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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (32332)	2/5/2009 7:11:36 PM
From: tntpal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

To seeing Dan Rather finally forced to resign for his unabashed liberal political bias... (Goes both Ways!)

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (32332)	2/5/2009 7:19:10 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I don't think Fox's story was really very like the examples you gave, or at least not very like the distinctly negative parts of the examples you gave that makes them more notorious. I don't really find it funny either. Fox's headline and story was true, and wasn't even a careful cherry picking of Obama's ideas for two that where unpopular, it was his first two executive orders. The story didn't claim, or imply that, "Obama is unpopular", or "people generally don't support most of Obama's ideas". In fact it provided evidence against such claims (had anyone been making them) ---- "Despite clear disapproval to the two executive orders, an overwhelming majority of Americans said they supported the president's first actions as president. Seventy-four percent favored Obama's position to lift interrogation techniques on prisoners, while 76 percent said they agreed with the decision to name special envoys to the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Seventy-six percent also said the agreed with Obama's decision to tighten ethics rules for administration officials. And 66 percent said they agree with his effort to make it easier for workers to sue for pay discrimination."