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Barack Obama seems unable to face up to America’s problems, writes Simon Heffer in New York.

By Simon Heffer
Published: 8:16AM GMT 08 Mar 2010

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The once mighty Detroit seems on the verge of being abandoned Photo: Jeffrey Sauger
It is a universal political truth that administrations do not begin to fragment when things are going well: it only happens when they go badly, and those who think they know better begin to attack those who manifestly do not. The descent of Barack Obama’s regime, characterised now by factionalism in the Democratic Party and talk of his being set to emulate Jimmy Carter as a one-term president, has been swift and precipitate. It was just 16 months ago that weeping men and women celebrated his victory over John McCain in the American presidential election. If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons.

Despite the efforts of some sections of opinion to talk the place up, America is mired in unhappiness, all the worse for the height from which Obamania has fallen. The economy remains troublesome. There is growth – a good last quarter suggested an annual rate of as high as six per cent, but that figure is probably not reliable – and the latest unemployment figures, last Friday, showed a levelling off. Yet 15 million Americans, or 9.7 per cent of the workforce, have no job. Many millions more are reduced to working part-time. Whole areas of the country, notably in the north and on the eastern seaboard, are industrial wastelands. The once mighty motor city of Detroit appears slowly to be being abandoned, becoming a Jurassic Park of the mid-20th century; unemployment among black people in Mr Obama’s own city of Chicago is estimated at between 20 and 25 per cent. One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the President – told me of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to be unable to solve the economic problem among his own people. Cities in the east such as Newark and Baltimore now have drug-dealing as their principal commercial activity: The Wire is only just fictional.

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When will Barack Obama stop fudging it?Last Thursday the House of Representatives passed a jobs Bill, costing $15 billion, which would give tax breaks to firms hiring new staff and, through state sponsorship of construction projects, create thousands of jobs too. The Senate is trying to approve a Bill that would provide a further $150 billion of tax incentives to employers. Yet there is a sense of desperation in the Administration, a sense that nothing can be as efficacious at the moment as a sticking plaster. Edward B Montgomery, deputy labour secretary in the Clinton administration, now spends his time on day trips to decaying towns that used to have a car industry, not so much advising them on how to do something else as facilitating those communities’ access to federal funds. For a land without a welfare state, America starts to do an effective impersonation of a country with one. This massive state spending gives rise to accusations by Republicans, and people too angry even to be Republicans, that America is now controlled by “Leftists” and being turned into a socialist state.

“Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.” The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by “progressives” who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects. The public loves it, and it is manifestly stirring up political activism against Mr Obama, and also against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservatives. However, it is arguable whether the now-reorganising Right is half as effective in its assault on the President as some of Mr Obama’s own party are.

Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism. The sound of the squealing of brakes is now audible all over the American press; but the attack is being directed not at the leader himself, but at those around him. There was much unconditional love a year or so ago of Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s Chief of Staff; oleaginous profiles of this Chicago political hack, a veteran of that unlovely team that polluted the Clinton White House, appeared in otherwise respectable journals, praising the combination of his religious devotion, his family-man image, his ruthless operating technique and his command of the vocabulary of profanity. Now, supporters of the President are blaming Mr Emanuel for the failure of the Obama project, not least for his inability to construct a deal on health care.

This went down badly with friends of Mr Emanuel, notably with Mr Emanuel himself. His partisans, apparently taking dictation from him, have filled newspaper columns and blogs with uplifting accounts of the Wonder of Rahm: as one of them put it, “Emanuel is the only person preventing Obama from becoming Jimmy Carter”. They attack other Obama “sycophants”, such as David Axelrod, his campaign guru, and Valerie Jarret, a long-time friend of Mrs Obama and a fixer from the office of Mayor Daley of Chicago who now manages – or tries to manage – the President’s image. These “sycophants” have, they argue, tried to keep the President above politics, letting Congress run away with the agenda, and gainsaying Mr Emanuel’s advice to Mr Obama to get tough with his internal opponents. This naïve act of manipulation has brought its own counter-counterattack, with an anti-Emanuel pundit drawing a comparison with our own Prime Minister and ridiculing the idea that Mr Obama should start bullying people too.

The root of the problem seems to be the management of expectations. The magnificent campaign created the notion that Mr Obama could walk on water. Oddly enough, he can’t. That was more Mr Axelrod’s fault than Mr Emanuel’s. And, to be fair to Mr Emanuel, any advice he has been giving the President to impose his will on Congress is probably well founded. The $783 billion stimulus package of a year ago was used to further the re-election prospects of many congressmen, not to do good for the country. America’s politics remain corrupt, populated by nonentities whose main concern once elected is to stay elected; it seems to be the same the whole world over. Even this self-interested use of the stimulus package appears to have failed, however. Every day, it seems, another Democrat congressman announces that he will not be fighting the mid-term elections scheduled for November 2. The health care Bill, apparently so humane in intent, is being “scrubbed” (to use the terminology of one Republican) by its opponents, to the joy of millions of middle Americans who see it as a means to waste more public money and entrench socialism. For the moment, this is a country vibrant with anger.

A thrashing of the Democrats in the mid-terms would not necessarily be the beginning of the end for Mr Obama: Bill Clinton was re-elected two years after the Republicans swept the House and the Senate in November 1994. But Mr Clinton was an operator in a way Mr Obama patently is not. His lack of experience, his dependence on rhetoric rather than action, his disconnection from the lives of many millions of Americans all handicap him heavily. It is not about whose advice he is taking: it is about him grasping what is wrong with America, and finding the will to put it right. That wasted first year, however, is another boulder hanging from his neck: what is wrong needs time to put right. The country’s multi-trillion dollar debt is barely being addressed; and a country engaged in costly foreign wars has a President who seems obsessed with anything but foreign policy – as a disregarded Britain is beginning to realise.

There are lessons from the stumbling of Mr Obama for our own country as we approach a general election. Vacuous promises of change are hostages to fortune if they cannot be delivered upon to improve the living conditions of a people. The slickness of campaigning that comes from a combination of heavy funding and public relations expertise does not inevitably translate into an ability to govern. There is no point a nation’s having the audacity of hope unless it also has the sophistication and the will to turn it into action. As things stand, Barack Obama and America under his leadership do not.

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Barack Obama Get feed updatesComment Get feed updatesSimon Heffer Get feed updatesPersonal View Get feed updatesUSA Get feed updatesNorth America Get feed updatesComments: 616

Good read, but please don’t forget that the Telegraph endorsed Obama. It upset me and I wrote a note to the editor at the time.
mark adams, California
on March 09, 2010
at 12:02 AM
Report this commentI had to laugh at the comment that British people don’t comment on American newspapers, and that nobody cares what Americans think. Oh really? I guess the reason we have this in-depth article in a British paper is because we don’t matter…
The fact is that England and the US share history, many common values, and culture (despite what some haughty Europeans may think. Our history and future are tied together. What happens here affects what happens there (and vice-versa).

Jim
on March 08, 2010
at 11:58 PM
Report this commentNobody wants to admit Obama’s obvious agenda is his hero Alinski philosophy: Collapse the system by overwhelming it (debt, spending, 2000 page omnibus bills) then when the US economy is no more, bring in the fascist, communist regime by Marshall law. It just a matter of time (short) now and Obama isn’t worried about being popular because he will be the next Hitler….very, very soon.
Beeker Tombstone
on March 08, 2010
at 11:57 PM
Report this commentObama campaigned on change. The stupid people who voted from him didn’t ask him what kind of change. Now that Americans see his change is socialism, they dont want nothing to do with it. Obama is toast. Democrats are toast. American left leaning liberal progressives are toast. In November they will send all the socialists packing. Hopefully they can recover the damage the progressive have caused in a reasonable amount of time.
Eyeball
on March 08, 2010
at 11:57 PM
Report this comment”it’s message is the construction of the socialist state” How crazy is that? It’s not like they took over banks, an insurance company, companies like the car manufactorers, attempting to take over health care and had a complacent MSM. Oh wait, they did. That does qualify as socialism.
Shane
on March 08, 2010
at 11:51 PM
Report this commentI just want to remind all the American conservatives here that your boy W created most of the crap he’s drowning in currently. His administration would have had a LOT less to balance–while also attempting new methods in the country, which I hate to tell you, are long overdue and ultimately necessary. This would allow him to govern from the center, which paradoxically is the howl of so many right-wing nutcases. I hope you conservatives have noticed that the only successful legislation Obama has pushed through have been conservative policies (Bush tax continuation, guns in national parks, etc). Get with reality to fuel your complaints, please. The “our America”, the “America my grandpa knew” is gone, and that’s ok. We simply CAN’T continue the way we have, and that doesn’t mean you’ll lose your Bible or your rifle, as you are still so worried about. It simply means a new approach to many things, and that’s going to be true whether you have a white Republican or a black Democrat, which is truly truly truly the only reason so many conservative (read: white. How many black folks do you see at Tea Bag conventions? NONE.) airbags are so upset: a black man is telling that how it’s gonna be.

Yours truly from a blond-haired, blue eyed white boy from Virginia.
Mark Wall
on March 08, 2010
at 11:42 PM
Report this comment“The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”
Thanks for the good laugh. For this Yank, there is no greater torture than being stuck in a hotel room in Europe with CNN International and the BBC presenting their impartial version of the news.
Gary
on March 08, 2010
at 11:42 PM
Report this commentWell said
Roger
on March 08, 2010
at 11:41 PM
Report this commentThis president does not get it. The American people do not want this bill. This is not about partisan politics, it is not about health care insurance companies, it is the public telling him no. I mean, if he has to bully congress to vote the thing in, maybe they know something he doesn’t. Maybe they actually know that their jobs are on the line and that their constituents do not want this bill.
Kurt
on March 08, 2010
at 11:41 PM
Report this commentWhat a joke. When I read the Telegraph these days I might as well be watching Fox News! I used to wonder why these US conservatives would read and comment here, but now it’s clear they’ve taken over.
Laura
on March 08, 2010
at 11:36 PM
Report this commentHow can a British news rag discern the nuances of American politics?

Cant blame Fox news for Obamas unbelievably horrible political views on wealth redistribution. This worldview simply does not line up with the US Constitution(of course neither did idiot Bush’s world view).
Fred
on March 08, 2010
at 11:36 PM
Report this commentFox News is NOT right wing. It only APPEARS to be such as compared to the LEFT WING media that falsely asserts itself as a non-partisan Center. The Media “journalists” have been educated through the leftist prism that IS American Education today. With No Benchmark of reality, the moral relativist-educated news media erroneously believes itself to be “moderate”. However, based on objective evidence, it is clearly BIASED severely to the LEFT.
NCMike
on March 08, 2010
at 11:35 PM
Report this commentThe notion that Fox News is unfair to Obama, but the other news organs slavish fawning over him is “fair” is preposterous.
Fox News gives him the scrutiny EVERY OTHER PRESIDENT has received, it’s just that Liberals only like fairness when they can control it.
peter
on March 08, 2010
at 11:35 PM
Report this commentIt appears that reality has set in – people are overtly recognizing the obvious, namely that Obama at best is totally unqualified to guide a business such as the USA is. How far behind is the realization that he and his comrades wish only to destroy the ‘classic’ USA in favor of a socialist state.
Jack Frost
on March 08, 2010
at 11:31 PM
Report this commentSadly, we have come upon the end result of socialistic government. Overpromised and underfunded. Obama et al see the nation as a big GDP which they can manage…picking winners and losers at their whim. We are broke. The Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, CHIP etc programs are heart-warming in intent, generous in spirit, buy stupid as hell when it comes to financing them.

We need to go back to square one.
SBrock
on March 08, 2010
at 11:31 PM
Report this commentThe number and quality of comments reflect well on this article.

The Fox News story line is a sideshow. People are agitated becuase they feel this presidency’s potential failure will be of historical consequence. I lived half my life under communism and I studied constitutional America. Obama is far from socialist, he is just trying to adjust America to a post-Western world. My view is that, tragically for him, he might be at least 50 years ahead of himself. He will not only be pitied but detested, completely wrong type of a person to run America.
Milan
on March 08, 2010
at 11:31 PM
Report this commentThe only way for the country to redeem itself is to vote Obama out of office and hound him for the rest of his life for the lies he’s told the American people. What will he do when he becomes a piriah to his “base,” and no longer has a million dollars to blow on lawyers fighting off attempts to dig up his past? The jig will one day be up for Mr. Sotero. When the truth comes out, he will be ridden back to Indonesia on a rail — if they’ll take him. The best he can hope for is to be remembered as the man who cheated ALL Americans out of their first black president. May his name become a by-word for treachery.
Jiggs
on March 08, 2010
at 11:30 PM
Report this comment@ Ganpat Ram

“Obama is an excellent President”.

Triumph the insult dog would follow that line up nicely with his famous catch phrase. LOL

And most Americans would laugh right along with him now.

Ya gotta laugh these days, or you will be crying.

Come election day this November, we will see just how “excellent” a president Obama has been as republicans take the house and senate back.
Jack Burton
on March 08, 2010
at 11:25 PM
Report this commentIT SEEMS THAT OBAMA HAD THE BEST CHANCE TO BECOME A AFRICAN ICON BY BEING A GREAT PRESIDENT. HIS WANT TO CHANGE ALL ITEMS BIG & SMALL SOMEHOW SHOWS A LACK OF JUDGEMENT. INSTEAD OF SOLVING THE ECONOMIC ISSUE, HE’S DAMAGING THE ECONOMY BY TRYING TO FIX ALL ITEMS AT ONCE, WHICH WON’T HAPPEN. BUILD THE BLOCKS TO ALLOW YOU TO CHALLANGE OTHER ISSUES, ONE AT A TIME. HEALTH COVERAGE NEEDS WORK, BUT NOT AT 1 TRILLION DOLLARS IN 10 YEARS, WE AS A NATION CANNOT AFFORD IT. HOPE OBAEMA CAN COME TO A REALIZATION ON THIS ISSUE AND MAKE A CHANGE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES THAT CAN BE CHANGED IN HEALTH CARE
CARL
on March 08, 2010
at 11:25 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer, your article should be required reading for every voter in the U.S. You have given us a snapshot of our current state. The only thing missing is the upcoming blatant grab for lasting empowerment that will laughingly once again be called immigration reform. Thanks for the view from outside.
DWGraham
on March 08, 2010
at 11:24 PM
Report this commentThe short version…

OBAMA

One
Big
Ass
Mistake
America
Jack Burton
on March 08, 2010
at 11:20 PM
Report this commentObamas problem is the Truth and the fact that the American people do not like what he is doing.
bilbo
on March 08, 2010
at 11:19 PM
Report this commentMr. Obama or Soerto or whatever this guy’s name is and wherever he was born is an absolute train wreck in progress for the American people. Many, including myself tried to warn so many Americans, but for their ignorant idolotry with regards to the man, they voted for him and they received their just desserts. As a result they have little hope and more chains.
RWH
on March 08, 2010
at 11:13 PM
Report this commentI came to the Comments section in order to correct Mr. Heffer’s characterisation of Fox News. Now I can see that isn’t necessary. All I can add is what I posted on my own website the morning after Obama was elected:

“I’ve never much cared for H.L. Mencken’s dictum that ‘Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.’ It has always struck me as cynical, elitist, snotty…and a little bit unpatriotic. But it rings true for me today, because the American people have elected The Flim-Flam Man as their next President.

“Barack Obama has done nothing but spout a string of extravagant campaign promises that would have been laughed off the national stage if they’d been made by a white candidate decades ago, when the populace was supposedly much more credulous and less media-savvy that today’s jaded ‘sophisticates.’ And his chief catch-word, ‘Change,’ should have been the biggest laugh-line of all, because it was a tired cliché even in those bygone days of yesteryear…

More: http://www.standingonthedeck.com/uploads/The_Flim-Flam_Man.pdf

John D.
on March 08, 2010
at 11:12 PM
Report this commentpeople watch Fox news because they are tired of being preached to by CBS, NBC and ABC about how wonderful Obama is and why we need to follow is far left agenda. most people realize you can’t add 30 million people to medicare or medicaid and save money, despite what Obama says.
Jim
on March 08, 2010
at 11:12 PM
Report this commentWas that a British citizen typing about a media with impartiality? really? Are you serious?

I lived in the UK for 5 years and was horrified at the openly partisan newspapers, the forced taxation to support the state-run-media outlet (BBC), and the constant spew of unbalanced indoctrination which came out of BBC daily.

It just seems stark to the author because UK has no equivalent in the entertainment-news forum which speaks to conservative values…just channel after channel of liberal/labor evangelism. So FoxNews must be shocking by contrast…but is in fact nothing more than balanced news/opinion from the non-Left side of the aisle.

Maybe there was a degree of dry Birtish humor in that statement which I missed but to quote John McEnroe – “You CANT be SERIOUS”.
James DeLoach
on March 08, 2010
at 11:11 PM
Report this commentAmericans are loosing the privilege of being the last free-people on the planet, not governed and controlled (yet!) by a socialist agenda. Americans are looking at the end of the great American Experience that drew us to her welcoming shores. Americans are living as close to the edge of the great American Nightmare as they possibly can go. I’ve lived in America. Nice place! Nice people, save in Chicago, the home of the Obama’s. I weep for America. Oh, how we will miss you once you’re gone. You wanted this disaster (neoCommunist Democratic Solution to all your problems) — you got it. Down on your knees America — and pray for His salvation. Right now, you are being ruled by a bad-mannered, bad-tempered, professional agitator, not a messiah.
Joel Rachmann
on March 08, 2010
at 11:06 PM
Report this commentObama is following his plan. Read the following from teh American Thinker. This is scarey.

Why Obama won’t stop pushing health care reform
Greg Halvorson

It has been said often, and with more eloquence than I, that Barack Obama’s priorities are misplaced. Where are the jobs pundits are asking? But even as he lip-serves employment, he needles America.

Vladimir Lenin once said, “Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism,” and it’s clear that Obama and Lenin share philosophy. Clearer still is that Obama doesn’t care. Not about November. Not about your family. Not about your job. What he prioritizes — as evidenced by his push for “reform” — is the “fundamental restructuring” of the American economy.

Andy Stern, the most frequent White House visitor, gave a speech, recently, in which he said: We now have a new metric. The president says he wants to measure the economy by increases in the middle-class. Whether we have shared prosperity, not just whether we have growth-a fundamentally different philosophy than we’ve seen in the country to date.

And Stern knows Obama. The long-held assumption that empowerment of the lower-class will “grow the middle” is gone. Stern went on to say: Clearly government has a major opportunity to distribute wealth…. We stand at a cross-roads, we are at the historical cross-road, I think, economically, in terms of what a new president is trying to do, and a different way in which we’re going to evaluate the economy. All of a sudden, we are witnessing the first new American economy-led by the government and not the private sector.

Chilling. President Obama fails to see America as a land of opportunity, rejects wealth creation, and intends to “grow the middle,” not by lifting the poor, but by shrinking the top. This explains his obsession with health care-the “keystone” is in reach.

And should he grab it, we will all be less free.

D Richards
on March 08, 2010
at 11:05 PM
Report this commentFrank Clark,

You have encapsulated the problem by personifying the populist rage.

I’m a limited-government conservative. An earlier poster apparently is not because of a lack of the “public option”. Yet was are all yelling at each other. Why? Because we both cannot get our way.

A big government will inevitably create an uncivil society. It will therefore fail.

I cannot say how long the U.S. will last, but over 200 years makes this republic very “long in the tooth” by historical standards.
John Navratil
on March 08, 2010
at 11:05 PM
Report this commentFox news is not making up the news They are just reporting stories that the state controled media won’t.
Robert Loranger
on March 08, 2010
at 10:59 PM
Report this commentI have to respond to Matt
on March 08, 2010
at 04:35 PM

Stem cell research was never, ever illegal under Bush. He did cut off Federal funding however. Labs, universities etc., could get private funding if they chose.

The Michael J. Fox foundation (as an example) still carried out research on stem cells. I know because my friend under went stem cell therapy paid for by the Fox foundation.
Kelly
on March 08, 2010
at 10:59 PM
Report this commentThis hasn’t been unpredictable for those of us who lived through Jimmy Carter. Once fooled,twice shy. He came on like gang busters with nothing of substance in his speeches. He cleverly appealed to the younger generation, which I must admit was brilliant,via the internet. It appeared as a competition of the generations.
Now we reap the results. I have yet to hear any admissions of a mistake by those who voted for him.
mellow fellow
on March 08, 2010
at 10:53 PM
Report this commentJust DisHeartning, Sad, Teary Eyed :,>( …ENOUGH of HOPEY , CHANGEY …The GRIM REAPER As PRESIDENT ……
CSea
on March 08, 2010
at 10:53 PM
Report this commentObama’s problem is not Fox News. His problem is the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. If Fox is not impartial, what is MSNBC? Fair and balanced? Keith Olberman, ever heard of him???
Scott
on March 08, 2010
at 10:53 PM
Report this comment“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

Author Unknown

Bourgeois
on March 08, 2010
at 10:53 PM
Report this commentVery well said!

Im my mind a very honest assessment of where our country is today and is going tomorrow.
Mark Lundquist
on March 08, 2010
at 10:52 PM
Report this commentCHANGE: It’s all you’ll have left in your pockets.
jay randall
on March 08, 2010
at 10:52 PM
Report this comment”Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.”

wrong. Obama’s big problem is that america is still a free country. people are free to seek information where they want, and believe what they feel is best and most truthful.
peter
on March 08, 2010
at 10:52 PM
Report this commentMuch what you read in this article you’ll never see it wtitten in any American newspaper, journal, newsletter, etc, etc.

Why is Fox News a target. Everything the author says is wrong with Fox I figure what is wrong? Is it all lies and made up? No! What’s the problem with Fox?
GLL
on March 08, 2010
at 10:51 PM
Report this commentVictor on March 08, 2010 at 02:25 PM said: “Four times as many people are getting their perspective from Fox News. That is because four times as many people CHOOSE to watch Fox News. If Fox News’ coverage leans to the right, then that also means four times as many people also lean to the right politically in the USA.”

The job of the news media is to report the facts. Fox News excels at telling a right-leaning US audience what they want to hear. That is not journalism.

The rest of the news media isn’t much better.
JimBeam
on March 08, 2010
at 10:46 PM
Report this commentI have never liked Obama. He does not have the sense for running a country. As he won’t show his birth certificate, is he a terrorist sent here to ruin our country? He has almost bankrupt it now. When will he finish the job?
Martha G. Means
on March 08, 2010
at 10:45 PM
Report this commentThe whining liberals are whining because they couldn’t win any of their arguments on FACTS alone; much like Dan Rathers comment that BHO couldn’t sell watermelons even if he had the help of State Police flagging down motorists.

I WANT THIS MORON OUT OF POWER, IMPEACHED, GONE!
Punkindrublic
on March 08, 2010
at 10:45 PM
Report this commentNegro? Really who says negro anymore except Harry Reid.
ML
on March 08, 2010
at 10:43 PM
Report this commentAmerican journalism is, as a whole, sloppy, sensationalistic and biased (one way or the other). For what it’s worth, Fox News is the best of the worst.

I remember not too long ago someone gave a current events quiz to viewers of the major U.S. news networks as well as to viewers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a comedy news program. The Daily Show viewers beat the networks hands down.

That tells you all you need to know about the quality of American journalism.
JimBeam
on March 08, 2010
at 10:42 PM
Report this commentYou would think of Detroit, Chicago even, as the heartland of the Obama vote. Deconstructed, that makes it tribal, his supporters clients – and the issue of what is being delivered to them central to his standing, his prospects.

People bought into *change* but that costs money – a lot more money than was donated to the Obama campaign machine, to fancy slogans, hype and that presidential auditorium built as a mere prop for one of his speech opportunities.

Because that is what unelected politicians do best isn’t it – speak? You talk your way into power, into a job, and then you stop having to talk – and you have to do. Obama relied on votes from benefits-dependent communities, many of them minorities, and not all of them in that state because work has lately disappeared in the vicinity. In the current climate he can’t deliver them a thing.

Being able to talk is not the same as being able to make things happen, to deliver what was described as *Change*. The jolly campaign slogans which swept everyone along have evaporated and an America with no spare change for *Change* is left behind – and that realisation is plain in those elected subsidiary politicians who will not enable what Obama said he wanted to do.

If Obama had gone honestly to the hustings and said “America is broke – let’s build a welfare state with no money” – exactly how far would he have gone in the election process? Now you see the gulf between rhetoric and reality which money bridges so deceitfully with spin and hype.

simon coulter
on March 08, 2010
at 10:34 PM
Report this commentThe administrations biggest problem, is they’re watching to much TV and blaming it for their problems. What a sad way to govern and lead. Where’s that change we were promised? Oh wait, it’s the change in my back pocket, a quarter, a dime, 3 pennies.
John
on March 08, 2010
at 10:33 PM
Report this commentPlease, spare us the “socialist” and “marxist” references. Conservatives seems to have completely forgotten about Bush’s Medicare Prescription Drug benefit or the billions spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have carried on for years. I didn’t see any Tea Parties forming on those huge government issues. If Obama is a socialist he is a socialist just like Bush. Bush never reduced the size of government or the deficit. Actually he exploded both during his two terms.

The question really is if Obama fails and is replaced what do we get next? Sarah Palin? Mitt Romney? John McCain?

And please spare us all the racist spew. It casts a shadow on every American for anyone to bring the guy’s race into the conversation. So you don’t like his ideas. We disparage a guy because of the color of his skin? How on earth do this matter?

If you want to really understand whats happening in the world try reading the Economist and other financial and policy journals.

Being informed and intelligent is actually something we conservatives should strive to become. Fox News is quite the opposite.
Sully
on March 08, 2010
at 10:33 PM
Report this commentHilarious! Fox news pours out rage 24 hours a day. Anything that offers a perspective that differs, even slightly, from the media that is to the left of Obama/Pelosi/Reid is ‘Hate’ ‘Rage’ ‘Racist’ ‘Neanderthal’ ‘Redneck’.

the fact of the matter is that if you disagree publicly with the left, you are labeled and targeted for destruction by any and all means. Because they are the bigots. Obama is the greatest gift to Bigots since Jefferson Davis.
GMG
on March 08, 2010
at 10:32 PM
Report this commentAmericans have an unrivalled ability to rant and dramatise. The torrent of moronic abuse following this article is hilarious.
Donald Chan
on March 08, 2010
at 10:32 PM
Report this commentWhen the US network “news” went in the tank for Barack Obama they did the best thing for Fox News as people knew they could not longer trust them for objectivity. Now they reap…and weep. As far as the educational system being filled with leftist socialist teaching, that’s an evolution that is in it’s third generation now…and they get worse at teaching every year which speaks to the real reason that America has lost it’s edge. We turn out far too many liberal arts graduates and way too few engineers. Combine this with the tipping point being reached with the number of people with their hands out getting close to the amount of citizens who are willing to work and you see the fall of Rome once again. Our best days are in the rear views. We have squandered that which was bequeathed to us by the hard work and blood of our parents and grandparents.
Czechbikr
on March 08, 2010
at 10:25 PM
Report this commentI’m quite sure that the comment boards of U.S. news publications are frequented by and infested with British commentators.And there are two reasons for that:

We have a competant media, and (increasingly) no one really cares what Americans think.
Paul
on March 08, 2010
at 10:25 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer,
How would you feel if you woke up one morninig to the reality that an extremely inexperienced individual was just elected to run your country for the next four years? We’re 13 1/2 months into that nightmare now. We owe four times what we owed before he got there and he and his cronies are not yet done. What leadership did Mr. Obama have besides being President od the Harvard Law Review? None that ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN ever told me about; and I was listening! Our financial woes are from poor decisions in the Mortgage industry dating back over 10 years. Guess who are the leaders in Obama’s administration? Obama is nothing more than Pelosi and Reid’s puppet, and they don’t even know which way to pull the strings now. I invite you to come over here and watch our Televisions for a week. No, not FOX, CNN or the others, but just plain ole channels being broadcast for entertainment. The majority of the ads are for credit help, mortgage help, “insurance” programs and even extended car warranty programs. All of these use some snippet of our President to hawk their scams. Its been this way since he took office. Imagine your Prime Minister or even your Royals being used free of charge for this kind of crap. I bet you wouldn’t see it for long, your government would shut them down. The Obama Administration allows it to keep his Messiah face on the tube wherever and whenever possible. This is shameful! I have respect for Obama because he is the president, not much else. I only wish he had that much respect for himself and the people that he is supposed to be leading in these difficult times. God bless us all over here and give us all the strength of mind and common sense to choose a strong leader to replace him in 2012.
Fred
on March 08, 2010
at 10:24 PM
Report this commentSir, I strongly suggest you actually watch Fox News before commenting, there is only one “personality” on there that uses the term “progressive” and he’s on for one hour mon-fri.

Furthermore, I as an American resent the fact that by your reason we are only riled up because of a Cable News Network.

Obama has done quite enough all on his own to rile us up, we don’t need Telly for that.
charleston
on March 08, 2010
at 10:23 PM
Report this commentSimon Heffer’s insightful views are always a delight to read. Many here took issue with his “technical rule of impartiality” comment. I have read his columns enough to know of his contempt of BBC impartiality. Remember we once had a broadcast rule of “equal time”, which in practice meant that any contrary voices were silenced.
Donald Trumbo
on March 08, 2010
at 10:23 PM
Report this commentI appreciate that the newspapers in the UK present, for the most part, a balanced look at politics in the US. I quit reading US newspapers a long time ago. It is not that US media outlets are blatantly biased in many cases but instead of news they express editorial opinions and call it news. The media in the US use whole drawer full of nasty little tricks to take any positive story during the Bush Administration and give it a negative spin. Like this: the unemployment rate dipped to 5.7% this week BUT this was the smallest decrease in 2 years signaling that the tax cuts are having little effect on the economy. Every day it was the same thing. Good news was spun into negative news. Now the reverse is true. Bad news is good news. The CNNs and NYTs shouldn’t wonder why they are losing audience numbers. The American People are politically clueless for the most part but the ones that aren’t quit reading and watching news outlets that can’t separate news from opinion. I want the who, what, where, and when. Those who equate Fox News shows with Hannity, O’Reilly, and Beck are demagogues. One group of broadcasts is straight news and the other is obviously opinion. What is difficult to understand about that?
MadJayhawk
on March 08, 2010
at 10:22 PM
Report this commentMR. HEFFER SIMPLY DOES NOT GET THE CORE OF AMERICA.
Jack
on March 08, 2010
at 10:22 PM
Report this commentMr. Obama’s journey towards the end of the road began moments after he took office. His socialist intentions for America become clearer each time he speaks. It is obvious that his ego trancends the Presidential oath of office.
A Rose
on March 08, 2010
at 10:22 PM
Report this commentI am an American. I do not watch FoxNews. I think Obama is a dismal failure. Deal with that.
Kay
on March 08, 2010
at 10:10 PM
Report this commentOver here across the pond we have a university called Columbia University.

Since about 1917 Columbia has been a training ground for radicals who hate our country. It’s were President Obama got his radical training. Here’s more info: http://historyhalf.com/columbia-university-today/

AmericanBob
on March 08, 2010
at 10:10 PM
Report this commentTo dingbats like expat. Fox News doesn’t pour out rage. There are two opinion shows, Hannity and Beck that point out whom the president chooses to surround himself with and appoint, and yes some happen to be self-avowed communists, lovers of Mao, and leftist whack-jobs that want animals to have lawyers. The president himself said in his book that he sought out Marxist professors and it is now common knowledge that his childhood mentor was Marxist Frank Marshall Davis. He stated the not so good Reverend Wright, a racist and bigot, was his spiritual mentor.

The president wants to “spread the wealth around” has stated the US Constitution doesn’t address redistribution of wealth (socialist/communist ideas)

It’s comical a democrat “source” thinks the problem is that more people listen to Fox News that CNN, et al. The reason is Fox, whether your partisan hack selves can accept it or not, is the ONLY television news source that isn’t left biased in America. The leftist just don’t like that the truth is being exposed and that when the masses can actually hear both sides of the debates, they choose FOX for their news. Its precisely that tone deafness that will sweep these idiots out of office in 2010 and 2012.

roddog
on March 08, 2010
at 10:09 PM
Report this commentFox News is the only thing that is saving our country right now.

They are the ONLY news source that reports anything even close to the truth.

Marc M
on March 08, 2010
at 10:09 PM
Report this commentA very good article with the exception of the comment on Fox News. You seem to have no knowloedge of how the other networks have behaved over the years- MSNBC, NBC ABC etc etc, the likes of Chris Matthews, Keith Oberman and many many more who have spewed their leftish propaganda unendingly and without opposition until along came Fox. Fox has many left wing commentators who hold in check the right wing commentators- Juan Williams. Mara Liasson to name two of many. This channel IS fair and balanced whereas the others never were. So the comment about the rage that they spew is totally unwarranted and betrays a certain ignorance of what is happening at the grassroots of society in this country. Fox is watched by a majority because they can, precisely , get a balanced view and the public, not as ignorant as many try to make it out, are well aware of this.
With regard to Britain’s “technical impartiality” do you ever listen to the BBC? They are the equivalent of this country’s PBS – and totally opinionated to the left. I think you need to either retract some of your statements or clarify them.
Peter McWilliam
on March 08, 2010
at 10:08 PM
Report this comment”… almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media…”
Is there a SINGLE media outlet in the UK which delivers an impartial view of ANYTHING?

Peter Melia
on March 08, 2010
at 10:08 PM
Report this comment”The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”

In the early 80′s I was setting up a satellite dish and using ABC’s network feeder signal to align it. All of a sudden I heard “Hail to the Chief” and turned to watch Pres. Reagan receive about a 10 min standing ovation at the NOW conference in New Orleans. He spoke about 15-20 minutes a popped about a dozen jokes, only one of which was not laughed at by the audience. He got another long, standing ovation as he finished his speech and left the stage. This was a news feeder signal, not the broadcast news. I watched in amazement as Harry Reasoner and Max Robbins discussed how to present the story. Here is how they presented it when their “news” program began: “Reagan received mixed reviews at the NOW meeting”. They played 15 seconds of that one joke which no one laughed at, then they gave Eleanor Smeal 1 min and 45 seconds to say that Reagan was going to drag American women by their hair back into the stone age.

I was stunned. In my college sociology classes the prof required us to read three major news papers and three major magazines a day, and report on what we read. It never occurred to me that the reporters and editors would slant the news. That news was and is slanted was brought home when CNN covered one of the Marches For Life in Washington, DC. Their reporter counted the crowd at 8 AM and reported it as 60,000 people. CNN continued to use that number all day. By 11 AM, when the activities had started, the crowd has mushroomed to completely fill the plaza and down a block or two on each of the side streets. A Park Ranger in the helicopter over head estimated th number to be over well over the number who had attended the pro-abortion rally there some months earlier. I called CNN and was directed to Ed Turner (don’t know if he is related to Ted). I asked why he continues to use the 60K count when even HE can see that the number of people in attendance FAR exceeds that number. I also cited the estimate by the Park Ranger given on Public TV. He said “I’ll stand by my reporter.” and hung up.

And the major media wonder’s why NO ONE trusts them any more? I got news for Mr. Heffer: We don’t trust FOX News, either. They are just the lesser of two evils.
GreyGeek
on March 08, 2010
at 10:03 PM
Report this commentPresident OBAMA is the CEO of the largest Medical Insurance Company in the World! he slams the Private Insurance company’s Prices and service.

While Mr Obamas Organizations Medicare medicaid and The Veterans Hospitals are BANKRUPT, unerpay their service Providers while the Private Companies subsidize by 1500 annually per insured.

The Service given by the Government Programs are abysmal. The state Government mandates causes cost added tp Premium between $160 in Iowa to $1600 per Insured in Rhode island.

Lawyers cause 10-15% Cost to the premium through Pain and Suffering Lawsuits…. and unnecessary defensive Testing by Doctors.

He is the WORST Medical CEO.. he wants to Insure 31 Million more people while Cutting Premiums in Half for medicare and says it is GOOD! Pathetic!
Pepe Perez
on March 08, 2010
at 10:03 PM
Report this commentIt is a shame that Obama’s greatest achievement is both undereported and unrecognised.

A year ago, we were facing financial armageddon, meltdown of a kind not seen since 1929. If AIG and the banks had been allowed to fail as many free-marketers and Obama bashers on here advocated, we would have seen economic and social destruction on an unprecedented scale.

As it stands, the taxpayer stands to be paid off early (and at a profit, this was NOT free money, which most people seem to ignore), the markets are buoyant again, and the credit markets are starting to loan again.

This has been achieved against a backdrop of a war he didn’t get into, and a healthcare system which has been failing for years.

Is it surprising that his administration is failing? Not particularly. But credit to the man where it is due, and this country is in a damn sight better place than when he took office, or would have been with McCain and that idiot woman in charge.

History will judge him better.
Andy Coxon
on March 08, 2010
at 10:03 PM
Report this commentLet’s see, waste a year on health care reform we can’t afford because ‘it’s the economy, stupid’. The Dem’s don’t learn from their own.

BTW the health care bill creates 133 new government agencies, that’s Socialism, stupid.
Keith in TX
on March 08, 2010
at 10:02 PM
Report this commentMy only comment is that I hope all of your readers over there read these comments to get a real sense of the blatant, in your faec attempt to socialize 20% of the dynamic American economy. Alinsky said it best, don’t waste a good crisis. MY fear is that this is onyl the first step in Obama’s transformation. Anyone else anticpating a second dip in the recession??

Allsion: I love most of your thought!!
Bill P
on March 08, 2010
at 10:02 PM
Report this commentWe are exposing the traitors trying to write laws and policies that are against freedom, liberty and US constitution – and they should be in jail.

