The liberals essentially have four shows: Maddow, Countdown and Harball (sometimes), but the rightwing has assembled entire networks and media conglomorates dedicated to bringing down the Obama presidency, and preserve Bush's failed policies. News Corporation alone is the sixth largest media conglomorate in America, and virtually all of Murdoch's media properties are dedicated to bringing down the Obama presidency. Indeed, the WSJ has already ran an editorial blaming Obama for prolonging the recession less than two months into his Presidency.
We really need to begin grass root efforts once again to bypass the media filter, and confront these corporations and talk directly to our families and co-workers to counter the right wing media. Can you imagine a media conglomorate (not just a random tv show host) publicly discussing how they are going to try to bring down the Presidency:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-foxnews6-2009mar06,0,5964042,full.story/snip
I see this as the Alamo," Ailes said, according to Beck. "If I just had somebody who was willing to sit on the other side of the camera until the last shot is fired, we'd be fine."
That couldn't have suited Beck more. In making the jump to the top-rated cable news channel from HLN, where he had a show for two years, he hoped to alert more people to one of his consuming fears: that the government's handling of the economic crisis is ushering in an era of socialism.
"Look in your rear-view mirror; we just passed France," he said. "I think our country is on the verge of disintegration."
Beck's indignant critiques of the Obama administration and gloomy outlook on the nation's financial health have found near-instant resonance. His eponymous 2 p.m. PST program averaged nearly 2.2 million viewers last month -- double the number the time slot attracted the previous February and a remarkable amount for the afternoon. That made "Glenn Beck" the third most-watched program in all of cable news for the month, after Bill O'Reilly's and Sean Hannity's evening shows.
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