's really happened is that America has figured out that Obama is an empty suit.
He was anointed by the lefty media, they carry water for him and he is an epic failure.

Interesting. Fox is a rabid right wing hate inspiring engine according to the writer. RPF
However, as the story pointed out, the rest of the media fell over backwards in on March 08, 2010
adoring the Obama during the election and aftermath. Fox points out some obvious at 05:08 PM
truths about where the direction of the US is going and why. And gets slammed for Report this comment
pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes. The other media claims not only that
the Emperor has clothes, but is also the new messiah, and gets a pass when
things fall apart. Does anyone see a trend here?

We take one look at the Brits and the French and we see exactly where we are Rod
headed. Fox News accurately portrays what is happening to your country as well as on March 08, 2010
ours. Islam and Socialism are enemies of the United States and always will be. at 05:08 PM
They have taken over England (and you know it) so don't even try to deny it. Freedom Report this comment
loving Americans who stood up to you in 1776 are rising up to save what is left.
Congratulations on being linked to by the Drudge Report. As you may have noticed, Tony
the majority of Drudge's readers are Fox News viewers, many of whom have figured on March 08, 2010
out how to mash their chubby fingers against their keyboards in just the right at 05:07 PM
sequence to create proper words. Unfortunately, these people are often as rage- Report this comment
filled as their preferred medium.
A quick scan of these comments has turned up: several folks who haven't quite
grasped the concept that Barack Obama really *has* presented legal proof that he is
a natural-born American citizen; some blatant racism ("coon?" Come on, it's 2010,
not 1950); claims of socialism, marxism, etc. that are entirely unfounded; and so on.
Unfortunately, loud-mouthed fools like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et al who
have the ears of these angry mostly white folks earn their millions by whipping the
base into a frenzy.
Obama has been stymied thus far due to a lack of support from the Republicans that
the angry commenters here support. They wish to see him fail to show up the half of
the nation who voted an uppity black man into the White House, despite the benefits
that his policies would bring. Health care? What's the problem with more people
getting health care? Oh, these people would be poor folks, many of them black -
can't have healthy poor people, can we? Stimulus for the economy? That's wasteful
government spending (never mind that it started under Bush). You get the picture.
To the Drudge readers and Fox News commenters: your nation needs your support,
not for you to push it off the balance so it topples into ruin.

Obama and the Democratic Congress has had many great accomplishments last Calvin Hobbes
year. Obama won the Peace Prize, he almost shut down Gibmo, he almost had civil on March 08, 2010
trials for terrorists (extending them U.S. rights), he's taken a tough stand with China at 05:07 PM
imposing tariffs on tire imports, he's closed 140 banks in 2009, and he and a Report this comment
Democratically controlled Congress spent most of the year brokering deals on
Healthcare all the while 1.5 million home foreclosures took place and
unemployment has climbed to 14.9 million people all the while there are 65,000 H-
1B visas and the number of H-2B visas was increased to 66,000. Everyone should
be gushing how great Obama and Congress has done and dismissing anyone
questioning them and their results and radical right wings Republicans or Tea-Party
"Baggers".

Telegraph this is a horrible opinion piece. The accompanying picture of dilapidated dan magi
buildings in Detroit clearly illustrates that there are much deeper issues in America on March 08, 2010
than that dirty ol' Marxist Obama. at 05:06 PM
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Well written. I wish American journalism was as truthful about the Obama Tmom
presidency as Mr. Heffer. Though, American journalists would have egg on their on March 08, 2010
faces if they were. at 05:06 PM
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I just don't understand why the socialists in the U.S. don't move to any of the pynaetlb
wonderful countries they claim have a better system than ours. If you like the on March 08, 2010
French/British/Canadian health care systems and their wonderful unions you should at 05:06 PM
move there. Why work so hard to destroy the American system? Report this comment

Simon Heffer your a little confused. Actually alot confused. FOXNEWS is the only THE TRUTH
media outlet you can trust. Where were the main street media on March 08, 2010
nbc,cbs,abc,msnbc,cnn etc on Van Jones and Acorn. Two huge stories that only Fox at 05:06 PM
News carried. The other outlets will bury stories that will hurt Obama. Get your facts Report this comment
straight Heffer,

A word from middle America. You've got to be kidding me! Berry Adams
on March 08, 2010
Half of Obama's staff openly worship Mao Tse-Tung, Che, Stalin, Chavez et al. - on at 05:06 PM
video and in there own words. Don't take my word for it. The evidence is well Report this comment
documented and all over YouTube. Makes you wonder if "Yes we can..." is the whole
phase or if it was cropped from "Yes we can starve more than the 70 million that Mao
culled via starvation from his own population." Over the top? Well did the state
propagandists of the BBC happen to mention that Berry turned off the water to the
farm country of California and we currently have over 100,000 starving farmers out
there? You can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs if you know what I
mean.

Did you happen to see there was a big push for Chicago to host the Olympics? I'll let
you connect the dots. There are these apartment buildings (guess who owns them)
and they don't have reliable services - running water, heat, sewer... you know the
basic services. In some cases there are roofs will holes -- some are missing whole
sections of roof. All the problems are clearly visible from Google maps.

People live in these buildings under low income assistance. The county and state
offsets the expenses - the building owners are compensated through tax subsidies.
Chicago has a long and colorful history of corruption, mobs and guns, sometimes
you don't have to look that far back. The local government doesn't appear to be
holding these landlords accountable for the condition of these buildings even
though the government is paying rent on those buildings.

Let's just talk about the roofing for a second - it's Chicago. It snows there. Not like
those little weather patterns in England either, were ice might build up on the still
green grass in the middle of winter. We're talking many snow storms each winter
and each one can be measured in meters. We're talking about people living in these
buildings were the snow not only drains through the roof - it's actually snowing like
this in the upper floors of these buildings.

So we have members of government each individually worth multiple millions of


dollars. Owning buildings and being paid by the state to house people and the
buildings are clearly only fit for demolition. A corrupt city and state government which
won't assess damages and enforce building codes to protect the population from
these people. Ohh and for icing on the cake - they wanted the Olympics to show up
on their door step so that they can force the government to buy up these properties at
huge prices because of the new found demand and kick these poor people out to
the curb --- so the tax payers can build a brand new village.

Did you happen to see any of that in the news? Or is the EU all still a flutter about
having the USA join in the socialistic nirvana.

I think Hilary would have made a better President than Barack Obama any day - sure louise
Obama has charisma but not a great deal of life experience. on March 08, 2010
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While I enjoyed your essay very much, I believe you were a tad harsh on Fox News. John D. Iannotti
For many of us, who are anything but inexorably ideological, Fox has proved the on March 08, 2010
most accurate and objective source of information, one far more reasonable than at 05:05 PM
their competitors. Report this comment

In your assessment of Bill Clinton as an operator, you neglect to note that he was Sam
first elected, then re-elected, only with the help of H. Ross Perot, the same tactic that on March 08, 2010
was used to Howard Taft with Woodrow Wilson, with Teddy Roosevelt as the spoiler. at 05:05 PM
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This is the smoking gun in the collusion between the political parties in the US and
the duplicity of their leaders.

The day Obama and his Chicago cronies are headed back whence they came is Amazingoly
nearing. America, we can do so much better. What have we done? on March 08, 2010
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If Fox News were so powerful, and so right leaning, how come Obama is president johnny griswold
now? You know, Fox News WAS on the air while The Chosen One was on March 08, 2010
campaigning. at 05:05 PM
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We watch FOX because it is the only network not in the bag for Obama. The man psutopgun
polls lower each day because Americans see the progressive coming out. His on March 08, 2010
administration is the biggest danger this country has faced in my life time. at 05:04 PM
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The author's "shock" at Fox news might be less if he actually watched it. Perhaps in T. J. Symanski
his haste to make pronouncements about what Fox airs "24 hours a day," Mr. Heffer on March 08, 2010
simply has assumed that what he thinks he hears during the opinion block is typical at 05:04 PM
of the entire day. My guess is that this is too kind a reading -- I suspect that the Report this comment
author got lazy in his research and didn't base his claims upon first hand research.
J'accuse.

Moreover, Heffer would have found more about which to be "shock[ed]" if had he paid
attention to the so-called mainstream media. Many of the mass media outlets
remain cheering sections for Obama. Chris Matthews reported that a "tingle" ran up
his leg as he listened to Obama speak.

The formerly hard-hitting New York Times sent a "reporter" to one of Obama's few
press conferences. The question: What "enchanted" Obama about being President.

Unfortunately almost none of the US media, Fox included, do much true investigative
journalism any more. This administration likely contains a dozen scandals waiting to
be broken, but it would take too much work to dig them out.
Excellent commentary. Obamas lack of connection to the American people coupled Billy D
with his focus on his own legacy (which is at odds with what Americans want) is on March 08, 2010
deadly. He, like many politicians misread his "mandate." He campaigned on at 04:54 PM
change, but it's turned out to be more big government doing things we don't want. Report this comment
Can't wait until he is the "former President!"

Leftest claimed that by sharing our jobs overseas, such as in China, this would William
bring about a social revolution and they would join the one world order dream. That on March 08, 2010
dream is nothing more then putting power into the IMF, UN, and other powerful at 04:54 PM
organizations. Already Europe is talking about a world bank tax. I grew up in Report this comment
Cleveland Ohio during the mid 70's to mid 80's. I lived in a very depressed area
which used to be steel mills and shipping. When we came out of the recession back
then the companies didnt come back, they went overseas. The Liberals that ran
Cleveland and other Northern industrial cities screamed for more Fed dollars, and
got it in order to buy votes. Since most whites left the cities racism was cried if the
money didnt flow. Unions have ruined it also. When unions get contracts its for union
only memebers. So if you live next door to a job and your black, you cant get the job
because they bring in out of town union labor. I remember the news about one man
who worked as a scab during a strike. The union had him killed and hung his body
on the fence beside the docks. For entry level non union jobs why hire a black man
when you can hire four illegials and pay them half as much? Which President has
pushed for more heavy industry? None. Why? Because we hate evil businesses
who pollute and abuse people, or at least that is what is taught in our schools and
sold to us by career politicians. No, we need Green jobs which does no good to a
steel worker. If they had a job, they would have healthcare. So our politicians are
again trying to buy votes with kickbacks, favors and spreading the wealth we were
loaned from China. I did not like the way Republicans the past 10 years have acted
and helped vote them out. Now we have a worse bunch. Blacks thought Obama was
their savior. Liberals bought the hope and change line. The fact is if your black, white
or whatever the only way to have a better life is to work and save for it. Obama and
his minions in Congress only care about their ideology and changing America. That
is why the health care bills have been pushed for over a year while jobs and
business have been slandered and forgotten. Want to try farming? We have massive
amounts of productive land in the USA. Good luck. Taxes on the inflated price of land
is huge. Regulations on what you can and cannot do on your land lowers productivity
and increases red tape. Imports of beef have destroyed our cattle farmers, of which
my grandparents were one of, and anyway banks wont loan the money for
equipment and supplies. So, we in the USA sit, watch, and hope for change again.

"...a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a Brian D
country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media..." on March 08, 2010
at 04:54 PM
Yes, thank you, you are obviously not shocked by the likes of Anderson Cooper Report this comment
making sexual jokes about grass roots citizen protesters, about MSNBC's
Olbermann calling a candidate - now Senator - a racist, or Ed Schultz suggesting
that ripping out an ex-Vice President's heart and playing football with it. Yes, those
esteemed impartial paragons of journalistic impartiality have much that they could
teach Fox News. If only...

Maybe Fox has got it right. dmac


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Simon needs to do his homework--quoting a Democrat's opinion as the definitive Orwood Gafkey
truth about Fox news. on March 08, 2010
at 04:54 PM
Criticism without backup is only B.S., so here's MY homework to support what I'm Report this comment
saying: I recently bought a new car and my wife and I took a cross-country trip. We
have Sirius/XM radio in the car, which includes the Fox News Channel Audio as part
of the radio programming package. We decided to see for ourselves how "fair and
balanced" Fox really is.

We listened for FIVE HOURS STRAIGHT one day, and kept a written checklist of
whether or not both sides of each issue discussed were given or represented by
guests holding different points of view.

Results: ALL, 100%, of the stories and/or commentary pieces had both the liberal
and conservative points of view expressed. We were able to fully understand what
each position was on many, many issues.

As Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly might say, "Wise up, Simon. Get your facts straight
and do your homework to get it right, so you do not come off as a pinhead."
Good and fair observations, except the part about Fox News. Our US Liberal Media is LibsAreCommies
so corrupt that any "news" org. these days which is not Far Left only seems Right. on March 08, 2010
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WHY IS HARRY DINGEY THE ONLY PERSON IN AMERICA TO FIGURE THIS OUT? Harry Dingey
on March 08, 2010
Make no mistake about it the International Trade Deficit must be balanced if America at 04:53 PM
is to SURVIVE. There is only three ways to correct this humongous Trade Imbalance. Report this comment

1. Increase the American Exports by $450.6 Billion Dollars per year. This is
absolutely impossible.
or

2. Decrease the American Imports by $450.6 Billion Dollars per year. Then
manufacture the merchandise in America.
or

3. Pull out of NAFTA and the WTO and Produce all Imports in America. Do not worry
about Exports and this will create 15.02 million Jobs instantly and maybe ever more.

I am suggesting we do number three. This will be done by the new American


Congress to be elected in November 2010 and will automatically bring the large
American Manufactured Goods Trade Deficit into BALANCE almost over night.

Where Exports + Imports = a Balance of ZERO.

Here is exactly what would happen. Toyota of Japan would be forced to totally
manufacture in America, every car sold in America.

Every item sold in every store in America would be required to be manufactured right
here in America. America would be swimming in newly Created Jobs almost over
night.

I can remember this large sign posted in Wal-Mart: “EVERYTHING SOLD IN THIS
STORE WAS MADE IN AMERICA”.

Sam Walton said: “Everything sold in all Wal-Mart stores will be made in America”.

I CAN CREATE 15 MILLION JOBS ALMOST OVER NIGHT right here in America !!!

Here is my Job creation Computations:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Total USA Imports in 2006:


----------------------------------
$ 2,211.7 billion ----- Total Imports.
$ - 309.4 billion minus -(Money spent on Imported Crude Oil)
--------------------------------------------------
$ 1,902.3 billion / 30 billion=63.41 million jobs lost from Imports.

==================================================

Total USA Exports in 2006:


----------------------------------
$ 1,451.7 Billion / 30 billion=48.39 million jobs America Created from Exports.

If USA Pulls out of NAFTA and WTO right now:


USA would absolutely gain a total of 63.41 million Jobs by Manufacturing all
IMPORTS right here in the USA.

So, 63.41 minus 48.39 = 15.02 million NET JOBS GAIN. But, a lot of Exports must be
purchased in the USA. That would mean an even larger number of jobs created in
America than I have estimated.

Also, I should note that I have subtracted out the $309.4 billion dollars that America
spent on Import Crude Oil in 2006. This is another problem that must be solved
later.

My calculation means an ABSOLUTE 15.02 million Jobs gained if the rest of the
world did not buy even one penny of USA EXPORTS.

SO MOTE IT BE. . . . .

