CBS exposes Obama administration lies about blocking Fox News

Examiner ^ | 10/24/09 | Kevin Hall

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Feinberg interviews turn networks against Obama administration
AP Photo/Kevin Wolf

The Obama administration now claims it did not try to exclude Fox News from Thursday's round of network interviews with pay czar Ken Feinberg.   A treasury department spokesperson claimed, "There was no plot to exclude Fox News, and they had the same interview that their competitors did. Much ado about absolutely nothing".  

Unfortunately for the Obama administration, four other networks are fully aware of the situation and have proof that the treasury department is lying.  Fox did have the same interview as their competitors, only because the other networks came to FNC's defense.   They refused to do the interviews with Feinberg unless Fox was given the same opportunity.

Fox News Channel is not the only network reporting on this story.   CBS Evening News with Katie Couric did a full length story on the ongoing feud, with reporter Chip Reid describing the other networks' decision to standup to the White House bullying.  “All the networks said that’s it, you’ve crossed the line,” Reid reported.

Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik, who is a frequent detractor of Fox News, was appalled by the White House's blacklisting of Fox.  "What it's really about to me is the Executive Branch of the government trying to tell the press how it should behave. I mean, this democracy -- we know this -- only works with a free and unfettered press to provide information," Zurawik said.

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News clip of CBS three-minute report at the link. Scroll down past article.

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Here’s a direct link to the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnMiqIW5e1Q&feature=player_embedded

[sthguard]

Wow, you know things aren't going Obama's way when CBS goes against him and goes to bat for their competition!

[Tribune7]

Good for them.

[vladimir998]

Are the Obamites so dumb as to not realize how bad this makes them look EVEN AMONG THEIR LEFT WING MEDIA ALLIES?

[blackbart.223]

"Wow, you know things aren't going Obama's way when CBS goes against him and goes to bat for their competition!"

We need to watch and wait. Obama will be his own undoing much like Jimmy Peanuts.

[PhiKapMom]

I think it is because of Chip Reid. He has always been pretty much of a straight shooter. He is one of the few reporters along with Jake Tapper of ABC who will stand up to Gibbs.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Obama obviously forgot the most important rule..the media made him, and the media can just as fast destroy him. He better not screw around with the media. The majority of the media is in the tank for Obama, but if they feel they might be next if they dare report on anything that may put him in a bad light, that the administration will go after them too, they will turn on him just as fast

[Loyalist]

CBS must be fearing that Fox’s fate today might be its own under a Palin administration. Otherwise they’d be licking Obama’s boots as usual.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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Thank you!

[indianrightwinger]

This is just devastating the the Obama administration. WOW! What a report. Very fair, factual and to the point.

Shocking that CBS actually aired it, but they must have simply had it.

[sthguard]

Good to know.

[MediaMole]

It’s also important to understand just how small the White House Press world is. They all know each other and work together. It was pretty clear when Helen Thomas didn’t go along with Obama’s war that it wouldn’t end well for the administration.

They also know that the Bush administration didn’t do this to any of them as they attacked daily. If Obama gets away with this, the next GOP administration will have the precedent to cut out critical news organizations.

There is also a realization that Fox has a couple administration scalps. There’s nothing a DC reporter wants more than to force a resignation.

[American Constitutionalist]

[norge]

Are the Obamites so dumb as to not realize how bad this makes them look EVEN AMONG THEIR LEFT WING MEDIA ALLIES?

Dumb enough and, more importantly, arrogant enough.

[Wolfhound77]

The Treasury department lied? Say it ain’t so. Seriously, does our government think anyone at all trusts them or anything they do or say anymore? They are a complete joke and weave nothing but lies and subversion of government by the people.

[dogcaller]

Obama...thin skin, glass jaw.

[Terry Mross]

You nailed it. The more they condemn Sarah proves the more they’re afraid of her.

I wonder if Katie vomited after the show was over.

[blackbart.223]

"CBS must be fearing that Fox’s fate today might be its own under a Palin administration."

That is nonsense. They fear Obama and with good reason.

[Clint Williams]

I mean, this democracy -- we know this -- only works with a free and unfettered press to provide information," Zurawik said.

It's not a democracy, never has been. But I love the way this incompetent administration is setting the precedents for what we can do when WE regain power.

They don't have to worry, though. I am sure that when they're living in the camps they created, they'll have completely free beer (that's "free as in beer").

What more could they want?

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