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Obama’s Reelection is Literally Destroying Fox News
President Obama’s reelection has had a devastating impact on Fox News. Ratings are down, viewer trust is at an all time low, and now the network is caught in the middle of a Republican civil war.
Republicans and right wing media have become fond of claiming that President Obama is out to destroy the Republican Party, but no other media organization has suffered greater damage from the president’s reelection than Fox News. But it wasn’t Obama that wounded Fox; rather, it was a series of absurdly poor decisions that left the network reeling.
As the Republican Party’s demographic base has shrunk, Fox News has followed. The recent news that FNC (Fox News Channel) registered their lowest ratings with the 25-54 demographic in 12 years is not a surprise. During Obama’s first term, Roger Ailes and company have geared their programming towards the newly radicalized base of the Republican Party. They ran wild with anti-Obama rhetoric and conspiracy theories. The daily Fox News message that the country really didn’t like Obama was one of the main reasons that the Republican Party went into the 2012 election thinking that they could nominate anybody and win. While Fox embraced the quest to make Obama a one term president with gusto, the rest of the country still liked Obama. Fox News alienated everyone who wasn’t a hard core conservative with their extremism. As a result, many moderate people stopped watching Fox.
However, the biggest problem for Fox News is that they were wrong. FNC was so blinded by their partisan mission that they got the 2012 election completely wrong. They were wrong about Obama’s vulnerability, wrong about Romney’s victory, wrong about who would show up to vote, wrong about Republicans retaking the Senate, and most importantly, they were completely wrong about the direction of the country. The success of Obama’s tax message, the popularity of ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and his action on immigration were a clear signal that the country was moving left. Instead of injecting a bit of reality into their coverage, Fox News kept trotting out people like Sarah Palin and Dick Morris to tout the inevitability of Romney’s victory. Viewers reacted to Fox’s propaganda-over-facts attitude by giving the network their lowest trust ratings ever. Except for the political right, viewers don’t trust Fox.
The third wheel to fall off the Fox News juggernaut is the now out in theopen civil war between the Republican Party establishment and the tea party. Fox News employs both Karl Rove, the leader of the establishment push back, and several tea party darlings, like Mike Huckabee. Fox News was a big factor in the promotion of the right wing billionaire-backed AstroTurf movement known as the tea party in 2009 and 2010, but over the past year, they have been trying to distance themselves from the monster that they helped create. President Obama’s landslide reelection turned what was stealth conflict inside the Republican Party into full on public warfare. Fox News is going to be forced to alienate a portion of their audience by picking a side. So far, the network has tried to straddle the middle publicly, but the firing of Sarah Palin made it clear that Murdoch and Ailes are siding with the party establishment.
All of these problems at Fox News were caused by Obama’s reelection. If Romney had beaten Obama, Fox News would have been correct about the election. They would have had a Republican president to sell, and the warfare between the establishment and the tea party would have retreated underground.
Firing Sarah Palin and Dick Morris won’t be enough to fix what is wrong with Fox News. Like the Republican Party, Fox execs think that adopting a more moderate tone will bring the viewers back. It won’t. Having a conservative slant is not the same thing as partisan political activity. Cosmetic changes can’t hide the fact that viewers are rejecting both the ideology and the tone of the network.
Fox News will continue to lead in total viewership until either CNN gets their act together or MSNBC is available in more homes, but their viewership edge, which is built on monopoly of conservative news viewers, is camouflaging some much bigger issues.
The Fox News audience is static. Fewer younger people are watching, and fewer Americans trust the network. Fox News is an aging network, with aging leadership that is being left behind because, like the Republican Party, they are fighting losing battles against demographics and time.
In other words, the fallout from Obama’s election to a second term is causing the piecemeal destruction of what we used to know as Fox News.
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Reynardine
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 2:19 pm
They may have had too much faith in Diebold and ALEC, mayn’t they?
YellowDogYankee
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 3:46 pm
It seems to me that what you just said provides the only explanation for almost all Republican behavior the last week of the campaign and especially for Rove’s wacko behavior on election night. I’m surprised more of progressive media hasn’t looked into it. Ohio and Florida both have a history of more successful thievery.
Elizabeth 44
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:14 pm
Rove certainly underestimated the power of Anonymous. They stopped Rove’s computer folk with the very simple tactic of putting a firewall across the “backdoor” entry point so Rove’s “gang” couldn’t access the Ohio
SOS computers doing the counting. As far ALEC, they are still a threat.
[email protected]
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 8:32 pm
“People who set traps for others get caught themselves.” Proverbs 26:27
Dave
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 7:38 am
People in UK can’t understand why any right minded person would watch Fox. It’s just propaganda, same as North Korean tv.
Brandon Stockwell
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 2:21 pm
And people in the US still wonder why people in the UK prance around playing kings and queens. Which cool aid do you prefer?
DownriverDem
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:52 am
Brandon, you miss the point. I am totally embarrassed at the view the RWNJs show the world. Kings and Queens have nothing to do with teabagger ignorance.
Ulrich Barton
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 9:05 pm
People in the UK buy the Sun and the Daily Mail more than any other British newspapers. People in the UK shouldn’t necessarily talk.
erik e
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 6:14 am
tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com...
lol
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 8:18 am
in your haste to respond, you did not notice that the article does not dispute that Fox news is number one. the fact is that Fox is losing viewers
” FNC (Fox News Channel) registered their lowest ratings with the 25-54 demographic in 12 years ”
do try to read the article. I’m sure it will be helpful
RC
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
Your source material, TV by the Numbers, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tribune Broadcasting which is in the middle of selling off its CW affiliates or switching them over to Fox affiliates.
Think they’re a little biased towards FNC?
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 2:34 pm
I have never been able to figure out if Fox is the propaganda arm of the Republican party or is the Republican Party the political subsidiary of Fox.
Reynardine
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 2:37 pm
I believe the latter.
SamuraiCowboy
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 9:51 pm
Fox News is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Nation Committee. Rupert Murdoch is a Starw Man owner. Roger Ailes is the Senior Republican Operative who runs Fox News.
Sean M. Tobin
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 11:43 am
I’d go with both and I would liken the situation to the ouroboros blended with some sort of self perpetuating grotesque.
A. Hart
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 2:39 pm
I really hope Fox news goes out of business. Propaganda has no place in this country.
Kris
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 10:13 am
Propaganda has every place in this country. Look around, it is everywhere. Defined, it is the spreading of ideas, information, or rumour for the purpose of helping or injuring a cause or person. Every ad is propaganda. Many newspapers or websites or magazines are propaganda. While political propaganda CAN BE despicable, tell me how we might have a society in which a political party is regularly going to present anything other than their own side and why it alone is right?
Dr. Rick
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 10:22 pm
Good for you Kris!
