Fox News Crawl

While watching President Obama’s press conference tonight, I switched over to Fox News for a while. I was curious about how they would cover it, because Republican presidents generally don’t believe in holding regular press conferences. You can look it up. The last tory president to meet regularly with the press was Warren G. Harding, and he was a newspaper publisher himself. I think he just met with reporters so he had somebody with which to drink and play poker.

Anyways, since Fox doesn’t appreciate presidential press conferences, they misuse and diffuse them with their insidious Fox News Crawl, so it’s nearly impossible to understand what is being said. I’ve long been suspicious of the content they run across the bottom of the screen so I took notes this time. Have a look..

“terror attack/failed states/may not survive/checkmate/Arlen Specter will vote against/aircraft Iran components/Iranian military/weapons of mass destruction/deportation/three Irishmen/Iraqi police arrest four/kill twenty-seven Kurds/China blocks access to you tube Chinese troops beating blocked 2007/ 2008/unrest Tibet/Afghans arrest TV station manager/Taliban banned TV/Muslim clerics/prohibited and hypocritical/anti Muslim/Obama says White House has put in place comprehensive strategy/will create jobs/restart lending/Obama says signs of progress/his budget will build economy/similar crisis twenty years from now/cut deficit in half/continues very same policies”

-How can you think straight with all that going on?