Do you truly want to help straighten out the United States Government now? Then,
copy and post this article everyplace on the Internet you can post.

BY: Harry Dingey

Have a good day my friends.

A good article, but you miss the point on Fox News. It is successful because it Ellen ODay
provides a different viewpoint from the other left leaning networks such as MSNBC on March 08, 2010
that is virulently pro-Obama. at 04:53 PM
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It is a pity the UK does not have an equivalent to Fox to counter the left leaning drum
beat of the British Bias Corporation.

Interestingly even normally right wing friends in the UK are now moving left because
the only news they watch is the Beeb.

" Obama is an excellent President. TransitDave


on March 08, 2010
The very fact that conservative Brits loathe him is enough to indicate how good he is. at 04:53 PM
Britain needs to wake up to see that there is a new world order - Its Black and not Report this comment
White!!
His lack of interest in Britain is very sensible. In the new world order it is China and
India that matter, not Britain."

BBBBWWWWWHHHHAAAAAAA

Just keep telling yourself that, Raj........

Democrats=Liberals=Progressives=Socialists Ben
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This pol hack and his dem grovellersjust don't get it. To fix the conomy see Reagan. michael r smith
Simple. We will recover in historic fashion when these incompetents are gone. They on March 08, 2010
are making it so easy for the Free side. Winston Churchill's comment on Edward II at 04:52 PM
reign seem so relevant. Paraphrasing him he said rule by the perverse and Report this comment
incompetant sets up history for great and strong. brilliant leaders. Can yousay Sarah
Palin?

Obama has consistently missed the mark on healing the economy and health care ross
reform. The solutions that work the best and the most quickly are ones that enable on March 08, 2010
Americans to solve their own problems. His favored solutions, ones that involve the at 04:52 PM
top down heavy hand of government do not work here. Obama refuses to Report this comment
acknowledge that tax cuts and accelerated tax depreciation programs which place
the economic fix in the hands of the public always pay dividends. Health care reform
that allows real competition by individuals for health insurance would lower costs
thus making it more affordable for everyone. Removing the heavy economic cost of
medical malpractice litigation would also lower costs across the board. Neither of
these solutions would cost the government one cent or create more bureaucracy yet
the affects would be enormous.

I don't UNDERSTAND this article! Especially the diatribe against Fox and then the Glubber
next paragraph that the US media, (and I might ADD, European MEDIA) abandoned on March 08, 2010
all ethics and impartiality and ACTIVELY rooted and ENDORSED Obama. at 04:52 PM
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The REASON why America is turning to Fox is that there was ONE outlet that did
NOT fall into that category during the elections. And that was FOX!!!

The rest, ABC, CBS, CNN and ESPECIALLY the NBC affiliates, became nothing
more than the active propaganda wing of the Democrat party and Barack Obama.

Thank GOD for Fox! The only beacon of light and truth in the wilderness!

Good article overall. Fred Holtsberry


on March 08, 2010
You very-accurately noted that "Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic at 04:51 PM
level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing Report this comment
suspension of cynicism." Truer words were never writ. Other journalism
professionals have referred to that phenomena as "slobbering affection", "outright
devotion", and "abject partisanship".

But you then, apparently, adopt the liberal template that Fox news is somehow
responsible for the downward spiral in Obama's polling. Fox was the ONLY media
outlet in the U.S. which did not lavish a faithful suspension of disbelief on Obama
during the campaign. It can hardly be their fault then that the other media outlets are
now engaged in the post one-nighter "walk of shame".

The reality is that the Fox news programming - distinct from their opinion-based
shows - is the only down-the-middle source for political news in the U.S. television
market. Fox appears to be "right leaning" only from the perspective of the
dogmatically liberal CNN, CNNHN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS, in
comparison to which any honest reporting would appear to be "ultra conservative".

For one example, Fox News has been the only outlet to report on the controversies
revolving around Dr Phil Jones', the dubious quality of his work work on the global
temperature record, and recent embarassments edited out of the revised IPCC
report on global climate change. The other outlets occasionally report some
developments in their on-oline sites, but there has been nary a whisper in the
broadcast programming, with the exception of a couple of pieces repeating the
highly-creative fantasies of those who seek to hide the real story from public view.
Fox has been the only outlet which has not reactively promoted the silly notion that
"the debate is over" on global warming, as well as the related fantasy that Al Gore is
not on intellectual par with a stump. Does that make Fox news "right leaning" or just
honest?

Yes, Fox News tilts towards the Republicans. But the audience of Fox is dwarfed by Fourth Stooge
the traditional liberal media. The traditional media have failed us for years with on March 08, 2010
pathetic, thinly veiled left-wing agendas (all involving the consolidation of power). at 04:51 PM
Luckily we have have a rich history of pundits and pampleteers (like Fox and Rush Report this comment
Limbaugh) to help keep us free.

What many non-Americans have trouble realizing is that Americans resent any
intrusion by government. Any intrusion. Our freedoms are based in freedoms FROM
government--the belief that human beings are born with certain natural rights and
corresponding responsibilities for one's own livelihood. You want something-EARN
IT. You need help-ASK.

Bri
I cannot wait until this socialist president is voted out of office in 2012. on March 08, 2010
He is so ignorant. All he has to do to revive our economy is to 1) Stop pushing the at 04:50 PM
redistributive statist programs like healthcare and cap and trade, 2) Pass sweeping Report this comment
tax cuts for businesses and individuals, & RESIGN!!!

Shame we've not an honest media here in the states to write an appraisal of our A. B. Itterclinger
Messiah such as the one here. Kudos to Mr. Heffer. on March 08, 2010
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The end cannot come soon enough. Hopefully it will be "stimulated" by the defeat of Bob
the healthcare debacle. on March 08, 2010
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That said it all... VinnieD


A senior dem blames everything on Fox news. on March 08, 2010
Its minds like that - running this country that have caused this mess. What a cry baby at 04:50 PM
clown. Report this comment

Fox doesn't spew rage, Fox supplies both sides and then we decide. We have Phocus
decided that we made a rather large mistake and are preparing to correct it. on March 08, 2010
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Personally, I detest Fox as much as most of the other new channels. That is why I Ozlanthos
get my political news from C-Span, and online sources. It's bad enough to be lied to, on March 08, 2010
and considered to be an ill-informed schmuck for not buying into the lies by other at 04:49 PM
media outlets, but to be forced to watch Sarah Palin by Fox is just as bad! I am a tea- Report this comment
party member, and I HATE SARAH PALIN AS MUCH AS I HATE OBAMA!!!

-oZ

Where was the analysis of BO's capabilities before the election? Why is anyone not surprised
surprised that such an inexperienced person should be found to be way over his on March 08, 2010
head in providing leadership to America, when as a senator he rarely had the spine at 04:49 PM
to vote anything other than "present" when faced with difficult issues. On the left, one Report this comment
sees disappointment as the reality check sets in; on the right, who saw him for the
empty suit he is, there is anger, quite justified anger.

Just wait till Comcast buys NBC and fires all the libs'. Then NBC, MSNBC will shift James Morrison
further to the right than FOX because that will make Comcast $$$$, and that is why on March 08, 2010
they are buying it not for politics but for profit. at 04:48 PM
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Fox news is a bunch of dangerous, mindless idots. If you listen exclusively to Fox glenus
News, you are cdheating yourself and ultimately damaging your country. on March 08, 2010
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If Fox News is such a power obstacle for Obama to be successful with his agenda, Thinker
then how did he get elected in the first place? on March 08, 2010
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As with all things, it matters weather the person can really, truly do the job in front of john Kurtz
them. Expectations and hopes mean little if the one doing the job cannnot do the job. on March 08, 2010
It is clear day by day that this man in the White House is just simply not able to do at 04:41 PM
that job. I cannot dunk a basketball no matter how hard I try and practice. I do not Report this comment
pretend I will be able to later if I just have more support. Obama does not know his
own limitations.We will all suffer for it.

Your characterization of Fox News is incorrect, and obviously based on it's Roger Fishwife
competitor's talking points. I would suggest you actually watch a channel before on March 08, 2010
impugning it like that. at 04:41 PM
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It is simply the only center-right news outlet in the mainstream press, and is not
particularly supportive of The Obamessiah. As such, it's detractors try to make it out
to be some kind of 24 hour a day right wing screed, which it is not.

LOL - The same old denial & spin is getting soooo old. You Libs still don't get it. steamboat
There's a reason Fox News is so far ahead. How arrogant ! You give the public too on March 08, 2010
little credit. The reason is obvious -people have seen through the main stream at 04:41 PM
media bias, and are opting for a news source that gives multiple views, and doesn't Report this comment
cover up stories.

You summarize about Fox: "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. " Damn Right ! How can any sane person deny
this ?

Now go try and have an intelligent day !

Barack Obama is an inempt ideologue, more skilled at running his mouth than Mr. Lucas Brice
running a country. Rahm Emmanuel is a human cancer. The American people are on March 08, 2010
mindless sheep who wanted to feel good about themselves for electing a black man at 04:40 PM
(who really was a mulatto man) while ignoring his Marxist roots. God save America. Report this comment

FoxNews biased? An independent study found FoxNews was the least biased of all StopNonsense
major news networks in the States. CNN came in second. MSNBC was the most on March 08, 2010
biased. If there was any bias, it's this article and the other media who grovel at at 04:40 PM
Obama's feet and the liberal agenda. NBC has Dylan Ratigan as an example of the Report this comment
media here while attacking Mark Williams - check it out on Youtube.

"If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons. " Joe
on March 08, 2010
His rule?! Have you forgotten that the president works for the people? He is not a at 04:40 PM
king! He is a representative of the people. Perhaps that is why he is failing...he sees Report this comment
that he is actually accountable and he doesn't like that responsibility.

Barack Obama is the first President in US history voted into office due to race. JFK ELNIKO7
may have been the first Catholic, but he wasn't elected because he was Catholic, he on March 08, 2010
was elected because he had leadership experience as well as being charasmatic, at 04:40 PM
not just charasmatic. There are 22 year-olds in the Navy who have far more Report this comment
leadership experience than President Obama. You don't have to personally like John
McCain to acknowledge that with 26 years in the Navy, he has leadership
experience, far, far more than Pres. Obama. Our elections are no longer about who
would be the best leader, but all about emotion, how do "I" feel about the candidate.
You get what you vote for.
Any chance of Fox News setting up in Britain? anne allan
It would be nice to get news from sources other than the lefty, AGW freak, white on March 08, 2010
hating, middle class guilt ridden eunuchs who currently peddle what passes for at 04:40 PM
'unbiased' news in this country. Report this comment

Bring back our freedom and the Republic, get rid of the Federal Reserve! M Btok
on March 08, 2010
Vote Libertarian, vote for Ron Paul a Constitutionalist! at 04:39 PM
Also vote for: Libertarian Constitutionalists to fill the Congress Nov 2010, in order to Report this comment
help Ron Paul in 2012!

Remember no Elite members!

For your own defense watch: “Shadow Government” 


http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/videos-shadow-government-full?
xg_source=msg_mes_network

Having spent a year at the London School of Economics I find it quite hilarious that a helene rosenberg
brit is complaining that BBC bred viewers are shocked, yes shocked at the on March 08, 2010
comparison between BBC and Fox News citing the former as impartial. What a joke at 04:39 PM
that is. With no competition and no free media market to speak of, to say BBC is not Report this comment
left leaning is patently absurd. Just because everyone agrees with something,
doesn't make it impartial. Thank the Lord for Fox News. Living in a blue academic
town that believes NPR and MSNBC is the news, I can at least get other points of
view on Fox News.

We in America are blessed with a consuming population that doesn't believe much
the Obama administration says any more about its major issues - the health care
bill, cap and trade, and immigration, let alone the main issue for Americans - jobs,
jobs, and jobs. Is it 2012 yet?

Britain should take a lesson from the public over here. Yes we like our freedoms and clarify
are not going to be led around by the nose like the Brits. Your country has become a on March 08, 2010
real zombieland whose better days have long passed. When you don't see why we at 04:39 PM
are angry then you have no understanding what we are all about. Report this comment

It's interesting how they love to bash Fox news instead of dealing with their own Charles Bennett
failures. It's 'always' someone else's fault. on March 08, 2010
at 04:38 PM
It's Bush's fault. It's the tea-party 'racist' rabble rowser's fault. After god knows how Report this comment
many speeches on healthcare, it's "america's" fault for just not understanding. It's
the republican's fault for not allowing the democrats to "rule" even though they
control bot parts with veto proof majorities (until recently)

Scott Brown's election to the blueist of states is obviously NOT obama's fault.

Iran and Russia laughing in America's face is not because Obama looks weak.. It
MUST be someone else's fault. We just didn't bow low enough I guess.

The old joke goes, that the one common thing in all of your failed relationships is
"you".

Perhaps the Obama administration's real problem is that we just don't want to go
where he is trying to lead.

Welcome to amateur hour in the white house.

Here's hoping for change in 2010 and 2012..

If Bush wasn't out there bashing our Obama every chance he had, then His approval Bill
numbers wouldn't have dropped so drastically. It has nothing to do with His on March 08, 2010
progessive views or inclusive agenda. at 04:38 PM
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Obama is a little Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain AND Jimmy Carter. Ralphie
on March 08, 2010
He believes in equality rather than liberty. at 04:38 PM
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Unlike Mr. Churchill, he believes that the government is the master of the people, not
their servant.
Note to Vickie: Anyone who would characterize Glenn Beck as partisan must never stonebridge
have seen his show. There are some partisan commentators on Fox (Hannity, for on March 08, 2010
one), but Beck's not one of them-anti big federal government, devoted to the at 04:38 PM
Constitution certainly, but partisan-not a chance. Report this comment

It's interesting to see so many in the media call Fox News "Partisan" when, in fact, Jack Donnelly
they are merely telling the truth. Not one media outlet has refuted anything they have on March 08, 2010
presented, including the content on Glenn Beck's program. To the contrary, they at 04:38 PM
respond by trying to change the subject. Report this comment

Mr. Heffer hit the nail on the head with this article. Thanks for the article and hopefully Red
some (probably not many) of our people in Congress will take note of it. I'm sure the on March 08, 2010
Obama people won't! at 04:37 PM
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America had unprecedented problems before Obama was even sworn in. All of this George
end of the road talk is still a bit premature and just sounds like typical politics. It's a on March 08, 2010
long time until the next presidential election and Clinton and Bush both looked just at 04:37 PM
as dead in the water before the end of their first terms as well. Report this comment

Unfortunately, Mr. Obama is an empty suit with a talking head who was out of his Ben Hall
depth from the day he took the oath of office. on March 08, 2010
If Fox News is tilted to the Right, it makes no bones about it; unhappily, much of the at 04:37 PM
media in general, tilted at least as far to the Left, still content themselves with crying Report this comment
"Objectivity."
To apply P. Henry, "Gentlemen may cry 'Objectivity, objectivity,' but there is (little)
objectivity."

Unfortunately, Mr. Obama is an empty suit with a talking head who was out of his Ben Hall
depth from the day he took the oath of office. on March 08, 2010
If Fox News is tilted to the Right, it makes no bones about it; unhappily, much of the at 04:37 PM
media in general, tilted at least as far to the Left, still content themselves with crying Report this comment
"Objectivity."
To apply P. Henry, "Gentlemen may cry 'Objectivity, objectivity,' but there is (little)
objectivity."

