Despite my own progressive/liberal tendencies, I always try to follow "both sides" in the media. Kudos for pointing this out.

The fact that Obama's getting positive coverage, at the moment, on Faux News is newsworthy, in and of itself!

I used to be like you. I'd watch Fox along with other channels. It finally got to the point of being a financial liability if I continued to watch. I've came THIS close to throwing my TV through the wall and my wife got sick of me yelling at the television.

Watching the Fox talking heads with their insane spin and rhettoric is bad for the blood pressure. Especially when you can't say anything back.

I have noticed like in the past 48hours that on their website they got pro Obama talking points up.

Does anyone think that Murdoch has influenced them at all?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germ any/0,1518,566920,00.html

Still, even as the issue of his speech's location has now been settled, a number of politicians in Berlin are still dissatisfied with the site. The Siegessäule -- or Victory Column -- was erected in memory of Prussia's victories over Denmark (1864), Austria (1866) and France (1870/71). The column originally stood in front of the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building, but was moved by Adolf Hitler to its current location in 1939 to make way for his planned transformation of Berlin into the Nazi capital "Germania."

"The Siegessäule in Berlin was moved to where it is now by Adolf Hitler. He saw it as a symbol of German superiority and of the victorious wars against Denmark, Austria and France," the deputy leader of the Free Democrats, Rainer Brüderle, told Bild am Sonntag. He raised the question as to "whether Barack Obama was advised correctly in his choice of the Siegessäule as the site to hold a speech on his vision for a more cooperative world."

Andreas Schockenhoff of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats said, "the Siegessäule in Berlin is dedicated to a victory over neighbors who are today our European friends and allies. It is a problematic symbol."

Must be that they got the White House's accidental email forward saying that Maliki supports Obama's withdrawal plan.  Fox was probably like "Ok, Bushie says it so it must be true.  No need to double check anything.  I mean, we haven't before, so why start now?"

Don't be fooled by Eddie Haskell. They've spent years going in one direction, then the world shifted and they were left behind, totally associated with the wrong thing. Now they're probably legitimately thinking, "Perhaps we need to be more objective, more balanced. People want that." But it's just Eddie Haskell. Once you get fooled by it, they'll be right back to normal.

On Faux are the craziest. David Asmon (not sure that's right) asked in the same Steve Colbert manner if Sen. Chuck Schumer should be held legally/financially liable for the failure of Indymac.

"They also say that Obama will be landing in Baghdad at any moment now; I haven't heard that anywhere else."

Maybe that's because the other networks don't want to tip off those who would do him harm.

Are any MSM covering this?

Friday, July 18, 2008 17:12 EDT
Obama's schedule

Barack Obama's campaign has released some details of his overseas trip, including a list of foreign leaders with whom he plans to meet. What they hadn't wanted public, though, were certain details about the schedule of the trip; it's common to keep such things embargoed from public release for security reasons, especially when traveling to a war zone. But one person hasn't respected that embargo -- Obama's rival for the presidency, John McCain.

<Reuters made the catch, noting that in public remarks McCain made at a fund-raising luncheon on Friday, he divulged the likely timing of Obama's stop in Iraq. As Politico's Ben Smith observed, "Ironically, McCain and the GOP have been demanding for months that Obama go to Iraq; his comment may have made the trip more complicated." </p>

Obama is tentatively scheduled to meet with a wide range of leaders while he's out of the U.S. According to NBC's First Read blog, that list includes British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as well as the country's opposition leader, David Cameron; Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, and its foreign minister; French President Nicolas Sarkozy; Jordan's King Abdullah; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and a number of Israelis, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu, once the country's prime minister and now its opposition leader.>

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2 008/07/18/obama_schedule/index.html

Fox News is showing a banner saying "Are Obama's Middle East Plans Presumptuous?" with the host asking whether they are because "he hadn't been there before".

Apparently we now judge someone's qualifications based on what photo-ops they had.

On the flip side, having seen The Dark Knight this morning, I was fantastically amused with the subtle commentary on the 24-hour news channels' proclivity to use questions they know are false as the titles for the stories.

Actually I like the ideology that holds that one has to 'have been there before' in order to make policy decisions.

Just think if all the folks planning to work against 'gay marriage' had to 'have been there' before making policy.

They'd all be silent.

Likewise, GWB could never have taken us to war.