Fox and Friends (ROVE) Trying to Bully and Buy Their Way Back to Power

[kpete]

Fox and Friends Trying to Bully and Buy Their Way Back to Power

By Bill Boyarsky

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With a single-minded intensity, Fox frames the world through stories that will stir this base—Obama’s religion, taxes, the Obama health care law, the Iran nuclear reactor, immigrants, the economy and, over and over again, the proposed community center and mosque near the World Trade Center site. These issues are presented in news stories, commentaries and talking-head discussion shows and by star personalities such as Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck with their torrent of anti-Obama propaganda.

Leading this de facto campaign is the news channel’s president, Ailes, a veteran Republican political communicator. It’s like a daily tea party rally, hour after hour of right-wing Republicanism, only the audience is at home, in front of television screens, steaming about Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats.

But no matter how much its adherents steam, the Republican base isn’t big enough to capture the Senate and the House in November. The Republicans need independents and Democrats—and plenty of money, more than is being raised by the anemic efforts of the Republican National Committee and its chairman, Michael Steele.

That’s where Rove comes in. His efforts won’t be as visible as those of Fox News, but they are as dangerous to the Democrats.

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/fox_and_friends_trying_to_bully_and_buy_their_way_back_to_power_20100823/

[Vincardog]

1. the Republican base isn’t big enough to capture the Senate and the House in November. Watch the BBV.

[ejpoeta]

3. i think that they are trying to shape reality. this is why the media keeps showing the tea partiers

etc. they think if they show them enough and people think there are more of them then there are that the people watching will fall in line because of how many tea partiers there are. see the circular logic? In some ways this has served to pump up tea party candidates and pushed republican candidates more rightward, and i hope you are right and it screws them in november because the tea party numbers are grossly inflated by the media.

[bemildred]

2. One trick ponies. nt