Obama didn't call on Fox at the press conference? This will have consequences!

[DFW]

I can't wait for O'Reilly to send his harassment goon team to the White House gates
to try to jump President Obama and demand he answer why he didn't call on Fox. When
the Secret Service is done with them, O'Reilly will need to find a replacement goon
squad while the original one is recovering from their injuries and serving their time,
but Murdoch can afford it.

[The River]

1. How Much Worse

could they get??
No one cares what Fox thinks or does.
Right now they are pushing the nut jobs
further right and it will come back
to bite them soon enough.

[EFerrari]

2. Why should he call on a correspondent with no audience? Waste of time.

:evilgrin:

[emilyg]

4. Not so fast

Tuesday, Apr 28
April Ratings: FNC Beats CNN and MSNBC Combined
How's this for cable news domination - Fox News beat CNN and MSNBC combined in every hour from 6amET to MidnightET in both Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo for April 2009.

FNC had the top 11 cable news programs in Total Viewers and 12 of the top 15 in the demo. FNC is the #2 network in Total Viewers on all of cable.

From 9amET on, every program grew by more than 60% in the demo. The 5pmET hour, now occupied by Glenn Beck, is up 212% in the demo and up 128% in Total Viewers. Your World with Neil Cavuto is up 102% in the demo and up 60% in Total Viewers. On the Record with Greta Van Susteren is up 75% in demo and up 55% in Total Viewers. Also

[EFerrari]

5. There was no audience as Fox wasn't going to play the presser.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

13. Source / link? nt

[niyad]

14. do you have a link for that info?

[emilyg]

18. I googled latest network ratings.

[jillan]

19. I don't get it. If only 29% of Americans call themselves Republicans, who

is watching?

[Suich]

20. Me, sometimes.

High entertainment value! And never more than 30 seconds at a time!

:banghead:

[emilyg]

21. I watch Fox

I'm not Republican - Democrat my whole life. Don't have many choices and can't stand CNN.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

23. Why would you watch Fox?

It doesn't make any sense for a Democrat to watch a network that supports and serves as the propaganda wing of the republican party.

[emilyg]

24. I just told you why.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

25. I can't believe

you think the other networks (CNN,ABC,etc) are worse than Fox. I'd be curious to know your reasons (I'm genuinely curious, not trying to set you up or anything).

[emilyg]

26. During the week all I get

is soaps on local stations. Don't care for CNN - Fox holds my interest. Don't sway me but I do find them more interesting. I like Shephard (?).

[DFW]

3. Fox is playing to a shrinking, but fanatically loyal base

If there ever was such a thing as a "Mainstream Republican," they have long since
deserted Fox as a source for news reporting.

The lunatic fringe, though, fanatically watches Fox, and this is who they are
playing to. People like Stewart, Colbert, Olbermann and Maddow will monitor them,
of course, as a source of great comedy material. But the lunatic fringe, while
dwindling, still has a hard core of fanatics out there--people that take Beck
and O'Reilly seriously, think they "tell it like it is," and are a danger not
to be underestimated. From such a core spring the McVeighs of this world, and
while they might not be on every street corner, they are not figment of Janet
Napolitano's imagination, either.

[JI7]

6. who gives a shit

you worried Fox News will say something negative about Obama now ???????????

[DFW]

7. Ummm, not very.

Maybe I should have been a little more over the top in the OP?

[JI7]

8. maybe

but considering some of the threads that start up it's still hard to figure out which ones are sarcasm sometimes.

[billyoc]

9. You're expecting a sense of humor here, a lost cause.

[DFW]

10. So much for the eternal optimist!

[Historic NY]

11. I applaud him, its time to marginalize Faux News until it dies on the vine..

what other news station is calling for protests & funding bat-shit crazy zealots. Its time to send them packing.

[LiberalFighter]

12. FOX must have forgotten to tell the President that they were broadcasting on their local networks.

[MadBadger]

15. Their broadcast network didnt air the press conference, so they get no question

[cags]

16. Just once I want Gibbs or Obama to say "When Fox starts reporting the actual news we'll call on them

[Hellataz]

17. He doesn't need to call on them, he knows they'll just make up their answers anyway

Besides he did sorta address them the other day when he called them out for being a news channel of tea baggers.

[and-justice-for-all]

22. Fucked News can suck it...Consequences?? oh please..nt