Mar 15, 2008 Political
The Democrats have not been very Fox friendly in that they have refused to participate in any debates sponsored by the network. Only Democrats in the throes of death or trying to recover from some gaff have made any appearances on the Fox network. Barack Obama froze out all Fox reporters for a report that the network aired in January 2007 about Obama attending a madrassa. The story said Obama attended an extremist madrassa and he took offense because it put him in the Muslim league, a place he started in with his daddy. In any event, Obama did not want anything to do with Fox News and the balance of the Democrats decided that they did not want to debate on Fox opting for more liberal friendly networks like MSNBC or CNN. It should be noted that Republicans have not refused to debate on any network. Which party is afraid?
Interestingly, it appears as if Fox News now serves a purpose to the new Messiah of the Democratic Party. Obama refused to appear there since very early last year and he has refused to allow Fox reporters to interview him but now he is having a bit of trouble because of his racist pig pastor and where does he turn to try to straighten this out? Why Fox News of course. The story of the racist pastor Jeremiah Wright has spread around like wild fire. He hates America, is Afro-centric, blames whites for all the woes in the black community and he called on God to damn this nation. Obama has been going to this church for 20 years, Wright married Obama and Michelle and Obama baptized their children and that means that Obama is part of the church and its beliefs. Obama has never repudiated those beliefs before other than to say he did not agree with a few remarks made by Wright. Now that the tapes of Wright have gotten attention people are not happy with his Islamofascist like hatred for America and his racist remarks about whites.
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Obama is now in the spotlight, associated with those remarks as well he should be. The MSM might have bought his story about not knowing that the reverend Wright had said these things but I call Barack Obama a liar. He had to have attended when these kinds of sermons took place. He had to have been there when some of this was said. Wright had to have expressed these feelings when not on the pulpit. Wright feels this way so he had to have told Obama how he feels about white America and Obama had to have known how Wright felt and what he said. If he did not then he lacks the ability to be president. We do not need a guy who fails to see what is going on around him. Obama is not better than Hillary who wants us to believe she knew nothing about Monica until the story broke.
Now Obama has to try to put out the fire so he goes on Fox News. Why did he not go to CNN, MSNBC and all the other networks that are liberal friendly? There are at least two reasons. One, if you look at the cable news ratings, Fox gets more than all the others added together which means Fox exposes Obama to more people at any one time. Also, this issue is going to resonate within the evangelical community. The largest part of the fundamental Christians are Independent or Republican and are more likely to be watching Fox News. It would be stupid for Obama to go on other networks to appeal to liberals because most of them agree with Wright and see no problem with hating America.
However, in order to keep people from leaving him in droves (except most blacks) and in order to win in November he needs a portion of the Christian vote. He certainly needs as much of the white vote as he can get because blacks only account for about 14% of the population and they are almost exclusively Democrats. He cannot win without the white vote and Pastor Wright’s remarks could turn that vote away from Obama and toward Hillary or the Republican in November. This is especially important when one considers that Obama is only getting 25% of the white vote as it is. Yes, it is true that if he were not black he would not be where he is because 90% of the blacks would not vote for a white guy. So, it is extremely important for Obama to avoid alienating the people who will put him in office. Those very people are the ones that Wright insulted.
This is why Obama went on Fox News. He wanted to reach out to all the whites (remember, they call the Republicans the party of rich white guys) and he wanted to reach Christians, most of which (the ones who take it seriously) are conservative and are more likely to watch Fox.
It is funny that Obama shunned Fox earlier and the Democrats said Fox could not be trusted and yet that is who they turn to when they are in trouble. If I were Fox I would have either told him no or I the first question I asked would have been; “Senator Obama, you have frozen us out, and you Democrats do not believe we are fair or that we can be trusted so why are you on our network now?”
As an aside, Obama lied about his involvement and he lied about knowing what Wright was saying. Either that or he is so inept he should not be allowed in public without a chaperon.
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Others:
Stop the ACLU | The Amboy Times | Blog-o-Fascists | Church and State | Right Wing News
Sources:
Breitbart (Fox interview)
CBS
ABC
Washington Post
Tags: fox news, hypocrisy, jeremiah wright, Obama, racist preacher