Millions of dedicated fans are beginning to sense that Fox News has gone soft on Obama at a time when its viewers are depending on the news organization to remain a key opposition voice during a disturbing political shift away from freedom and prosperity.According to columnists Rush & Malloy of the New York Daily News, Fox owner Rupert Murdoch, has issued a chilling edict to its hosts that they must cease criticism of Obama for the foreseeable future:
Fox News boss Roger Ailes doesn't want to spoil Barack Obama's political honeymoon, we hear. A source says Ailes has told prime-time hosts Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren to lay off the President-elect - at least for a while. "We're not going to have any personal attacks on Obama," a network insider says. "The public has spoken - we must treat him with respect."
This confirms an almost identical account that Radio Equalizer was given Wednesday evening from a key source. That person contends the order came from the top; Rupert Murdoch himself. It seems that News Corporation is bracing for potentially vindictive actions by Obama's incoming thugocracy, especially regarding station/newspaper dual ownership rules and apparently seeks to placate Our Dear Leader.
Hat Tip to Atlas Shrugs
6 comments:
I don't perceive Fox News as an "opposition voice." Yes, people like Hannity are strongly anti-Obama, but Hannity does not represent Fox's news operation; he is a commentator whose job is opinion, not factual reporting.
If Murdock has told commentators like Hannity, O'Reilly, etc., to avoid criticizing Obama, that certainly does not bode well for Fox.
A honeymoon is one thing; silencing honest dissent is something entirely different.
James,
Douglas Turner of the Buffalo News wants conservative radio talkers silenced. He calls them “virulent,” “violent” and “coarse” and hopes that starting January 1 the “work of flushing” them will begin. Turner fills his little anti-free speech screed with claims and a few examples of how rotten he thinks righty talkers are and how they need to be shut down, yet can’t seem to find a single cross word to say about the “coarseness” of lefty talkers. In other words, it is plain that “coarseness” or “one-sided” radio isn’t really a concern of his. Only eliminating the free speech of the right is his goal not any leveling of the playing field.
With the installation of the 111th Congress in January, we are looking at the debate over reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine to come to a head. It seems that there is movement in the direction of silencing any dissent. Other examples are the shutting down of righty blogs that were anti-Obama during the election cycle and the censorship of Atlas Shrugs by Google.
The Fourth Estate (journalism) whether established, mainstream media or citizen journalists, is coming under fire. Our Founding Fathers would be appalled at the current State of the Nation.
N.S.H.: No doubt the Left, which has always preferred silencing those who disagree than trying to out argue them, imagines a Brave New World where their poorly thought out ideas will be unchallenged.
They should be aware that real efforts to do so will be met with the same level of resistance that greeted the British in 1776, as we bitter Americans, clinging to our guns and religion, teach them a lesson about what freedom really means.
Here, here James!
We must all ponder what we would do without our freedom.
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Here's the e-note I just sent to the NY Daily News. It ends at the dashed line:
“Fox News boss Roger Ailes doesn't want to spoil Barack Obama's political honeymoon, we hear. A source says Ailes has told prime-time hosts Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren to lay off the President-elect - at least for a while. ‘We're not going to have any personal attacks on Obama,’ a network insider says. ‘The public has spoken - we must treat him with respect.’”
Respectfully, 63 million Americans spoke, not the entire public.
Many, perhaps a lot, of us who did not vote for Barack ussein “Hoover Clinton FDR Lincoln JFK” Obama will give him the same level, type and intensity of respect that the Democrats, liberals and leftists treated George W. Bush—and still do.
Ailes’ apparent loss of testicularity will cost his network news organization ratings.-
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It appears there is some undercurrent of fear that's beset America.
It seeme the fascists are going balls out to silence any oppositioon.
They do not know that they actually foment reactions that they do not want to face.
Must've cut off the last part of my comment.
I meant to say that they foment reactions that they may not expect nor appreciate when realized.
Of course, their arrogance is such they expect the masses to simply comply quietly.
It'd require apologies to fools to call those fascists, fools.
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