This Administration sucks. Nobody should be forced to back off in their criticism of it.
Fox hasn’t backed down. The WH backed down, looks like to me. Fox seems to just be doing its usual reportage. The only difference between Fox and the all the others is that they don’t selectively report. They report it all. It’s not Fox’s fault that most of what comes out about this administration is bad and often downright frightening. That’s on the administration, not Fox. Sure, most of Fox’s opinion stuff is pro-America, anti-Marxist, so again, any criticism of the administration arising from the administration’s agenda and policies is also on the administration. It’s not the fault of Fox commentators when the administration’s actions, statements and policies diverge from America’s interests, which is pretty much all the time. Besides, Fox commentators always have some lefties on spewing and spinning their absurdities so I hear both sides.
I watch Fox because they don’t squelch stories.
IMO they were just playing to their lib base. Now that Bush is no longer in office, the favorite libtard boogieman is Fox News - and the lib hatred of Fox is palpable. Since the base largely isn't getting their way on health care and global warming so far, the Obama Admin just got 'em stirred up a bit by a halfhearted bash of Fox. I don't think it's much more complicated than that.