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It’s come to this : White House tries to bar Fox News from interviewing pay czar
Hot Air ^ | October 22, 2009 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 10/22/2009 5:54:03 PM PDT by RobinMasters

Decide for yourself what the most disgraceful aspect of this is. Was it the fact that Gibbs told Jake Tapper explicitly on Monday that the White House wouldn’t try to dictate to the press pool who should and shouldn’t be included — before doing precisely that? Was it Anita Dunn going out of her way to say she respects Major Garrett as a fair reporter — before the administration decided he didn’t deserve a crack here at Feinberg? Or was it the repeated insistence by Dunn and Axelrod that of course the administration will make its officials available to Fox — before pulling the plug today?

The other networks deserve the praise they’re getting for standing up to the Baby-in-Chief, but if they had acquiesced in this freezeout, a precedent would have been set that would have been eagerly used by future Republican presidents to close them off too. And don’t think they weren’t all keenly aware of it.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fnc; foxnews
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1 posted on 10/22/2009 5:54:03 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; traderrob6; OL Hickory; socialismisinsidious; trlambsr; Altera; ...

Ping.


2 posted on 10/22/2009 5:54:37 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

We know the Obama doesn’t like ther term “czar”.
Could the interview the Pay Overlord instead of the pay Czar?


3 posted on 10/22/2009 5:56:48 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama, the naturalized President.)
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To: RobinMasters

Pay Czar = Fascist Gestapo


4 posted on 10/22/2009 5:58:01 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: RobinMasters

And if Bush had excluded CNN, the world would have exploded.


5 posted on 10/22/2009 6:00:01 PM PDT by taillightchaser (When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
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To: RobinMasters

The only bright spot in this is that the rest of the White House Press Corps recognized what a threat this is to them all, and this one time the correspondents appear to have awakened, let their balls drop for a fleeting second, and finally stood up to this BS.

We’ll see where this goes, but I think the Fox News boycott is about over.


6 posted on 10/22/2009 6:01:06 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts....)
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To: RobinMasters
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7 posted on 10/22/2009 6:06:13 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: RobinMasters
Did those of you who watched the Fox interview of the Pay Czar notice that he kept using the words “I” and “me”? Never once did he say us or we.

I got the feeling “he” felt that being a Czar gave him unlimited power to do as “he” pleased whether Congress or we the voters approved or not....and I am beginning to see that all of these Obama Czars have the same attitude. They are the unaccountables. They have been given unlimited power that has no checks or balances.

8 posted on 10/22/2009 6:15:15 PM PDT by when the time is right
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To: FrdmLvr

FUBO


9 posted on 10/22/2009 6:21:47 PM PDT by bfree (The revolution is coming and it will be violent)
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To: RobinMasters

Anybody who doesn’t see who and what we are up against and what it will take to win is blind. And nominating people like Skuzzlebutt in NY-23 when we need conservative shock troops in Congress is insane.


10 posted on 10/22/2009 6:39:24 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (There is no alternative. - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: RobinMasters

Richard Milhous Obama.


11 posted on 10/22/2009 6:43:48 PM PDT by Reaganesque ("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
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To: RobinMasters

This is madness... God help US!


12 posted on 10/22/2009 6:44:48 PM PDT by Chong (Tea Party 2009. We are not gonna take it No Mo')
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To: RobinMasters; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


13 posted on 10/22/2009 6:45:17 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: RobinMasters

Great story


14 posted on 10/22/2009 6:52:29 PM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the government spending you demand stupid")
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To: RobinMasters
The other networks deserve the praise they’re getting for standing up to the Baby-in-Chief...

I'm not a fan of the MSM - but flat out - the other networks were JOURNALISTS FIRST ... they did what was right. Hats off to all of them.

15 posted on 10/22/2009 6:54:40 PM PDT by GOPJ (It isnÂ’t hate speech when itÂ’s true.)
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To: RobinMasters
Perhaps the press core is figuring out this wacko will find a reason to go after them next.
16 posted on 10/22/2009 7:02:10 PM PDT by stumptalker
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To: Nachum

Didn’t anyway tell Obama to play nice with the kids when he was young? This guy seems more petty everyday.


17 posted on 10/22/2009 7:02:11 PM PDT by stumptalker
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To: RobinMasters

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlMILRyDRdM&feature=player_embedded


18 posted on 10/22/2009 7:06:09 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: RobinMasters

So much for openness in government.


19 posted on 10/22/2009 7:11:46 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: RobinMasters

Banana republic don/t need no stinkin first amendment

/s/


20 posted on 10/22/2009 7:13:55 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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