What if Fox News covered Trump the way they Covered Obama?

[Apologetic_Warrior]

Oh, things like his love affair with the Soviet Union (where he took his bride for their honeymoon) and Ortega's Nicaragua. Things like he was a candidate on the party line of the (Trotskyite) Socialist Workers Party before playing his Socialist associations down in favor of being an "Independent." Things like that.

Did you notice Bernie's change in rhetoric before and after his taxes release, from millionaires to billionaires? Socialism sounds great on the surface, but I'm afraid it just becomes a means of control. Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" comes to mind, and discrimination based on political philosophy benefits, as in no meals for conservatives, and withholding of checks necessary for survival. I look at the opposition to Candace Owens, and the nature of it, and it all becomes clear to me, say NO to the thought police, run them out of Washington, please!

 

[Verv]

The exact question could be said in reverse, but with a far wider variety of players...

"What if CNN, NPR, MSNBC, the BBC, the CBC, and late night comedians treated Pres. Trump the same way that they had treated Pres. Obama?"

I suspect the reply would be "... But they were just reporting the news as it was!"

... Unironically, about a month after the Mueller report came out and eviscerated the trumped up (pun intended) charges that the press pushed for the last couple years.

 

[Tanj]

run them out of Washington, please!

They'll be taking your last chance at decent health care with them.

Note to others: This is a specific reference to AW's stated history and not a general comment.

 

[Sketcher]

What if CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, and ABC covered Obama like they cover Trump?

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

They'll be taking your last chance at decent health care with them.

Note to others: This is a specific reference to AW's stated history and not a general comment.

Sorry but the Obama administration had an opportunity to fix health care and failed miserably on a personal level. The Disability/Medicare systems have been in train wreck state for all of the eight years I have applied. The red tape is strong with both. Honestly have considered the possibility of people in charge of my case looking into my public voting records, I know it's sounds ridiculous, but it's even more ridiculous how the system has treated my case. At the least, I've been discriminated against based on my age, of course they would refer to other cases, more obvious and severe to counter that accusation, and it would satisfy the liberal judge too.

 

[Tanj]

Sorry but the Obama administration had an opportunity to fix health care and failed miserably on a personal level.

Whilst I agree they failed, I'm not convinced they really had the opportunity to fix it either, I mean, just look at the republican efforts to dismantle it. You think the right would have been more supportive if the plan had been anywhere left of center?

What Obama did, and should be applauded for, is to turn health care from the "3rd rail of American politics" into a central platform that everyone is talking about and wants action on.

The Disability/Medicare systems have been in train wreck state for all of the eight years I have applied. The red tape is strong with both. Honestly have considered the possibility of people in charge of my case looking into my public voting records, I know it's sounds ridiculous, but it's even more ridiculous how the system has treated my case. At the least, I've been discriminated against based on my age, of course they would refer to other cases, more obvious and severe to counter that accusation, and it would satisfy the liberal judge too.

I have no doubt all of that happened, just as I have no doubt anything from the right of US politics will make it worse, not better.

 

[Pommer]

Sorry but the Obama administration had an opportunity to fix health care and failed miserably on a personal level. The Disability/Medicare systems have been in train wreck state for all of the eight years I have applied. The red tape is strong with both. Honestly have considered the possibility of people in charge of my case looking into my public voting records, I know it's sounds ridiculous, but it's even more ridiculous how the system has treated my case. At the least, I've been discriminated against based on my age, of course they would refer to other cases, more obvious and severe to counter that accusation, and it would satisfy the liberal judge too.

...and you “blame Obama” for that?

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

...and you “blame Obama” for that?

I can blame his administration for having eight years and not improving the broken systems, and in fact doing just the opposite. If President Trump had not signed executive Order 13765 and 13813, poor people like me who cannot afford any type of family health insurance, would have been hit with a penalty for not having health insurance, a penalty we would either be unable to pay, or would come out of our tax refund. Thanks to Obamacare, my parents had to drop their pre-existing coverage because the cost went up beyond what they could afford. My brother an employee for a local Wal-Mart would have also been hit with the same penalty. To top it off his managers kept his hours just under full-time ensuring he would be ineligible for benefits (convenient huh?), and yet they had promised him full-time hours when he started working for them in 2008, only after about ten years of service did he become a full-time employee. So yeah, excluding Wal-Mart and their shoddy business practices, I see much to blame the Obama administration for, and soon I expect to see more of his administration fruits expire. Cheers!

 

[PeachyKeane]

And what if the other 95% of the print and broadcast media covered Trump the way they covered Obama?

How's that?

 

[Pommer]

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I can blame his administration for having eight years and not improving the broken systems, and in fact doing just the opposite. If President Trump had not signed executive Order 13765 and 13813, poor people like me who cannot afford any type of family health insurance, would have been hit with a penalty for not having health insurance, a penalty we would either be unable to pay, or would come out of our tax refund. Thanks to Obamacare, my parents had to drop their pre-existing coverage because the cost went up beyond what they could afford. My brother an employee for a local Wal-Mart would have also been hit with the same penalty. To top it off his managers kept his hours just under full-time ensuring he would be ineligible for benefits (convenient huh?), and yet they had promised him full-time hours when he started working for them in 2008, only after about ten years of service did he become a full-time employee. So yeah, excluding Wal-Mart and their shoddy business practices, I see much to blame the Obama administration for, and soon I expect to see more of his administration fruits expire. Cheers!

I see you live in a state that did not take the Feds up on the offer to expand Medicaid. But it’s OBAMA whom you blame. Interesting.

 

[PeachyKeane]

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I see you live in a state that did not take the Feds up on the offer to expand Medicaid. But it’s OBAMA whom you blame. Interesting.

Funny how that happens.

 

[rambot]

And what if the other 95% of the print and broadcast media covered Trump the way they covered Obama?

They did. By reporting on what the president said and analyzing it to understand the thought process.

 

[PeachyKeane]

I hadn't realized it before, but they may be right. I can't find a single story on how Obama paid off hush money to a inappropriate contentstar, or how he revealed classified info to Russian diplomats, or his comments on how he enjoys sexually assaulting women, or even how he accused a sitting President of being born in Kenya. Yet, most of these networks have no problem reporting stories like these about Trump.

It's a disgrace I tell ya.

 

[His student]

They invite "liberals," who are also more or less center-right. When was the last time they invited someone from the actual left? A socialist, a communist?

You mean like in the Chris Wallace interview with Vladimir Putin?

Chris Wallace interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin

 

[archer75]

You mean like in the Chris Wallace interview with Vladimir Putin?

Chris Wallace interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin

What are you saying? Putin is not on the left.

 

[PeachyKeane]

You mean like in the Chris Wallace interview with Vladimir Putin?

Chris Wallace interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin

Putin is very not a communist.

 

[Sanoy]

Our news is biased. News has become highly polar political propaganda. As a dutiful citizen we must gather our news from diverse sources, and we must think for ourselves, and come to our own conclusions. If anyone is gathering their news from fox only, or CNN/MSNBC/ABC only they are doing it wrong. If your news source often forms panels of only of those that vehemently agree with themselves then your news source is broken. There is no defending fox, there is no defending MSNBC, there is no defending CNN, they are all broken and we need to start treating them that way when they are, and praising them when they aren't.