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ROBERT F.
KENNEDY JR: There’s two things happening. One is the influence of big money in
politics, and the other is the right-wing control of the American media,
particularly starting with Fox News. 95 percent of talk radio in our country is
right-wing, and you need, according to Pew survey, and you, so a whole section
of our country that that’s what they’re hearing. They wake up in the morning,
when they go to bed at night.
Twenty-two
percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. I think that
that has, that has, it’s divided our country in a way that we haven’t been
divided probably since the Civil War, and that it’s empowered these large
corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the
United States Congress elected – the Tea Party ideologues who control the
Republican Party.
Editor's note: in case you are missing what is happening in the world of politics, you are witnessing a full court press to exterminate the GOP, and - especially - its conservative membership.
Understand that the Democrats took more "big money" than did the GOP - not by much but, still, their totals were higher than the other Big Government party.
Kennedy's charge that the GOP "controls the American media" is laughable. Indeed, talk radio has more conservative broadcast pundits than the Left, but that is because liberal talk is not a marketable item. PBS needs bail-out money to continue its existence, or so it says. CNN can barely pay its bills and no one (statically) listens to MSNBC, compared to Fox News. Current TV, another
extremely liberal outlet, attracts under 100,000 viewers a day and has
been broke for five years or longer.
The reason Fox is so popular is because the American populace voluntarily and willingly looks to its broadcast for the political news of the day - period. No one forces the folks to turn on Fox News. All this talk about the Koch brothers and "corporate money" and "media control" is so much blather.
If people do not prefer Fox, it goes broke, plain and simple.
Obama's dealings with Boehner concerning the "fiscal cliff," is another rather transparent strategy designed to destroy the Republican Party. Obama knows, full well, that tax rate hikes are a huge problem for Boehner and the RINO GOP, but, more than this, his decision to demand sole authority over the debt ceiling, is something that proves his lack of integrity when it some to dealing with the GOP. There is simply no possibility that Obama is not aware that the GOP cannot give him this power - even it the "fiscal cliff" is the alternative.
Charles Krauthammer made the charge, several weeks ago, that Obama's "its my way or the highway" drivel is about the destruction of the GOP, and that is, now, clearly the case.
If Obama comes to believe that public opinion will hold him and his party equally responsible, with the next mid-term elections, that might convince him to take a different route. But, for the time being, it appears that he believes a monster fiscal crisis could work in his favor. Think about it: all taxes increase with the first of the year, and Obama, using executive order(s) , rides to the rescue and lowers taxes on the middle class. While he is saving the nation, the Marxist Media blames the GOP and hails the work of the national savior, Hussein Obama and , BAM !!!, the 2014 midterms take the GOP almost completely out of existence.
How do you defeat that strategy without going to war? I have no idea. Let's hope that the Dems come to believe this is working against them on a par with the Republicans.
The viewership for Fox is a dying breed... elderly, white, and male. Doesn't represent the future of America. Thanks to the rise of the teaparty (the new KKK), America has rejected that extremism and ignorance, and the GOP has become the party of old white fundamentalist bigots. How many young minorities are Republican? Almost none. This year, minority births exceeded white births. The GOP is dying... clearly.
ReplyDeleteFox News has nearly equal appeal in the three major demographics, Democrat, Republican and Independents, according to any poll taken as to the demographics of its viewership.
ReplyDeleteNon-conservative pundits on Fox include the obnoxious Shep Smith and his two, hour long daily news casts, Juan Williams, and Bob Beckel, Walter Mondale's campaign manager, who gives equal time on The Five, and has co-authored a book, with Cal Thomas, entitled “Common Ground.” IMUS in the Morning, is a three hour morning show on Fox Business that is clearly non-partisan (if anything, the Skelton Man leans left), and, on the Saturday programming for Fox Business, fully half of the programmed pundits are liberal. I could go on but the point is this, while Fox’s over-all outlook is Right-leaning, it gives much attention to the Left’s point of view.
Secondly, I find it laughable that a member of the party (the above blog critic) which invented the KKK, segregated the military twice (WW I under Wilson and WW II under FDR), killed thousands of blacks, burned hundreds of their churches and continues to use blacks as tokens in the current political games, would charge the tea-party with the lie of "prejudice." The “critic” has never been to a single tea party gathering and couldn't present the three primary issues uniting the movement across this nation, if her life depended on it.
In the past election, while the half white (and educated "white") Obama was busy losing 8 million of his 2008 supporters (the GOP lost just 1.5 million of its 2008 support), the GOP won its 30th state house. The GOP has 6 minority governors while the Democrats, a much larger political party, has only 3.
All the crack head commentators at MSNBC are white except for their resident moron, Al Sharpton -- and why didn't the Democrats ever support Sharpton's bid for the presidency, or Jesse Jackson's, for that matter?
Viewership at MSNBC is , ahhhh, DOWN. viewership at CNN is, ahhhh, DOWN. Current TV has never had 100,000 on average watch its televised nonsense. Over the course of a single day, FoxNews is viewed by nearly 20 million different people, in this country, on a daily basis -- the largest news audience in the nation including network "news." The LA and NY Times - both, Marxist rags - are both in serious financial trouble While the more conservative publications, the WJS, the Washington Examiner and the Washington Free Beacon, are all having great financial success.
The GOP, in a terrible election cycle for that party, lost just 2 seats in the Senate and four tea-party seats in the House, hardly a “devastating” defeat.
Does the GOP need to grow its conservative and minority base? Of course, but it is doing just that. Most importantly, we have no one in the GOP that is as remarkable stupid as Maxine Waters or Major Owens, nor as rabidly anti-colonial American as Barack Obama.
While the GOP is weak as to a collection of national spokespeople, it is not weak on leadership. As encouraging as this might be, the lack of a national and orchestrated voice, is a very serious problem for the GOP. Can it learn how to compete with the wind-bags on the Left? That has yet to be seen. Currently, it is losing in this game, big time.
What is the future of the GOP? Time will tell, but it seems to be on the right track. If it capitulates in the current fiscal debate, however, the future of the GOP just might be in jeopardy. The 30 million member tea-party contingency is not in the mood for continued do-nothing compromise with the Undisciplined Big Spenders in either party. There is talk, after years of refusal, of creating a "third" party, one that would work with the GOP, but only when conservative concerns are pushed forward by that party's leadership.