"America Discovers Obama Not God" Fox's Messiah Complex

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Sunday June 13, 2010 · 4:06 PM PDT

2010/06/13 · 16:06

I've been recording Fox on the weekends, and Sundays are like the Golden Griddle buffet of neocon silliness. Their panel discussions and 6:00 PM spot have no pretense of news - they just bring out some GOP talking head to pronounce doom on the Dems. This was where Newt said that Dems were a worse threat to America than the Nazis.

During the oil spill, every 20 minutes Fox breathlessly asks "How has the oil spill hurt Obama's standing in the polls?" Maybe there's a few seconds of footage, then it's right to speculation about how mad the public is at Obama. It doesn't matter that then they report that the public is mainly mad at BP, the lede is that it's hurting Obama.

For the last several weeks, the pundit talking point has been that America has just realized that "Obama is not God" and "Obama is not the Messiah." Now we are supposed to storm DC and cast down the false idols.

Because before we thought Obama was the Messiah, but now America knows he isn't

The only people I see using "Messiah" are folks on line with a poor grasp of grammar and spelling (and hygiene, as I picture them). So hearing Fox use this line regularly in prime time at 6:00 is quite a jolt.

But I can also picture this being said by a senile Australian billionaire.

Programming this dumb can only come from the top floor. Murdoch must be dictating this copy personally, because that's about the only thing that could give this legs. Bill Kristol is peddling roughly the same line, and in today's panel discussion he said that the oil spill would show people that "Obama is not omnipotent." Gee Bill, you think?

Considering that Murdoch calls the strategy for the GOP, it looks pretty grim for the GOP that they have to toe a line that sounds tone deaf, brain damaged, and delusional. And this is the guy who thinks he can make Sarah Palin president? But people that have the most money assume that they are smartest man in the room, and nobody is likely to tell Rupert otherwise regards Palin.

But, on the other hand, where does Rupert's "Messiah complex" come from?

William Kristol seems to relish tossing off the "Messiah" line. Does he believe it, or does he just enjoy being a jackass? And is he the one that planted this nutty meme in Murdoch's head? Kristol is a master manipulator.

And who is the real target of the "Obama is not God" talking point? It sounds so alien and culturally tone deaf, maybe it represents the views of Murdoch's major stockholders and customers in OPEC. Murdoch is fond of peddling the same stuff in England and the US. Given that Murdoch now owns a major Arabic media company, maybe the reason the whole "America-turns-on-Obama-the-false-prophet" theme sounds so foreign and odd is that it is also meant to play to Murdoch's OPEC cronies. It would be fascinating to hear how even more otherworldly Murdoch's programming is in the Arab world.

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