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In an extraordinary and at times comical about-face, Fox News has ushered in the new year by joining forces with Republicans to denounce President Obama for obstructing Congress and standing in the way of legislative accomplishments.
The beauty of the Fox performance is that hardly anybody breaks character by dipping into reality and acknowledging, “Oh, by the way, Republicans did just spend the last six years blocking every conceivable Obama initiative.” Instead, the script is adhered to with stoic loyalty and the meme marches on: The Republican Congress is eager and willing to get the job done if only Obama would act! It’s an amazingly disciplined, although thoroughly oddball, propaganda performance.
“There’s new energy and renewed vigor on the Hill to get something done,” Fox’s Kimberly Guilfoyle announced on The Five. “But what’s really going to poison the well is Obama with the pen. If he’s going to sit there and be an obstructionist, and uses pen to be — so it’s really going to put — you know, a drain on kind of any energy working on bipartisan things together.”
Host Megyn Kelly was concerned last week that Obama’s stated opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline might represent a “thumb in the eye” to the new Republican-controlled Senate. And Fox contributor Karl Rove advised Obama that if he vetoes Republican bills, “It’s going to simply build the image of him as being obstructionist. That’s not going to be healthy for his last two years in office.”
