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Partisan Dem Ellen Ratner: White House War on Fox "outrageous" and unprecidented (Fox News Watch)
Fox News Watch | October 24, 2009

Posted on 10/24/2009 6:04:46 PM PDT by Stultis

I'm a liberal. I've been in favor of President Obama. But I've got to tell you, it's outrageous. And as a member of the White House press corps, it is a matter of who they let in to the morning gaggle, who they let in to breifings, and its -- I've never seen anything like it. And, listen, I bashed the Bushs administration every day on Fox News. And, you know what? They were kind to me, they let me into everything, they never excluded anybody.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ellenratner; foxnews; missinglink; obama; waronfox
More piling on.

My transcription...

1 posted on 10/24/2009 6:04:46 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis

For once in my life, Ellen Ratner and I were in agreement. She was quite forceful on the issue of access.


2 posted on 10/24/2009 6:06:14 PM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: Stultis

For once in my life, Ellen Ratner and I were in agreement. She was quite forceful on the issue of access.


3 posted on 10/24/2009 6:06:14 PM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: Stultis
I bashed the Bushs administration every day

Actually she just said, "I bashed the Bushs every day." But of course she meant the administration. Meant to put that in brackets.

4 posted on 10/24/2009 6:07:27 PM PDT by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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To: Stultis

5 posted on 10/24/2009 6:09:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: Stultis

First Helen Thomas, then that Jake whatisname from ABC, and now Ellen Ratner.

Who’s up next? Keep it coming people. This is important! Maybe the most important thing you’ll ever say in your journalistic career.


6 posted on 10/24/2009 6:10:51 PM PDT by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: uncitizen

‘Course she said it on Fox, so it’s not “real” news.


7 posted on 10/24/2009 6:13:04 PM PDT by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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To: uncitizen
From what I understand there are going to be NO WH/Adminstration representatives on any of the talk show this Sunday.

They may be afraid of some blowback by the media on their war with Fox News.

8 posted on 10/24/2009 6:15:08 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: Stultis

So she ADMITS she was “bashing Bush” and not necessarily reporting the News objectively?

Well LA DI FRIKKIN DAH!


9 posted on 10/24/2009 6:16:21 PM PDT by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: Stultis
"And, you know what? They were kind to me"
**********

That's the operative word: kind.

That is one thing the thugs from Chitown are not. Their phony smiles don't fool anyone who is hip to their stealth agenda.
GDGDGDGD

"Oh, what I want to know is
Are you kind?"

Uncle John's Band
10 posted on 10/24/2009 6:17:16 PM PDT by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: uncitizen

This is good, so far. But I wonder how long it will be before the WH calls together another gaggle of the chosen press to reiterate their talking points, with a baseball bat, not to follow Fox News’ leads?

Carrot/stick.
Except the stick is a Chicago BB bat.


11 posted on 10/24/2009 6:18:15 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: Bahbah
I think the dems and the letter nets have figured out if the adm. succeeds in isolating FNC it will only make them stronger. That's the last thing the drivebys want at this point. That would explain their recent "support" of FNC against the adm.

Their "support" was probably more self preservation of the DBM than anything else,IMHO.

12 posted on 10/24/2009 6:18:27 PM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Stultis

To bad Ellen will not speak out about Obamas war on america.


13 posted on 10/24/2009 6:19:29 PM PDT by exnavy (GOD save the republic)
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To: Stultis

LOL You may be on to something there.


14 posted on 10/24/2009 6:20:21 PM PDT by exnavy (GOD save the republic)
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To: Stultis

I’m guessing the ‘Rat internal pols ain’t looking too good from the incompetence in the WH.


15 posted on 10/24/2009 6:21:17 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: mware

THAT is amazing, with all the issues going on. Are they taking time to re-strategerize??


16 posted on 10/24/2009 6:21:20 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: All
Maybe one liberal gets it, maybe not.

Nixon v. Obama.

