Watching CNN.
Posted on 10/23/2009 5:20:49 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he's put a horse's head in Roger Ailes's 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 "green jobs" 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.
This was an important defeat because there's a principle at stake here. While government can and should debate and criticize opposition voices, the current White House goes beyond that.
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A good article. But here are a couple of corrections, with all due respect to CK:
“Meaning? If Fox runs a story critical of the administration — from exposing “green jobs” czar Van Jones as a loony 9/11 “truther”...”
No, the important part of the story was not that he was a “truther,” but that he was a radical COMMUNIST. He was a follower of the tactics follow by Mao, whom CK rightfully slams later in the article. Further, the important news story that FOX is airing is that there are MANY such RADICAL COMMUNISTS in this administration.
WE MUST NOT BE AFRAID TO CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE. THEY ARE OLD-SCHOOL COMMUNISTS, the very people the anti-communists in America have warned us about for over 5 decades.
“Seeking to deliberately undermine, delegitimize and destroy is not Madisonian. It is Nixonian.”
I’m no fan of Tricky Dick’s. But, let’s face it. He was a hack compared to the Democrats who have made an art of the politics of personal destruction. Using Nixon as an example of a great destroyer of civil debate is fairly silly compared to the other, many examples we have.
He should have said, “It’s Stalinesque.”
One of Stalin’s sayings was, “Control the Media - Control the People.”
This quote ties in perfectly with the point of CK’s article, that the COMMUNISTS in this administration are destroying debate through intimidation and by controlling the media.
If Hussein adopts Nixon’s tactics, he will end up with Nixon’s results.
At the time, I thought that Rahm Emanuel was a smart choice. I didn’t put enough weight on his Colson/Haldeman enemies list mentality.
With all the other news organizations slobbering on his shoes, I’m amazed that Hussein is so angry at the one news organization that isn’t.
He’s like a spoiled kid that has a tantrum when he doesn’t get exactly his own way.
The obama media had better wise up or they will be next. The idiots in the media are participating in a circular firing squad.
Well said.
It does not bode well for any administration when supermarket tabloids break a cover story on you and it turns out to be right
Watching CNN.
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