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Obama White House Fears Fox News

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Many of us who watch Fox News are not Republicans.  In fact, many of the viewers Fox has acquired is due to the pro-Obama slant that belongs to the media in general.  Fox is a news source that has asked the tough questions of the Obama administration.  The Chicago-styled administration can not tolerate old-style journalism represented by reporters such as Chris Wallace and Major Garrett.  

Fox News has its news programs and its opinion programs.  The opinion programs have struck a nerve that Obama and this current White House can not tolerate.  Fox brought to light the Acorn videos of corruption, and the unraveling of Czar Van Jones White House career long before CNN and other news sources would even admit such issues were newsworthy.  We also know that Van Jones would still be positioned in the White House if it had not been for the vetting accomplished from a determined Glenn Beck.  Do we think any news from the Tea Parties would have been  sufficiently covered without Fox News?

It is one thing to present a "slant" on the news, but it is wrong to cover-up or not report information to citizens on the serious misuse of their tax dollars as alleged against A.C.O.R.N., simply  because it sheds a "poor" light on Obama and his political connections.

Yet, as White House officials made the Sunday Shows to disparage Fox as a bastion of Republican talking points, Terry McAuliffe appeared on Fox to say: "President Obama's going to talk to all the networks," said former Clinton adviser and administration confidant Terry McAuliffe, who appeared with Rove on Fox News. "He's going to go out there. He loves competition. He loves being engaged in the battle."

Many will find McAuliffe's opinion about Obama being engaged in battle something that 'Obama enjoys'.... hard to swallow.  In fact, Obama seems to be "thin skinned" when it comes to tough challenges.  Obama operates best when giving speeches, not when governing or making tough decisions.

In the long run though, viewer ratings will continue to tell the truth about Fox.  Americans will go to great lengths to get the real news.  Obama needs to worry about the issues Americans are concerned about...and it isn't Fox News.

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Obama Acting Like Chicago Mayor at Great Expense

House Minority Leader,John Boehner, says it correctly: "Listen I think it's a great idea to promote Chicago but he's the president of the United States, not the mayor of Chicago," Boehner said. "And the problems we have here at home affect all Americans and that's where his attention ought to be."

Politico said the the White House originally noted that Obama wouldn't be making the trip to Denmark due to the pressing issues of Health-Care, and the desperate push to get the bill ready to pass (before Americans have any more time to examine it).

As Michael Steele said,"If the priority is the Olympics in seven years, okay, then tell the nation that’s the priority and that’s what we should be focused on because we’ll create jobs then and we won’t worry about it between now and 2016. But if the goal is to create jobs here in America today, then let’s do that".

Maybe, for the first time on an overseas trip, we will hear Obama say "nice things" about America as he lobbies for the Olympics. He and Michelle will be putting a good spin on Chicago.  Certainly Obama will not feel the need to apologize for all of our gold medals.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27742.html#ixzz0Sdlh5hMg

Glenn Beck: He at Least has Courage Investigating Van Jones

Whether or not you like Glenn Beck, apparently 2.4 million viewers do.  It will be interesting to see if the pressure on advertisers will force Beck off the air as he continues to unravel the possible made-over background of Van Jones (Obama's Green Czar), and the far reaching web of A.C.O.R.N.

Is Glenn Beck hitting on some "nerves"?  Basically, Beck believes that Van Jones was able to by-pass the vetting process from the F.B.I. Beck seems to indicate a sinister thuggery of people protected with Czar status over-populating Obama's
administration, and Beck has also revealed a dark background concerning Van Jones.

Glenn Beck believes the 'White House Thugs" are after the advertisers sponsoring his show. Beck may be right, but if he is chased off the air due to White House "strong-arming", then that should be a warning to our freedom of speech. If Beck is full of hot-air, then that will be soon be revealed.

Glenn Beck's enemies are protesting too much.

Chicago Politics In Place at the White House

The scandal and intrigue already oozing from the White House is  symptomatic of Chigago-Style Politics.  How bad is it, and to what degree would it be known if there were not a sympathetic media in place for the Obama administration?  If pay to play, and reward to political allies, and friends finds its way into policy and is then rationalized away as "saving grace" for the betterment of society, we have Chicago-Style-Politics according to Frank Salvato, Editor of The New Media Journal.

Salvato has attempted to refrain from pre-judging Obama, but has now summed up his thoughts with this:

From Mr. Obama’s campaign staff and tactics to his initial executive actions, from his White House cabinet appointments to the administration’s protection of AIG, each and every action has been textbook Chicago politics, and why not. Barack Obama cut his teeth and “rolled his bones” within the caldron of Chicago’s political arena. end quote.

As the scandal of the AIG bonuses (retention pay) plays itself out, and the Bureau of the Census starts to grab Americas attention, perhaps many will begin to see the rapid expansion of presidential powers for poltical control of the electoral college...plain Chicago politics...rammed down the throats of those "who lost".

Ambiguous Reputation of Obama in Chicago

from The World Tribune

John Fund, Wall Street Journal

Mr. Obama has an ambiguous reputation among those trying to clean up Illinois politics. "We have a sick political culture, and that's the environment Barack Obama came from," Jay Stewart, executive director of the Chicago Better Government Association, told ABC News months ago. Though Mr. Obama did support ethics reforms as a state senator, Mr. Stewart noted that he's "been noticeably silent on the issue of corruption here in his home state including, at this point, mostly Democratic politicians."

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