Is Fox News killing the Republican Party? The debate rages.

[Crabtownboy]

Narrow reading, narrow watching breeds narrow thinking.

"Karl Rove rejects reality," CNN later headlined.

To many liberals, this was not a new observation. But now some Republicans are starting to embrace it, too -- because they fear this rejection of reality is killing their party. The problem, says respected long-time GOP operative Bruce Bartlett, is obvious. It's Fox News and other conservative media.

"Many conservatives live in a bubble where they watch only Fox News on television, they listen only to conservative talk radio -- Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, many of the same people," Bartlett said recently. "When they go onto the Internet, they look at conservative websites like National Review, Newsmax, World Net Daily. And so they are completely in a universe in which they are hearing the same exact ideas, the same arguments, the same limited amount of data repeated over and over and over again. And that's brainwashing."

This is the so-called conservative "echo chamber," and Bartlett says it's the reason the Republican Party is in trouble. The echo chamber "breeds extremism" and convinces conservatives that all other news sources -- and their polls, such as the ones showing Obama carrying Ohio in 2012 -- are a joke. Nutty conservative candidates thus come to the fore in Republican primary elections, who then get whacked in the general election, to the shock and disbelief of Fox News pundits like Rove.

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2015/05/is_fox_news_killing_the_republ.html

 

[targus]

Republicans in trouble?

Did you sleep through the last elections?

Somebody is wishful thinking.

 

[InTheLight]

and their polls, such as the ones showing Obama carrying Ohio in 2012 -- are a joke.

Ooops. Fox News polls DID show Obama taking Ohio. Karl Rove was the lone dissenter. On election night coverage his famously imploring people to "wait until the outstate results come in, Romney will win proving the polls wrong", was basically the dagger in the heart of his career. If you watched that sequence you would have seen uncomfortable glances all around the anchor's desks. I'd say the joke was on him, not Fox News.

As to the "echo chamber", I couldn't agree more. I have friends that are parrots for Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'Reilly. There are people here on BB that fit the description. I've often said a quick glance at Breitbart News and Drudge in the morning and anyone will know what topics will be posted on BB for the day.

 

[carpro]

There is no such debate. Except among liberals.

And I doubt FOX news cares what the far left thinks. I know I don't.