Mr. Heffer: Jim Cimino


on March 08, 2010
I’ll merely quote you twice; these are the opening remarks of the 3rd and 4th at 04:36 PM
paragraphs respectively. Report this comment

“The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those
of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast
media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: 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.”

“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.”

Have you ever had a tingle up your leg when you’ve listened to Obama speak? You
talk about rage 24 hours a day emanating from (specifically) the Fox network. You
also bemoan the lack of American media impartiality. Perhaps you should tune into
MSNBC some weeknight. Pay particular attention to the Ed Show, Hardball,
Countdown, & The Rachel Maddow Show. Then we can have a legitimate
discussion about media rage and impartiality. And by no means is it a safe
assumption that the aforementioned news outlet is an isolated example.

I wonder if you might cite exactly which media outlets, (please include print, radio, &
television), participated in the devious suspension of cynicism, the promotion of
leftist idolatry, and the unwarranted stratospheric expectations of Mr. Obama both
prior to the election and afterward.

Respectfully,
Jim

Vote Libertarian, get rid of these elitists and slave drivers and the mafia run Foreign M Btok
Bank Federal Reserve! on March 08, 2010
at 04:36 PM
Vote for Ron Paul! Report this comment

Concerning your radical mischaracterization of Fox News, it's a bit pathetic, Simon, stridingedge
that a practicing journalist, such as yourself, can't make the distinction between the on March 08, 2010
reporting function of a newspaper or television channel, on the one hand, and the at 04:36 PM
commentary function, on the other. The commentary function presents the Report this comment
organization's or individual's naked opinons and doesn't pretend to strive for
objectivity. The reporting function does. The right wing, for example, couldn't care
less what the editorial view of the Guardian or the NY Times is. What they object to is
the fact that their purported news reporting is slanted and agenda-driven. In contrast,
no one, lucid enough to make this elementary distinction, complains about the news
reporting of Fox News. All the examples you gave ("indoctrination", "socialist state",
etc.) of Fox "rage" come from the commentary side. No one does, or can, cite bias on
its reporting side because it's not there -- otherwise they would do so with chapter
and verse and tie it to the specific reporting (not commentary). It's very disappointing
you've fallen for this liberal and brain dead trope.

end of 2nd paragraph reads: SimpleStu UK


"One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the President – told me on March 08, 2010
of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to be unable to solve at 04:35 PM
the economic problem among his own people." Report this comment
Sounds a bit rascist, but also highlights the issue that everybody is selfishly 'in it' for
themselves with their own vested interests, their is no community or society wide
perspective or agreement.Makes things harder to solve.

Funnily, UNITED States of America and GREAT Britain or UNITED Kingdom are
anything but at the moment.
I loved both USA & Britain in my times there, and aspired to achieve, improve and
develop personally under the broken capitalist, conservative, western model for a
better world.

Don't know the answers, I'm just an ordinary JOE (or JO) like most people. Unhappy
and shafted and in despair.

Every time I hear someone trying to defend Obama it's either with Matt
on March 08, 2010
1) Obama inherited a mess at 04:35 PM
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2) Obama can't be judged yet

Well to answer 1 I say plenty of Presidents inherited messes...to #2 well eventually


we WILL have to judge him because he has to win reelection to keep his post.

Much of Obamas fans thought we'd pull out of afganistan, iraq, close down camp x
ray, end the sanctions on cuba and so on. Nothing has been further from the truth. I
can only name a few decent things he has done (stopped prosecuting for medical
marijuana and legalized stem cell research) Everything else is just talk.

If being articulate was the only qualification for being president we would have a
party of Toastmasters!

Mr. Heffer, have you actually watched Fox News? There is a real news program richardb
during the day and opinion at night. Your description of it "With little rest, it pours out on March 08, 2010
rage 24 hours a day..." is pure BS. at 04:35 PM
Perhaps Glenn Beck is in a rage, but that is a small part of their programming. For Report this comment
real rage see MSNBC, a network truly devoted to Obama worship.
The real reason Obama is failing is because he is a lousy politician and won't lead
from the center. The reason he was elected was he gave voice to the vast middle of
America in the most eloquent of language. This vast middle feels betrayed by
Obama given his actions since the election.

Oh, Brave New World! Pat Davidson


on March 08, 2010
at 04:35 PM
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If memory serves, wasn't The Telegraph at the forefront of the parade of drooling, MDWhite
fawning Euro-media twits that lined up to touch the hem of Obama's cloak in the run- on March 08, 2010
up to the Nov '08 election? To have to listen to this sniffy buyers remorse is as at 04:35 PM
distasteful as having a murderer who killed his parents ask for pity because he's an Report this comment
orphan. You and your cronies at the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, et al. helped in
no small part to get The Anointed Empty Suit elected and left the rest of us to clean
up the mess.

A fair and very well-balanced view of the problems surrounding the President. emjeff
on March 08, 2010
at 04:34 PM
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To our British cousins, you need to know a few things about the president. He was a Old Vet
law professor and he believes that the constitution is a flawed document that should on March 08, 2010
be replaced by a “progressive” system. He is friends with people like Bill Ayers, at 04:34 PM
former leader of the weathermen underground, Andy Stern, founder of the corrupt Report this comment
community organizing group ACORN, Van Jones, an avowed communist, to name a
few. He is not a leader, as we expect a president to be. He is arrogant way beyond
what you are accustomed to with G. W. Bush thinking that anyone who disagrees
with him is stupid. Don’t believe me, just ask him. His agenda is to “fundamentally
change America”. Judging by his writings, and recorded statements that were not
available to the public during the campaign, the change is
progressivism/communism. It is the hope myself and many of my fellow Americans
that he fails miserably, and the congress finds what little common sense they have
left to keep him in check till 2012.

"With little rest, [Fox News] pours out rage 24 hours a day" Kim du Toit
on March 08, 2010
Only in a culture where the modern-day left-wing BBC is regarded as a paragon of at 04:34 PM
impartiality, could someone have written such arrant nonsense. Report this comment

In any given 24-hour period, Fox News is about 50% opinion (the "rage" that Mr.
Heffer writes about) and the rest is news. The big difference is that the news is
always presented with respect offered to opposing viewpoints: something which few
Western media outlets offer.

And it's not "rage": it's exasperation. For the benefit of Telegraph readers: the
American population is a center-right aggregate, while its media, academe and
(current) political establishment are far left. What is taking place in the U.S. right now
is that the political establishment is being pulled back to reflect the position of the
majority of the populace -- small wonder that the Left are alarmed, and using words
like "rage" to describe the process.

I think that some of the comments about detroit not being caused by obama are robert
correct but that was not what the author of this article was trying to portray. What Mr. on March 08, 2010
Heffer was trying to say is that the democratic ideals or progressive ideals, that at 04:34 PM
Obama believes in have destroyed detroit. Big union deals such as the car unions Report this comment
has ruined any competitive advantage they once had. The teachers unions have
turned the educational programs into a joke as only 1 in 4 student graduate
highschool. The continuation of just raising taxes to balance a budget has chased
businesses from detroit. All of this was done by democratic iniatives. If you were to
look state by state, the states that are in the biggest trouble are the ones that are
heavily democratic. this is not what people want in the US

As for fox news, in the book called freakanomics, research was done showing that
85% of the people that worked for fox were democratic. i am sure the number is
lower now but still it shows that it is not a republican outlet. People focus in on
hannity and beck and then just blindly apply the rightwing propaganda tag

"his dependence on rhetoric rather than action" Lance Davis


on March 08, 2010
You could have started and ended this article in one sentence at 04:33 PM
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If you take the large and diverse US it is more comparable to the EU with its member clarify
countries roughly like our states. There are differences in a lot of areas politically on March 08, 2010
and geographically and ethnically Obama wants to treat this diverse country like a at 04:33 PM
single European country would try to make the rest of the countries fit its idea. No Report this comment
representation and an inbred group of thugs from Chicago who have nothing to offer
but misery and threaten everyone who disagrees. What is the problem with being
treated like serfs? They really don't know ,realize, nor care, as long as they get their
juvenile, utopian ways.

Fox news 'pours out rage 24 hours a day?" Charles Sangston


on March 08, 2010
Not even close to the thruth! It simply exposes the utter lies of the Colored News at 04:33 PM
Network and its disgusting panderings to African Americans. Report this comment

I have never taken a dime of government money in any respect and at the age of 50 I
thinks its time I should.

Move over downtrodden minorities- white men coming through. We are broke and
we need your help as to signing up for the dole.

Where to begin?

Mr. Heffer's comments about Fox News pouring out rage 24 hours a day has the Ray Elliott
same European left spin that spews from the BBC 24 hours a day. on March 08, 2010
Mr. Heffer should step back and ask himself if his own country is working. Is Britain at 04:33 PM
bankrupt? If so, are the policies of the left to blaim? How long does a society last that Report this comment
is based on everyone's mouth on a government teat?

The healing of Britain will begin when the BBC starts informing the people of the
dangers of the progressive left. When that happens, you may think that you are
listening to Fox News.

Colin Craig:"It might have been nice, under a technical rule of impartiality, for Mr TLSwank
Heffer to have pointed out that Detroit's desolation predates Obama by decades and on March 08, 2010
that Republicans were in the White House for most of that time. He might also point at 04:33 PM
out the breathtaking hypocrisy of the Republicans in openly opposing every Obama Report this comment
initiative when they attacked Democrats as unpatriotic traitors if they criticised or
opposed Bush (not that they did much of the latter)."
For one thing, Detroit had a democrat mayor all through theyears. the democrats
held Congress for most of those years. Then you say the dems didn't criticize Bush
much. what planet are you on? They tore Bush up during his whole term! Where DO
you get your "news?" Here in the USA, we heard nothing but hate and vitriol hurled
against Bush. The dems have morphed into the Anti-American party, and are doing
ALL THEY CAN to undermine all that's good here, and Obama is a sorry joke, every
day he's on TV, spouting his lies. Whatever he says, he does the opposite. Face it.
He grew up overseas, hasn't got an american perspective, and ran a campaign
based on generic nothings, such as "Yes We Can," and "Change We Can Believe
In." That's comparable to a laundry soap commercial, saying "New and Improved,"
which basically means nothing. Well, you can have your ugly, grey socialism, your
hospitals that are famous for unclean conditions, patients dying for the lack of
WATER, and nurses who don't care, plus the overhead of burons, who soak up vast
amounts of wealth for producing paperwork and obstacles to health care. We
Americans want no part of it. Keep it to yourselves.

My office mates and Liberal friends once jubilant and ecstatic that our savor; Barack Patrick
(Barry) Hussein Obama now have a different tone. They are very disappointed and on March 08, 2010
will never admit it. at 04:32 PM
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The false premise that Obama has projected is now materializing before their eyes.
The belief that he will right the wrong, fix what is broken and to add peace and
prosperity to our lives all from the street of Chicago; will not happen. All the people
that voted for Obama now know they got screwed at the used car lot. They are
standing; holding the keys to a shiny car that is going where and with no return
policy. The check was cashed and the used car dealer moved to Washington.

I really miss the office chatter on how Obama was going to be the great messiah
and now all I hear is how I am such a racist. Their dreams of world peace and free
health care have turned into a nightmare.

My Liberal acquaintances don’t want to talk about politics anymore, go figure.

“a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media”…I patrulje
had a British officer in Iraq ask me why US soldiers watched Fox News instead of on March 08, 2010
CNN. I responded “why do UK soldiers watch Sky News instead of BBC?”, no further at 04:32 PM
explanation was necessary. Report this comment

"Obama's big problem is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch Andy
CNN." "...shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is on March 08, 2010
applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day..." at 04:31 PM
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Statements from a "senior Democrat". The "senior Democrat" must have thought
since he was speaking to a foreign newspaper the readers wouldn't know what a
load of crap that was. Fox is tiny compared to ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WaPost, etc.
And no more full of "rage" than any other news outlet. They get so angry (and
terrrified) that some other point of view gets past the gate keepers to masses.

"I am no Socialist but my God, its hard to find any sympathy for the Republicans who Neil
so quickly forget the damage that Bush has inflicted on the USA and seem to want on March 08, 2010
more of the same by pushing Palin a no hoper, no nothing lightweight if ever one at 04:31 PM
existed. Get real USA. You get the president you deserve and as we should all know Report this comment
- history will judge..."

Hmmmmmmm I seem to remember the same description of a US presidential


candidate by snobs in the media. History did judge him well, thank you very much
Ronald Regan !
Lets see...."The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost Lonnie Gunther
shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in on March 08, 2010
the broadcast media." at 04:30 PM
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But in the next paragraph we get this: "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."

Kind of makes the point that even WITH FOX News, who, by the way, was unable to
KEEP him from being elected, that the REST of the media have been (and still is) by
and large, slavishly devoted to Obama...

To Carl in Chicago anthony in Ormoc


on March 08, 2010
You had a good argument, up until the point that you said Bunning tried to block the at 04:30 PM
recovery. Report this comment

You could not be further from the mark. He wanted to pass that bill, but wanted the
government to cover the cost, before doing so. The "pay as you go" that was widely
supported by the democrats, is being totally ignored.

Bush certainly had his faults, and spent more than he should have, but it pales in
comparison to that of the sending spree Osham and the rest of the democrats are
on. The WH's own numbers, under Oshama, project a 9+ trillion dollar increase in
the national debt, over the next 10 years. That is DISGUSTING. Who is ever going to
pay for that?

We all agree that helping hands are a good thing, and there are millions of
Americans that give their hard earned money, to causes THEY BELIEVE IN. Not what
the government says they should, or more importantly, run by the government.

We all know the government is the lest efficient means of getting money to the
problems. Going directly to the organizations who lend a hand, is far better.

Most of America wants a smaller, less intrusive government. Regulation, not


government growth, is the way to solving problems. You can't put a band aid on the
problem, and think that is a cure. Oshama wants the government to make all our
decisions for us, we are not smart enough, nor do we have the fiscal responsibility
to take care of ourselves, HE KNOWS BETTER.

That is arrogant, and repulsive. I hoped he would be a good President, but he has
failed, on so many levels, and in so many way. Now he is just doing the child thing,
and saying to the country, "talk to the hand", cause he is not listening.

He will be one term, and I seriously hope the republicans take back control of both
the house and senate. Not because I am republican, I can't stand either party, they
both make me sick. But at least we will have a buffer to slow down this obvious
disintegration of our country.

All the top players have been caught talking out both sides of their mouths. Pelosi,
Reid, Oshama, all saying reconciliation is wrong. But now they will shove it down our
throats, using that very tactic.

Reid openly said, on the Senate floor, "we have lost the war in Iraq". What does he
say now? Nothing, it disgusts me someone who clearly hates the military, and
America in its current form, continues to be elected to office. This year, with things
the way they are, looks like he will be looking for a new job. I am sure that he could
be paid very well for his time and lies on any of the networks mentioned before,
excluding FOX of course.

