MSNBC can't get enough of Limbaugh, Fox News

MSNBC's Chris Matthews knows his base. The left wing President Barack Obama worshipers.
So he and his guests go on and attack Rush Limbaugh and Fox News on Monday. I don't know why he would do that other than hopes that the ratings of both rub off on him. But, that's not happening.
WATCH THE VIDEO (courtesy of Real Clear Politics and MSNBC)

Obama: Information is a distraction

President Barack Obama gave a spirit lifting commencement address to the Hampton University (Va.) graduates on Saturday. AKA: A downer.
In the speech, he announced to the students that he is going the way of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Chavez took control of the media so they would say nice things about him.
Obama, like Chavez, does not like to be criticized. Throughout his term, he has attacked Fox News numerous times. This has only increased Fox News' ratings, possibly because people were wondering why Obama was attacking the cable news network.
Now Obama is saying, "information is a distraction." I always thought that information was power. I want to learn more. I don't want to be told how to think. This is not a dictatorship...yet.
Here is Obama at Hampton University:

There he even attacked the iPod, iPad, Xbox and Playstation. But, why did his campaign do this in 2008?:

Obama's plan is to take over cable news, talk radio and internet blogs. He wants everyone to love him, just like Newsweek magazine, NBC News, CBS News and CNN.
No one shall ever question the "messiah."
We already have a God. And, you better not take Him away.

FNC jokes about POTUS' TOTUS

TOTUS' Blogspot
Teleprompter One on Twitter

DAY 100: Obama attacks Fox News, tea parties

Look at those disciples. They are falling for Obama's BS. It is all Bush's fault. We need socialized healthcare! This guy is something else.

I bet these people in the audience do not watch Fox News Channel. I bet these people are Obama's socialist disciples.

Prime Time for Obama's 100th day tonight

President Barack Obama will talk tonight at 8 p.m. about his first 100 days in office. Fox will be the only major broadcast network to not air the event and will instead air "Lie to Me" and "American Idol."

Obama has a lot of explaining to do. Oh wait, that's his teleprompter.

This is not the first time Fox, or any other networks has chosen not to air a presidential speech. Fox declined to air a speech from President George W. Bush in November 2001. President Ronald Reagan was also not aired, and this time by all the broadcast networks in 1988. That story is below:

February 3, 1988
NEWSDAY

President Ronald Reagan was cast in the role of a not-ready-for- primetime player yesterday, and the White House was not happy about it.

The three major networks declined to carry Reagan's Oval Office speech last night pushing his contra aid package, which the House is scheduled to vote on today. Cable News Network did carry the speech live.

ABC decided not to broadcast the speech "when it was determined that it would be a slight re-formation of the points he's made before, in his State of the Union address and other addresses," said ABC News spokeswoman Elise Adde. Spokesmen for NBC and CBS said that they have extensively covered the contra aid issue and didn't think the speech warranted coverage. Reagan's chief of staff, Howard H. Baker, said the networks' decision interferes with the "traditional right" of presidents to communicate with the American people.

Networks airing Obama at 8 p.m.:
Broadcast- ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS
Cable- CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, MSNBC, BET, Bloomberg

IN THE NEWS:
Associated Press: Fox sticking with schedule instead of Obama
New York Newsday via DrudgeReport: Nets didn't carry Reagan

Greg Gutfeld: The media makes fun because they have no control

Fox News' Greg Gutfeld has some good points. He may be on at 3 a.m., but he knows it when he sees it. The media is upset because these anti-tax tea party protesters don't like big government. But what is with the sick humor. It makes me wonder who these people are who watch MSNBC. MSNBC, the so-called "place for politics."



The full video of the sick MSNBC humor. WARNING: MAY MAKE YOU THROW UP


IN THE NEWS:
Fox News: Cable Anchors, Guests Use Tea Parties as Platform for Frat House Humor

Sick Humor on MSNBC about tea parties

Keith Olbermann and Janeane Garofalo attack Fox News and call conservatives racists. This is awful. Imagine if this was on Fox News. Fox would be attacked and people would want it off the air, but MSNBC can do what it wants.

These two are idiots. This is not about racism, this is about BIG GOVERNMENT!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!



