{"id":9987,"date":"2010-09-29T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9987"},"modified":"2010-09-29T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T21:12:07","slug":"what-happens-now-obama-is-no-longer-blaming-george-bush-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-happens-now-obama-is-no-longer-blaming-george-bush-for-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens now Obama is no longer blaming George Bush for everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/09\/29\/tasha-kheiriddin-president-obama-goes-fox-hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\">blaming Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think Fox is part of \u2026.the (news) tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view. It\u2019s a point of view that I disagree with. It\u2019s a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But as an economic enterprise, it\u2019s been wildly successful. And I suspect that if you ask Mr. Murdoch what his No. 1 concern is, it\u2019s that Fox is very successful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leaving aside the obvious facts that every news network has a <em>\u201cpoint of view\u201d<\/em> and is run <em>\u201cas an economic enterprise\u201d<\/em>, how can anyone seriously claim that, in a nation that has free speech, a news network\u2019s point of view is what is destroying US growth? Does it make policy, bail out banks, create trillions of dollars of debt?<\/p>\n<p>No, it reports \u2013 as objectively as any other news outlet \u2013 news and peddles ideas; just like CNN and MSNBC. I think ideas are what ultimately change things for better or worse and if ideas from the right are starting to resonate, perhaps it is because when Obama chanted <em>\u201cchange you can believe in\u201d <\/em>he didn\u2019t have any of his own that actually work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is blaming Fox News: \u201cI think Fox is part of \u2026.the (news) tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view. It\u2019s a point of view that I disagree with. It\u2019s a point of view that I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-happens-now-obama-is-no-longer-blaming-george-bush-for-everything\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[2143,2215],"class_list":["post-9987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama","tag-fox-news","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}