I had high hopes for Obama after the Bush disaster which, since this country is still Starbuck Avon
in a recession that is getting deeper and deeper and deeper, are now thoroughly on March 08, 2010
dashed. Obama has no idea how to set priorities. Affordable health care for all is all at 04:30 PM
fine and good, but if I were president, my first priority would be to get my people back Report this comment
to work and this country's economy stimulated again! No wonder we're a
laughingstock! I would rather vote for Sarah Palin.

I liked the article. I think the fact that it created some comments that were nearly as smarzig
long as the article itself was the amusing part. on March 08, 2010
at 04:30 PM
Understand before demanding to be understood. Report this comment

Keep2theright
on March 08, 2010
Conservatives, check out "GORE LIED", "Next Time, Vote American!" and other great at 04:29 PM
stickers and gear at www.keep2theright.com Report this comment
I watch Drudge, Fox, CNN and MSNBC. They are all biased to some degree. MontanaSon
However, only CNN and MSNBC will bury a story. on March 08, 2010
at 04:29 PM
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This Obama is the worst mistake the US has made since the Vietnam War. He is a walter12
complete disaster. on March 08, 2010
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Not sure Fox "spews rage 24/7" ...more a case of some "healing balm" in the face of mike
the Leftstream media's constant continuing and very harmful to OUR country "idiotic on March 08, 2010
level of idolatry" for the Messiah! at 04:28 PM
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"Obama's big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many Larry Guglielmi
people watch Fox News as watch CNN." The Fox network is a remarkable cultural on March 08, 2010
phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule at 04:28 PM
of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 Report this comment
hours a day: 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."...I COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER MYSELF!!!

Sad to say that I have to read the British newspapers to find such an article. That in GRAM
itself is a commentery in itself of the level of coersive indifferance the american on March 08, 2010
media in general has sunk. at 04:27 PM
By the way..Obama solved the educational system in washington by sending his Report this comment
own childern to a expensive private school...nuff said..

The end cannot come soon enough. Hopefully it will be "stimulated" by the defeat of Bob
the healthcare debacle. on March 08, 2010
at 04:27 PM
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Simon Heffer is a extreme right wing European critic. This article only reflects his TL
views from his ideologies of right wing extremism. He is NOT a moderate or an on March 08, 2010
independent. His being critical of all things Obama stands for is not news. He feels at 04:27 PM
the same way as any right wing Repub in US politics. The only solution the right Report this comment
wing believes is to follow BUSH CHENEY debacle policies that pushed the world
into the mess and financial crises.

"One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the President – told me Tim Murrah
of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to be unable to solve on March 08, 2010
the economic problem among his own people."- at 04:22 PM
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As president, "his own people" is ALL of the Americans, not just the Black ones.

I read upto the line; towertom


"and those who think they know better begin to attack those who manifestly do not" on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
And stopped. Isn't that you? More rubbish from a rubbish journalist. Report this comment

"shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in Percy
the broadcast media. " on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
Al-Beeb ? Report this comment
Impartial?

Surely you jest.

Don't blame the press for the leftist lean in this country. You have to question what is Alex
reported and do just a little research and comparisons. Mr. Obama is doing just on March 08, 2010
what he said he would do during his primary. You didn't get the utopia described by at 04:21 PM
the choosen one now it someone elses fault. Please! Report this comment

The greatest blessing that could be bestowed upon America would be for Obama's gneubeck
total Socialist agenda to collapse on its own demerit. Only then will our economy , on March 08, 2010
relieved of the Marxist millstone, rebound and once again bear the fruits of the most at 04:21 PM
vibrant free-enterprise system in the history of mankind. Greg Neubeck Report this comment
never before in the history of mankind, has one man accomplished so little, for so tyredokuhns
many, with such a limited mental capacity.... on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
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At last Mr. Heffer gets the feeling of being crapped on (by FOX). Mr. Heffer, for the General Forrest
past forty years two, then three major networks, threw crap on the American public on March 08, 2010
day and night. All I can say is, "Na nana na na". at 04:21 PM
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It took about a year for the US media (but Fox) to understand the Tea Parties to be a Brigitte de Maubec
grass-root force to be reckoned with. on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
Now that Obama is already organizing his reelection team, let me introduce you to Report this comment
the other 20 millions strong grass-root movement ignored or ridiculed and cursed by
the entire media: The so-called "Birthers".

They, despite the media blackout, understand that Obama is not elligible to be
POTUS on the ground that he is not a natural born citizen, wherever he was born.

An American natural born citizen is a American citizen born in the territory of the
United States to TWO American citizen (Emerich de Vattel, Laws of the Nations).

Obama's father was not an American citizen. He was a Britsh subject of Kenyan
residency.

Obama's problem is not his American citizenship (eventhough his paperwork is


probably not in order following his adoption by his Indonesian step-father) but his
DUAL-CITIZENSHIP at birth.

The Medias have choosen to ignore the US constitution in 2008, because McCain
also had an elligibility problem (Born in Panama) but they won't be able to ignore the
uproar of several millions of Americans descending on Washington if Obama is
back on the ballot.

Your statement that Fox spews 24 hours of hate a day is a bald face lie and it only W. Taylor
shows your bias against it. on March 08, 2010
at 04:20 PM
Therefore, the rest of your article is tainted and suspect. Haven't you ever heard of Report this comment
'research'. Or better yet, the truth?

You see. THIS is the problem. A diatribe full of half-truths and it is expected that we
are so stupid as to buy this nonsense.

Obmam lied to ME. Over and over. If anyone expects me to believe anything further
he has to say then I say THEY are the idiots.

Fox News has 4 times the viewers because the other networks are LESS partial Gvtrai58
than Fox. CBS, NBS, ABC and all their cable news brothers and sisters are run by on March 08, 2010
crazy wide eyed liberals with the other side not represented at all. Fox is considered at 04:20 PM
conservative, yet when they discuss an issue, there is a lib representative and a Report this comment
consverative representative. That is considered unfair by the LIBs.

Today's poll(Rasmussen): Stan(expat)


on March 08, 2010
"22% of the nation's voters at 04:20 PM
Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Report this comment
Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove . . "

The downward trend continues.

FoxNews' upward trend also continues.

No offense meant, but our ancestors had the good sense to leave Europe two Big Dewey, Texas
hundred years ago. on March 08, 2010
at 04:20 PM
I saw a 60 Minutes story about some European country (can't remember which one Report this comment
because they're all alike), but the host was interviewing a bunch of college kids. They
were thrilled with their government -subsidized college educations, free this and free
that. And all the government did was take most of their earnings in the form of taxes,
and then dole stuff out to them.

That is NOT AMERICA. We don't want to be taxed up the wazoo. We want the federal
government out of our freaking lives. Obama and his crew of thugs want exactly the
opposite.
My solution? Impeach Obama, and sentence him to spend the rest of his life in
France.

Obama's problem is not Fox, nor anyone else. His problem is he mistakenly clambo slice
believes that Americans supported his radical agenda. Socialism is un-American. on March 08, 2010
We don't want to pay new taxes for health care for illegal aliens. We don't want to pay at 04:20 PM
an absurd "Carbon tax". We don't want to have the government take over health care. Report this comment
We don't like the White House people hiring, firing at GM. We don't want the White
House deciding salaries at financial companies. ETC.

This is a very well written column. It is spot-on. It is amazing for the main stream Kevin
media to ignore which party has ran Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, ect, ect.. into the on March 08, 2010
ground. Hint, it isn't the GOP. at 04:20 PM
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"It is not about whose advice he is taking: it is about him grasping what is wrong with BBell
America, and finding the will to put it right." on March 08, 2010
at 04:19 PM
Oh, no, no, no. This thought process is the result of a cultural artifact coming from a Report this comment
country with a parliamentary system. That's not a critique of the system, per se, just a
reminder that the US was not built this way. Sadly, many in the US think it was! The
US was built as a constitutional republic, with limits on national government. It would
have been more accurate and appropriate to have said: "it is about him grasping
what is wrong with the federal government's role in America, and finding the will to
put it right." That approach might have yielded wonderful results in his Obama's first
year!

The PRIMARY difference between the Clinton re-election and the Obama one-term gxb
presidency is that the liberal socialists have shown what they truly are. on March 08, 2010
at 04:19 PM
They have amply demonstrated how they would attack the private sector (read Report this comment
freedom), the tactics they would apply, and the American people will want nothing to
do with it.

Health Care, Card check, global warming scam, "fairness doctrine", Cap and Tax,
tax increases, and worst of all -- a general income re-distribution from the producers
to the non-producers.

That socialist "soup" is a clear recipe for disaster. It is so clear, that in one's
nightmares it almost seems to be intentional destruction.

Since there has never been a socialist/communist takeover of a country without


either war or a total collapse of the currency and economy, one has to wonder...

So, to apply the global warming hoaxers' philosophy of "we may be wrong, but we
still ought to ruin the economy just in case we're right" --- Obama may not be a
communist, but we still ought to throw the bum out just in case we are right.

Barry Soetoro is way over His head. America is broke and He thinks by spending Fracisco Pinon
more we are all going to be better off??The problem is that Goverment spends to on March 08, 2010
much, it's not that we don't pay are fair share of taxes. Obama is now the "Black at 04:19 PM
Jimmy Carter" The only People who are saying He is doing a great job are the same Report this comment
who think O.J was "seup".

MSNBC-New restaurant opens in midtown. ben anderson


Fox- Street vendor arrested for selling cat meat hot dogs. on March 08, 2010
Both tell the truth but Fox gets the viewers because they actually operate as at 04:19 PM
journalists. Report this comment

A little clarification on FOX! Commentators are anti Obama but much of the program pete in ny
is not. it is anti Obama only in the sense that the news stories are ones which the on March 08, 2010
mainstream press ignores e.g. all of the global warming scandal stories from the at 04:19 PM
UK and elsewhere! Report this comment

People have gravitated to FOX because they get a viewpoint which is not available in
the liberal establishment conrolled press and tv.

Does the author really think that the BBC is impartial? The author needs to get some Richard Whitney
air. The MSM in the United States resembles the government-controlled media on March 08, 2010
elsewhere, pretending to do journalism while promoting the agenda of the at 04:19 PM
government. The audacity of fraud is how this sad term in office will be remembered. Report this comment
Obama won on the promise: yes we can do. Now he is saying: No we cannot. With Alex
his back to the financial wall he has now even conceded that the USA needs nuclear on March 08, 2010
power plants even after closing down Yucca mountain. he had promised disbanding at 04:18 PM
of Guantanamo. He had promised 'out of Iraq', 'out of Afghanistan' policies, Carbon Report this comment
Cap and Trade, Health Care, etc etc he had promised us heaven on earth when the
truth is that this planet is too small for heaven to fit into. Chickens have this bad habit
of coming home to roost

President Obama is a leftist attempting to govern a center-right nation. That is the Rev. C.F. Cleaver
source of all his problems. on March 08, 2010
at 04:18 PM
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Obama is an empty vessel. He was and continues to be all hype. He won because EnoughAlready
he was able to mobilize the non-voting masses to finally vote. on March 08, 2010
at 04:18 PM
He campaigned as the champion of the regular guy. Now he's showing his true Report this comment
colors as an elitist who has a radical agenda that he's going to ram down the throats
of the very Americans he pretended to care about.

Hopefully he's a one term president. America will be in ruins if the moronic masses
vote this clown in for a second term.

To our British cousins, you need to know a few things about the president. He was a Old Vet
law professor and he believes that the constitution is a flawed document that should on March 08, 2010
be replaced by a “progressive” system. He is friends with people like Bill Ayers, at 04:18 PM
former leader of the weathermen underground, Andy Stern, founder of the corrupt Report this comment
community organizing group ACORN, Van Jones, an avowed communist, to name a
few. He is not a leader, as we expect a president to be. He is arrogant way beyond
what you are accustomed to with G. W. Bush thinking that anyone who disagrees
with him is stupid. Don’t believe me, just ask him. His agenda is to “fundamentally
change America”. Judging by his writings, and recorded statements that were not
available to the public during the campaign, the change is
progressivism/communism. It is the hope myself and many of my fellow Americans
that he fails miserably, and the congress finds what little common sense they have
left to keep him in check till 2012.

"As someone who voted all-Democratic in 2009" Stanley


on March 08, 2010
Um, election was 2008, but as you're a Democrat - it's OK to stop voting now :) at 04:17 PM
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[...which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of TC


impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.] on March 08, 2010
at 04:17 PM
This quote from the article is malarkey! This is an opinion piece, and anyone who Report this comment
reads this article as news is obviously part of the MSM. On a daily basis, I read
several UK "news" sources and have yet to find one that does not editorialize their
news.

Obama is all fluff and seems to have forgotten: "You can fool some of the people all
the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Hopey changey are his mantra,
and it doesn't fly with the real people anymore.

Mr. Heffer's assessment includes so many errors, one doesn't know where to begin. Chukker
on March 08, 2010
at 04:17 PM
First, Mr. Heffer's sensibilities regarding the impartiality of the media have apparently Report this comment
been aroused for the first time by the advent of Fox News. Just ponder that for a
moment.

For decades the American people had been assaulted by an elitist, entrenched
news establishment with an unapologetic LEFT bias, and Mr. H. never once noticed.
But along comes one little channel which aligns itself with the views of millions of
otherwise-neglected and abused Americans and NOW Mr. Heffer is indignant.
One network out of countless others that actually has conservative commentators
who aren't dork-props and the losers start howling like whiny babies.

Mr. H further writes "With little rest, [Fox News] pours out rage 24 hours a day:" then
lists his examples of said "rage." None qualifies as "rage," rather each is a valid
issue of concern facing the American people who love freedom in Obama's Amerika.
And for this clown to sniff that Fox News "almost shocks those of us from a country
where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media" one must
honestly bark a laugh. BBC anyone? Now that's unbiased news reporting for you.

Let's move on to Mr. Heffer's comment regarding the most recent "...jobs Bill, which
would give tax breaks to firms hiring new staff and, through state sponsorship of
construction projects, create thousands fo jobs too." What breathtaking ignorance
about the real world and job creation. An illustration of how entrenched Mr. H. is in
the European nanny state mentality. Unquestioned group think.

Any one with a modicum of common sense and experience in the real world knows
the best way to create jobs is reducing tax rates, and getting the government out of
the way of the private sector.

Government is a ball and chain (with cement) around the ankle of small business.
Government interference takes the free out of free markets. Young little America
didn't become the most prosperous country on the face of the earth in all of recorded
history because our Constitution called for a massive, abusive, intrusive central
goverment.

Mr. Heffer is just another left-leaning hack journalist in a vast pool of left-leaning
hacks. None has anything insightful or unpredictable to contribute because they're
unable or unwilling to think outside their elitist, leftist, unrealistic, emotive,
impractical worldview.

President Obama will win re-election in 2012 with relative ease. mark
on March 08, 2010
Americans have a way of voting for the DEVIL they know as oppose , just ask George at 04:16 PM
Bush. Report this comment

and why set back RACE RELATION another 4 years of holding hands can't hurt.

Barack Obama does not like the United States and he dislikes capitalism even Steve
more. He is a pure Marxist. on March 08, 2010
at 04:16 PM
His agenda is, and has always been, to collapse capitalism and replace it with Report this comment
socialism.
The people of the United States need to fight him tooth and nail until he is voted out
of office three years from now. Hopefully, what ever damage he causes can be
repaired.

