THE WHITE HOUSE vs. FOX NEWS CHANNEL: MY TAKE {{-_-}}

Let me begin by saying that I definitely see where President Obama's White House was coming from by calling out the Fox News Channel as a fraud of a news organization. Their rhetoric is biased, divisive, hateful, bigoted, @ many times blatantly dishonest, and overall bad for the country. I personally believe that there is no more room in this melting pot of a nation for such offensive material. Shoot, if I had a nutjob like Glenn Beck calling me a racist and inciting people to revolt against me, plus a prick like Sean Hannity blatantly spreading falsehoods about me, I'd call their asses out too. And Bill O'Reilly is - for lack of a better term - a douche.

With that being said, and as much as I dislike Fox Noise, they're entitled to their opinions. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, no matter how offensive it may be. Besides, as I said earlier, @ least Fixed News is upfront about their agenda. Everyone else (CNN and NBC News/MSNBC especially) tries to hide their true identity as snake oil salesmen. If you're gonna go after one, you might as well target them ALL. And that would DEFINITELY be unconstitutional.

Fox News thrives off of negative attention and shock value anyway, so the White House choosing to target them is like an early Christmas present to the network that's already #1 in cable news ratings (rednecks have a LOT of time on their hands). Not only are Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes laughing all the way to the bank, but I'm sure they're quite thrilled with the fact that Obama has finally officially recognized them as a threat. If the right-wing pundits @ Fox Noise weren't feeling themselves before, they sure are now.

Obama should just focus on fixing the economy, passing health care reform with a public option, creating more jobs, and ending Bush's war. Elevating this network to star status is unproductive.

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