Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Mr. Obama, read this

I know this isn't a political blog, but seeing as a don't have a clear theme yet for my blog, I'm going to write about this anyways. Hmmm, perhaps I'll make the theme of this blog "themeless". I mean, common. Its Data Roaming.

Anyways, silly you, Mr. president. You fail not to point out the unbiases of the traditionally conservative news outlet but neglect to even acknowledge those of the traditionally liberal.

In a more than 8,000 word interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Mr. Obama compared Fox News with the papers created by William Randolph Hearst at the turn of the century:

"You had folks like Hearst who used their newspapers very intentionally to promote their viewpoints. I think Fox is part of that tradition – it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view."

Oh yeah, he also mentioned that Fox News is "destructive" to America.

We all know Fox News is biased. Any mass of organic matter with some sort of coherent brain can figure that out. The last person we need pointing that out is our president. Furthermore, if there is one force you don't wage war with, its the media. When you jab at them, like our brilliant president has done for most of his time in office, you create rifts between not only the politcal factions in our country, but between the people of our nation.

Mr. Obama is a brilliantly articulate man. He won over the hearts and souls of the American people with his campaign of "change" in a dire time. He said exactly what people wanted to hear and restored a hope in people that had been lost for some time. People look up to and listen to Mr. Obama.

Now, I'm not here to talk about how Obama may or may not have fulfilled his promises. And I'm not even here to talk about his lowest all-time approval rating. I'm here to talk about how stupid he is for targeting the conservative media mogul called Fox News.

By targeting Fox News, Mr. Obama is not only pissing off a lot of people, but he is reinforcing the left's hatred of Fox News. If feeding Matt Drudge's perpetual stoning of the left is Obama's purpose, fine. Do you know how many people read the Drudge Report? A shit ton. Conservative and liberal readers alike, check out this story:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/obama-fox-news-is-destructive-to-america/?hpt=T2

What happened when you conservative folk read the first couple of paragraphs? You probably thought, "Oh, typical. Obama is trying to smother the dissent of the right by discrediting Fox News with his comparisons to the evil media moguls of the turn of the century." Or something like that.

Liberal readers, when you checked out the story, you probably thought, "Yeah, thats right. I'm glad our president sees what we see. Those Fox News mongers of evil should be put into the spotlight for their dastardly excuse for reporting." Or something like that.

Either way, nothing good comes of these words.

Mr. Obama, you are the figure head of America. When you say things like this, you yourself are digging the expanding rift between the American people. Perhaps you should be more aware of your OWN bias before you go vomiting your words all over the American people's minds.

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