Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Obama Lies again, blames Fox News...
From Jim Geraghty's Morning Jolt. My bolding. Dear Leader is a compulsive liar, a narcissit who blames everyone for everything. The messiah has never done anything wrong, or made any mistakes. Ever.
2. Obama: 'Fed by Fox News, They Hear Obama Is a Muslim 24/7'
One possible angle for persuading those wavering Obama voters: the man has proven to be much more prone to self-pity than he appeared to be in 2008.
President Barack Obama blamed Fox News for his political woes in a private meeting with labor leaders in 2010, saying he was "losing white males" who tune into the cable outlet and "hear Obama is a Muslim 24/7," according to journalist David Corn's new book, "Showdown."
In "Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party" -- which hits bookstores on Tuesday -- the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones chronicles the White House from the 2010 midterm elections to the start of the 2012 campaign. The book focuses on key moments of Obama's presidency, such as Osama bin Laden's assassination, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the Arab Spring, the debt ceiling crisis, and the president's dealings with Congress.
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.
I haven't had the chance to review every hour of Fox News' coverage from 2008 to 2010, but I'm pretty sure that the channel never reported that Obama is a Muslim, much less that it reported that 24/7.
"Keep thinking that the problem is Fox News. That's a sure one-way ticket back to Chicago come November," quips Don Surber.
Over at Newsbusters, they note Fox News anchor Bret Baier's response, "For the record, we found no examples of a host saying President Obama is a Muslim."
So when Obama said, "24/7," what he really meant was "0/0." Considering his administration's projections for the stimulus's impact on the unemployment rate, this is par for the course.
