The White House tells it like it is: Fox News IS Republican Party TV
During the Bush administration, Fox News was a network wholly devoted to cheerleading. Now that a Democrat is in office, the house former Republican media strategist Roger Ailes and worldwide winger Rupert Murdoch built has become the official chop shop of the Republican Party, using its airwaves, from morning until night, to try and bring down the Obama administration. Everyone who doesn’t make a living from Fox News or who isn’t a Kool-Aid drinking winger knows that (and actually, I suspect that the Kool-Aid drinkers know it, too.) So what’s wrong with the White House communications director saying as much? Which she did, in brilliant fashion, to CNN’s in-house winger (Lou Dobbs is their in-house nut) Howie Kurtz. Watch:
Now before you wingers get mad, keep in mind that no less than Bill O’Reilly has called FNC the “loyal opposition” (though I don’t know about the ‘loyal’ part…) and Fox News’ Senior Vice President for Programming, Bill Shine recently did an interview with NPR and admitted the following:
“There were a couple of people who basically wrote about our demise come last November (and) December and were, I guess, rooting for us to go away,” said Bill Shine, senior vice president for programming at the Fox News Channel. “With this particular group of people in power right now, and the honeymoon they’ve had from other members of the media, does it make it a little bit easier for us to be the voice of opposition on some issues?”
And Ailes has given specific marching orders to his primetime team:
Earlier this week, after nearly breaking down in tears (again), Glenn Beck told his television audience that they’re not alone: “It’s you and me and the Fox News Channel — the Alamo for truth.”
If this sounds familiar, it’s because Roger Ailes, Fox News’ chief executive, told Glenn Beck in January that he wanted to bolster the Republican network’s opposition to the Democratic administration. “I see this as the Alamo,” Ailes said, according to Beck. “If I just had somebody who was willing to sit on the other side of the camera until the last shot is fired, we’d be fine.”
Um … does that mean Roger Ailes wants them all to die???
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