The progressives and Statists may suggest we need to be locked up for exercising 1st amendment rights, which are both enumerated and god given. It is always interesting and telling since the original liberal, Voltaire, was prone to saying things like: “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”

Progressive Statism is not able to be implemented in compliance with root law/US constitution. Sorry about that. Why dont you move your progressive Statist butts to Venezuela or whatever failed state du jour that is crumbling under left-wing Statist policy. India and China wont take idiots like you, and they are our main economic/geopolitical rivals right now. Idiots like progressives, Statists and authoritarians weaken America by betraying our constitution and make the denigration and disintegration of this superpower all the more trivial by the other autocratic authoritarian governments who want our power.

Progressive politicians have woken the silent majority, and criminal acts of treason will be evaluated if we can restore freedom, liberty and the US Constitution.

CLOWARD PIVEN, what Obama uses to purposely destroy America to recreate the US as progressively liberal dystopia. Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex, every president since JFK betrayed America to it (recently now also the banking oligarchs). 70% of the total budget is Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, welfare, workfare, social security and interest on debt. 70% of your government does nothing but entitlements, and all governments since LBJ robbed those entitlements. This in addition to the facts that even without the looting the mandates are totally un-fundable.

America. Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness and Property. The Constitution. The Bill of Rights.

Nowhere is it within in the POWERS of government to provide a standard of living. Nowhere is this enumerated or even allowed by the powers the government was delegated. Yes, delegated. Powers do not come from the Federal Government. The come from the people and the states. The biggest threat to the constitution is a government plying you with unenumerated “rights” to entitlements and social contracts and the bribe you with your own money! You actually will pay to get your own money back 30 cents on the dollar to feed a police state into wealth redistribution. What a crock.

Dangerous Obama has said this:

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set.

We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. ”

He wants to create an “above the law” Sturmabteilung (SA)/brownshirts gestapo style band of thugs that answer to him.

He doesn’t care if its green, if its Organizing for America, or if its health care and using the IRS to use thug tactics to further shakedown America. This horrible ad is a scary precursor of things to come in America.

These “Teaparty” issues have percolated up with Ross Perot several times before. One might take a look at perotcharts.com before spouting off about progressive liberalism being a good thing. Yet, as Perot and folks like Ron Paul were laughed at in the past, now not so much. You see, they basically predicted the future with shocking accuracy. The deficits, the spending beyond income even during prosperity, the perpetual wars and the unfunded social entitlement programs that have no hope of working even during good economic times is eclipsing American power.

Some are trying to erect a socialist state like that of say, Sweden. Yet, Sweden is a homogeneous culture, small population ~9 million, good natural borders and before rampant taxation moved a number of prolific businesses away, this country of 9 million made cars, cell phones, jet aircraft, heavy industry equipment, gave rise to Ikea, etc.

The problem is simple. The US is 300+ million with a leaky border. Socialism will break this union faster than can be imagined. One might argue this is the point and a Cloward-Piven strategy, but its probably just ignorance.

The US competes with India and China. Brazil and Russia are also players, but the two main players are India and China. These countries are not dumb, are being lead in a much smarter way, and are not shooting themselves in the foot. These “socialist/communist” countries are nothing of the sort, the entitlements are bare to non existent, they foster business, ruthlessly defend local business against foreign business and are more capitalist than the United States. They have more people in their top 10% of every category than the US has people.

So progressive liberals – keep spending, keep expending government and chasing away business and keep trying to turn on the tax spigot (any new taxes for the upper echelons of society will be passed on to the consumer/buyer/renter) and getting less and less revenue over time as you collapse the economy.

Obama is a profligate spender, a friend to the banksters, a traitor that defaces US credibility and currency and is a tool to Statist autocratic authoritarians erecting a police state and defacing the constitution.

All of this spending, particularly on healthcare, is pointless, and if it had a point it would be a Cloward Piven deconstruction strategy. THE USA IS BROKE. Face it. Unemployment @ 10% (UE @ 20%). Underemployment @17%. True Unemployment, who knows? 20+% Can’t tax those who don’t work. 80% of the treasuries in 2009 were BOUGHT BY THE FED. That means the government is loaning to itself with interest that you are paying and inventing money because its broke. 1 in 6 FHA loans, which are new, are already delinquent. The country is broke, and if you are still thinking about getting something for nothing health care you are focusing on the wrong thing right now. The government is the enemy and the government has betrayed you. They have NOTHING, and anything the government does have they TOOK from someone else.

Mick Russom
on March 08, 2010
at 10:01 PM
Report this commentObama is slowly lifting the US from the catastrophe Bush left us.

BTW, Reagan’s approval rating sank to 41 percent as the US jobless rate hit 10.8 percent in 1983, more than two YEARS into his first term. Was HE a failed president?
MG
on March 08, 2010
at 10:00 PM
Report this commentAffirmative Action in Universities and the workplace is unfair and stupid, but Affirmative Action in Presidential politics…gets you an Obama; not too bright, corrupt, amoral and authoritarian.
Spencer de Vere
on March 08, 2010
at 09:59 PM
Report this commentI agree with Cat. It is obvious from your statements that you don’t listen to FoxNews on a regular basis. ABC, NBC and CBS don’t even report some stories that are negative about this administration. Amazing that being fair and balanced is perceived as being against Obama. HMMMMMM.
paulette
on March 08, 2010
at 09:59 PM
Report this commentThe U.S. will recover from the progressive/marxists who have lied their way into power. Hopefully it will not have to be an exercise similar to our first revolutionary war. Will England and the rest of Europe continue it’s slide into the obis that is the new world order of fraud, lies and control by the left?
LeeSTauf
on March 08, 2010
at 09:59 PM
Report this commentI find this crazy in the fact being if a person is against obama then they are racist. Likewise I wonder if the president was actually assignated ( which is terrible) would it be labled as a racist act or because he was trying to turn this country socialist.
will
on March 08, 2010
at 09:58 PM
Report this commentObama has to stop reporting how many jobs he has created and how many jobs he has saved.

In light of the number of jobs that have been lost since he has taken office – its an obvious delusion.

The public isnt that stupid.
marty carlassare
on March 08, 2010
at 09:52 PM
Report this commentI’d simply like to know how Obama became president? He came out of nowhere, has no experience, went to college using the name Barry Sotero and one day ONE of his presidency seals all his records! Now he’s quietly spending millions of dollars trying to keep his birth certificate from being revealed. Something stinks.
Frank
on March 08, 2010
at 09:52 PM
Report this commentIt’s all BUSHES FAULT!!!
chud
on March 08, 2010
at 09:51 PM
Report this commentI do not see Fox News as pouring out rage 24 hours a day.
greg miller
on March 08, 2010
at 09:51 PM
Report this commentHow can Obama just stand there and fabricate fabricate et cetera. Can’t he see that people see him as a liar YES YES YES but he does not care.
joe dillon
on March 08, 2010
at 09:51 PM
Report this commentFour times as many people watch Fox over CNN?
And yet Obama got elected? Yet, Fox is to blame for his demise?

Josephus
on March 08, 2010
at 09:50 PM
Report this commentThey are looting the Treasury and we are sitting by watching.

Shameful and criminal.
texmahone
on March 08, 2010
at 09:50 PM
Report this commentSo it’s FOX’s fault Obama is a total horror? Please, stop blaming a news network for delivering the truth…Obama cant win a 2nd term and it has nothing to do with FOX news.
nycmightyrighty
on March 08, 2010
at 09:50 PM
Report this comment“… But Mr Clinton was an operator in a way Mr Obama patently is not. His lack of experience, his dependence on rhetoric rather than action, his disconnection from the lives of many millions of Americans all handicap him heavily. It is not about whose advice he is taking: it is about him grasping what is wrong with America, and finding the will to put it right. …”

Obama is the first “affirmative action” President, a product of the “bigotry of low expectations”.

Unlike most Americans at every level of society, economic and cultural, Obama displays naive disregard to promises and truth telling. He is flustered and confused with opposition to his policies. He has never known or been challenged as being wrong?

As a product of affirmative action he is not held accountable for what he does, but only to what he is, a person who belongs to a group designated as victims. When compared to persons not designated as victims with comparable intellectual skills, how often did Obama’s performance warrant a pass when others failed?

In a world best characterized as an “African Savanna” American Progressive policies have given us a President uniquely unqualified for the job. What is more tragic is the lost possibility of greatness for Obama. With his intellect he could have been a great President, accomplishing much of what he promised. American Progressives ensured he never received the training for greatness.

As a product of affirmative action, Obama is completely disconnected with America. Americans succeed in spite of being victims, who has not been a victim at some point in their lives? Obama succeeded because he was designated a victim. American’s believe in self reliance, Obama only knows of success as a birth right (affirmative action).

As a man who has never experienced failure intellectually or materially, success being independent of the quality of his intellect and work value, Obama is a very dangerous man as President of the United States. ObamaCare and his monomaniacal desire to enact it despite the expressed wishes of the American people is an example of his danger.

Sarah Palin whose experience as an executive even in Alaska, would have been a vastly better President. She is a woman whose success comes by overcoming adversity (the main stream media’s opinions for example) who fights for her recognition, unlike Obama who is given recognition free.

We Americans have supported and elected American Progressives since Theodore Roosevelt. If Obama destroys America’s ideals with ObamaCare among other policies, we have only ourselves to blame.
William Barr
on March 08, 2010
at 09:49 PM
Report this commentThere is no longer any doubt.
It is time for Barrack Obama
to step down.

Barrack, We The People ACCEPT
your resignation wholeheartedly.

Gene
on March 08, 2010
at 09:49 PM
Report this commentObama is a deceiver and an anti American and anti-capitalist. This wont end well. A narcissist, he stands for so much that is the opposite of America, shame the MSM propagated this as we will all now pay, and pay. But the shift to the right is the result of people’s disgust with Obama and his smooth lies and positions that are so un-American. he’s a radical, and not an honest one. One day people will find out more about this past and that will result in much pain. Do it now, it’s gonna get worse where the President is no American exceptionalist and wants America on trial and to fail, like hi justice dept. What a shame, what a sham this man is.
me
on March 08, 2010
at 09:49 PM
Report this commentExcellent article.
Barbara Bender
on March 08, 2010
at 09:48 PM
Report this commentI love how those who lean or run to the left are all about no-substance attacks and completely leave out facts, truth and logic. That said, why are there so many comments about FOX NEWS on a story that’s from TELEGRAPH.CO.UK? Because they mentioned FOX NEWS in the story? They also mentioned “Red” Turner’s (former) CNN – why aren’t there any childish rants about CNN? No, wait, I’ll tell you – because CNN leans to the left and those who don’t like CNN for this reason simply get the truth, the facts and the logic from appropriate OTHER sources. Some people hate FOX because FOX is honest, fair, respectful and successful. Opinionated? Yeah, on some of their COMMENTARY shows they certainly are – often these shows feature prominent LEFTIST opinion. And if you don’t like Fox, how is it again you know so much about what’s on FOX? Riddle me that!
Albert MacMeda
on March 08, 2010
at 09:48 PM
Report this commentObama is well spoken and handsum… I very proud to be an American that voted the first negro president… the right wing religieus fanatics are to stupit to offer anything nicer
sn
on March 08, 2010
at 09:47 PM
Report this commentOur 2 Party system is the problem. Vote the Individual; NOT the Party!

Ron Paul & the Campaign for Liberty members = We the People!

Audit the Fed (dot) com

Use Jury Nullification to End Unjust Laws & Victimless Crimes!

End the Wars! Save America!
All of them. Iraq, Afghanistan, Drug War, War on Terror, JUST STOP!

s35wf
on March 08, 2010
at 09:47 PM
Report this commentThe writer of this article is an idot and anybody that believes this crap is an idot! You can’t neglect a country for 8 yrs and have it all turn around in 1yr. Any 3rd grader knows that. The writer might as well just say he doesn’t like Obama. At least I would have more respect for him. But this article makes him sound STUPID!! How did this fool get a job?????
John
on March 08, 2010
at 09:47 PM
Report this commentI think God sent Obama to America..just to show how corrupt,and Ignorant,and stupid Americans are…..the still havn`t got it.
Jerry
on March 08, 2010
at 09:46 PM
Report this commentHussien is running this country over the cliff. Impeach now before it’s too late. Make him and all the czars do the perp walk all the way to Guantanamo Bay in irons where they belong.
Proud to be an American
on March 08, 2010
at 09:45 PM
Report this commentYou must realize that only 35 percent of voting Americans admit having voted for BO, while he received about 54 percent of the vote. Like true alcoholics, it seems 19 percent of the voters suffer from blackouts cause by to much cheer. As for your characterization of FOX, please keep in mind that the “mainstream media” (ABC,NBC,CBS) long ago gave up any pretense of objective reporting. The media is in lock step with the liberal/progressive agenda and it makes no effort to hide it.

My country is crumbling under the weight of the “progressive” view that no one should get ahead in life. “To each according to his needs. From each according to his means” is a belief founded upon pure evil. Unfortunately, it is also the driving force behind our president’s agenda….That, and his unquenchable desire for ultimate power.
brwils
on March 08, 2010
at 09:45 PM
Report this commentIn your article you say that the people watch Fox News because they pour out rage 24/7 and thats what the people want. Not so, Fox News is the only network you can hear the truth! President Obama is trying to create a Socialist Country. The only thing Obama seems to concentrate on is passing the healthcare bill that no one wants. He should be focusing on our National Security and our jobless rates. So far he has done nothing to create jobs for the long run. Any so-called jobs he has created are for projects we really don’t need. I watch Fox News every day because I know I will get the truth, not just what Obama wants us to hear. I am 68 years old and have never been so disappointed in a President as I am with Obama. Carter was bad but Obama is worse in that he seems hell-bent on destroying our Country as we know it.
Patricia Hayden
on March 08, 2010
at 09:45 PM
Report this commentI do not watch any mainstream media including FoxNews and I am well aware of the destructive nature of his policies and ideals. People who assume that Obama critics are FoxNews robots are exhibiting the simplistic symptom of believing the media is capable of telling intelligent people how and what to think.

For those that can think for themselves, they will never depend on one news source.
schpluqqqq
on March 08, 2010
at 09:45 PM
Report this commentInteresting that such an accurate and insightful article would come from a British newspaper. Could it be that none of the American press are willing to produce such an honest analysis? Bias runs both ways: FOX is so popular because the Progressives own and control ALL the other media outlets in the States.
GT
on March 08, 2010
at 09:45 PM
Report this commentYou can put every Real American that we elected in a VW,and have room left over.
I had one of R Burr`s flunkies call me yesterday to tell me that his Boss “Burr” told him to tell me that he,Burr, was not in the position to protest the Communist Christmas Ornaments on the Nations Christmas Tree.Such lame comments are made not by a true American.A true American would have snatched the Dam Communist Ornaments off the tree without hesitation.See what I mean about room left over in a VW.

Jerry
on March 08, 2010
at 09:44 PM
Report this commentIf Mr. Heffer decided to research why peop[le watch Fox News, he would probably figure out that it is Center-Right in its news coverage, as opposed to CNN, ABC,NBC and CBS which are left wing mouthpieces for Obama. Perhaps he could site the survey that shows most newspeople in the US are Leftists, but that would entail work. That Picture of Detroit is laughable, I know because I live there. Why not show Comerica Park or the Fox Theater. Perhaps show Slow’s or Mario Restaurant, or the packed stage at the Fisher for plays. Yes Detroit has its warts and its problems, but a Brit commenting on them is laughable.

Barak Hussein Obama is in trouble because he is not listening to the American People To me he is nothing more than a Left Wing Ideologue. Even his health care meetings keep on the citizens and are packed only with his supporters.

So Mr. Heffer, do us all a favor and hop on the Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth, or whatever liner the Brits are using and go back where you came from.
koczani
on March 08, 2010
at 09:44 PM
Report this commentI think America needs a bluecollar candidate this time. One who knows what it is like to suffer the days in and outs of the new American Life. One that will not put up with all the B.S. that seems to surround the whitehouse. One who can visualize the ideas of creating jobs, one that is not reluctant to fine the hell out of major companies who profit 160 billion dollars a year. One who see’s the actual problems that we as a nation face. One who believes in NOT fighting a pointless war, draining more and more from the economy and killing the soldiers who are fighting someon elses war. One that will not keep governmental secrets from the nations population. One to put the power into the hands of where it belongs, that is you and I! We as a nation have absolutely no say so any longer about anything. If I was elected President, I would fix all these problems from day ONE, and not just blow smoke up my citizens asses. Lets face it, there is only one reason that hitler, oops, I meant Obama, won the Presidency, and we will leave it at that. I am a blue collar nobody, but I have made a success in looking out for other people, rather it be helping tha, gain revenue, managing a budget, building up from being in the hole. POWER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!the rest is B.S. anyone have any comments you can contact me bigchief30741@yahoo.com
YoYo Stephens
on March 08, 2010
at 09:31 PM
Report this commentBallack Obama has never actually run anything in his life. Anyone with an ounce of executive experience would not have abdictated the formulation of the stimulous package or healthcare reform to a congressional clique. That is elementary. Changing his inner circle od advisors and enforcers will change nothing. It is Obama himself is the problem. We have an utterly incompetent US President.
Gene Carr
on March 08, 2010
at 09:30 PM
Report this commentwrOng
for America
concerned citizen
on March 08, 2010
at 09:30 PM
Report this commentSure, Fox News dominates because they tell the truth while the rest of network news fawns over Obama and the liberal left. There is a market for truth and Fox’s success tells us that most Americans do not want a socialistic state, and believe in our Constitution.
Here’s another fact: one of the few newspapers (maybe the only major one) whose circulation is actually going up is The Wall Street Journal. Check out their daily editorials and you’ll learn why The WSJ is gaining while most newspapers are sliding into oblivion. Simply put, it the same reason Fox is successful.
Rick Uhlig
on March 08, 2010
at 09:30 PM
Report this commentBarak Obama is a complete disaster to common, ordinary, upright citizens. His paradigm is strangely warped and twisted by those he associated with. He repudiates free market capitalism, the goose that laid the golden egg for America. If that weren’t enough, he wants to spread the wealth of honest, hard working Americans around to those who never earned it and do not deserve it simply because he believes that America has mistreated particular classes of people in the past and he believes it is his time to right the wrongs that have been done. His ethos was shaped by Jeremiah Wright, the fire brand American hater whose theology is neither Christian nor American.
shearwater
on March 08, 2010
at 09:29 PM
Report this commentFor the first time in recent history Americans, courtesy of cable news and the internet, have a ring-side seat into the workings of the cleptocrats in DC lead by the Thief in Chief….and the guy on the street is disgusted by what he sees. Big government serves only itself…..at our expense.
dwight canfield
on March 08, 2010
at 09:29 PM
Report this commentCantillon – are you kidding me? Obama has blamed the Bush administration at nearly every turn since the day his swearing in was bungled. The whole thrust of his administration has been to push the progressive agenda without a shred of meaningful involvement from across the aisle. Until recently, when the election of Mr. Brown in MA forced him to at least publicly display a gesture of bipartisanship.

Conservatives don’t blame Obama for the problems he inherited — they have been in the making for decades with help from hundreds of government and big business leaders. But we sure do blame Obama (and Congress) for using the current “crisis” to recklessly and arrogantly push through legislation and bailout spending that is the exact opposite of what needs to be done to restore economic freedom, strength and sanity to our country.
Greg
on March 08, 2010
at 09:29 PM
Report this commentObama, the community organizer, is a total failure and a tool to Wall Street and the elites. The destruction of the U.S. continues as ‘the president’ issues executive orders going around congress and entangles the nation in nefarious UN treaties. Things are going to get much, much worse, possibly fomenting full-blown revolution. No, I don’t watch Fox news.
jerom
on March 08, 2010
at 09:29 PM
Report this commentThe only reason Obama won was because he ran against a horrible candidate, and he lied his ass off to the American people. People should have seen that this was going to be a hugly partisan administration as soon as Obama put Joe Biden on the ticket, and added Rahm Emanuel, (the spawn of Satan,) to his staff. He’s appionted tzar after tzar with questionable associations and radical political views. People are finally waking up to this Communist in Democrat clothing, and they are pissed that they were lied to over and over.
Redgar
on March 08, 2010
at 09:29 PM
Report this commentMore people watched Fox in 2008 too. If Fox News is the problem, Obama wouldn’t have been elected.

One problem is Obama’s lack of experience. His organizing skills are about using the threat of the race card to avoid confrontation and gain more entitlements. Similar attempts to rally Americans against Wall Street or Insurance Companies don’t work.

The other problems documented in this article are on the right track. Republicans made these same arguments during the election.
Teleprompter
on March 08, 2010
at 09:28 PM
Report this commentThis country amazes me. To think it would take this long to see and understand the socialist handwriting on the landscape of our country. I for one have been watching since the end of Bush seniors(A new world order) first and thankfuly last term.
B Husein Obama and his left wing Democrat hacks did not work a miracle to take over our country, we the people gave it to them. Conservative voter apathy, big business greed, and shear political ignorance paved the way for their victory. Now these low life (Rham Emanuel) Democrat scum bags (Obama,Pelosi,Reed) are on the run. The great silent majority has awakened, or maybe not? Let us not forget the R.H.I.N.O’s and other Republican moderates that were asleep at the wheel, while our country was being hijacked by Bush, Clinton, and Bush. Not to mention over 20 years of a totaly ineffective Congress and House. Obama and his crew didn’t do this to us overnight, let’s not forget that, not ever. All hail a resurgent and Conservative America. I hope an able leader will emerge that can both read and interpet our constitution under God. We Americans are waiting.
Rick mongello
on March 08, 2010
at 09:28 PM
Report this commentMr. Huffer finds Fox News shocking because of it lack of impartiality?

What, then, does he think of MSNBC? Let me guess: Keith Olbermann is the middle-of-the-road voice of reason and logic.

Yes, Britain is surely the center of the universe with regard to professional journalism. Page 3, anyone?
Ted
on March 08, 2010
at 09:28 PM
Report this commentwell articulated…now, for you
o-belivers out there… what, if anything, is incorrect about these thoughts? An example of not paying attaetion…Detroit is not O’s fault…”Dtroit’s collapse is a sign of Obama’s failure” What was written was O has be unable to help Detroit. Not that he distroyed it.
Wilbur Tibbetts
on March 08, 2010
at 09:28 PM
Report this commentThis is from the UK. Now correct me if I am wrong, isn’t the BBC a bastion of leftist wackyness? Fox News has some conservative hosts as well as some liberal hosts. These hosts will never claim to be something that they are not unlike the CNN, MSNBC and AL Jezzera. Frankly, I hear more hate just surfing past MSNBC then I do in listening to Fox.
david
on March 08, 2010
at 09:27 PM
Report this commentYour column fails to delve into just why Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore and other areas are so depressed. I would suggest you look at who has been in control of these localities for the past 40 years. You will find, with little suprise, that Democrat leftists and unions have controlled the vast majority of places like Detroit. Overspending, overtaxation, overregulation and unionization have all killed the golden geese, and if the American person (not people) does not wake up soon, Detroit will be a sign of things to come for us all.
Jedi-Jurist
on March 08, 2010
at 09:27 PM
Report this commentIf CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC were in fact impartial Fox News would not be absorbing all of their watchers and listeners. Fox like any other competitive business saw a niche of unprovided information from those other, “impartial” ‘news’ outlets and stepped in to provide what the public wanted to see and hear. Competition is good for business. Maybe CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS might finally get the message and stop being the unimpartial state-run media outlets that they have become, of late.
James
on March 08, 2010
at 09:27 PM
Report this commentI don’t understand the fixation on FOX news by you writers. Odumbo has ever major network and newspaper kissing his butt. Fox in only one channel.People tune in to it because they know the rest do nothing but cover up and make excuses and NEVER ask the hard questions of the Failure And Chief. I mean the idiot is still pushing the Death Care bill when we don’t want it. His pathetic ego just can’t accept a defeat.He is a Marxist and cares about nobody but himself. He is a spoiled little brat who never had to grow up as all has been given to him his whole life.
Harley2002
on March 08, 2010
at 09:26 PM
Report this commentThe senior Democrat that blames Fox News for their problems, is part of the problem, also. Fox News may very attract 4 times the CNN viewers, but the network news has 10 times the number of viewers that Fox has. The networks are all left leaning. There is no unbiased reporting from the major networks. That seems to get overlooked.
Mark F
on March 08, 2010
at 09:26 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer is spot on for most of his observations; the one exception being his characterization of Fox News. The reason that Fox News is so wildly popular is precisely because most of the time it presents a viewpoint consistent with that of a significant number of TV news-watching Americans. Most of us can sense when we’re being “spun”, and the old networks – ABC,CBS,NBC,PBS,CNN, and MSNBC have engaged in blatant leftist spinning for years. Unless you have unusually short memory, Fox news analysts were fairly tough on Pres. Bush and the Republicans when they engaged in actions that went “against the grain” of the majority of middle class American sentiment.
TheUnwashedMasses
on March 08, 2010
at 09:26 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer,
FOXNEWS actually gives EQUAL time to liberal viewpoints vs. conservative. On the other news channels there is only ONE side presented.. that of the socialist LEFT.
Your article brings up some good points,, but you are LOST about the FOXNEWS channel and WHY it has been growing.
Thomas
on March 08, 2010
at 09:19 PM
Report this commentWhen was Detroit mighty. I lived most of my life just outside of Detroit and is was never mighty. It was always riddled with problems.
‘scott
on March 08, 2010
at 09:19 PM
Report this commentCome on People. Stop lieing to others and lieing to yourself!
The Democrats have had control of Detriot for many years and they and the unions have destroyed that city! Now the Democrats are breaking down our nation the same freaking way!
For all of you that scream Social Justice, Lets me say this. You may get what you think is payment for past wrongs but what you will have left of a nation will be worthless just like Detriot
Holly
on March 08, 2010
at 09:19 PM
Report this commentJeez, reading the comments was much, MUCH harder than reading the article. To put my perspective on Fox News; yes, it is right leaning no matter how any one puts it. People claim the usual line-up is fair and only guys like Hannity and Beck being the far right, that’s not what I see. Fox & Friends in the morning leans right, then it’s decent until the afternoon, when the top “draws” come in. A truly “impartial” news source would have Beck and Olbermann on one after the other. Or on the same show, even. THAT is impartial as both are radical in their beliefs.

As far as Obama goes, I consider him weak. Very weak. The one thing I supported in him was the “Public Option,” and yet now that’s practically off the table because Democrats and Obama gave up on it once it got flak in Congress. The guy hasn’t stood his ground on beliefs until now, and now seems too late. The Republicans are gaining steam with the outrage of the public. By and large, Obama is getting a lot of flak, but most is deserved, unlike the praise he got during the election.
Markus
on March 08, 2010
at 09:19 PM
Report this commentThe sooner we vote this “failed social experiment” out of office, along with his “spawn of the devil” brother , the faster this country can start healing
Rationalist
on March 08, 2010
at 09:19 PM
Report this commentObama is a wolf in sheeps clothing and best decribed as a socialist – As Lenin said, “Medicine is the keystone to the arch of socialism” (see ‘Obama’s College Years: Barry’s Marxism’ @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgOy71oa3hw). Thomas Jefferson apparently saw Obama, Rhambo, Pelosi, etc. (ok Bush too) coming – “If once (the people) become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.” & “When once a republic is corrupted there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Something you Brits could learn from.
citizen serf
on March 08, 2010
at 09:19 PM
Report this commentAmazing that Fox News is reported at four times than CNN.
Good move for them.

Unfortunately, for the reporter of this story, our society is based off of the government’s inability to regulate free speech. Just because big brother regulates British thought, speak, sight, etc, does not mean that this ridiculous Orwellian fantasy applies across the pond.

No, Fox is popular because it delivers a product a majority want. And, from a completely independent American, it does possess a very well balanced debate from all three sides. Obviously, Mr. Heffer does not watch a lot of American TV, but that is not why I am commenting here.

Again, I find it hilarious when people (MSM talkies, etc.) whine about Fox, yet there are ten times the number of stations and programs that churn a 24/7 dialogue of how bad the US is and how the US should be like Cuba/Venezueala/France/USSR/Canada/etc.

Ridiculous.
Jeff Dubya
on March 08, 2010
at 09:19 PM
Report this commentThe lack of experience shows just how empty this suit is !! He does not think or act like an American. He is not a true Christian, but favors Muslim. How in the world did the “fools” of the voting public put these two in our White House???????
Henry Stumpf
on March 08, 2010
at 09:18 PM
Report this commentThe Tea Parties have done more for the conservative cause than the conservative media, in my view.

Meanwhile, it’s absurd to hear a voice from a monolithic media culture criticizing a U.S. media network winning out in the marketplace of ideas, which is allowed to operate relatively untethered, here. Clearly, the author does not believe in such a marketplace.
Anil Petra
on March 08, 2010
at 09:17 PM
Report this commentWe who believe that Karl Marx had it exactly correct have waited for the opportunity to reorganize a fully developed industrialized country into a centrally controlled economy.Managed by the enlightened elites for the benefit of the masses.
Some of the Anglo-Irish will resist but over time their numbers will be reduced.We also have an opportunity to redirect the education of the young to have a proper world view and instruct them as to the need to redistribute the fruits of their labor for the world good.
Control of the teaching and media class have insured a smooth transition and an understanding of the bright new future that awaits the peoples sacrifice.We ahve been able to convert the faithful to benefit of the collective state.
The auto industry is nearly in our grasp and the trade union movement will bring undercontrol all manufacturing.The financial world has been made to see that government control can mean success for those who contribute to a world view organization.
We need only remove the chains of organized faith and the archaic morality to reach the summit.
Individual free will has been replaced by the simplicity of educated group thinking.
When the people understand that there was never such a thing as individual capital,thought and identity our job will be complete.
For a better good for all we can be one.
firebrand
on March 08, 2010
at 09:17 PM
Report this commentThe mention of Fox News is correct. I know many who refuse to watch any of the network’s programming solely because of what seems to be an open campaign to remove the present administration. We can hear and read the terms “communist”, “socialist” “Marxist” and “fascist” used in the same breath to describe the administration as well as Obama himself. And, in turn, he is called a Muslim, ‘not a US citizen’ among other things.

What are truly concerning are the apparent willingness of many US citizens to speak out with loud voices and repeat the same slurs and claims, and the fact that they do seem to have the loudest voice of all in the country today.

Anyone who speaks out against them for any reason (even if to point out the obvious error in some of their wilder claims) is shouted down almost rabidly.

The future looks bleak for freedom, democracy, and honesty in the land that holds itself up as a leading example of those things.

Added to which, it speaks volumes about the increasing willingness – or is it desire? – of people to believe anything about anybody provided that it’s told to them with strong emotions, use of the word “patriot” and a waving flag.

But there are still those Americans who have a clue.
expat99
on March 08, 2010
at 09:17 PM
Report this commentI predict the DNC will not allow Obongo to run again. I predict that in a year you will hear rumours of health problems and that he will announce he is not running for re-election for ‘health reasons’.
Douglas Cain
on March 08, 2010
at 09:16 PM
Report this commentregarding Fox News you say “it pours out rage 24 hours a day”

Which Fox News channel are YOU watching? Rage is ‘poured out’ during the evening hours when it’s Programming section takes over, but the News department does provide news -and not “rage”- the other hours of the day.

In a fairly decent article highlighting the problem American has with Obama you’ve shown your bias, or ignorance, by painting Fox News unfairly.

The problem with Obama is he’s tone-deaf to the American people who don’t want his brand of social reforma, takeover of healthcare, increasing governmental control, and shady back room deals that he promised to Change.

American’s learned during Bush’s presidency that they must be more involved in watchdogging arrogant politicians. We’ve learned the lesson and Obama doesn’t like it.
bess
on March 08, 2010
at 09:16 PM
Report this commentFox News is Obama’s problem?!?Wow. It may as well be, but why have we not heard BEFORE some media being blamed by the Telegraph?? Like CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, NYT, Time, Newsweek being Bush’s problem.
Michael Trillium
on March 08, 2010
at 09:16 PM
Report this comment”Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.”

There’s a reason why CNN is known as the “Clinton New Network” and why Fox News dominates the ratings.

Because Fox News didn’t fall for the Obama worshipping unlike CNN and even more left wing MSNBC.
Jim from Boston
on March 08, 2010
at 09:16 PM
Report this commentIf Robert used to be a Republican, I used to be Napoleon. You have a right to your opinion, but please do not insult the intelligence of other readers by pretending to be someone who you are not. There are very few former Republicans, but thousands of trolls who profess to be.
JCIll
on March 08, 2010
at 09:15 PM
Report this commenteMM said: “Idiots are the ones that are stupid enough to quickly forget that when Obama got on the wagon, it was ALREADY BROKEN!! He’s only trying to fix what OTHERS BROKE….GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS” Your right eMM, it was broken before Obama took over, it was broken by the 2006 democratic Congress who continued the social engineering of Bill Clinton by forcing banks to give home loans to people, mostly minorities, who could not afford those loans. Bush tried to stop and regulate it, but the Dem controlled Congress would not allow it because those loans were going to their welfare leftist supporters. Obama didn’t start it, but his party did and with his leftist super majority in power he has been trying to force their progressive agenda on us, not in bits and pieces, but as an all-out assault. He is is destroying our country, but in the end HE WILL BE STOPPED.
OklahomaBound
on March 08, 2010
at 09:15 PM
Report this commentYes, Obama is afflicted with “tunnel vision,” a neurologicaol affliction associated with episodes of “idee fixee,” “ideological OCD,” and culminating in “health care malaise syndrome.” The prognosis is grim. – Tea Party Patriot
john brookes
on March 08, 2010
at 09:14 PM
Report this commentChildish Americas cast a vote for this person based on perceived skin color, making their vote racist by defiition. Dude’s not black. He’s supposedly half Caucasian, two thirds Arab, one third African Negro. The constant drumbeat of black this and black that is quite simply, RACIST. Bottom line, we behaved like children, now all Americans, and indeed the rest of the world, will pay the price. For our stupidity, we deserve what we’ve got coming.
Jeanette
on March 08, 2010
at 09:14 PM
Report this commentObama’s biggest problem is that Fox News gets more viewers that all the other hack outlets combined? REALLY? That’s IT? Wow. If they can’t see the hand in front of their face, they’re in for a rude awakening come November 2010. Wow. Well, I guess blaming on Bush has run it’s course, so now it’s blame it on Fox!
beth
on March 08, 2010
at 09:13 PM
Report this commentAnother democrat who figured out Obama is in over his head and wants to blame republicans. Had the liberal press done their job during the election we would not be having this conversation right now. Typical democrat – always someone else’s fault.
Zeked
on March 08, 2010
at 09:13 PM
Report this commentBara Ombama is the Emperor Caligula of our time.
Joseph Chiu
on March 08, 2010
at 09:13 PM
Report this comment”The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by “progressives” who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects.”

The author’s first sentence proves the author to be either a hopelessley naive liberal at best, or a complete raging leftist idiot, at worst. The second sentence undoubtedly confirms the latter.

“impartiality”?…….LMFAO!
Pitbullll
on March 08, 2010
at 09:13 PM
Report this commentObama is well spoken and handsum… I very proud to be an American that voted the first negro president… the right wing religieus fanatics are to stupit to offer anything nicer
Geoff
on March 08, 2010
at 09:12 PM
Report this commentThere is a serious issue here, and it’s a matter of who individuals are as opposed to the state. Commenter MacAnou said it well, that we are (theoretically) self-ruled as Americans, that a president is not a ruler. This is a struggle for the European mindset (not all, mind you, but the standard). Self-rule is the very purpose of our Constitution, which is unique in its design as a largely immovable, immutable foundation of government. Citizens’ rights aren’t given by the Constitution, but protected by them. It does not empower government, but limits it. True, it has long been ignored in large part, but here’s the thing: A few comments here suggest that Americans are barbarian for not being a people in “harmony” with a gently totalitarian state. It’s funny, but it’s not individual freedom that is barbaric. No, rather authoritarian government is, even if it says, “Now don’t you fuss, sweetie” while it ties you up and locks you in a closet.
Individual
on March 08, 2010
at 09:07 PM
Report this commentThis Obama guy really doesn’t know what he is doing. He scares me!

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had misspelled the word “advice” would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you have made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the positions of 32 or more Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had spent more than all the Presidents combined since George Washington, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in a short period of time — so you’ll have 3 years to come up with an answer.

Do you miss George Bush yet?

N.L. Clark
on March 08, 2010
at 09:07 PM
Report this commentAs a conservative, I agree Obama has failed. I also think the backlash from Fox News and the Tea Party movement lacks credibility. Here are people who couldn’t care less about spending and big government when Bush and Republican were running the show. America has become unsustainable and lacks the ability to change policy or try new ideas.

Most conservatives seem to blame government for all the issues we face. The reality is government in conjunction with corporations and voter apathy have placed us in this mess. Policies that outsourced our manufacturing base and removed common sense financial regulations have taken a massive toll on our society and our economy.

Fox News is an exercise of majoring in minors. The search for and exploitation of the negative. It offers plenty of rage but little as far a solutions. If you can actually sit through an hour of without being sick your intelligence should be questioned.

Obama’s ideas may not be the answer however, the lack of ideas from the right in the US gives me absolutely no confidence that we can effectively solve the problems we face today.

The last point I want to make is that our country has become so partisan it resembles an English football match. “Our side is the best” is just chanted over and over again regardless of the facts. Politics have become sport here and have completely removed any sense of honesty or commitment to making government work for the people. The 24 hour news cycle, partisan blogs, etc. have fueled this inferno to the point where no one can figure out what is real and what is rhetoric.

Sully
on March 08, 2010
at 09:07 PM
Report this commentThe fact that Bill Clinton is still considered the best prsident by the majority of the people in the U.S., and the fact that President Obama would easily defeat “W” in an election gives me hope for the U.S. We may beat this Republican recession and pass health care reform yet.
berndtc
on March 08, 2010
at 09:07 PM
Report this commentTo get a handle on how fast and how smoothly Obama has fallen from grace, this graph may be instructional: http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Matt
on March 08, 2010
at 09:06 PM
Report this comment@eMM
Yep, that’s Bush’s fault
Joseph Spierdalaj
on March 08, 2010
at 09:06 PM
Report this commentThe mainstream NY/Hollywood media who invested their reputation on getting Obama elected, will not let him fail. Be assured they are searching high and low to figure out a way to redeem his popularity.
Vince Hugh
on March 08, 2010
at 09:06 PM
Report this commentYour comments about President Obama rang true to me. It is true that the President and his idealistic supporters have run into the proverbial wall. At this point it is not clear if they will drive off the cliff but it is possible at this point that uncompromising idealism will do that for you – does anyone remember Adolf Hitler’s version of idealism?

