Obama Escalates Feud: Administration Attempts to Exclude Fox News from White House Pool

NewsBusters ^ | October 22, 2009 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

Maybe Fox News should hire Van Jones to be its White House correspondent.

[Pharmboy]

This is great...this will have the independents and “moderates” saying to themselves:”Hey...those right wingers were right—he is a tyrant.”

[skeeter]

Well I guess anything is possible. I wonder if the other medias' standing up for FNC was something the pool members themselves decided to do on their own, or wwas it a corporate decision.

I tend to believe the former.

[saganite]

If the rst of the media gives a merry rip about it’s responsibility to the constitution and it’s duty to the truth they will boycott Obama press conferences until they recant this nonsense. I know, wishful thinking.

[TomGuy]

According to Krauthammer in this article, War On Fox Alters Checks And Balances, the WH has backed down and allowed FoxNews to be present.

[HerrBlucher]

He makes Nixon and gang look like choir boys. Absolutely none of this is surprising to those that paid attention during the prez campaign and were not mesmerized by the little turd Obama. He will eventually be flushed down the toilet but right now he is really stinking up the place....ugh, what an offensive odor.

[Sax]

An administration, confident in their vision, doesn’t seek to aggressively supress criticism at every single turn. This administration wants so desparately to preach down to feeble minded sheep that need tending.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

The other networks told the White House if Foxnews is not allowed in, none of them would participate. The WH capitulated and allowed Major Garrett to do an interview.

[purplelobster]

Barack and Rahm are pretending to be the “little guy” who is being bullied by the big mean Fox News. Only problem with the strategy is that Barack is the President, so they just come off as pathetic. While they should be worrying about the issues, they desperately grasp for a common enemy hoping to unite the masses. These guys only seem to have a skill-set that was useful for nitpicking Bush, but are lost at sea at getting anything positive accomplished now that they’ve attained power. Feels like it’s 1976.... amateurs.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Fine with me, I wanted Bush to kick all the liberal hacks out of the press room and off the jet for years.

Let him give speeches to the fawning idiots to dumb and scared to say he has no clothes.

[Pharmboy]

Yep...and people are beginning to figure it out—not liberals—but Americans.

[Michel12]

It’s a skill set that worked in a one party town like Chicago... It doesn’t work with the whole country!

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Over the past two weeks, three White House officials have publicly criticized the Fox News Channel by denigrating its status as a news outlet - White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, Senior Advisor David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. And even the president himself commented on his opinion of Fox News.

One, or many, of Odumbo's advisors, sat around and decided that this was going to be their plan of attack. Attack FOX News in a concerted way. Attack them from all angles. Since the President has the same talking points, he is in on it, too.

[smedley64]

Obama is a really, really, REALLY crappy chess player.

[pallis]

FOX isn’t going to get anything but lies from the White House.

[CyberAnt]

The facts are: 37% of Fox News’ audience is DEMOCRATS.

Maybe a few of them will withhold their votes in 2010 ..??

[Will88]

All this publicity and controversy will probably increase Fox’s rating by about 25% within a few more weeks.

[God luvs America]

I absolutely agree....zero’s poll numbers were in the toilet with independents months ago- more stunts like this and he’ll be down to the pathetic numbers congress is polling at these days...

[maine-iac7]

The MSM is feeling the chill of State Controlled Media - they're smart enough to know that if this mob in the WH will do this to FOX then they are either, heretofore, owned by the WH - else, if they anger the tyrants, they too will be in the cross-hairs.

They're realizing their profession is under siege - the WH gang, like the Chicago thugs they are, figured the MSM media would gladly climb aboard against their competitor that is taking the ratings from them -

wrong calculation. The MSM media doesn't want to play with the snake in the sand box.

[sickoflibs]

Saw this on Special Report FNC 6pm EST. Great story. But when will the MSM wake up , where is their adventurism?