Posted on 10/25/2009 4:33:32 AM PDT by Clive
A Fox News executive refuted on Saturday reports that the White House didn't make the administration's "pay czar" available for an interview because the network didn't ask.
"Of course we requested the interview," Fox News Senior Vice President Michael Clemente said, responding to reports citing the White House as claiming it had excluded Fox News from a series of interviews Thursday with Kenneth Feinberg set up through the five-network TV pool.
Clemente also said that the White House had acknowledged that an employee at the Treasury Department made a mistake in initially excluding Fox.
The pool is the five-network rotation that for decades has shared the costs and duties of daily coverage of the presidency and other Washington institutions. The Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks consulted and decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included. The pool informed Treasury that Fox News, as a member of the network pool, could not be excluded from such interviews under the rules of the pool.
The administration relented, making Feinberg available for all five pool members and Bloomberg TV.
The pushback came after White House senior adviser David Axelrod told ABC News' "This Week" on Sunday that Fox News is not a real news organization and other news networks "ought not to treat them that way."
Media analysts cheered the decision to boycott the Feinberg interview unless Fox News was included, saying the administration's gambit was taking its feud with Fox News too far. President Obama has already declined to go on "Fox News Sunday," even while appearing on the other Sunday shows.
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Just one lie after another, evade, deny, or lie...the Obamanation!
Let them go. The coverup will keep this story alive longer than normal.
Fox News was granted the interview on the same basis as the other networks, so there should be no complaint. Besides that, Fox never asked for the interview, and the employee at the Treasury Department who made a mistake by initially excluding Fox has been reprimanded. Nice combination of explanations so far. Has the radical socialist in our White House ever considered something really radical ... like telling the truth?
Lying is so much easier and effective, after all, it took him and Axelrod to the White House, why stop now?
Clemente also said that the White House had acknowledged that an employee at the Treasury Department made a mistake in initially excluding Fox.
TRANSLATION: Ears didn’t want them involved so the “employee” followed orders and is now taking the fall thereby “protecting” the one from fallout..
how freakin convenient..
I keep thinking this adm. has some big ingenious scheme and they were not really this stupid, however it appears I'm just flat out wrong!
WOW... The White House lies, just like the leaders of Acorn... What a surprise!!!!! Not!
The Chicago thugs are not nearly as smooth at lying as the Clinton crowd was. They are too ham-handed to get away with it, and the sheeple don’t like being forced to avert their eyes from this corrupt, over-bearing crowd. They liked Billy Jeff. They don’t like BO....but they’ll never tell the pollsters that because that would be “racist.”
“Fox News is not a real news organization and other news networks “ought not to treat them that way.” “
And O’Bummer is not a real president and ought not be treated that way!!!!!
The Clinton’s demonized FOX- Limbaugh -the Wash Times back when they were in office but SURPRISE SURPRISE when the MSM adopted Obama as their pet and shut Hillary out she couldn’t wait to get on FOX news
He said that He would throw a fit
For taking a hit, for throwing a fit
Boo Hoo Hoo
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that since they blame (the Royal) “Us”
The press itself must jump under the bus
Boo Hoo Hoo
Barack Hussein Obama
All must lie without sense
‘Til all proclaim His innocence
Boo Hoo Hoo
Barack Hussein Obama
Oh, yes, more words of eloquence from the best speaker in the world!!!
“This is a clumsy lie to defend an indefensible choice...when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
Dakota tribal wisdom states:
When you find yourself riding a dead horse it is best to dismount.
dozer
The lie will be believed by their cultists and the truth will be ignored.
In other words........
Word has gone forward and the Treasury employee was simply following orders.
Gads, they’re not even good liars. But nobody ever calls them on it.
And remembering that bubba tried to blame Rush for the OKC bombing.
More from the “Liar in Chief.”
So, the administration has now advanced from ‘semi-plausible lies’ to bald-faced lies. Why am I not surprised?
These insane socialist gasbags should all be sent packing. It’s time to take back the country.
HEIL OBAMA!
Taking over the freedom of the press....
FUBO, you’re bullsh*t really does stink and America is sick of smelling it!
And O’Bummer is not a real president and ought not be treated that way!!!!!
Great Point! Use the POS' argument against hm
This is similar to the AF 1 Manhattan flyover where they S-canned some flunky instead of manning up to the mistake themselves.
Flunkies in this administration should be very afraid from here on out.
Ot looks pretty bad when White House staffers start making up such petty lies to attack people with. How can any of them be trusted on the big issues when they show their willingness to be such blatebt liars on the small things.
Whining 3 yr old crybaby liars, who get their kicks using the new bad words they learned that get the adults so exorcized.
Maybe. . .eventually; his followers will wake up to the fact that 'real' messiahs don't lie and deny. Am amazed thus far, that a few Lefties are seeing cracks in the Obama facade; too early to tell it if this is significant; or just a mistake in their judgment.
How stupid can you be to come up with a ham handed lie 3 or 4 days after the fact? The comparisons to Clinton are instructive. Clinton was at least intelligent enough to lie in a way that he created the perception of some doubt about the underlying issue. This lie is so transparent, I doubt seriously if even the kool aid drinkers will believe it.
The MSM SHOULD be all over this.
Don't bet on it!
Rules for Radicals.
the White House had acknowledged that an employee at the Treasury Department made a mistake in initially excluding Fox
Nobama and all his buddies have a common thread, when caught, blame some low level employee for the push under the bus. Wonder what these “professor types” do not understand about Executive Management responsibility?
They also seem oblivious to this “it was that stupid employee’s fault” continuing blame-game is not going over very well.
The list, ping
bump
Now that you mention the term “messiah”, did you know that there actually was a song recorded by the English group The Kinks, that was called: “The Black Messiah”? Yeah, that was weird! I saw it on “You Tube” once, but I didn’t pay much attention to what the lyrics actually said. I don’t even know if it’s on there still; I’d like to look it up again! It would be interesting if it fit B. Obama!
Oh my gosh, it’s not only still there, but there are several copies! There are a couple with the Kinks and some by other people. I don’t know if all of them are the same, or if some of them have the same title. But there is one that shows a black man with a rope tied around his hands, and there are scenes from Christ’s own crucifiction in the background.
This one has the lyrics, so I read through them. Some of the lyrics are hard to pin down, but some eerily describe Obama, or what some people use to refer to Obama with!
‘The Black Messiah’? Well, do not know the words; but the we know the ‘title’ works; particularly for Obama, who cultivates this personnal at every opportunity. Manna from Washington just for starters. . .by his ‘hand’.
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