I would say this however about Fox News. You are correct that they have become very popular in the cable news business. However, you imply that it is they that is stoking up the anti Obama feeling in the country resulting in his failures to date. Oh contrer my friend. Please remember it is his party that has the balance of power in Congress and it is only through bumbling within his own party that this result has been produced. The noble opposition has cooperated with the refusal, but this is purely a failure of one party with all the votes failing to compromise its way to success. If he goes down as a one term president, he like Jimmie Carter will be text book examples of what happens when narcissism meets idealism.
A. D. Stewart
on March 08, 2010
at 09:06 PM
Report this commentIf any of the trillions Obama and Dems have spent worked this article wouldn’t exist. The anger in the US has nothing to do with Fox News and everything to do with the dishonesty and incompetence of Obama and the Democrat leadership.
Everything Obama does enriches his wealthy pals and hurts small businessmen, ranchers and farmers. His “Jobs Bill” is a clone of the failed bill Jimmy Carter passed. It will accomplish nothing. There can be no surge in investment and hiring as long as BHO and socialist pals are threatening every private business with massive cost increases to pay for Health Care and Cap & Trade.
Until it’s clear Obama has FAILED America will be held hostage to his party’s socialist ambitions.
rlaycock
on March 08, 2010
at 09:06 PM
Report this commentFox spews hatred like Morning Joe interviews conservatives…right?
Fox spews hatred like Oberman speaks kindly of conversatives…right?
If the MSM news really wanted some respect they would quit interviewing news reporters and talking heads from Salon.com, HufPo, Politico etc..
Citizens of the USA are intelligent enough to see bias when it slaps us in the face.
At least Fox has pundits from both sides…and it is without a tingle up their leg.
If the MSM had just vetted one aspect of Obam’s past we could trust them…but they did not!
Gretel
on March 08, 2010
at 09:06 PM
Report this commentObama, the change sucks
J
on March 08, 2010
at 09:05 PM
Report this commentAfter reading all of whats wrong with the direction of this country, it would sure be nice to see someone do something in congress besides line their pockets with money. And, If anyone had bothered to read the campaign promises of Robin Williams and elected him over any Democrat or Republican, we would have no democrats or republicans and all so much better for it.

John V.
on March 08, 2010
at 09:05 PM
Report this commentI wish I could disagree.
Robert USA
on March 08, 2010
at 09:05 PM
Report this commentIt is amazing that people think the other networks are unbiased. If only you could have heard the curses and yelling at the liberal news reporting before there was a Fox News. Fox News is doing well because the other networks are soo blinded by their ideology and biases the couldn’t recognize the opportunity.
Rico
on March 08, 2010
at 09:05 PM
Report this commentThis is the most perfect, insightful, and truthful article I have ever read about the Obama debacle!! You have accurately expressed the sentiments of millions of Americans who have realized that we made the biggest electoral mistake in the history of this nation. We only hope that we can survive long enough to correct it in 2010 and 2012.
Pat Riot
on March 08, 2010
at 09:04 PM
Report this commentListen, it started after the election. This bozo huddled with his genius economists and what did he do with all this planning? He left the stimulus to his left wing party who thought they were Santa to their left agenda. The man is not presidential material. No matter how good he appears during the campaign, no matter how good his speeches are, the office reveals the man, and Obama’s weak, vacillating, petty, vindictive, devoid of executive experience and not good at it.
stevo
on March 08, 2010
at 09:03 PM
Report this commentHere’s a REAL News Flash:

Faux News is the apologetic sycophant of the RINOs.

Many have awakened that when it comes to DC, the power play is between the GOP and Democrats, to them, the people are non-sequitors.

There are THREE power plays now in America, the Democrats, the GOP and the people.

The GOP has Faux as its voice, the Democrats, most of the other media.

The people are silenCED there, media won’t even take a grass roots’ ad.

But KNOW effectively, when it comes to governing, when push comes to shove, BOTH Parties are Big Gov’t parties and when pressed, they stand shoulder to shoulder against the people.

THAT will be changing, soon.

545 on the Hill, all but Ron Paul must go.
jtsgrandmom
on March 08, 2010
at 09:02 PM
Report this commentFOX is where sane viewers go for a bit of common sense. If you want lib crazy you can go everywhere else.
Ron
on March 08, 2010
at 08:59 PM
Report this commentObama is like viagra for the conservative movement in the United States. His incompetence and his socialist policies will ensure that the Dems stay out of power for at least a generation.
Jonathan
on March 08, 2010
at 08:58 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer: your vison of everything what’s worng with this President is so on the money, he should fly you over here to give him so ,good, sound advice. On second thougt you can not teach an old dog new tricks. This man is too set in his “black liberation” ideologoy and will never have the will or the skills to turn anything he preaches into action.Additionally Americans have no apetitie for it when they are losing their homes and livelihoods to a rotten economy.No sell.
Sylvia
on March 08, 2010
at 08:57 PM
Report this commentIf you buy a house in disrepair and bring a friend to visit, all the while complaining about the mess it is in, they would say “Wow you’re right! Look at the terrible mess you inherited.”

If you had that same friend visit a year later and nothing had been fixed or changed, they wouldn’t be blaming the previous owners any more. They would be looking at you saying, “Why haven’t you fixed anything!”

Wise up!
Wes
on March 08, 2010
at 08:49 PM
Report this comment
I am with Sicario.

I will not vote for an incumbent of any party. After 3 elections, we shall see if it starts to change.

RunsOnCoffee
on March 08, 2010
at 08:49 PM
Report this commentIs another massive federal entitlement program on top of the others no one knows how to pay for the change we need? Some have their doubts. For spirited and civil debate, Fox News is the only game in town.
Doug, Anchorage AK
on March 08, 2010
at 08:47 PM
Report this commentNow Obama wants to sink us more into the vat of acid with tying ten and a half million illegals around our necks. he’s nor bankrupting us fasy enough
RUSSELL CHRETIEN
on March 08, 2010
at 08:47 PM
Report this commentI’m guessing Mr. Heffer never contemplated the probability that the greatest vitriol would be reserved for his comments about FOXNews.

What people of his “ilk” don’t comprehend is that FOX has 4X the viewers because FOXNews reflects their view more closely (not exactly). In his world he’s picturing 1.5 million viewers sitting around their TV sets exclaiming “why do I watch these morons?”

This, in itself, tells me the elite are out of touch. More to the point, if Washington DC truly wants to give the “folks” what they want…just tune in to FOXNews. They’ll find out exactly what that is.

So the proof is in their actions. Instead of “lighting a candle,” they curse the darkness.
Lee Tompson
on March 08, 2010
at 08:46 PM
Report this commentSeriously, I used to be a Republican and even I can admit that FOX News has one purpose and that is right wing propaganda.

Nice thing is I got smart and stopped watching it. Heck, the’re more one sided than Dick Cheney/
Robert
on March 08, 2010
at 08:45 PM
Report this commentWhen you weed out the childish rants by teenies who cannot spell, or apparently read,(‘Berkley’ and ‘Matt 6:38 pm’), almost every comment here is supportive of Fox news and negative about lying propaganda sheets like WaPo and the NYT. Almost everyone is disgusted with the clownish would-be Stalinist in the White House, and many saw it coming.

The unbelievable nonchalance (Berkley) and almost total ignorance of facts (Matt 6:36 and Matt 6:43) shocks anyone who has spent much time reading or studying actual history – not the pablum in the now worthless public schools. As many, many now know, Fox is by far the most popular for one reason: it provides a source of actual reality information to a public from which that type of knowledge has been largely censored – BBC style.

What is most laughable, of course, is a Brit telling us how ‘impartial’ their so-called ‘news’ is.

For all you immature whelps, not yet able to speak or write intelligently, NO: Mr. Obama will NOT win an election anywhere again. And this year’s midterms will probably be the biggest wipeout in history.

Watch and weep.
thx1139
on March 08, 2010
at 08:45 PM
Report this commentJust because unemployment numbers are slowing coming down, only goes to show that there are only so many jobs that can be cut. You cannot get more blood out of the turnip, and a person who has lost all their blood, is not on the way to becoming healthy. Every job in American that can be cut, has been cut. Skeleton crews work double time, for the same pay, and companies are at the bare minumum in order to stay in business. This does not mean a recovery, it simply means there are no more jobs to be lost. We have hit the bottom.
John
on March 08, 2010
at 08:44 PM
Report this comment”This naive act of manipulation has brought its own counter-counterattack, with an anti-Emanuel pundit drawing a comparison with our own Prime Minister and ridiculing the idea that Mr Obama should start bullying people too.”
Obama bullying someone!?! Get a grip! Mother Theresa could tell him to get screwed!
ghost
on March 08, 2010
at 08:44 PM
Report this commentIt matters little who is the President of the United States. The present crisis is a crisis of the debt-based, fiat money system managed by fractional-reserve banks worldwide. We have created a monster and shouldn’t be too surprised that our clever offspring is like Chucky on steroids.

Strike at the root and return to a gold-backed currency. Require that loans only arise from previous savings, andnot fractional-reserve flim-flam. It doesn’t take rocket science to understand the problem of fraud and dishonesty among the money changers…even Jesus was driven to distraction by the greediness of these guys.
acudoc
on March 08, 2010
at 08:43 PM
Report this commentIt’s quite obvious that this author has never even watched Fox News. “rage 24 hours a day”? Hardly. I guess this is what passed for journalism in the UK.
Bob Davis
on March 08, 2010
at 08:43 PM
Report this commentYes, please keep trying to deflect BHO’s problems by blaming it on the previous administration and Foxnews, that will go well with those with whom you disagree. Uh, hello, the financial crisis was caused by issuing mortgages to those who cannot pay them back, at the behest of Fanny May and Freddie Mac, both pressured by progressive politics to give loans to the under financed and irresponsible. Our answer to that crisis is to print more money and just give it away? President Obama’s current popularity is of his own making, with his party’s help. Most Americans don’t want a free ride, instead they want the freedom of self-responsibility and self-determination. If you really wanted to understand the economic issue, take a look at the Community Re-Investment act or the “Fair Housing” act. Both led to this predicament, not conservative views (GWB wasn’t a real fiscal conservative either).
Dean
on March 08, 2010
at 08:42 PM
Report this commentAmen,
Spoken by a man who is looking in our window, and has NO side to take. What part of his observation does the left see as WRONG? Forget about party lines! Put down your party-think, and your union mantra, and vote for America! Find solutions, not blame. Find actionable ideas that benefit EVERYONE! This current plan is NOT working! Wake up America…
Sisao Tresed
on March 08, 2010
at 08:42 PM
Report this commentWe do NOT need large government programs to generate jobs. This administration and the Dems fail to recognize the obstacles they place in the way of job creation. For example, over the past year proposal after proposal has been put forward to reform health care, reform the financial system, increase taxes, and add regulations, all with the intention of making the United States a better and stronger country.

Yet, as a business, trying to understand which of these proposals might become law, what their impact might be on business prospects and competition, and what additional costs they might impose creates a great deal of uncertainty. It has led many management teams and boards to spend inordinate time trying to determine which investments we should make, defer, or cancel and which jobs to create, maintain, or eliminate.

The removal of this uncertainty and the constant drumbeat of new threats against various businesses would go a long way to allowing American entrepreneurial energy to be unleashed.

GlobalSailing
on March 08, 2010
at 08:37 PM
Report this commentA HUGE responsibility for this mess lies at the feet of the American press. Their demonstration of “an idiotic level of idolatry” is what has driven the popularity of Fox News. Even those clinging to guns and religion know when they’re not being told the whole truth.
TMan
on March 08, 2010
at 08:37 PM
Report this commentI am surprised that so many people believe as I do, as revealed by these comments. I think we should take steps, pursuant to any such provisons in the Constitution, to oust this man and all his czars from office immediately. The reason he has wanted to close Gitmo is now revealed; he realizes that is where he should eventually be placed himself.
Campos
on March 08, 2010
at 08:36 PM
Report this commentWe had 8yrs of Mr Bush. Obama had the barely 2yrs and he is the cause of all major american problems.Wow.We must have pack of morons making stupid and senseless comments. What do we call that,the same old racism.Wake up american, you suppose to be christian, i thought better than muslim but where is the fairness and tolerance towards someone of different color. How do you people sleep art night. We dealt with 8yrs of Mr Bush. Give me a break.Obama should wave the magic twang and everything will be fine. Give me a break.People get a life.
Dele
on March 08, 2010
at 08:36 PM
Report this commentIsn’t it strange how often the initial comments on every political article come from the left? Even when the comments are 10 to 1 against the left’s position. I wonder why/how that is? Just kidding! I know!
David
on March 08, 2010
at 08:36 PM
Report this commentThe problem is negroes promoted on the sole basis of the colour of their skin: it’s true in business and government in the USA – ditto for women – women have been promoted to ever higher positions but have never produced anything innovative or profitable. This is the true cause of the decline of America.
Gary Prussen
on March 08, 2010
at 08:35 PM
Report this commentThe author writes:

“The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day…”

Stating that Fox News pours out rage is not impartial (or even true). The word “impartiality” in English translates as “leftwing views only” in American.
Scott
on March 08, 2010
at 08:34 PM
Report this commentRight on most parts but wrong about Fox News. They dominate the ratings because they tell the truth and people know it.
PAPPYJO
on March 08, 2010
at 08:33 PM
Report this commentObama like Blair before him are plants by the NWO.
Does any one seriously think the majority of the people of America would have voted for a foreign born Muslim if they had known the truth at the start of his electron campaign.
Eazi Over
on March 08, 2010
at 08:33 PM
Report this commentamazing what happens when an article gets linked to the drudge report. You get comments from the worst of America. The ones that eat, sleep and drink Fox News. They think their getting something fair and balanced but it’s the most biased News in this country. Not only do these people use Fox for News but they seem to get their history lessons from it too. Obviousl most of these people never bother to read books by historians or paid attention in school. America is as divided as it was 160 years ago. Time to either split in two or have an all out war.

Brad
on March 08, 2010
at 08:32 PM
Report this commentGive a blackman a city, state or country everything gets worse!
James mason
on March 08, 2010
at 08:32 PM
Report this commentIdiots are the ones that are stupid enough to quickly forget that when Obama got on the wagon, it was ALREADY BROKEN!! He’s only trying to fix what OTHERS BROKE….GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS
eMM
on March 08, 2010
at 08:26 PM
Report this commentI thank God for Fox News every day, if it were not for Fox the dissemination of information in this country would be akin to that of N. Korea or China where the government completely controls the message and therefore manipulates reality to fit their own ideology. Comrade Obama was elected because he was supported by a fawning liberal media who deliberately refused to vet him during the primaries despite numerous question marks about his past and his radical associations. Even now, a year after Obama’s assault on the US Constitution, on our freedoms, our wallets, capitalism and our military they still cover for this enemy of all things American. No terrorist in the world is more dangerous to the US than our current President and his democratic Congress. A house cleaning of our enemies is coming soon like a Spring rain, you can count on it!
OklahomaBound
on March 08, 2010
at 08:26 PM
Report this commentWANT REAL HATE NEWS? Turn the channel to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. Hate like you’ve never imagined!
Charlize
on March 08, 2010
at 08:25 PM
Report this commentI’m one out of 52,000,000 that didn’t drink the kool-aid! IMPEACH the FRAUD NOW!
ALJ
on March 08, 2010
at 08:25 PM
Report this commentThis is exactly why I have turned to the UK papers for more and more commentary. They have no need to suck up to the Obamessiah. Excellent column. Thank you!
Dixie
on March 08, 2010
at 08:25 PM
Report this commentATTN: Messing with FOXNEWS is messing with “the people”. They represent the majority of people in this country! FOXNEWS is thee one thing that’s slowing this country’s descent into socialism! THEY HAVE MY FULL SUPPORT!
John
on March 08, 2010
at 08:25 PM
Report this commentThis is one American who is 78, fought in the Korean war and was wounded and now detests the son-of-a-bitch in the White House and his whole bunch of Chicago thugs. My country will not be worth saving if that criminal crowd gets their way.
Hugh
on March 08, 2010
at 08:24 PM
Report this commentThis comment in the article:

“The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”

is one of the funniest things I have ever read. Does anyone in the world actually believe that the BBC is “impartial” when broadcasting the news? It is the most left-wing “news outlet” around. Anyone can see that. Anyone.
Jules Ovide
on March 08, 2010
at 08:24 PM
Report this commentFor those who believe it to be authoritative, the Bible teaches us to take care of the poor, the stranger, and the fatherless. It does NOT teach us to vote for a government that will tax others to take care of the poor, the stranger, and the fatherless. Compulsory “compassion” is a curse; voluntary compassion is a blessing.
MKS
on March 08, 2010
at 08:24 PM
Report this commentThere’s some real irony in this article. First the comment, “Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.” The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.” And then, “Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism.” Fox clearly has its biases on display, but so do other cable news networks as well as the “mainstream media.” Further, news media in the US of A has always been biased; it’s never been impartial. Is this senior Democrat for real or just an invention? Andy Jackson and other early presidents even founded their own papers to get their own slant on programs and policies across to the electorate. Obama’s big problem is that he’s never been remotely qualified for the job. He presents himself well and can dish out all the right sound bites, but he’s never really run anything in his life. He comes across as a law professor more at home lecturing during “teachable moments.” He got where he is through Chicago machine politics and by running against his predecessor’s administration, a tanking economy and an unpopular war. Once in office he turned over his major policy initiatives to the poster children for shrill political partisanship, Pelosi and Reid. Until the past couple of weeks he hasn’t even had a health care plan he could remotely call his own; he just promoted what Pelosi and Reid put together in their 2,000+ page tomes. He could have been a transcendent president had that really been his intent; but I don’t think it was. If not a socialist, he’s a statist with socialist leanings; the typical uber-liberal academic true believer in the monolithic state which should be the be all and end all of existence.

Mad Jack
on March 08, 2010
at 08:23 PM
Report this commentTHANK “GOD” FOR FOXNEWS!!
Scott
on March 08, 2010
at 08:23 PM
Report this commentI find it amazing that the American people who looked to Obama with such hope have changed their minds about him – less than 2 years of his stipulated term.
Every one thought he could of and would of done it all but alas…… every one is NOW seing he is just a man. A man like all of us.
I am just one voice in the wilderness of unhappyness that has gripped the nation but I am still willing to give him a chance. Yes he would make mistakes, yes he would not be able to Satisfy each and every citzen but we all elected him. So I can not understand why every one has changed their hope into discontent. He can not change everything in 1 year nor 2 years, it takes time and you all saw something in him that you was not seeing in Mc Cain!!!!!
So suck it up and stop whining. Each of us have a stake in this and every one deserves a chance.
Cyan
on March 08, 2010
at 08:23 PM
Report this commentI began to have doubts about the wisdom of this article when the writer talked about how Brits have an unbiased news reporting in the BBC. What a howler! Anyway, most Brits are not able to understand the essence of Americans. Most Brits are socialists. That’s fine for them but not for us. We do not wish to be taken care of. We would rather be poor than to be subjugated to the likes of that punk Obama and his squadron of leftists nut cases. You see, we Americans think those of the left are the nutty ones. And we are right. Obama pretended to be a mainstream moderate and our press never vetted him. Now he has revealed his true self. He is basically a Bolshevik.
mickeymat
on March 08, 2010
at 08:23 PM
Report this commentAnyone who watches Fox News and does not develop an admiration for the commentators and reporters is not being honest or sincere.
There is a group of bright, articulate, well researched and read people – with an amazing amount of energy and dedication to the news – yes the news.
Thank God for Fox News – where facts are put forth that “we the people” need to know – deserve to know.
RedTruck
on March 08, 2010
at 08:22 PM
Report this commentADMINISTRATION;suck it up and take it like a man…if you know how. stop the tears! when you ain’t good, you ain’t good!

as far as a one term act…obama will find a way to enact marshal(l) law. that way he never leaves pennsylvania ave.
abby
on March 08, 2010
at 08:22 PM
Report this commentBefore the 2008 election, I was convinced that Sarah Palin had more experience that Barack Obama. I might add, she has more common sense. It’s too bad that most Americans bought “change you can believe in.” Before the election, I wondered what that meant. It means nothing. The rest of America is beginning to grasp that. As for Fox News, I watch it all the time because I see stories there I could see nowhere else. Only Beck and Hannity are not fair and balanced. The rest of the time, I always hear both sides. The mainstream media here could relearn many journalistic lessons from Fox. Shame on them.
Michael Waldron
on March 08, 2010
at 08:22 PM
Report this commentWho owns the media/Hollywood? Why are there “dual citizens” running top levels of government? Why does AIPAC and the ADL dictate more than the people do? Who owns the banks?

Are Americans that stupid? Wake up already!
Tony
on March 08, 2010
at 08:15 PM
Report this commentThis article is just spot-on, except for the Fox News comment.
Is Heffer serious?? As a fairly frequent Fox watcher I’ve never seen an ‘outpouring of rage.’ They have a surprising number of ‘liberal’ guest commentators.

Albertan
on March 08, 2010
at 08:15 PM
Report this commentI am astonished that Mr. Heffer can actually believe that Fox news is biased and the other networks are not. This is an hilarious assumption. That Fox news is the only outlet that allows conservative thought to be expressed does not make it conservative. The other networks would exclude conservative thought entirely and characterizes conservatives as stupid and hateful.

Mr. Heffer then characterizes opposition to Obamunism as hate and his troubles due to poor marketing. But his problem is not that he has failed to convey his message but that the solutions he proposes have long ago been proven as failures. Obama (and the American Left) simply refuse to believe it. The press didn’t expose his devotion to his failed socialistic ideals and the country, sadly, didn’t demand such exposure but now that its out there it is being rejected and Obama is seen in the same light as LBJ and the worthless one Jimmy Carter.
Jeff Mosteller
on March 08, 2010
at 08:15 PM
Report this comment”No, Jan, Fox News is telling you how you(and America) feels and you are buying it. ”

Laughable. **You** know what **Jan** thinks better than Jan? Such presumption doesn’t say good things about your thinking processes.
DRH
on March 08, 2010
at 08:15 PM
Report this commentFox News is not the reason for the rage as some stupidly suggest. It is only reporting what the other channels don’t.
Mark Sivad
on March 08, 2010
at 08:15 PM
Report this commentHow can you blame Fox News for Obama’s failure? If they were as effective as you erroneously claim, then why is there a Democratic ultra liberal President and a Democratic majority on both houses? Fox did exist before the election too, and they haven;t changed a bit.
Phil Zaczek
on March 08, 2010
at 08:12 PM
Report this commentObama is trying to destroy the American dollar on purpose. This is why the globalist elite manufactured his image and brough him to power. They know socialists destroy economies and now they are all short selling the US dollar. Its a complete disgrace that people cannot see this. The whole plan of Obama is to consolidate power in the banking system and to bring about a world currency. Americans must be the most pathetically stupid bunch of people and they deserve everything they get for electing this emporer with no clothes dictator. Wake the hell up America. When George Soros visits the white house to meet with Obama, something is not right. Wake the hell up!!!!!
Chris
on March 08, 2010
at 08:12 PM
Report this commentOne thing I got from Mr. Heffer’s article is that he thinks the media has the ability to direct the general public’s way of thinking, that the media has some sort of ability to control how people think. That is exactly what the Liberal media does think, and what they try to do. I admit, it works to some degree on some people. But, what Mr. Heffer does not understand is the majority of Americans are intelligent thinking people that cannot be swayed by the media to think different then their principled beliefs, and, that Fox is only resonating with what intelligent conservative people are already thinking.

Fox is not causing conservative people to be angry and stand up to take a stand against liberalism and socialism, we are doing it because we believe liberalism and socialism lead to a dead end, and that our government is not representing us nor has our best interest in mind. What Fox does have going for them is that they employ a number of intelligent conservative people who correctly discern what is going on in American politics and report, comment and editorialize on it. The liberal media can’t stand that there are conservative voices in the media that counter their liberal voices so effectively.

Both the Republican and Democratic political parties have too many selfish, self-centered, power hungry career politicians in it for themselves. Both parties have some very good people in them, but they are far and few between unfortunately for America. I pray to God that He, God, would protect America and give us time to correct our dire problems so our free and prosperous America will not disappear forever. No nation has ever been perfect, but, no nation has been so giving and sharing of its prosperity as America has, and the whole world will suffer greater than it already does if America falls into the hands of socialists and communists permanently.

You may think I am arrogant and egotistical. No, I desire to retain the prosperity I had, and our nation had, so I can continue to share my blessing with families and communities all over the world as I have to this day. I want to do this myself, face to face with people around the world, and experience the reward, satisfaction and love experienced by all involved personally. I do not want my government to kill my ability to excel and prosper by my hard work, and then take the majority of the money I do earn by gun point and rob me of the joy of sharing and participating in the lives of others in the way of my choice.

I stand against the ideology of Liberalism, not people who are liberals. I stand against liberalism because its ideology, taken to its logical conclusion, is unsustainable, leads to socialism, degrades, demoralizes and divides people into two classes, the ruling class (who know best), and everyone else (the idiots who are too stupid to live right and do right according to the government). If that is what you want Mr. Heffer, I stand against your ideology and will speak out against it, but in your time of need, I will be there to help and share with you what I have.
Mark Jackson
on March 08, 2010
at 08:10 PM
Report this commentOh, so the problem is that more people can “see” what this Marxist administration is doing and THAT is the problem?

The truth is that Fox does come from a mid of right stance but even knowing that doesn’t hinder them a bit in providing both sides of any given point of view, nowadays it is a breath of fresh air.
Drider
on March 08, 2010
at 08:03 PM
Report this commentThis article almost gets it right. The British news is not known for neutrality, and people watch Fox News because they can tell when they are being lied to. The anger there is real, not only from the right, and the middle, but even the extreme left are starting to jump ship. A true phenomona when you consider where BHO was just one year age.
Poppaowl
on March 08, 2010
at 08:02 PM
Report this commentIf you want to see spewing of hate, try turning on MSNBC in the afternoon!
Andrew Lukes
on March 08, 2010
at 08:01 PM
Report this comment”The root of the problem seems to be the management of expectations.” HARDLY! The problem is OBAMA and his hard-leftist ideologues that never surrender to societal preferences of what they believe to be ignorant Americans.
DEMOBUTS
on March 08, 2010
at 08:01 PM
Report this commentThe biggest loss in jobs happened under which President? The two most expensive wars in history happened under which President? One of the biggest dips in the stock market happened under which President? Some of the biggest corruption scandals over lobbyists happened under which President?

The only thing I can blame on Obama is that he should grow a pair and take on the Party of No head on in the public eye. Let them be shown for their true colors – the party which will prevent America from moving forward for the sheer purpose of getting elected.

When a Republican actually starts suggesting solutions to our issues instead of chanting NO! and hugging on Sarah Palin I’ll just pee myself.
Robert
on March 08, 2010
at 08:01 PM
Report this comment”…a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied”

Huh? What? Who is this boob? Is he talking about jolly old England where the BBC plies its trade? Pip pip old boy! The BBC is impartial? Better lay off that afternoon cocktail old chum.
potvin
on March 08, 2010
at 08:01 PM
Report this commentNot Obama’s men but OBama the Moron…….Obama maks policy. Look at Kenya, what has a Black accomplished except the creation of a Third World and now we got one stupid Black in the WH trying to make America one alos. Take a good look, he’s the last one………….
Rod Bowar
on March 08, 2010
at 07:58 PM
Report this commentCantillon – I must take exception to your charaterization of the poodle, John Kerry as a “decorated war hero”. Maybe that’s what his press agent wrote, but the facts paint a far different story. Perhaps you should read about it someday someplace other than the DNC website. Bush did his time in the National Guard as a fighter pilot. Far from perfect, he is nonetheless, an honorable man. Kerry, the gigilo, is not. Obama is nothing more than a sock puppet – a Saul Alinsky alcolyte and in pursuit of a “world order” where the individual will no longer have to “worry” about taking care of himself. If the Founding Fathers were alive today, they would be standing in the Senate demanding his arrest and impeachment for maliciously violating his oath of office.
Gerry Law
on March 08, 2010
at 07:58 PM
Report this commentYes Bill Clinton was a good foil for a Rep legislature because we basically liked him and believed he had the patriotic best intersts of the country at heart.
There is no such love for Mr Obama who’s anti American anti White racism has already been on full display.
Feed Up
on March 08, 2010
at 07:50 PM
Report this commentAnyone who believes that only Fox is “unbalanced” is a fool. One has only to watch the embarrassing fawning that the three major networks have done to see the truth.

Who reported MSNBC’s Chris Matthews’ racist comment after the State of the Union message, “You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.” WHAT???

The White House can’t control Fox news, so their tactic is to denounce and crush it. I’m sure Hitler would have approved such tactics, just as Chavez does.

Obama is failing because his Chicago-style political tactics are so blatantly wrong. And he just keeps promising more and more money… spending us into bankruptcy.

Cat
on March 08, 2010
at 07:49 PM
Report this commentThe so-called mainstream media here in America are little more than propagandists for the Democratic Party and for President Obama. They function as Tass and Pravda did for the Soviets. A number of people figured that out and turned to Fox News. They want the truth. It’s that simple.
E. K. Gregory
on March 08, 2010
at 07:48 PM
Report this commentWorst U.S. President ever! This idiot is doing more to harm the U.S. than all of its enemies could hope to do in their wildest dreams. He doesn’t know what a job is! He sadly doesn’t understand why the U.S. is a great nation.
John-Q-Public
on March 08, 2010
at 07:48 PM
Report this comment”The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”
What you fail to acknowledge – is that Fox’s success & popularity were made possible by the abandonment of said technical rule of impartiality by the rest of the major media (CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc…). While Fox certainly espouses conservative viewpoints, the fact remains that they cover alot of news stories which are blacked out in the remainder of the media and as such, if it were not for Fox, many of these issues would have gone unnoticed & unreported (Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Climategate). The rest of the media would do quite well to move to the middle & cease being mouthpieces for liberal ideals & Democratic party talking points if they truly wish to bring down Fox.
Garreth
on March 08, 2010
at 07:48 PM
Report this commentNewark and Baltimore are bombed out; Detroit is decaying…All because of Obama. Trenchant insight, dude! These cities have been gutted by decades of policies that encourage companies to move their jobs overseas. Does Simon Heffer really believe that Detroit’s collapse is a sign of Obama’s failure? I know this guy is British, but is he also retarded?
wonka230
on March 08, 2010
at 07:48 PM
Report this commentWow, you were making sense there for awhile, right up to the point you lept off the cliff with the Fox News comment. Fox is the ONLY place you can get national “news” in this country on the TV.
Radical capitalist
on March 08, 2010
at 07:47 PM
Report this commentObama is so clueless that he is failing as predicted…fail you sucka
bob
on March 08, 2010
at 07:47 PM
Report this commentI watch Fox news because it is the only network from which I can get the facts. Yes, it’s commentary is right biased, but it’s news gives facts rather than mere data. I like the president. I am proud that we achieved a national goal of electing a black man. However, I also feel sorry for him because he simply is not up to the job. The nation is being run by his advisors, most of whom are dedicated to his vision of making America a Euro-socialist nation. I believe he will fail at that!
Jim Richards
on March 08, 2010
at 07:46 PM
Report this commentYou’re all missing the point! Who owns most of the media? The television channels, newspapers, magazines, etc? All media has become is merely an outlet for garbage in our communities, our country, and the world; it only shows the bad, the worse, and the ugly! I think that the media is what is undermining our country, our rights, our individual morality- and it seems that we as a nation can’t seem to be spoonfed enought of the BS! WTF
me
on March 08, 2010
at 07:46 PM
Report this commentVery good article. Re FOX and CNN:Fox does not pour out “rage” – its’ News is Fair and Balanced – its’ Commentary is strongly laying out the history of Progressivism and showing how Obama is trying to transform America. Americans do NOT want that to happen;
that is Obama’s monumental miscalculation.
NB: The BBC can hardly be called impartial.

“Boy Dave” has a great suggestion for paying Congress..
Pogo
on March 08, 2010
at 07:45 PM
Report this commentObama is an idiot, and those who voted for him are blind idiots. His ability to blow smoke is wearing thin on the American people. As with corporate management, his supporters are not about to admit they were wrong, or dim sighted, so the mistakes, errors, and personal agendas continue. God help us all.
Dave Craddock
on March 08, 2010
at 07:45 PM
Report this comment”…With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day…”

This comment about Fox News is simply not accurate. Fox is the only network which takes the time and trouble to tell the What, Where, When and How.

Because the United States of America’s Founding Documents -the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution – have been used as toilet paper by liberal judges (lawyers), so called Progressives (Socialists and Communists) for the last 100 years American Citizens are fighting back.

Because of the New Media, the advent of Talk Radio, Internet TV, Conservative Blogs, and Involved Citizens (Tea Party Members and others) Americans are not standing by and observing our Nation devolving into the EU and/or the UK.

Americans are NOT Socialist, Progressives or Communists. We are still in large part, God-loving, independent human beings who believe in our Founding Documents and understand their meaning. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are not empty words for American Citizens and Patriots.

jgreene
on March 08, 2010
at 07:31 PM
Report this commentYes, the problem isn’t an annual plan for over 1 trillion in govt. debt per year, or 15 million unemployed and no hope in sight for job increases, or him not doing anything useful about either of these while working on his own pet projects.

The problem is he isn’t legally allowed to silence Fox News and his other critics. If only he could silence all his critics everything would be better.

Not for the economy, or jobs, or anything useful; but for his personal political future; which is of course the important thing here.

So we should end the First Amendment and let Obama silence his critics to help his political fortunes; even if it doesn’t help anyone else in America.

And people say the liberal elite are out of touch. they also say water is wet oddly enough.
Ertdfg
on March 08, 2010
at 07:29 PM
Report this commentI’m not too sure about the northern and eastern states being industrial wastelands, but in the midwest work is at a premium. No new houses being built, commercial properties vacant and owners beginning to panic. Lotsof empty new and existing houses, and rural poverty on the rise. Because unemployment and fear of unemployment caused a slow down, we had to close our second business location and lay off those workers. We will manage on our remaining location, but business is impacted severly. We’ll weather the storm, but fear the increasing threats of tax increases, fuel cost increases through taxation, disposal costs, delivery costs, etc. It’s as though small business people are the enemy now, along with banks, insurance companies, and big corporations. What about growing government payrolls and increasing union control and skimming?

As for incentives to hire more people, we prefer to work with fewer. The incentives are too small, and besides, we fear the government’s propensity to interfere even more than it is should we accept this bribe from the devil.

Unemployment may be reported as 9.7% and leveling off, but I think that is false. The actual numbers are closer to 17%; it was only slightly worse during Barry’s mentor’s reign in the 70′s and early 80′s.

Barry’s numbers reflect he is a likable guy (so what) but he receives glaringly low numbers for his approval ratings, lower than Bush at this time in his second term.

It is likley Barry will be a one term President. The mid terms will reflect a change in opnion in the US, more reflective of its predominantly conservative views. He will be stymied at almost every turn – he hasn’t the ability to make concessions like his predesessor, and it appears that his ego may be detrimental to that process.

Nationalized health care is distrusted and unwanted by a significant majority of Americans, even more so than insurance companies, which pursue their profits within the guidelines of laws designed and implemented by the very party that is now vilifying them.

What IS wanted is tort reform, but how can that happen when bar associations are huge contributors to the Democrat party? Why give all that money up?

All in all, a pretty mess we’re in over here. It’s going to get worse before (if) it ever gets better.
helloseekers
on March 08, 2010
at 07:28 PM
Report this comment”Rule?” We are citizens: we govern ourselves. Do not perpetuate the error that Presidents are “Rulers” of the United States of America.
MacAnou
on March 08, 2010
at 07:28 PM
Report this commentThe only thing osama obama has ever run – is this nation into the ground.

Community organizer con man. Every single thing he spouts is a lie. Great track record.
Tom
on March 08, 2010
at 07:27 PM
Report this commentLove this article! I am glad someone overseas has it right. I just hope everyone else in this country wakes up soon. (For the record…I didn’t vote for him.)
James Kingsmill
on March 08, 2010
at 07:27 PM
Report this commentyou don’t need to watch Fox news to be outraged by the waste, duplicity and arrogant actions of the current administration.

Its not healthcare, or cap and trade, its the economy stupid.
nmh
on March 08, 2010
at 07:27 PM
Report this commentThe phenomenon alluded to is nothing new: it is known in legal parlance as resorting to “self-help.” The People no longer believe that our elected leaders, nor even our media are representing them or acting justly. Therefore the People are taking matters into their own hands. It was entirely predictable and so is the current pathetic effort of republicans to attempt to glum on to this wave. Equally predictable is the inevitable victory of the People and our Republic over these criminals–in office and in media. Oh, and one caution to those in ‘power’ who might think they could bull their way through with their power. Remember, we patriots drink TEA!

History in the making folks!
Ghost of Ronald Reagan
on March 08, 2010
at 07:26 PM
Report this commentYES DARROLD! Someone is paying attention.

But we’re not allowed to blame past administrations for doing things that lead to certain people becoming rich while their workforce was decimated.

It’s ALL Obama’s fault. He created the entire mess this country is in.

Just ask any Fox News watching drone.
John
on March 08, 2010
at 07:26 PM
Report this commentThe people who are against Fox News. You are arrogant to say the least, as if all these people who watch or listen to Fox News could not in any way know the truth or process it, when in fact you are the ones who posioned yourselves to any truth.

…………………………

Frank
on March 08, 2010
at 07:23 PM
Report this comment”FOX NEWS represents how a good majority of us AMERICAN’S feel!”

