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[Helen] Thomas to White House: End Fox fight
The Hill ^ | 10/19/2009 | Tony Romm

Posted on 10/19/2009 6:19:06 PM PDT by markomalley

Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas on Monday advised the Obama administration to stand down and avoid fighting with Fox News and its correspondents.

In an interview with MSNBC, the columnist -- who is promoting her new book on presidents and their campaigns -- also stressed the White House ought to "stay out of these fights."

"They can only take you down. You can't kill the messenger," said Thomas, who has covered every president from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama.

Whether the White House takes her advice, however, is another story. Just this weekend, Senior Adviser David Axelrod charged Fox was "not really a news organization." And Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel twice insinuated the channel was a danger to the craft of journalism itself.

“It’s not a news organization so much as it has a perspective, and that’s a different take," Emanuel told CNN's "State of the Union," a line he echoed in principle on CBS later in the day. "And more importantly, it’s important not to have the CNN’s and the others of the world being led and following Fox, as if what they’re trying to do is a legitimate news organization."


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Even Helen (Guilty) Thomas. Wow.
1 posted on 10/19/2009 6:19:07 PM PDT by markomalley
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NO PICTURES!


2 posted on 10/19/2009 6:22:25 PM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: markomalley

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366213/posts


3 posted on 10/19/2009 6:24:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (90% of the fedgov is unconstitutional. The other 10% besides the military doesnt know what it's doin)
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To: markomalley

This is more Saul Alinsky crapola. One of the “rules for radicals” is that you freeze the target, polarize and personalize it. They did that with Rush Limbaugh, saying he was the enemy. And now they are doing that with Fox News, saying that they are the enemy. They want to damage the public image of Fox News.

The liberal elites are delighted, I’m sure, with an attack on a news channel they loathe. But will “middle America” really respond to this half-baked attack on a news channel which gets higher ratings than most other cable news channels combined????


4 posted on 10/19/2009 6:24:48 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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This whole thing is nothing short than comical. BO already has MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS in his pocket as compared to Fox News, that you could argue isn’t. My God, man. Look at those odds. Five to one? What is there to complain about with a 5-to-1 ratio? With this “war” with Fox News all he is going to do is drive up their ratings even further. I predict that Fox News will continue to set new records for viewerships. Keep the war going. All you are doing is driving up the ratings. CNN’s ratings are even lower than “Full House” reruns.


5 posted on 10/19/2009 6:24:54 PM PDT by chippewaman
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FINALLY the original thread appeared. Could you please zap this thread as a dupe.

Tnx


6 posted on 10/19/2009 6:25:06 PM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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Nooo, don't do it! They've stolen our playbook! Don't fall for it! You must resist! It's what they want!!!

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7 posted on 10/19/2009 6:25:09 PM PDT by Sax
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And sometimes the MSNBC ratings are microscopic compared to Fox. I wonder if MSNBC edges out the ratings for late night infomercials?


8 posted on 10/19/2009 6:26:25 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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If the White House manages to marginalize Fox the rest of the press will be under complete control of the Chicago thugs. Even Helen knows this.


9 posted on 10/19/2009 6:26:26 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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This is advice that the Marxists just aren’t smart enough to accept.


10 posted on 10/19/2009 6:28:39 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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>>And sometimes the MSNBC ratings are microscopic compared to Fox. I wonder if MSNBC edges out the ratings for late night infomercials<<

Now that Billy Mays is dead, I think it is a dead heat. Before that, not even close.


11 posted on 10/19/2009 6:28:39 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: darkwing104

Good point, without the outlier, no one else has any freedom of movement. Kinda ironic if they’re the ones having to reap what they’ve sown and say there’s now a line about to be crossed. They’ve created this monster.


12 posted on 10/19/2009 6:30:01 PM PDT by Sax
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To: Buck W.
NO PICTURES!

But it's almost Halloween!

13 posted on 10/19/2009 6:30:34 PM PDT by South40 (I did not know President Ronald Reagan, but he knew me.)
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To: Buck W.

14 posted on 10/19/2009 6:34:17 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers

Yes Please!!!


15 posted on 10/19/2009 6:35:24 PM PDT by rintense
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To: markomalley

Foxy Helen gives White House advice about Fox.


16 posted on 10/19/2009 6:39:52 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Buck W.

Fox News must be scaring the hell out of the White House. It’s a concern that our government officials are so immature. O’s ability to make wise decisions is highly questionable.


17 posted on 10/19/2009 6:40:05 PM PDT by Joyell
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To: rintense

18 posted on 10/19/2009 6:40:46 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Joyell

I think they hate Glenn Beck. They took away his advertisers ... but Fox feels like subsidizing him. :)


19 posted on 10/19/2009 6:42:10 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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The things I’d do... SIGH.


20 posted on 10/19/2009 6:49:33 PM PDT by rintense
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