The real reason Benjamin Netanyahu won re-election in Israel is that people over there are frightened.

Iran is close to a nuclear weapon, terrorism is rampant.

So voters turned to the tough guy and the liberal candidate was defeated.

Here in America we are not at that level.  There is not fear in the marketplace.

However, there is an intense struggle for the hearts and minds of American voters.

President Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party are well aware that liberal policies are under fire and that is a concern going forward.

OBAMA: "If you're watching Fox News, you get an entirely different reality than if you're watching MSNBC.  So everything is just like an opinion.  But there are hard, cold facts about how things work and who is being responsible and who's not.  And the challenge is making sure that voters are aware of that."

But facts are funny things.  They can be distorted and opinions can be disguised as facts.

Here is a perfect example.

OBAMA: "For the first eight years of this century, before I came into office, we tried trickle-down economics.  We slashed taxes for folks at the top, stripped out regulations, didn't make investments in the things we know we need to grow.  At the end of those eight years, we had soaring deficits, record job losses, an economy in crippling recession."

So let's analyze the president's statement with facts:

In 2007 under President Bush, the median household income in America was $56, 436.  

Today after six years of President Obama, it's $53,332.  

The unemployment rate today is 5.5%.

Under President Bush after a few years in office, the lowest level was 4.4%.

The highest federal income tax rate under Bush: 35%.  It is now close to 40% under President Obama.

Now about the recession.

It didn't happen because of trickle down economics, it happened because the American banking system gave out housing loans to people who couldn't pay back the money.

Also, the federal agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac piled up huge amounts of derelict loans.

That scam in both the public and private sectors collapsed the economy.

So President Obama's facts about the recession are debatable to say the least, certainly not in-stone truth.

And believe me, you will not hear that analysis on the nightly news broadcasts or the other cable news operations.

You will only hear it here on Fox News.

Not because we dislike President Obama, although some FNC commentators clearly do.

It's because people like Charles Krauthammer, Brit Hume, Megyn Kelly, Dana Perino and others are fact-based analysts.

And that is a clear threat to any politician or political party that is trying to deceive people or trying to promote policies that are failures.

So to blunt the impact of Fox News, we are attacked by the left and derided by other media.

You see that consistently on MSNBC and CNN, which are collapsing in the ratings.

I mean, last night I turned on CNN at 9 p.m. to see what they were reporting.

I saw Anthony Bourdain eating soup in India or someplace.

The soup looked good.

So what we have here is failure to communicate, to quote the iconic movie Cool Hand Luke.

The liberal press is in decline, Fox News is surging.

In February, the primetime lineup on FNC number one in the cable world, not just news.  We kicked the zombie channel's butt.

And for the first two weeks of March, same thing.

Again, that kind of dominance is a severe threat to the far left, which needs to marginalize independent voices in order to put Hillary Clinton into the White House.

And that's the memo.