{"id":6285,"date":"2012-01-26T00:14:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T08:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6285"},"modified":"2012-01-26T09:39:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T17:39:53","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-viewers-tuning-out-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6285","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Viewers Tuning Out Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, let&#8217;s face it. No one expected Fox News to express even the weakest praise for President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union speech. Never mind that 91% of Americans who watched the speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20029581-503544.html\" target=\"_blank\">approved of the proposals<\/a> presented in it. Fox has a reputation of knee-jerk negativity to uphold, and they didn&#8217;t disappoint. Here is a selection of some of the articles posted on Fox Nation following the speech:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SOTU- Too Long, Too Partisan, Too Barren of Policy<\/li>\n<li>Obama Milk Joke Bombs at SOTU<\/li>\n<li>Opinion: Obama State of Union Proposals Evasive, Irresponsible<\/li>\n<li>Opinion: After Three Years, It&#8217;s Time to Admit President Obama Has Failed<\/li>\n<li>Obama Plagiarized His SOTU&#8230;from Himself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And my personal favorite: <strong>Daniels (R) Delivers Poetic Pro-American Response to Obama SOTU.<\/strong> This title deftly depicts Daniels nightmarish rendition of the nation&#8217;s state as <em>&#8220;poetic,&#8221;<\/em> while simultaneously implying that Obama&#8217;s speech was anti-American. If you missed it, Daniels&#8217; poetry included recasting the poor as <em>&#8220;soon-to-haves&#8221;<\/em> (which must be a great relief to them), and quipping that Steve Jobs had a fitting name (which made me wonder if <em>&#8220;Steve&#8221;<\/em> means <em>&#8220;Chinese&#8221;<\/em> in Mandarin).<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update]<\/strong> Jon Stewart&#8217;s Daily Show perfectly characterized the Daniels response:<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Fox Nation posted an item that suggested that the country is tiring of the President and offered as proof the low ratings for the speech&#8217;s broadcast.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/foxnation-reality-sotu.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Nation\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Fox Nationalists cited <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/25\/a-decline-in-viewers-for-state-of-the-union-address\/\" target=\"_blank\">an article in the New York Times<\/a> that noted that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The State of the Union address Tuesday night was seen by 37.8 million television viewers, according to figures released by the Nielsen company, by far the fewest who have watched President Obama give the address.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number was down from 42.8 million last year, 48 million in 2010, and 52.3 million for the president\u2019s address to Congress during his first year in office in 2009.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Had Fox bothered to go back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koaa.com\/news\/viewer-interest-in-state-of-the-union-dwindling\/\" target=\"_blank\">just one more year<\/a>, they would have discovered that George W. Bush&#8217;s last State of the Union speech was viewed by only 37.5 million people in 2008, slightly less than Obama&#8217;s speech on Tuesday. But we really can&#8217;t expect Fox to report that fact because it wouldn&#8217;t jibe with the fiction they are trying to foist on their audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, let&#8217;s face it. No one expected Fox News to express even the weakest praise for President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union speech. Never mind that 91% of Americans who watched the speech approved of the proposals presented in it. Fox has a reputation of knee-jerk negativity to uphold, and they didn&#8217;t disappoint. Here is [&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":[152,1],"tags":[183,527,33],"class_list":["post-6285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-nation","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1Dn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24682,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24682","url_meta":{"origin":6285,"position":0},"title":"KNEE-JERKS: The Predictable Ass-Holiness Of Fox News And The GOP Post-SOTU","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/21\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In a development that will surprise only a few mentally deficient cave dwellers, President Obama's State of the Union speech was greeted by Republican politicians and conservative pundits with barefaced disdain. 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