Posted on 10/19/2009 11:43:32 AM PDT by La Lydia
The Obama White House is making no secret of its distaste for Fox News. In a round of Sunday talk show appearances, the administration escalated its war against the network that likes to call itself "fair and balanced" but that happens to feature quite a few conservative voices...
But some are wondering if this is smart politics. Given that Fox News boasts a far larger audience than cable competitors CNN and MSNBC, and given that most elections are decided by independents who might occasionally watch FNC, the strategy could backfire.
“It's a very risky strategy,” perennial presidential advisor David Gergen said recently on CNN. “It's not one I would advocate.”
For its part, the administration seems content to keep the battle going, even though the wars have already claimed a few victims. Glenn Beck pounded the lectern relentlessly about green jobs czar Van Jones for signing a petition suggesting government conspiracy in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Jones resigned.
Now Beck has turned his furor on White House communications director Anita Dunn for saying that China's Mao Tse-tung was one of her favorite philosophers. Firing back, Dunn said she picked up the line from renowned Republican strategist Lee Atwater and that it was meant as irony.
"The use of the phrase 'favorite political philosophers' was intended as irony, but clearly the effort fell flat -- at least with a certain Fox commentator whose sense of irony may be missing," she said. Keeping up the White House attack, Dunn also charged that Fox serves as "the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party."...
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Dunn was just being ironic. Really? Keep handingthis babe a shovel. More of her “irony” can prove useful, particularly as she continues to rag on Fox. Also, Axelrod should be careful about who and what he calls a news organization, given his “journalistic” career, such as it was in Chicago. Remember Dave, the old saying about glass houses and throwing stones.
I don’t believe he was EVER a real journalist. I think he has been a propaganda producer for his entire career. And the newspapers that employed him and printed his agitprob didn’t care. Now they are going bankrupt.
Only a matter of time before somebody finds a photo of her in a Mao or a Che shirt or similar incriminating “irony.”
No.
He’s a hardcore lefty. This is winning him nothing but praise from the radical left. Go check out the number 1 recommended diary at DailyKos if you don’t believe me.
And don’t be surprised when you see the rest of the media piling on Fox News.
When they said “Free Press”, they didn’t mean for people who disagree.
I’ll take your word for it. I do not give DailyKos my clicks.
“Distraction. Americans have the Jerry Springer mindset. The American public will happily follow this food fight.
Meanwhile the knife of socialized medicine will be slid into the public’s back.”
Exactly right. While conservatives stay in a froth about Fox, or Rush, the WH bulls it’s agenda forward.
I expect that when it’s all said and done the Republic will die without a whimper and without much notice. We’ll be watching run away balloons.
IMHO Obama knows exactly what he’s doing. All this crap in the media is just a distraction. Wish more Americans didn’t swallow it hook line & sinker. I’m personally glad I don’t have cable TV.
I saw the tape - Dunn was dead serious about her favorite political philosophers ... The real question is “why”? I think naming a communist as a favorite is a “suck up” to her boss - Obama. Which tells us much about her perception of him...
“First the NYT, then CNN now the LATimes are saying the same thing.”
Saying what same thing? The same thing as Fox said or the same thing/excuse as Dunn said?
Then what are you even doing on this thread?
“Then what are you even doing on this thread?”
Sounding off. The same thing everybody else is doing here.
Slamming th WH for it's childish fight with a news organization. Helen Thomas joined in, too. (Sorry for mentioning her in this thread. Hopefully the rule of posting her picture will be overlooked)
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