I was watching Morning Joe (Brewed by Starbucks) yet again this morning - don't ask why - and they had many from their usual cast of absolutely foolish characters appear on the show. There was of course Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle, and then two others on the show who make regular appearances, Savannah Guthrie and Andrea Mitchell. (I don't mean to ignore other people who regularly appear on the show like Eugene Robinson and Dylan Ratigan. I just leave these particular individuals out because I don't remember them being present - on set or via video - when the particular subject that I'm about to discuss was discussed. I also don't lump them in with the foolish characters above.)
At some point during the discussion (and I'm sure they discussed this subject at times other than when I was watching), the cast brought up this ridiculous "issue" about how in his recent media blitz, President Obama failed to make an appearance on Fox News Sunday, while even going so far as to appear on Univision and the Late Show with David Letterman.
Leaving aside my personal feelings about what should have been done for the moment, I'll tell you what the clowns on Morning Joe (Brewed by Starbucks) were saying. First, I'll have to provide just a bit of background. Within the last few days, a video has surfaced from this heavily Fox News Channel promoted 9-12 Health Care Reform Protest (or whatever its official name was) where an assistant producer in the employ of Fox News is taped cueing the crowd to cheer at particular points while the network is broadcasting. This is an obvious hint that Fox was not simply covering the news. If the crowd's reaction had been spontaneous, that would have been one thing, but since Fox News personnel were actually encouraging a certain behavior out of people, it renders their coverage a complete farce.
Now, the Morning Joe (Brewed by Starbucks) joker posse was well aware of the existence of this Fox 9-12 Promotional Video, and they may have even mentioned as much in this very segment. However, despite these facts, many of the idiots at this rodeo clown table still suggested that it was a bad idea for President Obama to skip appearing on Fox News Sunday. And as you might expect, their reasons were quite asinine.
They stated the whole he's everyone's president, he should go and appear before the entire American audience, and maybe something about facing tough questions (I'm a little bit fuzzy about this last one, but I think that this sentiment was expressed) nonsense. This reasoning, if you can call it that, is absolutely absurd. Sure, though it is true that Barack Obama is everyone's president, though some of the right wingers want to deny this is the case, why in blazes should he appear on a network that seems to have a vested interest in seeing him fail just so he "can appear to the entire American audience"? This line of thinking is absolute rubbish.
So in order to appear before the entire American audience, President Obama has to go on all of these programs? You people do realize that he is the President of the United States and he does have a few things that are more important to do than worry that if he doesn't go on Fox News Sunday, he might have to bust the budget in having to send boxes of tissues to the people at Fox News Sunday and to the court jesters at Morning Joe (Brewed by Starbucks) so that they can dry their whiny little eyes don't you? No?
The reasoning of these idiots is completely insane because if the Fox News Channel/Fox News Sunday watching audience really was that interested in watching the president, well here's an idea for them: try changing the stupid channel to another network. It wouldn't take that long, certainly not as much time as it would take the president to sit for a sixth or seventh interview. You could either (1) change the channel by pressing a few buttons on your remote control or, dare I say it, (2) get up and walk over to your television and change the channel that way. This absurd notion that the president has to appear on a network that seems hell-bent upon submarining his agenda just so all Americas can see him without drifting out of their propagandistic comfort zone is quite laughable. (I mean goodness, I watch Fox News Sunday fairly regularly even though I think that it is easily the least reputable of the Sunday news shows and it a propaganda arm of the right wing/Republican Party.) Unless, of course, these morons really believe that Fox would ask some tough/important questions that just weren't asked in five or six other interviews. In that case, I suggest they tell David Gregory (their colleague who conducted the interview for NBC's Meet the Press) that he had better to a better job next time.
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