Daily World Buzz: Part of the challenge to Obama, the candidate is "Made in Fox

Friday, March 4, 2011

Part of the challenge to Obama, the candidate is "Made in Fox

NEW YORK - Who will be the Republican challenger in the 2012 presidential election Barack Obama does not know yet. But one thing is very likely, has been an employee of Rupert Murdoch. The primaries of the Republican Party announced as a game inside the Fox News. There are already two to be out of the closet, both of the "winning team Murdoch." One is the veteran Newt Gingrich, who led troops in the Republican legislative victory in 1994, putting Bill Clinton in the minority in Congress.

The other is Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania. Fox has announced that it suspended them from its payroll, now that Gingrich and Santorum have officially declared to be in the running for the Republican nomination for the White House. But they remain eligible candidates for the nomination three others, regularly paid by Murdoch's TV: the famous Sarah Palin who has even starred in a TV series on his Alaska, the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, he holds a news anchor talk show, and former Ambassador George Bush to the UN John Bolton known for his hawkish positions on foreign policy.

"There is no precedent in American history for a TV that takes as its employees five potential candidates," notes the New York Times dismay. And all of the same party, proving that Fox has become a sort of "parallel structure" of the right. One of its anchorman, the popular Glenn Beck, he performed the role of comiziante a rally in Washington Tea Party.

According to Deborah Potter, NewsLab organization that studies the information system, "the fact that they appear regularly on a cable-TV is already leaving a powerful platform for his campaign." In other words, Murdoch pays for the Republican candidates because they have a television room for others to win a payment in the form of advertising.

A "gift" that has already proven its value to Gingrich. Burned in 1996, when his intransigence as a right-wing leaders in Congress led to legislative paralysis and paved the way for re-election of Clinton, Gingrich has remade a political virginity thanks to the visibility on Fox. Consensus has been able to recover even in the Tea Party, the anti-anti-tax state and whose followers are an affectionate audience of Fox.

Those in other cable-tv express serious reservations about the conduct "anti-ethical" to Murdoch, but they do so much hiding behind the anonymity is the power of the tycoon who also controls the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. The authority supervising the election expenses has promised to investigate potential abuses "in the form of free airtime for candidates." But Fox has survived many other scandals.

Its chief executive Roger Ailes himself is a former Republican strategist. In the campaign of 2008 did all he could to help Rudolph Giuliani forced to bear false witness even a former TV executive who had had an affair with the Republican candidate.