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Obama Goes After Companies That Hire Illegals, And Fox News

Written By : William Teach

One should never follow praise with criticism, so, let’s start with the latest in the White House’s War On Fox New, perhaps knows as Operation Domestic Contingency. Doug Ross reports

Today the White House stepped up its attack on Fox News, announcing that the network would no longer be able to conduct interviews with officials as a member of the Press Pool. The Pool is a five-member group consisting of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC organized by the White House Correspondents Association. Its membership is not subject to oversight by the government.

Fortunately, the rest of the press pool stood up to Hugo Chavez, er, Barack Obama, and said that would not work. So, as Doug points out, the reporters were limited to a two minute interview each, instead of the standard whine, in a (typical) petulant act. Regardless of what one thinks of Fox News, this is the behavior of a dictator in waiting.

On to the good

ICE has launched a new initiative to audit hiring records and I-9s — the form every new hire fills out to verify identity and employment eligibility – of current and past employees.

Last year, 503 companies nationwide received inspection notices. This year, Homeland Security notified 652 companies in one day.

“It is one of those things causing indigestion among the employment community,” said George Ports with Capital Associated Industries Inc., an employer association in North Carolina with approximately 1,000 members.

I have to give the Obama administration kudos for this. We could probably dig in to their motives, but, regardless, this is something that opponents of illegal immigration have been yammering about for a long time: if you want to stop most of the illegals, you have to go after the companies who hire them, and make it painful to the offenders.

Tony Asion, director of the statewide advocacy group El Pueblo, says he’s already hearing of unintended consequences.

“What (companies) do is deny the job (to a Latino), and it could very well be to a legal U.S.-born Latino who is here,” he said.

It could be a legal immigrant, able to work. Perhaps if people like Asion would stop backing the “rights” of illegals, there wouldn’t be so much bias.

Crossed at Pirate’s Cove

Mike_M

Maybe the media is finally starting to wake up and see what they helped create. Looks like at least a few sentient beings remain at the networks who thought, "First they came for Fox News…"

The MSM knows they can't afford to allow even their competitors to be frozen out and picked off one by one. They realize that the more slanted the coverage on Obama, the further their ratings fall. But if they tell the truth about Obama, he'll cut them off in a fit of childish rage.

This is a huge rebuke to Obama's Alinsky playbook though. Fox was the ideal target to freeze, isolate, and attack. But accountability is the counter to Rules for Radicals, and the audience of Fox and the conservative alternative media is too big for them to just be edited out of the picture like a Stalin class reunion photo. Woe be to the Obama Administration when they realize that Alinsky has failed them and Obama has made enemies out of the media with his pettyness and titanic ego. Paranoia and seclusion are the next steps in the well-established progression of the failed tyrant.
BIG

Mike, we will see if this is true when the alphabet networks start asking tough questions and do some digging for a story instead of just passing on the Obama propaganda. I doubt they have opened their eyes.
http://www.comics.com/editoons/asay/ Zheldon

They are not complete idiots. If they stand up to keep Fox, they wont have to ask the hard questions. If they don't ask hard questions they will not earn the ire of their deity.
Scorched_Earth

You know, I always used to complain about why the Bush administration didn't do more to combat the hostile media who beat him and his administration up on a daily basis. But now looking at this I'm glad that he didn't. The fact that Obama has waged war against Fox shows what a crybaby sissy he truly is. And if he can't handle Fox News, what's he going to do when real problems begin to crop up.

Achmedinajad, Putin, Chavez anyone?

We are in big trouble people!
TheBaud

They are not complete idiots. If they stand up to keep Fox, they wont have to ask the hard questions. If they don't ask hard questions they will not earn the ire of their deity.

Posted by Zheldon 2009-10-23 10:02:13

I think it is even simpler than that, Zheldon. I think the media know that the Obama administration will not always be in power (unlike the Obama Administration itself and the idiot Liberals that post here that keep declaring the Right "dead and over"). They are on the inside looking out and are all laughing that Fox is getting what the media thinks they deserve for being so "RightWing". However, in a single election cycle, the order can be reversed.

ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/etc. all want to be able to demand their place and they want FoxNews to back them once the pendulum swings. But I do agree with one point, it is greed and cowardise above journalistic ethics driving this move.
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

Achmedinajad, Putin, Chavez anyone?

I don't think Obama sees those and other Leftist thugs as problems… more like "friendly rivals." As I've said before, "I hope people start to notice that we're moving towards a one-man government before it's too late. No wonder [Obama] supports the Leftist Honduran President Zelaya's attempt to overturn the constitution and set himself up as dictator — he's looking to do the same thing himself, but far more subtly."
Regconservative

{We could probably dig in to their motives,} ya think

This guy does't do anything that don't increse his power!
whats_up

LOL, this entire thread has been good for a laugh, especially yours Cav, that was funny. We had a hearty laugh over it at coffee today, thanks.
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

I hope you Leftists keep laughing when you realise you're among the first scheduled to be lined up against a wall and shot.
TheBaud

LOL, this entire thread has been good for a laugh, especially yours Cav, that was funny. We had a hearty laugh over it at coffee today, thanks.

Posted by whats_up 2009-10-23 11:21:41

And I'm sure you would have been laughing just as long and loud had the Bush Administration tried to shut out CBS over Dan Rather's blatant partisan attempt to sway the election with lies.

Yeah, you'd find that VERY funny!
whats_up

I hope you Leftists keep laughing when you realise you're among the first scheduled to be lined up against a wall and shot.

