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Neither the White House nor the “old media” could allow President Obama to appear on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.  Given the closeness of the “old media” with the Obama administration I wouldn’t doubt that the strategy to avoid Wallace and Fox was a coordinated one.  In fact, the old media could not have feigned integrity if Obama had been interviewed by Chris Wallace of Fox. 

 Unfortunately for Fox, they fell into the trap set by Obama and his old media sycophants.  For a week now, Fox commentators and hosts have been obsessed with the fact that Obama didn’t appear on Fox News Sunday.  They have incessantly pointed out how the White House was “punishing” Fox, with Wallace’s quote getting the most play:  the Obama White House is the … “biggest bunch of cry babies that I have dealt with in my thirty years in Washington.”  On O’Reilly last night, Dana Perino, the former Bush press secretary, now a Fox News contributor, attempts to explain the differences in press relations between the Bush White House and Obama’s.  All of this is just noise and the Obama White House and the other media know that Fox missed the point. 

 Obama won and the old media won.  Obama could not appear on CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS and also appear on Fox.  It was not an option.  If he had appeared on Fox, it would have destroyed any narrative the Obama organization was attempting to create.  If Obama had appeared on Fox, the Obama people knew the narrative would be the difference in the depth of the questions asked by Chris Wallace on Fox as compared to those asked by the other Sunday morning hosts.   

Interestingly though, if Hannity were asking the questions instead of Walllace, Obama would have been able to control the narrative to make Fox look bad.  The story would have been Hannity’s edge and negativity.  It would have been a contest, not an interview.  Instead, with the moderate moderator Wallace, a totally different outcome would have resulted, one that neither Obama nor the old media could have withstood. 

Wallace has an establishment pedigree and strong DC reputation.  He has a style he learned from his father and he is not pegged with any specific animosity or dislike of the Obama administration.  He is considered fair and civil, and conducts himself in a gentlemanly and respectful manner.  Consequently, if Obama had interviewed on Fox News Sunday hosted by Chris Wallace, Obama would have been asked factually-oriented follow-up questions, something the other networks refused to do.  The reality of Wallace’s interview would have poked major holes in the Obama sermon and, therefore, his raison d’être.  

The media blitz on Sunday night and Monday would not have been George Stephanapoulas’ dictionary question and Obama’s disingenuous comment about his lack of knowledge of ACORN.  Instead,  the narrative would have been Obama’s failure to parry Wallace’s fair but probing follow-up questions.  Furthermore, the press bias would have been so obvious in side-by-side comparisons of the four other media outlets with Fox and Wallace.  Moreover, the old media passivity and, to some extent, worship, when compared to a straight interview on Fox, would have awoken another chunk of the American electorate to the old media phoniness.  Among many, this side-by-side comparison would have accentuated the old media bias.  To many still unaware of the bias, the debate would have been over.  Media bias would be forever established in those still undecided about the media debate.  There would be a realization, an uh-huh moment, one that continue the undermining of the credibility of the old-line, pro-Obama media for the rest of his term.

Think about it, Fox might have brought up the CBO’s Elmendorf when Obama stated that his plan would not raise health care costs.  When Obama claimed that Republicans refuse to cooperate on important legislation, we might have heard about how cap and trade was killed by Senators Lincoln, Nelson, Dorgan and Conrad.  Obama might have been asked about the pumps being shut off by environmentalists in the California fields, killing the crops, the soil and the jobs and, worst yet, he might be informed, along with the viewers, of the magnitude of the problem and a question as to why he has not gotten involved to save the jobs, crops, and businesses.   We heard about none of this.

 So, Obama won, and the old media won.  The American people lost.  But, Fox has yet to figure out exactly what went on.

Paul Porter is the host of ThePaul Porter Show on WFOY AM 1240 (3 – 5 pm) in St. Augustine, Florida, a show that hopes to Bring Back America One Day at a Time by educating the audience about the spiritual principles that underlie the US Constitution. 

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The Democrat media machine, also known as the “Old Media” and no longer known as the “Mainstream Media”, have created the narrative of Racism in America, and that all opposition to President Obama is not principled based on substance, but instead is based on nothing more base and hateful than unprincipled racism.  That is the mantra that is being pounded daily, hourly, and minute-by-minute now that the Obama policies have fallen dramatically in their acceptance by the broad middle of America. 

Jimmy Carter chimed in last night, aided by the politically biased and corrupted General Electric subsidiary, the NBC news organization and the former Carter intern, Brian Williams of NBC News.  Remember, Jimmy Carter was the first former President to speak out against the foreign policy of a successor President in an overseas venue.  What made that violation of established US protocol for former presidents was that his criticism overseas was specifically directed at a US President who was administering not one, but two, wars.  Such an egregious failure to uphold time-tested tradition concerning past presidents, in general, and criticizing the US in time of war overseas, earned Jimmy Carter the Nobel Peace Prize, a prize he coveted, like his neighbor’s wife, and one that had eluded him for any substantive performance in his own right.  As a former White House consultant during the early months of the Carter Presidency, one who saw Carter’s character flaws early and then exited, I commented that former President Carter had reached a new low in what has always been his major flaw, a general lack of class and an all-powerful personal ambition that overrode whatever spiritual principles he says he lives by, though his spirituality is not obvious to even the most casual observer and, to the more interested observer, like myself, it never has existed.  I can attest to that based on my experience with him on a softball field in Plains, Georgia in 1975  — he has no heart.

Now, the America who does not want socialism, they know this is not about race.  Even Rachel Maddow, who constantly says it is about race, knows it is not about race as she played on her program recently a montage of all of the “right-wing nuts” and “reactionary organizations” that confronted the same socialist agendas of Roosevelt, Truman, JFK, Carter and Clinton, and now Obama.  So, Maddow says it is racist and then says “it has been the same for every democrat President.  So, which is it Rachel?

Now, the racism charges are working to lower Obama’s ability to govern even more than the mistrust he has garnered through his repeated distortions in his public utterances about what was actually in HR 3200, or what he called, though non-existent, his “health care plan.” 

People used to trust government.  Now, the middle class knows it only rewards the rich and the poor.  The great middle is paying for subsidizing the rich’s mistakes in banking, insurance and automobiles while providing ACORN, Van Jones’ green jobs organization, and other pseudo-welfare organizations with tens of billions of taxpayer money that is being used to subvert the great middle class as evidenced in the ACORN videos being released over the past week. 

Now, to be robbed and then called racist, that is the unkindest cut of all, as Bill Shakespeare would intone.  And Americans, real Americans who believe in the Constitution of the United States of America, are fed up.

 Paul Porter of the Paul Porter Show

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