FOX GOES OVER TO THE DARKSIDE

Watch their numbers slide. FOX never really understood why they were number one. Back as far as 2005, I lamented the dhimmitude here and  here and here. We all lost a chunk of our innocence after the Sauds  purchased 6% of  FOX News. The fix was in. FOX threw in with the Saudis  and we could not help but notice the increasing Saudi influence at FOX News ever since the French riots of 2005 when after one phone call, FOX newscasters stopped calling the Muslim rioters Muslims.

“I picked up the phone and called Murdoch … [and told him] these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of poverty,” Prince al-Walid said.

Yes Obama's Prince Al-Walid (go here for that story: Obama's Benefactor: Dr. Khalid al Mansour, I presume ...

“Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from Muslim riots to civil riots.”

Gald wrote me,    "The analysts at Fox (the "sane" network) were theorizing (hoping) that the murderers at Mumbai Chabad were (get this) HINDUS! Of course! Those Jew-hating HINDUS!

Even before the Jewish corpses have experienced rigor mortis, liberals are cautioning against an outbreak of...Islamophobia! Lewis Carroll never constructed such an inversion of reality. It would be devastating even if Jews were united, but most American Jews are participants in this charade. Will Time Magazine's house Hebrew Joe Klein condemn the Islamic murderers of innocent Jews? No, he will question the patriotism of Jews who support Israel. Tragically, Klein is the rule...not the exception. Keep fighting the good fight, although embracing reality will just convince people that you are crazy. Still, we must unite to battle those Jew-hating Hindus".

A TOOTHLESS FOX? Radio Equalizer

FNC Censors Itself Ahead Of Obama Presidency

Confirming the worst fears of millions of dedicated fans, the Fox News Channel really has gone soft on Obama. That's at a time when viewers are counting on it to remain a key opposition voice during a disturbing political shift away from freedom and prosperity.

According to columnists Rush & Malloy of the New York Daily News, Fox has issued a chilling edict to its hosts that they must cease criticism of Obama for the near future:

Fox News boss Roger Ailes doesn't want to spoil Barack Obama's political honeymoon, we hear. A source says Ailes has told prime-time hosts Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren to lay off the President-elect - at least for a while. "We're not going to have any personal attacks on Obama," a network insider says. "The public has spoken - we must treat him with respect."

This confirms an almost-identical account your Radio Equalizer was given Wednesday evening from a key source. That person contends the order came from the top: Rupert Murdoch himself.

"Personal attacks", by the way, can be construed to mean any criticism of Barack Obama whatsoever.

The reason? News Corporation is bracing for potentially-vindictive actions by Obama's incoming thugocracy, especially regarding dual station / newspaper ownership rules and apparently seeks to placate the Dear Leader, hoping he will be merciful.

Unfortunately, this is a great way to send FNC's audience running for the hills, with evening talk radio as the likely beneficiary. Meanwhile, the left will still hate Fox.

Did MSNBC lay off of Bush during his time in office? Of course not. Then why should FOX sacrifice its entire audience out of fear of Obama's thugs?

What about the tens of millions of voters that didn't support Obama and refuse to join his creepy cult?

Even before the election, viewers were alarmed over a sudden shift to a pro-Obama stance, especially during its debate coverage:

McCain Won the Debate, but the Drive-Bys (Even Fox) Deny Reality
October 16, 2008

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I watched the debate last night, as everybody did, and I'm thinking, "This is cool. McCain finally on message. McCain finally on offense." I thought Obama looked like he was stumbling around. I thought Obama looked off his game. I thought Obama was totally on defense. I did not see somebody cool. I did not see a mountain. I did not see somebody elegant. I didn't see any of that. I saw somebody who was lying through his teeth time after time after time. I saw somebody who seemed irritated when McCain was speaking. I saw somebody who almost was close to blowing his cool in terms of facial expressions, and I saw the director cut away from Obama at those times so as to assist Obama in having his facial expressions not broadcast as much as possible. I'm getting e-mails all night long from people, I mean in the thousands, who are jazzed, finally somebody is taking it to Obama, somebody is standing up for the middle class, somebody is standing up for the right economics, somebody trying to do the right things for the first time in a long time.

And then, after the debate, people that are e-mailing me, a lot of them turned on the Fox News Channel, and they were dispirited and depressed. They felt that Obama had found a new ally in some of the commentators on the Fox All-Star Panel.