No, Jan, Fox News is telling you how you(and America) feels and you are buying it.

They will distort any story as far as possible and leave out facts that will make it a non-story. Constantly. Glenn Beck is a master at this.

The “reporting” Fox does now, they would be destroying the liberl media for doing when it was GW’s watch and the country’s financial system was collapsing. (And Fox was ignoring back when GW was in charge.)

Now that Obama is in office, smears, distortions and just plain partisan bickering is all fair game. The hypocrisy is astounding.
John
on March 08, 2010
at 07:21 PM
Report this commentThe very idea that British media is wind driven pure, without its own prejudice, is laughably absurd. The BBC has a very distinct leftist, anti-American view that is constantly on display. Please, spare the reader with mindless self recriminations and just report the news.
Paul Reese
on March 08, 2010
at 07:21 PM
Report this commentI think someone needs to get him out of office before there is nothing left to salvege, I think this whole healthcare is a Big smoke screen to get more control over the “average” person who can’t afford healthcare. Why are we bailing out large corpertions, when they are ripping us off with there scare tactics?
Scott
on March 08, 2010
at 07:06 PM
Report this commentDuring our election the citizens of other countries told us that we were fools if we didn’t embrace Obama. An adoring press told us he was the answer to everything. It has even been proven that he collected large amounts of his campaign money from foreign citizens using credit cards that sought to influence the politics of our country.

Now that Obama has been exposed as a fraud, where are all of you to apologize to America for what you have inflicted upon us? I see the attacks on Fox News, but they were the only network to tell us the truth about Obama. Everybody else was too busy carrying his water.

While I can appreciate that the socialist loving Europeans want one of their own to turn America into the cesspool that Europe has become we in America do not appreciate your efforts. I do not donate money to influence your elections. I would kindly thank you to stay out of ours.
Thunderstorm Patriot
on March 08, 2010
at 07:06 PM
Report this comment> The Fox network is a remarkable
> cultural phenomenon which
> almost shocks those of us from
> a country where a technical
> rule of impartiality is applied
> in the broadcast media.

What? What?!

What country is he talking about?

The country of media impartiality where the BBC admitted its own liberal bias? That country?
Lighthope
on March 08, 2010
at 07:05 PM
Report this comment”The magnificent campaign created the notion that Mr Obama could walk on water. Oddly enough, he can’t.”

-Actually he can. In Mr. Obama’s game of 12-dimensional chess, the right time to show it just has happened. Wise up people, the man is the savior to the world. Accept it.
jeff
on March 08, 2010
at 07:05 PM
Report this commentInteresting how anyone who is not a socialist is considered a rightwing extremist.

we have a constitution, is it too much to expect our leaders to govern accordingly?

Please be clear, Obama IS in fact a socialist at least, and a Maoist at worst. You can tell by his teachings (Saul Alinski) and his friends (William Ayers, Rev. Wright, Van Jones, etc…etc…)

Additionally, sorry to tell you, but a study by UCLA found FOX news to be the most “un-biased” of the major news outlets. What bothers news people (and other leftists) is just that, FOX tells the whole story, not just the version that Columbia Journalism school wants taught, er…reported.
keith
on March 08, 2010
at 07:03 PM
Report this commentThe flap over FoxNews makes it sound as if everyone is watching. But the evening NEWS reports on Fox only get 2.5 million viewers, as against 20 million for NBCCBSABC evening news.

It is the political opinion shows that everyone is talking about. That’s where FoxNews wipes the floor with the competition.
Christopher Chantrill
on March 08, 2010
at 07:03 PM
Report this commenthe knows what he is doing, he is very slowing draining america of its values, wake up america, he is bringing change,he is changing the usa for the worst, again WAKE UP AMERICA
ronny
on March 08, 2010
at 07:02 PM
Report this commentA nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor, he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their agreements, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.—Marcus Cicero
1GregM
on March 08, 2010
at 07:02 PM
Report this commentAmerica is a WONDERFUL country with great people…this man was not elected by AMERICANS! This man was elected by “acorn” seiu,..and all the illegal they helped to bring here, just to vote! Now it’s up to AMERICANS to stop this same game from taking the next election! They are already working the numbers.
Chris
on March 08, 2010
at 07:02 PM
Report this commentI recall Tony Blair making the point that the BBC wasn’t exactly impartial. I listen to it several times per week and I feel that he is right. I really enjoy it and find it to be top notch – but not impartial. A friend of mine who lives in Finland but travels extensively throughout Europe describes most European media as “faintly anti-Western, generally pro-EU and quite reliable in providing the anti-American, anti-British angle to a story”.

The solution of course is to staff the media with vulcans or robots. Once you get the people out of the news business, it will be impartial – not before. This is simply an aspect of human nature. The graduates of the various American Schools of Journalism are skewed left by having passed through those institutions and they may not even know it. To dwell on a “left leaning conspiracy in the media” is to miss this but to think Fox News is the only outlet that’s not impartial is delusional.

The fundamental problem faced by the other tradional media in the states is they think they’re impartial and a very large portion of the viewing public disagrees. Lacking a correct understanding of the nature of their problem, they are unable to course correct and are doomed. In a free market that’s supposed to happen to you when you get this far out of sync with your customers.

As a fan of Fox News, I enjoy seeing “my side” well represented. Ratings wise, Fox News is simply kicking the stuffing out of the traditional media. I think the traditional media are biased left and I’m a conservative. From my perspective then, the media wars are shaping up to be “my side” beating up “their side”.

People who only recognize media bias on the right view see it differently of course. They see it as Fox News beating up “the truth”. I don’t feel that is fair in that Fox News clearly labels their opinion/editorial shows as such and makes no bones about the fact that most of them are conservative. I consider their hard news reporting to be less skewed to the right of center than CBS, CNN, New York Times, etc. are to the left.
Matt M
on March 08, 2010
at 06:55 PM
Report this commentTHE ONLY THING WORTH READING HERE IS THE HEADLINE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
END OF THE ROAD FOR O’BAMA!!
PERIOD
nvassarx
on March 08, 2010
at 06:54 PM
Report this commentFor most of 2009 not a bad word could be heard about Obama from 98 percent of the media and yet he was connected to ACORN which was connected to voter fraud in several location, Obama was connected to and supported by known terrorists, Obama and his family were the members of a Seperationist Church for 20 years. Obama’s minsiter and mentor for 20 years was and is a racists. Obama voted present more than any other State Senator. Obama’s best friend and financial partner is now in Jail. Since taking office Obama has told one lie after another and he is such a great speaker that there are those that still believe what he tells them. The last time trusted a person that said trust me it cost me a lot of money and thousands of dollars in legal fees.
welrdelr
on March 08, 2010
at 06:54 PM
Report this commentCAN’T OBAMA JUST CUT MORE TAXES FOR THE RICH??

IT’S WHAT MCCAIN/BUSH/REAGAN WOULD DO!!

Give the wealthy more money! It’s the ONLY way to produce more private sector jobs, feed the hungry, and clothe the naked!

GIVE THE RICH MORE MONEY! IT’S WHAT JESUS WOULD WANT!

And while you’re at it, isn’t it time to INVADE another nation illegally? H***, YEAH!

db
on March 08, 2010
at 06:53 PM
Report this commentThe major problem, in my opinion, is that we have EXTREMISTS in government positions. Democrats and Republicans are, by their very nature, extremists. They do not represent our Founding Fathers’ principles, and support a much larger interventionist, swollen, war-mongering government. We need more Libertarians in political offices if we are going to have any meaninful standard of living increase, as they will go after dismantling the very core institutions and oppressive laws that currently skew our politics/markets/society in a detrimental way.
Susan Harkins
on March 08, 2010
at 06:52 PM
Report this commentBritish scumbags indeed.
Buono
on March 08, 2010
at 06:52 PM
Report this commentgee, now we have the government trying to woo business with a 150billion dollar hiring incentive to put people to work….what should have been happening when oall the greedy corporations were falling all over themselves to offshore their made in american products to 3rd world countries in return for ‘maximizing shareholder value’ was congress should have been slapping on huge tariffs on said american corporations if they wanted to sell in the usa instead of made in the usa that stood for something one time….
darrold barton
on March 08, 2010
at 06:45 PM
Report this commentAs Shakespeare once said:

They (Obama supporters) will have thought they have bought their manhoods cheaply…
Praetorian
on March 08, 2010
at 06:45 PM
Report this commentThe BBC is impartial? Is this article self-parody or something? Because it’s really, really hilarious, intentionally or not.
R. Fiore
on March 08, 2010
at 06:44 PM
Report this commentBefore you comment, please note there have over 350 posts already and all that can be said has been said.
Iggy Dave
on March 08, 2010
at 06:43 PM
Report this commentBritish Impartiality? How dare you, you pompous hypocrite! The BBS itself has admitted it is a left-wing, biased organization and does not care one whit. Your paper and the Guardian share the same attitudes. You wouldn’t know impartiality if it bit you on the bum.
jimmy
on March 08, 2010
at 06:43 PM
Report this comment@ Die Fledermaus

You wrote: “Fox’ popularity is due to its finding a niche market in America: the half of the country that’s fed-up with the Jurassic media’s relentless left-wing bias and reliable omissions of newsworthy stories that are inconvenient for the political Left.”

Half the country? Really? 150,000,000 Americans are “fed-up” and watch FOX NEWS?

You’re clueless. FOX news get 3-5 million viewers.

And no Americans view FOX as “Fair and Balanced” as even my Right Wing friends who watch it admit they do it for the “kool aid” affect.

FOX NEWS is a punchline to most of America, but most of America doesn’t even watch Cable News.

Obama will win again because he will get us out of the pit 8 years of Bush sunk us into. And hopefully it will remind Americans that the GOP is the enemy of the American dream.

Matt
on March 08, 2010
at 06:43 PM
Report this commentFollow along with this stupid author who can’t even realize Americans have made Fox number 1 because we are angry. It’s not Fox making us angry.

Obama is such a dunce he couldn’t make it through one year without dorking things up horribly.

The media is blaming those surrounding obama not because they are worse, but because they dare not blame their darling boy.

If obama is smart, why not release his school records and let us see.

Who mismanaged Katrina? How about and idiot mayor and govenor, both dummycrats. And who did the knuckleheads in New Orleans reelect? The same idiot that couldn’t manage the place to begin with.

Douglas
on March 08, 2010
at 06:43 PM
Report this commentBlaming it on FOX…too funny!! Only a Democrat would say that reporting the facts and asking tough questions is a “cultural Phenomenon”. Typical liberal…it’s always somebody elses fault. It couldn’t be that Obama and his “Chicago starting line up” are in way over their collective heads in this game of running America.

The people of America don’t like being lied to, And Obama makes Bill Clinton look like George Washington.
Greg – USA
on March 08, 2010
at 06:37 PM
Report this commentFrom reading this article I get the impression that the author is critical of America as well as Obama for not looking more like Europe by this point. The rejection by many across the USA (Tea Party, etc), is America’s rejection of European socialism. Obama is facing the same pressure as democrat moderates are not willing to vote for universal health care and jeopardize their reelection chances in October. Furthermore, people are watching was has occurred in Europe with its failing economy, Greece’s insolvency (California is not far behind), as well as a president who treats foreign policy as an afterthought. My opinion is that Obama is a one-term president. IMHO.
kevin davis
on March 08, 2010
at 06:37 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer……WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!

FOX NEWS represents how a good majority of us AMERICAN’S feel!

Obama and Congress are purposely blaming FOX news for their problems, as a way OF diverting attention away from what they KNOW, the american people really don’t want.

Do they really think we can’t figure that out?

“WE THE PEOPLE” employ the President and Congress!

“WE THE PEOPLE” are paying the bills!

“WE THE PEOPLE” WILL NOT BE IGNORED!

WITH OR WITHOUT FOX NEWS……”WE THE PEOPLE” WILL BE HEARD!

Jan Kasza
on March 08, 2010
at 06:37 PM
Report this commentIt is sad that this type of insightful commentary comes from a news organization outside our borders. This piece should have been written by domestic journalists. Our journalism has been reduced to becoming mere loudspeakers for the current administration. There is no critical examination of issues and facts. I would like to take the author to task on one point—Fox News does not spew hate 24 hours a day…what you percieve as hate I see as a genuine out-pouring of frustration and discontent, not hate. Thankfully there is at least one “pressure valve” in the form of Fox that allows for this discontent to have an outlet. A Republic will never survive without a meaningful and honest debate of the ideas that will shape our nation, for better or worse.
ra packard
on March 08, 2010
at 06:36 PM
Report this commentSimon Heffer knows very little about America or Americans and it’s glaring here.

Detroit was a lost cause years ago, and the “north and on the eastern seaboard, are industrial wastelands” line is hilarious. As a lifelong citizen of New Jersey we are the least affected by the recession and nobody I know personally is unemployed. him trying to portray America’s power center as an “industrial wasteland” is beyond hilarious.

The wastelands are the Red States that continue to elect Republicans who drive them into the ground economically with their “Voodoo economics.”

Mr Heffer seems to espouse the same failed economic ideas that Republicans trumpet even after they’ve seen them destroy America Republican President after Republican President. I imagine it’s his ego that doesn’t allow him to admit he’s wrong.

He also is pathetic in his portrayal of Barack Obama, who is still very popular despite Heffer’s hilarious belief that he’s doomed somehow. Check the approval numbers.

The only thing more bitter than a Conservative’s whining is a conservative’s tears Mr. Heffer. It’s the economic polcies you’ve supported your whole life that has sunk America, and once again your aristocratic take will be shown to be a sham when we crawl out of this whole and Mr. Obama is in the lead.

And FOX NEWS does 3 million viewers. Let’s not overstate the reach of cable news. FOX NEWS viewers are average age of 55+ and most don’t have computers let alone internet connections. They’re the old and ignorant for the most part (according to the demographics).

5x as many people are watching re-runs of SEINFELD then Bill O’Reiily in the US. You’re in the bubble. But I’m sure you want to be there where it’s safe.
Matt
on March 08, 2010
at 06:36 PM
Report this commentCNN impartial, are you serious. The mainstream press, impartial? You must be joking. Liberals hate that other views are being presented and people are finally gaining access to the truth. Liberals do not want freedom of speech and only wants their lies to heard. Thank goodness for the internet, talk radio and FOX News. Lastly, Pres. Obama is out of his depth. His lack of leadership experience is evident and he does not understand how the private sector works. Pres. Obama is far leftwing and has no faith in people and mistakenly places all his faith in government.
simonn
on March 08, 2010
at 06:35 PM
Report this commentObama’s original intent was to be a one-term president. Liken him to a suicide bomber.
ernie labelle
on March 08, 2010
at 06:35 PM
Report this commentHere’s hoping, praying that the inexperienced Marxist megalomaniac from the cesspool called the Chicago Democrat Machine is done for.

However, it may take more than the ballot box to defeat this thugs and his cronies.
CKAinRedStateUSA
on March 08, 2010
at 06:34 PM
Report this commentGiven his administration’s so far mind-boggling incompetence in the murky business of government, only a quick economic recovery plus getting the troops back home will save Obama.
colin craig
on March 08, 2010
at 06:34 PM
Report this commentWhy do some Americans accuse Britain of being ‘socialist’ when it’s a democracy based on free market principles? And why is everyone still obsessing about ideology so long after the Berlin Wall fell?

Surely everything would be a lot clearer if people stopped trying to categorise policies as right or left wing and instead critiqued them on the value of their content.
D
on March 08, 2010
at 06:33 PM
Report this commentThe claim that Fox News “pours out rage 24 hours a day” is outrageous, and proves the author doesn’t watch the channel or has an unusually low threshold of liberal angst. Hannity can be annoying at times but he’s nothing compared to Keith Olbermann and Rachel Madow.
Bloomington, Ill. (USA)
on March 08, 2010
at 06:33 PM
Report this commentAs an American , age 71, I can only pray this would be the end of this socialist pacifist’s power and agendas. He is the worst Prez in my life and I teach political science and have done it for 50 years. His Dem minions in Congress are almost as bad as this naif in the WH and few even understand the problem of our national security concerns.
Glenn Koons
on March 08, 2010
at 06:28 PM
Report this commentBy Simon Heffer
Published: 8:16AM GMT 08 Mar 2010

The first paragraph asserts:

“The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by “progressives” who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects.

but the next paragraph admits:

Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism.”

The unexamined worship of Obama by most of the media (everyone but Fox and talk radio) got him elected. He was not capable of doing what he promised. The current collapse is the natural result of his incompetence.
Rodney Kosfeld
on March 08, 2010
at 06:28 PM
Report this commentPray to God and HOPE for this CHANGE.
Lakeesha
on March 08, 2010
at 06:27 PM
Report this commentThe media totally ignored Ron Paul in the last election in the US. It was because the Warfare state/Welfare State regarded Ron Paul as the end of their scheming.

Now, with the benefit of hindsight, it is clear to see that Ron Paul was correct about taxation, the US dollar, industry, borrowing, foreign policy, education, health care and the need to reduce military interventionism. The problem was that Ron Paul was right. Too many delusional entities in the US wanted to imagine that Ron Paul was wrong, and to continue the farce. But Ron Paul got his analysis very much spot on.

But even if America decides to fix itself internally, the good news is that there are cadres of well intentioned planner-fools in Brussels lining up to replace America as the world’s leading intervention agent and hyper power.

All Empires end in disaster. The Americans should have known this looking at England in the 1970s. If they want to see farce, they need only look at Gordon Brown and Britain today !!!
Healthy sceptic
on March 08, 2010
at 06:27 PM
Report this commentI too, wept when obama was elected. Not for joy but in fear for my beloved country, the U.S.A. I wept because I knew who obama was, a socialist-marxist-communist. Obama said if you want to know who I am look at the people I surround myself with. One of those who leaps immediately to mind is Van Jones, as self avowed communist. Obama’s problem is not Fox News. Obama’s problem is we, the American People. We know what he is attempting to do to us and we don’t like it! Obama out in 2012! (If not sooner.)
Blue Dog Yankee
on March 08, 2010
at 06:27 PM
Report this commentWhat this author fails to acknowledge is that many of those on the right who are belittled as angry right wingers warned of Obama’s inexperience PRIOR to the election. Is credit given to them for calling it right? No – they are belittled even further for their anger, which is now justified, in light of the fact that so many were duped by Obama’s PR spin (hat tip to MSM for this, since not a single mainstream media outlet – other than Fox – performed any substantive vetting of this Manchurian Candidate). At least you have come around to see the truth – the leg tingling is still happening here in the States among the fawning media elites. With Bush, blame was always laid at the feet of the President (the buck stops here), and he was at least man enough to accept blame. Obama is no man – he will throw anyone and everyone under the bus to maintain his pristine image, and the gutless media will let him get away with it every time. Anger? You betcha (to quote Sarah P.) – lot’s of anger…and it will only get worse. With the majority of Americans now firmly asking Congress to focus on jobs and start over on health care, Obama is doing the exact opposite – focusing on the disaster of a bill, and ignoring our economic reality. Da** right we’re angry…
William Bedloe
on March 08, 2010
at 06:27 PM
Report this commentSilly, Silly, Silly
If I believe that artical I just as well believe the earth really is square.

Economies boom and economies bust and it doesn’t matter if a republican or democrate is president or if he has the house and senate or not. It’s just the way life is and we all might as well get use to it.
Yes a president and congress can make positive or negative changes but economies are destined to follow their own path much like the weather and you can only do so much to fix them when they cycle through and go bust. People like Harry Dent jr. were writing about this collaspe long before it started and in fact when we were stronger than ever. He even nailed the appox.date when it would start to collaspe. We as a nation will rise again in 5- 10 years and it won’t be the president or the congress who raise us up it will just simply be the cycle of economies. We were due for this and here it is. So turn off fox and turn off cnn because George Bush didn’t get us in this mess and Barrack Obama is not the bad president who can’t get us out of it. Its just the way the world goes. Read the newyork times and the wash. post and be openminded and b/t the two you probally will find the truth somewhere in there. as the saying goes the truth usally lies somewhere in the middle but you got to work for it not just turn the tv on and let them spoon feed you their slanted opinions which get your emotional juices boiling and make you come back again and again so they make top dollar in their ratings. You got to work to get to the truth. So I better follow my own advice and go read the NY times and the wash. post Berkley Williams
Berkley Williams
on March 08, 2010
at 06:27 PM
Report this commentGOD BLESS AMERICA
We gave obama a chance to do it, he is not the God we were told he was. Vote every incumbent out of office in 2010 & 2012, maybe just maybe a new batch will start listening.
Sicario
on March 08, 2010
at 06:26 PM
Report this comment”This massive state spending gives rise to accusations by Republicans, and people too angry even to be Republicans, that America is now controlled by “Leftists” and being turned into a socialist state.”

Damn straight! The TAX-PAYERS pay the taxes that fund the $1.4 TRILLION dollar DEFICIT that these buffoons have foisted on us, even if we vote for people who are supposed to vote against these programs!!! The UNFUNDED LIABILITIES for Social Security, Medicare, and the Prescription Drug Plan is a total of $107.7 TRILLION DOLLARS!!! Our National Debt is about $12.5 TRILLION DOLLARS!!!

This author says that the USA DOES NOT have a WELFARE STATE?!?! We certainly do not want to go down the “loo” like what is happening in England, the UK, and Europe!

“Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.” The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by “progressives” who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects. The public loves it, and it is manifestly stirring up political activism against Mr Obama, and also against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservatives.”

LIBERAL LIE. FOX NEWS is the most FAIR AND BALANCED (as their motto says) media outlet in the USA. All of my life we have had liberal TV networks, newspapers, magazines, education, entertainment, and so on…

If ALL Americans watched FOX NEWS, Obama and democrats would be exposed as the frauds that they are, and not covered by “Sychophantic” media buddies.

Bernard of Mickleton
on March 08, 2010
at 06:26 PM
Report this commentSo it’s all Fox News’s fault? Well done.
NowYouKnow
on March 08, 2010
at 06:25 PM
Report this commentBefore bashing Fox News as a 24-hour rage-fest, Mr. Heffer should check out what Americans think of it. According to a recent poll, which asked people whether or not they believed what each TV news network was saying, ONLY FOX News was more believed than disbelieved, by a 49%-35% margin. CNN was slightly negative, and all other networks were double-digits negative. Americans are tired of being lied to, and that’s why they watch Fox!

Obama’s main problem is that the American people have him figured out. They thought they had elected a common-sense pragmatist to solve their problems, but they got a radical socialist who nationalized two car companies, quadrupled the budget deficit, increased unemployment, and is trying to take away private health insurance from 85% of the people. This has caused the 30% of pragmatic “independent” (neither Republican nor Democrat) voters who decide elections to rebel against Obama en masse.

Obama could save his Presidency by doing what Bill Clinton did in 1995–moving to the center and working with Congressmen from BOTH parties. But Obama is probably too obstinate and in love with his own ego to listen to the voters, and could go down as our worst President ever.
Steve Z
on March 08, 2010
at 06:25 PM
Report this comment”Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism. The sound of the squealing of brakes is now audible all over the American press; but the attack is being directed not at the leader himself, but at those around him.”

Funny how this statement was preceded by an accusation that Fox News was not impartial, yet no such condemnation was attributed to those who worshiped “The One.”

Also funny was how the news presented on FOX was lumped in with the opinion shows that also air on FOX. Does Joy Behar blanketly represent CNN news? Does Keith Olbermann reprensent the news attitude on MSNBC? BTW…isn’t it funny how reruns on FOX beat out the competing shows on CNN and MSNBC?

Actually, it’s not funny. It’s just biased. And many of us are just fed up with the liberally biased media.

THAT’s why FOX is blowing away the competition…by a margin of 300%… It’s also why liberally slanted “objective” news magazines like Time and Newsweek are plummeting in their readership, and almost all newspapers in the U.S. EXCEPT the Wall Street Journal are undergoing a similarly if not greater downward spiral in readership.

To rephrase what someone said earlier here, being at the center when all the others lean left makes you look like you’re leaning right.

dydx
on March 08, 2010
at 06:25 PM
Report this commentThe big problem is Obama has proven to be much less intelligent than he, and his campaign made him out to be. That, combined with his unimaginable narcissism has showed him to be completely inept as president.

Obama’s inability to form a cogent sentence without a teleprompter shows that he is not the great intellectual/orator that he was made out to be.

His narcissism is becoming very apparent. His gift to the queen? An iPod full of his speeches! His promise to his children of a family dog if the election was won – what is its name? Bo – his initials – coincidence? I’m sure that’s the name the kids came up with – you would think they could at least spell Beau, the short form for Beauregard!

He has turned out to be a complete menace!

Also, the statement – “country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media”, to describe the country that created the BBC is laughable! Yes, we get the BBC in the states, and can see how truely ‘impartial’ it is! LOL!
Matt
on March 08, 2010
at 06:25 PM
Report this commentObama Finished??/ We certainly PRAY that you are Right for the USA cannot take much more abuse from this Dilettante and his Lemmings!!!
Len
on March 08, 2010
at 06:24 PM
Report this commentThe president’s problem is not FOX news; It is the fact that his agenda is completely and utterly contrary to the American spirit of liberty and self-reliance. He said it himself; he intends to “fundamentally change” the United States, and brother, we ain’t havin’ it.
Osu!
on March 08, 2010
at 06:24 PM
Report this commentWhile I would not characterize Fox News as biased as you do, Hannity is the one that goes overboard to me. But how can you not comment those pillars of impartiality, Oberman, Maddow and chris Matthews. The mean spirited and utter unbelievable personally negative drivel about people that they spout is embarrassing. Give me Fox any day, I can at least form an opinion from their broadcasts while I can only look on incredulously at MSNBC. I rarely watch that network anymore even though I used to quite a bit. Apparently the majority of people feel the same as I do. I am a registered Democrat by the way, but the “hope and change” we were promised has been one of the many disingenuous and disappointing comments from the Obama presidency. I voted for the man, I should have known his strategy from the outset based on his background in Chicago. I can’t believe that he and McCain were the “best and brightest” this country ha to offer. I am of the opinion that I can only “hope for change” in November and beyond but with whom do we trust our future on?
lou korpas
on March 08, 2010
at 06:24 PM
Report this commentMr Heffer,
You write “The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day:…”
Either you have not watched Fox News or you have a penchance for prevarication.
Apparently you have not watched MSNBC either. This is the non-news organization which pours out liberal LIES 24 hours a day.
maryo
on March 08, 2010
at 06:24 PM
Report this commentA Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

Remember the 60’s radicals? The protests, the flag burning, the draft dodgers, the drugs, the spitting on U.S. soldiers at airports returning home from Viet Nam? Ever wonder what happened to them and their ideology? They overwhelmingly ended up in politics, journalism, academia and law. Not what most Americans would call “honest work”, but nonetheless fields that have proven useful for promoting their agenda. The one thing they all still have in common is their lifetime commitment of undermining God, country, the family and the military. To achieve these ends, they’ve orchestrated their efforts as follows:
- the ones that entered politics employ class warfare and racism to thwart our Constitution and push their progressive socialist reform.
- the media cooperates by presenting the “news” with unending liberal bias in order to desensitize the public to the liberal agenda.
- those in high school academia do their part by teaching political correctness and revisionist history (America was founded by greedy old white men that invented oppression and slavery) in order to dumb them down enough for their indoctrination into hard core Liberalism in college. The goal is to turn out young adults that are incapable of critical thought and will blindly accept the liberal propaganda that the politicians and the media present to them.
- the lawyers—especially those in the ACLU—bring expensive lawsuits against anyone who gets in the way, and the ones who become judges become activists, and collaborate by interpreting the law in a manner that advances their liberal causes.
These subversive components of the “Me Generation” and their unholy alliance have relentlessly pursued their agenda for forty years. Their efforts finally came to fruition with the election of Barack Obama and a Democratic majority in the House and Senate.

miker5
on March 08, 2010
at 06:24 PM
Report this commentAnd I quote, “One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the President – told me of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to be unable to solve the economic problem among his own people.”

His own people? He’s the American President, not just President of black Americans. It’s this kind of divisive crap that is ruining America.

But I agree overall. Obama’s Lefty Yellow Brick Road has ended at a brick wall. Carter II. One and done.
TheMadKing
on March 08, 2010
at 06:24 PM
Report this commentanonymous @ 4:57…..

You sir are CORRECT!!

Nothing else needs to be said.
All other comments are useless.

Anonymous @ 4:57, thank you!!
jdub
on March 08, 2010
at 06:23 PM
Report this comment”Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.”

Watching Fox is the only way we can get both sides of the story, including the perspectives our “Lame Stream Media” don’t for fear of hurting Obamachev and/or the liberal cause. That is why more people watch Fox than CNN.
Griff – Minnesota, USA
on March 08, 2010
at 06:23 PM
Report this commentOh, and why is it a piece such as this, rife with patently obvious opinion, is classified as “news”.

This is NOT “news” this is an opinion piece and needs to be classified as such.
PA
on March 08, 2010
at 06:22 PM
Report this comment” ‘Obama’s big problem,’ a senior Democrat told me, ‘is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.’ ”

So Fox is the “big problem” for Obama?

No, Obama’s big problem is that he’s a totally committed left-wing wacko who’s clueless about history, and the fundamental exceptionalism of Americans, and the Constitutional basis for America’s goverance.

Obama also fails to comprehend what “common sense” means.

As is typical of Obama and his minions who must always find someone else to blame, the so-called “senior advisor” quoted in this article shoots at the messenger rather than own up to the fact that his party put a grossly incompetent failure of a man into the White House.

By the way, is the “senior democrat advisor” quoted in this article also an advisor for Hugo Chavez by any chance?
TParty4USA
on March 08, 2010
at 06:22 PM
Report this commentOh yeah,..that hatred spewing Fox news…there they go again deceiving the public….never mind that they regularly beat all the other news outlets with audience ratings…..they’re all mind numb robots ….all of em…bunch dumb dumb dumby heads.
WBOB
on March 08, 2010
at 06:21 PM
Report this commentLadies and Gentlemen;

Many of you on the left (and right) are begining to understand why many did not vote for the current president. It was not because of his skin color, not because of his party affiliation, it was because his ideals and goals were not attainable and in any event he does not possess the experience or talent to accomplish them. In addition, if he were to accomplish his stated goals it would not be to the advantage of the American citizen, it would be to their great detriment and to the county as a whole. Let us put polemic discussions behind us and face reality, there are things in this life that we want but can’t and often shouldn’t have. And just like in any employment experience and realisic goals and methods trumps idealism and failed goals every time.

Bill Johnson
on March 08, 2010
at 06:21 PM
Report this commentAny time Obama enters a room , there is a good chance he is the least experienced person in that room. Candidate Obama had no executive experience and fooled a center-right country with flowery speeches of moderation….the reality is far different :

- his budget package for 2010 opens the kimono on his vast vision for increasing statism in the US…the government will increase spending from 20% of GDP to 24% for 10 yrs…until public debt becomes an unsustainable 77% of GDP by 2020

- the health-care bill is a ponzi scheme composed of 10 yr of cuts to medicare and increased taxes to pay for 6 yrs of expanding benefits to those without insurance. An honest scoring concludes the bill adds another $2.3T in debt over 20 yrs

- And the process and style of governing is the most corrupt , and murky we have ever seen. A huge majority of Americans do not want these bills, but kamikaze democrats are ramming it down our throats with corrupt deals to senators in individual states and ethics charges against congressman who vow to vote against the bill.

The writer parrots an administration tune that Fox news has made it difficult to get the real message out. It’s laughable….never in our history has the majority of broadcast , cable , and print media been so invested in a candidate and now a president….media are following this president and his party off a cliff …and Fox news and alternative media are the only news sources that Americans trust these days.

Every democrat running for office in 2010 should be thrown out. The have proven who they are …radical statists in the pocket of unions, trials lawyers , big banks , and george soros.

Fiscally conservative republicans and tea party candidates are the only hope to get the country back on track
william riker
on March 08, 2010
at 06:16 PM
Report this commentFox news doesnt spit our rage .. its about the onyl network in the US that doesnt slobber on and on about Obama with sugary stories . Fox doesnt ignore anything that doesnt flatter Obama like most of the other networks do. Fox showed us what was in this stimulus and all the pork filled projects and that is why it isnt helping America rebound. Now if only an American journalist had the gonads to find that birth certificate and prove that Obama is not eligible to be Prez based on a Kenyan birth. He is a total disaster as President.
jimbo
on March 08, 2010
at 06:16 PM
Report this commentThe cluelessness of this writer is manifested most clearly in the statement that Fox New Channel “pours out rage 24 hours a day.” Funny, I work from home doing my Ph.D analyst-writer job and keep FNC on constantly and the only rage I ever see or hear emanating from the TV screen is that of the Dems who show up on the station.
Dr. T Furnish
on March 08, 2010
at 06:16 PM
Report this commentYou missed the obvious reason some many people are wathcing FOX News. It is because people are increasingly aware that that is the only news station to turn to in order to get any semblance of the truth in the news. The others- MSNBC, CNN et al.- are leftist jokes who make no effort to disguise their shilling for the Socialist-in-Chief. But, to listen to them when Bush was in office, you’d think he was destroying the world instead of making it a better place, like he was doing. Elections in Iraq, anybody?
truthBtold
on March 08, 2010
at 06:15 PM
Report this comment”The $783 billion stimulus package of a year ago was used to further the re-election prospects of many congressmen, not to do good for the country.”

And guess which lone news organization was reporting that in the States? MSNBC? CNN? Nope.

None other than your “rage” filled network, FOX. But I guess the clueless, left tilted euro-reporters like Simon Heffer will still be unable to crack the mystery of Fox network’s cultural phenomenon. They just can’t figure out why so many regular Americans want pointed critiques of the current administration when instead they could watch gushing, glowing, uplifting accounts from so many other “impartial” news outlets.

Danny
on March 08, 2010
at 06:15 PM
Report this commentMr. Obama is an incompetent leftist, like Hugo Chavez. Why the American people voted him into office I’ll never know. I sincerely hope he is a One-Term-President. Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish.
BertoGem
on March 08, 2010
at 06:15 PM
Report this commentIt is painfully obvious that the writer knows nothing about Fox News or the current state of American Media. Like most liberal apologists and those who pose as journalists without doing any research, he just parrots the Democrat talking points about Fox and it’s bias. Well here’s a clue: Fox has a series of shows that are Op/Ed and they are clearly right-biased. They are very popular since they act as a counterpoint to the leftist biased programs that pretend to be news when they are not. Fox News is a different entity. It also reports on news events that the other networks conveniently miss. That is not bias, it is just closer to fair and balanced than their competitors by a wide margin. And Americans do have a defacto State run media like you Brits do, because of the sycophants in the media. Thank god for Fox and talk radio, the truth coming out is what is hastening Obama’s political demise.
I spit on the socialists.
walterrego
on March 08, 2010
at 06:14 PM
Report this commentSouthrons, hear your country call you,
Up, lest worse than death befall you!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Lo! all the beacon-fires are lighted,–
Let all hearts be now united!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!

CHORUS:Advance the flag of Dixie!
Hurrah! Hurrah!
In Dixie’s land we take our stand,
And live or die for Dixie!
To arms! To arms!
And conquer peace for Dixie!
To arms! To arms!
And conquer peace for Dixie!

Hear the Northern thunders mutter!
Northern flags in South winds flutter!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Send them back your fierce defiance!
Stamp upon the cursed alliance!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!–CHORUS

Fear no danger! Shun no labor!
Lift up rifle, pike, and sabre!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Shoulder pressing close to shoulder,
Let the odds make each heart bolder!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!–CHORUS

How the South’s great heart rejoices
At your cannon’s ringing voices!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
For faith betrayed and pledges broken,
Wrongs inflicted, insults spoken,
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!–CHORUS

Strong as lions, swift as eagles,
Back to their kennels hunt these beagles!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Cut the unequal bonds asunder!
Let them hence each other plunder!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!–CHORUS

Swear upon your country’s altar
Never to submit or falter–
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Till the spoilers are defeated,
Till the Lord’s work is completed!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!–CHORUS

Halt not till our Federation
Secures among earth’s powers its station!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Then at peace and crowned with glory,
Hear your children tell the story!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!–CHORUS

If the loved ones weep in sadness,
Victory soon shall bring them gladness–
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Exultant pride soon vanish sorrow;
Smiles chase tears away to-morrow!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!–CHORUS

REL
on March 08, 2010
at 06:14 PM
Report this commentGo Barack Go!

I love this guy.
Jimmy Carter
on March 08, 2010
at 06:12 PM
Report this commentThe last sentence in the opening paragraph in this story illustrates the great disconnect between the writer (and the NYT) and what this country stands for.

“If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons.”

RULE. RULE????

Presidents don’t RULE. Not in America. Savvy Constitution?

No, I thought not.
Dave in Georgia
on March 08, 2010
at 06:12 PM
Report this comment@Barbara Mueller: Obama can’t go down in history as the worst president ever – that honor belongs to George W. Bush.

In the style of “Who let the dogs out”:
- Who let Osama go?
- Who went to war in Iraq over WMDs that were never found?
- Who mismanaged Katrina?
- Who cut taxes while the deficit grew?
- Who declared “Mission Accomplished” six years ago?

I don’t know but it doesn’t seem fair to write off Obama just over a year into his term. Bush got eight years before every last thinking person in the USA was convinced he was a total screw up.
TexasTom
on March 08, 2010
at 06:12 PM
Report this commentHere’s hoping, praying that the inexperienced Marxist megalomaniac from the cesspool called the Chicago Democrat Machine is done for.

However, it may take more than the ballot box to defeat this thugs and his cronies.
CKAinRedStateUSA
on March 08, 2010
at 06:12 PM
Report this comment”This massive state spending gives rise to accusations by Republicans, and people too angry even to be Republicans, that America is now controlled by “Leftists” and being turned into a socialist state.”

Damn straight! The TAX-PAYERS pay the taxes that fund the $1.4 TRILLION dollar DEFICIT that these buffoons have foisted on us, even if we vote for people who are supposed to vote against these programs!!! The UNFUNDED LIABILITIES for Social Security, Medicare, and the Prescription Drug Plan is a total of $107.7 TRILLION DOLLARS!!! Our National Debt is about $12.5 TRILLION DOLLARS!!!

