Obama calls on Democrats to turn off the cable TV news -- but Fox had already turned him off
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‘Everybody turn off your CNN... turn off your FOX... your MSNBC,’’ President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday morning as he addressed his fellow Democrats during a televised session down the street from Capitol Hill.
It’s time for Washington’s leaders to ‘get out of this echo chamber,’’ the president suggested, and start talking to more everyday Americans.
Yet, Fox News Channel already had turned the president off, from the start of his appearance before the Senate’s Democrats. While CNN ran a full showing of Obama’s address and the question-and-answer session that followed at the Newseum, the No. 1-rated cable news channel instead featured its own late-morning run of news and commercials.
Fox briefly read a headline early during the event that Obama had vowed to keep fighting for healthcare before returning to such affairs as the controversy surrounding former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards’ child with a campaign videographer and the fees she was paid -- ‘hush money?’’ -- and a new warning from Capitol Hill that another attempted terrorist attack against the U.S. is certain in the next several months.
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-- Mark Silva