Posted on 10/23/2009 8:23:33 AM PDT by KatyLoraleyVidales
In his on going effort to demonize Fox News Channel, President Barack Obama and his advisers attempted one of the most egregious abuses of executive power in it's short history - and only one of the firsts, no doubt - by attempting to ban Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett from interviewing one of the mysterious White House "czars". The White House's "war on Fox News" has even involved senior advisers telling other media outlets that they "ought not treat" Fox as a legitimate news organization: White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN on Sunday that President Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox."
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is "not a news organization."
"Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way," Axelrod counseled ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "We're not going to treat them that way." George Stephanopoulos, a former Bill Clinton advisor, is one of countless former Democrat aides an officials now working for "legitimate" news organizations as journalists. Chris Matthews of MSNBC is another.
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I still dont know how a czarr can do this...enforce policy or law...thought they were advisors
The czars have spoken....
anything in opposition is forbidden, nobody can question the authority and opposition is outlawed.
What the WH doesn't realize is that these Fox reporters, while being mocked by other news groups in public, are privately their friends, most of these media hang out together in private. Even the dolts at MSNBC (besides the obvious boot lickers) understand that if the WH can do this to Fox, they may be next if they accidentally report the same thing. The WH dictating like this removes the power the MSM likes to have. No star power of Zero can overcome their own desire for power.
Check!
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I just turned Fox off in disgust... They were talking about this salary capping for banks... The lib guy was argueing that, ‘hey, if the banks continue in these practices that lead us to the collapse...’ -and the Fox people just let it slide.
It makes me sick when they don’t ask the OBVIOUS questions. Like - “wasn’t it the GOVERNMENT who forced these banks to use these questionable practices in the first place?!?!?!”
But no. NOBODY is asking. They just let it slide. Even Fox.
I think the MSM wants to be Obama's official Pravda. They won't be reporting anything negative about Premier Obama, his Tsars or commissars anyway. Every time he issues a directive for them, they'll get that tingle up their legs.
Title should read OBAMA DIGS DEEPER HOLE.
I disagree, I think they want to control Zero, not the other way around (they just happen to share the same values). They originally thought it would be easy because they share the same values and they can do it with other politicians, but now they are seeing that the WH is stripping power away from their type to the left and right of them, and they worry for their own power.
I doubt they really want to be ‘lap dogs’- they have always had the desire to be the ones holding the leash.
From a business perspective, they likely realized that if they would have participated in the media event that excluded Fox, the story from the event would have nothing to do with the interview and be all about the fact that the WH excluded Fox. The competition certainly does not want to have to report the story about their competition and if they didn't report the “story” of exclusion, they would be obviously complicit in cohorts with the WH.
For the rest that refused to conduct interviews excluding Fox, it was a no win situation. While their position assumes a moral high ground and they should be given credit, I believe there was more strategic thought that went into it than what is right and wrong about it.
Remember how frustrating it was for us when Republicans were in charge and pushing crap like amnesty and perscription entightlements? We held the house and the senate and our own party was going against the base. Think about how the MSM and the liberal base must feel now that their guy is looking so foolish while accomplishing nothing.
Traveling right now, but caught FOX this morning. It is indeed a story for them but are the networks covering the story, too, or are they burying it?
Does this constitute an Misdemeanor under Article Two, Section 4 for Impeachment viz., breaking oath Article II, Section 1,8.??? [”...preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Does this constitute an Misdemeanor under Article Two, Section 4 for Impeachment viz., breaking oath Article II, Section 1,8.??? [”...preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
I still dont know how a czarr can do this...enforce policy or law...thought they were advisors
That’s why everyone is upset - they can make any decisions they want! Un-American!
You turned out too soon.
The anchor (I forget his name) did make that point, in the form of a question and the GOP representative/strategist elaborated.
They don’t jump down anyone’s throat, usually, on the daytime news shows. They ask gentle questions so that the audience can observe the reaction and the other debater can have a lead in to the point.
Unlike the SRM, FNC just relentlessly and gently keeps on asking the questions that need to be asked.
Then they came for Glenn Beck and because we had no conservative TV talk show hosts, we did nothing.
Then they came for Fox News Network and because we weren't a conservative TV network, we did nothing.
Then they came for us, and there was no one left to do anything to help us.
- signed ABCNBCCBSCNNMSNBC
If only Il Douche and his Merry Reds moved as quickly in formulating and carrying out a policy against the Taliban as they have against FOX.
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