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FOX anchor walks off set over Obama-bashing
By: SilentPatriot on Friday, March 21st, 2008 at 1:10 PM - PDT Wow. There’s a headline I never thought I’d write. What is going on with these FOX anchors? This morning on “Fox & Friends,” anchor Brian Kilmeade walked off the set after repeated attempts by the two other FOX dittoheads to bash Barack Obama for his “typical white person” remark.

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Although it’s true Kilmeade took particular offense to the “typical sports guy” swipe by Doocy — Kilmeade has covered sports for much of his career — his attempt to put Obama’s quote into the context of tense race relations stretching back 60 years was admirable and refreshing. Especially for a channel show that typically consists of three morons piling up on anything Democrat.

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Chris Wallace on FOX and Friends: “I heard enough Obama bashing”

Posted: 21 Mar 2008 02:24 PM CDT



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After a few hours of taking Obama’s “typical white person” quote and cutting it off—giving it the Hannity/FOX treatment, even Chris Wallace had enough and called FOX & Friends out on it. Now, being kind of cynical about FOX, I wonder if Wallace is speaking out because he’s been crying that Obama won’t go on FNS.

Notice the “24” theme music?


Think Progress:

Hey listen, I love you guys but I want to take you to task if I may, respectfully, for a moment. I have been watching the show since 6:00 this morning when I got up, and it seems to me that two hours of Obama bashing on this typical white person remark is somewhat excessive and frankly I think you’re somewhat distorting what Obama had to say.

Far be it for me to be a spokesman for the Obama campaign, and I will tell you that they would laugh at that characterization, but you know, the fact is that after giving a speech on race earlier this week, on Tuesday, he gave a major speech on Iraq on Wednesday and a major speech on the economy yesterday. And so, I think they would say that in terms of deflecting attention away from the issues people really want to hear about, maybe it’s the media doing it, not Barack Obama.

It's amazing how this whole campaign thing works.

As for the stage work on FOX, I kinda wonder if it doesn't play into the "fair and balanced" p.r. for the cable network itself.

With that said, it was refreshing to hear of substantive speeches that were being ignored in favor of the sound byte.

[Obama] gave a major speech on Iraq on Wednesday and a major speech on the economy [Thursday].

So, maybe we should take a look at them.

On Wednesday, Obama criticized his rivals for undermining America’s security during a speech in Fayetteville, N.C., near Fort Bragg, home to the 82nd Airborne Division. Today’s address, at the University of Charleston in West Virginia, tied the high cost of the war to the economic slowdown hitting Americans at the pump and the pocketbook.

The Illinois senator argued that the war had raised costs for American households by $100 a month, and that it had contributed to higher oil prices. “When you’re spending over $50 to fill up your car because the price of oil is four times what it was before Iraq, you’re paying a price for this war,” he said.

And he criticized President Bush for doing “what no other president has done” by cutting taxes at all income levels during a time of war, and he attacked John McCain for his call to extend those tax cuts.

The war, he said, had also made America less safe because Washington was paying for its costs “with loans from China.”

“Having China as our banker isn’t good for our economy,” he said.

wsj

Full text of Obama's Iraq speech

“When you’re spending over $50 to fill up your car,” Mr. Obama told a supportive crowd, “you’re paying a price for this war. When Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month, you’re paying a price for this war.”

“When a National Guard unit is over in Iraq and can’t help during a hurricane in Louisiana or floods here in West Virginia,” he added, “our communities are paying a price for this war.”

Mr. Obama made clear where he placed the blame. “Like so much else about this war, we were not told the truth” by the Bush administration, he said. “What no one disputes is that the costs of this war have been compounded by its careless and incompetent execution.”

West Virginia holds its primary on May 13.

NYTimes

Full text of Obama's speech, "The Cost of War"

History teaches us that for a nation to remain a preeminent military power, it must remain a preeminent economic power. That is why it is so important to manage the costs of war wisely.

Obama's speech on the economy (3/20/08)

But does this nation need to be a preeminent military power? Manage the costs of war? How about war itself?

Doesn't "preeminent military power" now equal "empire"?

Chalmers Johnson -- The Sorrows of Empire

Why can't America have a suitably strong military and be a preeminent power for peace?

"you cannot simultaneuosly prevent and prepare for war" - Einstien

Albert wasn't very good with math.

All it requires is the desire. If you are going to be the world power for peace,
you are going to need someway to "encourage" those forces that continue to insist on killing each other.

And, the peace mongers still need to defend them selves.

whatever you say, cheerleader.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace