By Mr. Curmudgeon
During the 2008 presidential election, 495 publications endorsed Barack Obama while only 215 endorsed John McCain. Many believe newspaper support for politicians accounts for little. However, that does not seem to be the case for the endorsers…the mainstream media. President Obama told the New York Times that last election the “Fox effect” cost him three points in the polls. Obama, of course, was referring to Fox News. The Times is frightened that with the growth of the Fox News audience and revenues, a Fox tsunami effect threatens to take out Democrats in 2010 and 2012.
Strangely, the Times also worries about the effect Fox may have on Republicans. According to the New York Times, “…Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity have been riding a wave of discontent that sometimes puts them at odds with the Republican Party’s establishment, most recently with Fox News’s advocacy of an independent candidate in the 23rd Congressional District in upstate New York. The Republican candidate eventually withdrew.” In other words, Fox News director Roger Ailes, unlike the movers and shakers running mainstream media newsrooms, understands that America’s two party system is in its death throws.
The Tea Party, as its name implies, believes in a return to Constitutional restraint on the power of government to maximize the freedom of the individual citizen. According to legend, when members of the Continental Congress advanced the idea of crowning the victorious George Washington King of Independent America, General Washington is supposed to have refused, saying, “No kings here.” Today, a president appoints Czars as ministers to carry out his royal decrees.
The mainstream media, the Obama administration and many prominent Republicans hate Fox News not only because it is conservative, but also because by covering the Tea Party on its cable news station Fox threatens to upset the bipartisan continuity of ever encroaching government – from FDR to Obama.
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