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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
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To: RobinMasters

The White House is losing this battle. Otherwise they would not be taking such steps.

What dimwits!


21 posted on 10/22/2009 7:15:38 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: FrdmLvr

LMAO!!!! Haven’t seen that one! Great!


22 posted on 10/22/2009 7:17:22 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ($$$$$OBAMA MONEY!!!$$$$$ /s)
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To: RobinMasters

I had a thought(yes, it was scary.) This should really enrage those nonFox newsies who were in the pool. bammy just called them tame little poodles he could feel safe around while Fox scares him.

No one is buying the whole Fox is nothing but opinion spiel, so this should really anger those few media types that aren’t in the tank for bammy who have just been relegated to lapdog status.


23 posted on 10/22/2009 7:17:22 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: Chong

President Soetero, Axelrod and Rahm got owned and there is nothing the Chicago mob thugs can do about it.


24 posted on 10/22/2009 7:26:45 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: stumptalker

Hopefully the Pharmacutical industry and the AMA have figured that out by now, ie. making nice up front only to be hammered later and have the “deal” you thought you had, taken away.


25 posted on 10/22/2009 7:28:40 PM PDT by bombthrower
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To: bombthrower
What will Obama do when REPORTERS, REPORT that ObamaCare is a disaster?

US health care tab would grow under overhaul

The nation's medical costs will keep spiraling upward even faster than they are now under Democratic legislation pending in the House, a report from government economic experts concluded Wednesday

Oh wait Barry Soetoro...what will you do... yahoo reported this!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091021/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_health_care_overhaul_costs

26 posted on 10/22/2009 7:37:07 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
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.
Just means they'll work even harder to prevent it.
27 posted on 10/22/2009 7:38:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: when the time is right
"Did those of you who watched the Fox interview of the Pay Czar notice that he kept using the words “I” and “me” just like Obama? Never once did he say us or we."

Just wanted to direct attention to the similarity.

28 posted on 10/22/2009 7:40:57 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: RobinMasters

So the censorship begins with Fox. Should whup the others
into line, no doubt!

Go FoxNews! Keep the REAL news coming, no matter what!


29 posted on 10/22/2009 7:42:39 PM PDT by luvie (2010 is Conservatives' to win....or lose. So....LET'S WIN!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

The video only has 355 views.

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

Send it in emails to all you know.


30 posted on 10/22/2009 7:44:41 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: 444Flyer; hoosiermama; Quix; mojitojoe; sushiman

ping


31 posted on 10/22/2009 7:45:58 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: GOPJ
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.

Maybe

What happens when their earnings are tanking and they want Bailout $$$
32 posted on 10/22/2009 7:55:42 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: bfree
FUBO

FUBO and the Donkey you rode in on...

33 posted on 10/22/2009 8:05:43 PM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (In just His first 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
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To: BuffaloJack
"We know the Obama doesn’t like ther term “czar”.

Actually, it was the White House and Obama who first called them "czars."

But perhaps, in the interest of accuracy, they should now be called "commissars."

Or maybe "commie-czars."

34 posted on 10/22/2009 9:13:20 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama: ---Despiser of the Honduran Constitution and contemptuous of ours.)
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To: GOPJ

Hopefully this episode will end the sycophancy that has thus far exemplified the media relationship with the White House. Unfortunately too many politicians know that they can use access as a way to control their exposure. No access, no stories. No stories, no sales. The media is aware of it, but they all must call politicians out on it to protect the republic and their industry.


35 posted on 10/22/2009 9:13:48 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
Fire all the ‘Czars’!! The topic should really be about the fact that they are unconstitutional. That will take care of the interviewing issue.
36 posted on 10/22/2009 9:39:40 PM PDT by 444Flyer ("Permission to engage enemy Sir! " " Permission denied." (Under CIC Obamao.))
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To: RobinMasters

Why should Fox News care? Fox News should not want to interview tyrants or the lackey’s they put in front of a media that is bought and paid for. The American people are not stupid and know that the change Obama and the Dem leadership want to make in this country is to change America into a third world nation and enslave the public by controlling all aspects of their lives. They should be impeached for violating the public trust,sedition, libel, child endangerment (enslavement of future generations though fiscal mismanagement). They are actively subverting the Constitution and should be removed from office asap.

Many Americans love this country and have fought to defend the ideals to which it stands for. It is apparent that Obama, the people in his Administration and the Democrats in Congress do not love this country and want to change it into some Socialist/Marxist controlled state.


37 posted on 10/22/2009 10:19:41 PM PDT by reader25
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

I just now watched it @2:35am Friday morning and it STILL HAS 355 views!!!


38 posted on 10/22/2009 11:34:41 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: bombthrower

It is hard to find a group this guy hasn’t stabbed in the back. Even the unions don’t trust him. How do you negotiate
with a guy that doesn’t remember what he said 2 minutes ago?


39 posted on 10/23/2009 4:05:46 AM PDT by stumptalker
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To: musicman

And it is Still on 355 views.Oh and it looks like the DUmmies found it check out the comments.


40 posted on 10/23/2009 6:26:15 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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