Lib kook Congressman Alan Grayson sure has a lot to say when he’s not being challenged. But he was hiding under his desk when Fox News went to him to comment on his numerous outrageous statements. Watch what happens here when FNC’s Griff Jenkins pays him a visit.
Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!
Rep. Rob Andrews appeared on Fox today with Gregg Jarrett and Congressional colleague Marsha Blackburn. During the course of the interview, Andrews shows as much ignorance of the constitution as Nancy Pelosi and then follows up later with a pot shot at Jarrett for not being ‘fair and balanced.’ Watch here, though, to see Jarrett’s response.
Boy, we just have so many liberal schlubs in our NJ Congressional contingent to be proud of, no?
(h/t Gateway Pundit)
Talk about your hypocrisy! Here we are just days into the White House’s infantile war against Fox News. Rahm ‘Dead Fish’ Emanuel claims Fox isn’t a news organization because it has a “perspective.”
Their press secretary idiotically points to news opinion guys, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, to *prove* their point. Then, in the next breath the White House invites two of MSNBC’s biggest Obama/Democrat lackeys to Pennsylvania Avenue for a secret, off-the-record meeting? (1:45)
Yes, Maddow and Olbermann – nah, no *perspective* there! MSNBC an arm of the DNC? Nah, couldn’t be!
Well, all I can say is I’m relieved. I now have a full and complete understanding of what it means to be a ‘news organization.’ Apparently, all it takes is agreeing with the President and doing his bidding.
(h/t Newsbusters)
Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!
The Internet is an amazing thing. With all of the hullabaloo over Rush Limbaugh’s comments I started wondering if I could find evidence of Democrats wanting Bush to fail. Lo and behold Fox News did a poll in 2006 and asked that very question. An article on the poll appeared in the NY Post by Craig Charney, a former Clinton pollster (I found the text of the article at sistertoldjah.com). Check this out.
A recent Fox News poll gets at the disturbing truth: A majority of Democrats say they want to see the president fail. Such deep hatred is bad news for the country at a time when America needs to bridge the partisan divide. It’s also bad news for the Democrats, who risk repeating the Republicans’ mistakes of a decade ago, driving away the centrists they need to regain power or going too far if they do manage to win.
Fox’s question was revealing: “Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to succeed or not?” Democrats said “not,” 51 percent to 40 percent – where the public at large wanted success by almost two to one. [See page 4 of this document for the poll in question.--ST]
In other words, the rage extends way beyond the lip-pierced Deaniacs, aging hippies and other fringes of the Democratic Party. Lots of otherwise sensible people – suburban moms, hospital orderlies, schoolteachers, big-hatted church ladies – detest George W. Bush.
When these Democrats say they want Bush to fail, might this mean that they simply reject what they see as his far-right religious and corporate agenda? If so, it’s hard to see why independents – hardly right-wing zealots – hope he succeeds by 63 percent to 34 percent. Sadly, much of the Democratic Party wants to see this president crash and burn.
In fact, the fury against to Bush has reached unprecedented levels, even compared to the animosity among Republicans to his predecessor. Not long ago, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found that “strong disapproval” of Bush was 10 points higher than that recorded for Bill Clinton at any point during his presidency, including his impeachment. (That wasn’t during a war, either.)
[CORRECTION] Following quote from Betsy Newmark’s blog post.
Remember, for better or for worse, George W. Bush will be our president for more than two years. Hoping that he’ll fail is really hoping that America will fail. These people detest Bush so much that they don’t mind America getting a setback across the globe if it will weaken Bush.
Of course, there’s a key difference between then and now. Wishing Bush would fail meant wishing the country lost in Iraq. Wishing Obama fails means rooting against socialistic policies that threaten everything the country was founded on and our future prosperity.
Do you think the MSM, considering their whining about Limbaugh’s comments, would think to look something like this up now and then report on it? Nope, that would actually mean really reporting on something and adding some context. That would mean they couldn’t marginalize and demonize him.
Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!
[UPDATED 3/9/09]
Quite a day! I had no idea this would ever happen. I actually e-mailed the story to Rush last week, but it wasn’t until Gateway Pundit and Little Green Footballs picked up on it that it got out there.
Amazingly, even Fox News picked up on this and ran a story flashing back to the poll.
Again, I didn’t do anything special here. A little light bulb went off and said let me check around and see what I can find. Any reporter for any media outfit could have done the same. The fact that they didn’t says alot about the mainstream media and their agenda.
Here’s the transcript from Rush’s show.
Bret Baier – Political Grapevine!
O’Reilly’s Talking Points!
Here’s Sean Hannity running with it!
Watch here as an FNC reporter tries to get Rashid Khalidi to answer questions about the now infamous LA Times Obama video, among other things.
Apparently, Mr. Khalidi doesn’t think enough of the American people to give a few straight answers.
While I can’t say I’m surprised by Mr. Khalidi’s response, the larger question for me is, where are the other media outlets on this story? Why don’t they ever seek out all of these people in Obama’s past, like Ayers and Khalidi? I think we know the answer.
