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| Obama Wonders Why Soldiers Are Always Watching Fox News |
| 2008-07-24 |
| Video at link .... I saw this this morning -- On Barack Obama's presidential trip to the Middle East and Europe, he noticed the soldiers he met in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan always had Fox News on. He wondered allowed to his media entourage, is the White House and Armed Forces Network in cahoots with Fox News? Obama: (Fox News correspondent) Garrett's on there all the time. How is it that Fox News has such the hook-up with Armed Forces television? Is that the Commander-in-Chief's choice? From a commenter: Oh did you hear that one of the MSN reporters asked Obama which channel he was going to pick when he became president? That made it all for me - the stupid reporters (and probably Obama) believe that GW Bush dictated the television stations watched in a war zone. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #4 "When I am President, the troops will only see and hear messages from me!" /Obama |
| Posted by: WTF 2008-07-24 22:41 |
| #3 Because they want to? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-07-24 18:53 |
| #2 Oh, please. As a former AFRTS tech, I can tell you they rotate through all the news networks. Fox, CNN, Headline News, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, etc. If all he saw was Fox, that means he only visited with the troops for a short time window when Fox was on. Or when the other MSM newcast came on, the troops switched them off. AFRTS broadcast schedules can be found here. |
| Posted by: Steve 2008-07-24 16:41 |
| #1 Scrappleface, right? No, I know... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-07-24 16:40 |