You're statement about people "loving the outpouring of bad news from Fox" DaleS
completely misses the point. We don't love bad news we want the truth and Fox is on March 08, 2010
the only news outlet that is giving that to us. at 04:16 PM
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Obama is definitely a one term President.His definition of a Democracy doesn't Rob


match Democratic or Republicans.If he isn't a socialist,he certainly acts like it???? on March 08, 2010
at 04:14 PM
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Mr. Holland as a Nevada Resident I am disturbed by your announcement of no party Kevin


affiliation. While it may seem good to you, to run as a "non party" member, that just on March 08, 2010
shows that you have no balls. What is your stance on Health Care Reform? What is at 04:14 PM
your stance on the thousands upon thousands of illegals working in Nevada taking Report this comment
our jobs?

I fear that voting for you only takes away votes that are needed to get rid of Harry Reid
and you come along and want to pull voters away from those that would be against
Reid anyway.

This is the kind of garbage that keeps corrupt politicians in office, everyone splitting
the votes off into several candidates does the State of Nevada no good!

This administration and this Congress are ignoring the basic tenets of the Hank Rearden
Constitution and the will of their constituents at great peril. Those basic rights are on March 08, 2010
our guarantees and the foundation of this great nation. at 04:14 PM
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Fascisim and socialism do not occur overnight - but by incremental entrenchments
of government programs which exist in perpetuity.

Failure to enact 'sunset' provisions institutionalizes a welfare state. And the sources
of the revenue become increasingly out-numbered by those receiving the benefit.

In aviation - it is termed 'death spiral'.


Bush too inherited a big mess. I never once heard him blame anyone. You know Patti
what the job is when you apply for it with all the warts. If you know before you apply on March 08, 2010
that you are not up to the job, why would you want it? Will the guy spend 4 years at 04:13 PM
spinning the yarn or can he actually govern? His history would say he is only capable Report this comment
of spinning.

Try to imagine a black female democrat, calling for the IMPEACHMENT of Obama Stephen
winning an election. It just happened in TEXAS! Search youtube for the video. on March 08, 2010
at 04:12 PM
Kesha Rogers Wins Texas Primary Report this comment

the past 8 years of the Bush administration,the one that had Fox news,cheerleading rebecca howell
the people on...I remember when Fox first hit the air...the programming was on March 08, 2010
seductive and challenging...who can forget 'married with children' as one at 04:12 PM
example,'the simpsons' as another...what Fox did,was desensitise the minds of 2 Report this comment
entire generations of this country..thanks to policies of the Reagan era...Obama has
inherited a 'perfect storm'...with the advent of instant communication,mankind has
not gained much of a future,only the ability to rehash the past.instantly.and not
apparently to any real advantage.People watch Fox because because its an 'angry
voice' that is socially acceptable..The Bush era,both of them along with
Reagan,pretty much put us wehre we are and you had better believe that Fox News
helped.Thank you one and all for adding billions to the Rupert Murdoch family...

My bet is that the economy may have recovered quicker even without the pork laden Bulldog
stimulus. Rather than doling out cash to his buddies, Obama should have given tax on March 08, 2010
breaks for small businesses and those that work for a living. at 04:12 PM
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I only watch FOX News because it is the only channel I can get reliable information. If
I watch CNN I get to hear how great Obama is when I can clearly see folks hurting
and trying to scrape by. Bold faced lying like that is a waste of my time. Sure, FOX
has a conservative slant but they sure work hard to give the other views.

Our country is in the most dire condition of my lifetime and the one guiding us is
incompetent. How are we to ever address the national debt under Obama. He is
spending our money recklessly.

Here we go again.. Libra insight


Like Michigan and Jennifer Granholm on March 08, 2010
"Michigan will be blown Away..." at 04:11 PM
So to is a majority of the USA presently "Blown Away" Report this comment
Hence, with the latest BULL**** in government where both parties are to blame for
the present demise and nothing is happening to help the average citizens. This
problem was not generated lately. It's been festering for the last 20 without a
strategical plan for long term business development and growth. Nafta and Global
has been one sided. Big $$$ for the ultra rich and 0 jobs for American citizens.
Somebody, Anybody? GET A NEW GAME PLAN READY! It's disheartening to see
present and future generation eating out of a garbage cans and living in cardboard
boxes.
EVERYONE BUY AMERICAN TODAY....

President Barack Obama must think that Americans have moved from individualism gene
and fragmentation to a collective identity - the Global Village with a tribal base. It is on March 08, 2010
more a Global Theater - more involvement, role playing ... at 04:11 PM
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"Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth"
Marshall McLuhan

Simon--what a hoot you are. Fox spewing hate?British (and european) broadcasts clarice Feldman
being impartial? on March 08, 2010
The BBC spews hatred of Israel 24/7. It's coverage of the climategate story, at 04:11 PM
undoubtedly affected by its pension funds being tied up in the preposterous cap & Report this comment
trade market, has been appalling.

How long have you spent here? Probably far less than I have spent in Europe.

The media in the U.S. is so amazingly biased toward Obama that I, an American, David Gifford
have to read UK news to get the straight scoop. While Fox News is biased, they at on March 08, 2010
least try to be fair by having as many Democrats as Rebuplicans on their shows, at 04:10 PM
giving each about the same time to talk. The other networks very rarely have a Report this comment
republican on, and then only to attack him if he is against Obama, or to praise him if
he supports Obama. If we had fair reporting, this economic illiterate would never
have been elected.
If anyone thinks that the rest of the U.S. mainstream media is fair and impartial, I JimFogleman
suggest that you go to CBS website and check out the political cartoons. On a fair on March 08, 2010
day they are 75% proObama while on a typical day they are near 100% proObama. at 04:10 PM
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Obama, the progressives, are what is wrong with the economy. Look at the facts. Pete
on March 08, 2010
1. US Government is now 45% of the GNP of the US. That is way to much at 04:10 PM
administration. Report this comment

2. The Government is expanding jobs, that the private side can no longer support
with taxes.

3. The Government is preventing correction in the private sector by 'artifically' taking


the workforce.

4. The projected budget deficits are nearly impossible to pay off, even printing money
into super inflation.

Here is what needs to be done:

1. Cut Government to 25% of GNP. This alone will shore up our currency, release
jobs to private industry, and allow the economy to slowly correct.

Here is what Obama is doing:

1. Creating bigger deficits and bigger government, weakening the private industry,
and destroying the currency.

The question should be 'if' Obama is a failed Presidency; but what are the
consequences and is this a deliberate attempt to destroy the economy of the United
States?

While your article makes rather good points in general, I'll limit my comments to your marc f
statement: "The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost on March 08, 2010
shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in at 04:10 PM
the broadcast media." Report this comment

Of course, this is not true. You can call the BBC broadcast media, but you cannot call
it impartial. After living in the UK for three years, the BBC is clearly liberal, including
the presentation of nightly TV news broadcasts, radio, international, and so forth.

This is symptomatic of British cultural problem which generally has to do with


speaking in a plain and straight forward manner. The pretense of media impartiality
can only be maintained in a nation-state in which the government runs the media.
You folks really should end that charade in the UK.

For years the left stream media has been ruining this country, I grew up in the 60s, George
We had family values, divorces were few,illigitamate pregnacies were few and far on March 08, 2010
between. Kids could go out and play safely without much worry. Today with all our at 04:09 PM
leftist political agenda and political correctness orchestrated by the left wing of the Report this comment
demos, this nation has gone down the toilet. We are at a 50% divorce rate. African
american kids are 75% born not out of wedlock. All this has become a norm. Our TV
shows even support these life styles and make shows around them. So is everyone
surprised that people have turned to fox? Glenn Beck says it like it is from the
position of the little guy. Yes we all know he puts lots of sauce on wht he says but he
is basically correct. Out politicians should start hearing the people. we don't want
their type of health care and we want them to stop spending our money.

The "cultural phenomenon" of Fox news was the only organization that touched the Mike Trask
Climategate scandal. on March 08, 2010
at 04:09 PM
Oddly enough, the rest of the American Television news stations did not. Interesting, Report this comment
wouldn't you say?

The main and central reason that this administration is unsuccessful is the same jeckelmyhyde
as it was during the election. Obama has no expierence at running anything let on March 08, 2010
alone the U.S.. The media however will not relent on their protectionism of Obama, at 03:43 PM
they too will throw anyone under the bus to protect their chosen ones name, and that Report this comment
includes Emanuel and Axelrod. The media hails Obama at all cost and his brand
name must be protected.

It is true that Fox News leans right, but they also present left views, whereas CNN Mark Tyler
presents the left view only. That is the secret of Fox's success, and CNN's failure. on March 08, 2010
at 03:43 PM
Obama isn't failing because of Fox News, they're simply willing to report it. Report this comment
Ron Paul and Libertarianism is the way! Long live Hans Hoppe!! MC Hammerabi
on March 08, 2010
at 03:43 PM
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Where I live in Missouri, there is a program to help people who can't get insurance Janet
on their own because of pre-existing conditions. The program is sponsored and on March 08, 2010
funded through the state. The rates are reasonable. And if you are disabled, your at 03:43 PM
healthcare (through Medicare) is taken care of. Very poor people have access to Report this comment
Medicaid. It's not a perfect system, but Obama makes it seem like millions are dying
for lack of good healthcare. That's just not true. The real truth is that he wants a
European, socialist-style democracy where the government has a great deal of
power over people's lives, including the power to ration care for people deemed less
valuable to society.

That's not America. President Obama is going to find out in the next election that
most Americans don't agree with his socialist vision of America.

Fox News spouts hate and rage 24 hours a day? Au contraire, they are the closest Not Chicken Little
thing to balance we have. The other media were and continue to be derelict in their on March 08, 2010
duty. The rest of the media are nothing but cheerleaders for Obama, and refuse to at 03:42 PM
report on and cannot see his faults or his socialist agenda (probably because when Report this comment
your lips are firmly planted on his backside it's difficult to see much of anything).

The media with the exception of Fox News did almost no true reporting of Obama's
lack of experience, his socialist/Marxist friends and influences, his shady deals with
the like of Tony Rezko, and his brand of corrupt Chicago politics prior to his election.
He has surrounded himself with unqualified and unprincipled people. Now that it
begins to unravel, it's likely to get quite nasty.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." This is all RufusVonDufus
Obama has left. He has proven himself to be unprepared to govern and above all on March 08, 2010
just not very intelligent about it. Socialism is the only way he can succeed and we, at 03:42 PM
U.S., do not see that happening. He will maintain his "tribal" voters as they see Report this comment
nothing but color anyway. He will lose all of the voters who do go to the polls every
election, though, and that will do him in. All of the touchy, feelly, goody two-shoes
affirmative action white votes he received in '08 will not occur in '12. Can't wait!

If Fox News puts out conservative news 24 hours a day, it's a poor match, volume- Palinurus
wise, for the many networks that put out only liberal news all day. The fact that more on March 08, 2010
people watch Fox than any other network goes to the fact that they are more at 03:42 PM
interesting to watch, provide a platform for liberals (even within a conservative Report this comment
framework) and they make no pretense about their general leanings (unlike the
other networks, which maintain (falsely) that they are "objective"). And they are the
only place conservatives can go for somewhat unbiased coverage.

The author's pondering why so many people watch Fox compared to CNN, et. Brent W.
sentence 1 of Para. 4. Well, he answers his own question in the next paragraph on March 08, 2010
when he notes the "astonishing suspension of cynicism" by the media in the Obama at 03:41 PM
Campaign. When Charlie Rose and Ted Brokaw can sit down a week before the Report this comment
election in Nov. 2008...after covering Obama for TWO YEARS..and say, "I have no
idea what he's going to do if (when) he wins." That summed it all up for me...Good
Bye CNN, NBC, et...and Hello Fox! When Big News quit reporting both sides of the
issues, people switched over to FOX to hear the one that was missing..and they
stayed. Yet, Dems and Libs act shocked at the right slant. Wake up...You CREATED
FOX and you destroyed any credibility the mainstream media had left when you lost
the avg. American viewer. Rather than labelling the public as easily mislead and
ignorant, take a good look at yourselves and ask the question, "Why does nobody
believe in listening to the news on my network?"

I thought Obama would be as bad as Jimmy Carter. He's worse! There's no Martin Gray
question he is a socialist and intends to upend the American system. Health Care on March 08, 2010
run by the Federal Government is just the first shot in this direction. Cap and Trade at 03:40 PM
and Immigration reform are just additional attempts to impose his marxist/statist Report this comment
ideology on a center right country. I guess there was a good reason the founders
gave us the second amendment.

The BBC is among the most statist-biased news program of them all but far more Dedicated Scholar
invidious than Fox; when they do go to opinion commentators it's two varieties of left on March 08, 2010
politics. I challenge you to find falsehoods in Fox's reports and unlike other networks at 03:40 PM
they welcome avid advocates on both sides. Instead of mocking their expose's for Report this comment
unreported left-wing abuses, you ought to praise them ... and learn from them. The
media have enough outlets, particularly the BBC, geared toward telling the vast
masses and the governments they elect what they want to hear.

Obama and Dems; tyredofkuhns


\ on March 08, 2010
Bend over, grab your ankles, pull your head between your legs and kiss your at 03:39 PM
arssess goodbye... Progressivism on the ash heap of history with socialism, Report this comment
communism...

The reason that Obama's agenda is failing is that central planning - top down MetaCynic
decision making at gunpoint - at any level is impossible to implement successfully. on March 08, 2010
An economy is like a complex ecological system in constant flux yet kept in balance at 03:39 PM
by the countless, ongoing, voluntary decisions and interactions of many millions of Report this comment
players, all forced to satisfy customers in order to keep their jobs and stay in
business.

For central planners, this is a challenge beyond the ability of even saints and
geniuses. For real world bureaucracies infested with psychopaths attracted to
power, central planning is the road to national ruin. America has been on that road
since at least 1929 and the edge of a cliff is rapidly approaching.

So, what needs to be done? The ham-fisted central planners and their stifling
bureaucratic monoculture must be banished from the land along with the hundreds
of thousands of pages of toxic laws, regulations and rules used to fertilize the
economy. Furthermore, nutrient sucking taxes must also be returned to the land.
Once these toxins and parasites are removed and the soil properly fertilized, our
social ecology will, on its own, thrive as never before.

Humm no mention of the fact the Barack Obama belonged to and was a member of Whiterock
the Party who controlled Congress since 2007. Track the decline of the US economy on March 08, 2010
and you will see it starts there. When Barack complains about the reckless at 03:38 PM
spending of the past, well he was one of the Controlling Party's members signing off Report this comment
on that spending. Barack needs to quite trying to take over 1/6th of the economy and
take a little ECON 101.

Simon Heffer reveals his mindset when he bashes FOX News for giving the people El gato
the truth! The liberals hate it that while they control the mainstream media, they can't on March 08, 2010
control Fox or the radio. Thank God for Hannity and Beck! To hell with liberals and at 03:38 PM
Democrats! Report this comment

"... those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the Sean
broadcast media." on March 08, 2010
As bad as overt media bias is, there is nothing worse than journalists who pretend at 03:38 PM
they have no bias and think that they can present the news without it. Nowhere is this Report this comment
more egregious than in the UK. The leftist ignorance and bias in this article is too
deliciously ironic. So much so this comment will never make it past the Telegraph
censors.