As a student of propaganda and influence for a significant portion of my life, I have been able to identify nine detailed species of propaganda. So it all depends on which one you’re talking about. Do you mean honest and truthful well-sourced propaganda or intentionally false and deceitful propaganda where the source is cloaked and, perhaps, entirely unidentified (which is what most people think about when they use the term as a pejorative)?
Interestingly enough, the word “propaganda” began its life as a religious term. It started in 1622 when a new branch of the Catholic Church was created, called the “Congregatio de Propaganda Fide” (Congregation for Propagating the Faith), or informally simply Propaganda. Its activity was that of a group of cardinals pitching Catholicism in non-Catholic countries.
What I think is more appropriate to discuss here is political warfare and its almost constant use in domestic American political rhetoric. In political warfare, people do not die as in mortal combat, but “ideas” will live or die. Political warfare, in my opinion, sits on a continuum between “soft power” on one side (influence through attraction) and “hard power” (influence through coercion).
Some political warfare tactics run close to operations similar to military PSYOP. In my observation, it seems as though the Democrat party is more organized, adept and successful at playing this game.
DeeDee
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 10:44 pm
Like 10% presenting their side and 90% slamming the other side. That’s not good business…
labrat
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 2:41 pm
Couple that with the Newtown Sandy Hook massacre that shook this country to its core and their “slant” comes across as pathetic as it is ignorant.
Mary Staley
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 2:54 pm
Mistake with neg vote, Moderator….Sorry!
Jean Williams
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 2:58 pm
It’s about time!
Just A Dumb Fireman
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Aw, that’s so sad.
If they hadn’t whored themselves out to the sociopathic Right Wing, it might not have happened.
But I’m glad they did. :O)
Sugapea
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 3:19 pm
How many times we’ve heard Republicans say, ‘American is a Conservative Right-Leaning Nation’.
NOT ANYMORE…The people have been informed of all the vicious tactics the GOP have conjured-up to ‘trick’ the American people.
Example: Benghazi, Pubs thought that would be an absolute way to wound Hillary Clinton. Yet, where was all that concern during George Dubya…for our men and women serving in embassies and consulates across the globe when all the other attacks and killings occurred?
FACTS: In 2002 when the US Consulate in the Karachi, Pakistan, was attacked and 10 were killed?
Or in 2004 when the US embassy in Uzbekistan was attacked and two were killed and another nine injured?
How about in 2004, when the US Consulate in Saudi Arabia was stormed and 8 lost their lives?
There is more: In 2006, armed men attacked the US Embassy in Syria and one was murdered.
Then in 2007 a grenade was thrown at the US Embassy in Athens.
In 2008, the US Embassy in Serbia was set on fire.
In 2008, bombings in the US Embassy in Yemen killed 10.
Notice the dates, all before the Obama administration.
The FOX-GOP Manipulation of Facts and Truth doesn’t work for them anymore!
Reuben
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 11:06 pm
you are good lol lol excelente information congrats
Ojay
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 7:17 pm
Best researched and written response to people who blame our President for Bengazi. You should also have added that the people complaing about the lack of security at our foreign missions are the same ones whao defunded seurity budget for the State department. I wish I can post your article on Facebook.
Lorraine Russell
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 10:16 pm
Or, how about that little incident MBB on 9/11/2001?
Anne
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 3:28 pm
The irony of it all is that the Republican establishment, led by Karl Rove, is trying to control the Frankenstein they created with the hard right. They are paying dearly for the win-at-any-cost mindset that led them to embrace the Tea Party mentality in the first place. They have a tiger by the tail and have extreme difficulty controlling it. Call it karma, poetic justice, or a case of the rancid chickens coming home to roost: in any case, it is the predictable end result of aligning themselves with the kind of extremism that has taken over their party.
Cissy
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 3:56 pm
“…and they’re burnin over yonder with the faux news whores.” – Ray Wylie Hubbard nailed it!
RT
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:01 pm
I’m so upset by the news that Fox and the GOP/TP are circling the toilet I walk around laughing and singing all day.
Just A Dumb Fireman
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
How festive!
George Anthony
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:02 pm
I would love to be at their “Going Out of Bussiness Party” so I can say, “Good-bye and good riddance.”
Mark
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:09 pm
Given that this is a liberal slanted website, I am not surprised by the fabrication of untruths in the article as well as the absurdity of the comments. FOX News is in business to make money, and has been the top rated cable news network since its founding because it is fair and balanced in its reporting of the news. Granted, the opinion pundit shows like Hannity are way far right side biased, but their news content covers stories that none of the other media will touch, like the complete failure of supporting our men in Benghazi… or the half million people marching in DC. After a presidential election I will wager that all news broadcasts lose ratings because the level of interest in politics wanes.
Just A Dumb Fireman
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 5:51 pm
“FOX… has been the top rated cable news network since its founding because it is fair and balanced in its reporting of the news”.
That is HILARIOUS. Please, please please continue to give us more satire! I love it!
P.S. How did you keep yourself from getting a hernia from laughing?
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 5:57 pm
itisfairandbalkanced. iwastoldtosaythis. irepeatfoxnewsisfairandbalanced. weneverliecrossmyfingers foxnewsisfairandbalanced. seanhannityneverlies. stevedoocyneverlies
Marlon
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 5:57 pm
Yet another conservative that can’t there nose on their face, because, frankly, it’s dark where they have their heads at.
Marlon
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 5:58 pm
Oops… their, not there
mags
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Mark, is your comment tongue in cheek? You surely can’t be serious!!!
jen
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 10:09 pm
WOW REALLY? You ever consider that the reason you see FOX news covering stories that the other news stations won’t might be because FOX NEWS MADE THE DAMB STORY UP? I mean come on now its not ROCKET SCIENCE! They are entertaining in a Jerry Springer kinda way…but at least Jerry knows how big of a joke his show is. FOX “NEWS” still remaines in denial and will contnue to MISINFORM the few remaining MISSINFORMED suckers… I mean FANS as long as the desire to be lied to remaines!
Burzghash
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 4:49 am
I know coming from the Fox News mentality, that you think you can just say a bunch of things and because it makes you feel good that it must be true. But out here, in the real world, you are required to actually back up your claims. You know, with things of some importance. Like math. Or science. Or facts.
Your post has done none of that.
What it has done, is utterly failed to refute a single thing in the article. It’s nothing more than a tirade; a tantrum from a child who is so flabbergasted and upset by reality that he can only stamp his feet and pout in the absence of his ability to form a real argument.
There there kitten. I know it’s so terribly unfair and disgusting, the way reality has such a liberal bias.
