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Fox News Claims The Media Is Conspiring To Reelect Barack Obama
Since they no longer have Glenn Beck to fill the role of chief anti-Obama propagandist, Fox News has tapped Sarah Palin to claim that the media is boosting Obama’s popularity.
Here’s the video from Media Matters:
When asked about Obama’s approval ratings, Palin said, “Because the media is relaying these numbers that I don’t believe are accurate when it comes to job creation. I still think that this is a jobless recovery that is affecting America right now. Yes, it’s 8.3% of unemployment rate, which is an improvement from a year ago, but it’s still a lot worse than when Barack Obama took over. That number though reflects many many millions of Americans who are underemployed, or just really even muster the gumption the enthusiasm to get out there and look for a job. So that 8.3% unemployment number is an indicator to President Obama and his allies in the media to make it look like things are getting better. But look at the price of gas, look at the price of a barrel of oil, look at the manipulation of our domestic oil supply, via our president’s actions to lock things up, and you start getting a clearer and truer indicator of how our economy is going.”
Palin’s Fox News backed claim that there is a liberal media conspiracy to reelect Obama doesn’t match reality. In October 2011, a Pew Research study of 2012 election coverage found that only 9% of the Obama stories in the mainstream media were positive. In contrast 31% of the media stories about Palin herself were positive, and 22% were negative. Obama also received the most negative coverage (34%) from the media. Then there is the fact that Republicans outnumber Democrats on the Sunday morning news programs 6 to 1, and Palin’s wacky pro-Obama media conspiracy completely falls apart.
The media has been overtly anti-Obama for the exact opposite reason that Palin and Fox suggested. The mainstream media wants a close election. They have a financial interest in the 2012 election being good television. If they have to knock Obama’s popularity down in order to accomplish their goal that is fine with them. The media doesn’t care about partisanship. It is all about money, and the corporate owned media has decided to follow the Fox News model and pander to the right for cash.
Obama’s rising approval numbers have nothing to do with positive media coverage. President Obama is more popular because the economy really is getting better. Fox News and Sarah Palin managed to ignore a pile of good economic data released today, and continued to argue that this is really a jobless recovery.
With their dreams of sabotaging the economy in order to defeat President Obama evaporating by the day, Fox News has been reduced to trotting out the paranoid queen of anti-Obama hate to ease their viewers into their collective psychotic break with what little shred of reality they have left after Obama wins a second term.
It is time to go back into the Obama hate bubble, and cognitive dissonance noise machine known as Fox News along with Obama hate flight attendant Sarah Palin is ready to help the right escape reality for another four years.
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13 Responses to Fox News Claims The Media Is Conspiring To Reelect Barack Obama
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dz
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
The funniest part is hearing them say this with a straight face as THEIR very own right wing media is busy trying to elect THEIR candidate(s).
I’d be happy to see Palin jump in again, would allow more people to revisit all those pesky questions about her ‘qualifications’, her much overstated record in any elected office she cadged and associated ethics violation charges as part-time guv. And maybe just once she would be asked to clarify and prove her slanderous remarks about our sitting President.
As Ms anti-crony capitalism attempts to ‘explain’ her support for one of the most cronyist in Gingrich she will undoubtedly try to hitch her star to pope aspiring Santorum He, of course, would have to cut her off at the pass when she and her assorted family members fail to qualify on his religious and sexual purity test. Oh my, what’s a failed reality star to do??
merl
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 3:40 pm
Exactly what I was thinking. Or is Fox not media?
Carrie
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
They are victims on one hand and on the other they brag about how fox is the popular network lol. If they had a brain it would hurt.
kimbutgar
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Ever since I heard the Nielsen ratings are owned by the Murdoch empire I am very suspicious now of Fox’s so called number #1 ratings. They also compile the information in Europe not the US so obviously the fix is in. Things are closing in on the Murdoch empire with this hacking scandal. I just can’t wait for them to be taken down.
Churchlady320
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
This would be funny if it weren’t not funny. The RW is not happy unless its members are “victims” of something AWFUL. “The fix is in! We’re deprived of our freedom! We’re being silenced! Concentration camps for Christians!”
It’s all the same as Y2K, the Clinton years, and back to the Birchers. They keep waiting for oppression, and when it doesn’t come, they double down on the rhetoric. ‘Twas always thus.
Sigh.
Sally
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
If Sarah said it, it’s a lie. True in 2008, even truer now. And most of America knows that and ignores her snarky statements. She is so jealous of the President and his family it seeps out every pore.
Reynardine
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Well, for one thing, the President appears to have a happy, respectable family, and all the kids appear to be his and Michelle’s. The Palins, on the other hand…
Shiva (Moderator)
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Actually Palin, the day Obama took over the Unemployment rate was 8.6% and climbing. But then again no one expects you to tell the truth
This must be why Fox is telling people they are moving center, so they can blame everyone else for what they have done for years
Spoiled Yapping Dog
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
The reason that the CSA/GOP is going down in flames is that they wish to excerpt control over anybody possessing a vagina. That and the fact that all of their candidates are certifiably batshit insane.
1voice1vote
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
“Fox News Claims The Media Is Conspiring To Reelect Barack Obama”
Well, their viewers believe Fox is news too, so my concern is for Murdoch & Ailes.
Should I send Rupert & Roger perfectly starched and monogramed handkerchiefs
A. To dab their big boy unfairness tears
B. To mop their sweating lawyered-up brows
C. A and B.
DannyEastVillage
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
watta fuckin’ joke. that’s like blaming gay people for the collapse of marriage evidenced by the 50% divorce rate.
Tom
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
The gays really need to stop making republicans cheat on their wives and ruin their marriage. /s
Mark
Feb. 16th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
I can certainly believe it. After all, Fox News HAS to be working on getting the President re-elected!!