The White House has declared war on Fox News. It would be funny if it weren't disgusting. The arrogance of this administration is without parallel. For the President of the United States to not just believe, but to publicly state that he gets to unilaterally declare a major news source to be "not news" is sickening, but for the cheering section on the left to go along with this outrage is terrifying.
The excuse, according to administration officials, is that news should not have a "perspective" and Fox News has a perspective, therefore Fox News isn't news. Seriously? Let me get this straight. A major news program giving up an hour of its programing to promote the administration's policies is news without perspective? A prominent reporter openly insulting conservative protesters during his report is news without perspective? A major news program "fact checking" a comedy skit (a skit performed by liberals, no less - there should be a joke in that, shouldn't there?) is news without perspective? Multiple major news sources running with a fabricated story that smears a conservative pundit for days before they bother to fact check and find out it's false (and even then almost none of them offer an apology or a retraction) is news without perspective? Is anyone seriously claiming to buy this twisted logic?
This isn't about perspective. It's about the perspective people like and don't like. If you have a perspective that approves of the administration, you get a free pass. If you have a perspective that disapproves of the administration then you're "not really news". Don't you love how that works?
Does Fox News have a perspective? Of course they do! Here's a news flash for you: every major news source since Ben Franklin rolled off his first newspaper has had a perspective and an editorial policy of pushing that perspective. They all do it. Fox News is nowhere near unique in this regard. The only thing that makes Fox News unique is that their perspective leans conservative.
If you can't tell the difference between the commentary section and the news section, you should probably turn the TV off. If you don't know that every network has an agenda and that they all filter things through that agenda, you should probably turn the TV off. If you don't know that the White House doesn't get to declare who is and who isn't a news source ... Of course they know that. They were just counting on you not knowing that.
It is at least gratifying to see that, maybe this time, the administration has overreached itself in its arrogance. Kudos to the other major networks for refusing to play along. They knew that this behavior was wrong and they stopped it, even though it could have helped them in the short term. Now if only we could get more Americans to realize that short term benefits do not trump long term damage.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Priorities Gone to The Dogs
Try this on for size. This is an actual headline I saw yesterday. "Animal rescuers disappointed over 'first dog' choice". My first thought when I read the headline was, "Who cares?" After reading the article, the only change to my first thought was adding expletives that I will not reprint here. These people actually think it is a newsworthy matter that the Obamas went to a breeder for their dog rather than getting one from a rescue shelter.
This is a major problem with the modern issues movements. Some nutjobs have their one hotbutton issue that is usually irrelevant to the world at large and are genuinely confused and offended when no one else cares. Turn on the news some time. Maybe you'll see that there are more important concerns in the world than where someone acquired a dog. Seriously, what has happened to the human race and any sense of priorities?
I have a laundry list of reasons I am not a fan of Barack Obama. His choice in dogs has so low a priority, it can't even see the list. We have a deepening recession, out-of-control spending, ongoing terrorism concerns, pirates on the seven seas, a couple of wars, and various international and domestic crises that all require delicate attention. How does a choice of dog even rate on this scale?
Personally, I was baffled as to why the whole world was watching the White House for their dog selection in the first place. Okay, it's a cutesy human interest story that people don't have to cringe or worry about. I can see that. So why turn it into a cringe or worry fest? It doesn't make sense.
If you actually feel the need to make international news (this story was on the UK edition of Reuters), can you at least try to have something worth saying to the world?
This is a major problem with the modern issues movements. Some nutjobs have their one hotbutton issue that is usually irrelevant to the world at large and are genuinely confused and offended when no one else cares. Turn on the news some time. Maybe you'll see that there are more important concerns in the world than where someone acquired a dog. Seriously, what has happened to the human race and any sense of priorities?
I have a laundry list of reasons I am not a fan of Barack Obama. His choice in dogs has so low a priority, it can't even see the list. We have a deepening recession, out-of-control spending, ongoing terrorism concerns, pirates on the seven seas, a couple of wars, and various international and domestic crises that all require delicate attention. How does a choice of dog even rate on this scale?
Personally, I was baffled as to why the whole world was watching the White House for their dog selection in the first place. Okay, it's a cutesy human interest story that people don't have to cringe or worry about. I can see that. So why turn it into a cringe or worry fest? It doesn't make sense.
If you actually feel the need to make international news (this story was on the UK edition of Reuters), can you at least try to have something worth saying to the world?
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