Bill
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:11 pm
It seems FOX viewers hear something and immediately post a comment on HP. HP is overrun with rwnj comments. It is not clear what the posters hope to gain, but it is destroying HP as a reasonable site.
dar winn
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:18 pm
its much worse on yahoo news. guess the white over fiftys havent realized that yahoo and drudge are the only pages on the net, as if its still 1996… read the kkkoments section on any story. i love when Stephanie miller, and jim ward read some of these comments on the air…. almost as bad as foxnation…
HP does a very good job of removing some of the most strident comments, i have seen more rwnj stuff lately too…
chicago11
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 8:01 pm
I assume that the over 60 crowd new to the internet doesn’t know how to search beyond Yahoo. Always amazed at how racist Yahoo comments are with every article.
dar winn
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:14 pm
add the fact that the under thirty’s are NOT buying cable. and many more are cord cutting. that leaves the magic 55+ demo that fox has. that leaves a slowing audience base, that will eventually be highly diminished… even with fox giving away the news channels, while cnn and msnbc charge per subscriber, making it only available on a pay tier…. that’s how fox has been rigging the numbers for so many years. in fact fox gives away to satellite feeds for airports, and other public venues free, to claim they have a larger audience than they really have….
fox news, they lie, we deride.
connie williams
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:21 pm
I am 62 years old and have been a life-long democrat. The two parties have always functioned as a part of the American Political landscape….always seeming to be two sides of the same coin. The ultra-conservative John Birch Society seemed suspect by both parties,until the birth of the tea party and Fox News. The Republican party has been hijacked. The positions of the Republican party and Fox are far to the right of anything we’ve ever seen before. I find those positions un-American at the core and am hoping for the demise of the Tea Party.
Bill
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:50 pm
Well said, Connie, and their base does not realize they have changed.
Alfuso
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Well said. I can’t improve on your comments.
Bob
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:46 pm
All I have to say is “Hee hee hee!”
D. W. Skinner
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:49 pm
Let em stay on. They’ll destroy the Republicans one viewer at a time.
Jayson
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 6:10 pm
Every network has the right to editorialize a “point of view.” But, they should clearly point out the shows which are “point of view” in content as opposed to hard news in content. Fox has totally blurred if not ignored this fact. So have several other networks but not as blatantly as Fox News.
Thackery
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 6:29 pm
The only reason that Fox News held it’s number one ranking was that ALL of the right wingers watched it. The rest of America chose different outlets. The number who didn’t watch Fox News was always larger than the number of those who did.
Fox News had numerous republicans working for it as commentators who also ran for public office. I’ve never seen any other mainstream media outlet be so blatant in that regard.
Deez
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 12:52 am
Untrue!! I watch Fox News every time I feel like I need a laugh…
John W. Bryant
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Many years ago, when I was just a lad, the news was a very different creature altogether. There was a separation between hard news and editorial comment. While they were both shown on the same program, the editorial was given at the end of the program, and was clearly identified as such, with a disclaimer that stated that the opinions were not necessarily shared by the network.
Roxie
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 6:51 pm
Well, I think, as you point out at the end, Fox News still has higher ratings than CNN or MSNBC even if they are lower than in recent years.
But as to the war among conservatives, it’s been enlightening to see the infighting among the Right on Twitter where there are at least four factions – GOPers, Tea Partiers, Christian Conservatives and Gun Rights advocates. They all call themselves “patriots” but they have differing priorities. The only thing they seem to have in common is their hatred of the President. But it doesn’t bode well for their chances in 2014 and 2016 if they don’t stop tearing each other apart and find a way to come together.
chicago11
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 8:04 pm
Fox news is free to most subscribers of cable.
Msnbc is not free- that makes a big difference.
SA
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 7:44 pm
If they fail to get rid of racist idiots like Rush limbaugh they should go bankrupt.
chicago11
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 8:05 pm
Rush isn’t on Fox- he has a radio show
Rush has never had a show on Fox nor is he on any of the shows as a guest.
John W. Bryant
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 4:38 pm
I always hear about how Rush Limbaugh is the most widely listened to talk show host in the U.S. That is true, but the reason is that his show is broadcast in virtually every market in the country. In heads up competition on a market by market basis, he is routinely outperformed.
John W. Bryant
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Actually, Rush did have a short lived show and was also an announcer on one of the sports talk shows. It was the shortest tenure of an announcer in history when he made a comment about the only reason Randall Cunningham was as highly rated as a quarterback was because he was black.
chicago11
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 8:07 pm
I hope CNN under new direction does well. I am a Democrat and get a little tired of the prime time shows on MSNBC- they all seem to have the same stories. would like to see some other quality news.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 8:12 pm
that is the one complaint that I have with MSNBC as well. I always try to get up early enough to watch morning Joe, once he is over anything mentioned in the next hour is going to be mentioned all day long ad nauseaum. I never watch the later shows like Rachel or the others. In fact I generally don’t even make it to the Ed show. By then I am watching Korean shows on Justin TV or mystery science theater 3000. you can only take so much repetition.
in fact, Rev. Al shreds my brain so bad I can’t make sense of television after that
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 9:10 pm
hey, you can downvote me all day long. MSNBC is the only network I watch for news. But its not that good for variety and real news outside of Washington. No one has even told them we are at war
Mike from Columbus
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Fox is by far the most useless, but most TV/radio news is crap. If you want something serious, listen to NPR or BBC. If you need television, PBS.
It’s always fun to ask a Foxie to name their foreign correspondents in Africa or the Middle East or even Europe. Sure, they have “commentator” about these places, mostly in the U.S. But what about news correspondents.
chris
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 8:32 pm
Seems to me the most important part is the people under 54 are at an all time low. Seems to me that fox newshas no idea what their demographic is except older conversative people who are shriking group by the minute. Whenever I see fox news y accident I cannot believe the content for the most part seeming like they are from 40 years ago.
John
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 9:00 pm
they don’t need help …He just wants them to PROCEED !!
BigBadAl
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 9:02 pm
The Tea Party represents everything sordid about human nature with absolutely none of the good. Racist hate, greed, deceit, and infidelity to their own country is what they are about. They have absolutely nothing worthwhile to offer America, except perhaps to remind us all that sordid and despicable people still exist who wish to turn this country into a racist cesspool
They cloak themselves in the flag and spew their vitriol in the guise of patriotic speeches. They now wish to destroy what they cannot control.
Laurie A J
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 1:41 am
It has been a heartwarming experience watching them eat their own. Finally, it may be fun to watch them try to harness the creature they created that is in turn biting the hand that feeds them. I feel like I can finally breathe again.
link955
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 9:08 pm
My heart bleeds for poor Fox News. Now all we need is to have the Fairness Doctrine reinstituted, and Fox News goes away altogether; Rush and all of AM Hate Radio will go away, too.