"a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media." Cynthia
on March 08, 2010
Right. The BBC is impartial. at 03:37 PM
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I am Jesse Holland and I am running for the United States Senate to replace Harry Jesse Holland
Reid. Although I can not run in every state, I am stepping forward and asking for the on March 08, 2010
support of people in the state of Nevada. Yes, there are big party politics and at 03:27 PM
millions of dollars flying from the pockets of big business and political organizations, Report this comment
however, wouldn’t it be nice to once again vote for and support the people rather
than failed corporations or such? I am from the people and for the people. You can
read all about the potential to revamp America at my websites,
HollandforSenate.com, Holland4Senate.com and VoteNonPartisan.com. The media
has been preoccupied with the parties and seem to snub their noses at anyone
NonPartisan?

For many years most hard working americans have been working and raising kids Joe Miscioscia
and not the kind of people who see themselves as victims. There is now a perfect on March 08, 2010
storm of things like Obama, Emanuel, axelrod, acorn, rev. wright, healthcare, at 03:27 PM
economy etc. that has awoken the sleeping giant Called your average americans. Report this comment
We are now on a roll and finally speaking up. Thsi administration is ruining our
country as we know it and we're angry...very angry. We are America, not a socialist,
progressive nut machine. We're done with the community organizer with now
enough business experience to run a car dealership let alone our once great country
of America. We hired a pathetic CEO and he and his team are about to be fired. Let's
get a grownup in the white house, not a college sophomore with a utopian
prgressive dream.

Re: Fox News. If "pouring out rage 24 hours a day" means not parroting White Dana Booth
House propaganda, I guess you're right. on March 08, 2010
at 03:26 PM
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As an American university professor who watches Fox News, I was shocked at its vickie ziegler
characterization in a newspaper as reputable as the Telegraph. While some shows on March 08, 2010
such as Glenn Beck are quite partisan, the newscasters are both liberal and at 03:26 PM
conservative and highly respected as journalists. MSNBC has more partisan Report this comment
programs from the left than Fox ever has had. The rest of the mainstream media
rarely reports on the gaffes and ethical lapses of the Obama administration. The
Democrat whom you quoted would do far better to look within his own party and the
White House for the source of the troubles about which he speaks.

Fox News is not the problem with TV journalism in America. It's the rest of the so- Tony G
called Main Stream Media. From the papers to television to the magazines, a on March 08, 2010
gigantic majority of journalists spoke glowingly of Obama. Never did they question at 03:26 PM
any of the nonsense that emanated from his mouth. Never did they delve into his Report this comment
background. Never did they examine his ideology. Never did they do anything but
drool and fawn over this man. They sold him to the American People as a smart and
capable MODERATE. Well that has been shown in the past year to be a LIE! Anger is
at an unbelievable level. Not because of Fox News, but because the American
People see that this clown is incompetant and a socialist. You must remember:
Americans at heart are somewhat Libertarian. They do not like the government
owning car companies,banks, or healthcare. They do not like the government telling
them what to do in their daily lives. They do not want all this deficit spending, and
they do not like to rely on the government for their survival. Here, in the States, things
like socialism, communism, and totalitarianism is anathema. Obama and his crew
emanate from a cabal of 60's radical jugheads that have slowly taken over the
Democrat Party to the tune of 100 members in the House out of 247. That's scary for
us. The economy is moribound here, yet the Politicians are spending like its never
been spent before. These things, and so many more, are infuriating the American
People. In the United States, the view is the government works for us, not the other
way around. So, this clown of a writer is trying to blame Fox News for upheaval?
Hardly! They are only reporting on the obvious. Something the blind politicians in
Washington D.C. are unable to see. But they will find out in the next election!

Comisar Obama is a communist. No matter how you paint it, he is what he is. The John Schaefer
American public are NOT communists. Hence the unpopularity of the Comisar. It is on March 08, 2010
really quite simple..... at 03:26 PM
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"The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those Charlie
of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast on March 08, 2010
media." at 03:26 PM
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"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."

Simon, do you understand the concept of irony?

I used to think that Congress was setting BHO up for the big fall. Now, I'm not so manlyva
sure. Since the Dems have been in control of Congress for a total of three years, it on March 08, 2010
seems evident that they are incapable of an original thought (the same could be at 03:25 PM
said for the GOP when they were in power). The thought that Fox News "pours out Report this comment
rage 24 hours a day" is not quite accurate. While they have a tendency to use
conjecture (based upon this administrations actions) and relative facts at hand, I find
that no other news outlet (be it CNN, PMSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc) offering any other
explaination. Painting those in this administration as "socialists" or "communists" is
easy when you have literally hundreds of hours of video on the folks that surround
BHO claiming they are either label. I really would like to see BHO be successful in
his one (or two) term(s). That is next to impossible with a "tax and spend" congress
who are hell bent on controlling every single dollar they can.

Again, I am in favor of term limits for congress (so that they can't spend 40 years in
control of this country), they have the same retirement plan that the American public
has, and the same medical plans that the American public has. This would ensure
some of these gargantuan plans wouldn't be taken so lightly. By the way, if you didn't
get that this is no longer about political parties, then you desire what the current
government deals out to you. This is about the American People and doing what is
right.

I was born in 1958 and for most of my life the MSM (print and TV) was almost JohnR22
exclusively Left-of-Center. Despite 30 years of propaganda, the MSM was not able to on March 08, 2010
change this country; it remains Center-Right. What Leftists just can't grasp is that at 03:25 PM
Fox hasn't created or influenced anything...they have huge viewership simply Report this comment
because they reflect the opinion of a majority of voters and the only place these
people can here their opinions reflected back at them is on Fox; all the rest (MSNBC,
NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS) are Left of Center.

Please solve the problems over there before commenting on problems, real or Jack Murphy
imagined, over here. Remember, were it not for us you would now be speaking on March 08, 2010
German. at 03:25 PM
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Obama's problem is not that more people watch Fox News than CNN. The problem Carol Mason
is that this is a centrist to right-of-center country which cannot be effectively governed on March 08, 2010
from the left. at 03:24 PM
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Fox News does have conservative commentators, some of which are more
ideological than others. They do not, however spew out hatred of Obama 24/7.

Many people apparently don't know the difference between newscasters, such as
Bret Baier and Shepard Smith, and commentators, such as Bill O'Reilly and Sean
Hannity. Newscasters simply deliver the news; commentators are paid to give
opinions. I also suspect that some of Fox's harshest critics have never even
WATCHED a Fox newscast.

I would challenge everyone who thinks Fox News is unfair to watch some of their
newscasts (Bret Baier, Shep Smith) with an open mind (now remember, I'm talking
about NEWS, not COMMENTARY). I doubt many critics can muster an open mind for
this.

This is what happens when reality slaps a pipe dream across the smirking face. Tex Taylor
on March 08, 2010
Obama is no more capable than despot from a third world banana republic. at 03:24 PM
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Take a look at Obama's own backyard of community activism - a cesspool of
humanity and corruption, with a murder rate rivaling something like Liberia...

The scariest thought in Obama's running mate is even more incompetent and inane.

Why do people criticise Obama, he is only the figure-head of the government. You Karen Webb
have to see it as a ship. The figurehead does not control the ship, its the person who on March 08, 2010
steers it and the engine. The control of America is in the hands of the people with the at 03:23 PM
money and the power. They are the ones who put the leaders of most countrys in Report this comment
power. But should they not do as they want, they end up like JFK. I bet if the economy
was in a good shape Obama would not have got in. Now in future you can see whats
going to be said. Yes we tried having a black president, one who spoke for the
people. But look at the years whilst he was in power. Obama in as the President
was done for a reason. and it wasnt for the ordinary person. You will not see another
black president for many years.

"Cities in the east such as Newark and Baltimore now have drug-dealing as their MM
principal commercial activity: The Wire is only just fictional." on March 08, 2010
at 03:23 PM
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boggling.

"The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those
of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast
media."

And papers such as The Guardian and the Telegraph almost shock those of us from
a country where a major newspaper wearing its bias on its sleeve makes anything it
writes uncredible.

What your typical anti-Fox news screed fails to note is that Fox's numbers pale in
comparison to the aggregate numbers of CNN, MSNBC, PBS, ABC, NBC and CBS,
all of which are at minimum well to the left of Fox.

And, by the way, I am not a fan of Fox in any way, shape or form, but the idiocy
surrounding criticisms of it are, for the most part, just that - idiocy. And with our
comparatively vast selection of news outlets (broadcast, print and other) available to
us in the United States, it is the height of arrogance to preach to us about "shocking"
journalistic practice from the confines of Britain, or Europe itself.

An excellent analysis with one glaring mistake: Rob De Witt


on March 08, 2010
The reason Fox News is watched by so many millions is that it provides a necessary at 03:22 PM
corrective to the unending rage-fest that has been the soi-disant "Mainstream Media" Report this comment
for decades.

The merest consideration of the relentless selling of Leftist propaganda in


television, newspapers and movies over the last 30 years at least has created a
profound disconnect with people who can read - and do.

I am in Aberdeen, Scotland right now, and have been watching the BBC. To say the DP
least, the BBC is slanted left. You ask the average Joe over here why he dislikes on March 08, 2010
Bush, and they cannot give you a detailed answer. Just recites the BBC mantra. at 03:21 PM
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Obama represents all that is wrong in America today. He is a self-centred, Laurence Shaw of
egotistical, vain and self-deluding clown. He did not defeat McCain, he defeted the Wiltshire
policies and actions of George W. Bush. McCain was merely a whipping boy. on March 08, 2010
at 03:21 PM
Obama is truly a one term president. America will take years to recover from his Report this comment
destructive policies.

Obama HAD the world by the tail. He had one of the greatest oppportunities and Carol
chose to dwell upon an issue that was not the primary concern of Americans. He on March 08, 2010
closed his eyes to American citizen and said, "This is what I want and you, the at 03:20 PM
average American, will learn to like it too." Because he is basically an elitist, he does Report this comment
not understand the mindset of the average American. We worry about debt left for our
grandchildren, we are proud of our country and hang our heads in shame when our
President demeans us in speeches to foreign government leaders. Obama doesn't
have a clue what Americans want or need because he concentrates on what he
wants history to say about him.

Mr. Obama's "fatal conceit", shared by statists the world over, is that he (or any Tom Amlie
elected politician or unelected bureaucrat) can allocate resources more effectively on March 08, 2010
than the market. There are 300 million people (give or take) in the US, each of whom at 03:19 PM
can make a decision on how to allocate his or her resources to maximise their own Report this comment
utility, based on their own preferences and based on their intimate knowledge of the
choices they face. Taking that decision making power out of the hands of those who
earn and consume the resources, and transferring it to some boob sitting in an
office thousands of miles away, is beyond absurd. That boob has no real incentive to
economize, isn't adversely affected when resources are misallocated, and is
probably motivated above all else by the desire to secure his personal political future
and steer wealth towards friends & family...and yet we're puzzled when the
government can't "fix" the economy.

The most useful thing Mr. Obama could do would be to suspend all future stimulus
payments, stop all transfer payments, shutter the White House and Capitol, and let
the market sort itself out. People would suffer, but probably no more than they are
now, and the suffering would certainly stop much sooner than it will under the
current program. We've spent trillions on the "War on Poverty", with the result that
there are more poor people, who comprise a greater percentage of the population,
than there were when that war was declared.

I never want to see a President fail, just their agenda when it's not a good one. FED Steve
MED is not good for America! What campaign promises has this President kept? on March 08, 2010
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As someone who voted all-Democratic in 2009, I'm so mad that they have not gotton John J
much done even with their majority votes that I'm going to vote Republican next time, on March 08, 2010
even if it's Palin for President and her Vice President nominee wrapped up in a white at 03:11 PM
sheet and pointy hat holding their guns. Report this comment

The comment by the "senior Democrat" is akin to asking CNN or MSNBC their jgalt
opinion of Fox News, or more on point, asking Chavez or Castro about the virtues of on March 08, 2010
communism versus capitalism. Without Fox, the news, like your BBC, is at 03:09 PM
unabashedly leftist and out of touch with the American public. Comrade Hussein is Report this comment
an indoctrinated marxist now recognized as a born and bred muslim without any
pretense of Christianity. Ask Israel as Hussein throws them under the bus of
genocide by the Iranians and their terrorist thugs, Hamas and Hezbollah. Hussein
and the marxist/progressives have done much to destroy America, but they will not
be happy until we are unalterably on the path set by Hussein's buddy, Chavez, or
better, Castro. In fact, if Obamacare fails, look for widespread violence by the left in
the mode of the German Socialist Party in the 20's and 30's. Same brutish thugs
now rule the Demoncrats as ran the Nazis.
Very amusing comments here. Paul Davies
I am no Socialist but my God, its hard to find any sympathy for the Republicans who on March 08, 2010
so quickly forget the damage that Bush has inflicted on the USA and seem to want at 03:08 PM
more of the same by pushing Palin a no hoper, no nothing lightweight if ever one Report this comment
existed. Get real USA. You get the president you deserve and as we should all know
- history will judge...

With a line taken from a Toyota commercial from many years ago let me remind ghost
those who voted for this fool... on March 08, 2010
You asked for it, you got it! Obama! at 03:08 PM
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Obama has only himself to blame for his failure. JungleCogs


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I live in rural Missouri, and I watch Fox most of the time - not because they spill Janet
"rage" 24 hours a day, but because you see stories on Fox that you will not see in the on March 08, 2010
"lame-stream" media. Yes, Fox commentators are conservative, but their news at 03:08 PM
programs are far more objective than the big American networks. At least they don't Report this comment
try to hide stories, like ABC, CBS and NBC do.

What do you think would have happened if John McCain had belonged to a church
that trashed America and railed against black people? The New York Obama Times
and CBS would have made it their business to make sure the entire world knew
about it. But they virtually ignored the Reverend Wright story until videos of the racist
Reverend were posted all over the Internet and they couldn't ignore the story
anymore.

Fox isn't growing in viewership because it blasts "rage." It's growing in viewership
because ordinary Americans like me don't trust the news outlets we grew up
watching, and Fox is all we have left.

If CBS did its job and covered the news, I wouldn't be paying $68 a month for cable
just for the privelege of watching Fox.

Lousy American journalism = big bucks for Fox News and its Australian owner,
Rupert Murdoch.

Benjamin Andrea
on March 08, 2010 on March 08, 2010
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Your friend did a good job explaining the American mindset when it comes to the
role of government. It is a mindset peculiar to Americans.

Many outside the US cannot fathom why we wouldn't want a health care system like
theirs and how we could deprive our citizens of such care. We've been judged too
ignorant to know what's best for us and downright selfish. These criticisms reflect an
ignorance of Americans.

We hold a different view of government, ex., that it has a limited role. This view has
served us well, for the most part.

Unfortunately, President Obama does not understand this mindset. He seems to


have been raised in a parallel universe, wherein the power to do good lies in his
hands versus the people's.

