Veteran journalist and admitted liberal Mickey Kaus, despite his pedigree, is solidly anti-amnesty for illegal aliens.
However, when he tried to take FOX news to task for their implicit support for Obama’s unconstitutional executive action on amnesty, his employer the Daily Caller refused to publish his takedown of FOX.
Kaus was told we don’t “trash FOX” here.
So Kaus quit and published his findings at his own site called kausfiles.com.
Kaus begins with an exerpt from former Obama henchman David Axelrod:
Axelrod’s Wish: On page 424 of his recent memoir, Obama’s former top strategist David Axelrod describes running into Fox chieftain (and immigration amnesty supporter) Rupert Murdoch at a dinner in the fall of 2010:
During the dinner, Murdoch, who was seated beside me, insisted that the president had to move on immigration reform. ….
“But the solution has to be comprehensive,” I said. “We can’t just attack a piece of the immigration problem. And you know, there’s one big thing that you can do to help, and that is to keep your cable network from stoking the nativism that keeps us from solving this.” [Emphasis added]
Murdoch and the FOX news network couldn’t antagonize their viewers with pro-Obama, pro-amnesty coverage so they did the next best thing: they ignored amnesty as an issue.
Fox didn’t editorialize in favor of Obama. It just covered other issues. This is a proven pro-amnesty posture, pioneered in the spring of 2013 when the “Gang of 8″ amnesty bill snuck through the Senate while conservatives were distracted by a seeming trifecta of Obama scandals (IRS/Benghazi/seizing AP reporters’ phone records). Given the unpopularity of amnesty with a large swath of voters, any publicity given to the issue is likely to result in an intimidating blizzard of phone calls to the U.S. Capitol, complete with threats against Republicans who might be primaried from the right, Cantor-style. Corporate pro-amnesty lobbyists need peace and quiet to work their influence on Republicans in the face of this GOP-base opposition.
To illustrate how FOX news used this approach in the recent fight over defunding Obama’s executive actions on amnesty, Kaus counted the lead stories on FOX News’s popular Kelly Files program. He considered it an accurate representation of FOX News’ editorial judgment.
For this entire period, Kelly File was basically ISIS and Terror, with a few off-lead excursions into the DHS funding fight, usually when absolutely necessary (as when a federal judge blocked Obama’s executive action). Even some discussions of the federal court decision failed to mention the parallel Congressional funding fight. In fact, immigration was discussed as the underlying issue in the funding fight only 6 times over the whole 34 show period — and only 3 times in the crucial 20 show period that followed the Senate Dems’ initial filibuster of the Republican DHS proposal.
Kaus then points out how FOX News’ relentless focus on ISIS actually helped Obama during this crucial time:
The semi-hysterical focus on ISIS in itself played into Obama’s hands, of course, since the Democrats’ were making a ‘how-can-you-shut-down-Homeland-Security-with-all-this-horrible-terror’ argument. Technically, Democrats were the ones blocking a Homeland Security funding bill with a filibuster– but FOX was not about to emphasize that. “Filibuster” was mentioned only 2 times on Kelly File during this whole 48-day period (three if you count Senator Lee’s attack on “obstruction”). It was mentioned only 17 times on the entire Fox News Channel (plus nine uses of the word in relation to other issues, such as Keystone or Iran sanctions, or general chat show pundit-to-pundit admonitions to stop “filibustering”).
Immigration patriots cannot rely on any media source to get the word out on the catastrophic impact Obama and his pro-amnesty, Open Borders policies are having. It’s up to the grassroots to pass the word to the millions of Americans who are totally unaware of Obama’s schemes because the news media simply choose to ignore it.
cia controls what your allowed to see and hear.
When you try (for years) to explain to people that one news site is as bad as the other they attack. You’re always the opposite of what they are because you don’t agree. The news is not for the people but for the agenda.
IT IS ONLY A HUNCH BUT I BET YOU STARBUCKS DISCRIMINATES AGAINST INDIANS.
I BET YOU IF YOU WALK INTO ANY SNOOTY COMMUNIST COFFEE SHOP LIKE STAB BUCKS YOU WON’T FIND TOO MANY IF ANY HAPPY DIVALLI PEOPLE WORKING THERE.
