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Obama Not Taking ‘War On Fox News’ Seriously, Even Though People Are DYING

BAD FORM. Obama has now called Fox News a “talk radio format” station. Naughty naughty rhetorical volley, Sir! SIR! DO YOU HEAR US SIR? Think of the thousands of employees you’ve just insulted, sir. Think of their families and their pets. This rhetoric is OUTRAGEOUS! [YouTube]


2:13 PM on Thu October 22 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. Johnny Zhivago says at 2:17 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Calling Fox News a heaping pile of steaming cow shit wouldn’t have been Presidential.

  2. thefrontpage says at 2:17 pm, October 22nd, 2009

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  3. Gorillionaire says at 2:19 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Fox should have stuck to their original plan of pretending for all of their viewers that Bush is still preznit.

  4. That’s not media transcendence!

  5. It’s time to make this a real war on Fox News. Since Obama is now apparently the new Nixon, maybe he should send his ACORNs (who Fox tells me are just Obama’s personal gang) to do with Fox what G. Liddy had planned with the Brookings Institute.

  6. KilgoreTrout_XL says at 2:23 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Well, that certainly was an extremely cordial and polite “fuck you”. Additionally, Greta Van Sustren is a Scientologist and has the ass-part of her underpants stenciled with “HOOKED ON DIANEBIKZ”.

  7. hobospacejunkie says at 2:23 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Oh boy, Jake Tapper’s not gonna be happy. Probably’ll have to change his diaper after he hears this latest outrage against his sister.

  8. Extemporanus says at 2:24 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    In the war on Fox News, President Obama is an army of one.

    Surge!

  9. norbizness says at 2:28 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    This is a worse outrage than the following:

    Murdoch: What the bloody hell?

    Homer: Hit the road, gramps. This is a private sky-box.

    Murdoch: I’m Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tyrant. And this is my sky-box.

  10. Extemporanus says at 2:30 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: Oh, I think Tapper’s gonna be just fine.

    He just won a bet with Chuck Todd, and will now get to wax the ginger’s firey facial minge on Twitter for homeless people.

    Be sure to peep Tapper’s disturbingly giddy whiskey tango foxtrot twats at the end of the article.

  11. hockeymom says at 2:33 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    “Not losing a lot of sleep over”.
    Our Hopey, so cool.

  12. KilgoreTrout_XL: And according to rumor, Greta & her husband are trying to convert the Palins. It would be hilarious if that happens, and I for one would hail Xenu.

  13. But what was Greta’s detailed, closely reasoned analysis of this incredible revelation? Obama KNEW ALL ABOUT IT??? I think they’ve found the sticky blue dress. Smokey dress. Sticky gun.

    IMPEACH.

  14. AbstinenceOnly Ed says at 2:34 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Mr. Preznint should unzipped it: COCKSLAP FOX. /BLAP/

  15. V572625694 says at 2:35 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Gertie calls it a “conspiracy” against Fox News. Ha ha, you’re such a shortie, no one listens to you except Roger Aisles. What is she smoking? Doesn’t she know that Murdoch is ten times more powerful than the US&A gummint?

  16. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 2:42 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Hopey just insulted talk radio, which is way more entertaining (and infromative) than Faux.

  17. Sssh. Mr. President, don’t you know that Fox’s largest demographic are SOCIALIST SECURITY and MEDI-WELFARE-CARE recipients. You know, the olds? Now they might vote Republican before they die.

  18. freakishlystrong says at 2:44 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    I much prefer this “war” to the previous one, the war on terra. At least this one seems somewhat winnable.

    Exit strategy: Fairness Doctrine.

  19. vladster says at 2:44 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    I say send in the troops - all 40,000.

  20. AbstinenceOnly Ed says at 2:45 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Not only is there a whore on Fox News, they are all whores. Juicy Doocy, Hannity the Manatee, SexyBeck, Don Juan Williams, Bill Ho’Reilly, Stiff Shep Smith, Britt “Clit” Hume, Greta van Suction, AlySin Camerotic, Julie Ban-Bareass, Paul Gigolo, Fred GayBarnes, Martha McCallme, Geraldo Rivera, all the way up to Rupert Murdercock.

  21. FOX ought to rename itself FRIED.

    Look it up.

  22. Sweet Baby Cheeses says at 2:47 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Barry is such a genius. How can Fox News tools make shit up 24/7 and play their little witch hunt games when they gotta defend their gay little fort? Sometimes you just gotta throw a rock at the hornet’s nest and let them go crazy.

    +10

  23. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 2:47 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Extemporanus: Be sure to peep Tapper’s disturbingly giddy whiskey tango foxtrot twats at the end of the article.

