Barack Obama said today that his poll numbers are being hurt by Fox News:
“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,†Obama told me. “If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak! I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?
“I guess the point I’m making,†he went on, “is that there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism, and it’s powerful.”
Earth to Obama: Fox News is a cable channel, not an industry. Except for Fox News and The Washington Times, there is an “entire industry” working to prop Democrats and liberals up. It’s called the mainstream media, which is in the tank for Democrats like never in history.
Obama’s kvetching about the one TV outlet that doesn’t swoon in his presence is not a good sign for how he will treat free-speech issues as president.
