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White House Tells Democratic Political Strategists: STAY OFF FOX !!!
the SWAMP/The Lid ^ | 11/06/09 | The Lid

Posted on 11/06/2009 11:10:12 AM PST by Shellybenoit

Shortly after the White House declared "war" on Fox's news division last month, calling it an arm of the Republican Party and attempting to freeze it out of a pooled press briefing, pundits on both the left and the right cried foul, summoning up comparisons to Richard Nixon's paranoid, vindictive presidency and based on the transcript of a Nixon tape below that comparison is very justified.....

The White House has not been happy about Fox's relentless pursuit of the truth, unlike the rest of the mainstream media Fox has covered ALL the news including tea party rallies, anti-health care reform town halls, ACORN's missteps and White House adviser Van Jones' unveiling as a radical Marxist 9/11 "truther."

In September, Obama froze out "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace after appearing on five other Sunday shows to tout health care reform. Then, on Oct. 11, Anita Dunn, White House Communications director, went on rival cable news channel CNN to declare "the reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," a sentiment echoed by presidential adviser David Axelrod, who said "they're not really a news station."

Recently there have been rumors of a pending truce, but the White House seems to be ratcheting up the battle. There are reports the White House is telling Democratic Political Strategists do not appear on Fox--or else:

(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: censorship; foxnews; nixon; whitehouse

1 posted on 11/06/2009 11:10:14 AM PST by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit

They’ll have to lock Beckel in a White House closet to keep him off TV.


2 posted on 11/06/2009 11:12:27 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: kittymyrib

You mean to tell me if I watch Fox I won’t have to deal with any of their b.s.?


3 posted on 11/06/2009 11:17:59 AM PST by King Hawk
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To: King Hawk

Does this mean Geraldo has to go?


4 posted on 11/06/2009 11:18:29 AM PST by King Hawk
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To: Shellybenoit

Yes. It makes you look down right stup-id when you have a (side by side) comparison with Conservatives and all you have is that you can’t have a logical thought process without talking trash, without bringing in race, intelligence, heritage and other forms of bigotry.


5 posted on 11/06/2009 11:19:49 AM PST by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: King Hawk

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6 posted on 11/06/2009 11:20:25 AM PST by eeevil conservative (GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)
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To: King Hawk
Does this mean Geraldo has to go?
Yea. He always looks constipated when he is on the set.
7 posted on 11/06/2009 11:21:28 AM PST by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: kittymyrib

Bob Beckel is one of the least successful Democrat ‘strategists’ there is. I swear the Dems just let him prattle on to throw off the Republicans.


8 posted on 11/06/2009 11:21:33 AM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Shellybenoit; abb

I guess its War on Fox II


9 posted on 11/06/2009 11:23:07 AM PST by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
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To: kittymyrib

For Beckel, it would take a garage, not a closet...


10 posted on 11/06/2009 11:23:21 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: Shellybenoit

I think I heard Jessie say, “Keep out da foxes!”


11 posted on 11/06/2009 11:24:04 AM PST by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Tallguy
Bob Beckel is one of the least successful Democrat ‘strategists’ there is. I swear the Dems just let him prattle on to throw off the Republicans.

Watching and listening to Bob Beckel is like watching your dog eat his own vomit and roll in poop.

12 posted on 11/06/2009 11:24:17 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: kittymyrib

“They’ll have to lock Beckel in a White House closet to keep him off TV.”

Lock him up and throw away the key!!!!


13 posted on 11/06/2009 11:26:18 AM PST by dalereed
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To: Shellybenoit

Great Strategy here by the WH. America is a mostly conservative and FOX is the highest rated cable news channel. Libs can stay on the rarely viewed channels and talk to themselves and be out of touch. Sounds good to me.


14 posted on 11/06/2009 11:26:48 AM PST by frogjerk (Obama Administration: Security thru Absurdity)
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To: Shellybenoit

I am all for conservative thought purity on Fox. The White House isn’t thinking, is that really want they want?

lol


15 posted on 11/06/2009 11:33:35 AM PST by dila813
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To: eeevil conservative

Could it be...no Juan Williams and Maura Liasson on the Panel...be still my heart!!


16 posted on 11/06/2009 11:38:33 AM PST by ken5050 (Save the Earth!!!!! It's the ONLY planet with chocolate!)
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To: frogjerk

Not having to listen to Beckel and that other sniveling weasel of Democrat whose name I can’t think of BSing every time you watch a Fox show ought to send their ratings even higher.


17 posted on 11/06/2009 11:46:42 AM PST by Barb4Bush (God bless Glenn Beck!)
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To: Shellybenoit
The WH is just trying to force FOX to do what the other networks have been doing for years. That is, when ABC, CBS, NBC, etc., need a Republican or conservative consultant, they get someone who used to work for James Carville, and call them a "Conservative Republican."

So that being said, the next time that FOX needs a "Liberal Democrat" consultant, they should hire someone like Rarel Koveski (pictured), to speak for all liberal Democrats:

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18 posted on 11/06/2009 11:47:09 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: frogjerk

Not having to listen to Beckel and that other sniveling weasel Democrat whose name I can’t think of BSing every time you watch a Fox show ought to send their ratings even higher.


19 posted on 11/06/2009 11:48:41 AM PST by Barb4Bush (God bless Glenn Beck!)
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To: Shellybenoit

I can’t believe that Fox & Friends had on that lying mouthpiece from CAIR this morning. What were they thinking?


20 posted on 11/06/2009 11:51:35 AM PST by Bluebeard16
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To: N. Theknow
Watching and listening to Bob Beckel is like watching your dog eat his own vomit and roll in poop.

Ugh! Now there's a visual I won't soon rid myself of whenever I see this hack on Fox. Rather fitting and funny, actually. LOL!

21 posted on 11/06/2009 12:01:25 PM PST by Sister_T (Stealing from the rich to give to the poor is still stealing ... Exodus 20:15)
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To: Barb4Bush
FOX should just give Beckel a blank check and tell him that Keith Obermann is having some hookers on his show. That should get rid of him for good.
22 posted on 11/06/2009 12:07:42 PM PST by frogjerk (Obama Administration: Security thru Absurdity)
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To: Shellybenoit

Didn’t Clinton get Brit Hume (ABC?) bounced off White House Press Corp after he asked a tough question - how he got to Fox.


23 posted on 11/06/2009 12:22:54 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: Shellybenoit
Photobucket "STAY OFF FOX !!!"
24 posted on 11/06/2009 12:26:09 PM PST by RetSignman (Townhalls ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
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To: Shellybenoit

Wait a minute..hold the phone...have you NO respect..Bob Beckel is no longer a “Democratic Strategist”.....when he puts out babble on Fox News, he wants to be called Professor. He thinks he’s some kind of a big deal at George Washington University...


25 posted on 11/06/2009 12:42:30 PM PST by radioone (Alinskys rules for radicals: Ridicule is a better tactic than argument.)
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To: radioone

Anybody seen Doug Schoen on Fox lately? I haven’t.

He has been critical of some Dhimmi legislation.


26 posted on 11/09/2009 7:35:36 PM PST by Scanian
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