Posted by CavalierX

2009-10-23 11:30:09

LOL, you just keep on giving Cav, you know that you have become the right wing fringe right? Seriously Obama is trying to set up a dictatorship, oh that is rich. Can I use that to entertain my friends, I will give you full credit of course.
Mike_M

"LOL, you just keep on giving Cav, you know that you have become the right wing fringe right?"

Unfortunately for you, the political landscape in this country is adding "fringe" faster than a Hank Williams Jr. concert at the Grand Ole Opry.
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

you know that you have become the right wing fringe right?

It's a big fringe, then.
whats_up

Unfortunately for you, the political landscape in this country is adding "fringe" faster than a Hank Williams Jr. concert at the Grand Ole Opry.

Posted by Mike_M

2009-10-23 12:03:41

I dont think that Mike, just all the semi-normal, intelligent voters have left the GOP for various reasons, so what you have left is what used to be called the fringe, but now has co-opted the majority of the GOP party, they are dangerously close to becoming a regional party. Will they recover, possibly, but we will have to wait and see.
whats_up

It's a big fringe, then.

Posted by CavalierX

2009-10-23 12:40:49

Yes there are alot of you loons on the right at the moment.
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

Yes there are alot of you loons on the right at the moment.

Yep, about 40% of Americans identify themselves as Conservatives these days, as opposed to 21% Liberal. It's a biiiig fringe!
http://tinyurl.com/loaftf
belacuse

Posted by whats_up

2009-10-23 12:46:31

Any comments on the fact that your El Presidente is trying to blackball a major news organization simply because it doesn't report what the White House spoon feeds them? Or are you just here to cheer as this administration takes us further into socialist hell?
Mike_M

"I dont think that Mike, just all the semi-normal, intelligent voters have left the GOP for various reasons"

Your poor attempt at baiting aside, Obama in 2008 only got about 2% more of the vote than Bush did in 2004. Obama got the moderates that were sick of the war and actually believed Obama's BS about governing without partisan rancor or the race card.

Now that Obama has proven himself to be more partisan, more race baiting, with no inclination to end the war, they're going to dump his party for the one better positioned to deal with the economic crisis…the GOP. That's what happens when you play to the center…when the winds shift you lose.

The size of the rout depends on how well the Republicans do in getting the base to turn out. If they run an uncoordinated mincing campaign full of RINOs, they may pick up a few seats. If a leader unites that party with conservative candidates and a coherent agenda, the Dems could lose all of Congress and Reid and Pelosi could both be sent packing.

The polls are showing moderates fleeing Obama's sinking ship, and the number will snowball once the media can no longer credibly maintain his phony 50% approval rating. You're going to have to come to grips with the fact that Obama is a short-tempered, uncharismatic leader, and his biggest policy item so far (stimulus) has been a complete failure and disaster. Calling the voters stupid is not going to win the Democrats any support.
whats_up

Posted by belacuse

2009-10-23 13:25:20

I could care less what happens to Fox News.
whats_up

Calling the voters stupid is not going to win the Democrats any support.

Posted by Mike_M

2009-10-23 13:57:09

Thats rich coming from conservatives who have been calling voters stupid since Nov of 08.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

Thats rich coming from conservatives who have been calling voters stupid since Nov of 08.

Oh really? Funny, I seem to remember a lot of conservatives calling Obama supporters stupid, but I don't recall any conservative calling the entire voting public stupid.

Got any quotes? Or did they get sucked down the memory hole along with all your quotes of prominent Republicans calling people traitors for disagreeing with them?
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

Thats rich coming from conservatives who have been calling voters stupid since Nov of 08.

Posted by whats_up

2009-10-23 13:58:41

Since there wasn't a conservative candidate in 2008, why would we call you stupid? Oh yeah, you voted for Obama, the man who makes Jimmah Carter look like George Washington.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

So far the Obama administration has been doing well with fighting illegal immigration, sometimes better than President Bush who seemed to think it was a very fine thing indeed if millions of illegals flooded the country.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

I could care less what happens to Fox News.

Posted by whats_up

2009-10-23 13:57:12

Thus explaining liberals attempting to smear it daily.
whats_up

Posted by mightysamurai

2009-10-23 14:51:20

Mighty I never stated that conservatives called the "entire voting public" stupid, perhaps you should develop some reading skills.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

Thats rich coming from conservatives who have been calling voters stupid since Nov of 08.

Posted by whats_up

2009-10-23 13:58:41

Posted by whats_up

2009-10-23 16:38:36

Well then maybe you should have been more clear, dumbass! Cause I don't see where you distishguished or delineated any particular set of voters in your heperbolic and assinine post.
William Teach

Say, whats_up, I thought you libs stood for giving all people their say. I thought you loved the notion of Free Speech. I guess not.

I could care less about CNN and MSNBC, but, if the President tried censoring them or doing what he is doing to Fox, I would be outraged. If a Republican president did that to Air America, I would be outraged.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

Mighty I never stated that conservatives called the "entire voting public" stupid

Well that's what Mike_M said, and you were responding to him.

Or were you just engaging in your usual tactic of "convenient misinterpretation"?
whats_up

Well that's what Mike_M said, and you were responding to him.

Or were you just engaging in your usual tactic of "convenient misinterpretation"?

Posted by mightysamurai

2009-10-24 00:44:43

Mighty you are just plain ignorant, no where does Mike M. state that he is talking about the entire voting public, those words dont appear anywhere in his post. As usual you are caught reading things into peoples posts and cant admit it, man up and admit you made a mistake, its not hard, give it a try.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Wait. First you argue that Mike is saying everyone's a moron, then you argue he's not saying that?

And you expect anyone to take you seriously?