VOTE UP If you want President Obama to make FOX NEWS irrelevant by ignoring them like you would an annoying, tantrum-filled kid.
huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/08/fox-news-cut-ou...Posted Nov 10, 2008, 2:57 AM UTC
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Downvoted for karma whoring.
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ok, where is the "vote up if FUCK YOU" post?
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I was going to post that so fuck you!
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I don't think that is a good thing in the long run. I don't want Obama to surround himself with an echo chamber like Bush did. I don't have any allusions about Fox having the integrity to actually keep Obama honest, instead of just trying to "gotcha" him, but I think it is important for people to at least stay in touch with views which they disagree with.
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If he did that, he would just be using the exact same tactic Bush used over the past 8 years. I really think Obama wants to be a unifier - he's not just going to be a champion of the left.
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you didn't just drink the kool-aid, you had a berry red enema, didn't you?
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He won't ignore FOX news. From what I heard, FOX had a seat on his campaign plane. He didn't do many interviews on their show because they were very hostile to him, but he didn't ignore them.
FOX is going to be his biggest criticizers and they're the news source of the people he'll need to reach to bring the country together. I think he'll be treating FOX news with kids gloves.
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Gawd, you are so smart!
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No, the government needs to stop controlling so much of what we see and hear. I want facts!
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How quickly you forget that this type of isolationism is exactly why our standing on the international stage is currently in the shitter.
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Dissent is the work of the devil! Keep downvoting me and see where this ends up.
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Hey, nice karma-whore trick.
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To be honest, I was pretty disappointed to hear that Fox was not offered seats on the Obama plane in the final days of the campaign.
It's time to engage, now that the people who falsify everything will no longer be in power.
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Great, so the OP thinks the government should be involved in making or breaking a news outlet.
Bravo!
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Fox News is a threat to national security and should be treated as such.
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I just want to see President Obama and Bill Oreilly together.
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Some clever rich people could sell Newscorp shares until it hits rock bottom, buy the shares back and take control of the board. Oh, and then make it a ritual of monthly board meetings to have Murdoch eat a dog shit sandwich on live TV while being interviewed by Shawn Hannity and Bill O'Riely in a random public square naked--all of them.
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Bad subject.
Please correct to:
Fox news are m..rs. I'm karma whore. Please vote.
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That will last about, oh, 5 minutes on Reddit.
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Nope.
FOX News should be treated with respect and engaged as a legitimate news outlet, even if some think it it is not deserving of such treatment.
You're never going to change minds if you don't talk to people. That's the Obama playbook to this point, and it should stay that way.
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Yes, but make sure fox always gets leads a few hours after everyone else.
Why does any of this justify treating a powerful cable channel as an adversary? How would that be helpful?
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I'd say you hit the nail on the head, and as they grow older and have the same tantrums you move to ignoring them as a means of man management/. My wife has been in Childcare for 32 years and it rubs off.
The thing is, it's not the attention of Obama that FOX wants, it's the attention of its viewers. The advertisers don't spend money based on how much time they spend talking about Obama, they pay on how many people tune into their show. The ones still watching FOX news believe that FOX is fair and balanced, and those viewers would be outraged that Obama is ignoring the "only fair & balanced" news source, and they'll continue watching it, and FOX will continue attacking Obama and criticizing the blackout, and not suffer any consequence.
When being an irrational pseudo-intellectual, you use irrelevant metaphors from an unrelated academic discipline to justify your stupidity.
Perhaps Obama should thank Fox News for making it possible for him to win the election. That should be enough to drive off some of their more rabid viewers -- the ones who've always complained about the 'liberal' media.
brown muslim dudes did 9-11, therefore all muslims did 9-11 = muslims are terrorists = all muslims are terrorists. Obama is brown and has a muslim like name therefore Obma = muslim terrorist. FOX4EVA!!!
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