Why Declaring War on Fox News Could Be a Mistake for Obama

... if Team Obama ignores Fox, it just gives the network's talent the chance to further caricature him as a socialist, foreign, effete, America-hating Other. It isn't a racist portrayal, necessarily, but is certainly one that gives actual racists a lot of comfort. Not countering that will help Fox viewers conveniently forget that Obama is intelligent and well spoken. George Bush, who certainly wasn't the latter, came across as human and likable in ... Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 13, 2009

If you understand the art of rhetoric this story raises all the standard techniques of argument (in the classic sense of argument) and thus is a so-so article--more hyperbole than substance. Still, it points up a White House mistake. Engaging in a "war" of words and beliefs brings the opponent up to your level--which FOX clearly is not. Another point: a person can dig a deeper hole for himself than you can. Suggestion: ignore the Bastards.

As dear old Dad used to say: an argument with a fool is no argument.

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