During an online town hall with President Obama a woman asked a question (video below) regarding her husband’s difficulty finding work despite having an engineering degree and ten years of experience. She wanted to know why the country continues to issue H1B visas when there are Americans looking for work? Fox Nation editorialized on Obama’s answer saying that he “came off sounding totally baffled and out of touch.” The Fox Nationalists described it in their headline story as “Not Obama’s Most Empathetic Moment.”
The negative interpretation by Fox Nation could only have come from a seriously prejudiced viewer. Obama’s response was both caring and helpful. He told the woman that there is a huge demand for engineers around the country and that her husband should not be having trouble finding a job (depending on his particular specialty). He noted that H1B visas are only available for companies that have been unable to find Americans to fill their job vacancies. Then he asked her to send her husbands resume and he would see to it that it gets to people who are hiring. The woman then tells the President that she appreciates his response and that she will take him up on his offer.
How the Fox Nationalists saw that as lacking empathy would be a mystery if you were unaware of their desperate determination to see everything Obama does as either evil, incompetent, uncaring, or un-American. But you have to admire their gall in publishing such a biased opinion along with the video that proves their opinion is bullshit.
” But you have to admire their gall in publishing such a biased opinion along with the video that proves their opinion is bullshit.”
You really are a laugh a minute. Opinions, by there very nature, are biased. That’s why there is a separate editorial page in newspapers.
Maybe your opinion is bullshit as well.
I suggest that you don’t quit your day job.
That’s beautiful, Dave. According to your logic, all opinions are bullshit. I love it.
For the record, it is possible to have an opinion based on facts and honest analysis, as opposed to bias or prejudgment. Try it sometime, if you can overcome the conservative’s natural aversion to actually thinking.
Because of course conservatives would actually become liberals if they just engaged in some thinking – according to you.
Not necessarily Steve. Some conservatives I know can actually oppose abortion on moral grounds but be in favor of sex education and birth control, realizing that the latter would logically lead to the less of the former. Some conservatives can be in favor of less government spending overall but see that eliminating job training and job placement programs actually contribute to increased length of unemployment and government spending. Some conservatives I have read don’t have the intellectual dishonesty to see a 1.8% cut in military spending after decades of increased spending as “gutting the military”.
If only you had not put the word “biased” in front of the word “opinion”, then that guy could have better spent his day being angry about Food Stamps and the prospect of public health insurance.
The funny thing is that Fox News’ “editorial” website only has opinions leaning one direction. All of the so-called “liberal” news outlets (the ones that claim to be news and not pure opinion pubs and sites), such as the NYT and WaPost, have columnists from both sides. FoxNation does not.
“That’s beautiful, Dave. According to your logic, all opinions are bullshit. I love it.”
Once again you have a comprehension problem.
He’s speaking in terms of logic, you fool. Do you ever pass up a chance to vindicate our opinions??
Mark,
If Fox Nation considers Obama’s compassionate response as lacking empathy, I wonder what the response would be to Gingrich allowing his aides to literally step on a Ron Paul supporter’s toes?