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Krauthammer Rips 'Repulsive Audacity' of White House for Fox News Attacks
Newsbusters ^ | October 21, 2009 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 10/21/2009 5:04:21 AM PDT by Rufus2007

By now, the cat is out of the bag - President Barack Obama and his administration are no fans of the Fox News Channel and have been all too eager to wear that sentiment as a badge of honor.

However, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer identified the vigor with which the Obama administration has attacked Fox. He explained on Fox News Oct. 20 broadcast of "Special Report with Bret Baier" it's different than just fighting back, but an effort to destroy the cable news channel.

"Look, it's one thing for the government, the administration to attack opponents, institutions, media," Krauthammer said. "It is another to go out to try and delegitimize them and destroy them."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: beginningoftheend; bho44; bunkermentality; foxnews; krauthammer; obama
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To: Rufus2007
This is very OT but I ran across something the other day for anyone interested in capturing YouTube videos in HD format for later editing into political ads or whatever. Here is the trick:

Create a bookmark (I use the Delicious plug-in in Firefox) with the following URL:

javascript:if(document.location.href.match(/http:\/\/[a-zA-Z\.]*youtube\.com\/watch/)){document.location.href='http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt='+(isHDAvailable?'22':'18')+'&video_id='+swfArgs['video_id']+'&t='+swfArgs['t']}

Then go to the YouTube page with the video you want to capture and click on the bookmark. You will get a popup allowing you to download the video in mp4 format with a filename video.mp4. It works in Firefox. I haven't tried it in any other browser.

21 posted on 10/21/2009 5:30:01 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: thethirddegree

Are you sure? Garret is pretty much a liberal.


22 posted on 10/21/2009 5:32:25 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Praying for -16 today.)
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To: STONEWALLS

“....I’m surprised the WH Press Corps didn’t close ranks behind FOX on this....it would be very cool if they boycotted a Gibbs press conference.”

Great idea.

Will never happen.

Problems with Guts, lack of ...


23 posted on 10/21/2009 5:32:46 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Rufus2007

“President Barack Obama and his administration are no fans of the Fox News Channel”

In a nutshell: Hussein can’t tolerate the truth. He’s probably glued to his TV every night, watching FOX.


24 posted on 10/21/2009 5:33:39 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Rufus2007

Actually saul said NOT to attack institutions, but to attack individual people who you can then demonize.


25 posted on 10/21/2009 5:34:06 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: TNCMAXQ

Where are McConnell, Boehner, Huckabee, Romney etc with the cries of “why isn’t 0 fighting America’s enemies with the same level of anger that he takes on Fox News?!”””

Well said.


26 posted on 10/21/2009 5:34:51 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Rufus2007

Hey Fox, stick with the program. The WH is doing this to discredit your inquiries into the COLB. The old adage of throwing a rock into a pack of dogs applies here.


27 posted on 10/21/2009 5:37:47 AM PDT by Rebelbase (This is the time of year when ACORNS fall.)
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To: InterceptPoint

>>The advertiser’s boycott of Beck has actually been highly effective<<

On what planet?

Dude, I watch Beck every day. There is no lack of ads

From the article “Beck’s Boycott Backfires”

“In fact, many of the advertisers listed as stopping their sponsorship of Beck’s program have not done so. Best Buy and CVS never ran ads on the show, despite being put in the “win” column by boycott organizer Color For Change.

Additionally, advertisers who have stopped airing spots on Beck’s show, such as Wal-Mart, have simply shifted their advertising dollars to other programming on the FOX News network, which has moved into the number two position for all cable networks. FOX News is number one in all cable news networks in prime time.”


28 posted on 10/21/2009 5:39:34 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: thethirddegree

“I have noticed that Major Garrett’s seat at the WH press conferences has been vacant for several days.”

He’s had H1N1


29 posted on 10/21/2009 5:41:26 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: gussiefinknottle
"He has had swine flu. although, there should be a replacement."

No takers probably because it takes a 'strong stomach' or 'weak mind' to sit through a Gibbs presser...

30 posted on 10/21/2009 5:41:58 AM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: Rufus2007
Personally, I think this kerfufle is a great thing. I have been advocating divving up the country for some time now. Let's all "choose sides" and then we shall see who wins. We can have conservative media, conservative companies, conservative counties, states, you name it. Then we shall see who wins. If the libtards can run their part without us (which I doubt) then they will survive. If they can't, they won't. Let's do it.

Μολὼν λάβε


31 posted on 10/21/2009 5:43:01 AM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" or "come get some")
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To: Rufus2007

If all of the media would do their job and investigate the truth, we could clean this mess up pretty quickly. As long as the state run media is an accomplice, the country, which includes those buffoons, are screwed.


32 posted on 10/21/2009 5:47:45 AM PDT by Dewey Revoltnow (We should stop comparing Obama to Hitler. At least Hitler got the Olympics to come to Berlin)
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To: Pan_Yan

It certainly has, but doesn’t it make you wonder how they were not aware of something as glaringly obvious to the rest of us? how could such intelligent people, like Krauthammer, not have seen through him?


33 posted on 10/21/2009 5:50:17 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Rufus2007
"Saul Alinsky was here..."

Absolutely!

This is but another attempt to delegitamize any criticism.

Only sycophants need apply; ringing any bells CBSABCNBCCNNPBSMSNBC?

34 posted on 10/21/2009 5:52:26 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: thethirddegree

Major Garrett has H1N1. I read somewhere that he got a pretty hard case of it.


35 posted on 10/21/2009 5:52:59 AM PDT by leapfrog0202
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To: Rufus2007

BTW, did anyone hear Imus rip George Steph.? Imus said that the WH has already rescinded its order that no WH spokepersons appear on Fox. “Welcome to the IMUS program George.” It was classic. George was not amused.


36 posted on 10/21/2009 5:56:39 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Rufus2007

In the last forty years, I have never known the Left to favor either freedom of speech or freedom of the press. They feign outrage to get people with opinions they disagree with to shut up. See MoveOn and their latest fakery directed at Fox News.


37 posted on 10/21/2009 5:57:08 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: LikeLight

Yes, Gibbs licked his doorknobs


38 posted on 10/21/2009 5:59:43 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009

“Great idea.

Will never happen.

Problems with Guts, lack of ...”

yep....BTW remember Ron Nieson, Nixon’s abrasive press secretary?...Hunter Thompson went to a WH briefing once and wondered aloud why reporters sucked up to Nieson...well if they didn’t suck up to him, he wouldn’t call on you....and if this started happening, after a while your boss would replace you for not doing your job.


39 posted on 10/21/2009 6:00:31 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: Diogenesis

During the election, Krauthammer was under Obama’s spell. He only turned away from him in the last days of the contest.


40 posted on 10/21/2009 6:04:25 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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