Hume needs to go back to his day job as Buddhist theologian.

“seconded many of our suspicions… because he [Obama] didn’t yet have the votes to pass health care.”

What world do you live in? Of course the Democrats don’t have the votes. If they did, they would have voted already.

” Five more House Democrats said Tuesday that they will vote against Senate health care legislation, which puts opponents of reform just 11 votes shy of the 216 needed to prevent President Obama from scoring a major victory on his top domestic priority.

An ongoing CNN analysis shows that opposition in the House to the Senate health care plan has reached 205 members.”

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/16/house.vote.count/index.html

Hume is so typically FOX. He whines, bleats and moans about President Obama not being on FOX, then he whines, bleats and moans about President Obama being on FOX. Why do PHOX Phans so enjoy listening to whining, bleating and moaning, then whining, bleating and moaning themselves? It is a mystery to me. I enjoy being upbeat.

By the way, I am not expecting much from the interview tonight, but I sure hope it has more substance than Hume;s much touted Dick Cheney interview. Watery Jell-o in a hot car ….

BRET should make Obama CRAWL!!!

Obama-your HENCHMEN SLIMED FOX and NOW you want to TALK??? Your ASSASSINS Failed to KILL FOX and now you want to talk? You don’t have enough VOTES in the HOUSE and now you want to talk? **ANITA DUMB**your MAOist bitch failed, and now you want to TALK?

Who needs your SORRY ASS???

WE don’t need YOU…..YOU NEED US! YOU NEED THE FOX NATION!!!
Because FOX NEWS IS KING!
and FAIR
and BALANCED
and UNAFRAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Royal,

Is that enough “whining and bleating” for you?

Royal: ” I am not expecting much”

We don’t expect much from you either; just the same old vomit regurgitated over and over.

Royal: “Watery Jell-o in a hot car”

That is an excellent description of your brain.

“But stated another way is this: no other media outlet has has worked as effectively to undermine the administration’s efforts to build a consensus after Health Care Reform as the very powerful opinion arm of Fox News.”

Or better yet Colby, it can be said with certainty that: “FNC is the only media outlet to provide both sides of the Health Care issue.”

Azarkhan: You never disappoint. Whine. Bleat Moan. WHINE. BLEAT. MOAN. W-H-I-N-E. B-L-E-A-T. M-O-A-N.

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TfT: Right. Both sides. With PHOX sponsoring the Tea Parties. With Beck, Hannity, Van Susteren, and that worm Griff Jenkins cheerleading at the sites. Both sides. Right.

Brit Hume is admitting that Fox News is actively working against health care reform.

Royal: “Whine. Bleat Moan.”

Actually, that’s you trying to get your wife to give you some. Even she is over you.

Why is anyone surprised?

In the eyes of the gNOpigs, including the Fox gNOpig Propaganda Network, the Dems and President Barack Hussein Obama can’t do anything right.

I do admire President Obama’s guts to go into the den of the gNOpig Propaganda Network.

But that was really, REALLY, a dumb move. NO UPSIDE.

What? Anyone expected a change of heart at the Fox gNOpig Propaganda Network?

I have bridge to sell you…

To think I was once banned for less than what Azarkhan is doing now.

Where is I’m'a’sorry’gnopig bleating when his cohorts go off the rails.

If Fox is really that biased, would they be having Obama on? And aren’t the Dems the majority now? If they can’t get the votes, whose fault is it?

MLK: Azarkhan really does need to clean up his act.

Writer:

(1) “If FOX is really that biased ….”

Of course FOX would still have our President on. Murdoch and Ailes crave a respectability, a legitimacy that ratings alone, in the very shallow pool of cable “news” viewers, cannot provide. Make no mistake about this, FOX is the beneficiary of this appearance. That’s why Hume’s blubbering is so ridiculous. I am sure our President fully realizes that the closed-minded FOX viewer is not going to be persuaded by anything he says or does.

(2) The Democratic majority canard is as old as that leisure suit you still wear on the weekends. Republican obstinancy and unilateralism requires Democrats to vote in lock-step. That will never happen. The Democratic party is a coalition and always will be. It’s the party’s great strength whilst being its simultaneous weakness. It is our democracy’s great blessing.

So, GIGO.

I admit that it’s hard not to say that the Dems don’t have enough votes. They would have voted by now, right? But what if the President knows that it’s going to get passed by using a slimy “rule” and he’s just trying to appease the voters (by coming on Fox) in order to get his guys re-elected in November. Sometimes you have to think like a Chicagoan because after all there are quite a few of them in the White House. So, I always go back to one of my favorite columnists who know the Chicago White House guys pretty darn well. Here’s what John Kass of the Tribune wrote yesterday:

“Things are looking more Chicago in Washington all the time.
In Chicago, the mayor gets what he wants, and the mayor’s friends get what they want. And the aldermen? They get the ridicule and the blame.
If the president gets what he desires — a health care victory — then Congress will pay for it in the midterm elections in November, and they know it.
So Democrats in Congress desire a rhetorical out. With the Hoyer plan, they can say they support the health care package and then tell their constituents they didn’t vote for it, exactly. Their only trouble is that now, the entire country is watching.”

Hmm, I think Kass might have the right idea. Check out the rest of his article here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0317-20100316,0,4939258.column?page=1

“(The) President fully realizes that the closed-minded FOX viewer is not going to be persuaded by anything he says or does.”

