Posted on 10/22/2009 6:13:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he's put a horse's head in Roger Ailes' bed. Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn't scare easily.
The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is "opinion journalism masquerading as news."
Patting rival networks on the head for their authenticity (read: docility), senior adviser David Axelrod declared Fox "not really a news station." And chief of staff Emanuel told (warned?) the other networks not to "be led (by) and following Fox."
Meaning? If Fox runs a story critical of the administration — from exposing White House czar Van Jones as a loony 9/11 "truther" to exhaustively examining the mathematical chicanery and hidden loopholes in proposed health care legislation — the other news organizations should think twice before following the lead.
The signal to corporations is equally clear: You might have dealings with a federal behemoth that not only disburses more than $3 trillion every year but is extending its reach ever deeper into private industry — finance, autos, soon health care and energy. Think twice before you run an ad on Fox.
At first, there was little reaction from other media. Then on Thursday, the administration tried to make them complicit in an actual boycott of Fox. The Treasury Department made available Ken Feinberg, the executive pay czar, for interviews with the White House "pool" news organizations — except Fox. The other networks admirably refused, saying they would not interview Feinberg unless Fox was permitted to as well. The administration backed down.
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And I'd say to Anita Dunn, that the current crop in the WH is a campaign masquerading as an administration.
Two disasters in one. Meanwhile the economy flounders, layoffs continue,
and Rome Burns,
Excellent description
Another 534,000 people laid off last week. The libtards should be very proud
Nixon didn’t go this far.
Obama is shaping up to be far, far more paranoid.
Mao as champion of individuality? Mao, the greatest imposer of mass uniformity in modern history, creator of a slave society of a near-billion worker bees wearing Mao suits and waving the Little Red Book?
The White House communications director cannot be trusted to address high schoolers without uttering inanities. She and her cohorts are now to instruct the country on truth and objectivity?”
WOW!
Just WOW!
That commentry is TWO black eyes worth of truth.
Better put some ice on that Anita.
It is. I hadn't even thought about the pressure that Obama could bring to bear on a variety of companies with respect to the ads they do or don't run on FNC - it's not a small list. GM, Chrysler, and every bank that has yet to pay back their TARP funds, which is virtually everyone of them.
Maybe now people will see why there should be a GREAT DIVIDE between private industry and government ownership of industry.
He makes a point everybody seems to have missed when he writes:
“Defend Fox from the likes of Anita Dunn? She’s been attacked for extolling Mao’s political philosophy in a speech at a high school graduation. But the critics miss the surpassing stupidity of her larger point: She was invoking Mao as support and authority for her impassioned plea for individuality and trusting one’s own choices.
Mao as champion of individuality? Mao, the greatest imposer of mass uniformity in modern history, creator of a slave society of a near-billion worker bees wearing Mao suits and waving the Little Red Book?”
Charles goes on to state,
“The White House communications director cannot be trusted to address high schoolers without uttering inanities. She and her cohorts are now to instruct the country on truth and objectivity?”
Too kind.
More like insane ramblings.
“Anita Dunn said that Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” “
As opposed to ABCNNBCBS, which are propaganda outlets masquerading as news.
Fox will win this war. LOL about the remark on Ailes being frightened!
Sort of ... they still reminded everyone who owned the ball by cuitting the contact time down to 2 minutes from 5. That petulant reaction is getting little play.
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