Rachel Maddow has more to say too. What is with this humor? This is the real America. Wake up Maddow! I know Miss Maddow loves big government and worships Obama, but wake up.



Olbermann begins with Obama at Georgetown University with no Jesus in sight and MSNBC is cheering. Let's begin massive big government spending. Then it's time to attack Fox News.



CNN had to have some part of this. This is sad, I thought I liked CNN. What is going on? Why is CNN attacking Fox News? CNN says they are proud they are ignoring the tea parties.



Glenn Beck responds to the biased media today. So, these tea parties aren't real news? And since when does a reporter not allow an interviewee to speak? And again, the attack on Fox News.



When will Fox News be taken off the air? The State media is coming. MSNBC and CNN are it already, Obama cannot allow Fox to continue to report the news. It has to be Obama is always right and if you disagree you are an 'extremist.'

IN THE NEWS:
Fox News: Cable Anchors, Guests Use Tea Parties as Platform for Frat House Humor

CNN reporter attacks Fox News at tea party

IN THE NEWS:
Media Bistro: CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party:...

Fairness Doctrine getting more talk in Washington, or is it?

Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., has been getting a lot of airtime in the last couple weeks. She did say that she was in support of the "Fairness Doctrine," which only silences conservative talk radio. She has close ties to the liberal talk radio world because her husband has owned various liberal radio stations.

This idea of the "Fairness Doctrine" being reintroduced into law may happen, but nothing is official yet, according to the Detroit News. The Detroit News with Politico.com say that "no member of Congress has scheduled hearings, there is no Fairness Doctrine legislation being introduced, and the long-dormant broadcast law is likely to stay that way."

Stabenow may be talking about the "Fairness Doctrine" but nothing is going to change, at least they say that now.

Former President Bill Clinton is also speaking his two cents about the "Fairness Doctrine" these days. He spoke to the Politico:

"Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side," Clinton said, "because essentially there's always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows and let face it, you know, Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining even when he is saying things that I think are ridiculous."

The Democrats may not like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and others, but they also don't want to see AM radio die. So if they want AM radio to survive, they better not mess with bringing back the "Fairness Doctrine."

Here is a video from Fox News today about this topic:



IN THE NEWS:
Detroit News: Talk radio: The return of 'fairness'?
Politico: Clinton wants 'more balance' on airwaves
Accuracy in Media: Pelosi Supports Return of Fairness Doctrine

Newsweek: We Are All Socialists Now

Newsweek magazine embraces Socialism. They love Socialism so much that they made it the leading story on this week's publication.

"We are all Socialists now."

Newsweek says that the United States now more closely resembles a European country and lost it's American values. America has lost Capitalism and so we must embrace Socialism and later, it's cousin, Communism.

European citizens depend on their governments for everything. The State practically "owns" them. High taxes give them free schooling and free healthcare after waiting hours, sometimes years, in long lines at hospitals. The percentage of people who believe in God is very low because it is so depressing to be a European. This is the future that Newsweek wants for America.

Good thing that President Obama knows all about Socialism. He can get us through this.

Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Company and has a partnership with NBC News.

Read the article from Newsweek: We Are All Socialists Now



Fox News' America's Newsroom responds to the article:

Weekly Cable Ratings (Jan 26-Feb 1)

Source: Nielsen Ratings and TVByTheNumbers.com

Prime-time Average Viewers (Top 15)
Network Audience
1. USA 2,359,000
2. Fox News 1,840,000
3. TNT 1,589,000
4. Disney 1,544,000
5. TBS 1,290,000
6. Nickelodeon 1,248,000
7. Cartoon 1,109,000
8. A&E 1.044,000
9. FX 1,032,000
10. Hallmark 983,000
11. ABC Family 981,000
12. ESPN 961,000
13. HGTV 952,000
14. CNN 925,000
15. AMC 919,000

Where is MSNBC? Well, it is ranked 24 with 758,000 viewers. More people watch Lifetime, Discovery, Spike, SciFi, TLC, History, Tru TV and Food Network than MSNBC.

When looking at only cable news channels for Feb. 4, according to Nielsen Ratings, Fox News dominates the ratings.