He is, in effect, getting a smackdown from the American taxpayer.

Barack Obama was a sophomoric fool before his election, and he is a sophomoric R. Allen
fool today as President. His arrogance is ruinous to his prospects as a leader. He on March 08, 2010
will continue to fail and will be ousted, and we Americans are paying a heavy price at 03:02 PM
for having errantly elected him. Report this comment

The author makes this puzzling statement: "The Fox network is a remarkable cultural
phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule
of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media." What, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS,
the AP, CNBC, the Times, the Post, the Chronicle are all right down the middle?
Puhleeez - they are all lefty.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that John Federico
22% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is on March 08, 2010
performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove at 03:01 PM
giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19 (see trends). Report this comment

Sorry, this article is so wrong. Fox was created as an alternative to the liberal media Debbie Smith
which had dominated the air waves and newspapers for decades. Fox is so popular on March 08, 2010
because it is real news and not an arm of the Democratic party. While the other at 03:01 PM
news stations continue to lose money, Fox only makes it. Yes, there are Report this comment
commentators, but the truth is there. We don't have a UK Telegraph in our country.

"Obama's big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many John Sullivan
people watch Fox News as watch CNN." This utterly disregards the fact that many on March 08, 2010
more people still get their news from the three sycophantic network broadcasters, at 03:01 PM
Comedy Central, or the major news dailies that are all cheerleading for the Report this comment
Democrats. The BBC neutral?? Please! This is merely a reflection of the fact that the
UK doesn't really have a First Amendment. How can the olitical class be expected to
enforce "neutrality." America is a center-right nation and President Obama is trying to
leade it in a Euro-style collectivist direction. It does not want to surrender the victories
of the American Revolution. Make no mistake. The current economic circumstances
(close to 17% real unemployment and disastrously workse in black communities)
and the utter ineffectiveness of his policies to do anything but shore up government
employee unions is intentional. He's been brought up since Frank Marshall to be a
collectivist. What we are witnessing is the Cloward-Piven Strategy to destroy us
finally worming its way into the WH.

Obama has far greater things to worry about than Fox News. Ned Schnittt
on March 08, 2010
Obama is the least qualified president in U.S. history and it shows. He's even at 03:01 PM
starting to make Carter seem competent by comparison--now that's historic! Report this comment

Curious that the author recognizes that "Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from Brian Chilton
an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an on March 08, 2010
astonishing suspension of cynicism," but then lays the finger of blame for Obama's at 03:01 PM
ineffectiveness on the lone US network that did not go along with that media herd Report this comment
during that campaign, i.e., FOX. The author's internally inconsistent assumptions
cannot all be true. FOX cannot be (1) all powerful; (2) unfairly, malevolently and
conservatively biased; but yet (3) unable to keep the most liberal President in US
history from being elected. Perhaps instead of making illogical arguments about the
dangers of conservative media bias from the US' lone conservative network, the
author might refocus that keen intellect of his on the other five US networks (CNN,
ABC, CBS, PBS & NBC/MSNBC) and their liberal bias that caused them to stop
acting like journalists during Obama's campaign. And as for the vaunted European
media's lack of bias in their reporting, just two words: Global Warming.

Why do the whining liberal always blame FOX news? They report and WE DECIDE. Andrew Wetzel
Blaming them for exposing the deceit and mis-management is like shooting the on March 08, 2010
messenger. at 03:00 PM
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I am 52 years old and have followed U.S. Presidential campaigns since 1968.
Obama lied more during his campaign than any other candidate. In fact, he is still
camapigning. It is time to LEAD! He told us he could govern this country yet all he
does, liked a spoiled brat, is focus on what he wants and damn what we want and
need. He has clearly proven that he is inept and totally incapable of leading. He
should go back to community organizing where his act seems to play well. You can't
fool all of the people all of the time.

As far as FOX news, rather than comparing their viewership to a poorly run and
failing CNN, why not compare FOX to the main stream (or better, lame stream)
media? Bernie Goldberg is right: they have a slobbering love affair with him but, as
this article points out, everyone is catching on to Barry and the rats are fleeing the
ship. The Obama Drama is over. I can only hope we get rid of this Chicago punk
before he does too much harm.

Mr. Heffer wrote: "The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which Mike S.
almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is on March 08, 2010
applied in the broadcast media." I don't know about Sky News in the UK but in at 03:00 PM
America, Fox news programs are impartial. Fox commentary shows do lean "right". Report this comment
Contrary to an outsiders view, all the American network "hard" news programs along
with CNN, MSNBC and the major newspaper all are very "left" but disguised as the
"center". By their own admission, 90% of news people are registered Democrats
and in 2010 America, that means socialists. Americans have finally awaken to the
charade of the mainstream media and have rejected them. Obama will fall and with
him the old media will fall. Listen closely, the fat lady is warming up.

Glenn Andrews
Is it possible that in line 7 the word should be on March 08, 2010
at 02:55 PM
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What about those of us who are outraged lifelong Democrats who have never American Nightmare
watched Fox News? on March 08, 2010
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Barack Obama has failed absolutely every mission he has attempted and has lived Report this comment
up to the worst nightmares of both the far right and the center left.

To think he ran on a platform of non-partisanship is now unbelievable.

The only remaining option is impeachment.

Geoffyank
Obama is the second anti-American president after Carter.When he said he wanted on March 08, 2010
to bring change the people didn't understand that he meant radical fundamental at 02:55 PM
change.The media failed to do their job. Report this comment

As someone from Detroit, I can tell you that I am not alone in my hatred of the use of Christopher W.
that stock photo. It's been overused as has much of the "ruin porn" that the lazy on March 08, 2010
media peddles as news. Detroits issues are real no doubt, but there are lots of at 02:55 PM
positive, creative things happening in the city as well. Though I suspect nuance Report this comment
doesn't make for a captivating story.

President Obama's approval ratings are primarily a reflection of the economy and Karl from Chicago
will likely recover as the economy recovers, just as President Reagan's did. When on March 08, 2010
President Obama took office, the employment data showed the following net jobs at 02:54 PM
added / (lost) in thousands: Report this comment
Dec-07 120
Jan-08 (72)
Feb-08 (144)
Mar-08 (122)
Apr-08 (160)
May-08 (137)
Jun-08 (161)
Jul-08 (128)
Aug-08 (175)
Sep-08 (321)
Oct-08 (380)
Nov-08 (597)
Dec-08 (681)
Jan-09 (741)
The economy had gone over the cliff and was spinning out of control, gaining
negative velocity. We were in the middle of six months with job losses exceeding
500,000 jobs per month. The TARP program in the fall of 2008 was the first attempt
to stop this slide. The Economic Recovery bill was the next attempt. We tried
housing credits and cash for clunkers. The bills that passed Congress were filled
with a mish mash of extended unemployment benefits, funding for infrastructure,
and pure pork. Anyone would admit they were less than perfect. So what happened?
Feb-09 (681)
Mar-09 (652)
Apr-09 (519)
May-09 (303)
Jun-09 (463)
Jul-09 (304)
Aug-09 (154)
Sep-09 (139)
Oct-09 (127)
Nov-09 64
Dec-09 (150)
Jan-10 (20)
Job losses started to decline. They have averaged less than 100,000 for the last
three months. We have had two consecutive quarters of positive economic growth. If
current trends continue the economy will shortly start adding jobs again.

Fortunately we will never know how deep a recession we could have had if we had
not had stimulus spending. Absent the TARP spending, the Economic Recovery Act
and the various other stimulus efforts there is no telling how many jobs would have
been lost. Even if we had continued to lose "only" 500,000 jobs per month for the last
year it would have been a lot. Thankfully first President Bush and then President
Obama took active steps to stop the slide.
The Republicans problem is that the stimulus appears to be working,
notwithstanding many pundits who have focused on the unemployment rate as
opposed to the underlying jobs numbers.

Because they voted against the Iraq surge in early 2007, some Democrats found
themselves in the position of appearing to be cheering US setbacks in Iraq.
Similarly, some Republicans now seem to be rooting for the economy to not recover-
-or at least not before the mid-term elections.

Senator Bunning went a step further last week, taking active steps to prevent the
economy from recovering quickly.

If the economy continues to recover, President Obama's approval ratings will go up--
and so will the approval ratings of both parties in Congress. If we get a double dip
recession, all bets are off for everyone's approval ratings, especially if the public
perceives the Republicans tried to prevent a recovery.

GANPAT - you have some twisted views mate - everybody loves Obama; he's a lovely Bill South Africa
fella. I also though a lot of Tony Blair even though I am one of those British on March 08, 2010
Conservatives that you seem not to fancy too much. I would even have bought a at 02:53 PM
used car from Tony Blair - don't think I would do the same from Gordon Brown - Report this comment
different kind of socialist that one! I don't think you can so easily dismiss the "special
relationship" between the US and GB - it ain't dead yet mate - not when you fight the
same wars it ain't! I don't seem to see too many from India and China in those
trenches! Of course we like to see India doing so well and the whole economic
World can hardly wait for China to ratchet up its economy again - both the US and
Britain will benefit greatly from that.

The root of the problem is his policy! mrp


on March 08, 2010
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Lots of good comments are here for you, Mr. Heffer. Please take note of some of Michael P. Sakowski
them, for many are well-articulated and lucid, and they yield an accurate perspective on March 08, 2010
of the growing American "common sense" activism that many of us hope will get our at 02:53 PM
country back on the right track. Report this comment

We will earn a better government by becoming more actively involved in it.

Hard-working Americans are tired of just shrugging, as they watch their hard-earned
dollars wasted by spendthrifts and loons. Accountability and personal responsibility
is making a come back. These are the American virtues we need, and people are
starting to demand them.

A few howlers in this analysis: Bruce B


on March 08, 2010
Dems continue to believe that if only Obama delivers a few more speeches at 02:53 PM
explaining his policies for the 453rd time then the rubes will buy it. Not gonna Report this comment
happen!

If Fox News was as powerful and influential as Dems seem to believe, then Obama
never would have been elected in the first place.

Dems simply cannot get their head around the fact that the American public does not
want Obama's ultra-Liberal and socialist policies.

Unless he radically changes course, Obama is on track to be even worse than


Jimmy Carter. Which knowledgeable people knew before he was even elected.

The mere idea that the BBC is "impartial" is a pathetic joke. The BBC parrots the Gee-Man
Labor Party line, as CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and 99% of the newspapers in on March 08, 2010
America parrot the Democrat Party line. at 02:53 PM
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FOX news gets 4x the viewership of the other stations because we Americans are
sick and damn tired of the pablum, lies, and left-wing propaganda being spewed by
the vast majority of "the media".

We don't have Government control of our news outlets in the USA...NO yet, anyway.
And we don't want it. We prefer the free market solution. Rather than bemoan that
fact, you may want to try it in Britain. Maybe you'd like having the opportunity to listen
to alternative voices rather than what the BBC deems "newsworthy".

All the leftwing libs and loonies in the USA hate FOX NEWS because they know what
it represenst - an absolute end to their control of what the public reads, hears, sees,
and thinks. All socialists feel the same way.
FOX NEWS and the free market strengthens democracy' Government control of the
airwaves weakens it.

The notion that Fox News is "Obama's big problem" is just plain silly. The big katherine
problem here in the U.S. is that 15 million people are unemployed and truly on March 08, 2010
suffering, and all Washington seems to care about is health care legislation (which I at 02:52 PM
believe is important) and mid-term elections. If the economy were going well and Report this comment
Obama presented a strong image of America, Fox News wouldn't be an issue. I
suppose strategists are paid, though, to "find" something to talk about as the
"problem." Just juxtapose these two things to get my idea: a woman recently
interviewed on Fox News said she has applied for 600 jobs in the last year (real
interview) or so and has not received one interview request
with the non-stop media coverage of the health care debate.

Hopefully the American people will finally wake up and quit falling for the sound bite Al J
engineered tear jerkers like the 'wearing my dead sister's teeth cause I'm poor and on March 08, 2010
need Obamacare' stories of the compassion Nazis that is designed to seperate at 02:52 PM
Americans from their liberty and money and drive their lives with reason and logic Report this comment
instead. When they do wake up to these values, and hopefully it's not too late, pass
them on to you kids.

Fox does not "spue" rage; rather, Fox News reflects the deep frustration, anger and Michael Minnix
disappointment of the American people with liberal schools, liberal politicians, on March 08, 2010
liberal mainline (so-called) media, etc. Those who rue the day of Drudge and Fox at 02:47 PM
don't realize that these media arose out of a vacuum. If you had done your job of Report this comment
honest reporting, rather than proping up those with your own liberal, socialistic
viewpoint, you would not be in the state of decline you are in today. You had better
get in touch with real, working, honest, tax-paying, church-going, Constitution-
supporing Americans, or those of you in teh liberal media will soon be the dinosaurs
of the media business.

Technical rule of impartiality? That has to be a joke! Orly Owl


on March 08, 2010
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I agree with Maine Republican, if you really want hate and rage watch MSNBC's Stacie
Rachel Maddow, Kieth Olberman or Ed Shultz. The latter actually encouraged voter on March 08, 2010
fraud in the Massachusetts special election to fill Sen. Kennedy's seat. at 02:47 PM
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Its fascinating how angry the left wing media is about the mere existence of Fox jojo
News. There is nothing impartial about any news media outlet, and this absurd, self- on March 08, 2010
congratulatory caricature they create about themselves being the impartial arbiters of at 02:47 PM
truth is in constant check by Fox. Not to mention that Fox destroys the other media Report this comment
sources; enjoy your fantasy land folks, but thankfully the US is still a center-right
nation. People don't want your utopian rubbish here.

Kim Serca, your comments are so factually inaccurate and pompous that I just had Richard Fontaine
to comment in rebuttal. First off the USA has 305 million citizens and no we are not on March 08, 2010
all brain dead as your comments seem to imply. Fox News has on it's most popular at 02:47 PM
single news hour 5.5 million viewers but since it is a 24/7 programming that number Report this comment
is multiplied by 24 with numerous other channels of competing news having at least
another 25 million viewers for their one hour of main news broadcasting. In addition
like Great Britain we also have this thing called the internet which many of us
benighted former colonials seem to find helpful in our need to keep up with what is
going on back at the center of the universe in London. It is arrogance like your
comments displayed that have made the BBC a bit of a joke out here in the real
world where news organizations have to actually compete for their funding and their
audiences. I would look to making sure what you are talking about in the future
before you so willingly display your own total ignorance of the subject at hand.

The gangsters of Chicago's Roaring 20's never left, they just went to ZikZak
Washington...There is a reason why Fox news has a bigger audience than the other on March 08, 2010
three cable news networks combined; The public is tired of being spoon-fed the at 02:47 PM
half-truths and liberal cover stories the leftist media feed us. Watching other news Report this comment
organizations is one of the favorite drinking party games in a college dorm. We take
the "Catch-phrase" of the day as fed to the "News" organizations by the Dems, and
toss back one every time it gets thrown out over the tube. If the news anchors only
knew how hard we laugh at them...