Kevin
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 9:16 pm
The GOP and there extended arm, Fox news are spinning like a top in an attempt to regain there status, but they dont see that there hurting themselves even more. There spinless, backstabbing and petty. Has anyone noticed how Fox has no opinion on the immigration issue now that the Rubio led GOP are all for it!!!Funny as Hell. If they think ditching Caribou Barbie, and Big Dick Morris is the answer, they might as well ditch the moderates fully, and continue losing viewers.
Nicholas Dell Veneri
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 10:07 pm
Fox news deserves to die
priscianus jr
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 10:21 pm
“If Romney had beaten Obama, Fox News would have been correct about the election.”
That’s true. And if my grandmother had balls, she would have been my grandfather.
Dave in NY
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 11:04 pm
The best thing that could happen to this country is to get rid of the divisive forces of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. I’m not against people expressing their opinions one way or another, but those folks do it to extremes just to make more money for themselves. We need both sides working together to make this country better.
Epona52
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 11:26 pm
Funny – even this article has its inaccuracies and misleading statements. Obama did not win by a landslide . . . and his victory is one of the most divisive events in our history. When was the last time you saw states preparing petitions of succession? And for Chris – better check your statistics, as the senior citizens as a group are hardly a shrinking percentage of the population. Conservative means I do not want “Big Brother” running my life – the government is notoriously lousy at running any kind of business, but they keep trying . . .they need to get out of insurance, banking, autos and oil, and do what government should . . . take care of the infrastructure and defend the country.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 11:46 pm
Isnt it funny when Rove and Kraughthammer were taking they predicted for Romney exactly what Obama won by, and they called it a landslide for Romney. Of course we know they were wrong.
Yes, we saw bigots trying to leave the union. And?
If “Conservative means I do not want “Big Brother” running my life” why are they passing so mnay laws limiting womens rights? You are not on board
were you going to mention the ” inaccuracies and misleading statements”?
Jeff Doering
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 1:45 am
Secession petitions happen after EVERY election. They just got more media coverage this year
Obsidian
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 3:10 pm
In 2004, when Bush won by 16 electoral votes, and a narrow margin of the popular vote, the FauxNews parrots were squawking about how Bush how it was a ‘landslide’ and how Bush had a ‘mandate’ from the American people.
In 2012, when Obama wins by over twice as many popular votes and a slightly larger margin of the popular vote, suddenly it’s NOT a landslide or a mandate, and he’s ‘barely squeaked by’.
Gee. It’s almost as if they are changing the definitions of the words for THERE side. Who da thunk it?
Obsidian
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 3:12 pm
I meant to say over twice as many ELECTORAL votes. Sorry bout that.
Jo
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Not only did President Obama win by a landslide, he won by a bigger landslide than the definition of “landslide” given by FOX “news” when they predicted Romney would win by a “landslide”.
Second, you can say that people petitioned for their states to secede, but none of the actual states petitioned as a unified whole. The number of people who signed those petitions were ridiculously low in relation to the population of the states (less than 1/2 of one percent in TX, and that was the one with the most signatures.) Personally, I believe the secession petitions were a perfect example of FOX’s viewers acting like sheep and following everything said on FOX. They truly believed that Romney would win (after all, FOX told them so!), so when he didn’t, it must have been a vast left-wing conspiracy, and therefore, they must retaliate by seceding! I say let them. The 119k people in TX who signed the petition can pack up and get the heck out if they don’t like the way this country is going. After all, isn’t that what they told us when W was lying his way into a war in Iraq and signing away all of our freedoms in the “Patriot Act” (which, by the way, there was nothing patriotic about!)
Jo
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 4:59 pm
Oh, and one more thing. How can you say “Conservative means I do not want “Big Brother” running my life” when the Tea Party is the party of trans-vaginal ultrasounds and anti-equal marriage rights? Isn’t the government requiring TVUs before a legal abortion and making same-sex marriage illegal the very definition of ‘“Big Brother” running my life’?
Clive
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 12:25 am
The personal mouthpiece of plutocrat Rupert Murdoch.
mary hewitt
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 12:33 am
i told you people god is in charge an he will never leave us along. just sit back an trust him.
Larry Michael
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 11:18 am
Sure Mary, trust in God. But you still need to lock your bike if you want it to be there when you get back.
(from an old saying “Trust in God but tie up your camel” )
Jeff Doering
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 1:41 am
I still watch FOX News… it’s better than Comedy Central when I need a good laugh! Ironically, I get more solid news from Comedy Central shows (Daily Show, Colbert Report) than I do from FOX!
HA HA
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 7:06 am
Fox News is only watch by the uneducated fools.
HA HA
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 7:06 am
Fox News is only watched by uneducated, racist, backward fools.
The Glenn Beck Review
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 8:06 am
“Having a conservative slant is not the same thing as partisan political activity.”
That gets at the crux of the difference between Fox and MSNBC. I believe that a conservative news outlet would be healthy if that’s what Fox strove to be, but that’s not what Ailes designed and not what he wants. Instead (I really came to understand this as I focused on Glenn Beck’s show), Fox is the propaganda wing of the Republican Party.
MSNBC supports Dems; no question about it. However, their slant is not the same as partisan activity. Maddow, for example, takes issue with Obama on occasion.
HA HA
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 9:32 am
Fox News is a good comedy show.
Melanie
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 10:04 am
MSNBC is just as bad as Fox News they’re just a liberal bias instead of a conservative bias. People should be watching C SPAN and making informed decisions.
Richard D Gregory Sr
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 11:41 am
OBAMA’S ELECTION IS LITERALLY TEARING FOX NEWS APART
What; how can this be?
Americans are starting to see around the rhetoric of Mister Obama, the M.S.M. and FNC
The Teaparty started it; and is continuing with the truth.
America is tired of these insinuations and the rhetoric given by the socialist views of what has been being spoken for a while now.
Yes there is a … distrust of establishment tactics and news. The media; establishment; democrat; and teaparty, AKA conservatives have all been fighting among them selves for the minds of America.
Well; it has not been working; America is starting to think for ourselves. You might say the new media is the people who are on line; the bloggers; the (to borrow something from Herman Cain) intelligent thinkers.
We know that Mr Obama has a problem with the truth from what he says in each of his campaign speeches (yes he speaks almost daily, sounding like the speeches Castro, Chavez, North Korean dictators and other Communist nationals make) well; that is what they sound like.
But now America has a new message; Our Constitution speaks to us through the teaparties; not really a liberal organization or a conservative one; but a Christian one.
When I see and hear the messages touted by people like that “comedian” who goes to the streets to hear what people are saying; then they find out the messages are actually more conservative than what they thought they were hearing because someone helped them to “think” about what they were protesting; then they find they were protesting the opposite of what they actually believed. Like that man who went to Wisconsin (I think it was either Wisconsin or Ohio) getting beaten in the back by the union mobs; when he actually told them he would fight any of them in a fair fight; well that comedian made people think (I think he is a fox contributor). Naturally Mister Obama approved of the union trashing the tent and the hot dog cart. (Americans came to his rescue again with…
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 11:49 am
What truth?Take gubiment out of my medicare!!
