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boxman15

(1,033 posts) Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:38 PM Mar 2012

Barack Obama reportedly blamed Fox News for hurting his popularity, book claims

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/19/obama-showdown-fox-news-_n_1364141.html

President Barack Obama told labor leaders that Fox News had convinced voters he was a Muslim, according to a new book that will be released Tuesday.

“Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party," by journalist David Corn, recounts a private meeting where Obama reportedly detailed his frustration with the outlet.

According to Politico:

Corn writes that after the midterm elections, Obama told labor leaders in December 2010 that he held Fox partly responsible for him “losing white males.”
“…Fed by Fox News, they hear Obama is a Muslim 24/7, and it begins to seep in…The Republicans have been at this for 40 years. They have new resources, but the strategy is old,” Corn recounted Obama as saying.

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Barack Obama reportedly blamed Fox News for hurting his popularity, book claims (Original Post) boxman15 Mar 2012 OP

Does he blame it all on Fox? gratuitous Mar 2012 #1

If he does he still has a point. Kalidurga Mar 2012 #2

NO!NO! FOXNEWS always supports our President in times of war!! No wait... Loudmxr Mar 2012 #3

Well, that's their job, isn't it? Comrade Grumpy Mar 2012 #4

The Fox Ministry Of Propaganda is in no way shape or form fair and balanced. Initech Mar 2012 #5

Did he also blame the moon and sun for the tides? cthulu2016 Mar 2012 #6

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

1. Does he blame it all on Fox?

Reply to boxman15 (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:41 PM

Mar 2012

Because my feeling was that Obama and the Democrats lost a lot of support and enthusiasm among the base by knuckling under to the Republicans time and again. When they couldn't even see their way clear to letting the Bush tax cuts expire (by doing nothing during a lame duck session), it was pretty apparent that Democrats' chief concern wasn't in representing the interests of the people who had voted them into office in 2008.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

2. If he does he still has a point.

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 03:05 PM

Mar 2012

If the reason he caved was because he felt he was losing the white male vote and he was pandering to that demographic. Personally I wouldn't cave to that group, there is no reason to.

Loudmxr

(1,405 posts)

3. NO!NO! FOXNEWS always supports our President in times of war!! No wait...

Reply to boxman15 (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 04:19 PM

Mar 2012

No they don't...

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

4. Well, that's their job, isn't it?

Reply to boxman15 (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 05:16 PM

Mar 2012

Initech

(100,076 posts)

5. The Fox Ministry Of Propaganda is in no way shape or form fair and balanced.

Reply to boxman15 (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 05:20 PM

Mar 2012

Obama definitely has a right to blame this "news network" for his low poll numbers - but there's no way the three stooges can overtake him by any stretch of the imagination.

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)

6. Did he also blame the moon and sun for the tides?

Reply to boxman15 (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 05:27 PM

Mar 2012

Did he blame Smallpox on a virus?

Did he blame the Great San Francisco fire on an earthquake?

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