    Wow. Those two need to get a room.

  24. Georgia Burning says at 2:48 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Greta’s voice going way up in pitch reading this piece shows she’s either moving up that thetan tone scale or the botox is wearing off. Or maybe just feigning enthusiasm to avoid being demoted to “liberal foil”

  25. finallyhappy says at 2:48 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Fox news- which I will not watch(do I have to repeat that again)- has a larger audience then CNN and MSNBC combined-according to Richard Wolfe. I do not care what Greta(couldn’t she afford decent plastic surgery- did she go to a Scientology doctor?) or the rest of the Fox media whores say.

    I love my President and his family and Bo dog.

  26. WarAndG: And this would be a change from the usual run of things how?

  27. PrairiePossum says at 2:51 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    “Fox News” is a great oxymoron - like “Airline Food,” “Congressional Ethics,” “Dressy Casual,” “Honest Politician,” “Hamburger Steak,” etc.

  28. SayItWithWookies says at 2:51 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    What slander — next he’ll be saying Huey Lewis and the News is just some entertainment outfit.

  29. Translation:
    Obama to the Teabaggers: “Why do you love the taste of RNC taint?”
    Obama to the America: ” Why do they love the taste of Rush Limbaughs taint?”
    Obama to the Voters: ” On second thought, who cares? They’re idiots.”

    The setup:”People are more interested in Jobs and Wars than Fox. You just care because you work for a network.”

    The take away- Fox?
    Contemptible, and yet strangely, beneath contempt.
    Let’s hope he doesn’t decide to become our permanent overlord because I don’t think we could stop him.

  30. dixiecrax says at 2:56 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    First they came for Fox News,
    but I was a functional
    illiterate.

    So I said nothing…

  31. Suds McKenzie says at 3:07 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    I thought they would welcome us as libtards.

  32. natoslug says at 3:08 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Oh Greta, you’ve definitely got the face for radio. Too bad you’ve got the voice for silent movies.

  33. Gallowglass says at 3:14 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Dismissing an issue that nobody cares about? How dare he?!1?!one?
    natoslug: Agreed. I never watch Fox and had assumed the rumors of her unspeakable ugliness were just petty snark in a sea of more more snark-worthy things. But now that I’ve seen her…damn. Just damn.

  34. hockeymom says at 3:14 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    dixiecrax: To be fair, you were distracted by the shiny balloon boy at the time.

  35. Gorillionaire says at 3:18 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Why does everybody act like the whole country watches Fox Nooze 24/7? Their highest rated show gets less than a Frasier re-run on Lifetime gets.

  36. american mutt says at 3:18 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Sweet Baby Cheeses: Wait a minute. You may be right. Does this mean Fox is going to try act more “news outlety” just to watch their back against criticism? Or will they act more outlandishly thus defending the White House’s position?

    fascinating.

  37. EdFlinstone says at 3:21 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    I thought people only watched faux news hoping to catch of glimpse of fur-burger from one of their news sluts err I mean readers wearing the hooker mini skirts. Thank god Greta is behind a desk or has her flabbity vajayjay had major work also too?

  38. white house BITCH SLAP. the war is elsewhere, you fox douchebags. jeez they don’t know anything.

  39. petehammer says at 3:29 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    “Conspired”? The meeting of two or more guilty minds with the intent to pursue an illegal goal? Yeah, I didn’t think so, Greduh.

  40. WideStance says at 3:32 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Fox News President Roger Ailes worked for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Rudy Giuliani. Remember when Poppy didn’t know he was on the air and asked Limbaugh if he’d seen “our man Ailes?” http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b74_1219326937

    Fox can’t get any worse in its effort to undermine Obama. Why not declare war?

  41. PlanetWingnuta says at 3:36 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    no think of the Greta Vajayjay…it burnsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

  42. Oldskool says at 3:46 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Greta and the gang just now noticed what he’s been saying since last years campaign. What a sharp bunch of fauxhounds, uh-huh. Barry says thanks for helping him marginalize you.

  43. Doris Ziffel says at 3:51 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    What is up with these Republican women and the Connecticut lockjaw? Greta and Mary Matalin both talk without moving their jaws at all. Is it too many facelifts that causes that?

  44. comicbookguy says at 3:56 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Didn’t Fox News say it’s unpatriotic to criticize the President in a time of war?

  45. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 4:08 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    My Dearest Martha,

    The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days—perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more.

    I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly FOX News now leans on the triumph of the Stupid and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of Talk Radio. And I am willing—perfectly willing—to lay down all my joys in this life, to help Glen Beck spew his craziness.