”You’re telling me that’s in the First Amendment?”Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, questioning whether the Constitution calls for separation of church and state during a debate before an audience of legal scholars and law students at Widener University Law School, Oct. 18, 2010
”The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel.”’
—Sarah Palin, in a message posted on Facebook about Obama’s health care reform plan, Aug. 7, 2009
”We now have a total Gangster Government. They don’t even pretend anymore. It’s total in-your-face cronyism.”
—Rep. Michele Bachmann on the government bailout of GM, June 2009
President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob … Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image.” –Rick Santorum, speaking to a Tea Party group in Michigan (February 2012)
Do you need more truths?
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 11:56 am
How can I miss this one
”I think there is a point where you say enough is enough to government intrusion. …Does the federal government really need to know our phone numbers?”
—Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the threat posed by the U.S. Census, June 2009
Richard D Gregory Sr
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 11:48 am
OBAMA’S ELECTION IS LITERALLY TEARING FOX NEWS APART
Part 2
But now America has a new message; Our Constitution speaks to us through the teaparties; not really a liberal organization or a conservative one; but a Christian one.
When I see and hear the messages touted by people like that “comedian” who goes to the streets to hear what people are saying; then they find out the messages are actually more conservative than what they thought they were hearing because someone helped them to “think” about what they were protesting; then they find they were protesting the opposite of what they actually believed. Like that man who went to Wisconsin (I think it was either Wisconsin or Ohio) getting beaten in the back by the union mobs; when he actually told them he would fight any of them in a fair fight; well that comedian made people think (I think he is a fox contributor). Naturally Mister Obama approved of the union trashing the tent and the hot dog cart. (Americans came to his rescue again with financial help.)
Yes; now America is starting to make up our own minds; thank God for the internet.
There were so many irregularities in the elections; fraud in almost half the states; ACORN still working overtime, so many precincts with no votes for the “conservatives”, a fraction of votes for him; then Mr Romney quit; he gave the election to Mister Obama.
Join Herman Cain’s thinkers; next election; vote for Allen West; he will not quit!
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 12:19 pm
ACORN still working overtime? Interesting.
Alan West is a complete loon. The tea party is not christian, its owned in part by fundies who are owned in part by the GOP. There is nothing christian about it.
The tea thugs are the first people to give up others rights while demanding they keep their own. BTW, their popularity ratings are as low as Palins are. You got on the wrong train
Vote alan west? You have really got to be killing. He wont quit alright, he wont quit being a complete idiot.
“Naturally Mister Obama approved of the union trashing the tent and the hot dog cart.”
LOL! Its president Obama to you sparky
zelduh
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 2:36 pm
I accidentally clicked on the “thumbs up” icon, but I meant to click on “thumbs down.” (I have a cast on my hand, so I am klutzy right now.)
Unfortunately, I cannot un-click it to correct the error.
I just wanted you to know that the one “thumbs up” you got is an ERROR.
Leon Miller
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 12:10 pm
This article is a classic example of why Democrats lose elections. The bizarre notion that Fox News is interested in “right” or “wrong” is absurd on its face. Fox News is solely interested in making money; if they can make money by telling the truth, they will. If they can make money by lying, they will. For Fox News, that is a highly successful business strategy. They are by far the most profitable news network and last year they became the first television news network in history to make over a billion dollars in one year. For Ailes and Murdoch, that is what success means.
In other words, the fact that “Fox News” has “News” in its name does not make it a news network. For Democrats to treat it as one only strengthens Fox News by giving it a veneer of respectability it does not deserve. Stop treating it as a news network. Stop judging it by the standards of journalism. You’re only playing into Murdoch’s hands.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Democrats lose elections? And the GOP doesnt?
Fox IS interested in wrong or right, simply because they make money on being wrong when people think they are right.
TigerLily
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 9:03 pm
This article is a classic example of why Democrats lose elections. The bizarre notion that Fox News is interested in “right” or “wrong” is absurd on its face.
EXCUSE ME..DEMOCRATS DID WIN. Please proceed…
dale kaskey
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 12:32 pm
If you want to watch real propaganda watch CNN. The Communist News Network.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Come on Man, thats so 90′s.Please come up with something better.You can do it.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 12:46 pm
“The Communist News Network.”
Why do you use words you have no idea what they mean? I dont watch CNN, but the word Communist doesnt apply here at all.
Obsidian
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 3:15 pm
Protip: Do yourself a favor, and don’t use words you don’t understand. You’ll save yourself from looking like an idiot. And that way, people won’t be laughing at you, and might actually take something you have to say seriously.
Get out a dictionary and encyclopedia and look up the definition of Communism. I ensure you. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Jim Babbitt
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Maybe some of the problem of getting along with Republicans is caused by the fact that we treat them as they are stupid. It seems that way to us. But how many of us could have taken on the same views as Republicans if all we did was watch Fox News, and listen to Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity?
IT IS THEIR REALITY!!!
Maybe we should take a gentler approach, instead of stuffing facts in their faces and treating them as stupid. (As they are)
As I drive down my street, I’m sure that my neighbors are on both sides of the issues, yet, living on the same street, we have much in common. Gently giving them correct exposure to the other side of issues, may be the best answer to this plague of human ignorance in the end.
ssnv
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 1:45 pm
This is my first exposure to this site and I loved the article AND the comments. What surprised me is that you can multiple click on the ratings button and watch it climb. I am just happy that there are still some intelligent folks out there that ARE interested in the truth. I was starting to have doubts. Thank you.
zelduh
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 2:16 pm
“When the monster (GOTP) came to Frankenstein (Fox News) to plead his case and tell his story, Frankenstein realized that he had some obligation to the monster because he created it, in the same way that he bore responsibility for the monster’s actions. Frankenstein was no longer simply responsible to humanity for the monster’s actions, but he was also responsible to the monster for his happiness. Being the creator of a life was more responsibility than Frankenstein had planned.”
–Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, 1818
Danno
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 2:17 pm
I must not be a true evil socialist, because I feel no remorse that the free market may leave Fox News in the dust…
Doc Wallace
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Be careful what you wish for. For decades, our party descriptions have been in error. Instead of “liberal” and “conservative”, they should properly be labeled “progressive” and “reactionary”.
Now we have the realization that we now have a true three party system. In spite of the attempted demonization of the term”liberal”, there are none so very progressive or somewhat progressive that they can’t function in the Democratic party camp. We now have a growing split in the reactionary camp into moderately reactionary and uber-reactionary that cannot be bridged with the rhetoric flying out of that arena.