This author says that the USA DOES NOT have a WELFARE STATE?!?! We certainly do not want to go down the “loo” like what is happening in England, the UK, and Europe!

“Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.” The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by “progressives” who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects. The public loves it, and it is manifestly stirring up political activism against Mr Obama, and also against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservatives.”

LIBERAL LIE. FOX NEWS is the most FAIR AND BALANCED (as their motto says) media outlet in the USA. All of my life we have had liberal TV networks, newspapers, magazines, education, entertainment, and so on…

If ALL Americans watched FOX NEWS, Obama and democrats would be exposed as the frauds that they are, and not covered by “Sychophantic” media buddies.

Bernard M. Russelman
on March 08, 2010
at 06:11 PM
Report this commentAn individual form Delhi wrote why Detriot and American seems to cycle things over and over and nothing gets done. First its the people’s fault. They hear the promise of jobs and benefits and what a politican can do YOU. But most have lost the iniative to do anything on their own, blame everyone else ,but themselves for problems. Needless to say Americans are growing lazy. I can’t tell you how many people here try to screw the system for disability compensation without “real” injury.
Term limits of our politician which would help, but would you vote yourself of a job? Politican as a career. Helping themselves day after day.
davidofne
on March 08, 2010
at 06:11 PM
Report this commentNot a word about the multi trillion taxpayer bailout to casino capitalism banksters? Barely a mention of the gargantuan defense budget? A typically misleading ‘moderate’ commentator.
Ben
on March 08, 2010
at 06:10 PM
Report this commentIt’s comforting that people on the other side of the pond recognize what is happening to our fine country.
TheKid
on March 08, 2010
at 06:10 PM
Report this commentThe lates polls from Newsmax/Zogby finds that
If Americans could have a former living U.S. president run the country and deal with the problems facing the nation today, they would pick Bill Clinton.
Former President Jimmy Carter came in last.
The poll also found that if an election took place today between Barack Obama and George W. Bush or Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Obama would beat both handily.
So there is hope for the U.S. after all.

berndtc
on March 08, 2010
at 06:10 PM
Report this commentFROM DAY ONE I THOUGHT YOU WOULD HAVE TO GROW UP , BEFORE YOU BECAME PRESIDENT. THERE ARE A LOT OF AFRICAN MEN IN THIS COUNTRY THAT I WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR. IF YOU MAKE IT THROUGH THE 4 YEARS, GOD PITY US.WHY DON’T YOU LET US KNOWABOUT YOUR HISTORY?
JOE HAVANAS
on March 08, 2010
at 06:09 PM
Report this commentIt’s a bit rich, being lectured on the impartiality of the press by the country that gave us the BBC. Fox isn’t NEARLY as far to the right as, say, Radio 4 is to the left. Those Trots can work an anti- Margaret Thatcher joke into the food program.
S. Weasel
on March 08, 2010
at 06:09 PM
Report this commentYour characterization of the reporting of Fox News as “rage” is laughable and disingenuous.
Andrew C
on March 08, 2010
at 06:09 PM
Report this commentI think that it is odd that everyone is defending Fox News when the article was about Obama. I have never seen such loyalty to a News program! I do not watch Fox because they distort the facts. Just because MSNBC is a pit of venomous liars
doesn’t mean that Fox is balanced.

If there were a fair news organization they would report the facts.

The truth is that there is not a difference between Obama and Bush. Sure, one is black and the other is white. Their policies remain the same. If you ignore the speeches and look at their actions, you will see what I mean. Whoever replaces Obama, whether it is in two years, or six, will not differ from the previous presidents.
I think that some Dems are beginning to figure this out with the “Change we can believe in”. Some of the “Tea party crazies” have figured it out as well and are not rubber stamping Republican candidates.

RunsOnCoffee
on March 08, 2010
at 06:09 PM
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The goal of President Obama and the Far Left seems to be “Death to America by One Thousand Cuts.” Their Socialist Health Care Scheme is one more bone-deep slice. Outraged Americans can post their anti-Obama Administration comments until the “Send” key melts, but the only message that will penetrate their arrogant skulls is being VOTED OUT in November. I will crawl through seven miles of broken glass to vote against President Obama and the Scoundrel Democrats!
AynRandWasRight
on March 08, 2010
at 06:08 PM
Report this commentThose who say Fox News is not biased are wrong. Those who say MSNBC and CNN are not biased are wrong. All media is biased!

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lisa
on March 08, 2010
at 06:08 PM
Report this commentThe left is always lacking in intellect, just look at this writer of this story, but they always have plenty of hate and fear to spread, Fox News tells it like it is , and the unsuccessful creeps on the left can’t deal with it.
SUSAN NEWPORT RI
on March 08, 2010
at 06:02 PM
Report this commentI’m astonished by how out of touch this piece is. Well consider this: why do you suppose Fox news has four times the listenership of CNN, as your writer claims? Is it because so many American listeners are wacko? No, its because they have made a concious choice among lots of choices, in a media market that is not monopolized by a single-minded clique whose mission it is to indoctrinate to hapless conformity. And thank goodness we have choices.

Here’s another data point: One reason why Fox is popular is precisely because it offers a variety of viewpoints. The other “mainstream” media in the US do not offer any balance at all, or if an opposing viewpoint is raised, it is caveat-ed, or belittled.

Actually, what we are seeing here in America is freedom at work, something that we wrestled from England a couple centuries or more ago – shocking!
A Yank
on March 08, 2010
at 06:02 PM
Report this commentObama’s most effective assailant is himself. He thinks that socialism/Marxism/communism is the future of America. If America is to have future, then federal spending must be curtailed. Reduced govt spending would allow businesses and individuals to keep more of their money. Nobody, especially not central government, knows how to best spend their money.

Obama gravitates to centralization and increase of govt power. Such policy must reduce individual liberty. Americans are rightly incensed.
Rod
on March 08, 2010
at 06:01 PM
Report this commentthe first poster i read here said this:
“It is such a pity that McCain did not win the election. He was a man of substance and I think very different from the Right Wing Republican image portrayed in the UK media.”

i cannot help that the UK media lie to you about who or what a republican is but i can tell you this: mccain would be no different than obama. republicans, despite what your media tells you, are little different than democrats.

what you are not told over there about our country is this: we are mired in a situation in which the republicans seek the defeat of democrats, and democrats seek the defeat of republicans…

and neither side cares a lick about the people.

daniel
on March 08, 2010
at 06:01 PM
Report this commentMore Elitism –

Well done. FOX is partisan in some cases (Hannity), more measured in others (O’Reilly), but in no case is their “hatred being spewed.” in fact, the entitlement to vile spewing is decidedly left-leaning. Witness Olbermann, Jannine Garafolo, Maher, others. It is the “liberal elite” who demonstrate haughty impatience with the masses when they dare to have an opinion. As for Obama, his arrogance and narcissistic delusion know no bounds. Easily the most dangerous and self-involved man to ever occupy the office. The real worry is that we are breeding an electorate dumb enough to fall for this hyped-up narcissus…..

sub
on March 08, 2010
at 06:01 PM
Report this commentObama is losing a lot of popularity all over the political spectrum. Obama, like most US politicians in the US are demagogues, liars, and frauds. Obama does hate America, it’s obvious to me and many other people.
Zach Watkins
on March 08, 2010
at 06:00 PM
Report this commentSimon this one sentence describes it all from your article, “Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism.” No press questioned this guy and its beyond me how people for his Hype and Change. Same politics and no change.. Its a shame. I think millions would take back their vote now.
DavidfromCT
on March 08, 2010
at 06:00 PM
Report this commentThe problem with Mr. Obama is that he ran on transparency,a non partisan, bring people together platform.

It became apparent only days after he came into office that this was a bold faced lie. I grew up in Chicago and have seen this act all of my life. Say whatever you need to get elected and then do what you want – people are stupid.

He said no lobbyists in the administration – they were in positions in the first month.

His stimulus plan was a totally partisan payback to his political friends that did little other than subsidize state union pension funds.

All bills were written in secret and those democratic sheep in the congress admitted they had not read the bills they were voting into law.

There were to be no “earmarks” (or special favors)in his budget. The approved bill had 9000 earmarks.

The main stream media continued to worship him.
As Chris Matthews from MSNBC is quoted, “I feel a tingle in my leg when I hear him speak”. Yes,he really said that.

Fox news has pointed out the facts about what is happening. The public has listened and there have never been so many people who understand so much about how the government works.

His arrogance is reflected in his ongoing pursuit of the health care takeover bill when dozens of polls show 60 % of citizens oppose it. And no poll shows over 45% support.

I hope for the future of the US and the free world that the next elections will remove his power and he will soon join Carter as one of the worst presidents in our history.

Dan Mason
on March 08, 2010
at 06:00 PM
Report this commentThis article and many of the follow up comments are perfect examples of why the US is in the toliet and heading down the drain. Political devisiness has driven an uneducated public to the extreme left and right. There is no room for middle ground anymore. The loudest groups in our country win the battles but the majority sits on the side lines to affraid to voice their opinions. Don’t say the Tea Party movement is the new voice. I once belonged to a Tea Party group and I found out they will tell you to sit down and shut up as fast as the Obama administration. It is a lost cause. Read the “Raise and Fall of the Romen Empire”. You will see America.
Michael Beairsto
on March 08, 2010
at 06:00 PM
Report this commentBuy the ticket, take the ride. The 52%’ers elected the Insane Clown Posse.
PA
on March 08, 2010
at 05:59 PM
Report this commentBreaking from Newsmax.com

Bill Clinton Bests Former Presidents to Handle Crisis Today, Newsmax/Zogby Poll Finds
By: Jim Meyers

If Americans could have a former living U.S. president run the country and deal with the problems facing the nation today, they would pick Bill Clinton by a wide margin, a Newsmax/Zogby poll reveals.

Former President Jimmy Carter came in last, garnering just 5 percent of support for his taking charge.

The exclusive Newsmax/Zogby poll also found that, if an election took place today between Barack Obama and George W. Bush or Hillary Clinton, Obama would beat both handily.

berndtc
on March 08, 2010
at 05:59 PM
Report this commentI refuse to sit idle while I see my country turn into a Marxist, Socialistic cesspool. Every country that has violated property rights has turned into a Hell Hole and right now if we do not stand for the One thing that has protected our Natural rights for about 233 years……, we will lose the very thing that makes this country worth a damn.

An Open Letter To The President, Congress and Supreme Court:

Sirs and Mesdames:

You have ONE JOB: Your only job is to do one simple thing, You SWORE an Oath to uphold and defend the United States Constitution. That is your only job: HONOR your Oath of Office and Protect and Defend the United States Constitution and defend the Liberty of the People. Anything else you do is inconsequential.
1. Prove the eligibility of Obama by showing a real Birth Certificate with real facts. The one on his website is not the official Birth Certificate.
2. Cease and desist all Co2 and AGW legislation until the Unbiased FACTS are revealed. Do a complete Investigation of Climate Gate.
3. Cease and desist all deliberation on signing any treaty that cedes US Sovereignty: this includes Copenhagen Treaty, Codex Aliminatarius, Health care legislation, Jay Rockefeller’s internet control bill! This is an act of Direct TREASON ON YOUR PART if you or anyone CEDES US Sovereignty to any entity or acts Contrary to the Constitution.
4. CEASE and DESIST all unconstitutional laws that do not fall into Article I section 8 of the US Constitution. You have no authority to legislate on issues not specifically enumerated in the US Constitution.

Anonymous
on March 08, 2010
at 05:58 PM
Report this comment
The Communist Party did after all whole heartily endorse Barry (ACORN S.E.I.U.)Soetoro.

Aubrey
on March 08, 2010
at 05:57 PM
Report this commentI am proud to say that my support of this Marxist and his clown car freak show of weirdos has never changed. It is exactly the same as it was a year and a half ago. Rock solid stable.
Jon Carry
on March 08, 2010
at 05:57 PM
Report this comment”The $783 billion stimulus package of a year ago was used to further the re-election prospects of many congressmen, not to do good for the country.”

And guess which lone news organization was reporting that in the States? MSNBC? CNN? Nope.

None other than your “rage” filled network, FOX. But I guess the clueless, left tilted euro-reporters like Simon Heffer will still be unable to crack the mystery of Fox network’s cultural phenomenon. They just can’t figure out why so many regular Americans want pointed critiques of the current administration when instead they could watch gushing, glowing, uplifting accounts from so many other “impartial” news outlets.

Danny
on March 08, 2010
at 05:56 PM
Report this commentIn short time, given his way, Obama would have the entire Nation looking like the most Liberal city in the Nation, Detroit. The pic here is very appropriate.

Aubery
on March 08, 2010
at 05:56 PM
Report this commentregarding BO,

A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is known and carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself… for the traitor appears no traitor: He speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their faces and their garments, he appeals to the baseless that lies deep in the souls of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is to be less feared.” ~ Cicero
Rhcrest
on March 08, 2010
at 05:48 PM
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“The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”

Is the author trying to pretend the UK media is impartial?? They also gave Obama a complete pass during the campaign…

Tom M.
on March 08, 2010
at 05:48 PM
Report this commentYou want to control who gets elected then get off you complaining ### and get involved starting with who gets selected to run for office in your own district.Dont wait for one of the major parties to pick there person based on how much money they can raise and who they can buy off.
There is a solution

http://goooh.com

Travler
on March 08, 2010
at 05:48 PM
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The Lib Dem Socialist Party has collapsed under the weight of their own Arrogance, Ignorance, Irresponsibility, Deception and Liberalism. It is a beautiful thing to witness.

Elections of 2010 & 12 Cannot Come Soon Enough !!

Aubrey
on March 08, 2010
at 05:47 PM
Report this commentVery nice article! Remember, Brits, it was you, too, who fell madly in love with the Community Organizer. Too, there were 55 million of us who saw through the media hype for what he really is-a socialist who is very inexperienced. We will gladly trade him for Margaret Thatcher!
Terry
on March 08, 2010
at 05:47 PM
Report this commentWhere to start? How about a government that can’t spend money it doesn’t have fast enough. A narcissist (what 2 autobiographies already), elitist lier with no experience. A government that has taken over private industry and trampled the constitution. A government that has stolen tax payer money to pay off its political supporters (glad the UAW needed my money more that I did).
Fox News attacks – forget CNN, how about NBC, CBS, and ABC. The treatment of Dem vs. Rep. is laughably unballanced on these primary networks. ABC news for goodness sakes did an informercial for Obama care in the whitehouse – I don’t remember Bush getting anything close to that. The mainstream press covered up the Edward’s affair until the tabloids forced their hand. Where was the serious coverage of Obama’s lack of experience (sure heard enough about Palin yet she was up for VP, not Pres). Racial statements by Reid or Biden – just let a Repub say what he did and not be run out by the networks. The US press is pathetic. I never know what exactly they are complaining about on Fox,is it the actual news shows or is it the opionion shows like Hanity, O’Rilley, etc. – news flash, they are OPIONION shows, not news just like Mathews (tingle down my leg – forgot he was black), Olberman, etc. Don’t penalize them because no one wants to watch CNN or MSNBC (one reason libs hate capatialism – you can’t force people to like a bad product – just ask the AirAmerica crowd)
The economy – Bush spent too much, no doubt, most Conservative didn’t like him because of it. However, Dems took over congress in 2006 including oversight of banks and mortgage companies by good old Dodd and Barnie (Fannie Mae is doing fine) Frank. I hope he and his ilk are gone as soon as possible – the only question is whether Repubs can put up anyone worth voting for – sure didn’t in 2008 (or 2000 and 2004 for that matter).
Rob Brown
on March 08, 2010
at 05:47 PM
Report this commentThere is only one solution for America: Follow the U S Constitution as it is written. If you are working against the US Constitution You are the Domestic Enemy of the United STATES! LIsten UP!

http://standupamericaus.com/from-willi-greg:21430

I refuse to sit idle while I see my country turn into a Marxist, Socialistic cesspool. Every country that has violated property rights has turned into a Hell Hole and right now if we do not stand for the One thing that has protected our Natural rights for about 233 years……, we will lose the very thing that makes this country worth a damn.

An Open Letter To The President, Congress and Supreme Court:

Sirs and Mesdames:

You have ONE JOB: Your only job is to do one simple thing, You SWORE an Oath to uphold and defend the United States Constitution. That is your only job: HONOR your Oath of Office and Protect and Defend the United States Constitution and defend the Liberty of the People. Anything else you do is inconsequential.
1. Prove the eligibility of Obama by showing a real Birth Certificate with real facts. The one on his website is not the official Birth Certificate.
2. Cease and desist all Co2 and AGW legislation until the Unbiased FACTS are revealed. Do a complete Investigation of Climate Gate.
3. Cease and desist all deliberation on signing any treaty that cedes US Sovereignty: this includes Copenhagen Treaty, Codex Aliminatarius, Health care legislation, Jay Rockefeller’s internet control bill! This is an act of Direct TREASON ON YOUR PART if you or anyone CEDES US Sovereignty to any entity or acts Contrary to the Constitution.
4. CEASE and DESIST all unconstitutional laws that do not fall into Article I section 8 of the US Constitution. You have no authority to legislate on issues not specifically enumerated in the US Constitution.
5. Honor your Oath of office and OBEY Amendment 9 which states: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others RETAINED by the PEOPLE”.
And Amendment 10 which states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are RESERVED to the States respectively, or to the People”.
6. Repeal the Patriot act! It is unconstitutional because it violates the bill of rights right down the line. Do I have to remind you that Amendment IV states: The right of the People to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
7. Stay out of FREE SPEECH! Amendment I clearly states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceable to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”.
8. Complete Audit of the Federal Reserve. The FED is unconstitutional from the start. The genesis of the Federal Reserve was passed with 3 Congressmen in the dark of night. The constitution is very clear who is supposed to have the authority to coin money: CONGRESS! You must STOP making unconstitutional laws.
9. It is not constitutional for you to allow the courts to pass laws according to Article III. You are overburdening the system with bills and laws you KNOW are unconstitutional.
The Constitution does not give authority to you, our government representatives to lie to us and deceive us, nor does it give authority to the government to act without the consent of the people. When government no longer looks out for the best interest of the people, the government ceases to be the rightful, legitimate government, and as such, it is time to abolish the entire government. “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”.

Anonymous
on March 08, 2010
at 05:47 PM
Report this commentThe fundamental flaw in this mostly factual piece is the assumption that Obama’s intent as president was to “improve” our country. Quite the contrary, his intent is to “re-make” our country, not for the better, but as a European-socialist style country. Hopefully, his extreme inexperience, combined with his ego, will prevent him from completing that goal, and leave him as another failed, one-term Democrat president. Of course, if he is successful in “immigration reform”, he will have successfully signed the contract to destroy America.
Bob Smith2
on March 08, 2010
at 05:46 PM
Report this commentSimon, people watch FoxNews because the other media outlets are dominated by left leaning Obama apologists. I don’t care to watch the other outlets. Heck, Chris Matthews admitted as much to having a man crush on “The One.”
Scott
on March 08, 2010
at 05:46 PM
Report this commentThe author writes: “America’s politics remain corrupt, populated by nonentities whose main concern once elected is to stay elected; it seems to be the same the whole world over.” No kidding! Take away the power the “non-entities” have to run people’s lives. Let people be free to run their own lives. The more power politicians gather, the more the rot and ruin spreads.
J.D. Lees
on March 08, 2010
at 05:46 PM
Report this commentEnjoy the bed which you have made America. You asked for it so heres the change lol, rofl and roflcopter. Did I mention Im laughing at every fool who voted for hope and change. You are the useful idiots so often referred to by Marx. I wish I could take solace in that you may learn something, but you wont.
Nunya
on March 08, 2010
at 05:45 PM
Report this commentMESSAGE FOR AMERICA,
IF Fox News is so slanted and telling falsehoods, why isn’t their competion challenging them on facts. It seems Fox uses a lot of video and audio tapes to support their point of view. The US Constitution is the biggest challenge to Obama, he’s even said he felt it was flawed. The scary thing is the courts have distorted it so much that the left has destroyed a lot of the original intent. One person on the US Supreme Court is our entire check to Obama’s power. I hate to say it,but… and the military.
ERIC of RALEIGH
on March 08, 2010
at 05:45 PM
Report this commentThe difference with Fox News is that it tells the Truth and offers some balance to what you find elsewhere. However, I don’t think Fox will make that much difference. There are still about 47% of Americans satisfied with Uncle Obama’s performance. This is unimaginable but true. However, I take solace knowing that many of these simpletons are suffering too.

Adheeb
on March 08, 2010
at 05:44 PM
Report this commentA good start would have been for Obama to stick to his campaign promises.

@Tony: Funny that lefties always call people on the right hate speakers, yet the first thing you all do is start of with a string of insults.
Congrats for pointing out one of the main reasons your party is and always will be -fail-.
Dorian Smith
on March 08, 2010
at 05:44 PM
Report this commentOBAMA IS A JOKE THat CONTINUES EVERYDAY. HE NEEDS TO FIND A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY WHERE THEY DO NOT KNOW THE fact about this man lies. This lair needs to go !
david armour
on March 08, 2010
at 05:44 PM
Report this commentKudos to the author, well written, well stated and extremely insightful. A pleasure to read.
J Bran
on March 08, 2010
at 05:43 PM
Report this commentTO:Karen Webb “I feel that there should be a cap of of 50 million £s that any one person in the world can have, the rest should be given back to the people, or put into good use creating jobs”

YES CARL MARX agrees with you, as does Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Obamao.

david
on March 08, 2010
at 05:43 PM
Report this commentThe assessment of FOX News in this article shows the same staggering ignorance of the American public as do both major political parties. Elected officials of both parties have shown contempt and criminal disregard for The People for decades. They stand to reap a whirlwind of razor blades this November. Watch and learn, Europe.
J in KC
on March 08, 2010
at 05:43 PM
Report this commentThank goodness we have the Telegraph reporting what the “useful idiots” in America have failed to report!

Fact is, the progressive left has not only damaged America, but these vile, corrupt traitors are well on the way to bringing down the Democrat Party! Sane Democrats have become Independents that will will vote to save their country in the next election.

We have a Communist wannabe dictator in the making that is an absolute disaster to the country, our defense, military, economy and freedoms! Look at who his mentors, friends and not czars are!

I’m an Independent that isn’t overly fond of either side but this regime is not acting on behalf of the American people. We are seeing the country under attack from what I see as a deliberate plan to destroy the economy with their Hitler style “create a crisis” which is right out of the Hitler playbook!

This was clearly underway as the Democrats took control of Houses of Congress taken over in the 2006 elections. The objective was to hurt the economy in time for the 2008 election. Yes, really, those daily conference calls with Moveon/Soros. They should be charged with economic treason!

The Obama’s theft of trillions is just part of the Cloward-Piven agenda to overwhelm the system. These thieves have run up more debt in a little more than a year than all the presidents combined and that includes two world wars and a civil war! Interest only is costing us billion of dollars a day.
We are $$$$$$$$$$$$$14,000,000,000,000.00 in debt with more coming if they get their way. Unfunded Medicare/Medicaid/SS/VA to the tune of $$$$$$55 TRILLION.

Now we have a bunch of hacks at best and vile communists at worse on a mission to take over heath care. These imbeciles that have bankrupted Medicare now want to use it as the shining example of what the rest of us should have? What exactly is the definition of insanity? This has nothing to do with “health” but will most certainly have a whole lot to do with death!
These are not for the benefit of us, this is nothing but another power grab to take over another industry. They have already bankrupted everything they have their dirty little paws on and now they want control of our health care…the socialist take over of the most private part of our lives…for us but not for them or their union thugs.
If this is such a great bill why did they exempt themselves, unions, federal employees? WE ARE PAYING FOR THEIR FEP HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN!

This regime is has brought in the freaks from the 60′s & 70′s with their hate America, hate business, hate the military mantra. Professional hacks that have never worked a day in their lives. Still using the Cloward-Piven agenda to overwhelm the system.

Obama and everyone associated with his regime (robbers, looters, lairs and traitors) should be in prison with Madoff.
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As a Russian leader once said, “we will destroy you not with missiles but from within.” We are now beginning to see the handwriting on the wall. This was our first inept and uneducated generation and they only needed a slick and glib flim-flam man… Ladies and gentlemen meet Barack Obama…”THE ONE”!

Mickey
on March 08, 2010
at 05:42 PM
Report this commentExcellent article, tell it like it is! Too bad no one listened a year ago when we predicted this would happen.
Jon
on March 08, 2010
at 05:42 PM
Report this commentOUR God is failing,.I warned EVERYONE that Our God’s failure would result in a MASSIVe swing to the RIGHT.

Ron Paul for president. Roll up the Borders. He will Let EVERYONe in the World Know that the STORE IS CLOSED and if You wanna play YOU PAY. THE EVEN FIELD IS COMING. lets see china compete. WW-3 in 8yrs or less with China.
feeed
on March 08, 2010
at 05:42 PM
Report this commentThey bemoan that 4X as many people watch Fox news as CNN. And that they report rage, etc. Could it be that maybe the people are FEELING rage? And let’s not forget that CNN came first. Fox News had to beat them at their own game. I DEFY you to watch CNN and not see the bias there, and then watch Fox News and NOT see them reporting both sides. Just the fact that they report both sides is what makes the left think they are biased. Again, they can’t win the battle of ideas, so let’s either try censorship, and say the viewers are stupid. Either way, it points out a lot about the left.
boB
on March 08, 2010
at 05:42 PM
Report this commentGreat article, and well said. For the second time in my life, I am ashamed of my country. The first time carter allowed 52 Americans held hostage and tortured by Iranian terrorists, and now this administration which seems heck bent on destroying our Republic.
As the overwhelming audience numbers favoring FNC suggest, the sleeping giant, the American people, is waking up. And the giant is pissed off but good.
cj
on March 08, 2010
at 05:42 PM
Report this commentThe US economy will not recover any time soon and here is why:
1) Socialist wealth redistribution big government spending cannot restart an economy it can merely lessen the pain short term
2) America was saved from a recession after 911 by the Bush tax cuts but we now lack the political will to keep them going and restart the economy because they were so effectively demonized by the left for the past 9 years

We will now languish in a lost decade ala Japan while China grows and owns our debt.

Way to go Obamao – are you happy now?
david in Texas
on March 08, 2010
at 05:42 PM
Report this commentLiving half way round the globe, we read with amusement the comments about Obama. I don’t understand why Americans are so impatient. The ghostland in Detroit and Michigan did not come about overnight. It was due to the wrong policies of GWB. And what, I daresay, would have happened if John McCain had won. He would have ‘bombed, bombed, bombed’ Iran with Fox News squealing with delight and this act warming the cockles of Tories in London. But then the world would have been thrown into an unretrievable situation. Give Barack his due five years, and then begin quibbling. The auto majors in the US had been facing stiff competition from the Japs ever since Bill Clinton was President, and the same was aggravated during the GWB years. I do not understand why the Americans forget their immediate history so soon. And all fears about Obama making the US a totalitarian, Communist state is all hogwash.
Ramesh Parida, Delhi
on March 08, 2010
at 05:34 PM
Report this commentLots of good comments…

Your analysis of Fox News is wrong, as others have said. They inform people what’s going on in their government, and–since they know the facts–the public is justifiably angry. I watch Fox News, and do not see people “spouting rage.” I see the news reported fairly, and I see pundits saying why they don’t agree with current policies, then explaining WHY. I also see debate of different points of view on shows such as Hannity, OReilly, etc.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking the American people are stupid. The Obama administration is making this mistake, as many others have throughout history.

I dislike Obama because he is dishonest, and a coward. If he would just come out and admit the authoritarian utopian vision he has for America, I would at least have a shred of respect for his honesty.
More Elitism
on March 08, 2010
at 05:33 PM
Report this commentThe authors claim that the BBC operates with an eye to impartiality is hilarious. He must not watch it very often.
Andy
on March 08, 2010
at 05:32 PM
Report this commentif these DEMS and Obama cram in the socialist transformation and force a tyrannical oppression on over half of americans and continue policy that accelerates the corruption and destruction of our country…

then there will be a real john galt effect, and our real leaders will have to destroy the country to remake it.

And lessons from our last overthow of a tyrant will be retaught most enthusiastically to those in DC who betrayed the people and the constitution. Fiercely.

Sic Semper Tyrranus!
benny mahtz
on March 08, 2010
at 05:32 PM
Report this commentIt’s all Fox’s fault? Fox is as out of the tank as NBC, CNN, etc are in the tank. I don’t need media to tell me what to believe. That’s why I was born with a logical brain. I don’t watch Fox and yet am able to form an opinion of my own that holds to the following tenets: 1. The Obama administration is a failure, 2. The Bush administration was not conservative, 3. Both parties are contributing to the current morass, 4. Palin, Romney, et al are not The Answer, any more than Obama was, 5. Too many wars without direction, too many taxes without representation, and too many representatives with no mission, and, 6. Personal freedoms have hit an iceberg and the ship of state is taking on water. And the band plays on…
Captain America
on March 08, 2010
at 05:32 PM
Report this commentIt’s all Fox News’ fault! They are twisting peoples’ minds so that they don’t understand what a wonderful job Obama is doing!

Ha ha ha. I don’t know which is scarier: that the Dems truly believe this or that they know it’s false and proceed along anyway.
J Ryan
on March 08, 2010
at 05:31 PM
Report this commentOf course we all would like the Government to solve all the Countries problems without raising taxes or going into dept, but to think that is possible is just plain stupid.
This administration has a good track record of getting things done. Considering the hole we were in a year ago, the results so far are pretty good. President Obama has lost popularity because he is a pragmatist and irritates both the left and right extremes. Not only do I wonder if anyone could lead the USA but why would any sane person want to.

I list of all the legistative highlights so far can be found at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/signed-legislation

jim hurt
on March 08, 2010
at 05:31 PM
Report this commentDon’t blame Fox News for the arrogant nasty bu##er in charge – this is his first job and the radical hippie sixties mob of drunkard, drug taking lefties in charge whose brain cells equal less fingers than I have on both my hands. They don’t know dem or repub America is a CONSERVATIVE nation and they have attacked all that is sacred to them – freedom – the Constitution etc etc – what the heck did you expect from an idiot – Einstein?
del
on March 08, 2010
at 05:31 PM
Report this commentMr. Obama is a symbol of what some Americans thought a president should be. He is not a real president.
catherwood
on March 08, 2010
at 05:31 PM
Report this commentI like all these morons that knock Fox News, do they think ABC, CBS,NBC,CNN, NEW YORK TIMES,AP…….are down the middle, these dwindling alleged news outlets are all failing, because the general populations see’s them for what they are, mouth pieces for the fringe kook left. Obama clearly lacks the intellect to solve any problems this country faces, that is why he never released his grades from his affirmative action years at Harvard. the democrats have to divide and hate monger to get what they want and people are sick of it.
SUSAN NEWPORT RI
on March 08, 2010
at 05:31 PM
Report this commentWaaaaa…. “Fox News….”

Boo friggin’ hoo

Did they just come into existence on 1/21/09? I seem to remember Obamamania at it’s peek being covered by Fox News.
Nittnay
on March 08, 2010
at 05:31 PM
Report this commentFox News presents both left and right views? Ridiculous. Also, the reason Obama is having such a tough time is he handed the keys of his campaign machine over to the DNC. That was in incredibly bad mistake because people did not want to be part of the Democratic machine.
Stu in Iowa
on March 08, 2010
at 05:30 PM
Report this commentThe funny thing about Fox is that it is one of the few news outlets that calls it like it is. I’ve seen many in the GOP run afoul of Fox. Don’t confuse Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly with the news reporting of the network – the news reporting is rock solid. MSNBC however is a complete joke.
Patrick, Washington, DC
on March 08, 2010
at 05:30 PM
Report this commentThese are the REAL problems for this administration….

1. Stimulus Bill – The American people said NO….they did it anyway.

2. Omnibus Bill – The American people said no….they did it anyway.

3. Radical Selections of Important positions – The American people said no….they did it anyway.

4. Takeover of Banks and financial institutions – we said NO….they did it anyway.

5. Takeover of the Car Companies – we said NO….they did it anyway.

6. Telling the World that we are not a Christian Nation…You may not be a Christian, but our country WAS founded upon Christian principles, and these very prinicples that has made us Exceptional!

7. Apologizing for America – This is a throw off of you and me…it doesn’t matter to a man who wishes to be a superstar on a World Stage.

8. Cozying up to Leaders and countries that hate us (i.e. Iran) and making enemies of those that are our friends (Israel)….where has that gotten us?

9. Hollywood – Anytime hollywood goes full throttle to endorse and uplift a politican or president, is when I get very unconfortable. Most people with common sense and reality thinking brains, could care less what Hollywood thinks!

10. Healthcare, we keep going over the same old stuff, the more we hear, the more we don’t like…but yet, they continue on pushing it through!

11. Telling us, the sky is orange, the sun is black, the grass is purple, and telling us, you need the government’s help to succeed or fail……when really we KNOW the sky is blue, the sun is bright, the grass is green AND, it is in rising when we fall and succeed on our own that truly makes us stronger and better.

Shall I go on??? This is WHY this man and his agenda will NEVER work in AMERICA!!!! We love our country to much to allow it!

Susan
on March 08, 2010
at 05:30 PM
Report this comment”There is no point a nation’s having the audacity of hope unless it also has the sophistication and the will to turn it into action.” Powerful. Might I add, as college tuition continues to increase and availability and quality of courses decrease, where will this sophistication come from? We need to invest in the people who, without having a say, this trillion dollar debt will fall on…not re-electing the corrupt and self-interested.
W. Hume
on March 08, 2010
at 05:30 PM
Report this commentTreachery, thy name is Obama. America “ain’t seen nothin’ yet” he said and he meant it. So stripped naked with his bones exposed, he keeps going. Our Messiah will make his final push on Good Friday. We are a rotted out America.
DisturbedMary
on March 08, 2010
at 05:29 PM
Report this commentMaybe Obama is doing the right thing, directing the total colapse of the USA and converting it into a totally non functioning socialist state – so in that respect he’s highly succesful, maybe the most succesful president to transform a nation in all of history.
Tom Gleason
on March 08, 2010
at 05:29 PM
Report this commentWhen the Los Angeles Times endorsed Obama

“we endorse him because he is comfortable with his own lack of experience.

So…no vetting there.
LAObserver
on March 08, 2010
at 05:29 PM
Report this commentI’m going to go out on a limb here and make a bold prediction: Obama will go down in history as America’s worst president ever. I can say this with such assuredness for one simple reason: If America is ever foolish enough to elect a worse president, there will no longer be an America.
Barbara Mueller
on March 08, 2010
at 05:28 PM
Report this commentIt is such a pity that McCain did not win the election. He was a man of substance and I think very different from the Right Wing Republican image portrayed in the UK media.
Obama was picked up as a ‘messiah’ figure by the BBC and much of the media here.
I found it distressing that 95% of blacks voted for him purely on the basis of his colour – it would seem. Could you imagine the outrage if 95% of the white electorate had voted McCain! Funnily enough, it will be those black voters that will turn against him the most when he doesn’t deliver what he has promised, and they realise the only option for a better life is to do what everyone else does, work hard and turn their backs on crime.
bluestapleuk
on March 08, 2010
at 05:21 PM
Report this commentJust goes to show that a great campaigner does not automatically mean a great leader. The voters will hopefully learn to look beyond the hype, the spin and the slogans. Hillary would have done better.
jimmy
on March 08, 2010
at 05:20 PM
Report this commentObama is showing himself as an affirmative action empty suit who was elected by voters who were dumbed down by awful public schools (in the American sense of the term) and insipid television.

Obama is an omen of decline.
Gary
on March 08, 2010
at 05:20 PM
Report this commentI think that the FOX News channle is the least biased of all the stations and without it, Americans wouldn’t know the truth. FOX ews isn’t the bad guy, its the mainstream media that has given Obama and his administration a pass. Obama has surrounded himself with like minded people who all agree with his ideology, so, what do you expect?
toledofan
on March 08, 2010
at 05:19 PM
Report this commentIt’s funny to hear liberals bash Fox News all the time because it leans to the right. MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC are all leftist media organizations who operate under the mask of objectivity. So what is the score? The score is … left-wing networks 5, right-wing networks 1. Liberals you should not complain. You just don’t like Fox News’ ratings, that’s all. As for Obama goes, Americans got another Jimmy Carter.
Pete
on March 08, 2010
at 05:19 PM
Report this commentIt would do well to remember the actual facts about Obama’s lack of experience and his political extremism. All of this was and continues to be covered up by a slick PR campaign and a fawning compliant media.

Obama spent something like 150 days in the senate before being elected president. Before that he was simply a “community activist” in the streets of Chicago working for corrupt entities like ACORN.

His political philosophy is way outside the mainstream. His father was a Kenyan marxist economist and by all accounts his American mother was far to the left. The US media has by and large dismissed the importance of his 20 year association with the black liberation theologian, Rev. Wright. Even if you ignore his prior associations, he has in fact appointed many SELF DESCRIBED communists and socialists to positions in the federal government. How many more clues do you need?

In effect, Obama is nothing more than a far left academic/theoretician who has never really accomplished anything before being elected president. Even Hillary Clinton said he had accomplished little more than giving nice speeches.

the_evil_Bender
on March 08, 2010
at 05:19 PM
Report this commentSome of us knew that Obama is a snake oil salesman since the 2007. The press in this country abdicated their responsibility, and acted as would a group of teenage cheerleaders during the campaign.
Steven A. Collins
on March 08, 2010
at 05:18 PM
Report this commentCantillon, are you serious? Obama uses every chance he gets to blame Bush and the Republicans, what you said is patently false.

Kerry a ‘decorated war hero?’ You must be drinking some extra strength Euro brand kool-aid. I don’t know what ‘war hero’ means where you’re from but in America he sure as hell is not one.

Although we agree on one point, one term and gone.