Cable News Ratings (Total Day)
1. Fox News 1,433,000
2. CNN 765,000
3. MSNBC 477,000
4. Headline News 330,000
5. CNBC 247,000

Cable News Ratings (Prime Time)
1. Fox News 2,922,000
2. CNN 1,286,000
3. MSNBC 905,000
4. Headline News 812,000
5. CNBC 199,000

Time Slots
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends – 1,114,000 viewers (375,000) (674,000)
American Morning—473,000 viewers (173,000) (290,000)
Morning Joe-422,000 viewers (162,000) (223,000)
Squawk Box-212,000 viewers (77,000) (125,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 198,000 viewers (110,000) (118,000)

6PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report w/Bret Baier – 2,169,000 viewers (425,000) (940,000)
Situation Room— 1,078,000 viewers (270,000) (571,000)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue —536,000 viewers (161,000) (270,000)
Mad Money—265,000 viewers (118,000) (148,000)
Prime News–341,000 viewers (158,000) (184,000)

7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Fox Report w/Shepard Smith– 2,086,000 viewers (503,000) (924,000)
Lou Dobbs Tonight–901,000 viewers (266,000) (483,000)
Hardball w/Chris Matthews —722,000 viewers (190,000) (335,000)
Kudlow Report —219,000 viewers (114,000) (156,000)
Issues– 520,000 viewers (252,000) (329,000)

8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor—3,706,000 viewers (778,000) (1,494,000)
Campbell Brown—940,000 viewers (261,000) (416,000)
Countdown w/Keith Olbermann –1,004,000 viewers (301,000) (513,000)
CNBC Reports—178,000 viewers (77,000) (104,000)
Nancy Grace –1,290,000 viewers (550,000) (744,000)

9 PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity–2,854,000 viewers (706,000) (1,264,000)
Larry King Live—1,495,000 viewers (367,000) (562,000)
Rachel Maddow Show –1,122,000 viewers (320,000) (532,000)
American Greed—256,000 viewers (119,000) (153,000)
Lou Dobbs- 528,000 viewers (213,000) (313,000)

10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On the Record w/Greta—2,196,000 viewers (411,000) (885,000)
Anderson Cooper 360—1,421,000 viewers (458,000) (590,000)
Countdown w/Keith Olbermann—589,000 viewers (214,000) (243,000)
On the Money—162,000 viewers (69,000) (86,000)
Nancy Grace –676,000 viewers (343,000) (440,000)

11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O”Reilly Factor– 1,408,000 viewers (415,000) (709,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —777,000 viewers (326,000) (391,000)
Rachel Maddow Show –514,000 viewers (209,000) (251,000)
Mad Money- 128,000 viewers (a scratch w/45,000) (81,000)
Showbiz Tonight– 404,000 viewers (226,000) (256,000)

Fox News dominates the ratings, hour by hour, day by day. Coincidence? So why are liberals upset with this? Maybe Fox News knows how to report news and make it interesting? Or is it because they don't make every news story a "crisis" like NBC tends to do.

Take another look at the 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. time slots. Keith Olbermann has dropped to third place. Nancy Grace is now bulldozing over Olbermann's show. Olbermann better stop focusing his attacks on O'Reilly and take some of that anger at Nancy Grace.

Brainwashing Starts Early: Sesame Street

Sesame Street used to be a show where children learned how to count and read, but today's show brainwashes young children into believing PBS' left leaning views.

In this episode of Sesame Street (4160), The Grouch News Network begins to brainwash children by using subliminal messages. At the end of the video above, Sesame Street out right attacks Fox News Network by calling it "Box News, now that's a trashy news show."

The show also says that we must get both sides of the news story, yet, the Grouch News Network only shows one side. Is this hypocritical?

Public Broadcasting System is getting money from viewers and from congress, yet it is now putting out trash. This is just the beginning now that they have hijacked Sesame Street. The liberals want to have full control of the media. They have done it once before and are still doing it today. If you don't know where the liberals have gotten control of the media, look no further than Russia, China, North Korea and Cuba. Now these are severely left leaning countries, and severely left leaning is communism.