The Republican party now consists of grumpy old politicians (GOP) and whiplash angry young malcontents (read “Tea Party”).
Under current circumstances the Democratic party remains the only logical affiliation for the broad spectrum that encompasses common sense, compassion and fair play while the Republican party wanes and the Tea Party sputters along in greedy, illogical and compassionless spinning on thin ice.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 2:39 pm
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866
David C.
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 2:31 pm
one of the best articles ive read in a long time.
TheLazyComic
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
I think the reason that Fox’s ratings are down is for the same reason, CNN’s ratings are down. How much more negative junk can one listen to, before he/she wants to go to the nearest bridge and jump off? I stopped listening to the news all together. It’s all bad news, and if there is any good news, it’s trumped up, fake good news. (i.e., the oconomy). It has been a very, very long time, since I’ve heard actual good news… that was genuine/real.
Melania Gulley
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 3:15 pm
Fox has always been hate filled it just got really obscenely obvious when a black man won the presidency.. not once but twice.. Nothing makes an old white man crazier than having a younger black man in charge. Especially if the white man is rich and from the south. They tend to lose all sense of sanity
Joe
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 3:20 pm
I’d trust fox any day over the wackos on msnbc.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 3:28 pm
Republicans and faux represent both sides: the insanely rich and vice versa.
Dave
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Nobody has to work at tearing apart the republican party, they are doing it all on their own. All we have to do is sit back and watch. It is sad, really. This country needs a loyal opposition that can bring good solid conservative ideas to the table. As a progressive, I believe it is necessary to have reasonable voices with different points of view. That doesn’t exist in this country anymore.
Kalind
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 4:09 pm
This is no surprise at all. FOX News spent so much time ripping the POTUS apart during his entire 1st term, and it completely backfired on them. FOX talked trash, but at the end, the voters did the talking by reelecting Obama to a 2nd term. I don’t trust any of the mainstream news outlets at all. They are all the same. FOX are allies to the conservatives, MSNBC are allies to the progressives, and CNN… I don’t know who they target.
Christopher E. Kaminski
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Fox is completely correct! How can you have sunshine when you live under a rock or in a cave? If you don’t believe in science, I mean come on really SOLAR??? That sounds like witchcraft! God love these baffoons, they are a dying breed!!!!
Michael Rappaport
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 4:56 pm
Fifty years or so ago, there were basically five points on the political spectrum.
From left to right:
1. RADICAL — favoring extensive chance, posthaste.
2. LIBERAL — favoring incremental change at a reasonable speed.
3. MODERATE — things are pretty much OK.
4. CONSERVATIVE — if we’re going to change things, be careful not to destroy what’s good.
5. REACTIONARY — we’ve gone too far, time to go back to the way things used to be.
These days, Democrats are somewhere between 3-4, Republicans somewhere between 4-5. There are no “liberals” anymore by the classic definition. Even the ACA, which the baggers call “socialized medicine,” is essentially a massive windfall for private insurance companies. No public option at all.
We may be “center-right,” but the center-right party is the Democrats. The current Republibaggers were known 50 years ago by the name “John Birchers.” The current GOP is to the right of Reagan.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 5:34 pm
Everything in its time.
david
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 4:57 pm
If you want negative news ALL THE TIME watch fox. They haven’t said 1 positive thing about this prez. in 4 years. Imagine 2 steps forward & fox pushes us one step back. USA is moving forward slowly even tho fox keeps trying to bring us back to the 19th century. Hang in there Americans we can do it.
Jo
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 4:58 pm
Oh, and one more thing. How can you say “Conservative means I do not want “Big Brother” running my life” when the Tea Party is the party of trans-vaginal ultrasounds and anti-equal marriage rights? Isn’t the government requiring TVUs before a legal abortion and making same-sex marriage illegal the very definition of ‘“Big Brother” running my life’?
cathy
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 5:32 pm
I’m so happy that we finally have a fox news…can you imagine if all the news we ever heard was from the mainstream media, which is so one sided, very liberal leaning. We need fair and balanced. I’m not talking about the commentaries..just the news. My favorites are megan kelly and chris wallace You need to watch fox’s news cycle to see how fair they really are. When I compare other news stations to fox news, it is clear who is the fair and balanced station. THANK YOU FOX NEWS, keep up the good work.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 5:36 pm
LOL
Fox IS mainstream media
isnt megan kelly the one that went after all 3 black panthers for over 9 months and never got anywheres?
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 5:36 pm
It is this thing called the Internet.Try reading for a change
fedded-up
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 7:41 pm
Run along home now, troll. You’ve spouted your bs on a site that obviously holds with none of your personal delusions. Feel better? Blech.
James Adams
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 6:28 pm
Sean Hannity is the down fall of Fox News, because he is so pro Obama. People are so tired of Hannity saying the President has this country in such a mess, he’s just an old broken record. We have four more years with President Obama whether we like it or not, so get get over it and start saying something positive Sean Hannity.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 7:03 pm
You mean anti Obama?
Yuffiek133
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 6:37 pm
Haha, these moderators are tearing it up in here. Never have I seen site staff so completely involved in the goings-on of peoples’ political views. Not saying it’s a bad thing, but that it is different. I suppose it’s just as well too, because moderators have a right to express their thoughts as well.
Good show.
wantsfreedom
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 6:58 pm
your wrong thinking obama had anything to do with FNC..and your wrong about what the people think about obama .. however an education is forth coming LOL
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 7:02 pm
I see an education missed you.Its you’re not your.We’re not wrong about what the 51% are thinking.What are you thinking?
Mikecoatl
Feb. 12th, 2013 at 1:56 am
You clowns were bragging about a ‘forthcoming education’ back in October. LOL how did that one turn out?
Kelly
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 7:31 pm
It baffles me that FOX News ever had such an enormous following but I am delighted that it is coming to an end. Always loved their “Fair and Balanced” motto. I have learned that if somebody has to tell you they are, they usually are NOT! The GOP is fighting amongst themselves like children. Anyone who says they are Rublican should be embarrassed. Instead they just go on blaming everything that’s happening, to their party, on President Obama. Guess that makes them feel better?
Joe
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 8:30 pm
This is the best news I’ve read in 2013.
Dave
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 8:45 pm
When the Republicans control the presidency and congress we get more Republican speakers on all news or talk shows. If the Republicans control only one branch of government or none there are still more Republicans on the airwaves pushing their views the moderators never point out any untruths they might make. Whatever Republicans say or complain about in regard to the Democratic Party will be a talking point on all shows the very next day, talk about your Liberal media!
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Why? Because of your stupidity. The media exploits the GOP because they say and do stupid things.
