Who’s afraid of the big bad FOX
If I didn't know any better, I would have to say that President Obama is just plain terrified of Fox News. What other reason would he and his administration have to spend so much time complaining and whining about the cable news channel?
Unlike the State-run media, Fox News does not shy away from critical reporting on the president and his policies. And for all intents and purposes, they have become the only television news source in this country that Americans can turn to when they want to hear news that has not been massaged and edited by the Obama Whitehouse. Fox News is the single voice among the major television news organizations in this country that has not turned over their programming to the president.
So is Obama really scared of the big bad FOX? Personally, I don't think so. I believe that the reasons behind Obama's dislike of Fox News are based more on his annoyance with them. Like his fellow book club member Hugo Chavez, Obama cannot stand to have even one single major news media outlet criticizing him. And interestingly enough, America has become just like Venezuela with only one television station that dares to question the maximum leader.
If anyone should be scared here it would have to be the American people. Like them or not, Fox News is the only television news outlet in this country that stands in the way of total government control of television news. Based on pure liberal principles that espouse tolerance and freedom of speech, this should worry even the most ardent little Rev. Wrights out there.
ohhhhhhhhhh poor babyyyyyyyy. "They (Fox News)" are always talking about me."
Like all bona fide narcissists, Obama has an Achille's heel: he can't take criticism. It drives him over the edge, especially when he has no teleprompter around to bail him out: just watch him and listen. He can't stand anyone who stands up to him. Thus the adoring hordes hired to surround him, insulating him from any opposition - he can't survive without them.
IMHO, Obama's not afraid of Fox; after all, he's got the rest of the media slithering and drooling after his every step. Nope. What's wrong here is that Fox is a threat to his very big but very fragile ego. (Start counting the pronoun "I" next time you watch him on camera.) Narcissist dictators seem to have this weakness, so they quench their opponents, or perceived opponents, if not by force then by verbal attacks, making themselves the victim. Obama's angling for sympathy to stall any debate on his stranglehold on the economy and his increased power.
Fox is a nuisance to him more than anything else, b/c Fox doesn't toe the line like the others, so he smears it with oh, so much condescencion. We've been down the road with this before with Clinton, though Obie is much worse.
Now if the American people decide not only to watch Fox but to take action on what they learn, then Obama can be afraid, very afraid.
Everytime Obama speaks ill of FOX news he's intentionally instigating his mindless, robotic, worshipers to do acts of violence against FOX news and its journalists.