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The White House's feud with Fox News has caused an irresistible buzz in Washington, but many are wondering precisely what prompted President Obama and his advisers to go ballistic against the network. Here's the answer: Team Obama was pushed over the brink by a growing list of what it considered outrageous anti-Obama conduct by Fox that showed no sign of stopping. Obama's advisers say that they seethed while Fox commentators used their shows to encourage protests against Obama's healthcare proposals last summer. Team Obama fumed as Fox personalities tried to pressure some controversial Obama advisers to resign. White House officials...

I am sick to death of Baby Barack whiny like a little baby over ONE STATION not bootlicking and rubber-stamping everything socialist he wants to do. I am sick of the MSM who opposed EVERYTHING the last president proposed because a Republican proposed it. I am even sicker that the MSM, with their obvious bias (why do you think your viewing and circulation numbers are dropping like rocks and you're all getting laid off???), sit there and tell us they aren't biased but Fox News is. They all sound alike, you can pick ANY news day and they are all...

WASHINGTON — The White House has gone on the offensive against its critics in the press, singling out Fox News and going so far as to accuse the News Corp.-owned network of waging a "war against Barack Obama." White House Communications Director Anita Dunn has led the charge, appearing on CNN television and conducting interviews with Time magazine and The New York Times in recent days to make her case.The unusual White House campaign comes as President Obama faces mounting opposition to his health care reforms, growing concern over the situation in Afghanistan and a continuing general economic malaise.The president...

At a time of tension between their organizations, White House senior adviser David Axelrod met with Fox News chairman and chief executive officer Roger Ailes two weeks ago, sources tell POLITICO. The two met privately in Manhattan during the president’s visit to the United Nations. The two discussed news coverage and the relationship between the organizations. Ailes is the founder of Fox News. A key part of Axelrod’s portfolio is the president’s image and broad message. POLITICO has asked Fox for comment, and will update with reaction. White House officials have expressed pique with what they consider heavy coverage of...

You have every right to be mad, Chicago. Something smells rotten in Denmark, and the stench is making everybody hold their noses on this side of the Atlantic. Honk if you hate the IOC process. This was the most frustrating defeat in Chicago's recent sports history. This beats them all, worse the Cubs getting swept by the Dodgers in the 2008 Divisional Playoffs or the Bears losing to the Colts in Super Bowl XLI. This is worse than your favorite No. 1 seed being knocked out in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. At least we know how they...

VIDEO & FULL TEXT: Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday, in response to President Obama's appearing on all Sunday talk shows, except his this Sunday, had this to say Friday during an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, the most-watched show on Cable TV, with Bill O'Reilly. Instead of President Obama, Wallace will host ACORN's CEO, Bertha Lewis:

Appearing on “The O’Reilly Factor” last night (September 18th), Chris Wallace asserted that the 0bama Administration is “the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington.” The discussion addressed the fact that President Obama is doing all of the major Sunday News Shows, except “Fox News Sunday”. Wallace pointed out he could understand why Obama would be upset with Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity, but O’Reilly’s show and Fox News Sunday don’t just “beat on him.” Bill O’Reilly added, “The power shift in the media is now with FOX, FOX News, and talk radio....

Oh boy....when the MSM starts to turn on the messiah you really know the guy has fallen back to earth. Here is Chris Wallace bemoaning the fact that the White House is the "biggest bunch of crybabies" he has ever encountered on the job in the last 30 years: [VIDEO AT SITE] Reagan's White House, one of the most professional. Obama's White House....the worst bunch of scallywag's! Bad part is that he notices the tactic is working on some of his colleagues. (Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net

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Chris Wallace labels 0bama Administration "The biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoNMvubV87M

The middle-of-the-night resignation Sunday of longtime Bay Area activist Van Jones as a White House environmental adviser left many progressives angry at the Obama administration for buckling to conservative criticism of Jones' controversial past comments and actions. The administration is losing not only one of the nation's leading environmentalists, progressives say, but one of the few liberal voices with President Obama's ear. Jones resigned amid a furor over his signature on a 2004 petition questioning the government's actions around the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Supporters say the administration surely knew his background when they appointed Jones, the first African American...

If there's one thing about liberals, it's that they're predictably predictable. In their eyes, it is more than acceptable to mock Sarah Palin and her family, using descriptions that range from rude to crude. When President Bush was in office, he was the focus of daily ridicule from left-wing journalists and bloggers. However, no one better make fun of Barack Obama or the thought police will express "outrage" and brand you a racist. That's exactly what is happening now as a poster of Obama in "Joker" makeup is popping up on walls and city streets. My question to the lefties:...