The liberal media? LOL
Sam
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 9:02 pm
Great article! If you want havn’t already watched “Koch Brothers Exposed”, do so. It has a lot to do with why Fox News was so extremist during the 2012 Election… Heres the link to their website. www.kochbrothersexposed.c...
tomindc
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 9:17 pm
I agree with most of the people that have left comments that FoxNews is slanted, racist, vicious and anything but Fair and Balanced. Sometimes I visit Foxnews.com just to see how they are reporting on or ignoring important victories of the Obama administration. That said, this article is equally slanted and misleading. Buried at the end of the article the author mentions that FoxNews maintains it’s #1 rating and says this is because MSNBC isnt in enough homes. The headline reports that FoxNews is being destroyed, yet to my dismay and even disgust, they are still well out ahead in first place. Don’t sink to their level and report in a misleading manner. Perhaps a better headling would have been, “FoxNews ratings slide, yet the network maintains its lead”. Don’t scream at me for having this opinion, I agree with everyone that Fox is ridiculously bad. But does this article not seem misleading to anyone else?
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Something funny about people that come here and say not to talk about certain things. Were you paid?
rx7ward
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 1:15 pm
“But does this article not seem misleading to anyone else?”
In short, no. Those of us who actually read more than the headline and the last paragraph completely understood what this is about.
CANIS LATRANS
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 9:27 pm
ARREST RECORDS ARE NOT PUBLIC RECORD………
RHONDA STARR
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 9:57 pm
fox is a diaster waiting to happen!!! president obama care about the american people and im so proud that he is our president.cause if mitt romeny would have got in office this country would really be in turnmoil my pray is that this congress dont put us back in a recession and i knew ombana is trying his hardest.but we the people have to do our part as a country they want to take away things that we need as a country people we have to fight i mean really fight for our veterans and grandparents and our chidren especially god bless american dr.king made this qute everybody can be great because everybody can serve.you only need a heart full of grace a soul generatrd by and you can be that serverant
Aiden Cassidy
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 11:31 pm
I would not read Fox News if my life depended on it..it is the most racist, arrogant, ultra right wing newspaper, and TV News Channel in the world and they would do well to pack up and move to North Korea and spout their communist idealism’s to some poor fool there stupid enough to listen..or better still close down your network and donate your proceeds to charity…you are a laughing stock in the field of Journalism and news reporting and your newspapers are not worth wrapping trash in..your TV network is for those that unfortunately cognitively impaired and therefore unaware of the verbal crap you put out on a day to day basis..and my 1st Amendment rights allows me to write this…
Eddie Trujillo
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 12:19 am
Hold on….hold on….Rove is about to make an important announcement. Yes…here it is: It’s not over yet. The 49er’s can still win this game!
twinkie1cat
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 1:24 am
In a word: Hallelujah. Rest in peace FAUX News. In a few more,now we need to get the House turned over so Obama can do his job and go to work on STATE governments overrun with teapartiers who are privatizing public schools and destroying health care.
Please help do something about Louisiana which is floundering in a stench of far right Republicanism where the majority would vote for Hitler if he said he was “pro-life”. Remember the name: Piyush “Bobby” Jindal. He is the head of the Republican Governor’s Association and extremely intelligent. I think the GOP is going to try to use him to show that their tent is enlarging to encompass more minorities. He is a true serpent in the grass, Paul Ryan with a brown face. Don’t underestimate him. If he can slow down his speech and stop sounding anxious, he can become the kind of deadly manipulator he is in his own state.
Georgia, formerly fairly moderate with a liberal base in metro Atlanta and a large gay community also needs help. The GOP has taken over the General Assembly and the governor, Nathan Deal, is doing his best to bring the state down to the level of the rest of the South. He was an unelectable crackpot until recently, but suddenly became governor.
Mississippi and Alabama I think are hopeless. Georgia and North Carolina can be saved.
P Z
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 2:13 am
A news agencies job is report the news without bias. Fox news fails to this and they should loose big because they didn’t do their job. This how ever is symptom of a growing problem in the world. The new is reporting what they want us to hear, in they way they want us to hear it. They are being lead by government to lead with some stories while sweeping others under the rug. The truth is, America is becoming less and less free every day, and that trend will continue till the American people stand up and say enough is enough. Whether is be to stop watching certain television stations that we know or crooked as sin, Stop buying from companies that support lobbying for votes or exists because of tax payer handouts or voting someone out of office because we actually look at their voting record in office. We the people are the only ones that can protect our rights. Corruption will stop when we the people stop supporting it.
Speardog
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 4:18 am
Rarely has an article made me feels so good.
Charles
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 5:04 am
See Fox news first said, Obama has no experience being president, and then said he will turn us into a communist. When really, Obama will make sure this country respects rights like it said it would. However in times past it only meant white people, and just to look good, maybe a few blacks.
Trust me, if this country actually became communist, all we have to do is all together refuse to pay taxes, or refuse to get up, go to work in the morning.
Fox News will say anything, I believe in watching different perspectives on the same news, even CBN to know true conservative values.
But, Fox news is for petty racist rich white folks.
ndre
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 9:03 am
They ran wild with anti-Obama rhetoric and conspiracy theories….. and lost. Now it is time to pay up.
Jeffrey Brown
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 9:42 am
The problem with the Tea Party hijacking the GOP is that it marginalizes the Pubs to an increasing extent. I am a life-long Democrat and agree with VERY little the GOP stands for, yet I desperately want a viable Republican party. IMO, the Dems have typically shown an inability to govern properly when they are in control of the WH and both sides of Congress — they veer too far to the left and prove incapable of representing the main stream of American political opinion, just as the GOP veers too far to the right and proves equally incapable of representing the middle of the spectrum. Our Founding Fathers were brilliant, as if they could see the future with a crystal ball. They understood the need for a system of checks and balances. We need two VIABLE parties in the US to ensure a system of checks and balances functions effectively — so the GOP can help keep the Dems from going too far left, and the Dems can help to keep the GOP from steering the rest of us off the Tea Party cliff. Anything that hurts either party exclusively, hurts the entire American political dynamic. I can’t stand FOX News as it is, but I would welcome a FOX News channel determined to present facts, even if th facts were presented with a conservative bias. At least then viewers would then be given facts, and not some concocted tale – call it, Fox mythology – that obfuscates the truth, skews people’s perception, and prevents a discussion of the facts. The two parties have a differing pespective of what this country needs. THAT is healthy. We need to be able to look at the facts and have an earnest discussion of the best means for resolving the problems that confront us. But in order to do that we need to KNOW the facts. Organizations like FOX News – in its current form – get in the way of that process… unfortunately, its viewers are either too partisan or too uninformed to challenge the ‘Fox facts’ and engage in an viable discussion of how we fix our problems!
KarenC
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 10:05 am
The problem with Fox “News” is that they believe their own propaganda.
