The Benefits of Being Ostracized

After an attempt to bomb Northwest Airlines flight 253 was foiled by the bomber’s incompetence and by alert passengers President Obama sent his minions to all the Sunday talk shows in an attempt to allay the nation’s concerns about airport security.  Well, they were sent to almost all the talk shows.  Liz Blaine wrote in Front Page Magazine that Obama continued his executive temper tantrum against Fox News and refused to bless the most watched cable news network with an administration representative.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, NBC’s Meet the Press and CBS’ Face the Nation. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, NBC’s Meet the Press, and CNN’s State of the Nation.

Communicating to the American people the facts and status of an attempted terror attack should be of paramount importance to a President plunging in the polls, but Obama appears more obsessed with ostracizing Fox News than keeping the American people informed of the war on terror.

As often is the case there was an upside to Obama’s continued hissy fit — by not having heard Gibbs and Napolitano insist that our air travel safety systems worked as expected Fox viewers were spared the insult to their collective intelligence.  Then again, those who regularly watch ABC, NBC, and CBS probably weren’t similarly insulted.  (Those who watch Fox understand; those who watch the others won’t be helped by an explanation.)   The result is that Fox viewers have their minds filled with facts and not with presidential propaganda.  A win-win if ever I’ve heard of one.

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