{"id":10620,"date":"2013-09-26T13:08:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10620"},"modified":"2013-09-26T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:08:48","slug":"fox-news-admits-ted-cruz-isnt-ready-to-be-president-or-rand-paul-or-marco-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10620","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Admits Ted Cruz Isn’t Ready To Be President (Or Rand Paul, or Marco Rubio)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fox News community web site and Fib Factory<\/a>, Fox Nation, posted an item this morning that sought to discredit President Obama’s qualifications to be president. In the process they not only disqualified several Tea-publican presidential hopefuls, but they demonstrated what a laughably unserious source for news Fox has become.<\/p>\n

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NBC News had nothing to do with the article about Obama’s readiness to be president. They certainly did not “admit”<\/em> anything of the kind. It was Joe Scarborough of MSNBC, a Republican host and pundit, who made the comment that “Barack Obama has proven over the past five years that he wasn\u2019t ready to be president of the United States.”<\/em> Of course, that’s a position that GOP pundits have held since before Obama ever took office, and can hardly be considered breaking news.<\/p>\n

The funny thing is that Scarborough’s reasoning behind his opinion is that “Obama ‘came out of nowhere’ as a freshman senator […] with less than a full term in the U.S. Senate, also unimpressive. Most of his time there seemed to be spent running for the presidency.”<\/em> That description fits freshmen senators and prospective presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio, as well as it does Obama. Therefore, we can assume that Fox also regards these Tea Party darlings as unfit for duty in the White House.<\/p>\n

And just to drive home how fiercely Fox News is competing with supermarket tabloids for the Batboy-loving news consumer, they juxtaposed the article about Obama with one featuring a reporter being groped by a monkey (insert Schwarzenegger joke here). If this doesn’t send a message about Fox’s credibility as a news enterprise, I don’t know what will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fox News community web site and Fib Factory, Fox Nation, posted an item this morning that sought to discredit President Obama’s qualifications to be president. In the process they not only disqualified several Tea-publican presidential hopefuls, but they demonstrated what a laughably unserious source for news Fox has become. 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