Any plan of attack against threats to America that does not include the military invasion and occupation of the mindless void in front of televisions across America tuned to Fox News is no plan at all.

The thing I always say about the Republicans is that they have NOTHING to offer. Think about it, do you ever hear them propose anything that isn’t damaging to most people in the country? (Most of the time, they don’t propose anything at all.) It seems to me like their entire selling point, if you want to call it that, is that the Democrats are far left socialist communist fascists, and anything they propose will be worse than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined, therefore you should vote for us (Republicans).

I found the entire Fox News approach yesterday to be awe-inspiring.

They started with a celebration of Dick Cheney’s no-holds barred attack on President Obama in the morning. They followed that up with a bunch of hysteria on the other programs, usually demanding that President Obama close our borders, publicly and tearfully announce how wrong he’s always been, and essentially resign from office. Then on Greta’s show, they decided to call on that great foreign policy sage, Mitt Romney!

So it wasn’t much of a surprise to see these guys waiting in the weeds to attack every single thing he said as soon as they could. I got the impression they were raring to go all the way through his remarks.

What’s interesting about all this nastiness is that I wonder how these guys would have reacted if CNN had done anything like this during the George W. Bush presidency. For example, when Bush announced he was going to invade Iraq, how would Fox News have reacted if Al Gore had pre-empted his announcement with a public statement that he didn’t think Bush knew what he was doing? How would Fox News have reacted if every single pundit on the other channels had spent that day personally and publicly attacking Bush for incompetence?

@truman—- of your many great nick names for the Fox Clowns, this is my favorite :^)

@ truman That reminds me of the following: I wonder if Hume spells “potato” like former VP Dan Quayle, i.e. “p-o-t-a-t-o-e”?

;^)

What or whatever. Potato or potato. Is this all that Shit Fumes has left to offer?

Hume should have instead spent his time at Junior O’Reilly’s birthday party.

Hume, the one of FOX’s supposed Grand Poobahs of intellect and analysis decides to take the small-minded route of semantically-based criticism by getting his panties in a wad over “what vs. whatever”. Geez, give me an effin’ break. Someone please put this old crank out to pasture.
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Btw, I wonder if polls this morning are showing the the folks liked/approved of the President’s speech. The reason I ask is because, while the F&F stooges are doing more than their fair share of bashing this morning, there was one segment this morning (between Lizzie and 3 Euphinisms for a Penis) that caught my eye because of the thumbs up it gave Obama.

While Penis3 made sure to slip in a shot by asking will the President’s “actions match the rhetoric” and that he needs to do better than he’s done in the past, he did at least say that the speech was made to great effect and that we should give the President a chance by standing with him to defeat ISIL. Penis3 did dishonestly claim that “for the first time we heard a President, President Obama, invoking American exceptionalism and American nationalism” but he did seem to like Obama’s speech and found it compelling. Okay, that was rather nice to hear from a FOX "news " talking head.

But what was rather telling is that, in order to give Obama some praise, Penis3 had make sure and diminish Obama a bit by saying that he and his speech writers must have looked back on the speeches of Clinton, Lincoln and Reagan. And then what does F&F do? They play a speech clip from St. Ronnie. (eye roll) Perhaps all Presidents do indeed draw inspiration from other Presidential speeches but I think it was a rather tacky/unneccessary remark to toss in there. I guess the remark was just Penis3’s way to justify the lame-ass airing of yet another Reagan clip.

And, just to make sure that Obama didn’t get full credit for what, by even his own admission was a compelling speech, Penis3 declared that Obama was trying “match that kind of compelling rhetoric” (meaning Reagan’s).

So, if polls show the folks approved of Obama’s speech (and maybe even his approval ratings go up), FOX “news” wants everyone to know that it really wasn’t because of Obama himself, what he said and/or the plans laid out in his speech. It was because Obama was trying to emulate Reagan. Reagan! Pffft.

So, we expected these traitorous vermin to respond any differently?
This is all they have to offer their base….keep stoking those embers of racial hatred at any cost to the country.

Is brit hume still walking above ground? What a mechanical zombie. Watching him speak makes me want to break out laughing. What a geek. Worthless whiner.

Sometimes (OK, most of the time) Fox disgusts me. This is one of those times.

Oh, and that Republican Congressman shows that Republicans (as usual) are more interested in what’s good for the Republican party than what’s good for the country. F*ck them.

Hume's complaint: Obama said he'd do "what it takes" to eliminate the ISIS threat, not "whatever it takes."