EllipticSmile
on March 08, 2010
at 05:18 PM
Report this commentHillary 2012!!!
Lot5
on March 08, 2010
at 05:17 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffner’s words that “a technical rule of impartiality applied in the broadcast media” negates everything else in his writing. IMPARTIAL??? The MEDIA??? Their hypocrisy & blatant leftist slant when reporting what they consider political news but which is really just polling data is positively stunning!!!! About as “impartial” as the head of the DNC. There’s a reason why so many people watch Fox News & it is precisely due to it’s impartiality. Motto: “We report the news, you decide.” Far cry from CNN.
Karen Rice
on March 08, 2010
at 05:17 PM
Report this commentWe need the Democrats.

Look what happened when the GOP thought it had total control. At root, that is what brought Obama to power.

Without a healthy Democratic party, the GOP is worse than useless–it becomes first the majority party and then naturally progresses to a social compassion party that couldn’t play fair with the taxpayers if it tried.

Taxpayers see the irredeemable corruption of the GOP and fall victim to the lies of the Obamunist left, and here we are.

If the Dems could maintain a healthy, American party that can provide robust opposition to the GOP without going all Obamunist, they could act as a check on the GOP to keep them from getting too corrupt.

But here’s what’s going to happen: the incorrigible corruption of the Obamunists is causing the mightiest backlash since the Civil War in this country, and it’s going to throw the Democraps out of power for a generation because we’ve now seen them unmasked.

If they pass healthcare via reconciliation, we will repeal it via reconciliation.

Bet on it.

And they won’t return to power in my lifetime.
PA Coug
on March 08, 2010
at 05:09 PM
Report this commentFoxnews is watched by more people than all the other cable outlets combined. Why, because americans can get the truth there. Obama was right, CHANGE IS COMING. Just not the kind of change he expected. WE ARE TAKING AMERICA BACK!!!! Obamas presidency is in shambles just like the democratic party. Republicans WILL take over both houses in november and Obama will be a one term failure. He reaped what he sowed.
Sir Walter Wedgie
on March 08, 2010
at 05:08 PM
Report this commentSpare me the FOX News bashing. What bothers our Democrat socialists who had the airwaves tied up until FOX came on the scene is the audacity of anyone expressing an alternate political view. Progressives don’t want a level playing field.

What’s really happened is that America has figured out that Obama is an empty suit. He was anointed by the lefty media, they carry water for him and he is an epic failure.
penny
on March 08, 2010
at 05:08 PM
Report this commentInteresting. Fox is a rabid right wing hate inspiring engine according to the writer. However, as the story pointed out, the rest of the media fell over backwards in adoring the Obama during the election and aftermath. Fox points out some obvious truths about where the direction of the US is going and why. And gets slammed for pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes. The other media claims not only that the Emperor has clothes, but is also the new messiah, and gets a pass when things fall apart. Does anyone see a trend here?
RPF
on March 08, 2010
at 05:08 PM
Report this commentWe take one look at the Brits and the French and we see exactly where we are headed. Fox News accurately portrays what is happening to your country as well as ours. Islam and Socialism are enemies of the United States and always will be. They have taken over England (and you know it) so don’t even try to deny it. Freedom loving Americans who stood up to you in 1776 are rising up to save what is left.
Rod
on March 08, 2010
at 05:08 PM
Report this commentCongratulations on being linked to by the Drudge Report. As you may have noticed, the majority of Drudge’s readers are Fox News viewers, many of whom have figured out how to mash their chubby fingers against their keyboards in just the right sequence to create proper words. Unfortunately, these people are often as rage-filled as their preferred medium.
A quick scan of these comments has turned up: several folks who haven’t quite grasped the concept that Barack Obama really *has* presented legal proof that he is a natural-born American citizen; some blatant racism (“coon?” Come on, it’s 2010, not 1950); claims of socialism, marxism, etc. that are entirely unfounded; and so on. Unfortunately, loud-mouthed fools like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et al who have the ears of these angry mostly white folks earn their millions by whipping the base into a frenzy.
Obama has been stymied thus far due to a lack of support from the Republicans that the angry commenters here support. They wish to see him fail to show up the half of the nation who voted an uppity black man into the White House, despite the benefits that his policies would bring. Health care? What’s the problem with more people getting health care? Oh, these people would be poor folks, many of them black – can’t have healthy poor people, can we? Stimulus for the economy? That’s wasteful government spending (never mind that it started under Bush). You get the picture.
To the Drudge readers and Fox News commenters: your nation needs your support, not for you to push it off the balance so it topples into ruin.
Tony
on March 08, 2010
at 05:07 PM
Report this commentObama and the Democratic Congress has had many great accomplishments last year. Obama won the Peace Prize, he almost shut down Gibmo, he almost had civil trials for terrorists (extending them U.S. rights), he’s taken a tough stand with China imposing tariffs on tire imports, he’s closed 140 banks in 2009, and he and a Democratically controlled Congress spent most of the year brokering deals on Healthcare all the while 1.5 million home foreclosures took place and unemployment has climbed to 14.9 million people all the while there are 65,000 H-1B visas and the number of H-2B visas was increased to 66,000. Everyone should be gushing how great Obama and Congress has done and dismissing anyone questioning them and their results and radical right wings Republicans or Tea-Party “Baggers”.
Calvin Hobbes
on March 08, 2010
at 05:07 PM
Report this commentWell written. I wish American journalism was as truthful about the Obama presidency as Mr. Heffer. Though, American journalists would have egg on their faces if they were.
Tmom
on March 08, 2010
at 05:06 PM
Report this commentI just don’t understand why the socialists in the U.S. don’t move to any of the wonderful countries they claim have a better system than ours. If you like the French/British/Canadian health care systems and their wonderful unions you should move there. Why work so hard to destroy the American system?
pynaetlb
on March 08, 2010
at 05:06 PM
Report this commentSimon Heffer your a little confused. Actually alot confused. FOXNEWS is the only media outlet you can trust. Where were the main street media nbc,cbs,abc,msnbc,cnn etc on Van Jones and Acorn. Two huge stories that only Fox News carried. The other outlets will bury stories that will hurt Obama. Get your facts straight Heffer,
THE TRUTH
on March 08, 2010
at 05:06 PM
Report this commentA word from middle America. You’ve got to be kidding me!

Half of Obama’s staff openly worship Mao Tse-Tung, Che, Stalin, Chavez et al. – on video and in there own words. Don’t take my word for it. The evidence is well documented and all over YouTube. Makes you wonder if “Yes we can…” is the whole phase or if it was cropped from “Yes we can starve more than the 70 million that Mao culled via starvation from his own population.” Over the top? Well did the state propagandists of the BBC happen to mention that Berry turned off the water to the farm country of California and we currently have over 100,000 starving farmers out there? You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs if you know what I mean.

Did you happen to see there was a big push for Chicago to host the Olympics? I’ll let you connect the dots. There are these apartment buildings (guess who owns them) and they don’t have reliable services – running water, heat, sewer… you know the basic services. In some cases there are roofs will holes — some are missing whole sections of roof. All the problems are clearly visible from Google maps.

People live in these buildings under low income assistance. The county and state offsets the expenses – the building owners are compensated through tax subsidies. Chicago has a long and colorful history of corruption, mobs and guns, sometimes you don’t have to look that far back. The local government doesn’t appear to be holding these landlords accountable for the condition of these buildings even though the government is paying rent on those buildings.

Let’s just talk about the roofing for a second – it’s Chicago. It snows there. Not like those little weather patterns in England either, were ice might build up on the still green grass in the middle of winter. We’re talking many snow storms each winter and each one can be measured in meters. We’re talking about people living in these buildings were the snow not only drains through the roof – it’s actually snowing like this in the upper floors of these buildings.

So we have members of government each individually worth multiple millions of dollars. Owning buildings and being paid by the state to house people and the buildings are clearly only fit for demolition. A corrupt city and state government which won’t assess damages and enforce building codes to protect the population from these people. Ohh and for icing on the cake – they wanted the Olympics to show up on their door step so that they can force the government to buy up these properties at huge prices because of the new found demand and kick these poor people out to the curb — so the tax payers can build a brand new village.

Did you happen to see any of that in the news? Or is the EU all still a flutter about having the USA join in the socialistic nirvana.

Berry Adams
on March 08, 2010
at 05:06 PM
Report this commentI think Hilary would have made a better President than Barack Obama any day – sure Obama has charisma but not a great deal of life experience.
louise
on March 08, 2010
at 05:05 PM
Report this commentWhile I enjoyed your essay very much, I believe you were a tad harsh on Fox News. For many of us, who are anything but inexorably ideological, Fox has proved the most accurate and objective source of information, one far more reasonable than their competitors.
John D. Iannotti
on March 08, 2010
at 05:05 PM
Report this commentIn your assessment of Bill Clinton as an operator, you neglect to note that he was first elected, then re-elected, only with the help of H. Ross Perot, the same tactic that was used to Howard Taft with Woodrow Wilson, with Teddy Roosevelt as the spoiler.
This is the smoking gun in the collusion between the political parties in the US and the duplicity of their leaders.
Sam
on March 08, 2010
at 05:05 PM
Report this commentThe day Obama and his Chicago cronies are headed back whence they came is nearing. America, we can do so much better. What have we done?
Amazingoly
on March 08, 2010
at 05:05 PM
Report this commentIf Fox News were so powerful, and so right leaning, how come Obama is president now? You know, Fox News WAS on the air while The Chosen One was campaigning.
johnny griswold
on March 08, 2010
at 05:05 PM
Report this commentWe watch FOX because it is the only network not in the bag for Obama. The man polls lower each day because Americans see the progressive coming out. His administration is the biggest danger this country has faced in my life time.
psutopgun
on March 08, 2010
at 05:04 PM
Report this commentThe author’s “shock” at Fox news might be less if he actually watched it. Perhaps in his haste to make pronouncements about what Fox airs “24 hours a day,” Mr. Heffer simply has assumed that what he thinks he hears during the opinion block is typical of the entire day. My guess is that this is too kind a reading — I suspect that the author got lazy in his research and didn’t base his claims upon first hand research. J’accuse.

Moreover, Heffer would have found more about which to be “shock[ed]” if had he paid attention to the so-called mainstream media. Many of the mass media outlets remain cheering sections for Obama. Chris Matthews reported that a “tingle” ran up his leg as he listened to Obama speak.

The formerly hard-hitting New York Times sent a “reporter” to one of Obama’s few press conferences. The question: What “enchanted” Obama about being President.

Unfortunately almost none of the US media, Fox included, do much true investigative journalism any more. This administration likely contains a dozen scandals waiting to be broken, but it would take too much work to dig them out.
T. J. Symanski
on March 08, 2010
at 05:04 PM
Report this commentExcellent commentary. Obamas lack of connection to the American people coupled with his focus on his own legacy (which is at odds with what Americans want) is deadly. He, like many politicians misread his “mandate.” He campaigned on change, but it’s turned out to be more big government doing things we don’t want. Can’t wait until he is the “former President!”
Billy D
on March 08, 2010
at 04:54 PM
Report this commentLeftest claimed that by sharing our jobs overseas, such as in China, this would bring about a social revolution and they would join the one world order dream. That dream is nothing more then putting power into the IMF, UN, and other powerful organizations. Already Europe is talking about a world bank tax. I grew up in Cleveland Ohio during the mid 70′s to mid 80′s. I lived in a very depressed area which used to be steel mills and shipping. When we came out of the recession back then the companies didnt come back, they went overseas. The Liberals that ran Cleveland and other Northern industrial cities screamed for more Fed dollars, and got it in order to buy votes. Since most whites left the cities racism was cried if the money didnt flow. Unions have ruined it also. When unions get contracts its for union only memebers. So if you live next door to a job and your black, you cant get the job because they bring in out of town union labor. I remember the news about one man who worked as a scab during a strike. The union had him killed and hung his body on the fence beside the docks. For entry level non union jobs why hire a black man when you can hire four illegials and pay them half as much? Which President has pushed for more heavy industry? None. Why? Because we hate evil businesses who pollute and abuse people, or at least that is what is taught in our schools and sold to us by career politicians. No, we need Green jobs which does no good to a steel worker. If they had a job, they would have healthcare. So our politicians are again trying to buy votes with kickbacks, favors and spreading the wealth we were loaned from China. I did not like the way Republicans the past 10 years have acted and helped vote them out. Now we have a worse bunch. Blacks thought Obama was their savior. Liberals bought the hope and change line. The fact is if your black, white or whatever the only way to have a better life is to work and save for it. Obama and his minions in Congress only care about their ideology and changing America. That is why the health care bills have been pushed for over a year while jobs and business have been slandered and forgotten. Want to try farming? We have massive amounts of productive land in the USA. Good luck. Taxes on the inflated price of land is huge. Regulations on what you can and cannot do on your land lowers productivity and increases red tape. Imports of beef have destroyed our cattle farmers, of which my grandparents were one of, and anyway banks wont loan the money for equipment and supplies. So, we in the USA sit, watch, and hope for change again.
William
on March 08, 2010
at 04:54 PM
Report this comment”…a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media…”

Yes, thank you, you are obviously not shocked by the likes of Anderson Cooper making sexual jokes about grass roots citizen protesters, about MSNBC’s Olbermann calling a candidate – now Senator – a racist, or Ed Schultz suggesting that ripping out an ex-Vice President’s heart and playing football with it. Yes, those esteemed impartial paragons of journalistic impartiality have much that they could teach Fox News. If only…
Brian D
on March 08, 2010
at 04:54 PM
Report this commentMaybe Fox has got it right.
dmac
on March 08, 2010
at 04:54 PM
Report this commentSimon needs to do his homework–quoting a Democrat’s opinion as the definitive truth about Fox news.

Criticism without backup is only B.S., so here’s MY homework to support what I’m saying: I recently bought a new car and my wife and I took a cross-country trip. We have Sirius/XM radio in the car, which includes the Fox News Channel Audio as part of the radio programming package. We decided to see for ourselves how “fair and balanced” Fox really is.

We listened for FIVE HOURS STRAIGHT one day, and kept a written checklist of whether or not both sides of each issue discussed were given or represented by guests holding different points of view.

Results: ALL, 100%, of the stories and/or commentary pieces had both the liberal and conservative points of view expressed. We were able to fully understand what each position was on many, many issues.

As Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly might say, “Wise up, Simon. Get your facts straight and do your homework to get it right, so you do not come off as a pinhead.”

Orwood Gafkey
on March 08, 2010
at 04:54 PM
Report this commentGood and fair observations, except the part about Fox News. Our US Liberal Media is so corrupt that any “news” org. these days which is not Far Left only seems Right.
LibsAreCommies
on March 08, 2010
at 04:53 PM
Report this commentWHY IS HARRY DINGEY THE ONLY PERSON IN AMERICA TO FIGURE THIS OUT?

Make no mistake about it the International Trade Deficit must be balanced if America is to SURVIVE. There is only three ways to correct this humongous Trade Imbalance.

1. Increase the American Exports by $450.6 Billion Dollars per year. This is absolutely impossible.
or

2. Decrease the American Imports by $450.6 Billion Dollars per year. Then manufacture the merchandise in America.
or

3. Pull out of NAFTA and the WTO and Produce all Imports in America. Do not worry about Exports and this will create 15.02 million Jobs instantly and maybe ever more.

I am suggesting we do number three. This will be done by the new American Congress to be elected in November 2010 and will automatically bring the large American Manufactured Goods Trade Deficit into BALANCE almost over night.

Where Exports + Imports = a Balance of ZERO.

Here is exactly what would happen. Toyota of Japan would be forced to totally manufacture in America, every car sold in America.

Every item sold in every store in America would be required to be manufactured right here in America. America would be swimming in newly Created Jobs almost over night.

I can remember this large sign posted in Wal-Mart: “EVERYTHING SOLD IN THIS STORE WAS MADE IN AMERICA”.

Sam Walton said: “Everything sold in all Wal-Mart stores will be made in America”.

I CAN CREATE 15 MILLION JOBS ALMOST OVER NIGHT right here in America !!!

Here is my Job creation Computations:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Total USA Imports in 2006:
———————————-
$ 2,211.7 billion —– Total Imports.
$ – 309.4 billion minus -(Money spent on Imported Crude Oil)
————————————————–
$ 1,902.3 billion / 30 billion=63.41 million jobs lost from Imports.

==================================================

Total USA Exports in 2006:
———————————-
$ 1,451.7 Billion / 30 billion=48.39 million jobs America Created from Exports.

If USA Pulls out of NAFTA and WTO right now:
USA would absolutely gain a total of 63.41 million Jobs by Manufacturing all IMPORTS right here in the USA.

So, 63.41 minus 48.39 = 15.02 million NET JOBS GAIN. But, a lot of Exports must be purchased in the USA. That would mean an even larger number of jobs created in America than I have estimated.

Also, I should note that I have subtracted out the $309.4 billion dollars that America spent on Import Crude Oil in 2006. This is another problem that must be solved later.

My calculation means an ABSOLUTE 15.02 million Jobs gained if the rest of the world did not buy even one penny of USA EXPORTS.

SO MOTE IT BE. . . . .

Do you truly want to help straighten out the United States Government now? Then, copy and post this article everyplace on the Internet you can post.

BY: Harry Dingey

Have a good day my friends.

Harry Dingey
on March 08, 2010
at 04:53 PM
Report this commentA good article, but you miss the point on Fox News. It is successful because it provides a different viewpoint from the other left leaning networks such as MSNBC that is virulently pro-Obama.

It is a pity the UK does not have an equivalent to Fox to counter the left leaning drum beat of the British Bias Corporation.

Interestingly even normally right wing friends in the UK are now moving left because the only news they watch is the Beeb.
Ellen ODay
on March 08, 2010
at 04:53 PM
Report this comment” Obama is an excellent President.

The very fact that conservative Brits loathe him is enough to indicate how good he is. Britain needs to wake up to see that there is a new world order – Its Black and not White!!
His lack of interest in Britain is very sensible. In the new world order it is China and India that matter, not Britain.”

BBBBWWWWWHHHHAAAAAAA

Just keep telling yourself that, Raj……..
TransitDave
on March 08, 2010
at 04:53 PM
Report this commentDemocrats=Liberals=Progressives=Socialists
Ben
on March 08, 2010
at 04:52 PM
Report this commentThis pol hack and his dem grovellersjust don’t get it. To fix the conomy see Reagan. Simple. We will recover in historic fashion when these incompetents are gone. They are making it so easy for the Free side. Winston Churchill’s comment on Edward II reign seem so relevant. Paraphrasing him he said rule by the perverse and incompetant sets up history for great and strong. brilliant leaders. Can yousay Sarah Palin?
michael r smith
on March 08, 2010
at 04:52 PM
Report this commentObama has consistently missed the mark on healing the economy and health care reform. The solutions that work the best and the most quickly are ones that enable Americans to solve their own problems. His favored solutions, ones that involve the top down heavy hand of government do not work here. Obama refuses to acknowledge that tax cuts and accelerated tax depreciation programs which place the economic fix in the hands of the public always pay dividends. Health care reform that allows real competition by individuals for health insurance would lower costs thus making it more affordable for everyone. Removing the heavy economic cost of medical malpractice litigation would also lower costs across the board. Neither of these solutions would cost the government one cent or create more bureaucracy yet the affects would be enormous.
ross
on March 08, 2010
at 04:52 PM
Report this commentI don’t UNDERSTAND this article! Especially the diatribe against Fox and then the next paragraph that the US media, (and I might ADD, European MEDIA) abandoned all ethics and impartiality and ACTIVELY rooted and ENDORSED Obama.

The REASON why America is turning to Fox is that there was ONE outlet that did NOT fall into that category during the elections. And that was FOX!!!

The rest, ABC, CBS, CNN and ESPECIALLY the NBC affiliates, became nothing more than the active propaganda wing of the Democrat party and Barack Obama.

Thank GOD for Fox! The only beacon of light and truth in the wilderness!
Glubber
on March 08, 2010
at 04:52 PM
Report this commentGood article overall.

You very-accurately noted that “Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism.” Truer words were never writ. Other journalism professionals have referred to that phenomena as “slobbering affection”, “outright devotion”, and “abject partisanship”.

But you then, apparently, adopt the liberal template that Fox news is somehow responsible for the downward spiral in Obama’s polling. Fox was the ONLY media outlet in the U.S. which did not lavish a faithful suspension of disbelief on Obama during the campaign. It can hardly be their fault then that the other media outlets are now engaged in the post one-nighter “walk of shame”.

The reality is that the Fox news programming – distinct from their opinion-based shows – is the only down-the-middle source for political news in the U.S. television market. Fox appears to be “right leaning” only from the perspective of the dogmatically liberal CNN, CNNHN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS, in comparison to which any honest reporting would appear to be “ultra conservative”.

For one example, Fox News has been the only outlet to report on the controversies revolving around Dr Phil Jones’, the dubious quality of his work work on the global temperature record, and recent embarassments edited out of the revised IPCC report on global climate change. The other outlets occasionally report some developments in their on-oline sites, but there has been nary a whisper in the broadcast programming, with the exception of a couple of pieces repeating the highly-creative fantasies of those who seek to hide the real story from public view. Fox has been the only outlet which has not reactively promoted the silly notion that “the debate is over” on global warming, as well as the related fantasy that Al Gore is not on intellectual par with a stump. Does that make Fox news “right leaning” or just honest?

Fred Holtsberry
on March 08, 2010
at 04:51 PM
Report this commentYes, Fox News tilts towards the Republicans. But the audience of Fox is dwarfed by the traditional liberal media. The traditional media have failed us for years with pathetic, thinly veiled left-wing agendas (all involving the consolidation of power). Luckily we have have a rich history of pundits and pampleteers (like Fox and Rush Limbaugh) to help keep us free.

What many non-Americans have trouble realizing is that Americans resent any intrusion by government. Any intrusion. Our freedoms are based in freedoms FROM government–the belief that human beings are born with certain natural rights and corresponding responsibilities for one’s own livelihood. You want something-EARN IT. You need help-ASK.
Fourth Stooge
on March 08, 2010
at 04:51 PM
Report this comment
I cannot wait until this socialist president is voted out of office in 2012.
He is so ignorant. All he has to do to revive our economy is to 1) Stop pushing the redistributive statist programs like healthcare and cap and trade, 2) Pass sweeping tax cuts for businesses and individuals, & RESIGN!!!
Bri
on March 08, 2010
at 04:50 PM
Report this commentShame we’ve not an honest media here in the states to write an appraisal of our Messiah such as the one here. Kudos to Mr. Heffer.
A. B. Itterclinger
on March 08, 2010
at 04:50 PM
Report this commentThe end cannot come soon enough. Hopefully it will be “stimulated” by the defeat of the healthcare debacle.
Bob
on March 08, 2010
at 04:50 PM
Report this commentThat said it all…
A senior dem blames everything on Fox news.
Its minds like that – running this country that have caused this mess. What a cry baby clown.
VinnieD
on March 08, 2010
at 04:50 PM
Report this commentFox doesn’t spew rage, Fox supplies both sides and then we decide. We have decided that we made a rather large mistake and are preparing to correct it.
Phocus
on March 08, 2010
at 04:49 PM
Report this commentPersonally, I detest Fox as much as most of the other new channels. That is why I get my political news from C-Span, and online sources. It’s bad enough to be lied to, and considered to be an ill-informed schmuck for not buying into the lies by other media outlets, but to be forced to watch Sarah Palin by Fox is just as bad! I am a tea-party member, and I HATE SARAH PALIN AS MUCH AS I HATE OBAMA!!!

-oZ
Ozlanthos
on March 08, 2010
at 04:49 PM
Report this commentWhere was the analysis of BO’s capabilities before the election? Why is anyone surprised that such an inexperienced person should be found to be way over his head in providing leadership to America, when as a senator he rarely had the spine to vote anything other than “present” when faced with difficult issues. On the left, one sees disappointment as the reality check sets in; on the right, who saw him for the empty suit he is, there is anger, quite justified anger.
not surprised
on March 08, 2010
at 04:49 PM
Report this commentJust wait till Comcast buys NBC and fires all the libs’. Then NBC, MSNBC will shift further to the right than FOX because that will make Comcast $$$$, and that is why they are buying it not for politics but for profit.
James Morrison
on March 08, 2010
at 04:48 PM
Report this commentFox news is a bunch of dangerous, mindless idots. If you listen exclusively to Fox News, you are cdheating yourself and ultimately damaging your country.
glenus
on March 08, 2010
at 04:48 PM
Report this commentIf Fox News is such a power obstacle for Obama to be successful with his agenda, then how did he get elected in the first place?
Thinker
on March 08, 2010
at 04:48 PM
Report this commentAs with all things, it matters weather the person can really, truly do the job in front of them. Expectations and hopes mean little if the one doing the job cannnot do the job. It is clear day by day that this man in the White House is just simply not able to do that job. I cannot dunk a basketball no matter how hard I try and practice. I do not pretend I will be able to later if I just have more support. Obama does not know his own limitations.We will all suffer for it.
john Kurtz
on March 08, 2010
at 04:41 PM
Report this commentYour characterization of Fox News is incorrect, and obviously based on it’s competitor’s talking points. I would suggest you actually watch a channel before impugning it like that.

It is simply the only center-right news outlet in the mainstream press, and is not particularly supportive of The Obamessiah. As such, it’s detractors try to make it out to be some kind of 24 hour a day right wing screed, which it is not.
Roger Fishwife
on March 08, 2010
at 04:41 PM
Report this commentLOL – The same old denial & spin is getting soooo old. You Libs still don’t get it. There’s a reason Fox News is so far ahead. How arrogant ! You give the public too little credit. The reason is obvious -people have seen through the main stream media bias, and are opting for a news source that gives multiple views, and doesn’t cover up stories.

You summarize about Fox: “its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by “progressives” who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects. ” Damn Right ! How can any sane person deny this ?

Now go try and have an intelligent day !
steamboat
on March 08, 2010
at 04:41 PM
Report this commentFoxNews biased? An independent study found FoxNews was the least biased of all major news networks in the States. CNN came in second. MSNBC was the most biased. If there was any bias, it’s this article and the other media who grovel at Obama’s feet and the liberal agenda. NBC has Dylan Ratigan as an example of the media here while attacking Mark Williams – check it out on Youtube.
StopNonsense
on March 08, 2010
at 04:40 PM
Report this comment”If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons. ”

His rule?! Have you forgotten that the president works for the people? He is not a king! He is a representative of the people. Perhaps that is why he is failing…he sees that he is actually accountable and he doesn’t like that responsibility.
Joe
on March 08, 2010
at 04:40 PM
Report this commentBarack Obama is the first President in US history voted into office due to race. JFK may have been the first Catholic, but he wasn’t elected because he was Catholic, he was elected because he had leadership experience as well as being charasmatic, not just charasmatic. There are 22 year-olds in the Navy who have far more leadership experience than President Obama. You don’t have to personally like John McCain to acknowledge that with 26 years in the Navy, he has leadership experience, far, far more than Pres. Obama. Our elections are no longer about who would be the best leader, but all about emotion, how do “I” feel about the candidate. You get what you vote for.
ELNIKO7
on March 08, 2010
at 04:40 PM
Report this commentAny chance of Fox News setting up in Britain?
It would be nice to get news from sources other than the lefty, AGW freak, white hating, middle class guilt ridden eunuchs who currently peddle what passes for ‘unbiased’ news in this country.
anne allan
on March 08, 2010
at 04:40 PM
Report this commentBring back our freedom and the Republic, get rid of the Federal Reserve!

Vote Libertarian, vote for Ron Paul a Constitutionalist!
Also vote for: Libertarian Constitutionalists to fill the Congress Nov 2010, in order to help Ron Paul in 2012!

Remember no Elite members!

For your own defense watch: “Shadow Government” http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/videos-shadow-government-full?xg_source=msg_mes_network

M Btok
on March 08, 2010
at 04:39 PM
Report this commentHaving spent a year at the London School of Economics I find it quite hilarious that a brit is complaining that BBC bred viewers are shocked, yes shocked at the comparison between BBC and Fox News citing the former as impartial. What a joke that is. With no competition and no free media market to speak of, to say BBC is not left leaning is patently absurd. Just because everyone agrees with something, doesn’t make it impartial. Thank the Lord for Fox News. Living in a blue academic town that believes NPR and MSNBC is the news, I can at least get other points of view on Fox News.

We in America are blessed with a consuming population that doesn’t believe much the Obama administration says any more about its major issues – the health care bill, cap and trade, and immigration, let alone the main issue for Americans – jobs, jobs, and jobs. Is it 2012 yet?
helene rosenberg
on March 08, 2010
at 04:39 PM
Report this commentBritain should take a lesson from the public over here. Yes we like our freedoms and are not going to be led around by the nose like the Brits. Your country has become a real zombieland whose better days have long passed. When you don’t see why we are angry then you have no understanding what we are all about.
clarify
on March 08, 2010
at 04:39 PM
Report this commentIt’s interesting how they love to bash Fox news instead of dealing with their own failures. It’s ‘always’ someone else’s fault.

It’s Bush’s fault. It’s the tea-party ‘racist’ rabble rowser’s fault. After god knows how many speeches on healthcare, it’s “america’s” fault for just not understanding. It’s the republican’s fault for not allowing the democrats to “rule” even though they control bot parts with veto proof majorities (until recently)

Scott Brown’s election to the blueist of states is obviously NOT obama’s fault.

Iran and Russia laughing in America’s face is not because Obama looks weak.. It MUST be someone else’s fault. We just didn’t bow low enough I guess.

The old joke goes, that the one common thing in all of your failed relationships is “you”.

Perhaps the Obama administration’s real problem is that we just don’t want to go where he is trying to lead.

Welcome to amateur hour in the white house.

Here’s hoping for change in 2010 and 2012..

Charles Bennett
on March 08, 2010
at 04:38 PM
Report this commentIf Bush wasn’t out there bashing our Obama every chance he had, then His approval numbers wouldn’t have dropped so drastically. It has nothing to do with His progessive views or inclusive agenda.
Bill
on March 08, 2010
at 04:38 PM
Report this commentObama is a little Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain AND Jimmy Carter.

He believes in equality rather than liberty.

Unlike Mr. Churchill, he believes that the government is the master of the people, not their servant.
Ralphie
on March 08, 2010
at 04:38 PM
Report this commentNote to Vickie: Anyone who would characterize Glenn Beck as partisan must never have seen his show. There are some partisan commentators on Fox (Hannity, for one), but Beck’s not one of them-anti big federal government, devoted to the Constitution certainly, but partisan-not a chance.
stonebridge
on March 08, 2010
at 04:38 PM
Report this commentIt’s interesting to see so many in the media call Fox News “Partisan” when, in fact, they are merely telling the truth. Not one media outlet has refuted anything they have presented, including the content on Glenn Beck’s program. To the contrary, they respond by trying to change the subject.
Jack Donnelly
on March 08, 2010
at 04:38 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer hit the nail on the head with this article. Thanks for the article and hopefully some (probably not many) of our people in Congress will take note of it. I’m sure the Obama people won’t!
Red
on March 08, 2010
at 04:37 PM
Report this commentAmerica had unprecedented problems before Obama was even sworn in. All of this end of the road talk is still a bit premature and just sounds like typical politics. It’s a long time until the next presidential election and Clinton and Bush both looked just as dead in the water before the end of their first terms as well.
George
on March 08, 2010
at 04:37 PM
Report this commentUnfortunately, Mr. Obama is an empty suit with a talking head who was out of his depth from the day he took the oath of office.
If Fox News is tilted to the Right, it makes no bones about it; unhappily, much of the media in general, tilted at least as far to the Left, still content themselves with crying “Objectivity.”
To apply P. Henry, “Gentlemen may cry ‘Objectivity, objectivity,’ but there is (little) objectivity.”
Ben Hall
on March 08, 2010
at 04:37 PM
Report this commentUnfortunately, Mr. Obama is an empty suit with a talking head who was out of his depth from the day he took the oath of office.
If Fox News is tilted to the Right, it makes no bones about it; unhappily, much of the media in general, tilted at least as far to the Left, still content themselves with crying “Objectivity.”
To apply P. Henry, “Gentlemen may cry ‘Objectivity, objectivity,’ but there is (little) objectivity.”
Ben Hall
on March 08, 2010
at 04:37 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer:

I’ll merely quote you twice; these are the opening remarks of the 3rd and 4th paragraphs respectively.

“The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by “progressives” who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects.”

“Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism.”

Have you ever had a tingle up your leg when you’ve listened to Obama speak? You talk about rage 24 hours a day emanating from (specifically) the Fox network. You also bemoan the lack of American media impartiality. Perhaps you should tune into MSNBC some weeknight. Pay particular attention to the Ed Show, Hardball, Countdown, & The Rachel Maddow Show. Then we can have a legitimate discussion about media rage and impartiality. And by no means is it a safe assumption that the aforementioned news outlet is an isolated example.

I wonder if you might cite exactly which media outlets, (please include print, radio, & television), participated in the devious suspension of cynicism, the promotion of leftist idolatry, and the unwarranted stratospheric expectations of Mr. Obama both prior to the election and afterward.

Respectfully,
Jim

Jim Cimino
on March 08, 2010
at 04:36 PM
Report this commentVote Libertarian, get rid of these elitists and slave drivers and the mafia run Foreign Bank Federal Reserve!

Vote for Ron Paul!
M Btok
on March 08, 2010
at 04:36 PM
Report this commentConcerning your radical mischaracterization of Fox News, it’s a bit pathetic, Simon, that a practicing journalist, such as yourself, can’t make the distinction between the reporting function of a newspaper or television channel, on the one hand, and the commentary function, on the other. The commentary function presents the organization’s or individual’s naked opinons and doesn’t pretend to strive for objectivity. The reporting function does. The right wing, for example, couldn’t care less what the editorial view of the Guardian or the NY Times is. What they object to is the fact that their purported news reporting is slanted and agenda-driven. In contrast, no one, lucid enough to make this elementary distinction, complains about the news reporting of Fox News. All the examples you gave (“indoctrination”, “socialist state”, etc.) of Fox “rage” come from the commentary side. No one does, or can, cite bias on its reporting side because it’s not there — otherwise they would do so with chapter and verse and tie it to the specific reporting (not commentary). It’s very disappointing you’ve fallen for this liberal and brain dead trope.
stridingedge
on March 08, 2010
at 04:36 PM
Report this commentend of 2nd paragraph reads:
“One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the President – told me of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to be unable to solve the economic problem among his own people.”
Sounds a bit rascist, but also highlights the issue that everybody is selfishly ‘in it’ for themselves with their own vested interests, their is no community or society wide perspective or agreement.Makes things harder to solve.

Funnily, UNITED States of America and GREAT Britain or UNITED Kingdom are anything but at the moment.
I loved both USA & Britain in my times there, and aspired to achieve, improve and develop personally under the broken capitalist, conservative, western model for a better world.

Don’t know the answers, I’m just an ordinary JOE (or JO) like most people. Unhappy and shafted and in despair.
SimpleStu UK
on March 08, 2010
at 04:35 PM
Report this commentEvery time I hear someone trying to defend Obama it’s either with

1) Obama inherited a mess

2) Obama can’t be judged yet

Well to answer 1 I say plenty of Presidents inherited messes…to #2 well eventually we WILL have to judge him because he has to win reelection to keep his post.

Much of Obamas fans thought we’d pull out of afganistan, iraq, close down camp x ray, end the sanctions on cuba and so on. Nothing has been further from the truth. I can only name a few decent things he has done (stopped prosecuting for medical marijuana and legalized stem cell research) Everything else is just talk.

If being articulate was the only qualification for being president we would have a party of Toastmasters!
Matt
on March 08, 2010
at 04:35 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer, have you actually watched Fox News? There is a real news program during the day and opinion at night. Your description of it “With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day…” is pure BS.
Perhaps Glenn Beck is in a rage, but that is a small part of their programming. For real rage see MSNBC, a network truly devoted to Obama worship.
The real reason Obama is failing is because he is a lousy politician and won’t lead from the center. The reason he was elected was he gave voice to the vast middle of America in the most eloquent of language. This vast middle feels betrayed by Obama given his actions since the election.
richardb
on March 08, 2010
at 04:35 PM
Report this commentOh, Brave New World!
Pat Davidson
on March 08, 2010
at 04:35 PM
Report this commentIf memory serves, wasn’t The Telegraph at the forefront of the parade of drooling, fawning Euro-media twits that lined up to touch the hem of Obama’s cloak in the run-up to the Nov ’08 election? To have to listen to this sniffy buyers remorse is as distasteful as having a murderer who killed his parents ask for pity because he’s an orphan. You and your cronies at the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, et al. helped in no small part to get The Anointed Empty Suit elected and left the rest of us to clean up the mess.
MDWhite
on March 08, 2010
at 04:35 PM
Report this commentA fair and very well-balanced view of the problems surrounding the President.
emjeff
on March 08, 2010
at 04:34 PM
Report this commentTo our British cousins, you need to know a few things about the president. He was a law professor and he believes that the constitution is a flawed document that should be replaced by a “progressive” system. He is friends with people like Bill Ayers, former leader of the weathermen underground, Andy Stern, founder of the corrupt community organizing group ACORN, Van Jones, an avowed communist, to name a few. He is not a leader, as we expect a president to be. He is arrogant way beyond what you are accustomed to with G. W. Bush thinking that anyone who disagrees with him is stupid. Don’t believe me, just ask him. His agenda is to “fundamentally change America”. Judging by his writings, and recorded statements that were not available to the public during the campaign, the change is progressivism/communism. It is the hope myself and many of my fellow Americans that he fails miserably, and the congress finds what little common sense they have left to keep him in check till 2012.
Old Vet
on March 08, 2010
at 04:34 PM
Report this comment”With little rest, [Fox News] pours out rage 24 hours a day”

Only in a culture where the modern-day left-wing BBC is regarded as a paragon of impartiality, could someone have written such arrant nonsense.

