Obama: Limbaugh, Fox Helped Create Environment for Republicans Refusing to Work With Me

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28. Exactly.

He who owns the megaphone or the microphone, controls the story.

It's like "he who wins the war, writes the history".

There have been many on DU who have in the past pounded and continue even today, to pound on Obama for "not using the bully pulpit", etc. The problem is when he has done so, ask yourself who covered it (and who owned whatever outlet did or did not cover it)? And if they did cover it, who did they bring on afterwards to do what my mother used to call "the wrap-around" (i.e., the spin)? How many times have we complained about McCain and Graham on the Sunday TV political shows week after week after week - in most cases, shows that featured perhaps 4 or 5 tyrants from the right and maybe 2 weak folks from the left? And the minute a "strong" guest from the left comes on, they are not invited back or if they had their own show, they were fired or rescheduled to an obscure slot?

We don't own NBC, CBS, or ABC. Nor do we own Fox, MSNBC, or CNN (although "we" - Ted Turner) used to own CNN, and after he sold it, it literally went off the cliff.

The sad part is that no sooner than we saw Fox take a near death-blow with the loss of Ailes, we are literally watching NBC & CNN scramble to pick up the pieces of the Fox debris to add to their own lineups - all to further hawk the RW alternate universe.