This is a warning. The fairness doctrine better not ever come into affect ever again in the United States. If it does, we will lose Fox News Channel, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity. We will only have the left leaning networks and newspapers that follow the liberal agenda.

We must always have both sides, no, all the sides of the story. There is never two sides to a story, there are many more and we must find those ways.

Remembering Tony Snow

(From: Fox News)

Tony Snow Funeral Held in Washington
Thursday, July 17, 2008

WASHINGTON — President Bush and the first lady were among a throng of dignitaries, media members and other mourners who gathered Thursday for the funeral of former White House press secretary and FOX News anchor Tony Snow, who died Saturday after a long, public bout with cancer.

Speaking at the funeral, Bush said Snow had "amassed a rare record of accomplishment."

"He knew the job of a reporter was vigorous. He understood the profession and always treated it with respect," Bush said, adding that Snow's was a life that was "far too brief."

The services were being held on the campus of Catholic University at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Bush also remarked on Snow's "wry sense of humor and abundant goodness. We will also remember he was lots of fun."

And, speaking directly to Snow's children -- Kendall, Robbie and Krisiti -- he said he regularly called on Snow over weekends seeking advice to learn that he was spending time with them.

"He loved you a lot," Bush said. "I hope you know we loved him a lot, too."

The service, open to the public, was being held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception near Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

An enlarged photo of Snow was displayed, showing him smiling at the press secretary's podium in the White House press room.

"The measure of this man's life can be found in his character, in his optimism, in his joy and humor, in his courage, in his passion for what was good and right, and in his love for God and family and neighbor and country," the Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, president of Catholic University, said in his homily.

"Tony Snow did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer."

Row after row at the shrine was packed with people, including White House correspondents who knew Snow.

Bush was accompanied by some familiar faces from earlier in his presidency, including former top adviser Karl Rove and one-time chief of staff Andrew Card.

White House press secretary Dana Perino, who succeeded Snow, said Monday that Snow touched everyone's lives at the White House.

"Welcome back from what was a very sad weekend for all of us in the room," she said at the start of her daily off-air briefing with reporters.

"We greatly appreciate your support and the prayers and for Jill and the entire Snow family. She does really appreciate it. There's a lot of love in this room for him and for the family, so we thank you. As the president said yesterday, Tony Snow was a great friend to everybody at the White House," Perino said.

Bush and his wife, Laura, visited on Monday with Snow's family. Snow is survived by his wife, Jill, and their three children. The Bushes went to Snow's home in Alexandria, Va., and hugged family members on the porch before going inside.

Cancer survivor and multiple Tour de France victor Lance Armstrong, who had befriended Snow during his illness, also weighed in Monday.

"Tony died of colon cancer, his second bout with the disease. He was a courageous soul, a true fighter and a very warm, decent guy. Our hearts go out to his family, friends and colleagues who face the world without him now.

"As many of us rode and ran the San Jose Challenge this past weekend, we kept them and Tony in our minds, and remembered all the more clearly why elevating the fight against cancer must be a national priority," he said in a note released by The Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Snow was remembered over the weekend by the president, Vice President Dick Cheney, members of the White House press corps and others who described him as a happy warrior who woke up each day excited about life, enjoyed engaging the media and most of all loved his family.

"Laura and I are really saddened by his death," Bush said Sunday with his wife by his side. Bush described Snow as "a smart and capable man," "an honest guy" with a "wonderful sense of humor."

Bush said he and the first lady went to church Sunday and prayed for Snow's family.

"I just hope they understand that Tony was loved here in the White House," Bush said.

A syndicated columnist, editor, TV anchor, radio show host and musician, Snow worked in nearly every medium in a career that spanned over 30 years. And he was remembered for being great at every job he did.

"I've known or worked with a lot of press secretaries, White House press secretaries, in my 40 years in Washington, and I'd have to say that Tony's the best," Cheney said on "FOX News Sunday," the show first hosted by Snow.

"He had this rare combination of intelligence, of commitment and loyalty to the president that he was working for, but also this great love of going out behind that podium and doing battle with what in effect were his former colleagues.

"And it was this capacity that he had to be unfailingly polite, to maintain good humor under the most trying of circumstances and do it, I thought, better and more effectively than anybody I've ever seen in that post," Cheney said.

