If any of you can stomach watching FAUX NEWS for a few seconds, you'll notice

[Seabiscuit]

all their bobble heads fawning over Barack Obama supposedly overtaking Hillary in Iowa before the caucuses begin.

What does that tell you?

Obama's the darling of the reich wingers.

Why?

His record in the Senate, and his pandering to big corporate donors.

Not to mention the reich wing belief that no black American will ever become President in their lifetimes.

Sure, Hillary is the one they love to hate. But to them, Obama is just so, well... BEATABLE!

And if somehow he defies their world view and lands in the White House, well, in their view he'd be easy to manipulate because he's already halfway on his way to becoming a Republican, and he's naive enough to believe he can negotiate compromises with the Republicans.

In short, they promote him because they consider him a joke.

[HeraldSquare212]

1. Obama appeared on 5 of 6 morning shows - refused to do Fox

[Seabiscuit]

3. That's fine, but it has nothing to do with the OP.

[HeraldSquare212]

7. I didn't think the OP really needed a reply

[Seabiscuit]

9. Perhaps you should have saved yourself the trouble of replying, then.

[Cameron27]

2. It's the same on MSNBC,

Matthews, Russert and Scarborough have been falling all over themselves pushing Obama.

[Seabiscuit]

5. Don't forget CNN.

To me the shocker, though, is that Fox seems to be doing their best to beat out MSNBC and CNN in the Obama-fawning-fest.

[chascarrillo]

4. They like him because he's a Republican and they can beat him

That makes so much sense, I'm surprised I didn't think of that before!

Go away. Thanks.

[Seabiscuit]

6. Read much? No one said Obama is a Republican.

[gaiilonfong]

10. We know what the IMPLICATION is

Hello............. DU'ers aren't low-info voters!

[chascarrillo]

15. "Obama's the darling of the reich wingers."

That's pretty clear as day to me.

[onenote]

16. true, You only said he was halfway to becoming a republican

Obviously much much different. We all bow down in abject apology.

[TheDebbieDee]

34. That's not FAIR! Sen. Obama is NOT a repuke..........

He's merely a repuke TOOL allowing himself to be used to prevent the more electable Sen. Edwards or Sen. Clinton from winning the nomination.

[flpoljunkie]

8. What silly spin! Tony Auth hit the nail on the head, back in January regarding Hillary and the R's

[Cameron27]

12. I don't know about Fox,

but it ain't spin to say what's been happening on MSNBC.

[Seabiscuit]

13. Yes, they've had fun doing that to Hillary for years. Now they're doing it with Obama.

[onenote]

11. to the extent that they like him its because pandering to their audience is what Fox News does

and their audience really doesn't like HRC.

[Seabiscuit]

18. They really don't like Obama either, because he's black and a Democrat.

They just think he's even more beatable than Hillary in the general election.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. They Like Him Because He's The Vehicle That They Think Can Beat Their Arch Enemy-A Clinton

That is something those cretins could never do on their own...

[onenote]

24. so what are they saying about edwards? I don't watch fox news.

And, for that matter, how much of the Fox News audience would vote for any Democratic candidate, so what does it matter which one they tear down or build up?

FWIW -- my foxnews watching, rushbot father in law told my wife the other day that he has problems with all of the Democrats: HRC because, well, because he's been trained to dislike her for years; Obama because he doesn't think he has enough experience; and Edwards because he's a plaintiff's lawyer and my father in law is a doctor with a huge dislike of plaintiff's lawyers. On the repub side he really dislikes Huckabee (my father in law is not a fundie) because he thinks he's tax raising fake. He doesn't seem to have made up his mind between rudy and mitt, but he'll vote for either one of them over anyone the Democrat put up. I think he's a pretty typical Fox News viewer.

[greenman3610]

14. wait, I though Hillary was annointed by the right since she was the beatable one

[Little Star]

32. She was, but THEY think times have changed. n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. Joe Trippi Said "Barack Obama Has Received Two Hundred Fifty Million Dollars Of Positive Press"

~

[Gman]

19. Obama is clearly the preferred candidate of the GOP

He's very obviously the one they're sure they can beat and I think they're absolutely correct. Rush and Hannity have been slobering all over Obama for weeks now.

I wrote this back in the middle of December on the topic: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman/61

[chascarrillo]

20. They love him, so they want to vote against him

Brilliant logic! Please, do go on.

[Cameron27]

21. It's not difficult to see RWers voting for him

in the primaries so they can tear him apart in the GE. I don't know if that's why they're voting for him or not, but it's a possibility.

[chascarrillo]

25. Damned difficult for me

Seems to me that they'd stream in to vote for someone with much higher negatives like Clinton.

And yeah, Limbaugh has really been advocating for Obama.

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:eyes:

Ridiculous. How naive do you think I am?

[Cameron27]

36. I don't think you're naive

I think you're just too biased to believe that they'd only pull something like that for Clinton, someone who's successfully battled them before.

[TeamJordan23]

22. Hannity and Buchanan predicted Hillary to be the nominee. nm

[OHdem10]

26. What they really think is.:: This is the Democrat we can take

out with ease in the General Election. If he can stop Hilary
then their job is easy. Take him out in General


I say the General will have HRC V J MCCain.

[TheDebbieDee]

33. You are EXACTLY right!

He's the best candidate to keep both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Edwards from getting the nomination.

Sen. Obama's heart is in the right place, though. The right-wingers that he is listening to have told him that he has a chance to win the General Election.

Or, Sen. Obama will pull a "Lieberman" if he's elected.

[Prophet 451]

27. I think it's more complex

I think they're promoting him (in that Faux way) for two reasons:
1. Building him up to knock him down.
2. They think America is racist enough that he'd be easy to beat in the general (I have no idea if they're right about that).

[TheDebbieDee]

37. They think America is racist enough that he'd be easy to beat in the general ....

I believe that America IS rascist enough that Sen. Obama will be easy to beat. Ask Harold Ford!

[Joe the Revelator]

28. I think its more of an indication of how much people just really don't like Hillary. nt

[burythehatchet]

29. In short, they promote him because they consider him a joke.

And this should influence my opinion how exactly? On the one hand you talk about stomaching Fox news and on the other you worry about their opinions (or your perceptions of their opinions). No, I'm afraid the only point you will succeed in making is to confirm that you are working to defeat Obama. That's cool, but using Fox Nooz as your weapon is hardly convincing.

[taylor egv420106]

30. Oh wait.

They couldn't be talking about him overtaking Hillary because
I dont know

THE POLLS SHOWED HIM OVERTAKING HILLARY?

Oh wait, its Barack Obama so the most convoluted illogical explanation with no evidence must be the right one.

[laugle]

31. What is really interesting, other than the obvious

fawning over Obama , is the lack of any objective criticism, which I think is even more telling!

I don't think they think of him as a joke though, just a rookie!

[WheelWalker]

35. Like they did the chimp

[tigereye]

38. I get tired of hearing about how each of our candidates are "beatable"

I'd like to hear more talk about how our candidate, whomever it may be, can win!