A television advert for an Israeli cellphone firm showing soldiers playing football over the West Bank barrier has sparked cries of bad taste and prompted Arab lawmakers on Sunday to demand it be taken off air. The jaunty commercial for Israel's biggest mobile phone company Cellcom makes light of Palestinian suffering and shows how far Israelis fail to understand their neighbours, critics said. The company stood by the ad, however. It shows a ball falling on an Israeli army jeep from the far side of a towering wall. A game ensues, back and forth with the unseen Palestinians after a...

Palestine: Code Pink protesters beaten and arrested by Israeli police outside university during Netanyahu speech17-06-2009By Col. Ann WrightWhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was making a major foreign policy speech at Bar-Ilan University in Jerusalem Sunday, Israeli police outside the university attacked international protesters who challenged Israel's invasion of Gaza, illegal settlements and the apartheid wall. Heavy-handed police treatment of the unarmed, peaceful members of the Code Pink delegation began immediately after they unfurled several pink banners that read "Free Gaza" and "End the Occupation." Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin and New York activist Zool Zulkowitz were physically dragged across...

Democrats: CIA is out to get us By: Manu Raju May 12, 2009 06:28 PM EST Democrats charged Tuesday that the CIA has released documents about congressional briefings on harsh interrogation techniques in order to deflect attention and blame away from itself. “I think there is so much embarrassment in some quarters [of the CIA] that people are going to try to shift some of the responsibility to others — that’s what I think,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and was briefed on interrogation techniques five times between 2006 and 2007. Illinois Sen....

The NAACP is accusing Wells Fargo and HSBC of forcing blacks into subprime mortgages while whites with identical qualifications got lower rates. Class-action lawsuits will be filed against the banks Friday in federal court in Los Angeles, Austin Tighe, co-lead counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told The Associated Press. Black homebuyers have been 3 1/2 times more likely to receive a subprime loan than white borrowers, and six times more likely to get a subprime rate when refinancing, Tighe said. Blacks still were disproportionately steered into subprime loans when their credit scores, income and...

The American Bankers Association has a message for the president: Stop talking trash about banks. In his unofficial State of the Union address Tuesday night, Barack Obama said that it's "unpopular ... to be seen as helping banks right now, especially when everyone is suffering in part from their bad decisions." In a letter to the White House, ABA CEO Edward Yingling says bankers across the country were "disappointed and concerned" with rhetoric like that. "Mr. President, of the over 8,000 banks in this country, very few ever made a single subprime loan, and they did not engage in the...

While we don't know what her husband does for a living, here is a CNN video of Minta Garcia, a bus driver who as a part of President Obama's most recent bailout plan will get some of your money to help her out of an $800,000 mortgage mess.-

If you recall, I last shared a letter I received from a liberal youtuber named normalais. Well, he's back again! This time, more ignorant and more obnoxious than ever! Here is what he had to say. conservatives want to turn USA into a religious dictatorship. Sounds like fascism to me. ...you right wing fascists amaze me. your hopes for a religious dictatorship ended 1-20-2009;-) Once again, more stupidity from the left. No talking points, only empty accusations of wanting a religious dictatorship. Of course when it comes to morons like Normalais, whenever they take control, we have atheist dictatorships like...

Dear fellow MoveOn member, I'm James. I'm a MoveOn member, dad to two teenagers, and, until recently, I had a pretty good job in construction. But the company I worked for lost a lot of projects when the economy tanked, and I got laid off, without much notice. So I wanted to write to ask for your help. Not help for me, but for all the folks who are out of a job or otherwise struggling in this recession. Let me explain. President Obama's economic recovery plan just passed in the House—it's got billions of dollars for education, mass transit,...

Editorials Executive order reverses 25-year-old ban to let park visitors carrying loaded guns National parks are supposed to be sanctuaries, not only for people, but for wildlife as well. But the possibility that the peace and tranquility of federal parklands will be violated has increased with the latest executive order by President Bush that will allow concealed loaded weapons in federal parks and wildlife refuges. The new rule reverses the ban on loaded weapons in federal parks that was signed by President Ronald Reagan more than 25 years ago. If this is the legacy that Bush wants to leave the...