In any given 24-hour period, Fox News is about 50% opinion (the “rage” that Mr. Heffer writes about) and the rest is news. The big difference is that the news is always presented with respect offered to opposing viewpoints: something which few Western media outlets offer.

And it’s not “rage”: it’s exasperation. For the benefit of Telegraph readers: the American population is a center-right aggregate, while its media, academe and (current) political establishment are far left. What is taking place in the U.S. right now is that the political establishment is being pulled back to reflect the position of the majority of the populace — small wonder that the Left are alarmed, and using words like “rage” to describe the process.
Kim du Toit
on March 08, 2010
at 04:34 PM
Report this commentI think that some of the comments about detroit not being caused by obama are correct but that was not what the author of this article was trying to portray. What Mr. Heffer was trying to say is that the democratic ideals or progressive ideals, that Obama believes in have destroyed detroit. Big union deals such as the car unions has ruined any competitive advantage they once had. The teachers unions have turned the educational programs into a joke as only 1 in 4 student graduate highschool. The continuation of just raising taxes to balance a budget has chased businesses from detroit. All of this was done by democratic iniatives. If you were to look state by state, the states that are in the biggest trouble are the ones that are heavily democratic. this is not what people want in the US

As for fox news, in the book called freakanomics, research was done showing that 85% of the people that worked for fox were democratic. i am sure the number is lower now but still it shows that it is not a republican outlet. People focus in on hannity and beck and then just blindly apply the rightwing propaganda tag
robert
on March 08, 2010
at 04:34 PM
Report this comment”his dependence on rhetoric rather than action”

You could have started and ended this article in one sentence
Lance Davis
on March 08, 2010
at 04:33 PM
Report this commentIf you take the large and diverse US it is more comparable to the EU with its member countries roughly like our states. There are differences in a lot of areas politically and geographically and ethnically Obama wants to treat this diverse country like a single European country would try to make the rest of the countries fit its idea. No representation and an inbred group of thugs from Chicago who have nothing to offer but misery and threaten everyone who disagrees. What is the problem with being treated like serfs? They really don’t know ,realize, nor care, as long as they get their juvenile, utopian ways.
clarify
on March 08, 2010
at 04:33 PM
Report this commentFox news ‘pours out rage 24 hours a day?”

Not even close to the thruth! It simply exposes the utter lies of the Colored News Network and its disgusting panderings to African Americans.

I have never taken a dime of government money in any respect and at the age of 50 I thinks its time I should.

Move over downtrodden minorities- white men coming through. We are broke and we need your help as to signing up for the dole.

Where to begin?
Charles Sangston
on March 08, 2010
at 04:33 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer’s comments about Fox News pouring out rage 24 hours a day has the same European left spin that spews from the BBC 24 hours a day.
Mr. Heffer should step back and ask himself if his own country is working. Is Britain bankrupt? If so, are the policies of the left to blaim? How long does a society last that is based on everyone’s mouth on a government teat?

The healing of Britain will begin when the BBC starts informing the people of the dangers of the progressive left. When that happens, you may think that you are listening to Fox News.
Ray Elliott
on March 08, 2010
at 04:33 PM
Report this commentColin Craig:”It might have been nice, under a technical rule of impartiality, for Mr Heffer to have pointed out that Detroit’s desolation predates Obama by decades and that Republicans were in the White House for most of that time. He might also point out the breathtaking hypocrisy of the Republicans in openly opposing every Obama initiative when they attacked Democrats as unpatriotic traitors if they criticised or opposed Bush (not that they did much of the latter).”
For one thing, Detroit had a democrat mayor all through theyears. the democrats held Congress for most of those years. Then you say the dems didn’t criticize Bush much. what planet are you on? They tore Bush up during his whole term! Where DO you get your “news?” Here in the USA, we heard nothing but hate and vitriol hurled against Bush. The dems have morphed into the Anti-American party, and are doing ALL THEY CAN to undermine all that’s good here, and Obama is a sorry joke, every day he’s on TV, spouting his lies. Whatever he says, he does the opposite. Face it. He grew up overseas, hasn’t got an american perspective, and ran a campaign based on generic nothings, such as “Yes We Can,” and “Change We Can Believe In.” That’s comparable to a laundry soap commercial, saying “New and Improved,” which basically means nothing. Well, you can have your ugly, grey socialism, your hospitals that are famous for unclean conditions, patients dying for the lack of WATER, and nurses who don’t care, plus the overhead of burons, who soak up vast amounts of wealth for producing paperwork and obstacles to health care. We Americans want no part of it. Keep it to yourselves.
TLSwank
on March 08, 2010
at 04:33 PM
Report this commentMy office mates and Liberal friends once jubilant and ecstatic that our savor; Barack (Barry) Hussein Obama now have a different tone. They are very disappointed and will never admit it.

The false premise that Obama has projected is now materializing before their eyes. The belief that he will right the wrong, fix what is broken and to add peace and prosperity to our lives all from the street of Chicago; will not happen. All the people that voted for Obama now know they got screwed at the used car lot. They are standing; holding the keys to a shiny car that is going where and with no return policy. The check was cashed and the used car dealer moved to Washington.

I really miss the office chatter on how Obama was going to be the great messiah and now all I hear is how I am such a racist. Their dreams of world peace and free health care have turned into a nightmare.

My Liberal acquaintances don’t want to talk about politics anymore, go figure.

Patrick
on March 08, 2010
at 04:32 PM
Report this comment“a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media”…I had a British officer in Iraq ask me why US soldiers watched Fox News instead of CNN. I responded “why do UK soldiers watch Sky News instead of BBC?”, no further explanation was necessary.
patrulje
on March 08, 2010
at 04:32 PM
Report this comment”Obama’s big problem is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.” “…shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day…”

Statements from a “senior Democrat”. The “senior Democrat” must have thought since he was speaking to a foreign newspaper the readers wouldn’t know what a load of crap that was. Fox is tiny compared to ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WaPost, etc. And no more full of “rage” than any other news outlet. They get so angry (and terrrified) that some other point of view gets past the gate keepers to masses.
Andy
on March 08, 2010
at 04:31 PM
Report this comment”I am no Socialist but my God, its hard to find any sympathy for the Republicans who so quickly forget the damage that Bush has inflicted on the USA and seem to want more of the same by pushing Palin a no hoper, no nothing lightweight if ever one existed. Get real USA. You get the president you deserve and as we should all know – history will judge…”

Hmmmmmmm I seem to remember the same description of a US presidential candidate by snobs in the media. History did judge him well, thank you very much Ronald Regan !

Neil
on March 08, 2010
at 04:31 PM
Report this commentLets see….”The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”

But in the next paragraph we get this: “Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which MOST OF THE MEDIA participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism.”

Kind of makes the point that even WITH FOX News, who, by the way, was unable to KEEP him from being elected, that the REST of the media have been (and still is) by and large, slavishly devoted to Obama…
Lonnie Gunther
on March 08, 2010
at 04:30 PM
Report this commentTo Carl in Chicago

You had a good argument, up until the point that you said Bunning tried to block the recovery.

You could not be further from the mark. He wanted to pass that bill, but wanted the government to cover the cost, before doing so. The “pay as you go” that was widely supported by the democrats, is being totally ignored.

Bush certainly had his faults, and spent more than he should have, but it pales in comparison to that of the sending spree Osham and the rest of the democrats are on. The WH’s own numbers, under Oshama, project a 9+ trillion dollar increase in the national debt, over the next 10 years. That is DISGUSTING. Who is ever going to pay for that?

We all agree that helping hands are a good thing, and there are millions of Americans that give their hard earned money, to causes THEY BELIEVE IN. Not what the government says they should, or more importantly, run by the government.

We all know the government is the lest efficient means of getting money to the problems. Going directly to the organizations who lend a hand, is far better.

Most of America wants a smaller, less intrusive government. Regulation, not government growth, is the way to solving problems. You can’t put a band aid on the problem, and think that is a cure. Oshama wants the government to make all our decisions for us, we are not smart enough, nor do we have the fiscal responsibility to take care of ourselves, HE KNOWS BETTER.

That is arrogant, and repulsive. I hoped he would be a good President, but he has failed, on so many levels, and in so many way. Now he is just doing the child thing, and saying to the country, “talk to the hand”, cause he is not listening.

He will be one term, and I seriously hope the republicans take back control of both the house and senate. Not because I am republican, I can’t stand either party, they both make me sick. But at least we will have a buffer to slow down this obvious disintegration of our country.

All the top players have been caught talking out both sides of their mouths. Pelosi, Reid, Oshama, all saying reconciliation is wrong. But now they will shove it down our throats, using that very tactic.

Reid openly said, on the Senate floor, “we have lost the war in Iraq”. What does he say now? Nothing, it disgusts me someone who clearly hates the military, and America in its current form, continues to be elected to office. This year, with things the way they are, looks like he will be looking for a new job. I am sure that he could be paid very well for his time and lies on any of the networks mentioned before, excluding FOX of course.
anthony in Ormoc
on March 08, 2010
at 04:30 PM
Report this commentI had high hopes for Obama after the Bush disaster which, since this country is still in a recession that is getting deeper and deeper and deeper, are now thoroughly dashed. Obama has no idea how to set priorities. Affordable health care for all is all fine and good, but if I were president, my first priority would be to get my people back to work and this country’s economy stimulated again! No wonder we’re a laughingstock! I would rather vote for Sarah Palin.
Starbuck Avon
on March 08, 2010
at 04:30 PM
Report this commentI liked the article. I think the fact that it created some comments that were nearly as long as the article itself was the amusing part.

Understand before demanding to be understood.
smarzig
on March 08, 2010
at 04:30 PM
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Keep2theright
on March 08, 2010
at 04:29 PM
Report this commentI watch Drudge, Fox, CNN and MSNBC. They are all biased to some degree. However, only CNN and MSNBC will bury a story.
MontanaSon
on March 08, 2010
at 04:29 PM
Report this commentThis Obama is the worst mistake the US has made since the Vietnam War. He is a complete disaster.
walter12
on March 08, 2010
at 04:29 PM
Report this commentNot sure Fox “spews rage 24/7″ …more a case of some “healing balm” in the face of the Leftstream media’s constant continuing and very harmful to OUR country “idiotic level of idolatry” for the Messiah!
mike
on March 08, 2010
at 04:28 PM
Report this comment”Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.” The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by “progressives” who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects.”…I COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER MYSELF!!!
Larry Guglielmi
on March 08, 2010
at 04:28 PM
Report this commentSad to say that I have to read the British newspapers to find such an article. That in itself is a commentery in itself of the level of coersive indifferance the american media in general has sunk.
By the way..Obama solved the educational system in washington by sending his own childern to a expensive private school…nuff said..
GRAM
on March 08, 2010
at 04:27 PM
Report this commentThe end cannot come soon enough. Hopefully it will be “stimulated” by the defeat of the healthcare debacle.
Bob
on March 08, 2010
at 04:27 PM
Report this commentSimon Heffer is a extreme right wing European critic. This article only reflects his views from his ideologies of right wing extremism. He is NOT a moderate or an independent. His being critical of all things Obama stands for is not news. He feels the same way as any right wing Repub in US politics. The only solution the right wing believes is to follow BUSH CHENEY debacle policies that pushed the world into the mess and financial crises.
TL
on March 08, 2010
at 04:27 PM
Report this comment”One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the President – told me of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to be unable to solve the economic problem among his own people.”-

As president, “his own people” is ALL of the Americans, not just the Black ones.
Tim Murrah
on March 08, 2010
at 04:22 PM
Report this commentI read upto the line;
“and those who think they know better begin to attack those who manifestly do not”

And stopped. Isn’t that you? More rubbish from a rubbish journalist.
towertom
on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
Report this comment”shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. ”

Al-Beeb ?
Impartial?

Surely you jest.
Percy
on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
Report this commentDon’t blame the press for the leftist lean in this country. You have to question what is reported and do just a little research and comparisons. Mr. Obama is doing just what he said he would do during his primary. You didn’t get the utopia described by the choosen one now it someone elses fault. Please!
Alex
on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
Report this commentThe greatest blessing that could be bestowed upon America would be for Obama’s total Socialist agenda to collapse on its own demerit. Only then will our economy , relieved of the Marxist millstone, rebound and once again bear the fruits of the most vibrant free-enterprise system in the history of mankind. Greg Neubeck
gneubeck
on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
Report this commentnever before in the history of mankind, has one man accomplished so little, for so many, with such a limited mental capacity….
tyredokuhns
on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
Report this commentAt last Mr. Heffer gets the feeling of being crapped on (by FOX). Mr. Heffer, for the past forty years two, then three major networks, threw crap on the American public day and night. All I can say is, “Na nana na na”.
General Forrest
on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
Report this commentIt took about a year for the US media (but Fox) to understand the Tea Parties to be a grass-root force to be reckoned with.

Now that Obama is already organizing his reelection team, let me introduce you to the other 20 millions strong grass-root movement ignored or ridiculed and cursed by the entire media: The so-called “Birthers”.

They, despite the media blackout, understand that Obama is not elligible to be POTUS on the ground that he is not a natural born citizen, wherever he was born.

An American natural born citizen is a American citizen born in the territory of the United States to TWO American citizen (Emerich de Vattel, Laws of the Nations).

Obama’s father was not an American citizen. He was a Britsh subject of Kenyan residency.

Obama’s problem is not his American citizenship (eventhough his paperwork is probably not in order following his adoption by his Indonesian step-father) but his DUAL-CITIZENSHIP at birth.

The Medias have choosen to ignore the US constitution in 2008, because McCain also had an elligibility problem (Born in Panama) but they won’t be able to ignore the uproar of several millions of Americans descending on Washington if Obama is back on the ballot.
Brigitte de Maubec
on March 08, 2010
at 04:21 PM
Report this commentYour statement that Fox spews 24 hours of hate a day is a bald face lie and it only shows your bias against it.

Therefore, the rest of your article is tainted and suspect. Haven’t you ever heard of ‘research’. Or better yet, the truth?

You see. THIS is the problem. A diatribe full of half-truths and it is expected that we are so stupid as to buy this nonsense.

Obmam lied to ME. Over and over. If anyone expects me to believe anything further he has to say then I say THEY are the idiots.
W. Taylor
on March 08, 2010
at 04:20 PM
Report this commentFox News has 4 times the viewers because the other networks are LESS partial than Fox. CBS, NBS, ABC and all their cable news brothers and sisters are run by crazy wide eyed liberals with the other side not represented at all. Fox is considered conservative, yet when they discuss an issue, there is a lib representative and a consverative representative. That is considered unfair by the LIBs.
Gvtrai58
on March 08, 2010
at 04:20 PM
Report this commentToday’s poll(Rasmussen):

“22% of the nation’s voters
Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove . . ”

The downward trend continues.

FoxNews’ upward trend also continues.
Stan(expat)
on March 08, 2010
at 04:20 PM
Report this commentNo offense meant, but our ancestors had the good sense to leave Europe two hundred years ago.

I saw a 60 Minutes story about some European country (can’t remember which one because they’re all alike), but the host was interviewing a bunch of college kids. They were thrilled with their government -subsidized college educations, free this and free that. And all the government did was take most of their earnings in the form of taxes, and then dole stuff out to them.

That is NOT AMERICA. We don’t want to be taxed up the wazoo. We want the federal government out of our freaking lives. Obama and his crew of thugs want exactly the opposite.

My solution? Impeach Obama, and sentence him to spend the rest of his life in France.

Big Dewey, Texas
on March 08, 2010
at 04:20 PM
Report this commentObama’s problem is not Fox, nor anyone else. His problem is he mistakenly believes that Americans supported his radical agenda. Socialism is un-American. We don’t want to pay new taxes for health care for illegal aliens. We don’t want to pay an absurd “Carbon tax”. We don’t want to have the government take over health care. We don’t like the White House people hiring, firing at GM. We don’t want the White House deciding salaries at financial companies. ETC.
clambo slice
on March 08, 2010
at 04:20 PM
Report this commentThis is a very well written column. It is spot-on. It is amazing for the main stream media to ignore which party has ran Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, ect, ect.. into the ground. Hint, it isn’t the GOP.
Kevin
on March 08, 2010
at 04:20 PM
Report this comment”It is not about whose advice he is taking: it is about him grasping what is wrong with America, and finding the will to put it right.”

Oh, no, no, no. This thought process is the result of a cultural artifact coming from a country with a parliamentary system. That’s not a critique of the system, per se, just a reminder that the US was not built this way. Sadly, many in the US think it was! The US was built as a constitutional republic, with limits on national government. It would have been more accurate and appropriate to have said: “it is about him grasping what is wrong with the federal government’s role in America, and finding the will to put it right.” That approach might have yielded wonderful results in his Obama’s first year!
BBell
on March 08, 2010
at 04:19 PM
Report this commentThe PRIMARY difference between the Clinton re-election and the Obama one-term presidency is that the liberal socialists have shown what they truly are.

They have amply demonstrated how they would attack the private sector (read freedom), the tactics they would apply, and the American people will want nothing to do with it.

Health Care, Card check, global warming scam, “fairness doctrine”, Cap and Tax, tax increases, and worst of all — a general income re-distribution from the producers to the non-producers.

That socialist “soup” is a clear recipe for disaster. It is so clear, that in one’s nightmares it almost seems to be intentional destruction.

Since there has never been a socialist/communist takeover of a country without either war or a total collapse of the currency and economy, one has to wonder…

So, to apply the global warming hoaxers’ philosophy of “we may be wrong, but we still ought to ruin the economy just in case we’re right” — Obama may not be a communist, but we still ought to throw the bum out just in case we are right.
gxb
on March 08, 2010
at 04:19 PM
Report this commentBarry Soetoro is way over His head. America is broke and He thinks by spending more we are all going to be better off??The problem is that Goverment spends to much, it’s not that we don’t pay are fair share of taxes. Obama is now the “Black Jimmy Carter” The only People who are saying He is doing a great job are the same who think O.J was “seup”.
Fracisco Pinon
on March 08, 2010
at 04:19 PM
Report this commentMSNBC-New restaurant opens in midtown.
Fox- Street vendor arrested for selling cat meat hot dogs.
Both tell the truth but Fox gets the viewers because they actually operate as journalists.

ben anderson
on March 08, 2010
at 04:19 PM
Report this commentA little clarification on FOX! Commentators are anti Obama but much of the program is not. it is anti Obama only in the sense that the news stories are ones which the mainstream press ignores e.g. all of the global warming scandal stories from the UK and elsewhere!

People have gravitated to FOX because they get a viewpoint which is not available in the liberal establishment conrolled press and tv.
pete in ny
on March 08, 2010
at 04:19 PM
Report this commentDoes the author really think that the BBC is impartial? The author needs to get some air. The MSM in the United States resembles the government-controlled media elsewhere, pretending to do journalism while promoting the agenda of the government. The audacity of fraud is how this sad term in office will be remembered.
Richard Whitney
on March 08, 2010
at 04:19 PM
Report this commentObama won on the promise: yes we can do. Now he is saying: No we cannot. With his back to the financial wall he has now even conceded that the USA needs nuclear power plants even after closing down Yucca mountain. he had promised disbanding of Guantanamo. He had promised ‘out of Iraq’, ‘out of Afghanistan’ policies, Carbon Cap and Trade, Health Care, etc etc he had promised us heaven on earth when the truth is that this planet is too small for heaven to fit into. Chickens have this bad habit of coming home to roost
Alex
on March 08, 2010
at 04:18 PM
Report this commentPresident Obama is a leftist attempting to govern a center-right nation. That is the source of all his problems.

Rev. C.F. Cleaver
on March 08, 2010
at 04:18 PM
Report this commentObama is an empty vessel. He was and continues to be all hype. He won because he was able to mobilize the non-voting masses to finally vote.

He campaigned as the champion of the regular guy. Now he’s showing his true colors as an elitist who has a radical agenda that he’s going to ram down the throats of the very Americans he pretended to care about.

Hopefully he’s a one term president. America will be in ruins if the moronic masses vote this clown in for a second term.

EnoughAlready
on March 08, 2010
at 04:18 PM
Report this commentTo our British cousins, you need to know a few things about the president. He was a law professor and he believes that the constitution is a flawed document that should be replaced by a “progressive” system. He is friends with people like Bill Ayers, former leader of the weathermen underground, Andy Stern, founder of the corrupt community organizing group ACORN, Van Jones, an avowed communist, to name a few. He is not a leader, as we expect a president to be. He is arrogant way beyond what you are accustomed to with G. W. Bush thinking that anyone who disagrees with him is stupid. Don’t believe me, just ask him. His agenda is to “fundamentally change America”. Judging by his writings, and recorded statements that were not available to the public during the campaign, the change is progressivism/communism. It is the hope myself and many of my fellow Americans that he fails miserably, and the congress finds what little common sense they have left to keep him in check till 2012.
Old Vet
on March 08, 2010
at 04:18 PM
Report this comment”As someone who voted all-Democratic in 2009″

Um, election was 2008, but as you’re a Democrat – it’s OK to stop voting now
Stanley
on March 08, 2010
at 04:17 PM
Report this comment[…which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.]

This quote from the article is malarkey! This is an opinion piece, and anyone who reads this article as news is obviously part of the MSM. On a daily basis, I read several UK “news” sources and have yet to find one that does not editorialize their news.

Obama is all fluff and seems to have forgotten: “You can fool some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” Hopey changey are his mantra, and it doesn’t fly with the real people anymore.
TC
on March 08, 2010
at 04:17 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer’s assessment includes so many errors, one doesn’t know where to begin.

First, Mr. Heffer’s sensibilities regarding the impartiality of the media have apparently been aroused for the first time by the advent of Fox News. Just ponder that for a moment.

For decades the American people had been assaulted by an elitist, entrenched news establishment with an unapologetic LEFT bias, and Mr. H. never once noticed. But along comes one little channel which aligns itself with the views of millions of otherwise-neglected and abused Americans and NOW Mr. Heffer is indignant.
One network out of countless others that actually has conservative commentators who aren’t dork-props and the losers start howling like whiny babies.

Mr. H further writes “With little rest, [Fox News] pours out rage 24 hours a day:” then lists his examples of said “rage.” None qualifies as “rage,” rather each is a valid issue of concern facing the American people who love freedom in Obama’s Amerika.

And for this clown to sniff that Fox News “almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media” one must honestly bark a laugh. BBC anyone? Now that’s unbiased news reporting for you.

Let’s move on to Mr. Heffer’s comment regarding the most recent “…jobs Bill, which would give tax breaks to firms hiring new staff and, through state sponsorship of construction projects, create thousands fo jobs too.” What breathtaking ignorance about the real world and job creation. An illustration of how entrenched Mr. H. is in the European nanny state mentality. Unquestioned group think.

Any one with a modicum of common sense and experience in the real world knows the best way to create jobs is reducing tax rates, and getting the government out of the way of the private sector.

Government is a ball and chain (with cement) around the ankle of small business. Government interference takes the free out of free markets. Young little America didn’t become the most prosperous country on the face of the earth in all of recorded history because our Constitution called for a massive, abusive, intrusive central goverment.

Mr. Heffer is just another left-leaning hack journalist in a vast pool of left-leaning hacks. None has anything insightful or unpredictable to contribute because they’re unable or unwilling to think outside their elitist, leftist, unrealistic, emotive, impractical worldview.
Chukker
on March 08, 2010
at 04:17 PM
Report this commentPresident Obama will win re-election in 2012 with relative ease.

Americans have a way of voting for the DEVIL they know as oppose , just ask George Bush.

and why set back RACE RELATION another 4 years of holding hands can’t hurt.
mark
on March 08, 2010
at 04:16 PM
Report this commentBarack Obama does not like the United States and he dislikes capitalism even more. He is a pure Marxist.

His agenda is, and has always been, to collapse capitalism and replace it with socialism.
The people of the United States need to fight him tooth and nail until he is voted out of office three years from now. Hopefully, what ever damage he causes can be repaired.
Steve
on March 08, 2010
at 04:16 PM
Report this commentYou’re statement about people “loving the outpouring of bad news from Fox” completely misses the point. We don’t love bad news we want the truth and Fox is the only news outlet that is giving that to us.
DaleS
on March 08, 2010
at 04:16 PM
Report this commentObama is definitely a one term President.His definition of a Democracy doesn’t match Democratic or Republicans.If he isn’t a socialist,he certainly acts like it????
Rob
on March 08, 2010
at 04:14 PM
Report this commentMr. Holland as a Nevada Resident I am disturbed by your announcement of no party affiliation. While it may seem good to you, to run as a “non party” member, that just shows that you have no balls. What is your stance on Health Care Reform? What is your stance on the thousands upon thousands of illegals working in Nevada taking our jobs?

I fear that voting for you only takes away votes that are needed to get rid of Harry Reid and you come along and want to pull voters away from those that would be against Reid anyway.

This is the kind of garbage that keeps corrupt politicians in office, everyone splitting the votes off into several candidates does the State of Nevada no good!
Kevin
on March 08, 2010
at 04:14 PM
Report this commentThis administration and this Congress are ignoring the basic tenets of the Constitution and the will of their constituents at great peril. Those basic rights are our guarantees and the foundation of this great nation.

Fascisim and socialism do not occur overnight – but by incremental entrenchments of government programs which exist in perpetuity.

Failure to enact ‘sunset’ provisions institutionalizes a welfare state. And the sources of the revenue become increasingly out-numbered by those receiving the benefit.

In aviation – it is termed ‘death spiral’.
Hank Rearden
on March 08, 2010
at 04:14 PM
Report this commentBush too inherited a big mess. I never once heard him blame anyone. You know what the job is when you apply for it with all the warts. If you know before you apply that you are not up to the job, why would you want it? Will the guy spend 4 years spinning the yarn or can he actually govern? His history would say he is only capable of spinning.
Patti
on March 08, 2010
at 04:13 PM
Report this commentTry to imagine a black female democrat, calling for the IMPEACHMENT of Obama winning an election. It just happened in TEXAS! Search youtube for the video.

Kesha Rogers Wins Texas Primary
Stephen
on March 08, 2010
at 04:12 PM
Report this commentthe past 8 years of the Bush administration,the one that had Fox news,cheerleading the people on…I remember when Fox first hit the air…the programming was seductive and challenging…who can forget ‘married with children’ as one example,’the simpsons’ as another…what Fox did,was desensitise the minds of 2 entire generations of this country..thanks to policies of the Reagan era…Obama has inherited a ‘perfect storm’…with the advent of instant communication,mankind has not gained much of a future,only the ability to rehash the past.instantly.and not apparently to any real advantage.People watch Fox because because its an ‘angry voice’ that is socially acceptable..The Bush era,both of them along with Reagan,pretty much put us wehre we are and you had better believe that Fox News helped.Thank you one and all for adding billions to the Rupert Murdoch family…
rebecca howell
on March 08, 2010
at 04:12 PM
Report this commentMy bet is that the economy may have recovered quicker even without the pork laden stimulus. Rather than doling out cash to his buddies, Obama should have given tax breaks for small businesses and those that work for a living.

I only watch FOX News because it is the only channel I can get reliable information. If I watch CNN I get to hear how great Obama is when I can clearly see folks hurting and trying to scrape by. Bold faced lying like that is a waste of my time. Sure, FOX has a conservative slant but they sure work hard to give the other views.

Our country is in the most dire condition of my lifetime and the one guiding us is incompetent. How are we to ever address the national debt under Obama. He is spending our money recklessly.
Bulldog
on March 08, 2010
at 04:12 PM
Report this commentHere we go again..
Like Michigan and Jennifer Granholm
“Michigan will be blown Away…”
So to is a majority of the USA presently “Blown Away”
Hence, with the latest BULL**** in government where both parties are to blame for the present demise and nothing is happening to help the average citizens. This problem was not generated lately. It’s been festering for the last 20 without a strategical plan for long term business development and growth. Nafta and Global has been one sided. Big $$$ for the ultra rich and 0 jobs for American citizens.
Somebody, Anybody? GET A NEW GAME PLAN READY! It’s disheartening to see present and future generation eating out of a garbage cans and living in cardboard boxes.
EVERYONE BUY AMERICAN TODAY….

Libra insight
on March 08, 2010
at 04:11 PM
Report this commentPresident Barack Obama must think that Americans have moved from individualism and fragmentation to a collective identity – the Global Village with a tribal base. It is more a Global Theater – more involvement, role playing …

“Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth”
Marshall McLuhan
gene
on March 08, 2010
at 04:11 PM
Report this commentSimon–what a hoot you are. Fox spewing hate?British (and european) broadcasts being impartial?
The BBC spews hatred of Israel 24/7. It’s coverage of the climategate story, undoubtedly affected by its pension funds being tied up in the preposterous cap & trade market, has been appalling.

How long have you spent here? Probably far less than I have spent in Europe.
clarice Feldman
on March 08, 2010
at 04:11 PM
Report this commentThe media in the U.S. is so amazingly biased toward Obama that I, an American, have to read UK news to get the straight scoop. While Fox News is biased, they at least try to be fair by having as many Democrats as Rebuplicans on their shows, giving each about the same time to talk. The other networks very rarely have a republican on, and then only to attack him if he is against Obama, or to praise him if he supports Obama. If we had fair reporting, this economic illiterate would never have been elected.
David Gifford
on March 08, 2010
at 04:10 PM
Report this commentIf anyone thinks that the rest of the U.S. mainstream media is fair and impartial, I suggest that you go to CBS website and check out the political cartoons. On a fair day they are 75% proObama while on a typical day they are near 100% proObama.
JimFogleman
on March 08, 2010
at 04:10 PM
Report this commentObama, the progressives, are what is wrong with the economy. Look at the facts.

1. US Government is now 45% of the GNP of the US. That is way to much administration.

2. The Government is expanding jobs, that the private side can no longer support with taxes.

3. The Government is preventing correction in the private sector by ‘artifically’ taking the workforce.

4. The projected budget deficits are nearly impossible to pay off, even printing money into super inflation.

Here is what needs to be done:

1. Cut Government to 25% of GNP. This alone will shore up our currency, release jobs to private industry, and allow the economy to slowly correct.

Here is what Obama is doing:

1. Creating bigger deficits and bigger government, weakening the private industry, and destroying the currency.

The question should be ‘if’ Obama is a failed Presidency; but what are the consequences and is this a deliberate attempt to destroy the economy of the United States?
Pete
on March 08, 2010
at 04:10 PM
Report this commentWhile your article makes rather good points in general, I’ll limit my comments to your statement: “The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”

Of course, this is not true. You can call the BBC broadcast media, but you cannot call it impartial. After living in the UK for three years, the BBC is clearly liberal, including the presentation of nightly TV news broadcasts, radio, international, and so forth.

This is symptomatic of British cultural problem which generally has to do with speaking in a plain and straight forward manner. The pretense of media impartiality can only be maintained in a nation-state in which the government runs the media. You folks really should end that charade in the UK.
marc f
on March 08, 2010
at 04:10 PM
Report this commentFor years the left stream media has been ruining this country, I grew up in the 60s, We had family values, divorces were few,illigitamate pregnacies were few and far between. Kids could go out and play safely without much worry. Today with all our leftist political agenda and political correctness orchestrated by the left wing of the demos, this nation has gone down the toilet. We are at a 50% divorce rate. African american kids are 75% born not out of wedlock. All this has become a norm. Our TV shows even support these life styles and make shows around them. So is everyone surprised that people have turned to fox? Glenn Beck says it like it is from the position of the little guy. Yes we all know he puts lots of sauce on wht he says but he is basically correct. Out politicians should start hearing the people. we don’t want their type of health care and we want them to stop spending our money.
George
on March 08, 2010
at 04:09 PM
Report this commentThe “cultural phenomenon” of Fox news was the only organization that touched the Climategate scandal.

Oddly enough, the rest of the American Television news stations did not. Interesting, wouldn’t you say?
Mike Trask
on March 08, 2010
at 04:09 PM
Report this commentThe main and central reason that this administration is unsuccessful is the same as it was during the election. Obama has no expierence at running anything let alone the U.S.. The media however will not relent on their protectionism of Obama, they too will throw anyone under the bus to protect their chosen ones name, and that includes Emanuel and Axelrod. The media hails Obama at all cost and his brand name must be protected.
jeckelmyhyde
on March 08, 2010
at 03:43 PM
Report this commentIt is true that Fox News leans right, but they also present left views, whereas CNN presents the left view only. That is the secret of Fox’s success, and CNN’s failure.

Obama isn’t failing because of Fox News, they’re simply willing to report it.
Mark Tyler
on March 08, 2010
at 03:43 PM
Report this commentRon Paul and Libertarianism is the way! Long live Hans Hoppe!!
MC Hammerabi
on March 08, 2010
at 03:43 PM
Report this commentWhere I live in Missouri, there is a program to help people who can’t get insurance on their own because of pre-existing conditions. The program is sponsored and funded through the state. The rates are reasonable. And if you are disabled, your healthcare (through Medicare) is taken care of. Very poor people have access to Medicaid. It’s not a perfect system, but Obama makes it seem like millions are dying for lack of good healthcare. That’s just not true. The real truth is that he wants a European, socialist-style democracy where the government has a great deal of power over people’s lives, including the power to ration care for people deemed less valuable to society.

That’s not America. President Obama is going to find out in the next election that most Americans don’t agree with his socialist vision of America.

Janet
on March 08, 2010
at 03:43 PM
Report this commentFox News spouts hate and rage 24 hours a day? Au contraire, they are the closest thing to balance we have. The other media were and continue to be derelict in their duty. The rest of the media are nothing but cheerleaders for Obama, and refuse to report on and cannot see his faults or his socialist agenda (probably because when your lips are firmly planted on his backside it’s difficult to see much of anything).

The media with the exception of Fox News did almost no true reporting of Obama’s lack of experience, his socialist/Marxist friends and influences, his shady deals with the like of Tony Rezko, and his brand of corrupt Chicago politics prior to his election. He has surrounded himself with unqualified and unprincipled people. Now that it begins to unravel, it’s likely to get quite nasty.
Not Chicken Little
on March 08, 2010
at 03:42 PM
Report this comment”From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” This is all Obama has left. He has proven himself to be unprepared to govern and above all just not very intelligent about it. Socialism is the only way he can succeed and we, U.S., do not see that happening. He will maintain his “tribal” voters as they see nothing but color anyway. He will lose all of the voters who do go to the polls every election, though, and that will do him in. All of the touchy, feelly, goody two-shoes affirmative action white votes he received in ’08 will not occur in ’12. Can’t wait!
RufusVonDufus
on March 08, 2010
at 03:42 PM
Report this commentIf Fox News puts out conservative news 24 hours a day, it’s a poor match, volume-wise, for the many networks that put out only liberal news all day. The fact that more people watch Fox than any other network goes to the fact that they are more interesting to watch, provide a platform for liberals (even within a conservative framework) and they make no pretense about their general leanings (unlike the other networks, which maintain (falsely) that they are “objective”). And they are the only place conservatives can go for somewhat unbiased coverage.
Palinurus
on March 08, 2010
at 03:42 PM
Report this commentThe author’s pondering why so many people watch Fox compared to CNN, et. sentence 1 of Para. 4. Well, he answers his own question in the next paragraph when he notes the “astonishing suspension of cynicism” by the media in the Obama Campaign. When Charlie Rose and Ted Brokaw can sit down a week before the election in Nov. 2008…after covering Obama for TWO YEARS..and say, “I have no idea what he’s going to do if (when) he wins.” That summed it all up for me…Good Bye CNN, NBC, et…and Hello Fox! When Big News quit reporting both sides of the issues, people switched over to FOX to hear the one that was missing..and they stayed. Yet, Dems and Libs act shocked at the right slant. Wake up…You CREATED FOX and you destroyed any credibility the mainstream media had left when you lost the avg. American viewer. Rather than labelling the public as easily mislead and ignorant, take a good look at yourselves and ask the question, “Why does nobody believe in listening to the news on my network?”
Brent W.
on March 08, 2010
at 03:41 PM
Report this commentI thought Obama would be as bad as Jimmy Carter. He’s worse! There’s no question he is a socialist and intends to upend the American system. Health Care run by the Federal Government is just the first shot in this direction. Cap and Trade and Immigration reform are just additional attempts to impose his marxist/statist ideology on a center right country. I guess there was a good reason the founders gave us the second amendment.
Martin Gray
on March 08, 2010
at 03:40 PM
Report this commentThe BBC is among the most statist-biased news program of them all but far more invidious than Fox; when they do go to opinion commentators it’s two varieties of left politics. I challenge you to find falsehoods in Fox’s reports and unlike other networks they welcome avid advocates on both sides. Instead of mocking their expose’s for unreported left-wing abuses, you ought to praise them … and learn from them. The media have enough outlets, particularly the BBC, geared toward telling the vast masses and the governments they elect what they want to hear.
Dedicated Scholar
on March 08, 2010
at 03:40 PM
Report this commentObama and Dems;
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Bend over, grab your ankles, pull your head between your legs and kiss your arssess goodbye… Progressivism on the ash heap of history with socialism, communism…
tyredofkuhns
on March 08, 2010
at 03:39 PM
Report this commentThe reason that Obama’s agenda is failing is that central planning – top down decision making at gunpoint – at any level is impossible to implement successfully. An economy is like a complex ecological system in constant flux yet kept in balance by the countless, ongoing, voluntary decisions and interactions of many millions of players, all forced to satisfy customers in order to keep their jobs and stay in business.

For central planners, this is a challenge beyond the ability of even saints and geniuses. For real world bureaucracies infested with psychopaths attracted to power, central planning is the road to national ruin. America has been on that road since at least 1929 and the edge of a cliff is rapidly approaching.

So, what needs to be done? The ham-fisted central planners and their stifling bureaucratic monoculture must be banished from the land along with the hundreds of thousands of pages of toxic laws, regulations and rules used to fertilize the economy. Furthermore, nutrient sucking taxes must also be returned to the land. Once these toxins and parasites are removed and the soil properly fertilized, our social ecology will, on its own, thrive as never before.

