Posted by
Bill Crawford on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:15:38 PM
This is only an unholy surprise to all the Obamaites last year who chose not to dig below the surface of his unflappable image.
The few times during the campaign that his forward progress was halted- in the middle of the primaries and in early September- his Chicago roots would begin to show. When he wind is mostly at your back and the mainstream media is cheering you on, there won't be many of those moments.
Now Obama is approaching crunch time. Not only is he getting heat over his military posture, but his siimultaneous forays into energy policy, health care, union reform and budget management are all coming to a head. Next year is a campaign year, and everybody in his party knows it will be a damage control year. Everything that is going to get done has to get done now.
And in the process, a few declared enemies have cropped up. The Chamber of Commerce and the health insurance industry are almost self-explanatory. Why Fox News?
I'll tell you why. It wasn't so much because of the effect they had on Van Jones and ACORN (and oh, boy, did they ever have an effect). It was because the other media made public notice of what they were missing, and started talking about how they would start following up on Fox and where they were going. This was made especially public by the NY Times, who made a point of appointing an Editor for the purpose, whose staff would be responsible for (among other things) monitoring Fox 24-7.
What does that mean? It means that the Fox News reporting that has been shunned by many to date will start bleeding into the mainstream on a real time basis. They won't allow that because they think Fox is better- they just see Fox's ratings going through the roof and may need a piece of that to survive.
The NY Times still provides copy to the lazy, sloth ridden news staffs at the network news divisions in New York City. I think that this phenomenon was too much for the White House to tolerate.
I told you that Obama was a street thug from Chicago. He surrounded himself with the same. It ain't a surprise to me.
So, all of you Obamaites out there, think about this: if he decides to keep going in Afghanistan and doesn't close Gitmo Bay, and his doubletalk rationales stop working with you, when you speak up and protest him, how will you be with him turning on YOU this way?
Because he will.