{"id":1519,"date":"2010-01-12T18:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2010-01-12T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T03:00:19","slug":"fox-nation-wonders-what-obama-is-avoiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation Wonders What Obama Is Avoiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Fox Nation featured a story today about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefoxnation.com\/media\/2010\/01\/12\/whats-obama-avoiding-six-months-pres-held-press-conf\" target=\"_blank\">the lack of recent press conferences<\/a> by President Obama. They headlined the piece, <em>&#8220;What&#8217;s Obama Avoiding? Six Months Since Pres Held Press Conf.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That immediately struck me as funny because previously the Fox Nationalists made such a big deal about how often the President was holding press conferences with headlines like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All Obama, All the Time: The President Is Getting Overexposed<\/li>\n<li>Overexposed?<\/li>\n<li>Another Speech: Obama Addressing Joint Session of Congress<\/li>\n<li>Obama Presser Backfires&#8230; Approval Rating Dives<\/li>\n<li>Obama to Do &#8216;Full Ginsburg&#8217; on Sunday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So if the president does frequent press conferences he is overexposed. If he holds back for awhile he is hiding something. I wonder where the sweet spot is. And if it isn&#8217;t enough to merely point out the Fox Nation&#8217;s brazen hypocrisy, the truth was even articulated by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in the article to which they linked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The last time we had this conversation here about the president&#8217;s media strategy, I was informed by many of you that the president was overexposed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do the Fox Nationalists even read the articles they link to? Or do they just slap disparaging headlines on any old article and expect that their audience isn&#8217;t going to bother reading it anyway? The answer is pretty clear. It is also clear that no matter what this administration does Fox will find a way to criticize it. If Obama healed a leper they would want him prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Fox Nation featured a story today about the lack of recent press conferences by President Obama. They headlined the piece, &#8220;What&#8217;s Obama Avoiding? Six Months Since Pres Held Press Conf.&#8221; That immediately struck me as funny because previously the Fox Nationalists made such a big deal about how often the President was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684],"tags":[183,527],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-nation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ov","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23945,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=23945","url_meta":{"origin":1519,"position":0},"title":"Obama&#8217;s War On Men: Media Rattled By Women Reporters At Press Conference","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/20\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"President Obama held his last press conference (CSPAN video here) for 2014 on Friday. 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When the Breitbart news posts a series of articles about President Obama's press availability, like the ones they posted recently, it seems almost impossible to conclude that they aren't there strictly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7837,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7837","url_meta":{"origin":1519,"position":3},"title":"Press Pussies? Fox Nation Resorts To Profanity To Attack Obama And The Press","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/22\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A story today on Fox Nation featured a headline that other news organizations might have considered obscene: Press Pussies Soft on Obama. For the Fox Nationalists, obscenity is no barrier to another opportunity to smear the President. 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