By launching coordinated, fully-blown warfare on Fox News, as is their style, the Obama administration is stopping far beneath the dignity of the office of president. The recent round of attacks became particularly intense as White House communications staff, senior advisors, and even the president himself each took their turns at lobbing potshots at the top cable news station.
This conflict began brewing during the presidential campaign with Obama cracking jokes and complaining about Fox News, continued through the early months of his presidency, and then increased their momentum to reach the unprecedented crescendo of the recent bombardments. The first new round of shots was fired when Obama visited five Sunday morning shows in one day, including the big networks, CNN, and Univision, but clearly neglecting to appear on the leading cable news station, Fox.
The real battle began on October 12, when Communications Director Anita Dunn defined Fox News as “a wing of the Republican Party” then mocked and belittled it by saying, “But let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.” She continued her diatribe by calling Fox News “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” This statement is most ironic given that CNN dubbed legitimate tea party protesters “tea baggers” and whose own reporter shouted down protesters, lecturing them about how wonderful Obama’s policies are for them. In a recent recording, Dunn brags about how the Obama campaign controlled their message and their media coverage. Evidently, Anita Dunn abhors Fox News because they refuse to be lapdogs like the rest of the media. Dunn pridefully declared that no one from the Obama administration will be appearing on Fox for at least the rest of this year.
The attacks intensified when White House senior advisers Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel played their roles by hitting the Sunday talk-show circuit with their disdain for Fox News. They repeated the same prepared lines from the White House, stating that Fox was not a news organization. Evidently Emanuel and other team members are upset that Fox covers newsworthy stories, including ACORN and Van Jones, while the mainstream, liberal media barely mention them. Fox represents a voice they don’t control. Consequently, Team Obama is engaging in the tactics of Obama’s extremely radical, left-wing mentor, Saul Alinsky, to isolate and discredit them.
The assaults sunk to new lows this week when President Obama personally entered the scene. Illustrating just how thin-skinned our commander-in-chief is, he pronounced that Fox News is “operating basically as talk radio,” meaning, talk radio allows people to criticize Obama. It is particularly telling when a president stoops to the level of criticizing a news organization, because it reveals how desperate, frightened and threatened he truly feels.
The lapdog media have responded as expected to this unprecedented assault on free speech and a news organization. Only Jake Tapper of ABC and Helen Thomas, dean of the press corps, have stood up and argued that the White House is using outlandish, reprehensible tactics. Outside of these two, the lapdog media remain passive and mum. In a column for Newsweek, Jacob Weisberg is even calling for a media boycott of Fox News, claiming that the organization is “Un-American.”
The hypocrisy and double standard displayed by these media types is truly unbelievable. If Bush or a Republican candidate for office had ever criticized MSNBC and declared it to be a wing of the Democratic Party, the criticism would never end. The worst hypocrite of all is Keith Olbermann.
In 2008, White House Counsel Ed Gillespie sent a letter to the president of NBC accusing the network of selectively editing Bush’s answers to distort the president’s position. Olbermann later blasted Gillespie in his “Worst Person in the World” segment, accusing Gillespie of “whining like a high school sophomore.” What is Olbermann doing now? He is out front cheerleading the Obama administration’s attacks on Fox and attended a meeting with Obama this week in a summit for fellow liberal influencers including Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson and Maureen Dowd.
Lapdog Olbermann the Doberman is an outspoken bigot, evidenced by his own words: “Mr. Bush, shut the hell up!” “You’re a fascist! Get them to print a T-shirt with the word ‘fascist’ on it!” “George W. Bush is ‘psychotic’ with ‘blood on his hands,’” and calls the GOP the greatest terrorist threat in America. The liberal double standard is out in full force. Thankfully, Americans are ignoring President Obama’s pettiness and attacks by tuning into Fox for the unbiased story in record numbers. The American people know bias when they see it, and they want to know the truth.
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“Lapdog press”, MSM in general, will be next – they just hope that by licking WH boots they will be spared….NOT!!!
GOOD.
saul alinsky tactics look very ugly and childish when done at the top executive level.
they (the tactics) worked with uneducated inner cities and self-victimising types, and because it is so much a part of the present administration they will not abandon the tactics.
I am encouraged to see that the public is starting to push back, for a while I thought it was over for freedom.
