For God’s sake stop watching Fox News!
It’s Good Friday, the day Christians celebrate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, but there’s another person being metaphorically crucified on Fox News: His name is Barack Obama, and even their own reporters and anchors are starting to voice their unease with the station’s smears.
The brouhaha over the Rev. Wright’s remarks originated with a false claim that Senator Obama was in church when his pastor made some controversial remarks. Obama’s subsequent speech clarified his position, was widely lauded in the media and elsewhere, but Fox News wasn’t to be put off. In typical fashion, soundbites played in an endless loop whilst presenters asked loaded questions. Then, when that was getting stale, an attempt to link Obama to the New Black Panthers was pushed. Next came the clipping of Obama’s comments to a Philadelphia Radio show, in a clear and sustained attempt to smear Obama as a racist.
This is standard stuff for the propaganda station, but today even (some of) their own presenters interjected in what one called “Obama bashing”.
One anchor tried to add balance, but in the end walked off the show:
Another, later chided the presenters thus:
Fox News has long since been vilified by Democrats, and is heamoraging viewers as America increasingly turns to the Democrats (CNN being the main beneficiary), but when your own presenters start fighting back too, it’s time everybody switched Fox off.