Then why is he going on in the first place? For his own ego? And no matter how you spin it, your party has the majority. For once I agree with Michael Moore. If the Dems can’t get it done, they have no one to blame but themselves.

Writer:

You obviously don’t understand the nature of a coalition, so I see no point in discussing this with you further.

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CSS:

I suspect you think this is all going to pass. This seems to be preemptive whine, bleat and moan, with the obligatory, gratuitous smear and slander of the hard-working men and women in Chicago.

So, (White) Royal, you disagree with Michael Moore?

>Then why is he going on in the first place? For his own ego?

Because he’s going on a large-scale campaign in order to seal the deal. Fox News reaches a very loyal conservative audience. He gets to talk directly to them.

My comment above was not meant to put down the GREAT people of Chicago. It is my hometown! Everyone who lives in Chicago “knows” how things get done at City Hall under Mayor Daley’s machine. It’s not a secret to anyone who lives there…at least not to the many friends and relatives that I have there.

I understand, CSS. My brother lives in a smallish, extreme rightist community in Texas. Three (3) of the county sheriffs, all Republican, in succession, were removed from office, one for spousal abuse, public drunkeness and public lewdness (urinating on a sidewalk adjacent to one of the main thoroughfares) and misappropriation of funds; the next for spousal abuse, assault, assault on a federal officer and non-payment of federal income tax, as well as misappropriation of funds; the next for violation of a protective order and misappropriation of funds. This was over the course of two elections and five years. The current sheriff, wildly popular, is fond of lunch and napping. To the extent you are saying something akin to “absolute power corrupts, absolutely,” I am in complete accord.

writer says:
March 17, 2010 at 10:47 am

So, (White) Royal, you disagree with Michael Moore?

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Over what? Dietary advice. Taste in clothing? Film production and directoral techniques. General ideology. Please be specific or don’t address me.

The Real Royal King says: “absolute power corrupts, absolutely,”
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You are so right about that, and what makes the corruption in Chicago worse than what you speak of is the Chicago Machine is BIPARTISAN. They don’t care which side of the fence you are on as long as you’re willing to play the game for BOSS Daley.

I dont get the whining from the left here. They hate that there is one station out of hundreds that does ask questions of the administration.
Why cant you guys be happy you have every other station on every network that is a cheerleader to your messiah.

Wow..I was warned about a comment I made that was tame in comparison to what Azarkhan wrote. Some harmless ribbing is one thing; this garbage in quite another.

Hey “King”. I am really at a loss for why you think the way you do. You ascribe “evil” to those that differ from you all the while espousing the same attitudes with different words on your side. I read posts here much more than post myself and frankly it sounds like a school playground dodge ball “game”.

There are some posts here that are truly thought provoking and well thought out. Those add to the legitimate debate. However the “King” and those that verbally spar with him just seem to be attempting to find out who can piss higher up the tree than the other. Invective from either side doesn’t show insight nor is it an indication of being well informed on an issue. Mind programming is offensive regardless of whether it is “right” or “left” and I sense a great deal of such programming passing for legitimate debate here.

So, what is the debate about? Is this about Obama finally agreeing to a Fox interview? I don’t think so. It is now and ever was about the acquisition of power on the left and the right. And, both the left and right will literally do anything to get more power, even Obama appearing on Fox.

Nothing new will be discovered. Not revelatory will be discussed. No opinion will be changed that was not already about to change. The content, in spite of Fox’s reputation for “tough” interviews of those on the left, will be mostly “fluff” and will be mostly about Obama trying to win over a few undecideds with the force of his personality. It isn’t about the personality…it is about the bill. No one really knows completely what is in the bill but the little that IS known has created a stink far surpassing that of southern paper mills in mid summer. Make no mistake about it. This bill is only a means to an end and the “end” is to gain more power for the federal government.

And THAT, my friends can only lead to heartache and misery for Americans, some day, maybe not that far removed from the here and now.

Adieu

(White) Royal, do you disagree with Moore that Dems are ‘wusses’? That’s what Mike called them, and accused them of not being able to push through anything, even though they’re in the majority. He said it. Do you agree? It’s pretty simple, even for you.

I wish to welcome the commenter “MarkLavacheKoldys”. to Mediaite.

Writer says:
March 17, 2010 at 3:06 pm

(White) Royal, do you disagree with Moore that Dems are ‘wusses’? That’s what Mike called them, and accused them of not being able to push through anything, even though they’re in the majority. He said it. Do you agree? It’s pretty simple, even for you.

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Well, don’t you see the importance of context, now, Righter? I’m sorry, but I just don’t have the time to try to guess what you are saying or asking.

“Wusses”? No, I wouldn’t use that word. Too anxious to extend their hands to the Republicans just to off them bitten off. Yes.

I’ll take that as a yes. You agree with Mike on the Dem’s ineptness.

I wish to welcome the commenter “MarkLavacheKoldys”.
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You mean ‘glennbovinekoldy’s,’ right?

Whenever the POLs “realize” that this ALSO Costs them VOTES..??..
With the “current State of Corruption” (wash. DeCadence) – I can’t/won’t vote for EITHER ‘party’, but someone who (maybe) “promises” (and we’ve been ‘fooled before”! ) to CANCEL what has been “passed” would be a “good” starting point!