Fox news to start defending Obama in Autumn?

[Liberty Star]

What choice would they have in autumn if they want to keep hope for "Iran war" alive by keeping troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to "surround Iran" as aipac lobby had envsioned initially?


American Antiwar Movement Plans an Autumn Campaign Against Policies on Afghanistan

By JAMES DAO
Published: August 29, 2009

A restive antiwar movement, largely dormant since the election of Barack Obama, is preparing a nationwide campaign this fall to challenge the administration’s policies on Afghanistan.

Robert Stolarik for The New York Times
Medea Benjamin, right, co-founder of the antiwar group Code Pink, protesting at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Anticipating a Pentagon request for more troops there, antiwar leaders have engaged in a flurry of meetings to discuss a month of demonstrations, lobbying, teach-ins and memorials in October to publicize the casualty count, raise concerns about the cost of the war and pressure Congress to demand an exit strategy.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/us/30antiwar.html

[catdd]

Warmongering liberals on the left and neocons on the right - and they are all fighting for the banksters. Time for 3rd party to step it up.

[Liberty Star]

Two left/right groups you cited are one and the same, almost all neocons have radical leftist/marxist backgrounds; only different flavor of pro Iraq/Afghan freedom slash bloodshed constituents are the so called "Christian Zionists" types who don't fit in previously cited categories.

[Liberty Star]

It won't be any major shift for Fox news though, Fox news owner has been a fan of Obama in the past and for a good war and bloodshed cause he would likely put aside recent Obama-Likud hoohaa about Israeli settlements expansion on arab land:

Quote:

Rupert Murdoch heaps praise on Barack Obama

Jemima Kiss
guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 May 2008 13.43 BST

News Corporation chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch has used his newly acquired technology conference D6 to throw his weight behind "rock star" Barack Obama's presidential campaign, as well as giving his views on the Wall Street Journal.

Murdoch made critical comments about the number of journalists involved in editing at the Wall Street Journal, which became part of the News Corp empire when he bought parent company Dow Jones in December, saying that every story seemed to be edited by "8.3 people".

Speaking at the Wall Street Journal D6 conference in Carlsbad, California, Murdoch was asked by veteran tech correspondent Walt Mossberg if he had played a part in the New York Post's endorsement of Obama.

"Yeah," he replied, candidly. The select audience of entrepreneurs and digital business executives at the conference earlier this week cheered, as can be seen in the accompanying video.

"We're on the verge of a complete phenomenon," Murdoch said. "Politicians are at an all-time low and are despised by 80% of the public, and then you've got a candidate trying to put himself out above it all. He's become a rock star. It's fantastic.

"There are a lot of problems. The education system in this country is a total disgrace."

Murdoch heaped praise on Obama, saying he was a "highly intelligent man with a great record at Harvard", but stopped short of a full personal endorsement because he wanted "to meet him personally".

"The Obama phenomenon and undoubtedly the recession and everyone getting hurt... the average American family today is really financially hurting and that all bodes well for him," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/30/rupertmurdoch.wallstreetjournal



But Obama has to be his second love after it became claer that his first choice Hillary Clinton won't make it. Short while before that parise, he was in Hillary Clinton's camp probably because of her "we'll obliterate Iran if it attacked Israel" speech:



Rupert Murdock Hosting Hillary Clinton Fundraiser

James Joyner | Monday, May 8, 2006

Murdoch’s surprise decision to raise money for Clinton in July, on behalf of NEWS CORP., parent company of FOXNEWS and the NEW YORK POST, underlines a dramatic turn of relations between Murdoch and Clinton, who in 1998 coined the phrase “vast rightwing conspiracy” to denounce critics of her husband.

Some say the move by Murdoch reflects approval of her Senate career. Others note his record for picking future national leaders. Last century, he threw over the British conservatism he’d long supported to back longshot Tony Blair.

Clinton surprised Washington and media watchers recently by attending a FOX NEWS anniversary party, where she toasted Murdoch.


http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/rupert_murdock_hosting_hillary_clinton_fundraiser/