That is So Mainstream

Hello Blog, hope you had a good Labor Day weekend.


This will be pretty short, I'm kind of busy and it's late. Anyway, so I see on Fox News that they like to claim they aren't mainstream media. However, they go on to show proudly that they are the most watched news network with, of course, O'Reilly on top of the list. How does this work? I mean, Mainstream means common ideas. If you’re the most watched news network out of the big three then wouldn't that make you mainstream? To me, Mainstream media doesn't exist. If your on National Television, and get views into the hundreds of thousands to the millions. If you’re on TV and people watch your show then there’s a good chance they agree with your ideas. If you have it into the millions like some of these guys do then that idea is shared with millions.

Wouldn't that make you "Mainstream"?
That's just my opinion though. Let's ask the readers, though. Some reader interaction is always fun. How would you define the "Mainstream Media"? Would Fox news fit into the "Mainstream Media"? Then, of course, how was your Labor Day weekend? Did you spend it as well as I did, in that I mean catch up on procrastinated school work?

Paying out Fair and Balanced money

Coming out party

Hello blog, today Fox News came out of the closet...about their affection for the Republican Party. Now this isn't exactly a shocker, but it provides the proof that they certainly aren't "Fair and Balanced".


Murdoch News Corp gives $1 million to Repulican govs

If you don’t know what happened let me enlighten you. Fox News paid out one million dollars to the Republican Party. No longer should they even TRY to say they are fair and balanced. They should just come out and say they work for the Republican Party and that their “facts” are FOR the dirty work of the republicans.



But you know they won’t. You know this won’t ever be talked about on Fox or probably not. Despite the Tea Party being created by Fox News’ Beck, and used to organize tea party rallies. Don’t forget they also have conveniently hired almost all the likely 2012 candidates for the GOP ticket…Huckabee Palin, Gingrich.



Don’t forget this whole Mosque ordeal STARTED with Palin and Fox when Palin used that imaginary world "Refudiat". Please, peaceful Muslims, REFUDIAT this Mosque.



And so on and so on. The dirty work, and trying to call Dems "Users" without any proof at all, they are the kings of propaganda and today justifies that. If there are any Fox News viewers reading this just know that they are not fair and balanced. If so where’s the DGA's one million dollars? Pay one and not pay the other?

This seems more accurate?

The fact you have no Liberal shows or any real Liberal guests on any of these shows also interests me. Now I'm sure the same CAN be said about MSNBC except for the fact they do have conservatives. Example: Morning Joe



And for Fox News heads to run around saying MSNBC is a Liberal station just because of Maddow and Olbermann is false. Think about this. These corporations are run by well...you guessed it… big business. So, it's priority in their agenda to protect the right wing



That’s another thing I have beef with. Almost ALL these on air conservatives say they have no voice in the media. Lou Dobbs, Ann Coulter, Palin, O’Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Fox & Friends, Stossel, Greta Van Susteren and the list can go on and on and on. And we BUY it that they are oppressed in the media even though they make up most of the shows. And pump in the money for these stations that are oppressed in the media and the outsiders surrounding the fringe lefties.



If Fox ever says they DO want to help Republicans and report for their bidding it would be the most truthful statement we may ever hear from them. So remember these guys are organizing Tea Party protests and paid one MILLION dollars to the GOP the next time you hear "Fair and balanced" on FOX.


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Change doesn't happen over night

Hello blog, today I want to talk about President Obama, the big guy in the office. He's been our chief for eighteen months now and what an interesting eighteen months it has been. Healthcare reform, stimulus etc, and with the possibility of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell being repealed it could become even more eventful.




One event has also taken place, his approval ratings are spiraling downhill of. He's already on his way to below 50%. Remember just eighteen months ago he came in with over 70% approval. It took Bush into his 2nd term to hit where Obama is heading. And I think I know why this is.



Listen to his speeches again unless you can vividly remember them from before. Realize in 2008 we were contemplating what we were going to do as soon as we hit the 2nd great depression. This guy came in and he promised sooo much that for the ones that weren’t blinded by promise and actually paid more attention to what he was saying we knew that things he wanted to do weren't going to happen.



