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Obama suggests Fox News is like 'talk radio'
The Hill ^ | 10/22/09 10:08 AM ET | Erick Zimmermann

Posted on 10/22/2009 9:01:30 AM PDT by BradtotheBone

Fox News is "operating basically as talk radio," President Obama suggested in an interview airing today.

After weeks of public feuding between the cable news channel and the president's top aides, Obama seemed to agree with statements by his advisers that Fox is not a real "news station."

"I think what our advisers have simply said is that we are going to take media as it comes," Obama told NBC's Savannah Guthrie. "And if media is operating basically as a talk radio format then that's one thing, and if it's operating as a news outlet that's another but it's not something I'm losing sleep over."

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod said this weekend that Fox is "not really a news station." That echoies similar comments made by White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.


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KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhofascism; davidaxelrod; democrats; fnc; foxnews; obama; pipsqueakemanuel; talkradio; waronfox
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1 posted on 10/22/2009 9:01:30 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone
Barry, Fox News is MUCH more of a news outlet than you are a president.

...and most people are figuring that out very quickly.


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2 posted on 10/22/2009 9:02:58 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: BradtotheBone

Oh...then if that’s his standard, I guess he’ll ignore MSNBC too.....and CNN, and ABCNBCCBS.


3 posted on 10/22/2009 9:03:30 AM PDT by rickomatic
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To: BradtotheBone

This is all beyond amazing, the President of the US is more concerned with Fox News than all the problems he needs to be working on solving. This is sick! The man is a child.


4 posted on 10/22/2009 9:04:23 AM PDT by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: rickomatic

He’s right. Fox News, like talk radio, is worth listening to.


5 posted on 10/22/2009 9:04:48 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: BradtotheBone
God I love politics again! I wish I had FNC stock, they couldn't buy advertising like this!

I am trying to mark these ‘FNC’

6 posted on 10/22/2009 9:04:50 AM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the government spending you demand stupid")
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To: BradtotheBone

“Obama suggests Fox News is like ‘talk radio’”

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I’m sure Obamative Action means “conservative” talk radio.

In that case, good for Fox!

By definition, that means that Fox is pro-American, politically incorrect, and telling the truth.


7 posted on 10/22/2009 9:05:23 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: ohiogrammy

This is sick! The man is a child.
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The libs could not have picked a worse candidate. IMHO, he is there to serve as Manchurian Candidate for Soros, et al -— the REAL owners of the DemonRat party.


8 posted on 10/22/2009 9:06:16 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: BradtotheBone
This little gang of Chi Town thugs just can't understand why their Daley-thuggery tactics aren't cowing everyone.

They are way out of their league. They act like the spoiled little brat who is stymied by the world outside his home-perimeter that doesn't reward his temper tantrums - heck, not even scared by them.

9 posted on 10/22/2009 9:10:39 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" LINCOLN)
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To: BradtotheBone

OBAMA HUSSEIN HATES THE TRUTH!!!!
HITLER HATED THE TRUTH!!!
SADDAM HUSSEIN HATED THE TRUTH!!
QUADDAFFI HATES THE TRUTH!!!
CASTRO HATES THE TRUTH!!!
CHAIRMAN MAO HATED THE TRUTH!!
STALIN HATED THE TRUTH!!!
HUGO CHAVEZ HATES THE TRUTH!!!
ETC., ETC., ETC.!
LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A COMMON DENOMINATOR HERE!! DONT WE??


10 posted on 10/22/2009 9:11:52 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: BradtotheBone

Look, Barry. I KNOW you are reading this. Get busy with making a decision on Afghanistan. Really. You are looking ridiculous.


11 posted on 10/22/2009 9:12:33 AM PDT by bergmeid
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To: BradtotheBone

FNC lives in “commander zero’s” head, rent free, right next to El Rushbo.


12 posted on 10/22/2009 9:15:14 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: ohiogrammy
The Hatemonger-in-Chief.

Talk radio hosts survive and thrive if they have a program that the public likes. It's the one outlet that is in tune with what a large part of the population thinks. Obama once again shows his hand as part of the Daily Kos/DU/MSNBC/MoveOn, etc., crowd, with his contempt for talk radio...or for any dissenting views.

Whatever happened to "speak truth to power"? Used to hear that all the time.

13 posted on 10/22/2009 9:22:11 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Eagles6

Barry OBOZO is being eaten alive by the TRUTH that he is finding He CAN’T HIDE!! El RUSHBO and FNC are Tearing Him Apart Limb by Limb!! In Chicago, they would be squashed like Bugs!! But We arent Stupid like the Average Chicago Dingbat! No Wonder OBOZO LOVES PMSNBC! CNN! ABC! CBS! and NBC!!They are No Different than SPITZER’S WHORES!!


14 posted on 10/22/2009 9:23:21 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: BradtotheBone
Obama suggests Fox News is like 'talk radio'

And both are acting like pre-Revolutionary War pamphleteers as a source of "Common Sense" that the Obama and his MSM do not want us to hear.

15 posted on 10/22/2009 9:23:37 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Soon everyone will win a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush...well, except for George Bush.)
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To: massgopguy
He’s right. Fox News, like talk radio, is worth listening to.

And has millions of daily viewers

And dominates the competition

And is highly profitable on its own

16 posted on 10/22/2009 9:26:10 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: maine-iac7
The worst politicians are often those who gain national stature after emerging from one-party fiefdoms. They have no experience with and no use for competition by real adversaries. They get so used to bullying and having their way that anyone who actually gets in their way becomes a personal threat, as opposed to a mere annoyance. That is when they behave most childishly and meanly.

Think of Senator Kerry of Massachusetts, Rahm Emmanuel of Illinois, or Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco - their forays into the national spotlight always reveal more than they care others to see, that is, others outside of the worshipful little audiences over which they are used to presiding.

17 posted on 10/22/2009 9:33:15 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: ohiogrammy

If his FCC Czar asks for 40,000 troops to restore “balance” to the media- Barry will send them


18 posted on 10/22/2009 9:36:03 AM PDT by silverleaf ("For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice"- Krauthammer)
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To: BradtotheBone
"... but it's not something I'm losing sleep over."

That's why this is all you can talk about, suuuuuuure.

19 posted on 10/22/2009 9:44:16 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: BradtotheBone
Obama suggests Fox News is like 'talk radio'

Does Fox News give Obama a "thrill up the leg"?

20 posted on 10/22/2009 9:48:27 AM PDT by The Duke ("Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Democrat Party?")
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