From the McCain campaign tonight: To address our current financial crisis, John McCain suspended his campaign and returned to Washington, D.C., today to help build a bipartisan consensus for a proposal that would protect the American taxpayer. Despite today's news reports, there never existed a "deal," but merely a proposal offered by a small, select group of Members of Congress. As of right now, there exists only a series of principles, including greater oversight and measures to address CEO pay. However, these principles do not enjoy a consensus in Congress. At today's cabinet meeting, John McCain did not attack any...

Nissan Ad Has Arabs Calling for Boycott Last Edited: Thursday, 07 Aug 2008, 2:50 AM EDT Created: Thursday, 07 Aug 2008, 2:50 AM EDT Nissan Tiida Commercial Nissan Ad The Arab world is fighting mad about a new commercial being aired in Israel by Nissan. In the commercial, Nissan brags about how fuel efficient their new car the Tiida is by showing how mad it is making Arab Shieks, who start to attack the car and complain about how Nissan is costing them millions of dollars. The ad is supposed to be funny, but it plays on old Arab stereotypes....

Groom, many guests of one wedding will be on call for another - that of the president's daughter Saturday, May 10, 2008 WEST — Nora Bartosh has been waiting for her wedding, scheduled for today, for the past six years. Now, the 34-year-old West drugstore clerk is worried that a president's daughter could steal her groom and thus her special day. The groom, all eight groomsmen and about 150 of the guests work in McLennan County law enforcement. That leaves Bartosh hoping that everything goes smoothly in and around President Bush's Crawford-area ranch today as first daughter Jenna says her...

I am posting this on behalf of many LDS freepers. They will post their own 'signature' to this in the comments below. --- Some of you have noticed lately a lot of LDS (ie: Mormon) threads here on FR. I'm going to tell you why. For many years there have been several active LDS freepers here. We post to all the forums on relevant issues, and were happy to have a site where conservative values were so openly welcomed. Those conservative values include faith in God, and freedom of religion. We fully respect the rights of all posters to express...

...If Fox News wants to play clips of the same offensive sound bites every day from now until November, that's their right, but that type of coverage does a disservice to their viewers and to a nation that is facing serious challenges that merit thoughtful and honest reporting.

BOSTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Boston's Tom Scholz has sent Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee a letter asking him to stop using one of his band's songs on the campaign trail. Huckabee, a former Arkansas govenor, has been using Boston's song "More Than a Feeling" at campaign appearances and rallies and Scholz would like him to stop, the Boston Globe reported Friday. "Boston has never endorsed a political candidate, and with all due respect, would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite of most everything Boston stands for," Scholz said in his letter. Perhaps trying to...

Carded at polls: No photo ID, no vote By DEBORAH HASTINGS, AP National Writer1 hour, 40 minutes ago There's the poor, 32-year-old mother of seven who says it would cost her at least $50 to vote in person. There's also the 92-year-old woman who's voted for decades in the same polling place, but now can't vote there because she let her driver's license expire when her eyesight began to fail. These folks live in Indiana, home of the country's most restrictive photo-identification voter law. The U.S. Supreme Court is now scrutinizing whether that statute violates the first and 14th amendments,...

Reliving the Florida recount One of the most highly anticipated political telefilms being released next year is “Recount,” a fast-paced depiction of the behind-the-scenes drama that took place in Florida during the disputed 2000 Gore-Bush election. [snip] Earlier this year, the possibility was raised that this “Recount” might be swayed and history rewritten because writer Strong and executive producers Paula Weinstein and Sydney Pollack, as well as HBO Films President Colin Callender, are all Democratic supporters. [snip] “There have been many incarnations of the script,” the HBO representative said in response to questions about literary license taken in the film....

Today was the last day for most of the 120 staffers on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," who left with an early Christmas bonus check and no guarantee of a job when the strike ended. "Do we have a job when the strike ends? That's what everyone keeps asking," one former staffer said. "They've guaranteed no one a job. They just keep saying, 'The letter explains it." That letter is a notice from NBC's human resources department that says, "If your services are needed, we will contact you." Sources said that while some higher-level executives received severance packages, other...

WASHINGTON -- Most informed Americans have heard about "anger management counseling." It is a widely prescribed therapy for those who lose their temper uncontrollably in public or in private or while watching the Hon. Henry Waxman pretend to be the late Andrei Vyshinsky, prosecutor at the Moscow Show Trials. Well, during the past few days I have been following the Hon. Jean-Francois Kerry's (D-Mass.) controversy with Boone Pickens, and I believe I am in need of "laughter management counseling." Every time I think of this ponderous stone-headed senator bellowing phony pieties, I suffer a dreadful agitation in the funny bone....