IT SEEMS LIKE ONE OF THE GREATEST SEGMENTS IN THE MELTING POT USA IS TREATED LIKE SECOND RATE CITIZENS. THESE HUMBLE AND POLITE PEOPLE GO ABOUT THEIR DAILY WORK. NO ONE EVER MENTIONED HOW INDIAN MERCHANTS ARE SET UPON BY BULLIES WHO PLAY THE RACE CARD. JUST LOOK AT THE 300 POUND THUG WHO PUSHED AROUND A 110 POUND LAW ABIDING CITIZEN.
FUNNY THAT THE WORD THUG IS AN INDIAN WORD THUGEE. USED TO DESCRIBE ROBBERS AND MURDERERS. LIKE THE THUG IN FERGUSON MISSOURI WHO NOT ONLY STOLE A MERCHANTS WAGES IN THE FORM OF GOODS. CIGARS ARE USED TO MAKE BLUNTS FOR WEED WACKERS WHO DON’T HAVE TO WORK.
NOT ONLY DID HE HARM THAT DECENT WORKING MAN’S INCOME BUT THREATENED HIS LIFE BUT IT DIDN’T MATTER TO THE THUGS WHO BURNED AN ENTIRE SHOPPING CENTER DOWN WHILE LOOTING IT.
PLAYING THE RACE CARD MAKES COMMUNISM STRONGER IN GOVERNMENT. NOT ONE PERSON STOOD UP FOR INDIAN MERCHANTS WHO SUFFER THIS PROBLEM DAILY THROUGH OUT THE NATION AS DO HARD WORKING ORIENTALS, WHITES, BLACKS AND LATINOS.
DIVIDE AND CONQUER IS IN PLAY AND EXPLOITED BY THE COMMUNIST MEDIA LIKE CNN, ABC. CBS AND NOTHING BUT COMMUNISTS NBC.
THE CREED OF THIS GREAT NATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STRONG MUST PROTECT THE WEAK. EPECIALLY THE UNBORN OF ALL COLORS. UNTIL WE GET BACK ON TRACK WE WILL CONTINUE TO RETURN TO SLAVERY AS A BROKEN NATION.
THE NEXT TIME YOU HEAR SOME COMMUNIST TALK ABOUT REPERATIONS FOR SLAVERY. ASK THEM HOW DO THEY INTEND TO PAY THE WHITE GUYS WHO LIBERATED THEM. AFTER ALL WE HAD SKIN IN THE GAME TOO.
JUST GO TO GETTYSBURGH OR ANDERSONVILLE.
I DEDICATE THE ABOVE ISSUE TO THE PEOPLE OF KERALA WHO HAVE THE BEST MANGOES. GO DUNKIN DONUTS THE POLICE MAN’S FRIEND.
JUAN WILLIAMS HAS FALLEN
I used to admire Juan Williams. When others on Fox put away their flag pins Juan was steady Eddie. I could turn on Fox any time and there was Juan sporting old glory. Today on the 20th day of March in the year of our Lord 2015. Juan is naked or flagless and I blame the loser of the free world. Obama bin Lenin bin Laden. I fear Juan’s new pin is the Hammer and Popsicle.
In the future when Americans refer to the leader of the free world they will cite Bebe Netanyahu. Obama the loser of the free world now reaches the communist goal of letting the UN run the USA. His first overt move is to join his fellow communists in the UN and destroy Israel.
Don’t be surprised to see what is left of the military he and his communist party destroyed wearing blue helmets and the new UN patches replacing the US flag He hates so much.
See you tube Michelle Obama “all this for a flag”
HAVE YOU MET THE NEW LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD?
HE LIVES IN ISRAEL.HIS NAME IS BEBE NETANYAHOU.
HAVE YOU MET THE LEADER OF THE ENTIRE WORLD?
HE IS ALSO FROM ISRAEL HIS NAME IS JESUS OF NAZARETH.
SPIRIT OF AMERICA PARTY -TIME FOR A RESURRECTION
I stopped watching fox news many years ago, they have always been for selling out Americans in favor of illegal alien crimmigrants …boycott fox, the truth needs to be told. …teach them a lesson, they have no credibility whatsoever and no control over the spread of information via the Internet .
You are right on Fox News is a sham. They are partly responsible for Obama being elected the second time. They will not allow any investigation into Husein Obama’s phony birth certificate and calls anyone interested in the investigation a nut. Fox has always been quick to criticize anyone questioning Huseins “Christian Faith”, even though every thing he has done is in favor of Islam.