Chris Kanyane
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 10:10 am
Fox News and the white hard liners must just simply join in in moving America and the world FORWARD instead of trying to pull America backwards into the Dark Ages. When they speak they still speak as if the white race is superior. They just have to embrace reality and move FORWARD! I mean this is what Barack Obama is encouraging them to do. He is not trying to destroy anyone. He is trying to bring Fox News and the Republican Party into the Enlightenment Age. Move Forward. This is the dawn of a new civilization where we appreciate each other as human beings – appreciate that as long as I am white I am my brother’s keeper who might happen to be black or Hispanic or Indian.
Jeanie
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 11:21 am
I am proud to have a bumper sticker on my car which says “Turn Off Fox…Bad News For America.”
Randall
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
It’s been obvious for a long time that Fox is “Unfair and (Mentally) Unbalanced” but the President’s overwhelming re-election has put a spotlight on their little echo chamber. Having no credibility with the vast majority of Americans, Fox is not going to help itself simply by throwing Sarah Palin and Dick Morris overboard. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Rachel
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 1:06 pm
Fox News sucks! Every time I turn it on and watch just a few minutes, I sit there thinking OMG did they really just say that.! …. Idiots.
Siara
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 1:46 pm
QUOTE: “Fox News was a big factor in the promotion of the right wing billionaire-backed AstroTurf movement known as the tea party in 2009 and 2010, but over the past year, they have been trying to distance themselves from the monster that they helped create.”
You made your bed. Now lie in it, GOP
Demosthenes
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Nah, the reason that the viewing of it has gone down is simple. Conservatives were leaving it on their tv all the time and the left was watching to heavily conservative shows to either laugh or get mad, both of which lost interest after the election. The left stop being amused by it, and the right was too heartbroken to care about it anymore.
Dale
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 5:14 pm
This just in from Fox News.
Our ratings are low and it’s Obamas fault!
raphael
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 5:16 pm
If you keep hearing crazy voices, just turn off Fox News!!!!!!!!!
Willie
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 6:47 pm
Fox news, like the republican party, failed to understand, or acknowledge the will of the people. Our president is not elected by any party of network. we the people, and we the people alone, has the responsibility of voting for and electing this countries leader. Republicans and their network partners, failed to do what we elected them to do “serve the people and the interest of this country” Not serve the party and their interest. POWER TO THE PEOPLE.
Kevin
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 10:15 pm
Landslide victory? False. Not the most impartial article…but a good read, nonetheless.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 11:02 pm
LOL but it was going to be a landslide for Romney when Rove and the other educated folks on Fox called a lesser win for Romney a landslide.
My how things change w=hen someone else gets elected.
Mikecoatl
Feb. 12th, 2013 at 2:03 am
It wasn’t a landslide in the Johnson or Reagan mold, no. But Obama has done better electorally than any Republican since 1988.
Jee-yuhn
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 11:24 pm
Fox News viewers are the most mis -informed audience. This channel is biased. Nobody in their right mind watches this
Candiazz 1962
Feb. 11th, 2013 at 11:36 pm
so what you are really telling us is that fox news will not take the blame for their ratings??? again.. act like children that didn’t take the last cookie from the cookie jar… point the finger at the viewers who have put them under this microscope, keep trying to prove that everyone falls and believes in the propaganda you try to push down our throats.. shame on you!!!
AuntTootzToldMe
Feb. 12th, 2013 at 12:09 am
president Obama and the Democrats have destroyed nothing! The Republican/TPods and Fox News have destroyed themselves by believing their own tall tales! Let’s hope they’ve learned something from 2012!!
Spencer
Feb. 12th, 2013 at 12:20 am
Rush Limbaugh…you’re next.
Christopher
Feb. 12th, 2013 at 1:53 am
Am I the only one that finds it ridiculous that any comment even slightly supporting the conservative viewpoint gets voted down to the point of being hidden? All of you on here talking about Fox News being biased and extremely slanted, reporting opinion rather than news, need to take a look at yourselves and see the hypocrisy of this article and the subsequent comments. Only liberal comments are visible on here, because of the bias of the commentators hiding the flip side of the coin. In accusing Fox News of being biased and extreme, you are in fact being biased and extreme, just toward the liberal side, rather than conservative. I also find the moderators’ comments outrageous. Isn’t a moderator supposed to be fair, balanced, and unbiased? The moderators here, however, are skewed extremely left, and don’t even try to hide it. You all need to look in the mirror at what you’re doing and saying, and come to the realization that you are being just as bad as you claim Fox News to be. Oh, and as a side note, to all you parodying the name of Fox News as “Faux News,” do you realize how unintelligent that comment is? Anyway, I won’t be surprised to see this comment hidden soon due to the bias of the contributing commentators here, but it only adds to the proof of what I am saying.
Paul
Feb. 12th, 2013 at 3:39 am
Fox News likes republicans and MSNBC likes democrats. There is no difference really. Fox News tries to make democrats look bad while MSNBC tries to make republicans look bad. They both are slanted in their own way. I am guessing that since this article is bad mouthing Fox News, my comment will get a lot of people upset with me. If you want to yell at me you can email me at sloucypaul(at)yahoo,com
Ed
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:16 am
This is funny everyone hates Fox News for being “the propaganda arm of the republican party” but no one cares that MSNBC is the same for the Democratic party.Beaides no one is calling them what they really are opinion channels. News is a retelling of facts for the purpose of informing the public. The truth is bith Fox and MSNBC are op-ed channels wirh about maybe an hour of actual news. The rest of the time you listen to someone else’s opinion of the whats going on or going to happen next.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:27 am
I agree with you except for one thing. You dont get an hours worth of real news between them
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:29 am
The difference is MSNBC calls out Democrats when they are being dummycrats.Faux encourages the crazy and offer no solutons other how we can grift marks like you
Ed
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 5:47 pm
What your missing is that Fox (please don’t use tired name calling that is meant to cause rift in civil discourse) stops using or fires crazy conservative contributors i.e. Sara Palin. Fox also has Democrats on as a counter point. I have yet to see a real Republican on MSNBC except for RINO’s, who agree with the points of the op-ed’s arguments.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 6:01 pm
Obviously you have yet to watch MSNBC
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 6:02 pm
You’re funny.To your point about real republicans appearing on faux,as they say lets go to the tape
Rand Paul on Rachel Maddow Part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9...
Needless to say he or any other republican has returned
As far as dummycrats appearing on faux?Really?I dont know any dems that listens to bob beckel,Susan esteerich and the other has beens
Ed
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 5:02 am
Which brings me back to my original statement. Rachel Madcow and Sean Handupme and hairball and Oh Really Factor are not news shows, they are op-eds. The host is expressing their opinion disguised as news.And no I don’t watch MSNBC or FOX for my “news” rather go to the original CNN if I can stomach that for a while.