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Richard Milhous Obama Continues Assault on "Enemy" Fox

Fox News is "operating basically as talk radio," President Obama suggested in an interview airing today.

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod said this weekend that Fox is "not really a news station."

FOX News:  The only TV station where real debate happens

Nile Gardiner identifies the key to Fox's success.  It is the only genuine arena where ideological combat takes place nightly.  No fall guys, no rigged fights, just smart, opinionated combatants duking it out in the arena of ideas:

Fox offers a highly opinionated, fast-paced and entertaining brand of political debate that includes all sides of the political aisle.

The top hosts may be largely conservative (though not necessarily Republican), but the guests frequently are not, creating an adversarial and combative arena that until recently was a rarity in American news coverage.

Unlike bloated, bloviating embarrassments CNN and MSNBC, Fox actually has real conservatives and more importantly, real liberals who know how to argue.  Would you want to go up against Bob Beckel or Juan Williams?  These men are unabashed liberals and they know how to defend their ideology.  Maura Liasson is no slouch either. 

Where is the equivalent conservative on MSNBC?

The reader comments on Gardiner's article were entertaining.  Here's a typical slobbering liberal:

Rosenblum:
Fox News is the worst. To call it news is questionable at best. Fox entertainment would be more accurate. That it appeals to the idiot faction in America is no surprise. As HL Mencken said, ‘no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average American.’

That a nation that almost elected Sarah Palin and did elect George Bush should be drawn to the likes of Glen Beck is hardly a shock, though deeply saddening. This is what you get when you debase your educational system for a generation.

He doesn't even notice that his logic collapses in upon itself when you consider that this same nation of boobs he criticizes elected his empty hero Barack Obama.

Someone named TerribleTurk gave Rosenblum the torching he so richly earned:

RosenBum is just soooo much smarter than everybody else! Screwhog, blow-it-outcherass! I get so damned sick of the self-anointed, pseudointellectual, libtard jackasses like RosenBum, I could puke. RosiBum, up yours and Mencken’s both!

Also, jerk, I hazard the guess you haven’t read Mencken–I have–or you’d know that smartasses like you were also on his list!

Question:  When has CNN, MSNBC, or any of the "Big Three" ever sparked as much political and social debate as Fox News or Rush Limbaugh? 

No wonder the doctrinaire left hates them so much.

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