MetaCynic
on March 08, 2010
at 03:39 PM
Report this commentHumm no mention of the fact the Barack Obama belonged to and was a member of the Party who controlled Congress since 2007. Track the decline of the US economy and you will see it starts there. When Barack complains about the reckless spending of the past, well he was one of the Controlling Party’s members signing off on that spending. Barack needs to quite trying to take over 1/6th of the economy and take a little ECON 101.
Whiterock
on March 08, 2010
at 03:38 PM
Report this commentSimon Heffer reveals his mindset when he bashes FOX News for giving the people the truth! The liberals hate it that while they control the mainstream media, they can’t control Fox or the radio. Thank God for Hannity and Beck! To hell with liberals and Democrats!
El gato
on March 08, 2010
at 03:38 PM
Report this comment”… those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”
As bad as overt media bias is, there is nothing worse than journalists who pretend they have no bias and think that they can present the news without it. Nowhere is this more egregious than in the UK. The leftist ignorance and bias in this article is too deliciously ironic. So much so this comment will never make it past the Telegraph censors.
Sean
on March 08, 2010
at 03:38 PM
Report this comment”a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”

Right. The BBC is impartial.
Cynthia
on March 08, 2010
at 03:37 PM
Report this commentI am Jesse Holland and I am running for the United States Senate to replace Harry Reid. Although I can not run in every state, I am stepping forward and asking for the support of people in the state of Nevada. Yes, there are big party politics and millions of dollars flying from the pockets of big business and political organizations, however, wouldn’t it be nice to once again vote for and support the people rather than failed corporations or such? I am from the people and for the people. You can read all about the potential to revamp America at my websites, HollandforSenate.com, Holland4Senate.com and VoteNonPartisan.com. The media has been preoccupied with the parties and seem to snub their noses at anyone NonPartisan?
Jesse Holland
on March 08, 2010
at 03:27 PM
Report this commentFor many years most hard working americans have been working and raising kids and not the kind of people who see themselves as victims. There is now a perfect storm of things like Obama, Emanuel, axelrod, acorn, rev. wright, healthcare, economy etc. that has awoken the sleeping giant Called your average americans. We are now on a roll and finally speaking up. Thsi administration is ruining our country as we know it and we’re angry…very angry. We are America, not a socialist, progressive nut machine. We’re done with the community organizer with now enough business experience to run a car dealership let alone our once great country of America. We hired a pathetic CEO and he and his team are about to be fired. Let’s get a grownup in the white house, not a college sophomore with a utopian prgressive dream.
Joe Miscioscia
on March 08, 2010
at 03:27 PM
Report this commentRe: Fox News. If “pouring out rage 24 hours a day” means not parroting White House propaganda, I guess you’re right.
Dana Booth
on March 08, 2010
at 03:26 PM
Report this commentAs an American university professor who watches Fox News, I was shocked at its characterization in a newspaper as reputable as the Telegraph. While some shows such as Glenn Beck are quite partisan, the newscasters are both liberal and conservative and highly respected as journalists. MSNBC has more partisan programs from the left than Fox ever has had. The rest of the mainstream media rarely reports on the gaffes and ethical lapses of the Obama administration. The Democrat whom you quoted would do far better to look within his own party and the White House for the source of the troubles about which he speaks.
vickie ziegler
on March 08, 2010
at 03:26 PM
Report this commentFox News is not the problem with TV journalism in America. It’s the rest of the so-called Main Stream Media. From the papers to television to the magazines, a gigantic majority of journalists spoke glowingly of Obama. Never did they question any of the nonsense that emanated from his mouth. Never did they delve into his background. Never did they examine his ideology. Never did they do anything but drool and fawn over this man. They sold him to the American People as a smart and capable MODERATE. Well that has been shown in the past year to be a LIE! Anger is at an unbelievable level. Not because of Fox News, but because the American People see that this clown is incompetant and a socialist. You must remember: Americans at heart are somewhat Libertarian. They do not like the government owning car companies,banks, or healthcare. They do not like the government telling them what to do in their daily lives. They do not want all this deficit spending, and they do not like to rely on the government for their survival. Here, in the States, things like socialism, communism, and totalitarianism is anathema. Obama and his crew emanate from a cabal of 60′s radical jugheads that have slowly taken over the Democrat Party to the tune of 100 members in the House out of 247. That’s scary for us. The economy is moribound here, yet the Politicians are spending like its never been spent before. These things, and so many more, are infuriating the American People. In the United States, the view is the government works for us, not the other way around. So, this clown of a writer is trying to blame Fox News for upheaval? Hardly! They are only reporting on the obvious. Something the blind politicians in Washington D.C. are unable to see. But they will find out in the next election!
Tony G
on March 08, 2010
at 03:26 PM
Report this commentComisar Obama is a communist. No matter how you paint it, he is what he is. The American public are NOT communists. Hence the unpopularity of the Comisar. It is really quite simple…..
John Schaefer
on March 08, 2010
at 03:26 PM
Report this comment”The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”

“Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism.”

Simon, do you understand the concept of irony?

Charlie
on March 08, 2010
at 03:26 PM
Report this commentI used to think that Congress was setting BHO up for the big fall. Now, I’m not so sure. Since the Dems have been in control of Congress for a total of three years, it seems evident that they are incapable of an original thought (the same could be said for the GOP when they were in power). The thought that Fox News “pours out rage 24 hours a day” is not quite accurate. While they have a tendency to use conjecture (based upon this administrations actions) and relative facts at hand, I find that no other news outlet (be it CNN, PMSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc) offering any other explaination. Painting those in this administration as “socialists” or “communists” is easy when you have literally hundreds of hours of video on the folks that surround BHO claiming they are either label. I really would like to see BHO be successful in his one (or two) term(s). That is next to impossible with a “tax and spend” congress who are hell bent on controlling every single dollar they can.

Again, I am in favor of term limits for congress (so that they can’t spend 40 years in control of this country), they have the same retirement plan that the American public has, and the same medical plans that the American public has. This would ensure some of these gargantuan plans wouldn’t be taken so lightly. By the way, if you didn’t get that this is no longer about political parties, then you desire what the current government deals out to you. This is about the American People and doing what is right.
manlyva
on March 08, 2010
at 03:25 PM
Report this commentI was born in 1958 and for most of my life the MSM (print and TV) was almost exclusively Left-of-Center. Despite 30 years of propaganda, the MSM was not able to change this country; it remains Center-Right. What Leftists just can’t grasp is that Fox hasn’t created or influenced anything…they have huge viewership simply because they reflect the opinion of a majority of voters and the only place these people can here their opinions reflected back at them is on Fox; all the rest (MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS) are Left of Center.
JohnR22
on March 08, 2010
at 03:25 PM
Report this commentPlease solve the problems over there before commenting on problems, real or imagined, over here. Remember, were it not for us you would now be speaking German.
Jack Murphy
on March 08, 2010
at 03:25 PM
Report this commentObama’s problem is not that more people watch Fox News than CNN. The problem is that this is a centrist to right-of-center country which cannot be effectively governed from the left.

Fox News does have conservative commentators, some of which are more ideological than others. They do not, however spew out hatred of Obama 24/7.

Many people apparently don’t know the difference between newscasters, such as Bret Baier and Shepard Smith, and commentators, such as Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. Newscasters simply deliver the news; commentators are paid to give opinions. I also suspect that some of Fox’s harshest critics have never even WATCHED a Fox newscast.

I would challenge everyone who thinks Fox News is unfair to watch some of their newscasts (Bret Baier, Shep Smith) with an open mind (now remember, I’m talking about NEWS, not COMMENTARY). I doubt many critics can muster an open mind for this.
Carol Mason
on March 08, 2010
at 03:24 PM
Report this commentThis is what happens when reality slaps a pipe dream across the smirking face.

Obama is no more capable than despot from a third world banana republic.

Take a look at Obama’s own backyard of community activism – a cesspool of humanity and corruption, with a murder rate rivaling something like Liberia…

The scariest thought in Obama’s running mate is even more incompetent and inane.
Tex Taylor
on March 08, 2010
at 03:24 PM
Report this commentWhy do people criticise Obama, he is only the figure-head of the government. You have to see it as a ship. The figurehead does not control the ship, its the person who steers it and the engine. The control of America is in the hands of the people with the money and the power. They are the ones who put the leaders of most countrys in power. But should they not do as they want, they end up like JFK. I bet if the economy was in a good shape Obama would not have got in. Now in future you can see whats going to be said. Yes we tried having a black president, one who spoke for the people. But look at the years whilst he was in power. Obama in as the President was done for a reason. and it wasnt for the ordinary person. You will not see another black president for many years.
Karen Webb
on March 08, 2010
at 03:23 PM
Report this comment”Cities in the east such as Newark and Baltimore now have drug-dealing as their principal commercial activity: The Wire is only just fictional.”

Astonishingly ignorant. How you people get away with writing things like this is mind-boggling.

“The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”

And papers such as The Guardian and the Telegraph almost shock those of us from a country where a major newspaper wearing its bias on its sleeve makes anything it writes uncredible.

What your typical anti-Fox news screed fails to note is that Fox’s numbers pale in comparison to the aggregate numbers of CNN, MSNBC, PBS, ABC, NBC and CBS, all of which are at minimum well to the left of Fox.

And, by the way, I am not a fan of Fox in any way, shape or form, but the idiocy surrounding criticisms of it are, for the most part, just that – idiocy. And with our comparatively vast selection of news outlets (broadcast, print and other) available to us in the United States, it is the height of arrogance to preach to us about “shocking” journalistic practice from the confines of Britain, or Europe itself.
MM
on March 08, 2010
at 03:23 PM
Report this commentAn excellent analysis with one glaring mistake:

The reason Fox News is watched by so many millions is that it provides a necessary corrective to the unending rage-fest that has been the soi-disant “Mainstream Media” for decades.

The merest consideration of the relentless selling of Leftist propaganda in television, newspapers and movies over the last 30 years at least has created a profound disconnect with people who can read – and do.
Rob De Witt
on March 08, 2010
at 03:22 PM
Report this commentI am in Aberdeen, Scotland right now, and have been watching the BBC. To say the least, the BBC is slanted left. You ask the average Joe over here why he dislikes Bush, and they cannot give you a detailed answer. Just recites the BBC mantra.
DP
on March 08, 2010
at 03:21 PM
Report this commentObama represents all that is wrong in America today. He is a self-centred, egotistical, vain and self-deluding clown. He did not defeat McCain, he defeted the policies and actions of George W. Bush. McCain was merely a whipping boy.

Obama is truly a one term president. America will take years to recover from his destructive policies.
Laurence Shaw of Wiltshire
on March 08, 2010
at 03:21 PM
Report this commentObama HAD the world by the tail. He had one of the greatest oppportunities and chose to dwell upon an issue that was not the primary concern of Americans. He closed his eyes to American citizen and said, “This is what I want and you, the average American, will learn to like it too.” Because he is basically an elitist, he does not understand the mindset of the average American. We worry about debt left for our grandchildren, we are proud of our country and hang our heads in shame when our President demeans us in speeches to foreign government leaders. Obama doesn’t have a clue what Americans want or need because he concentrates on what he wants history to say about him.
Carol
on March 08, 2010
at 03:20 PM
Report this commentMr. Obama’s “fatal conceit”, shared by statists the world over, is that he (or any elected politician or unelected bureaucrat) can allocate resources more effectively than the market. There are 300 million people (give or take) in the US, each of whom can make a decision on how to allocate his or her resources to maximise their own utility, based on their own preferences and based on their intimate knowledge of the choices they face. Taking that decision making power out of the hands of those who earn and consume the resources, and transferring it to some boob sitting in an office thousands of miles away, is beyond absurd. That boob has no real incentive to economize, isn’t adversely affected when resources are misallocated, and is probably motivated above all else by the desire to secure his personal political future and steer wealth towards friends & family…and yet we’re puzzled when the government can’t “fix” the economy.

The most useful thing Mr. Obama could do would be to suspend all future stimulus payments, stop all transfer payments, shutter the White House and Capitol, and let the market sort itself out. People would suffer, but probably no more than they are now, and the suffering would certainly stop much sooner than it will under the current program. We’ve spent trillions on the “War on Poverty”, with the result that there are more poor people, who comprise a greater percentage of the population, than there were when that war was declared.

Tom Amlie
on March 08, 2010
at 03:19 PM
Report this commentI never want to see a President fail, just their agenda when it’s not a good one. FED MED is not good for America! What campaign promises has this President kept?
Steve
on March 08, 2010
at 03:19 PM
Report this commentAs someone who voted all-Democratic in 2009, I’m so mad that they have not gotton much done even with their majority votes that I’m going to vote Republican next time, even if it’s Palin for President and her Vice President nominee wrapped up in a white sheet and pointy hat holding their guns.
John J
on March 08, 2010
at 03:11 PM
Report this commentThe comment by the “senior Democrat” is akin to asking CNN or MSNBC their opinion of Fox News, or more on point, asking Chavez or Castro about the virtues of communism versus capitalism. Without Fox, the news, like your BBC, is unabashedly leftist and out of touch with the American public. Comrade Hussein is an indoctrinated marxist now recognized as a born and bred muslim without any pretense of Christianity. Ask Israel as Hussein throws them under the bus of genocide by the Iranians and their terrorist thugs, Hamas and Hezbollah. Hussein and the marxist/progressives have done much to destroy America, but they will not be happy until we are unalterably on the path set by Hussein’s buddy, Chavez, or better, Castro. In fact, if Obamacare fails, look for widespread violence by the left in the mode of the German Socialist Party in the 20′s and 30′s. Same brutish thugs now rule the Demoncrats as ran the Nazis.

jgalt
on March 08, 2010
at 03:09 PM
Report this commentVery amusing comments here.
I am no Socialist but my God, its hard to find any sympathy for the Republicans who so quickly forget the damage that Bush has inflicted on the USA and seem to want more of the same by pushing Palin a no hoper, no nothing lightweight if ever one existed. Get real USA. You get the president you deserve and as we should all know – history will judge…
Paul Davies
on March 08, 2010
at 03:08 PM
Report this commentWith a line taken from a Toyota commercial from many years ago let me remind those who voted for this fool…
You asked for it, you got it! Obama!
ghost
on March 08, 2010
at 03:08 PM
Report this commentObama has only himself to blame for his failure.
JungleCogs
on March 08, 2010
at 03:08 PM
Report this commentI live in rural Missouri, and I watch Fox most of the time – not because they spill “rage” 24 hours a day, but because you see stories on Fox that you will not see in the “lame-stream” media. Yes, Fox commentators are conservative, but their news programs are far more objective than the big American networks. At least they don’t try to hide stories, like ABC, CBS and NBC do.

What do you think would have happened if John McCain had belonged to a church that trashed America and railed against black people? The New York Obama Times and CBS would have made it their business to make sure the entire world knew about it. But they virtually ignored the Reverend Wright story until videos of the racist Reverend were posted all over the Internet and they couldn’t ignore the story anymore.

Fox isn’t growing in viewership because it blasts “rage.” It’s growing in viewership because ordinary Americans like me don’t trust the news outlets we grew up watching, and Fox is all we have left.

If CBS did its job and covered the news, I wouldn’t be paying $68 a month for cable just for the privelege of watching Fox.

Lousy American journalism = big bucks for Fox News and its Australian owner, Rupert Murdoch.

Janet
on March 08, 2010
at 03:08 PM
Report this commentBenjamin
on March 08, 2010
at 10:25 AM:

Your friend did a good job explaining the American mindset when it comes to the role of government. It is a mindset peculiar to Americans.

Many outside the US cannot fathom why we wouldn’t want a health care system like theirs and how we could deprive our citizens of such care. We’ve been judged too ignorant to know what’s best for us and downright selfish. These criticisms reflect an ignorance of Americans.

We hold a different view of government, ex., that it has a limited role. This view has served us well, for the most part.

Unfortunately, President Obama does not understand this mindset. He seems to have been raised in a parallel universe, wherein the power to do good lies in his hands versus the people’s.

He is, in effect, getting a smackdown from the American taxpayer.

Andrea
on March 08, 2010
at 03:02 PM
Report this commentBarack Obama was a sophomoric fool before his election, and he is a sophomoric fool today as President. His arrogance is ruinous to his prospects as a leader. He will continue to fail and will be ousted, and we Americans are paying a heavy price for having errantly elected him.

The author makes this puzzling statement: “The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.” What, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, the AP, CNBC, the Times, the Post, the Chronicle are all right down the middle? Puhleeez – they are all lefty.
R. Allen
on March 08, 2010
at 03:02 PM
Report this commentThe Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19 (see trends).
John Federico
on March 08, 2010
at 03:01 PM
Report this commentSorry, this article is so wrong. Fox was created as an alternative to the liberal media which had dominated the air waves and newspapers for decades. Fox is so popular because it is real news and not an arm of the Democratic party. While the other news stations continue to lose money, Fox only makes it. Yes, there are commentators, but the truth is there. We don’t have a UK Telegraph in our country.
Debbie Smith
on March 08, 2010
at 03:01 PM
Report this comment”Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.” This utterly disregards the fact that many more people still get their news from the three sycophantic network broadcasters, Comedy Central, or the major news dailies that are all cheerleading for the Democrats. The BBC neutral?? Please! This is merely a reflection of the fact that the UK doesn’t really have a First Amendment. How can the olitical class be expected to enforce “neutrality.” America is a center-right nation and President Obama is trying to leade it in a Euro-style collectivist direction. It does not want to surrender the victories of the American Revolution. Make no mistake. The current economic circumstances (close to 17% real unemployment and disastrously workse in black communities) and the utter ineffectiveness of his policies to do anything but shore up government employee unions is intentional. He’s been brought up since Frank Marshall to be a collectivist. What we are witnessing is the Cloward-Piven Strategy to destroy us finally worming its way into the WH.
John Sullivan
on March 08, 2010
at 03:01 PM
Report this commentObama has far greater things to worry about than Fox News.

Obama is the least qualified president in U.S. history and it shows. He’s even starting to make Carter seem competent by comparison–now that’s historic!
Ned Schnittt
on March 08, 2010
at 03:01 PM
Report this commentCurious that the author recognizes that “Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism,” but then lays the finger of blame for Obama’s ineffectiveness on the lone US network that did not go along with that media herd during that campaign, i.e., FOX. The author’s internally inconsistent assumptions cannot all be true. FOX cannot be (1) all powerful; (2) unfairly, malevolently and conservatively biased; but yet (3) unable to keep the most liberal President in US history from being elected. Perhaps instead of making illogical arguments about the dangers of conservative media bias from the US’ lone conservative network, the author might refocus that keen intellect of his on the other five US networks (CNN, ABC, CBS, PBS & NBC/MSNBC) and their liberal bias that caused them to stop acting like journalists during Obama’s campaign. And as for the vaunted European media’s lack of bias in their reporting, just two words: Global Warming.
Brian Chilton
on March 08, 2010
at 03:01 PM
Report this commentWhy do the whining liberal always blame FOX news? They report and WE DECIDE. Blaming them for exposing the deceit and mis-management is like shooting the messenger.

I am 52 years old and have followed U.S. Presidential campaigns since 1968. Obama lied more during his campaign than any other candidate. In fact, he is still camapigning. It is time to LEAD! He told us he could govern this country yet all he does, liked a spoiled brat, is focus on what he wants and damn what we want and need. He has clearly proven that he is inept and totally incapable of leading. He should go back to community organizing where his act seems to play well. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

As far as FOX news, rather than comparing their viewership to a poorly run and failing CNN, why not compare FOX to the main stream (or better, lame stream) media? Bernie Goldberg is right: they have a slobbering love affair with him but, as this article points out, everyone is catching on to Barry and the rats are fleeing the ship. The Obama Drama is over. I can only hope we get rid of this Chicago punk before he does too much harm.
Andrew Wetzel
on March 08, 2010
at 03:00 PM
Report this commentMr. Heffer wrote: “The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.” I don’t know about Sky News in the UK but in America, Fox news programs are impartial. Fox commentary shows do lean “right”. Contrary to an outsiders view, all the American network “hard” news programs along with CNN, MSNBC and the major newspaper all are very “left” but disguised as the “center”. By their own admission, 90% of news people are registered Democrats and in 2010 America, that means socialists. Americans have finally awaken to the charade of the mainstream media and have rejected them. Obama will fall and with him the old media will fall. Listen closely, the fat lady is warming up.
Mike S.
on March 08, 2010
at 03:00 PM
Report this comment
Is it possible that in line 7 the word should be

“precipitous# and not “precipitate”
Glenn Andrews
on March 08, 2010
at 02:55 PM
Report this commentWhat about those of us who are outraged lifelong Democrats who have never watched Fox News?

Barack Obama has failed absolutely every mission he has attempted and has lived up to the worst nightmares of both the far right and the center left.

To think he ran on a platform of non-partisanship is now unbelievable.

The only remaining option is impeachment.
American Nightmare
on March 08, 2010
at 02:55 PM
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Obama is the second anti-American president after Carter.When he said he wanted to bring change the people didn’t understand that he meant radical fundamental change.The media failed to do their job.
Geoffyank
on March 08, 2010
at 02:55 PM
Report this commentAs someone from Detroit, I can tell you that I am not alone in my hatred of the use of that stock photo. It’s been overused as has much of the “ruin porn” that the lazy media peddles as news. Detroits issues are real no doubt, but there are lots of positive, creative things happening in the city as well. Though I suspect nuance doesn’t make for a captivating story.
Christopher W.
on March 08, 2010
at 02:55 PM
Report this commentPresident Obama’s approval ratings are primarily a reflection of the economy and will likely recover as the economy recovers, just as President Reagan’s did. When President Obama took office, the employment data showed the following net jobs added / (lost) in thousands:
Dec-07 120
Jan-08 (72)
Feb-08 (144)
Mar-08 (122)
Apr-08 (160)
May-08 (137)
Jun-08 (161)
Jul-08 (128)
Aug-08 (175)
Sep-08 (321)
Oct-08 (380)
Nov-08 (597)
Dec-08 (681)
Jan-09 (741)
The economy had gone over the cliff and was spinning out of control, gaining negative velocity. We were in the middle of six months with job losses exceeding 500,000 jobs per month. The TARP program in the fall of 2008 was the first attempt to stop this slide. The Economic Recovery bill was the next attempt. We tried housing credits and cash for clunkers. The bills that passed Congress were filled with a mish mash of extended unemployment benefits, funding for infrastructure, and pure pork. Anyone would admit they were less than perfect. So what happened?
Feb-09 (681)
Mar-09 (652)
Apr-09 (519)
May-09 (303)
Jun-09 (463)
Jul-09 (304)
Aug-09 (154)
Sep-09 (139)
Oct-09 (127)
Nov-09 64
Dec-09 (150)
Jan-10 (20)
Job losses started to decline. They have averaged less than 100,000 for the last three months. We have had two consecutive quarters of positive economic growth. If current trends continue the economy will shortly start adding jobs again.

Fortunately we will never know how deep a recession we could have had if we had not had stimulus spending. Absent the TARP spending, the Economic Recovery Act and the various other stimulus efforts there is no telling how many jobs would have been lost. Even if we had continued to lose “only” 500,000 jobs per month for the last year it would have been a lot. Thankfully first President Bush and then President Obama took active steps to stop the slide.

The Republicans problem is that the stimulus appears to be working, notwithstanding many pundits who have focused on the unemployment rate as opposed to the underlying jobs numbers.

Because they voted against the Iraq surge in early 2007, some Democrats found themselves in the position of appearing to be cheering US setbacks in Iraq. Similarly, some Republicans now seem to be rooting for the economy to not recover–or at least not before the mid-term elections.

Senator Bunning went a step further last week, taking active steps to prevent the economy from recovering quickly.

If the economy continues to recover, President Obama’s approval ratings will go up–and so will the approval ratings of both parties in Congress. If we get a double dip recession, all bets are off for everyone’s approval ratings, especially if the public perceives the Republicans tried to prevent a recovery.
Karl from Chicago
on March 08, 2010
at 02:54 PM
Report this commentGANPAT – you have some twisted views mate – everybody loves Obama; he’s a lovely fella. I also though a lot of Tony Blair even though I am one of those British Conservatives that you seem not to fancy too much. I would even have bought a used car from Tony Blair – don’t think I would do the same from Gordon Brown – different kind of socialist that one! I don’t think you can so easily dismiss the “special relationship” between the US and GB – it ain’t dead yet mate – not when you fight the same wars it ain’t! I don’t seem to see too many from India and China in those trenches! Of course we like to see India doing so well and the whole economic World can hardly wait for China to ratchet up its economy again – both the US and Britain will benefit greatly from that.
Bill South Africa
on March 08, 2010
at 02:53 PM
Report this commentThe root of the problem is his policy!
mrp
on March 08, 2010
at 02:53 PM
Report this commentLots of good comments are here for you, Mr. Heffer. Please take note of some of them, for many are well-articulated and lucid, and they yield an accurate perspective of the growing American “common sense” activism that many of us hope will get our country back on the right track.

We will earn a better government by becoming more actively involved in it.

Hard-working Americans are tired of just shrugging, as they watch their hard-earned dollars wasted by spendthrifts and loons. Accountability and personal responsibility is making a come back. These are the American virtues we need, and people are starting to demand them.
Michael P. Sakowski
on March 08, 2010
at 02:53 PM
Report this commentA few howlers in this analysis:

Dems continue to believe that if only Obama delivers a few more speeches explaining his policies for the 453rd time then the rubes will buy it. Not gonna happen!

If Fox News was as powerful and influential as Dems seem to believe, then Obama never would have been elected in the first place.

Dems simply cannot get their head around the fact that the American public does not want Obama’s ultra-Liberal and socialist policies.

Unless he radically changes course, Obama is on track to be even worse than Jimmy Carter. Which knowledgeable people knew before he was even elected.
Bruce B
on March 08, 2010
at 02:53 PM
Report this commentThe mere idea that the BBC is “impartial” is a pathetic joke. The BBC parrots the Labor Party line, as CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and 99% of the newspapers in America parrot the Democrat Party line.

FOX news gets 4x the viewership of the other stations because we Americans are sick and damn tired of the pablum, lies, and left-wing propaganda being spewed by the vast majority of “the media”.

We don’t have Government control of our news outlets in the USA…NO yet, anyway. And we don’t want it. We prefer the free market solution. Rather than bemoan that fact, you may want to try it in Britain. Maybe you’d like having the opportunity to listen to alternative voices rather than what the BBC deems “newsworthy”.

All the leftwing libs and loonies in the USA hate FOX NEWS because they know what it represenst – an absolute end to their control of what the public reads, hears, sees, and thinks. All socialists feel the same way.

FOX NEWS and the free market strengthens democracy’ Government control of the airwaves weakens it.
Gee-Man
on March 08, 2010
at 02:53 PM
Report this commentThe notion that Fox News is “Obama’s big problem” is just plain silly. The big problem here in the U.S. is that 15 million people are unemployed and truly suffering, and all Washington seems to care about is health care legislation (which I believe is important) and mid-term elections. If the economy were going well and Obama presented a strong image of America, Fox News wouldn’t be an issue. I suppose strategists are paid, though, to “find” something to talk about as the “problem.” Just juxtapose these two things to get my idea: a woman recently interviewed on Fox News said she has applied for 600 jobs in the last year (real interview) or so and has not received one interview request
with the non-stop media coverage of the health care debate.
katherine
on March 08, 2010
at 02:52 PM
Report this commentHopefully the American people will finally wake up and quit falling for the sound bite engineered tear jerkers like the ‘wearing my dead sister’s teeth cause I’m poor and need Obamacare’ stories of the compassion Nazis that is designed to seperate Americans from their liberty and money and drive their lives with reason and logic instead. When they do wake up to these values, and hopefully it’s not too late, pass them on to you kids.
Al J
on March 08, 2010
at 02:52 PM
Report this commentFox does not “spue” rage; rather, Fox News reflects the deep frustration, anger and disappointment of the American people with liberal schools, liberal politicians, liberal mainline (so-called) media, etc. Those who rue the day of Drudge and Fox don’t realize that these media arose out of a vacuum. If you had done your job of honest reporting, rather than proping up those with your own liberal, socialistic viewpoint, you would not be in the state of decline you are in today. You had better get in touch with real, working, honest, tax-paying, church-going, Constitution-supporing Americans, or those of you in teh liberal media will soon be the dinosaurs of the media business.
Michael Minnix
on March 08, 2010
at 02:47 PM
Report this commentTechnical rule of impartiality? That has to be a joke!
Orly Owl
on March 08, 2010
at 02:47 PM
Report this commentI agree with Maine Republican, if you really want hate and rage watch MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Kieth Olberman or Ed Shultz. The latter actually encouraged voter fraud in the Massachusetts special election to fill Sen. Kennedy’s seat.
Stacie
on March 08, 2010
at 02:47 PM
Report this commentIts fascinating how angry the left wing media is about the mere existence of Fox News. There is nothing impartial about any news media outlet, and this absurd, self-congratulatory caricature they create about themselves being the impartial arbiters of truth is in constant check by Fox. Not to mention that Fox destroys the other media sources; enjoy your fantasy land folks, but thankfully the US is still a center-right nation. People don’t want your utopian rubbish here.
jojo
on March 08, 2010
at 02:47 PM
Report this commentKim Serca, your comments are so factually inaccurate and pompous that I just had to comment in rebuttal. First off the USA has 305 million citizens and no we are not all brain dead as your comments seem to imply. Fox News has on it’s most popular single news hour 5.5 million viewers but since it is a 24/7 programming that number is multiplied by 24 with numerous other channels of competing news having at least another 25 million viewers for their one hour of main news broadcasting. In addition like Great Britain we also have this thing called the internet which many of us benighted former colonials seem to find helpful in our need to keep up with what is going on back at the center of the universe in London. It is arrogance like your comments displayed that have made the BBC a bit of a joke out here in the real world where news organizations have to actually compete for their funding and their audiences. I would look to making sure what you are talking about in the future before you so willingly display your own total ignorance of the subject at hand.
Richard Fontaine
on March 08, 2010
at 02:47 PM
Report this commentThe gangsters of Chicago’s Roaring 20′s never left, they just went to Washington…There is a reason why Fox news has a bigger audience than the other three cable news networks combined; The public is tired of being spoon-fed the half-truths and liberal cover stories the leftist media feed us. Watching other news organizations is one of the favorite drinking party games in a college dorm. We take the “Catch-phrase” of the day as fed to the “News” organizations by the Dems, and toss back one every time it gets thrown out over the tube. If the news anchors only knew how hard we laugh at them…
ZikZak
on March 08, 2010
at 02:47 PM
Report this commentThe left tired approach to attacking Fox is like saying your football opponent is terrible when you are getting beat 73-0. They think that they like all progressives are mentally superior and that if they say Fox sucks enough times we will think the same. Wrong. The usual media is a shill for the left and now Bush is gone to blame everything on so they are exposed for what they are,standard bearers for the double standard,like Charles Rangel etc.Matt Lauer et. al. can’t see beyond their sel-erected ivory tower
Joy Blowhard
on March 08, 2010
at 02:47 PM
Report this commentIf Fox News is so omnipotent and so relentless in its bias against Obama, how did the guy get elected a mere sixteen months ago? What a joke. And the “unbiased” British media tradition? BBC? Come on!
Doug
on March 08, 2010
at 02:47 PM
Report this commentObama’s failure was not doing more to fight Pelosi’s appointment as speaker. She represents a small district that is far far left of the average American. Her seat is and always will be secure while the moderate democrats will take a beating in the next election. Just as under Clinton, the only the most liberal democrats will be left and moderate democrats have been betrayed by their party once again.
Phil
on March 08, 2010
at 02:46 PM
Report this commentThis comment highlights the problem for Obama: “Obama’s big problem,” a senior Democrat told me, “is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN.”

It shows they just don’t get it…the problem is not the way their message is being presented by Fox…the problem is we don’t like the root of the message! As long as they keep blaming Fox, they will continue to distance themselves from America.
greg
on March 08, 2010
at 02:41 PM
Report this commentI would like to point out that the Obama administration is losing not because of Fox News as your writer seems to imply but rather because the shear audacity of the Obama socialist power grab has finally woken up the basically center right American population of just how vile and subversive the Progressive movement is.

The American Progressives are really small letter communists who traffic in the guise of “socialism” because they want to take over the reigns of power and implement their fascist agenda without alienating the more naive of their followers.

Unfortunately for them, the Obama administration is so inept they forgot to keep their true nature cloaked from the public until AFTER they had wrested complete control of the economy.

They are about to find out that the US Constitution unlike the unwritten British one is a real document and we intend to use it to route out every last marxist traitor. You might want to take a look at just why our founding fathers both wrote our individual liberties down and particularly why we have a second amendment to the Bill of Rights.

Good luck Great Britain with your own problem with the Marxist masses.
Richard Fontaine
on March 08, 2010
at 02:40 PM
Report this commentSo FOX news is the problem? I don’t think so. FOX news was unable to save President Bush.

Look, I did not vote for Obama, I didn’t think he was ready for such a big job and sadly I was right. He needs to be honest and tell the American people that the Government does NOT create jobs.

I know many of you do not understand how America works, but it is the States responsibility to create health care…or not. It is not the federal governments responsiblity if you follow the consititution, a document democrats would just as soon forget. In the abstract, polls may show that the American people think everyone should have healthcare insurance(we all have access to healthcare contrary to popular belief), but when it comes down to it most Americans don’t want to pay for healthcare on the federal level. I think that is a big part of why Obama has slipped so badly in the polls. Plus his outright lying. Are we really to believe that insuring 30 million people will bring down healthcare? Only in liberal fantasy land I suppose. We have plenty of healthcare programs that could be expanded without a complete federal take over of our healthcare system. There are other fixes that could be put into place to bring down the cost of healthcare, but the democrats don’t trust the market, they only trust the government. The American people no longer trust either.
Kelly
on March 08, 2010
at 02:40 PM
Report this comment2 million people watch the highest-rated Fox program. Approximately 30 million watch the nightly news on the three traditional networks.

This “Senior Democrat” has no leg to stand on when he or she claims that the President’s “big problem” is that so many more people watch Fox. Cable news is only an important phenomenon to those few diehard political junkies in the nation. The rest of the country is way too busy or depressed to watch 24/7 commentary.
Fabio Escobar
on March 08, 2010
at 02:40 PM
Report this commentSimon Heifer, you are a good one to talk about impartiality in the media. The BBC has always been in the tank for the Labour Party. The only problem with Fox is they on occasion publish the truth–that’s why our failed president will will only serve one term. Sadly, Jimmy Carter was not this bad.
Clay
on March 08, 2010
at 02:40 PM
Report this commentI thought you were headed down the right path with this article then you veered into nonsense. The part you don’t get is that Fox News doesn’t tell people what to think it mirror’s what people already think. You must have just as much disrespect for your UK readers as you do for American.
Sam Vaughn
on March 08, 2010
at 02:40 PM
Report this commentCorrection: Fox News viewership is about equal to all others combined.

Glen Beck on Fox did a show on Sunday that covered a convention of groups to support Education in American. Unions, teachers and more importantly 17 Communist and Socialist organizations who ran and operated the get-to-gether. He showed and endless list of these organizations. He showed their Posters and Literature!

Liberals will call this “Hate” and a distortion of the truth!

All he did is show these people for who they actually are!

Fox news is Fair and Balanced! They show Facts and let you make up your own mind!

That’s what Liberals hate! They are the “Hate Party”!
Norm
on March 08, 2010
at 02:40 PM
Report this commentFox News points out what is the truth and backs it up with research and facts. I notice that the “senior official” did NOT say that the allegations are false. Also, Fox welcomes the Dems to come and defend themselves and refute what they say, more than the liberal media ever does. Conservatives who go on liberal shows are mocked and denigrated.
lukuj
on March 08, 2010
at 02:39 PM
Report this commentAs an American very interesting to read this discussion in the UK.

A note about Detroit. Yes, it has been in decline for decades. The rest of the story is that they have simply been ahead of Obama for decades. If you want to see where Obama’s policies would take the rest of the country, simply look at Detroit. Massive taxes, completely controlled by Unions (read, no incentive to work, high wages, no touch with reality), etc.

In America, Michigan (run much as Detroit is) is referred to as the ‘Peoples Republic of Michigan’ for their extreme leftist views and policies.

I find it interesting that the portions of America hit hardest over the past few decades are those that have most fully embraced the gospel of the socialist left. Causation?
Joseph T
on March 08, 2010
at 02:35 PM
Report this commentObama hates America. He hates Americans. His plan is to destroy America, and he’s well on his way.

If he lets us have elections in 2010, hopefully a Republican resurgence will end his hopes.
Roxanna
on March 08, 2010
at 02:34 PM
Report this commentWaterloo! Some of us pray that this nightmare may be over soon. Only three more years!
BlueSpringsMo
on March 08, 2010
at 02:33 PM
Report this commentThis is generally correct, but the key fact of Obama is missing, and I guess one must be American to fully appreciate it. The reason Obama seems to be incapable of “fixing” what’s wrong with our country is because he believes that what is wrong with America is America itself. We have never hade a president like that (possible exception of Wilson) and many people have had trouble coming to terms with it. But we’re getting there.
james
on March 08, 2010
at 02:33 PM
Report this commentThe resistance to this bill is precisely that. We are not an enraged, Fox propaganda driven mob who want dead bodies in the street in the name of free market capitalist HC.

WE WANT A BILL THAT DOES AS MUCH TO CONTROL COST AS IT DOES CHOICE.

We want the whole of congress to sit down together and craft incremental steps that address specific problem areas of HC, steps that can be accomplished without a gov’t take over.

We want DIALOGUE. We want OPEN DEBATE. We want transparency, not two guys in a closet rewriting our entire HC system as a gov’t entitlement program.

Pass or fail, the bill is dead. If not now, then later when it is repealed or when the states win Constitutional challenges to it’s illegal mandates in federal court.

We are NOT socialist. We do not want a socialist takeover of 1/6 of our national economy under the guise of HC reform.

Sooner or later this ponzi scheme will die and America will return to common sense, free market solutions to HC.

Bet on it.
Ellen
on March 08, 2010
at 02:32 PM
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