WASHINGTON — The secretary of the Air Force and the service’s top officer told Congress they are worried the force is getting too small and its aircraft are getting too old to respond immediately to a new major threat overseas. “It would be a challenge. We would break all the rules and all the established procedures to be able to deliver whatever [the combat commanders] required,” Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley told members of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. “But the question is the capacity, the sustainability and reliability of some of these older platforms to be...

PALMDALE - Carrying signs and chanting, about 60 people protested in front of Knight High School on Friday over the arrests of three students and a parent after a scuffle with school security officers over a spilled birthday cake. One security guard twisted the arm of 16-year-old Pleajhai Mervin behind her back and slammed her against a lunch table, fracturing her wrist, parents said. "I want justice," said Mervin's mother, Latrisha Majors, who also was arrested. "I want justice for my daughter. I want the guards to be held accountable for their actions." Majors and her daughter were arrested in...

Discrimination isn't always intentionally hateful or even blatant. Staring too long at an obese person or assuming that someone doesn't belong in a certain place because they might look different is also prejudicial. To help promote acceptance and understanding, a group of people will share personal encounters with discrimination this October. In conjunction with Diversity Awareness Month in October, the York County Diversity Coalition will host a series of first-time programs for the public and held in the evenings at high schools across the county. The discussion topics include obesity, racism, judgement based on sexual orientation and disability. Each session...

Helen Thomas: This meaner U.S. Supreme Court sets back the country Helen Thomas Article Last Updated: 07/04/2007 04:02:47 PM MDT WASHINGTON - The new Supreme Court is more conservative than it has been in decades. It's also meaner. It is a dream come true for Republican presidencies dating back to the ''strict constructionist'' court aspirations of President Richard Nixon and now made possible by the conservative George W. Bush. Before closing down for the summer last month, the high court tossed out a flurry of decisions that overturned or reinterpreted long-standing liberal precedents.

You can read the accompanying article if you like. Not having a bucket handy I decided to skip it. But I was struck by this cover (when submarinerswife posted it over here): Since Time Magazine thinks it's important we hear about Mitt Romney possibly transporting a dog dangerously or illegally A QUARTER CENTURY AGO, I wonder if they'll have any questions for Edwards and his photographer? Was this... ...a contrived pose? Or does Edwards (or do his hirelings) transport this dog, or others, in the open bed of that pickup, or in other like vehicles, without a carrier? (I'm hearing...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A day after conservative commentator Ann Coulter said she wished Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards had been killed by terrorists, his wife asked her to stop the personal attacks. Elizabeth Edwards called the MSNBC program "Hardball with Chris Matthews" today during an appearance by Coulter, who claimed Edwards was calling on her to stop speaking altogether. And she questioned why Elizabeth Edwards was making a phone call on behalf of her husband. While appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," Coulter was asked about a March speech in which she used a gay slur to refer to...

PARKING Crews find more eligible cars in those communities, city says Minority neighborhoods on the West and South sides are getting kicked harder by city booting crews than other parts of the city, according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of city data. But the city says no neighborhood is safe from the dreaded booting vans, it's just that they happen to find more boot-listed cars in minority communities. The neighborhood with the most cars booted per person in 2006 was the Near West Side, where 1,699 vehicles got the clamp, or 3 for every 100 residents. Though it includes gentrifying...

ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY - Mexico has sent a diplomatic note to the United States objecting to an alleged incursion into Mexican territory by U.S. Border Patrol agents trying to extinguish a fire, the country's Foreign Relations Department said Tuesday. The incursion allegedly took place on Monday, as Border Patrol agents stationed in Sonoita, Ariz., were trying to quash a brush fire on the U.S. side that quickly spread into Mexico, the department said. The Foreign Relations Department said it was notified of the incident on Tuesday by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, which reported that the border agents immediately...

'Celebration' banned for Jamestown's 400thEvents marking settlement's anniversary condemn its 'holocaust' Posted: March 8, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern By Bob Unruh© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com This year is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of settlers in Jamestown, 13 years before the Plymouth Pilgrims appeared on America's shores. And there will be discussions on the environmental impact of the settlement and its impact on African-Americans and Native Americans. But there will be no celebration. "You can't celebrate an invasion," Mary Wade, a member of Jamestown 2007 organizing committee, has stated. After all, Indian tribes "were pushed back off of their land, even killed. Whole tribes...

