Attempted Media Murder

Attempted Media Murder

You’re known as much by the enemies you keep as you are by your friends.

America’s liberal mainstream media, long accustomed to virtually absolute dominance of both print and the airwaves, was initially unperturbed when Rush Limbaugh arrived on the scene in 1984 and it ho-hummed the inauguration of the Fox News Channel on cable barely 14 years ago since it had a steel grip on what ideas and news were disseminated for public consumption.

No more.

Since Limbaugh’s amazing success and the growth of conservative talk radio in general and, especially since Fox has galloped so far ahead of CNN, MSNBC and other leftist cable channels that the MSM can barely see its haunches in the distance, mainstreamers have grown, in turn, wary, concerned and recently apoplectic over the loss of its previous monopolistic control over what people hear, see, and think.

Of course, they still have a lock on televised news via ABC, CBS, and NBC and public radio with NPR but those networks are in rapid decline much like the New York Times. Unlike the Times, they may survive as minimalist news sources with their little niche of viewers who don’t have or want cable and listeners who prefer to be force-fed pap by NPR.

However, leftwingers aren’t about to surrender to Fox, yet.

In fact, at least one influential member of that media has now declared war, an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against the Fox News Network which has morphed into an enemy rather than a competitor. Even worse, it’s an alleged arm of the Republican Party and that can no longer be tolerated nor will contentions the Democrats have owned the MSM for decades.

You’re known by the enemies you keep. You also know those enemies are being driven frantic by your success and influence when they declare all-out war. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4002)

Obama's "Different Belief System"

Obama's "Different Belief System"

In a lengthy interview, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes dropped a big bomb on President Obama saying, without clarification, “He just has a different belief system than most Americans.” That’s a truism known to conservatives for years.

That line came after he said, again without elucidating “He just got kicked from Mumbai to South Korea, and he came home and attacked Republicans for it” which, I guess, Ailes didn’t feel warranted further explanation. Even the MSM is in agreement that the president’s recent $200 million a day junket to Asia was a diplomatic dud and, as for blaming the GOP, that’s been Obama’s modus operandi since Day One, along with the administration’s penchant of hinting that any and all criticism of Obama is racially motivated.

It’s going to be more challenging to blame Republicans and racism for his new childrens’ picture book, Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, dedicated to Malia and Sasha. The Washington Post opines that the book, with a drawing of the First Daughters and the First Dog, Bo, on the cover, might be exploiting Malia and Sasha, although all profits will be given to military charities: http://tiny.cc/es3xq

Aside from the logical question of how a sitting president finds time to write a book, even a childrens’ book, Of Thee I Sing, which borrows that portion of its title from a 1931 musical, political satire and Pulitzer Prize winner by George and Ira Gershwin, supports Ailes’ contention that Obama marches to the tune of a “different belief system than most Americans.” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2699)