October 19, 2009
This just in: The president’s chief advisor, David Axelrod, is dumber than a bag of hammers.
He appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopolos on Sunday and backed up White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s statements about Fox News by saying that Fox wasn’t a real news organization; that they were just in it for the money.
First of all, this whole strategy of the White House targeting Fox News is really stupid. Fox News’ ratings are better than CNN and MS-NBC combined, but that’s still only about 3 million viewers at any given time, or about one percent of the population. Why are they wasting time and political capital on it? But with every mention by a White House staffer, Fox News gets more attention and improves in the ratings as more people realize that Fox News commentators are saying things they agree with. Fox’s ratings are up 20% in recent weeks.
Second, David Axelrod appears to be oblivious to something that everyone else in the country knows: that ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MS-NBC are all hopelessly biased toward the left. It has been proven that both CBS and MS-NBC have falsified stories to influence public opinion or the outcome of an election. The same can be said of the New York Times, whose own Omsbudman has admitted that it is a liberal newspaper. Whatever happened to the “Fourth Estate” and its responsibility as the watch dog of government? It seems Fox News is the only TV news operation that’s doing its job.
Third, does he really think news reporting on Fox News isn’t actually news just because he doesn’t agree with it? Or is it that his boss can’t take the heat? Maybe President Obama is too thin-skinned to be president, just like he’s too inexperienced and indecisive.
Or maybe he’s not dumb at all. Maybe Axelrod knows that America will not allow itself to be turned into a socialist utopia if there is a dissenting voice in the media.
