Posted on 10/19/2009 7:53:59 AM PDT by markomalley
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."
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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."
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Axelrod is a cheap facist.
demonize...than marginalize...than destroy...rules for radicals...they aren’t even pretending anymore...
Unfortunately, 1% of the media outlets agrees with Obama only some of the time.
This cannot be tolerated.
wow
I mean two wars, trying to still find a church, HOWS THAT GOING btw? economy, job losses, foreclosures etc etc etc.
Now a war with a news network takes the front row.
I bet that wife doing her first lady job is really busy hey
ARF
what charity is she doing, well I should say what has she done besides having some kids from a DC school come to the white house garden.
Has she gone anywhere over night by herself working yet?
This is unbelievable - administration trying to bring down a television news network. The entire press world should be up in arms over this. The silence is deafeing instead.
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An anti-American administration built on fraud and lies cannot stand the scrutiny and the resulting truth. It must create demons to keep the focus off of itself.
SMOKE SCREEN to get the sheeple to not pay attention to the Health Care debate and Cap and Trade, as in what’sin the bills.
And so far it’s working.
Please telll me what country we are living in again?
Should we start a pool on how long it will be before the White House moves to formally shut down FNC via some FCC machinations?
Clearly this totalitarian regime has declared war on truthful the reporting of actual facts, which is necessary to further their propaganda.
They can’t move to clamp down and disarm us so long as news organizations like Fox exists. The internet is also a big problem, and we’ve already seen them making moves in this area too.
Does anyone NOT see the handwriting on the wall?
Believe it or not, I saw a NY Slimes editorial coming in favor of Fox. As well as the Telegraph, NY magazine, etc.
Which actually surprised me a LOT.
Let the WH SAY whatever it wants. I get my NEWS from Rush and Fox.
Go ahead and try all that will do is drive more viewers to Fox.
Furthermore, these attempts by Congress to vote through their current "healthcare" shenanigans, explicitly hidden from public view, shows every member voting for such legislation not to be worthy of their office. They should be removed at the next election cycle if not legally done sooner.
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“I mean two wars, trying to still find a church, HOWS THAT GOING btw? economy, job losses, foreclosures etc etc etc.
Now a war with a news network takes the front row.”
-Come on now... the obamas worked REEEEEEALLY hard to try to get Chicago the Olympics! All those days and all those taxpayer $$$!!! Whew! Give them a small break. It ain’t easy being POTUS.
The more they scream, the more attention Fox will get, so let them scream while more listeners/watchers keep tuning into Fox.
Agreed...there was a time when all news organizations would defend Free Speech. Now the majority are literally propaganda wings of the Democrat party.
Ummmm...we can do the same things.
And one of those things is to keep pumping up Fox’s ratings and spreading the ridicule like the whining baby cartoon above.
When did Hugo Chavez become special assistant to the president? (CZAR) This is right out of his playbook.
What is going on with FOX NEWS on TV?
I have seen more droputs and image distortion in the last 2 weeks, than I have in the last 2 years combined
Anyone else noticing this????
Don’t you just love Henry Payne?
Leftists also go to Fox to get the real news,
just as the politburo didn’t read Pravda to get real news -
they went to the UK news to see what was really going on in the world.
"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."
What’s amazing is that Fox News is just a more balanced version of the other networks. At least on Fox you get to hear both sides. I guess the administration knows that if the American people are given all the pertinent data, they won’t go with Obama.
That’s good. They are showing everyone that they are nothing but Stalinists who suppress dissent.
Lefties inherently know their ideology is logically indefensible to “the masses”. They also inherently “know” that their ideology is superior.
Combine these two assumptions, and you get the “need” to silence any opposition to their ideology. They are NOT going to debate their ideology and “lose”.
Just a few short months ago the Government was bad and our rights were being trampled...now the lefties are suddenly blind to government intervention.
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy.
Hmmm, haven’t these people heard of a thing called the First Amendment?
If they showed honest criticism of the Whitehouse, they might start getting moderate and conservative viewers, who - do to inquisitive minds- tend to watch more news.
That’s true.
Except even with the focus on FOX News as a story it backfires in part because people check them out and get to hear about the bills anyway. I’m still not convinced driving people to check out sources of opposition where they’ll be “enlightened” with an another opinion is a good tactic.
I guess they want to prejudice moderates against listening to them, but they already think FOX has a bias. The WH’s trouble is that they think all news organizations have a bias. I don’t think this atack on FOX will change that mindset.
Myself, I see FOX as more moderate, slightly Left at time’s and balanced at others by commentators such as Hannity and maybe Glenn. More than that I see it as a business. If this suddenly didn’t sale for Murdock, they’d change their partisan bent. Really if Obama wants to destroy the current makeup of FOX news all he has to do is show Murdock it’s more profitable to give a solid Leftward bias. He’s not a conservative. All he cares about is money. I know the other networks have decided profit isn’t important but Mordock believes differently.
It is a blind FAITH. They are humanists, don’t forget that. They worship infallible “elite” humans just as Christians worship God.
Questioning their motives or methods would be like questioning God’s will.
Thanks for the ping!
No they aren’t pretending.
I have said and have read a hundred times that once Obama senses failure (which is inevitable considering his outrageously bad leadership) he will lash out and become autocratic.
Obama is a failure, and the screaming has just begun.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/fox-news-dominates-3q-200_n_304260.html
all your base huffinpuff
It is becoming clearer and clearer that Obama has an achillies (sp) heel.
the history of administrations that have successfully taken on the media and won is shorter than this sentence
I think a major problem with nobama and his shitcago thugs is their ignorance of this history and their ignorance of America in general. This bunch seems to beleive in their intellectual superiority well beyond their capacity.
Nobama has given us his best shot and proved to shoot no better than that bunch of gangbangas at the Toledo Bar gunfight, lots of banging, zero hitting.
This is unbelievable.
“Please telll me what country we are living in again?”
It sure is starting to resemble Venezuela, isn’t it?
“It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceeded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.”
“If all the sources of current information are effectively under one single control, it is no longer a question of merely persuading the people of this or that. The skillful propagandist then has power to mold their minds in any direction he chooses, and even the most intelligent and independent people cannot entirely escape that influence if they are long isolated from all other sources of information.”
Don't ask me what "pari passu" means but the rest is quite clear. In order to pass his radical measures it is essential that Hussein silence his media opponents.
When are we going to hear the phrase...”nattering nabobs of negativism”.?
Obummer: the White House whiner-in-chief
It is hard to believe, but this is America. Kind of reminds me of some two-bit third world country. Too bad the best and brightest can’t stand any questioning. All those years at ivy league schools and all they seem to have learned is how to be a union organizer. Geez, guys that failed high school know how to do that.
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