Uhm no, not one media outlet "supports him 100%." You must not be looking at anything other than Foxnews
I rarely watch fox for anything, I don't like the propaganda.
MSN has loads of articles about all the political trouble he and the dems are in.
Pointing out the trouble the dems are facing says nothing about them supporting him. A Detroit Lions fan pointing out that the team is in trouble and going to lose doesn't mean he doesn't support the team. The reality is that for the most part (again, fox excepted), the media supports Obama and his policies, and they certainly prefer him over any republican candidate by a wide margin.
Hell, even the far left commentators on MSN have been lambasting Obama about healthcare and other issues for ages, and MSN is the most left wing of the bunch.
That's baloney. Sure, they complain, because they want him to be even *further* to the left than what he is now, but do you really think for a second that in an election they don't support him over whoever the republican candidate is? Get real. That's like fox attacking McCain over certain issues where they consider him too liberal. Sure they attacked him, but at the end of the day would you say they supported McCain or Obama?
I think it does matter that he was asked about Fox. He did not volunteer this or single them out. And he did not say they were "destroying America." That was incorrectly stated earlier in this thread. Read the interview. What he said was that they are pitching a conservative agenda, and that the conservative agenda is destructive to America right now, and he proceeded to explain why. Not Fox in particular, conservatism in general.
He said nothing about pitching a conservative agenda. He said fox was promoting it's viewpoints, and that those viewpoints were destructive to America:
Before that, you had folks like Hearst who used their newspapers very intentionally to promote their viewpoints. I think Fox is part of that tradition — it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view. It's a point of view that I disagree with. It's a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive
It isn't like the right has exactly been restrained in their comments about Obama and the dems.
It isn't like 'the left' has been restrained about anything, and I don't expect them to be. The 'right' and 'left' can say whatever they want. They are not the president, he is. Part of that job is knowing what is appropriate to say.
Rightwing politicians can compare Obama to Hitler and you think it's a problem for him to be saying that conservatism is destructive?
They (whoever you're referring to) are not the POTUS, he is. Also, as I pointed out, he didn't say that conservatism is destructive (which would have been equally stupid since the country is generally fairly conservative), he said fox - like Hearst newspapers in the past - promoted their viewpoints, viewpoints he considers destructive to America.
His comments fall under "bush league", I would have expected better.