Friday, May 30, 2008
Murdoch predicts McCain will lose
Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News and other right-wing media outlets said he thinks McCain will lose in a landslide. Anyone who has watched the documentary 'Out Foxed' should know how right-wing and propagandist Fox News is, and for the owner to say he knows the Republican candidate will lose in a landslide says a lot about McCain's campaign and chances in the fall.
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A change is coming... Thank god.
I don't agree with the claim that Fox is propagandist, or that their shows are more biased than Keith Olberman or some other shows on the other channels. I like diversity in TV shows and I consider fox a welcome part of that. The video "out foxed" might have some biases of its own to take into account.
I do completely agree with Murdoch. Polls right now of Obama vs. McSuck have a lot of Clintonists who are either refusing to answer the poll, or saying they'll vote McSenile. After Lying Slick Hillie endorses the Obomber of Pakistan, the Clintonist Militia will gradually switch over to the fan base of overhyped mediocre Obama. If she's the VP, which I think is good for the democrats, that'll help him even more. Then polls will show a clear Obama lead. It's rare for any party to get more than 8 straight years of anything, and public opinion polls and other statistics on a lot of stuff have shifted to that Democrats party since 2006. I think if I were a really active Republican with a stake in the party, I might actually prefer to lose this election. Because, if you win then you're stuck with and responsible for McSuck and his tendency to tell more McLies than I'm comfortable with, even for a politician, and I'm extremely cynical about politicians. McSuck's continued unpopularity among a lot of Republicans is not because he's too moderate or too independent, there's a lot of other reasons for it and I'm starting to think he's bad for that party even if he did win. The Democrats had the white house and congress from 1993-1995, and it ended up helping the GOP. Gave them a chance to re-adjust re-strategize. The conservative I'm most inclined to support is at this point is 'wasted vote' third party guy Bob Barr, who I hope reflects the direction GOP takes after this year, part of that being smaller government budget.
I agree with your claim that Keith Olberman is indeed biased. However, his show represents one hour of cable news punditry. The Fox News Channel runs conservative-skewed news programs every hour of every day. And their claim to be "fair and balanced" is the cherry on top.
I don't have a TV so I only see youtube clips of these shows. I distinctly recall seeing an annoying pest named Alan Colmes who I considered a bit slanted to the left.
There's other biased shows. Hardball with Chris Matthews. Bill Moyers. Dan Rather himself. I could make a longer list but Olbermann is far from the only one. If fox is getting denounced for biased shows you'd have to denounce a lot of other programming too. Better to just accept fox news as legitimate television along with olbermann, moyers, matthews and all the rest of them, despite biases.
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