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Anita Dunn's big FAVORITE: Mass Murderer Mao.
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White House boasts: We 'control' news media
October 18, 2009
By Aaron Klein
…Fox hit back this past Friday, releasing a video of Dunn speaking to high school students last June in which she lists her two “favorite political philosophers,” including Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung, whose draconian policies are blamed for the deaths of tens of millions of people.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageI…
Obama Cabinet Member Anita Dunn: Mao Tse Tung “Favorite Philosopher”; Truth is subjective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi1zg2NOCn8&feat…
Did her publicly broadcast radical Leftist beliefs secure her position of power? As Anita Dunn, so deeply admires Mao who murdered 70 million Chinese innocents, what implications does that have for millions of American innocents?
Every American has reason to be very concerned. This is no longer the America we once knew.
EVERY AMERICAN MUST BE MADE AWARE OF THIS SPEECH!
The mainstream media are BETRAYING Americans by their silence. It is easy to take over a country when the media cooperate in the take over.
given that FOX has a large viewership comprised of a cross section of americans makes this even more serious.
that means that this president and this administration has chosen to cut out of a large part of the american electorate. by their actons they are saying they will not work on behalf of those americans.
more then that they are saying “I will do what I want and I will not work for those who oppose my policies” obama has reversed the role of civil servant to dictator.
this is truly troubling and more like a third world dictatorship then a first world democracy.
I watch Foxnews for the commecials…….
Did you actually write this with a straigt face? fox “news” is nothing more than a tool of rupert murdock. He wields it by utilizing “head lackey” roger ailes to attack any patriotic and freedom loving Americans. The fascist agenda of fox “news” is blatant. Their rhetoric borders on treason. They have all but called for Americans to take violent action against their government and their president. If there is such a thing as “evil” it is embodied in fox and its minions
Actually, taking action against the government was condoned by the founding fathers. The government has no business telling me what to do, period. Too bad that you believe that it does … you WILL get what you THINK you want.
Un-American? What, therefore, is American? The impropriety of the liberals?
The power of free speech has become the power of free speech, which can be the downfall eventually of those who cannot distinguish free speech from free speech.
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This is a really dumb fight to pick. Fox has a better research staff than most and can bring up file footage on any topic. e.g. the green jobs czar, I mean the former green jobs czar. Again, a dumb move by someone who seems more and more arrogant. They neverr learn.
Fox News is an oasis in the poluted waters of network and cable news. Kudos to Glenn Beck, Hannity, Brit Hume, Laura Ingelham, Michell Malkin, Karl Rove, Frank Gaftney and many, many others. But if Fox would be less entertainment and more news instead of running the real news as a scrolling banner below the talking heads; IF Fox would leave looping celebrities, crime and all that inane fluff they fill the time with(like Michael the pediphile Jackson) et al and give its audience and viewers a level of analysis and understanding that is just a step above the rudimentary, Fox could be a real force for renewal. Just because it's the only game in town, so to speak, should not lull them into being complacent. If something with more quality appears, Fox will find the loss of significant viewership in favor of a news provider that better meets our needs for real news and analysis. Loyalty must be won daily.
This would be a stupid thing to do, even for a popular administration. While they might not be able to get Fox onboard with their agenda, they certainly don't need anymore outright enemies. It is one thing to try to counter what a particular writer says, but news organizations, for all their faults, don't take an attack on their existence lightly. Every administration that has ever tried this in “this” country has had their head handed to them, even when they were right.
Despite the fact that the founding fathers did approve of the action you describe, Fox has not done that. Whether Fox is “news” or not is up to the public, their viewers, to embrace, or not. Please state what statute Fox has violated regarding violent action against the government and/or the president? I will await a reply. I guess the bottom line is, if there is no violation of the law, what do you propose to do about Fox.
“By launching coordinated, fully-blown warfare on Fox News, as is their style, the Obama administration is stopping far beneath the dignity of the office of president.”
Wow. And the writer continues this “war” imagery throughout. FPM is trying to create the very thing they are criticizing. Fox is not news anymore. Sure it's the channel of choice if you want to hear about random child abductions somewhere in the country, but they have declared themselves the opposition party.
So it goes…now they are going to be treated as what they are….and WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAA is basically FPM's position. FPM doesn't really accept what it is either…so no surprise there.