"Barack Obama Speechwriter & Fox News Exec Are Brothers"

....just saw this at the 'Crimes/Corruption of the NWO' site. Another example of the party lines being blurred to the point of? Corruption:

As it turns out Fox News and the Obama campaign are bound by blood. David Rhodes, Fox News' vice president of news, is the older brother of Ben Rhodes, one of the speechwriters responsible for Obama's orotund oratory.

David, 34, who has been with Fox News since its 1996 inception, is responsible for the network's news coverage. But while some will no doubt look for evidence of punches pulled—or redoubled, as it were—in Fox's Obama coverage, David says brother Ben is discreet.

"He's very careful not to give me any particular insight into his job," he says.

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[edit on 12-2-2008 by anhinga]

I fail to see how this is particularly odd. Lots of families have siblings and relatives in similar or related professions. I would be far more surprised if there was a relatively successful political campaign that didn't have at least one member working for a news conglomerate of some type.

Granted, Fox's journalistic credibility and media integrity is about that of the Enquirer, in my book, but trying to pin that on Obama because his speechwriter is the brother of an exec at Fox would be a stretch even for the likes of Fox.

Everyone is related to someone: Bush also has a relative at Foxnews.....Micah Breshinski of Msnbc has relatives in Obama, Romney and Clinton camps.....Whats the big deal...in fact it may give us more insight to the campaigns.....just a thought!

[edit on 12-2-2008 by realmatrix]

[edit on 12-2-2008 by realmatrix]

My uncle on my moms side and his family are extreme right republicans and my mother and our family are extreme left liberal democrats.

These things happen.
They make family reunions and holidays extrememly tense and awkward.

Yes, Virginia, all the candidates this year are terrible, even Obama. BHO is a pro-Israeli sellout like most of the rest and he really freaked me out with his not-so-veiled suggestion that we might go to war in Pakistan.

Voting with one's feet never sounded so good!

[edit on 14-2-2008 by chromatico]