Cavuto Lutz and Rove have nothing left to do but promote Fox News

[underpants]

this is telling-McCain is so over that Fox News has to do what the RNC will do which is abandon the ship and try to protect the Senate from a 60 vote Democratic majority, in this case try to protect Fox News.

http://www.newshounds.us/2008/10/15/barack_obama_criticizes_fox_news_neil_cavuto_pulls_out_the_knives.php

"Alright. We're getting dribs and drabs of an interview that Barack Obama's had with the New York Times magazine ah, with the reporter Nat Bye .

"Now among the things that the senator points out is that he made a mistake with the infamous guns and religion comments in Pennsylvania. He explains that but he also goes on to chide Fox News, saying 'I am convinced that if there were no Fox News I might be 2 or 3 points higher in the polls.' He goes on to say, 'If I were watching Fox News I wouldn't vote for me, right? Because the way I'm portrayed 24/7 is as a freak. I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?' Of course, just because we challenge some of your economic assumptions senator, we say nothing about whether you like lattes or not. Um, it's just putting up with a little bit of the heat that maybe you're not getting in the media kitchen."

With that Cavuto went to Frank Luntz who said he would have thought "Obama would have appeared on Fox much more often" because "you guys" get "more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined" and "you consistently report information that the public wants which is why your ratings are so high." "I think Obama's only mistake in this campaign is that he hasn't appeared on Fox more because half of your viewers are either independent or Democrats. Do you lean Republican in terms of viewership? Absolutely. ... Do you realize there are more Democrats that watch Fox News than watch MSNBC?" He's making a case "because it excites the left wing blogs."

Cavuto said they hear from the McCain "guys" when we "sort of question and rip apart the numbers behind their numbers and whether they add up; we do this, ah, with both sides but that being said...when he is challenged he takes great issue." Does this "show a vulnerability" and is this "something that we should watch or is this just a typical candidate who doesn't like criticism? Few do, by the way." (You don't like it either Neil, obviously.)

Luntz said, "There are a lot of politicians like that" but Obama has had a "blessed life. The joke goes that when he goes home he goes home to Bethlehem — how well the media has treated him — so he's going to have to get used to the rumble of politics because life isn't going to be so great." (I got the impression Luntz stopped himself from saying: ...when he's president.) If he wins and if the Democrats sweep, "there isn't going to be much of a check on him on Capitol Hill so it's going to require people like you to be a check on him in the media."

4:01 VIDEO with Lutz at link

Rove: "I guess if the label sticks , you know, you gotta wear it."

Cavuto: What do you make of him "singling Fox out? I mean, we take a great deal of care on this show to go over each candidate's positions . Some, you know, like that, some don't like that but I think it's fairly bipartisan ."

Rove: "He's gotten so used to dealing with the main stream media that, you know, fawn all over him and don't ask tough questions, that when he gets in an environment where people are trying to be fair and balanced and more importantly, get to the bottom of the real issues, ah, he's uncomfortable and look, it's an unseemly thing...this is not the time to be taking pot shots at the media." This is not the time to be "whiny."

Cavuto: "I read into this he's almost being dismissive."

Rove: Well, "I'm not certain of that." It is a "statement of how powerful he thinks Fox is and how upset he is with how he thinks it's affecting his ah, future." ... The Fox audience likes to "think, talk and absorb information," so he might do well to give Fox "the respect it deserves." "If you're afraid to go on Fox television, what does that say about you as the prospective leader of the free world? If you sit there and whine, about how you'd be better off if Fox wasn't so mean to you, what does that say about you as a potential leader?"

4:00 VIDEO at the link

Rove later says that Fox News viewers is a "widely diverse and eclectic group of people who pay a lot of attention to public policy and pay a lot of attention to current events and like to think, talk, and absorb information". He also talks about how he informed the New York Times from outside "their insular world that they live in".

http://www.newshounds.us/2008/10/15/barack_obama_criticizes_fox_news_neil_cavuto_pulls_out_the_knives.php

[quidam56]

1. FOX NEWS WILL BE A 24/7 INFOMERCIAL FOR MCCAIN/PALIN FROM NOW TO ELECTION DAY !

http://www.wisecountyissues Sean Hannity, SHUT THE FUCK UP !