    Martha my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Bill O’Reilly comes over me like a strong wind and bears me unresistibly on with all these chains to the battle field.

    We have been locked down in Glen Beck’s studio for nearly four days without cocaine, and the strain is starting to show on Beck, even as he assures us that once we defeat the hater of the whites, the coke will flow as freely as the insanity from his mouth. There are those who doubt his and Hannity’s leadership. They question if hatred is really the basis of a political philosophy. They question whether this war will ever end. They wonder if coked fueled racism is worth dying for. But Roger Ailes is strong. He reminds us that we are just one more pinko-Democrat away from being in a land where there is reasonable regulation, health care for all, and where foreign countries admire us once again. This must not stand; and if that means I and the rest of the writers here at FOX have to go without cocaine, so be it.

    With all my love,

    Yours,

    John

  46. Holy Schnikes! Obama is distracting Fox News with Fox News. They will be so fixated with this little “war” that they will forget to start shitting on anything else concerning this administration. Man, Obama is sidelining the right wing zealots in the media. I love it.

  47. dixiecrax says at 4:13 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    hockeymom: Yes and my sadness ran deep when it turned out the whole episode wasn’t a sequel to Willie Wonka.

    Charlie!

  48. American Spectator says at 4:14 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Rule #1 - To say that you are “not losing sleep” over something MEANS you are losing sleep over it.

  49. You really expected him to take Faux News and their Tea Bagging parties seriously? God I’m surprised he could say what he did on tv with a straight face.

  50. Obama may not be perfect, but he is still FOXTROT awesome!

  51. vladster says at 4:37 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Doris Ziffel: Too much chowder.

  52. hillarys_left_nut says at 4:42 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Why is poor Greta so breathless over the “discovery” that Hopey “knew about it all along?” Sure, 8 years of the frat boy’s hands-off management style probably conditioned her, but it’s been 9 months with the new guy, you’d think a “news organization” would have picked up on subtle little changes in the way shit gets done.

  53. Does Greta get a purple heart for whatever caused half her face to be paralyzed?

  54. MayorMcCheese says at 6:28 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    That Savannah Guthrie, huh!! She’s purty, right?

  55. AnnieGetYourFun says at 6:37 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: That’s the power of love.

    Rajul: There are no purple hearts for botched surgery.

    American Spectator: Hopey does not sleep. He meditates. He need not sleep.

  56. June Cleaver 2.0 says at 6:48 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    I love this new bad ass Obama. I think I have been pleasantly surprised daily for a week with him taking on Wall Street, Chamber of Commerce, Cheney, Fox News. Inviting Rachel and Keith to the White House. Watch his numbers rise.

    And why is Michelle so happy, hula hooping and all.

  57. hillarys_left_nut: We made a big deal about hating Bush, and not electing Palin. Why does the media still seem to think the President doesn’t read the news?

  58. problemwithcaring says at 7:57 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    June Cleaver 2.0: I concur. And nothing turns me on more than practiced boredom.

  59. BlueStateLibtard says at 8:09 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    Fox News is making the classic military mistake of fighting on too many fronts: Christmas, Osama, Acorns, Talibans, people who say Teabaggers, and now Obama himself. And in less than a week they’ll have to be waging the faux war against sexy Halloween costumes. They got to be reeling. Now’s our time to strike!

  60. BaconTime says at 8:24 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    And thus Fox News spends another day asking the question “Are we a real news channel?” on their own airtime. A flawless strategy.

  61. BaconTime: Except that this probably passes for Spirit Realizing Itself Through History to Fux’s viewers.

  62. Atheist Nun says at 10:09 pm, October 22nd, 2009

    “…but it’s not something I’m losing a lot of sleep over…” -Barack Obama

    mmmmm… sleepless Obama in bed… Huh? What?

    Anyway, that reminded me of:
    “I know it’s pretty baby, but I didn’t take it out for air.” -Big Tim, Requiem for a Dream

  63. LowerdPeninsula says at 3:07 am, October 23rd, 2009

    Now this is a White House mind-fuck if there ever was one. Those fuckers are so disoriented at Fox, they don’t even know which way is ‘up’ anymore. That’s right, Barack, keep them on their heels, deprive them of their senses, and cloud their consciences like the shadow.

  64. dixiecrax says at 9:08 am, October 23rd, 2009

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: We have shared incommunicable experience of watching Hannity’s America. We have felt, we still feel, the passion of flag lapels to the top. In our youths, our hearts were touched with sloppy bigotries.

  65. Violenza says at 8:47 pm, October 23rd, 2009

    Do they call him “President ‘Bama” on purpose or because their mouths are shaped like those of retarded moray eels?

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