WRONG.
Posted on 10/21/2009 10:39:35 AM PDT by Schnucki
The White House’s extraordinary assault on the Fox News Channel will end in tears – and not for Rupert Murdoch, Fox’s owner. The Obama administration has embarked on a high-risk strategy of shooting the messenger, in effect blaming its plummeting poll ratings on alleged political bias at the number one 24-hour cable news network. As Anita Dunn, the Mao-quoting White House communications director put it in an interview with The New York Times:
“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”
As Dunn’s statement illustrates, this is an overtly political campaign – and one that is doomed to failure, as it will ensure that even more Americans end up tuning in to Fox shows. The United States is a nation built around the principles of free speech, limited government, and free enterprise, and it is highly unusual for a US administration to launch an authoritarian vendetta against an individual news station. It smacks of mean-spiritedness as well as desperation, and is an approach that is already backfiring, with Fox’s ratings receiving an added boost from the huge publicity.
Fox News is succeeding in America precisely because it is not afraid to challenge the status quo, and to take on the power of big government. It is unique in broadcast media in going against the grain of the dominant liberal networks, NBC, CBS and ABC, by providing an alternative perspective in a nation where conservatives are still the largest ideological group according to Gallup. Television news in America has for decades been dominated by a left-of-centre oligopoly that has not reflected public opinion. That smug arrangement was shattered when
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So Obama will sit down with Ahmadinijhad with no preconditions yet he can’t give Fox 10 minutes? This is what tin-pot dictators in banana republics do, Chavez and Castro come to mind.
So simple and refreshing. Only if the Democrats and RINOs understood it.
“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent.”
Bring it on Communist bastards!
WRONG.
“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent.”
Bring it on Communist bastards!
The attack on Fox News is straight out of the Alinsky handbook, Rules For Radicals. Locate your target, isolate it, then marginalize it by attacking its credibility and integrity.
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Locate your target, isolate it, then marginalize it by attacking its credibility and integrity.
Fight fire with Fire!
Take care of your damn poor brother in Kenya before you tell me that you can take care of my family you fraud!!
And don’t forget his aunt in Boston who lives off of public assistance.
Fox needs to put Major Garrett back in the WH Press Corps (where did he go?). Let the Obamalists yank his press pass, and report it. Fox needs to do a serious investigative report on the illegal email use by the White House. There need to be charges filed against Dunn on up the chain to Zero himself. Then there needs to be an investigation of the SEIU request from Zero which was the reason that the black flag seller in St Louis got beat up. Maybe there can be a RICO investigation of the White House...
And don’t forget his aunt in Boston who lives off of public assistance.
Who is probably ILLEGAL.
If it were up to me, I would deport the Marxist to Kenya where he really belongs. Let him impose socialism there.
“It is unique in broadcast media in going against the grain of the dominant liberal networks, NBC, CBS and ABC, by providing an alternative perspective”
Perspective? Only the OPINION shows have an alternative perspective. All Fox does is ASK F’ING QUESTIONS and do THEIR JOB as journalists. Unreal, all Fox does is ask questions and follow up the answers with investigative reporting. That’s it, they are simply doing their job as reporters.
Who knew being a REAL reporter would cause such a stir???
Ms Dunn needs a little of Alinsky’s medicine herself!!!
To my way of thinking, the White HOuse and it’s staff just TANKED any credibility they have whatsoever!
The only people paying attention to ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, et al...are a few posters, more than likely straight out of Axelfraud’s office posing as Obama supporters under several alias’. I know for a fact this happens on CBS, and when I called them on it, they changed their freaking phone number.
I know that doesn’t account for TV News watchers, but as we can all see, there are zip to zero people watching them anymore.
Go Fox News!
I thought he came down with swine flu.
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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