Say Anything Blog

Dear Mr. President;

  I want you to know that I am an ordinary American working-stiff.  I could be retired, but I enjoy my job and my health is good; so I put in about 45 hours a week. I own my home and have very few debts.  I am a registered republican, but I have voted democrat on more than one occasion and will probably do so again.  Politically, I’m pretty much a moderate, so both sides frequently cuss me out.

  Over morning coffee, I read Matt Drudge, The Washington Times and The Washington Post on line. On my way to work, I listen to NPR.  On my way home, I catch some of Glenn Beck.  In the evening, I watch CNN, CBS and Fox News. On weekends, I listen to BBC World Service on XM radio.  I read my local paper every day, Newsweek weekly and the Weekly Standard now and then. I also visit the Huffington Post and Say Anything Blog frequently. I probably follow the news more closely than most because of my job and I try to cover all bases.

  So, I’m wondering why your staff, headed by Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, have recently decided to demonize Fox News?  Is there something I’m not getting when I watch Chris Wallace on FoxNews Sunday?  He is a remarkably capable journalist.  Is there a secret agenda on the 6 o’clock news that I’m missing?  Are Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer subversive in some way that I don’t comprehend?

  I’m puzzled because, of all the news sources I watch, Fox News is the only  one which brings on representatives from both sides of the political aisle to discuss issues of the day. The Pew Research Center reports that Fox News was far more balanced in it’s coverage of the presidential race than any other network, cable or otherwise.

  So, what is it that has brought out the White House pit-bulls to attack Fox News?  Surely you, as leader of the world’s most powerful Republic, can have nothing to fear from one cable network, can you? Is it because Glenn Beck exposed Van Jones, one of your ‘czars’, as a blatant Marxist racist, forcing him to step down? Is it because Anita Dunn, who boasts that your administration controls the nations media, was shown on Fox News praising Mao as her favorite philosopher?  Do you, as President, feel any concern about the weight of government being used to attack a news network? Do you care that the 1st Amendment seeks to prevent the very abuse against a free press that your administration is now indulging in?  What’s next?  Who’s  next?

  On the night of your victory speech, you said that your administration would transform  the nation.  I felt a certain thrill when you said that, but now I feel a cold chill when I think about what you might really have meant.  What say you, Mr. President?

An American Citizen