Posted on 10/18/2009 3:45:39 PM PDT by Marty62
WASHINGTON White House advisers pledged on Sunday to book administration officials on Fox News despite claims by the president's inner circle that the cable network is a GOP mouthpiece whose programming is geared toward making money.
Last week, White House communications director Anita Dunn said Fox News operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. On Sunday, Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama's chief of staff, said, It is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective.
In response to the criticism, Fox News executive Michael Clemente on Sunday accused the White House of continuing to declare war on a news organization rather than focusing on issues such as jobs and health care.
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I think someone might have shown the rating sheets to the petty thin skinned children occupying the off-White House and they realized Rush and Fox don’t need their help being the most watched and listened to ... plus, maybe an adult mentioned that real Presidents don’t act like sniveling little punks every time someone doesn’t kiss their ass.
I’m disgusted by the media’s complicity in the attempt to marginalize anyone who disagrees with Obama’s policies. MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, the NYT, hacks like Bill Maher,Keith Olbermann. Chris Matthews et al would all have us believe that anyone who attended a town hall meeting this summer, or opposed the elevation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, is either:
a) A racist
b) Mentally unstable
c) White trash
d) Uninformed
e) A racist
f) Stupid
g) Hate filled
h) A birther
i) teabaggers
j) A racist
I’m still having a hard time with this. If they think Fox is whatever they call it about the Republican party - exactly what is everyone else? Hasa anyone tried to make them answer this???
While Im ranting tell Drudge to get off his balloon boy kick.
They realized someone might ask them to support the claim that Fox’s news anchors and reporters are pushing an agenda.Most of the cable channels have very little time devoted to actual news reportage. But Shepard Smith is quite down the middle maybe tilting toward Obama and Bret Baier is more opinion free than any anchor on cable or over the air. Major Garret is the best WH reporter extant and Chris Wallace is more objective than any roundtable talk show host. The big problem the WH and their lefty media will find is that as more people tune in to Fox out of curiousity they’ll see how balanced the News guys on Fox are.
You’re right, of course, but you’re dealing with AP here.They view their job as minimizing damage to their love object in the WH , now realizing that a war on a major news network is a loser and makes him and his acolytes look childish.
You hit the nail on the head!!!!!!!
I agree with the exception of Shep. Maybe it’s just that he’s obnoxious. He tends to be rude to any guest that doesn’t carry the O line.
But otherwise right on.
OH MY...that is GREAT. First time I have seen that one.
Let’s all pretend that Rush ask us to ‘’support’’ Fox.
I think she is. They have no idea who drove that video to New York and put it in Glenn Beck’s hands.
There are watch dogs everywhere.
Note that effeminate stance of Obama in the photo. I’d like to have a blow-up of that.
Too late..they already threw spit balls and the teacher called the superintendent of schools./s
This not a game. Some people in the media need to get that through their heads.
Did you hear Maher say in an interview on the Joy Baharlot show? He said he wished we had a dictator like CHINA. THEY don’t have to bother with what the PEOPLE think.
Fox had it on. I think it may have been Glenn?
Agreed! And the second FOX starts to appear to falter, we the people, will take notice and vote with our remotes. It is way too easy to tell when someone is being political, at least it is for those who can think for themselves.
Wow, that pic of O-da-wimpo-Hussein showing his limp wrist, his limp d....in that photo...what A WIMP!! Gads, get me om the mat with that guy...oh please!
Maybe a taleted Freeper can crop and resize it for us.
That would be photo fit for lots of posting.
It could be a setup.
They may say "OK, we'll give you the benefit of the doubt and appear on your station." Then, if the questioning gets tough or Glenn Beck starts picking off administration members again they'll say "See? We told you they weren't real news people. We are leaving and denying them press credentials."
I would expect this kind of corruption from zer0 and his minions.
Just look at her, she's ready to jump right in.
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