Richard Nixon's shenanigans were existential threats to our Republic? What he was accused of would shock today's America? Even in light of the antics of the 1990s and beyond.. really?

I got a movie to sell you, "The French Line".

1953 Headline:

Disgusting! Can the producer, not the movie!
End of Our Morals. Vulgar Costume, Vulgar Bath Scene, Dance!
"Jane Russell is almost nude, one-piece costume reveals skin below her waist."

Los Angeles, 1953. "Jane Russell in 3D, it'll knock [bleep] your eyes out" says the promotion. It's the end of Hollywood morals say some. "Ban it!" . . . .

. . .

2009 Headline:

Hollywood: "Don't insult us. We're not 'The French Line'"
1953 Movie Was Way Overboard, "Glad It Was Banned"
"'Liberals for Morality' denounce immoral 1953 movie at "Let's F*** Til We Drop" premier

17 posted on 10/24/2009 6:21:42 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Stultis

Take a good look, liberals.

Look at the monster you have created.


18 posted on 10/24/2009 6:23:39 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: rodguy911

It’s hard to know what the thinking is. They have no integrity. They lie constantly. They have no problem with that. So it’s not the integrity of information that they are concerned about.

I haven’t figured it out. Perhaps they think it just makes the Won look bad.


19 posted on 10/24/2009 6:24:31 PM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: Stultis
I bashed the Bushs administration every day on Fox News. And, you know what? They were kind to me, they let me into everything, they never excluded anybody.

We have a winner.

20 posted on 10/24/2009 6:28:01 PM PDT by alrea
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To: rodguy911

Ditto.


21 posted on 10/24/2009 6:28:30 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Bahbah

This article gives me hope only minutes after Joy Behar called me and other conservative citizens a “toxic fringe”.


22 posted on 10/24/2009 6:28:45 PM PDT by Notasoccermom
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To: Stultis

Well yeah. Maybe she can cross the street to NBC and say the same thing and it’ll be real news then!!!


23 posted on 10/24/2009 6:31:08 PM PDT by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: mware

No kidding...there isn’t one MSM host worth his/her paycheck who wouldn’t be asking about the WH policy re: Fox. And they know it.

It’s interesting how the(the WH) has backed themselves into a corner. They’ve almost made it mandatory to question their action, whether the MSM wants to or not.


24 posted on 10/24/2009 6:31:30 PM PDT by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: Stultis

I wonder if Ellen still holds to her opinion that the war in Iraq was for oil now that news has broken that China and India are beating the U.S. out of oil contracts?


25 posted on 10/24/2009 6:31:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (Democracy sucks!)
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To: Notasoccermom

LOL. Well, join me on the toxic fringe.


26 posted on 10/24/2009 6:32:11 PM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: mware

Wazza maddu? Is the white house scaywd they might pee on the carpet if somebody asks them an unsqwipted question???


27 posted on 10/24/2009 6:33:31 PM PDT by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: Stultis
Ellen Ratner didn't know her party is fascistic?

Hard to believe.

28 posted on 10/24/2009 6:33:37 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Stultis

Aww, poor Ellen is getting all wee-wee’d up.

What goes around comes around you clueless liberal fool.


29 posted on 10/24/2009 6:37:30 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Barack Obama: Worst. President. Ever.)
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To: GnuHere

What i think should happen, and this is all predicated on Helen Thomas being sincere with what she said the other day...i think Helen has had her many years in the sun and should throw out her press credentials and go on Barbara Walters or any journalist out there who still has some clout with mainstream america and spill the beans about how different this administration has treated the press as opposed to other administrations she’s reported about.

She may be the only one who can pull it off. And i’m talkin’ make a big old fuss like only Helen Thomas can do. What’s the WH gonna say about that?


