Posted on 10/16/2009 4:51:08 PM PDT by neverdem
David Axelrod, then Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist, put it best when he told his boss: “You care far too much what is written and said about you.” That was in 2006 but, three years on, some things don’t change.
Obama is President of the United States. His party controls both houses of Congress. And, yes, he just won the Nobel Peace Prize. But Obama still can’t shake off his fixation with the chief voice of the opposition – Fox News.
It was the White House’s Anita Dunn who was wheeled out to declare that Fox was “a wing of the Republican Party” and “opinion journalism masquerading as news”. Here she is:
I’m not sure that it augurs well for Obama that Dunn’s previous finest hour was advising Chicago Democratic primary contender Blair Hull to keep the grubby details of his divorce under wraps 18 months before the court papers were unsealed, dooming his candidacy.
Be that as it may, why is the White House bothering with this kind of stuff? Everyone knows that Fox leans decidedly Right, just as everyone else between it and MSNBC leans Left.
It’s not just that the attack is pretty unfair on the likes of Major Garrett, Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace, all accomplished journalists at Fox who play it straight. Failing to differentiate between them and Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Co is deliberately disingenuous.
The bigger point is that you’d expect the Leader of the Free Word to be, well, bigger than this. As New York magazine puts it: “Recognizing Fox as an enemy worth fighting is an admission of weakness for a president whose appeal has been partly predicated on the promise of unity. It’s hard to disagree with, from the Left, John Nichols of the Nation when he...
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Anita Dunn. Is she the one who talks like she is trying to get peanut butter off the roof of her mouth?
Nice to see Glenn Beck getting to them...getting under their skin. It’s a brilliant strategy where Glenn and Sean and Rush can claim they are being muzzled if the FCC ever tries some kind of fairness doctrine.
The more outspoken they are the more obvious to all Americans when the FCC tries to stifle them Chavez style
Not a bad piece, but that part needed fixin'.
You are so right, Shep Smith is only a (token liberal) talking head on FOX. ;-)
More like a snake flicking its tongue in and out.
Isn’t there a name for people who have obsessions
and a thirst for power?
It’s not silly. As long as there is one vestige of free speech remaining, his agenda is at risk.
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