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Obama aide accuses Fox of operating as GOP arm
Associated Press ^ | Oct. 12, 2009

Posted on 10/12/2009 9:59:41 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

NEW YORK (AP) - One of President Barack Obama's top aides says Fox News Channel acts like a wing of the Republican Party.

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday that Fox News operates "almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party."

It's another sign of the White House's aggressively going after Fox.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; democrats; foxnews; liberalfascism; obama; projection; waronfox

1 posted on 10/12/2009 9:59:41 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

excuses excuses excuses


2 posted on 10/12/2009 10:00:39 AM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I don’t know who is making these communication decisions in the White House, but they are ill conceived and ill advised. This is a battle they will lose.


3 posted on 10/12/2009 10:02:32 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday that Fox News operates "almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.""

Hypocrisy: Thy name is Liberal.

4 posted on 10/12/2009 10:03:13 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Mantra of the left: 'It's only okay when WE do it.'")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Rep. Activist (ME) accuses All other Media of operating as Obama house organ!
5 posted on 10/12/2009 10:03:17 AM PDT by BellStar (Be strong ........Joshua 1:6)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Well Obama is the Arm of the Communist Party.
6 posted on 10/12/2009 10:04:01 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

It makes them look like the small, petty inexperienced people they are.


7 posted on 10/12/2009 10:05:14 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: Free ThinkerNY

MSNBCommie acts as the democrats left foot.


8 posted on 10/12/2009 10:05:21 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; All

the door is open for a full blown attack by the GOP to go after the criminal liberal media and their shameless shilling for dear leader....

let’s see if they run with the opportunity- I tend to doubt it but you can always hope....


9 posted on 10/12/2009 10:06:04 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

FOX has to be loving this.


10 posted on 10/12/2009 10:08:32 AM PDT by freespirited (Liberals are only liberal about sex & drugs. Otherwise, they want to control your life. --DHorowitz)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

FOX is sort of a RINO Place.


11 posted on 10/12/2009 10:08:40 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This will only shore up Fox’s reputation as really doing its job of questioning government policies and officials —what media is SUPPOSED to do.


12 posted on 10/12/2009 10:10:38 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Free ThinkerNY

As Fox News refuses to follow the White House line of B.S., they must be a group of n’er-do-wells who have nothing better to do than to try and undermine every thing Obama wants to do. Perhaps, Fox has figured out the lies they tell us, and doesn’t mind showing us the truth on each item. The truth always hurts, and the White House is really hurting now.


13 posted on 10/12/2009 10:11:03 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is just to cover for the fact that PMSDNC is a wing of the DNC Smear Machine. And now that it is being exposed, as not being a real news source, they are engaging in ‘Turnspeak’ and accusing FNC of being what their lapdog freak show channel PMSDNC actually *is*!


14 posted on 10/12/2009 10:13:32 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
They think the label "Republican" is so out of favor with the public that associating someone with the Republican Party will make that person or institution unpopular.

Apart maybe from Hannity, I don't see the conservatives on Fox as particularly supporting the Republican Party (since the Republican Party is merely the lesser of two evils when it comes to supporting conservativism). Of course they do allow Republican spokesmen to appear from time to time which probably gives them black marks from the White House.

15 posted on 10/12/2009 10:14:14 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Whitehouse thinks we dont deserve freedom of speech?


16 posted on 10/12/2009 10:14:21 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Makes me glad I’m a FOX FAN..


17 posted on 10/12/2009 10:14:45 AM PDT by VairyAngel (PRAYING FOR AMERICAS FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANT)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; GnuHere
Other related threads:

Some of those have the video from CNN.

GnuHere wrote:
It makes them look like the small, petty inexperienced people they are.

They are doing the opposite of what Clinton did back in 1993-1994. Back then, Rush, and others on talk radio, were critical of HillaryCare. And Bill Clinton, at the time, just shrugged it off, saying things like, “Isn’t it great that we live in a country where Rush can disagree with me and talk about it on the radio.”

This year, Obama and the Dems are following a different strategy. They are “calling out” the opposition. Attacking opponents like Fox News, Glenn Beck and Rush. And they are attacking the messengers more than the message of the opposition.

This administration is actually making Bill Clinton look classy in comparison.


From the desk of
cc2k:

18 posted on 10/12/2009 10:15:07 AM PDT by cc2k (Are you better off today than you were $4,000,000,000,000 ago?)
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To: Paladin2
FOX is sort of a RINO Place

They actually aren't conservative. Nor need they be. They have a mix of conservative, moderate, and liberal commentators. They come across as appearing conservative when compared to all the other media arms (CBSABCNBC, CNN, MSNBC, NYT,WAP, etc) who march lockstep supporting all things socialist...

Amazing that the small people in the White House feel the need to silence any hint of dissension... I doubt the old Soviet Union commissars had thinner skin then these folks...

19 posted on 10/12/2009 10:16:26 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

ABC—NBC—CBS—CNN all have been complicit in the crowning of NObama.

This imposter acts more and more like a dictator each and every day.

He’s NOT my President. He is a hoax.


20 posted on 10/12/2009 10:16:50 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Free ThinkerNY

However, CNN, and the old-guard networks, being non-official organs of the Democrat party is of no consequence. The left thinks they are good, and conservatives are evil, so they are ready to excuse everything from simple bias to slander to lies to outright violence, as long as it furthers their righteous agenda.


21 posted on 10/12/2009 10:18:15 AM PDT by webheart
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The White House has inexplicably gone from ignoring Fox news, to attacking them. They must be getting close to exposing something. I wonder what? I can’t wait to find out! This stuff ought too boost viewership by millions. Thank you White House!


22 posted on 10/12/2009 10:20:02 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: marstegreg

The commies always go after someone that has exposed, is exposing, or is going to expose them. Time and again, they use slanderous, vicious commentary rather than try to argue logically. Why - because they cannot logically defend their actions.


23 posted on 10/12/2009 10:22:03 AM PDT by meyer ("I went to Europe to buy the Olympics for Chicago and all I got was this silly Nobel")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Someone should notify Fox, as they have not been effective lately in getting the message out. I’m not saying they have turned into CNN or MSNBC, just that they have softened over the last few years in getting the truth out.


24 posted on 10/12/2009 10:40:35 AM PDT by kukaniloko
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
I don’t know who is making these communication decisions in the White House, but they are ill conceived and ill advised. This is a battle they will lose.

The more the WH children complain about Fox, the more viewers Fox picks up.

25 posted on 10/12/2009 10:53:46 AM PDT by Cobra64
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To: meyer

I feel the same, Something is about to POP!


26 posted on 10/12/2009 10:57:47 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Okay let’s go along with this. Let’s just say Fox and we’ll throw in talk radio are little more than GOP front organizations.

Turning the tables could we not say that NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, NYT, LAT, WP, Time, Newsweek, the unions, most of the big city newspapers, academia, the teachers unions, and Hollyweird little more than appendages and mouthpieces for the Democrat Party?


27 posted on 10/12/2009 11:08:54 AM PDT by Welcome2thejungle
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To: GoCards
excuses excuses excuses

Me thinks Ms. Dunn is suffering from a terminal case of PMS. That coupled with a mild case of abject stupidity.

28 posted on 10/12/2009 3:41:51 PM PDT by dearolddad
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“White House’s aggressively going after Fox.”

How’s dat, you know, affirmative action hiring going for you, AP? Dem public skool edukated boys and girls, like, is sure smart, dude.


29 posted on 10/12/2009 5:17:52 PM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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