30 posted on 10/24/2009 6:38:03 PM PDT by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: Stultis
I'm a liberal. I've been in favor of President Obama. But I've got to tell you, it's outrageous. And as a member of the White House press corps, it is a matter of who they let in to the morning gaggle, who they let in to breifings, and its -- I've never seen anything like it. And, listen, I bashed the Bushs administration every day on Fox News. And, you know what? They were kind to me, they let me into everything, they never excluded anybody.

Who the HE!! did you think you were helping to elect Ellen? Bam and his crew were conniving ,backstabbing, dirtbags then and some how you have a "come to Jesus" moment now?

All you have done now Ellen is confirm your another Obama voting MORON!

31 posted on 10/24/2009 6:39:11 PM PDT by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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To: Bahbah

Much agreement here.
I still think everything with the DBM,DNC, rats in general is all political, all technically calculated,nothing to do with love of country, truth or any of the things we hold dear.


32 posted on 10/24/2009 6:41:31 PM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Bahbah
"Toxic fringe" values according to Joy Behar:
* Honesty * Reverence * Hope * Thrift * Humility * Charity * Sincerity * Moderation * Hard Work * Courage * Personal Responsibility * Gratitude
33 posted on 10/24/2009 6:55:51 PM PDT by Notasoccermom
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To: VRWC For Truth

Yeah, surrogates out all over the place trying to do damage control. Rham Emmanuel is going to speak at a Chamber of Commerce dinner for crying out loud! I can’t imagine how that came about! Independents and Democrats are finally seeing...And Obama and his thugs are losing them big time, as they should.


34 posted on 10/24/2009 6:58:01 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is not credible.)
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To: Notasoccermom
That is about it. And the ferocious love of country.
35 posted on 10/24/2009 6:59:37 PM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: Stultis

Whats the matter ellen?Are the taxes on your business going through the roof?Poor baby.


36 posted on 10/24/2009 7:03:11 PM PDT by imahawk (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Freddd

To All:

HUBRIS!

“And the mighty shall fall by their own hands...”

Not original... But fitting.

:-)


37 posted on 10/24/2009 7:05:37 PM PDT by drummer10
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To: Stultis

Even the liberal pressholes know this is a dangerous road the White House is going down. The ones that don’t are just sycophants anyway.


38 posted on 10/24/2009 7:23:17 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Freddd
Probably yet another warning by Rhambo, don't get out of line again.Chicago mob politics very predictable.
39 posted on 10/24/2009 7:24:49 PM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Bahbah
“For once in my life, Ellen Ratner and I were in agreement.”

Good grief! Check your temperature fast! You might have the swine flu!

40 posted on 10/24/2009 7:36:22 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: PetroniusMaximus

This monster runs every major University campus in the US. Liberals know this monster well. It is their pet. They just are not used to seeing it work against them in the White House.


41 posted on 10/24/2009 7:38:51 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

I’m waiting to hear from Eleanor Cli-t. She is the most distasteful lib anywhere. When she says Fox is kind, I’ll believe we’re onto something.


42 posted on 10/24/2009 7:52:56 PM PDT by appeal2 (Government is not the solution, it is the problem and eventually the enemy.)
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To: Stultis
Was amazed to hear Ellen comment that despite how badly GW was treated by press; he NEVER showed any ill will towards her or the media she repped - "NEVER"(!) - to stark contrary of Obama.

(Amazing - because it is such an unusual honest assessmet; and shows they can recognize 'good' - when 'push' comes to shove them.)

43 posted on 10/24/2009 8:22:39 PM PDT by cricket
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To: rodguy911
But lots of us know about Chicago politics now, we will not be sitting ducks.....That pink tutu ballet dancer is not tough, just mouthy. He had to prove something to himself about being tough, he's just a eunuch..
44 posted on 10/25/2009 12:18:36 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny
Never hurts to fight back!

In the end they(demrats) will self-destruct as they always do and the adults(us) will come aboard to set things straight,as we always do.

45 posted on 10/25/2009 5:34:12 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Stultis

Considering her sibling was the former car czar...


46 posted on 10/25/2009 1:03:08 PM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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