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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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.
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