Snow died at 2 a.m. Saturday at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

"It's a tremendous loss for us who knew him, but it's also a loss for the country," Roger Ailes, chairman of FOX News, said Saturday morning about Snow, calling him a "renaissance man."

Snow, besides being the original anchor of "FOX News Sunday" in 1996, hosting each week from historic homes in Washington, D.C., because the burgeoning network had no studio, also hosted FOX News' "Weekend Live" and a radio program, "The Tony Snow Show," before departing for the White House in 2006.

As a TV pundit and commentator for FOX News, Snow often was critical of Bush before he became the president's third press secretary, following Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan. He was an instant study in the job, mastering the position — and the White House press corps — with apparent ease.

"One of the reasons I took this job is not only to work with the president but, believe it or not, to work with all of you," Snow told reporters when he stepped into the post in 2006. "These are times that are going to be very challenging."

During a tenure marked by friendly jousting with journalists, Snow often danced around the press corps, occasionally correcting their grammar and speech even as he responded to their questions.

"He would unfailingly challenge the premise of many of the questions. I'd never seen this before in a press secretary," said conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. "He challenged the premise and told them that they were wrong in the narrative or the storyline that they were tacking, and this caused the president's supporters, those who had seen it, to stand up and cheer."

"Tony did his job with more flair than almost any press secretary before him," said William McGurn, Bush's former chief speechwriter. "He loved the give-and-take. But that was possible only because Tony was a man of substance who had real beliefs and principles that he was more than able to defend."

As he announced Snow as his press secretary in May 2006, Bush praised him as "a man of courage [and] a man of integrity." Snow presided over some of the toughest fights of Bush's presidency, defending the administration during the Iraq war and the CIA leak investigation.

"I felt comfortable enough to interrupt him when he was 'BS'ing, and he kind of knew it, and he'd shut up and move on," Snow said.

His tenure at the White House lasted 17 months and was interrupted by his second bout with cancer.

Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy after he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2005. In 2007 he announced his cancer had recurred and spread to his liver, and he had a malignant growth removed from his abdominal area.

He resigned from the White House six months later, in September 2007, citing not his health but a need to earn more than the $168,000 a year he was paid in the government post. He was replaced by his deputy, Perino.

After taking time off to recuperate, Snow joined CNN as a political commentator early this year.

"The White House has lost a great friend and a great colleague," Perino said in a statement released to the media. "We all loved watching him at the podium, but most of all we learned how to love our families and treat each other."

Critics suggested Snow was turning the traditionally informational daily briefing into a personality-driven media event short on facts and long on confrontation. He was the first press secretary, by his own accounting, to travel the country raising money for Republican candidates.

As a commentator, he had not always been on the president's side. He once called Bush "something of an embarrassment" in conservative circles and criticized what he called Bush's "lackluster" domestic policy.

A sometime fill-in host for Rush Limbaugh, Snow said he loved the intimacy of his radio audience.

"I don't think you ever arrive," he said. "I think anybody who thinks they've arrived or made it, anywhere in the media — they're nuts."

Robert Anthony Snow was born June 1, 1955, in Berea, Ky., the son of a teacher and nurse. He graduated from Davidson College in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and he taught briefly in Kenya before embarking on his journalism career.

Because of his love for writing, Snow took a job as an editorial writer for the Greensboro Record in North Carolina and went on to run the editorial pages at the Newport News (Virginia) Daily Press, Detroit News and Washington Times. He became a nationally syndicated columnist, and in 1991 he became director of speechwriting for President George H.W. Bush.

"He served people, and we can learn from that. He was kind, and we can learn from that. He was just a good person," the senior Bush told FOX News.

Snow played six instruments — saxophone, trombone, flute, piccolo, accordion and guitar — and was in a D.C. cover band called Beats Workin'. He also was a film buff.

"He was a great musician," Ailes said. "And he loved movies."

More than anything, said Snow's colleagues, he was a joy to work with.

FOX News Chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle called Snow a "gentleman."

"He was a lot of fun," his former FOX News producer Griff Jenkins said. "This is a loss of a family member."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.