Posted on 10/24/2009 10:00:02 AM PDT by JRochelle
It's pretty unremarkable to describe the Obama White House's growing enemies list -- the insurance companies, Chamber of Commerce, Fox News -- as "Nixonian." But there's one place where, if you venture such an opinion, you'd better be prepared to apologize -- quickly and profusely.
On National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" Wednesday, NPR political editor Ken Rudin said the White House campaign against Fox News is a bad idea. "It's not only aggressive, it's almost Nixonesque," Rudin said. "I mean, you think of what Nixon and Agnew did with their enemies list and their attacks on the media; certainly Vice President Agnew's constant denunciation of the media. Of course, then it was a conservative president denouncing a liberal media, and of course, a lot of good liberals said, 'Oh, that's ridiculous. That's an infringement on the freedom of press.' And now you see a lot of liberals almost kind of applauding what the White House is doing to Fox News, which I think is distressing."
It's not the usual thing you hear from NPR analysts. Reaction from the NPR audience was negative, and within 24 hours, Rudin was in backtrack mode. "I made a boneheaded mistake yesterday," Rudin wrote on his NPR blog. "Comparing the tactics of the Nixon administration -- which bugged and intimidated and harrassed journalists -- to that of the Obama administration was foolish, facile, ridiculous and, ultimately, embarrassing to me. I should have known better and, in fact, I do know better. I was around during the Nixon years. I am fully cognizant of what they did and attempted to do."
"I apologize for a dumb comparison."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Of course, then it was a conservative president denouncing a liberal media
Since when was Richard ‘We are all Keynesian now’ Nixon, a conservative? ‘Wage and price controls’? Anyone?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Apology UN accepted.
You were right the fist time, fool.
He issued an apology to Nixon?
Sounds like the NPR reporter is correct in his initial assessment since, obviously, he has now been forced to recant his opinion.
Well, unlike a lot of the so-called independent Media, NPR is beholden to the Feds. So when the Obama Administration barks, you can expect that the folks at NPR will cower and pee on the floor.
With boneheaded comparisons like that maybe he should just give up being a journalist.
Back on the porch for you Rudin!
The Obama commie/chicago thug tactics just keep on working against the timid. Thank GOD Roger Ailes has the backbone to rise above the Rahm Emmanuel/Axelrod/Obama slime and intimadation.
"Ta-da! That's my boy!"
Report dissenters to flag@whitehouse.gov.
That was Nixon that did that...right?
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**** applause **** Take a bow!
This guy ripped off Charles Krauthammer. Charles used “Nixonian” on Special Report with Brett Bair early this past week.
You got that right JR. Nixon had a few problems, but he was basically a very effective and decisive president and a workaholic. Plus, his staff was composed of intelligent adults, not the crib full of crybabies we currently have.
Was that the same Milhous that promoted and signed the Environmental Protection (of Marxist policy) Act?
Or was he the one who allowed the Peacenik US Congress to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for the South Vietnamese people by allowing the defunding of the critical war material support for the South Vietnamese government? That "conservative?"
His Borg implant must have malfunctioned.
Looking at what the dems have done to the presidency, Nixon was an amateur.
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