Now, they view the Fox News Channel as their network. They tuned in for post-debate analysis expecting the Fox All-Stars to have seen what they saw, and they listened to the Fox All-Stars talking about a debate they didn't see. The Fox All-Stars were talking about how rotten McCain was, how horrible he had done, what a rock Obama was, how cool Obama was, how elegant Obama was. I got a note from a friend who watched this in a bar with 200 people last night, and they were cheering themselves crazy during the debate last night. One of these guys happened to e-mail a friend and said, "What's the reaction on Fox?" He said, "The Fox guys say Obama skunked McCain, that McCain was just horrible." And the guys at the bar said, "What? What in the world did they watch?" And I'm thinking, Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol, these are the people, folks, who told us that McCain was the best chance Republicans had way back when. I mean, as far as Kristol was concerned, going back to the year 2000 in the primaries versus George W. Bush.

Particularly disturbing to Fox fans was Carl Cameron's now widely-discredited hit piece against Sarah Palin, which has led to a huge backlash in favor of the Alaskan governor. Also from Limbaugh's show:

CAMERON: Early on, they began to discover that there were these gaps in her knowledge. I just want to rattle off a couple of the things that insiders say she just simply didn't know. There were real problems with basic civics, government structures; municipal state and federal government responsibilities. She didn't know the nations involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement, we're told. She didn't understand, McCain aides told me today, that Africa was a continent and not a country, and actually asked them -- they argue, they say -- if South Africa wasn't just part of the country as opposed to a country in the continent. They go on to say that she didn't understand the idea of American exceptionalism, a classic principle of Wilsonian doctrine that says that the United States is exceptional in the world and has therefore a very special role in leading the globe.

RUSH: I don't believe any of this, and what kills it for me is that she "didn't understand...American exceptionalism." She's the only one in the McCain campaign who did understand American exceptionalism, and had to drag the rest of the campaign kicking and screaming into the concept. We never heard about American exceptionalism from our own party 'til Sarah Palin showed up. This South African... Not knowing the countries in Africa? Not knowing how the federal government works? She's governor of Alaska, for crying out loud! This is just a smear job. She is being smeared worse than anybody in the McCain campaign went after Obama or any of his questionable allies.

CAMERON: There are stories that say she would look at her press clippings in the morning and throw what has been described to me as "tantrums." One of the more infamous stories that's now come out is there was a time when McCain staffers went to collect her at her hotel room and she had just stepped out of the shower and essentially met them wrapped in a bathrobe. They were taken aback by that. They have suggested that she's a bit of a shopoholic and that on more than one occasion she would go out and buy clothes that to many seemed unnecessary because the campaign had already provided her with a very large wardrobe, uh, a wardrobe that famously rang up a bill of $150,000, mostly because they bought extra sizes to make sure everything fit.

RUSH: (laughing) So this is Carl Cameron last night on Fox detailing what had been told to him. Carl Cameron, by the way, is the voice of the McCain insiders, I should point out. So they're dumping on Sarah Palin, and you have to ask yourself: "Why? Who benefits from this happening to Sarah Palin?"

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: You might ask, "Why is Carl Cameron spewing all this stuff?" Okay, so somebody inside the McCain campaign reports it to him, but why does he spew all this stuff out there? I guess to have a scoop. I don't know. But it's quite telling, it is quite instructive here, ladies and gentlemen, as if we conservatives aren't angry enough with Obama and McCain, the fact is we're going to have to defeat 'em both now, all over again. So I'm just going to warn you, there's going to be a McCain-somebody, comprehensive immigration bill, which will result in the migration of more nonpaying Democrat voters. This I cannot believe and I'm going to deal with this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today. The wizards of smart on our side are all out there talking about how Obama's going to govern from the center. (laughing) They have learned nothing! I don't even think that this is wishful thinking, or hopefulness.

There's a lot more here.

OT but related: Morally ill media: Lets Be Honest GM

Headline from the Associated Press:  “Hostages said dead in Mumbai Jewish center.” What a load of bovine fecal matter.  These people were not  hostages, they were murder victims from the very start.  Get it through your thick heads AP, we are at war with Islamofascism and there is no place for sanctimonious political correctness.  Those poor folk never had a chance, you know it, we know it and you know that we know it.

