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Obama Calls Out Rush Limbaugh and Fox News (Bout Damn Time To!)
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President Obama is calling out Fox News and Rush Limbaugh by name for creating a toxic environment that makes bipartisanship impossible.
In an interview with The New Republic, Obama brought up the role of right wing media in killing bipartisanship,
http://www.politicususa.com/obama-calls-rush-limbaugh-fox-news-poisoning-national-discourse.html
President Obama
"One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates. If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it.
I think John Boehner genuinely wanted to get a deal done, but it was hard to do in part because his caucus is more conservative probably than most Republican leaders are, and partly because he is vulnerable to attack for compromising Republican principles and working with Obama.
The same dynamic happens on the Democratic side. I think the difference is just that the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word. And I think at least leaders like myself—and I include Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in this—are willing to buck the more absolutist-wing elements in our party to try to get stuff done.
The odds of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh not punishing Republicans who work with Obama are exactly zero, because Fox and Rush make their money by keeping a large segment of the Republican base outraged. They have a financial incentive to keep the partisanship high, and the national discourse toxic."
In an interview with The New Republic, Obama brought up the role of right wing media in killing bipartisanship,
http://www.politicususa.com/obama-calls-rush-limbaugh-fox-news-poisoning-national-discourse.html
President Obama
"One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates. If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it.
I think John Boehner genuinely wanted to get a deal done, but it was hard to do in part because his caucus is more conservative probably than most Republican leaders are, and partly because he is vulnerable to attack for compromising Republican principles and working with Obama.
The same dynamic happens on the Democratic side. I think the difference is just that the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word. And I think at least leaders like myself—and I include Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in this—are willing to buck the more absolutist-wing elements in our party to try to get stuff done.
The odds of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh not punishing Republicans who work with Obama are exactly zero, because Fox and Rush make their money by keeping a large segment of the Republican base outraged. They have a financial incentive to keep the partisanship high, and the national discourse toxic."
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18 • Wack Feelings Nosign 8Cosign 1Ether GOAT 9LOL •we really gon see that "angry black man " as President the Right Wing Conservatives feared.
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19 • Wack Feelings Nosign 2Cosign Ether 16GOAT 1LOL •Prefect example is how Conservative media has turned on and started attacking Chris Christie for working with the President after Sandy hit
That alone should tell people how fucked in the heads they are
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0 • Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL •The president also conceded that “the same dynamic happens on the Democratic side,” but in his mind, “the difference is just that the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word.”
true story
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9 • 1Wack Feelings Nosign 7Cosign 3Ether GOAT LOL •Otherwise:
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4 • Wack Feelings Nosign 4Cosign Ether GOAT LOL •this is that false equivalency i see all the time
does msnbc have an obvious political side they've taken, yes, are they as bad as fox news? not by a long shot
when have you ever seen someone on msnbc asking for a republican persons birth certificate or constantly saying some republican is unamerican etc. what about rape deniers or evolution deniers, you do not see these people on msnbc
lets not act like the crazy is equally on both sides, it's not. the liberals kind of "crazy" is pushing liberal ideologies like gay marriage and stuff, which is not exactly crazy, while the right sides crazy people are saying our president is a muslim, socialist, communist who wasn't born in this country. these two things are not a like in the least
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20 • Wack Feelings Nosign 19Cosign Ether 1GOAT LOL •I didn't say that "MSNBC" is some kind of "Bizarro world" version of "Fox News" that does all the same shit "Fox News" does, except in the opposite direction.
You don't have to take my word for it though:
New York Times: How MSNBC Became Fox’s Liberal Evil Twin
MSN: MSNBC is less fair and balanced than Fox News, study says
The study in question:
Jounalism.org: Winning the Media Campaign 2012
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6 • Wack Feelings Nosign 4Cosign Ether 1GOAT 1LOL •when you say the bolded, you are asserting that it is just as bad as fox, which as an objective observer, i can say is far from the case
as far as the study i said "71 percent of stories about Romney portrayed him in a negative light, compared to only 46 percent of Fox segments on Obama."
ummm....when romney is saying shit like like 47% and how he's gonna repeal abortion if he gets the chance, there's really not much you can NOT criticize him for. that's not the same as criticizing the president for being a socialist (that's really an insult to socialist, cuz that he is certainly not), pr being a muslim while also being a radical christian, and that he's gonna come and take all your guns away and instill sharia law
when the rest of the world is looking at america like it's crazy, it's solely because of the right wing, not the left wing
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8 • Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether 2GOAT 6LOL •MSNBC..... Left
CNN..........plays the middle
I watch all three then make my decision.
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2 • Wack Feelings Nosign 2Cosign Ether GOAT LOL •You don't have to take my word for it though:
Same study done on the 2008 Election - Journalism.org: The Color of News
However, it does look like one issue with me using "just as bad" is that these studies seem to show that "MSNBC" is actually worse than "Fox News" in terms if bias.
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0 • Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL •All news outlets have an angle but Fox is brazenly biased and racist.
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