Idiotic. Disgusting. Stupid. Moronic. I guess you could say that Ann loves to shock us, but at this point, who’s shocked? She obviously can’t behave well enough to attend a respectable political gathering. It’s not a lack of intelligence. It’s an indifference to self-control and a preening sort of narcissism that compels her to need the spotlight, even if it’s unflattering. (For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s audio of her calling John Edwards a “faggot” at CPAC today.) --- Michelle Malkin - ***4:15pm update*** Ann Coulter just finished her riff on Al Gore, tossed...

Libertarian Party candidates may have cost Senators Jim Talent (R.-Mo.) and Conrad Burns (R.-Mont.) their seats, tipping the Senate to Democratic control. In Montana, the Libertarian candidate got more than 10,000 votes, or 3%, while Democrat Jon Tester edged Burns by fewer than 3,000 votes. In Missouri, Claire McCaskill defeated Talent by 41,000 votes, a bit less than the 47,000 Libertarian votes. This isn’t the first time Republicans have had to worry about losing votes to Libertarian Party candidates. Senators Harry Reid (Nev.), Maria Cantwell (Wash.), and Tim Johnson (S.D.) all won races in which Libertarian candidates got more votes...

OK, some House races appear to still be up in the air. In 1974, the Dems won 291 seats. The Reps won 144 seats. This was after Watergate broke... In the 94th Congress ((in office Jan 1975-Jan 1977), the Dems had a 147 seat mmajority over the Reps. Now, at most they may have a 20-30 seat majority. This is not the 1974 House.

Senate Democratic leadership threatens Disney with legal and legislative sanctionsby John in DC - 9/07/2006 06:02:00 PM This letter was sent today by the entire Democratic leadership of the US Senate. This letter is such a major shot across the bow of Disney, it's not even funny. It is FILLED with veiled threats, both legal and legislative, against Disney. US Senators don't make threats like this, especially the entire Democratic leadership en masse, unless they mean it. Disney is in serious trouble. Read it, then read my analysis of it below:September 7, 2006 Mr. Robert A. Iger President and...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democratic senators will try to present a no-confidence measure on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to the full Senate on Wednesday in an effort to persuade President Bush to sack the outspoken Pentagon chief, Democratic aides said. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California was the first to move publicly on the measure, which will be attached to a defense appropriation bill, but Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is expected to offer the proposal. Democrats in the House of Representatives are likely to offer a similar proposal, a senior Democratic aide said. The Senate's Republican leadership may prevent...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - American Muslims still face high levels of hatred and suspicion nearly five years after the September 11 attacks and political leaders and the news media are mostly to blame, Muslim leaders said on Friday. "During the last five years the Muslim community has been scrutinized by almost all branches of the government and the media to the extent that more than half a million Muslims have been directly touched by this process," said Abdul Malik Mujahid, chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago. "They continue to face dehumanization and a great trend of Islamophobia,"...

Open House: We'll stand up for right to hold gay parade Representatives of Open House in Jerusalem for Pride and Tolerance, organizers of next month's gay pride parade in Jerusalem, meet with minister for Jerusalem affairs to discuss holding of parade Representatives of the organization supporting gay rights and tolerance, The Open House in Jerusalem for Pride and Tolerance, met with Minister for Jerusalem Affairs MK Jacob Edery (Kadima) Wednesday afternoon, the organization told Ynet. In the meeting with the MK, the Open House representatives – the incoming Director-general Noa Satat, outgoing Director-general Hagai Elad, and acting Chairman Elena Kant...

Dispute's outcome could have ramifications for Major League Baseball. Long before the Baltimore Orioles passed out lipstick and the Red Sox and other baseball teams began selling pink hats, ``ladies-night" giveaways have been a fixture of America's pastime. But a California lawyer, denied a free hat at an Oakland A's game because they were reserved for female fans, has filed suit against the team to put a stop to the practice. Alfred Rava calls such giveaways ``sex discrimination on steroids." He is also suing the Los Angeles Angels for giving away tote bags to women only on Mother's Day. When...

DNC: Bush Renounces Smears, But Will Cheney, Rove and Mehlman Follow? 8/21/2006 3:39:00 PM To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Stacie Paxton of the Democratic National Committee Staff, 202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Democratic National Committee: During today's news conference, President Bush pledged not to attack the patriotism of his critics. This stunning reversal comes after years of work by the President and his top surrogates and strategists to smear anyone who disagrees with the President or challenges his policies. "President Bush seems to have turned over a new leaf today...