Posted on 10/18/2009 2:00:35 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Senior Obama administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to accuse Fox News of pushing a particular point of view, one week after the administration fired its initial salvo to try to isolate the news network by accusing it of being a GOP mouthpiece.
"A lot of their news programming, it's really not news. It's pushing a point of view," senior adviser David Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week."
"The way we -- the president looks at it and we look at it, is, it is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective," White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel added on CNN's "State of the Union."
The open assault on Fox News began last weekend when White House Communications Director Anita Dunn accused the network of being a "wing of the Republican Party."
"What I think is fair to say about Fox -- and certainly it's the way we view it -- is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party," Dunn said on CNN. "They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is."
Despite calls to the White House this week, the administration did not offer a guest for this weekend's "Fox News Sunday" to talk about Dunn's comments, although administration officials appeared on all four Sunday morning shows to speak on various issues.
President Obama has had interviews with all of the other Sunday talk shows except "Fox News Sunday," including a whirlwind weekend in late September where he appeared on all other Sunday talk shows.
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Would you want to be associated with CBS, CNN, NYT, etc?
Keep "isolating" - FREAKS!
LOLOL........as someone said on CNN
Obama can talk to Amadamnutjob but not to Chris Wallace.
The rest of America watches FNC so they can get the facts.
These people actually believe they can say and do anything!
**The open assault on Fox News began last weekend **
And RATINGS KEEP RISING.. MORONS!!!
HEIL FUHRER OBAMA
Hussein is desperate to keep from having the lid pulled off his casket of corruption.
**The rest of America watches FNC so they can get the facts.**
And to make matters worse.. for Newspaper coverage.. We need to go to the “UK GUARDIAN” or the “CANADA FREE PRESS”
HEIL FUHRER OBAMA
This is their dumbest strategy yet. But consistent with the amateur hour that has been going on all year.
After the drubbing on health care watch for the Obama administration to began efforts to muzzle Fox News and talk radio with some type of Fairness or Diversity regulations.
Obama will not condemn the killers of Neda and other brave Iranians but will name Americans as enemies. Sick.
OK, lets assume for the sake of argument she is right, and that Fox News is just a thinly disguised shill for the GOP, and that CNN is a real objective news organization.
Then the interesting question becomes why Fox News kicks CNN's ass in ratings...are they saying that Americans actually prefer shallow Republican propaganda over real news?
Will just one reporter ask Obama if any dissent is tolerable by his administration?
They are setting the table. Establishing the grounds that Fox is not "a part of the news media," therefore does not enjoy the same First Amendment and other protections that the "news media" have.
Watch out for the real attack down the road. These cancerous tumors have begun a stategy to push Fox off the air.
I should probably just say nothing (when your enemy is hurting himself, let him,) but there’s just about zero chance the enemy will take heed: The White House cannot isolate Fox News, but they can isolate themselves. And their attempts to isolate Fox News can have no other effect than alienating the vast American majority from the White House. The audience shares of the various networks make that point beyond any reasonable dispute.
Boy, the way this is going to end is nothing like the White House thinks.
Is it hurting Fox’s ratings? Personally, I don’t want to hear the liberal propagandists anyway. Let them babble for liberal lost causes on the other networks. They aren’t going to change any minds that way.
Each one would say "I knew it they hated you then you were the group for me."
Same thing is happening to Fox News, but on a much larger scale.
Thanks for identifying your polar opposite, White House. People really are listening to you.
Personally, I don’t see why Fox is all upset over this. It just pushes the other networks to the left and further establishes that Foxnews is the only network that can be trusted. And I can’t believe it’s hurting their ratings. Personally, I turn off Fox every time I see them interview an Administration official. They just make my blood boil.
What is the first thing you do when someone tells you not to look?
O and his cabal simply do not have enough fingers to keep in the dike. The truth keeps leaking out.
Was Obama elected to do this? Is this part of his job description?
While Rush is bad and Mao is good.
I think you are right HB. You can bet they have a nefarious plan to lead Fox down a twisted trail that will end in the loss of their broadcast license. It will be a sad day when the plug is pulled on that organization. Who is the FCC chairman now? Is it some czar-like lemming with a office of socialistic support staff? Beware when they start changing the Broadcast Rules and Regulations.
"The President himself is no more than a representative of public opinion at the time of his election; and as public opinion is subject to great and frequent fluctuations, he must accommodate his policy to them; or the people will speedily give him a successor. . . ." - John Quincy Adams
"The Fox-Obama News Hour. The News as President Obama would like it presented."
I’m sure Glenn Beck will make hay from this, and I would hope Charles Krauthammer will also, but if I were the news director, every news article regarding Obama or the White House, I would close the report with a statement to the effect that the White House was asked to comment, but declined.
Further, I would challenge Anita Dunne, as I’m sure Glenn Beck will, but I would take it a step further, making sure she is the focus of most of the news stories.
I would also use some of Chris Matthews’ or Olberman’s rants of an example of the ‘White House’s view of “news” and I would broadcast those stories as opinion, but I’d make sure to attribute the rants to the White House’s view of valid news reporting. The American public is smart enough to run with that comparison.
I’m not so sure.
Americans may have let the inportance of our Constitution drift from focus, but the First Amendment has (never) before been under partisan attack in America.
In fact the very left which is now attempting to subvert the Bill of Rights has for decades screamed about the importance of the First Amendment. Even some otherwise brainless leftists in the media, hold it in reverence.
FNC really needs to push back hard on this.
Bet it wakes up some other journalists.
Display the text of the First Amendment, at every station break. Push back and make it a loud, contentious issue.
Our free speech must not be surrendered.
Suck it up, Axlefraud.
You're tuned in, I'll be sending you popcorn.
How can you isolate the majority? We surround THEM!
They are setting the table. Establishing the grounds that Fox is not "a part of the news media," therefore does not enjoy the same First Amendment and other protections that the "news media" have.
Watch out for the real attack down the road. These cancerous tumors have begun a strategy to push Fox off the air.
I fear you may be right but I can't believe that Rupert Murdoch along with Roger Ailes and the other top executives at Fox haven't thought of this already and figured out a strategy to combat a move by Obama's FCC to pull the Fox broadcast license. It's a billion-dollar organization run by savvy people that aren't going to be rolled by the Obama amateurs playing Chicago-style politics.
“Team Obama is playing Fox News like a fiddle.” What? They are increasing Fox News Audience by thousands daily. Team Obama are a bunch of cry babies. Hey, team Obama, keep up the good work you morons.
Maybe in the 21st century it should be, don't f@ck with anyone who buys electrons by the gigawatt?
5.56mm
That is so gay looking, and he is the only one flinching, pathetic.
Increasing audience by even a million people just to talk about Obama targeting them? Who cares? It keeps Fox from commenting on the destructive Obama policies. It's a win for Obama.
...and Fox News keeps getting higher ratings. Coinky-dink?
The sad thing is, a Republican in the White House wouldn’t have the BALLS to tell PMSNBC to shove it....
They have shown us time and time again that we must “watch what the other hand is doing.” They want Fox distracted by this and the Rush football mess so Fox doesn’t pay attention to something they are trying to hide. Something big must be happening very soon.
I don’t think Fox is upset over this. It appears that they are rightly amused.
assholes r us....axlerod the bomb is an enemy and deserves to be removed, him and all of his minions.
I agree but they still have to defend themselves and they are doing a good job of it. The Obama Administration is the most inept government we’ve had in history. The majority of the news organizations are trying their best to cover up this but it still shows big time.
Obama et al are going to find themselves isolated and out of a job!
Trying to thwart the First Amendment?
They better watch out or they will end up in court!
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