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Obama vs. Fox News


The Obama administration says it's treating Fox News Channel as a political opponent, and executives at the top-rated cable news network are responding that the White House can't tell straight reporting from opinion.

White House communications director Anita Dunn recently told Time magazine that she thinks the channel offers "opinion journalism masquerading as news," and kept up the criticism on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday and in The New York Times Monday.

Fox's senior vice president for news, Michael Clemente, issued a statement Monday, saying:  "It's astounding the White House can't distinguish between news and opinion programming. It seems self-serving on their part."

And Fox's senior vice president for programming, Bill Shine, told the Times every time the White House criticizes the network, "our ratings go up."

Fox has drawn a record number of viewers this year, averaging 1.2 million viewers, up from 1 million viewers last year. It's previous high came in 2003, the year the Iraq war started, when it had nearly 1.1 million viewers.

While Clemente maintained that the White House unfairly mixes its perception of the network's reporters and its pundits whom he compares to "the op-ed page of a newspaper" Dunn says she does indeed differentiate between White House correspondent Major Garrett and "the opinion guys" such as Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. "I'm talking about the overall programming," she explains.

The Times reported that the White House recently limited administration members' appearances on Fox News Channel. Last month, when President Barack Obama himself made the rounds of Sunday morning talk shows, he skipped Fox. That provoked Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace to call the administration "the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington."

Dunn says people from the administration would still talk to Fox and that Obama was likely to be interviewed on the network in the future. But, she says: "We're not going to legitimize them as a news organization."

On Monday, Fox did a comprehensive report about the battle and harkened back to when President Richard Nixon wanted to freeze out The New York Times.

When his program came on later, Beck averred: "They're more worried about the war on Fox than the actual war in Afghanistan."

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Why in the fuck does everyone want to turn a blind eye to all of these things coming up?

Here is a thread that confirms that something is wrong! Yet people are willing to just sit on the sidelines as America gets infultrated from the inside!

Just how long before Obama learns enough about how the USA's defence system works and we get fist fucked?

http://autotrend.activeboard.com/index.spark?aBID=91042&p=3&topicID=31659423

With all that is coming out, how can people ignore this?

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Escalates war on FOXNEWS...Urges rest of press to side with administration

The White House escalated its offensive against Fox News on Sunday by urging other news organizations to stop "following Fox" and instead join the administration's attempt to marginalize the channel.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox."

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is "not a news organization."

"Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way," Axelrod counseled ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "We're not going to treat them that way."

By urging other news outlets to side with the administration, Obama aides officials dramatically upped the ante in the war of words that began earlier this month, when White House communications director Anita Dunn branded Fox "opinion journalism masquerading as news."

On Sunday, Fox's Chris Wallace retorted: "We wanted to ask Dunn about her criticism, but, as they've done every week since August, the White House refused to make any administration officials available to 'FOX News Sunday' to talk about this or anything else."

The White House stopped providing guests to 'Fox News Sunday' after Wallace fact-checked controversial assertions made by Tammy Duckworth, assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in August. Dunn said fact-checking an administration official was "something I've never seen a Sunday show do."

"She criticized 'FOX News Sunday' last week for fact-checking -- fact-checking -- an administration official," Wallace said Sunday. "They didn't say that our fact-checking was wrong. They just said that we had dared to fact-check."

"Let's fact-check Anita Dunn, because last Sunday she said that Fox ignores Republican scandals, and she specifically mentioned the scandal involving Nevada senator John Ensign," Wallace added. "A number of Fox News shows have run stories about Senator Ensign. Anita Dunn's facts were just plain wrong."

Fox News senior vice president Michael Clemente said: "Surprisingly, the White House continues to declare war on a news organization instead of focusing on the critical issues that Americans are concerned about like jobs, health care and two wars. The door remains open and we welcome a discussion about the facts behind the issues."

Observers on both sides of the political aisle questioned the White House's decision to continue waging war on a news organization, saying the move carried significant political risks.

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said on CNN: "I don't always agree with the White House. And on this one here I would disagree."

David Gergen, who has worked for Democratic and Republican presidents, said: "I totally agree with Donna Brazile." Gergen added that White House officials have "gotten themselves into a fight they don't necessarily want to be in. I don't think it's in their best interest."

"The faster they can get this behind them, the more they can treat Fox like one other organization, the easier they can get back to governing, and then put some people out on Fox," Gergen said on CNN. "I mean, for goodness sakes -- you know, you engage in the debate.

What Americans want is a robust competition of ideas, and they ought to be willing to go out there and mix it up with some strong conservatives on Fox, just as there are strong conservatives on CNN like Bill Bennett."

Bennett expressed outrage that Dunn told an audience of high school students this year that Mao Tse-tung, the founder of communist China, was one of "my favorite political philosophers."

"Having the spokesman do this, attack Fox, who says that Mao Zedong is one of the most influential figures in her life, was nota small thing; it's a big thing," Bennett said on CNN. "When she stands up, in a speech to high school kids, says she's deeply influenced by Mao Zedong, that -- I mean, that is crazy."

Fox News contributor Karl Rove, who was the top political strategist to former President George W. Bush, said: "This is an administration that's getting very arrogant and slippery in its dealings with people. And if you dare to oppose them, they're going to come hard at you and they're going to cut your legs off."

"This is a White House engaging in its own version of the media enemies list. And it's unhelpful for the country and undignified for the president of the United States to so do," Rove added. "That is over- the-top language. We heard that before from Richard Nixon."

Media columnist David Carr of the New York Times warned that the White House war on Fox "may present a genuine problem for Mr. Obama, who took great pains during the campaign to depict himself as being above the fray of over-heated partisan squabbling."

"While there is undoubtedly a visceral thrill in finally setting out after your antagonists, the history of administrations that have successfully taken on the media and won is shorter than this sentence," Carr wrote over the weekend. "So far, the only winner in this latest dispute seems to be Fox News. Ratings are up 20 percent this year."

He added: "The administration, by deploying official resources against a troublesome media organization, seems to have brought a knife to a gunfight."

White House Escalates War on Fox News - Political News - FOXNews.com


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Listen real carefully Rex, and you can barely hear the sound of nobody caring.

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I think thats what got us into this mess.

Thanks for confirming it for me.

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PowerStroker wrote:

Listen real carefully Rex, and you can barely hear the sound of nobody caring.




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