And Jewish Odysseus:

NBC's Richard Engel Needs to be Horsewhipped

Comments

[sheik yer'mami]

In this latest Mumbai terrorist case, even CNN was better than FOX. Fox was nowhere to be seen. And CNN is just about the worst newschannel after Al Bebeeceera...

[Timur]

Selling out for a lousy 6%? Not only are they whores, they're CHEAP whores....

[jjmurphy]

Another drip in the relentless drip, drip, drip of creeping dhimmitude. Each drip too small to "really cause concern". Eventually, though, you will still drown.

[Carlos Echevarria]

Pamela, I didn't know about the Saudi connection, but in terms of this election cycle you are totally right...

People like Shepherd Smith, Chris Wallace, Kondracke, McCallum, Cameron and even O'Reilly were either running interference for HUSSEIN or regurgitating Daily Kos/Huffington Post talking points about Sarah Palin!!!

Only Fox and Friends, Hannity, Hemmer, Colby, Banderas and, oddly Greta, a real trooper, were on our side!!!

I did know about the NY Post story regarding that early summer sit down with Ailes, Murdoch and the socialist interloper...I mean he controls the entire MSM, nut roots, print media and every other channel but still bitches about Fox????

Sounds like Hugo Chavez to me, who is now trying to shut down GloboVision because they are the only sane source of news in Venezuela...

I know this extremely hard but maybe there could be a new channel, like old school Fox, before they went OC, Obama Correct...

[kobi]

"bovine fecal matter"

couldn't have said it better.

lol. thanks

[The Liberty Sphere]

Fox News is throwing its core viewers under the bus. They will have hell to pay. When centrist-to-conservative viewers simply stop watching them, then what? Who needs yet another CNN?

I, for one, will stop watching Fox News if I start getting MSNBC-lite. That is not why I started watching Fox, and I will NOT watch them if they serve up that BS.

In addition, I will use my blog to attack them just as I have the other Leftist talking heads of the mainstream media.

Another one bites the dust....

Obama's march toward oppression takes a major step forward!

[Anonymous Infidel]

I figured this would happen.
FOX heas been dhimmified for months concerning jihad/Islam.
And telling their employees to cut back criticism of the One...

Now we have an almost complete MSM blackout of the two great evils (Islam and Marxism) of our day. Just how are we supposed to get the message out to great numbers of people now?!

[Walter]

Yep, I was watching Fox on broadband here in Italy on election night, and those guys sitting in the marquee invited a leftard up off the street to spout prObama rhetoric. And generally, the tone of conversation was saying that McCain couldn't win. It was all negative. I was shocked that they did this, because it was still early in the night and polls were still open in the Western states, and I'm thinking "Whoa, I thought these guys were supposed to be on our side!".

[Walter]

By the way - An interesting titbit y'all probably don't know - Here in Italy where I live, they have a TV station called 'Channel 7'. Nearly every night between 3.30 and 6.30 am they used to show a live relay rom the States of Fox News in English. That was before 9/11. It was great. But somewhere around 2002/2003, once the leftard pro-Islamic so-called 'anti-war' and anti-Bush movement got rolling, the Italian 'powers that be' at Channel 7 dumped Fox and started showing CNN instead. And it's been CNN ever since.

[Shiftright1]

I travel extensively in S. America. It used to be that most U.S. chain hotels were carrying Fox News. Now you only find CNN/BBC/DW and either the French or Spanish equivalents. Sadly, I have pretty much stopped watching Fox in the U.S. as well, close your eyes and listen, it is now impossible to tell them apart from all those others I listed. Heck, CNN International has even taken to using Brit talent such that you can hardly distinguish between BBC and CNN. All are garbage now, online news aggregators and fine web reporting as found at Atlas is better than anything out there. QED

[dm60462]

I already took Fox of the list of "Channels Received" on my TiVo. I have blogs to read, so the loss is not great. I can get accurate info in a timely manner without television or newspapers.

[G M Roper]

Pamela, thanks for the link. I'm beginning to think the entire realm of professional media are morally bankrupt. Where the hell are the Edward R. Murrows of today?

[azala]

I can't imagine a right-wing extremist abandoning his only outlet in media - Fox News. LOL...

Hurrah to the independents!

http://www.foxmaverick.com/

[azala]

I said hurrah to the mavericks