The left tired approach to attacking Fox is like saying your football opponent is Joy Blowhard
terrible when you are getting beat 73-0. They think that they like all progressives are on March 08, 2010
mentally superior and that if they say Fox sucks enough times we will think the at 02:47 PM
same. Wrong. The usual media is a shill for the left and now Bush is gone to blame Report this comment
everything on so they are exposed for what they are,standard bearers for the double
standard,like Charles Rangel etc.Matt Lauer et. al. can't see beyond their sel-erected
ivory tower

If Fox News is so omnipotent and so relentless in its bias against Obama, how did Doug
the guy get elected a mere sixteen months ago? What a joke. And the "unbiased" on March 08, 2010
British media tradition? BBC? Come on! at 02:47 PM
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Obama's failure was not doing more to fight Pelosi's appointment as speaker. She Phil
represents a small district that is far far left of the average American. Her seat is and on March 08, 2010
always will be secure while the moderate democrats will take a beating in the next at 02:46 PM
election. Just as under Clinton, the only the most liberal democrats will be left and Report this comment
moderate democrats have been betrayed by their party once again.

This comment highlights the problem for Obama: "Obama's big problem," a senior greg
Democrat told me, "is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch on March 08, 2010
CNN." at 02:41 PM
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It shows they just don't get it...the problem is not the way their message is being
presented by Fox...the problem is we don't like the root of the message! As long as
they keep blaming Fox, they will continue to distance themselves from America.

I would like to point out that the Obama administration is losing not because of Fox Richard Fontaine
News as your writer seems to imply but rather because the shear audacity of the on March 08, 2010
Obama socialist power grab has finally woken up the basically center right American at 02:40 PM
population of just how vile and subversive the Progressive movement is. Report this comment

The American Progressives are really small letter communists who traffic in the
guise of "socialism" because they want to take over the reigns of power and
implement their fascist agenda without alienating the more naive of their followers.

Unfortunately for them, the Obama administration is so inept they forgot to keep their
true nature cloaked from the public until AFTER they had wrested complete control of
the economy.

They are about to find out that the US Constitution unlike the unwritten British one is
a real document and we intend to use it to route out every last marxist traitor. You
might want to take a look at just why our founding fathers both wrote our individual
liberties down and particularly why we have a second amendment to the Bill of
Rights.

Good luck Great Britain with your own problem with the Marxist masses.

So FOX news is the problem? I don't think so. FOX news was unable to save Kelly
President Bush. on March 08, 2010
at 02:40 PM
Look, I did not vote for Obama, I didn't think he was ready for such a big job and Report this comment
sadly I was right. He needs to be honest and tell the American people that the
Government does NOT create jobs.

I know many of you do not understand how America works, but it is the States
responsibility to create health care...or not. It is not the federal governments
responsiblity if you follow the consititution, a document democrats would just as
soon forget. In the abstract, polls may show that the American people think everyone
should have healthcare insurance(we all have access to healthcare contrary to
popular belief), but when it comes down to it most Americans don't want to pay for
healthcare on the federal level. I think that is a big part of why Obama has slipped so
badly in the polls. Plus his outright lying. Are we really to believe that insuring 30
million people will bring down healthcare? Only in liberal fantasy land I suppose. We
have plenty of healthcare programs that could be expanded without a complete
federal take over of our healthcare system. There are other fixes that could be put
into place to bring down the cost of healthcare, but the democrats don't trust the
market, they only trust the government. The American people no longer trust either.

2 million people watch the highest-rated Fox program. Approximately 30 million Fabio Escobar
watch the nightly news on the three traditional networks. on March 08, 2010
at 02:40 PM
This "Senior Democrat" has no leg to stand on when he or she claims that the Report this comment
President's "big problem" is that so many more people watch Fox. Cable news is
only an important phenomenon to those few diehard political junkies in the nation.
The rest of the country is way too busy or depressed to watch 24/7 commentary.
Simon Heifer, you are a good one to talk about impartiality in the media. The BBC Clay
has always been in the tank for the Labour Party. The only problem with Fox is they on March 08, 2010
on occasion publish the truth--that's why our failed president will will only serve one at 02:40 PM
term. Sadly, Jimmy Carter was not this bad. Report this comment

I thought you were headed down the right path with this article then you veered into Sam Vaughn
nonsense. The part you don't get is that Fox News doesn't tell people what to think it on March 08, 2010
mirror's what people already think. You must have just as much disrespect for your at 02:40 PM
UK readers as you do for American. Report this comment

Correction: Fox News viewership is about equal to all others combined. Norm
on March 08, 2010
Glen Beck on Fox did a show on Sunday that covered a convention of groups to at 02:40 PM
support Education in American. Unions, teachers and more importantly 17 Report this comment
Communist and Socialist organizations who ran and operated the get-to-gether. He
showed and endless list of these organizations. He showed their Posters and
Literature!

Liberals will call this "Hate" and a distortion of the truth!

All he did is show these people for who they actually are!

Fox news is Fair and Balanced! They show Facts and let you make up your own
mind!

That's what Liberals hate! They are the "Hate Party"!

Fox News points out what is the truth and backs it up with research and facts. I lukuj
notice that the "senior official" did NOT say that the allegations are false. Also, Fox on March 08, 2010
welcomes the Dems to come and defend themselves and refute what they say, at 02:39 PM
more than the liberal media ever does. Conservatives who go on liberal shows are Report this comment
mocked and denigrated.

As an American very interesting to read this discussion in the UK. Joseph T


on March 08, 2010
A note about Detroit. Yes, it has been in decline for decades. The rest of the story is at 02:35 PM
that they have simply been ahead of Obama for decades. If you want to see where Report this comment
Obama's policies would take the rest of the country, simply look at Detroit. Massive
taxes, completely controlled by Unions (read, no incentive to work, high wages, no
touch with reality), etc.

In America, Michigan (run much as Detroit is) is referred to as the 'Peoples Republic
of Michigan' for their extreme leftist views and policies.

I find it interesting that the portions of America hit hardest over the past few decades
are those that have most fully embraced the gospel of the socialist left. Causation?

Obama hates America. He hates Americans. His plan is to destroy America, and Roxanna
he's well on his way. on March 08, 2010
at 02:34 PM
If he lets us have elections in 2010, hopefully a Republican resurgence will end his Report this comment
hopes.

Waterloo! Some of us pray that this nightmare may be over soon. Only three more BlueSpringsMo
years! on March 08, 2010
at 02:33 PM
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This is generally correct, but the key fact of Obama is missing, and I guess one must james
be American to fully appreciate it. The reason Obama seems to be incapable of on March 08, 2010
"fixing" what's wrong with our country is because he believes that what is wrong with at 02:33 PM
America is America itself. We have never hade a president like that (possible Report this comment
exception of Wilson) and many people have had trouble coming to terms with it. But
we're getting there.

The resistance to this bill is precisely that. We are not an enraged, Fox propaganda Ellen
driven mob who want dead bodies in the street in the name of free market capitalist on March 08, 2010
HC. at 02:32 PM
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WE WANT A BILL THAT DOES AS MUCH TO CONTROL COST AS IT DOES CHOICE.

We want the whole of congress to sit down together and craft incremental steps that
address specific problem areas of HC, steps that can be accomplished without a
gov't take over.

We want DIALOGUE. We want OPEN DEBATE. We want transparency, not two guys
in a closet rewriting our entire HC system as a gov't entitlement program.

Pass or fail, the bill is dead. If not now, then later when it is repealed or when the
states win Constitutional challenges to it's illegal mandates in federal court.

We are NOT socialist. We do not want a socialist takeover of 1/6 of our national
economy under the guise of HC reform.

Sooner or later this ponzi scheme will die and America will return to common sense,
free market solutions to HC.

Bet on it.

The overriding problem Obama faces is that he does not understand the American edinGA
people. He was raised in Indonesia and then tutored for most of his adolescent and on March 08, 2010
teen years by a communist, the "Frank", a leader in the Communist Party of the US, at 02:31 PM
to which he refers in his book. Mr Obama never identified with the exceptionalism of Report this comment
the United States, our heritage, nor our values. Therefore, he's at a loss to
understand. the level of rage among the citizens that he now wants to impose on us
a socialist medical system. And where are the real Americans in the democrat
party? They've sold us out for allegiance to the party line regardless of
consequences for the country. Mr Obama's ill-placed egocentrism doesn't help
matters. The only hope for our survival is the total rout of the democrats from office,
at least this current crop. We need to start over with people that understand us,
share our heritage and our values. November can't come quickly enough!

The BBC operates under rules of strict impartiality? Who knew? Course, in the US, Kennedy Smith
most of our news is not state-funded, which makes it a bit freer. If only our on March 08, 2010
newspapers were as free as the British press, they wouldn't be dying off. at 02:26 PM
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Once again someone is coming to the conclusion that Liberal politicians in America Victor
are having trouble because they simply cannot get their message across. Here the on March 08, 2010
culprit is FoxNews. Four times as many people are getting their perspective from Fox at 02:25 PM
News. That is because four times as many people CHOOSE to watch Fox News. If Report this comment
Fox News' coverage leans to the right, then that also means four times as many
people also lean to the right politically in the USA. Barack Obama is governing from
the left. That is why he is in trouble. The American people are neither stupid nor
confused. They know what he wants to do and they do not like it - end of story.

This is an opinion piece. beedogs


on March 08, 2010
What is it doing in the "news" section? at 02:25 PM
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Kim Serca is right about the number of news viewers in Usa,anyway Fox News is far Pieretto
better than BBC and other "independent" media in Europe. on March 08, 2010
As for America's troubles the causes mainly depend on some decline of American at 02:19 PM
values,political correctness gone too far and the quick change of its ethnic makeup. Report this comment
It goes without saying that at present population projections don't look bright.

Obama is an excellent President. Ganpat Ram


on March 08, 2010
The very fact that conservative Brits loathe him is enough to indicate how good he is. at 02:19 PM
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His lack of inetest in Britain is very sensible. In the new world order it is China and
India that matter, not Britain.

Mr. Heffer, along with many critics of Fox News, appears not to have spent very much Maine Republican
time watching that channel. Rather he must have gleaned his opinion from lefty on March 08, 2010
media and the Obama administration which have done their best to demonize Fox. at 02:18 PM
Perhaps Mr. Heffer is not aware that every other network (as well as most print Report this comment
media) leans decidedly left. Perhaps this is how he defines impartiality. I'm
surprised he hasn't trotted out that oh-s o-clever apellation "Faux News".

Until the arrival of Fox News, there was no balance at all in TV news coverage, let
alone impartiality. Has Mr. Heffer heard the hate-filled rants of MSNBC's Chris
Matthews (the gent who felt a tingle up his leg when he watched Obama), Keith
Olbermann, et al. Has he noticed that MSNBC broadcasts 24 hours of vituperative
hate against anyone who has the temerity to disagree with Mr. Obama's policies. My
goodness, I thought their heads would explode during the Bush administration. Mr.
Anderson Cooper of CNN with a smirk and a self-satisfied snigger dismissed Tea
Partiers as "tea baggers". (impartial or hateful?) Following suit, Messrs. Obama and
Clinton used this crass and low rent epithet to describe American citizens who
opposed Obama's policies--especially classy coming from Clinton who had quite
the way with a cigar.

Mr. Obama and his cronies in the media seem to have a problem with the First
Amendment. Fox News still has every right to air their opinions. The First
Amendment guarantees free expression of opinion to all, not just extreme lefty
kooks.

I don't really know what else anyone expected of Obama's first term; I think he's the Rubicon
most refreshing thing to happen to world politics in recent years and marks an on March 08, 2010
enourmous social change in America's history. That said though - if you put at 02:15 PM
someone on a pedestal and slather them with Jesus reborn euphemisms then Report this comment
there's only one way a person can go! Like most of the previous commentors have
already pointed out, the issues like unemployment and Detroit were already in play
and he's not magical despite popular preconceptions! If you idolise someone and
then sit back to document them unsurprisingly not living up to the hype then you're
not going to be short of material - lets see a more realistic commentary please.

Why do the whining liberals always blame FOX news for Obama's (and their) Andrew Wetzel
failings? Kind of like shooting the messenger. I am 52 and assert that he lied more on March 08, 2010
than any presidential candidate I ever remember and he is completely focused on at 02:15 PM
his progressive agenda NOT the country he claimed he could govern. To deflect Report this comment
criticism, he and his henchmen compare the viewership of FOX with that of CNN and
claim foul. That is quite humorous: why not compare FOX viewership to the entire
mainstream media that, as Bernie Goldberg believes, has a slobbering love affair
with him? That would shut them up. The fact is that now that he is president we can
really see how pathetically inept this community origanizer is. You can't fool all of the
people all of the time Barry!

I love Fox News. Peter Ramsey


I also watch CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) for "balance" and am on March 08, 2010
constantly struck by it's liberal bias. at 02:07 PM
My favorite newspaper is the Telegraph. I have a degree in Political Science, and Report this comment
was once a Marxist. Experience taught me that the LEFT are more fascist than the
right.

Health care "reform" is rubbish. Liberals here continually point to the UK and Brian
Canada as bastions of effective, efficient health care. on March 08, 2010
at 02:06 PM
Even if that were true, what do we have that Canada and the UK don't have? Report this comment

A legal lottery system that made lying shysters like John Edwards hundreds of
millions of dollars.

Yet the Democrats won't even consider tort reform. Completely irresponsible.

The media failed miserably to probe the feasibility of then-candidate Obama's many Andrea
promises. on March 08, 2010
at 02:06 PM
How, exactly, was he going to stop pork spending? How, exactly, was he going to get Report this comment
Republicans and Democrats to work together in a very divisive political
environment?

Reporters didn't think to ask.

As for FoxNews, it was created as a result of the media's own left-leaning bias and
news gatekeeping. It has itself to thank for FoxNews.

Fox news has become the most popular new channel simply because they are Rich Vail
presently, the only news source that even pretends to be "fair and balanced." Their on March 08, 2010
straight news reporting is actually very, very good. It's the commentary shows in the at 02:01 PM
afternoon (Glenn Beck-who in my opinion is a 'entertainer' not a genuine source of Report this comment
news) and in the evening after 8 pm (EST).

The straight news reporting is by far the best in the country. I stopped watching CNN
during the 2004 US Presidential campaign and only watched MSNBC a few times as
it's commentary shows are as far left, as Fox News is purported to be far right. The
broacast news (ABC, CBS, NBC) I've not watched since the mid '90s as they are far
left in their bias as well.

Fox isn't perfect, but it's better than the competition, which is what America is all
about. Let the market rule...if your business model is good, and you produce a
superior product, then you'll prosper...if not, you fail as MSNBC is doing spectacularly
now. After all, where is the Air America, the left-leaning counter to AM radio...it's in the
dust bin of history.

Mr. Obama did in fact inherit many problems. On the whole, his administration has
made them worse...in some cases much worse. Eventually, he will have to take
responsibility for HIS mistakes and stop blaming his predecessor at every turn.

I voted not so much against him, but I chose what I saw as the lesser of two
evils...voting for a full out socialist, or for a "lite" socialist (McCain-GOP) because the
Republican party has failed to remain true to it's precepts of small more efficient (it's
not a complete contradiction) government that wastes less money than an intrussive
bureaucracy can and does.

Rich Vail,
Pikesville, Maryland, USA

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