The promises he made in a very, very tough time sounded like music to our ears. The fact is though "Promises" from a politician is the oldest trick in the book to get your vote. Don’t get me wrong many of them do what they say, but it's different with our desperation.

We’re in a recession still even after the stimulus. While improvements have indeed been showed even Obama himself admits this isn't going as fast as planned. And what are we in America? Impatient people we complain when it takes more than a minute to load our e-mail on our iPhones. Therefore we get unhappy about Obama so as a result his approval ratings go down. He's his own biggest enemy by promising ALL of this change and it hasn't come as quickly as we expected or that he portrayed.



Now there are other reasons why his approval is down. If you weren't naive enough to buy into the old political promise tactics, you'd also be upset that he dropped the ball on torture. He already gave up on a public option for healthcare and he has spent trillions adding to the deficit. (However that is debatable that he had to spend that money to clean Bush's mess… I mean his two terms)



There’s also this group of people who are attacking this vulnerable point as well. The GOP. Now I'm not saying it's not fair, but they are doing a pretty good job at hurting Obama's approval and the massive section of this country that just switches party to party like shirts. These people always complain about "This country isn't changing, I vote GOP one term and then Liberal the next term." Well, sir, maybe instead of voting which one you hate less than the other you could, I don’t know, vote third party for a candidate you actually agree with?



I'm getting off topic, the GOP is promising their own change. However, if you look deeper it is EXTREMELY FAR FROM CHANGE! They want to use the same formula and tax breaks that Bush used TO GET US INTO THIS MESS! Face it, Obama screwed himself out of 2012 with his own speaking abilities and promise. No matter what else he does the next two years I don’t foresee his approval going up or the market suddenly getting extremely better like most of us expect.



He's also extremely weak; I mean he's being pushed around by Fox news and a non-majority GOP. (For now you better shape things up Democrats or you’re out in November.) He needs to get on the attack that alone is also draining his support. Who wants to see the most powerful person in the world, our representative, get pushed around by Bill O'Reilly? I'll keep it simple, when I say Obama screwed Obama out of 2012. Do you think if we stay near the same we are going to listen to him promise change again in 2012?



I don’t think so.

Fail Friday

New concept I'm trying on this blog. I'm taking any story I find from the week and presenting them as the low points. In other words: Major Fails!




Fail #1 BP closes the oil spill...only to find another hole. I'm not surprised every day we hear more miscalculations and mishaps by this billion dollar company and here we are at Day 100.



Fail #2 Sharon Angle is scared to answer any questions given out by the Media. So much so that she avoided the media at her own press conference. Don’t worry she's got a solution. She will questions every day but only on the topic she wishes to speak about on her campaign. Oh please, Sharon, when did the Media have rules?



Fail #3 Massey Mine had an accident killing nearly twenty eight people only for Don Blankenship to say he doesn't feel guilty about it. And why should he? He only dealt losses to twenty-eight families. He saw the error in his ways and has fixed this all through lying about new safety regulations. Massey Mine has adopted the change? Absolutely not.



Fail #4 Glenn Beck today wanted to talk about his 9/12 project and how other people are getting involved with projects of their own. He says we must be reminded by how together we were as a nation on 9/12 by protesting and politically dividing us more. Makes sense…only not so much.



For Fail #5 We have a tie ladies and gentlemen for failure of the week over the same incident. We got Bill O'Reilly who took a tape twenty years ago, but didn't play the entire tape, only the part they wanted to hear. He tried to use it to say there’s reverse oppression in this country from Blacks being racist to Whites. Way to go Fox!



And then we got our big man in office. The most powerful position in the world getting brutalized by Fox for over a year now, and just now he finally realizing that Fox news it out to get him. Come on Obama, keep up! And way to go, blaming the entire media for this and not Fox news. Yeah just blame MSNBC too. How dare they defend you on a daily basis, Obama? Fight the battle, Obama, or just ignore them and don’t let a conservative network do YOUR decision making. You’re in politics, dude, we all knew full well that you had inexperience but, come on. My little brother could tell you Fox news is out to get you. They have for over a year now.



That's my top Fails of the week. You can decide on O'Reilly or Obama?