Posted on 07/14/2011 7:46:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Emails Show White House Targeting Fox News Despite Denial
Published July 14, 2011 | FoxNews.com
Newly released emails show the Obama administration communication team privately discussed whether to exclude Fox News from interviews in late 2009, despite claims at the time that the White House did not intend to snub the cable news channel.
The emails, obtained and released by watchdog Judicial Watch, pertain to a kerfluffle over whether the administration tried to lock Fox News out of a round of interviews with "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg, who was then responsible for reviewing compensation of Wall Street executives.
The perceived slight in October 2009 led to a confrontation with the press corps, not just Fox News -- afterward, the administration ultimately granted the interview to Fox News, along with other news outlets. Administration officials at the time rejected any suggestion that they had tried to exclude Fox News in the first place.
But the emails suggest the subject was at least discussed.
"The Obama administration seems to have lied about its attempt to exclude Fox News Channel from access to an interview with the 'pay czar,'" Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
Fitton told Fox News the White House treatment was "something Hugo Chavez might do but it really has no place in modern-day America."
The emails cover dozens of conversations in late 2009. But in one email dated Oct. 22, 2009, White House media official Dag Vega wrote to Treasury spokeswoman Jenni LeCompte saying, "we'd prefer if you skip Fox please."
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Meh. All interviews of everyone by everyone are absurd (and useless) political theater anyway. I rarely, if ever, watch them or silly debates. I just look for what the person does, not what they say.
Whatever this WH says, believe the opposite. Saves time and trouble.
What? No! Never!
I’ve told this story before FOX did.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2733679/posts
I’m glad I’m not crazy.
Thanks for the link. GRRRRREAT work!
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
HAHAHA Indeed it does.
Main point, Axelrod runs the WH. This proves it.
Your definitely NOT crazy. The press has been agitprop since the 1930’s though. We have never had a “free” press...it has been controlled by the Carnegies, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Kissingers...etc.
Their spoof was to say how “lucky” we were to have a “free” press unlike Germany, Russia and China, when they (elite Marxists) had as tight as control here as there......McCarthy got the heat of the “free” press in the 50’s.....he was destroyed by the lies and set up by the infiltrators in the government, then their agents in strategic posts in the press kept repeating the Big Lie to form the masses opinion of McCarthy. (Any one who dare point out the communist infiltrators are EVIL and will be eliminated.)
I am afraid the Marxists infiltrated all our institutions....esp. the press and schools—the public schools are marxist indoctrination centers which destroy the “fixed values” of children...to turn them into immoral incompetents who can’t reason and think logically. That is why we think liberals are mentally retarded....because of all the cognitive dissonance forced on them in school and they no longer have a working brain.
I’ll give you a commie plot: Stuff like Sesame Street. Sit down an watch it some time. See how many commie slogans you pick up. You’ll be surprised.
No—I wouldn’t be surprised. I have known its Marxist slant for way over a decade.
I haven’t watched it for years though....even in the 90’s some things made me puke when I happened to chance upon it. Conditioning and Brainwashing. Yes, it throws in some numbers and letters to make parents think it is about “education”, but no, it is about worldview. They don’t want your little ones to be smart...those people are hard to herd and control.
The rapid short segments are disjointed and teach children to become bored easily so they can never be able to pay attention long enough to understand concepts at deeper levels. It makes kids hyper and unable to concentrate if their isn’t a lot of noise and action every second. Perseverance—the necessary virtue for success—is really damaged by children being entertained 24/7 by TV which doesn’t integrate the two sides of the mind, while watching it....and destroys the logic that only comes from physical interaction with the natural world. They don’t want children seeing “cause and effect” in nature...because they will become logical and see through their Big Lies—like Heather has Two Mommies.
I was going to get her book eventually. I am studying Natural Law Theory which was so enshrined by our Constitution and Founding Fathers and incorporated into our legal system. Natural Law Theory is what the Postmoderns loathed...it is where logic and our moral code comes from (with some Biblical directive—but Christianity is aligned to Natural Law Theory by Aquinas). The US’s moral code was mostly from Aristotle’s Ethics and the Stoics whose philosophy was picked up by Cicero who combined Ethics and morals to the Law. Just Law has to be based on Natural Law which is a moral code and the idea of Universal Truth.
That is what these Postmoderns have to destroy—our fundamental ideas and basis of government—Natural Law Theory because there is Universal Truth—a right and wrong—moral absolutes. Ruin the Rule of Law with moral relativism and everything else caves. Make “unequal” law—rights for inane things and you will eventually get chaos and no respect for the law (things which deny natural law—like homosexual marriage).
Clarence Thomas is the foremost scholar of Natural Law on the bench (Bork was and you see the visceral hatred for people who would dare try to reinsert the original intent of Natural Law back into our legal system.) It is like Satan when he sees the image of the cross. You can hear the evil hiss and pure disgust. Moral relativism was forced into schools by John Dewey’s curricula. He threw out the McGuffey Readers.
Ann Coulter gets it.....Psychology has been incorporated into Culture probably before Lenin befriended Pavlov—but it was that conditioning and behaviorism and then the Freudian concepts that really gave the media controllers and the educators their methodologies for curricula and media. BF Skinner has been incorporated in all curricula according to BK Eakman and many others. (Cloning of the American Mind). Closing of the American Mind, Bloom’s book really explains the ‘transformation’ from the Christian paradigm to the atheist/marxist/progressive/satanic/pagan one—the whatever—moral relative one. Marketing of Evil is a great book also on their methodology to brainwash and condition the masses over the decades. Quite the Alinsky tactics used by our media and schools for decades.
I read Ann Coulter’s book about the demonization of McCarthy...perfect example. Also read Blacklisted: the True History of Senator Eugene McCarthy.
That is what the Republicans are so afraid of....being destroyed in the press like McCarthy—the press does it to everyone they can who go off the reservation and doesn’t worship Satan. Most people, like McCarthy have weak points and can be destroyed by mass media—innuendos and lies. With actors and Hollywood forced to drink their koolaid, it is really easy. They have the goons in force and the ignorant masses (kept that way by tv and public schools) don’t know WHY they think like they do....they just understand they are RIGHT—when they are the ignorant fool and useful idiot.
“That is what the Republicans are so afraid of....being destroyed in the press like McCarthy....”
They need to man-up, and quickly,if the Republic is to survive.
For the life of me, I will never understand why the Republican party is so squeamish. Conservatism is a winner. All they need to do is look at Ronald Reagan’s two landslide victories....it’s not like that’s ancient history, or anything.
I'll give you another. School supplies. That long list of stuff you buy at the beginning of the year that winds up in the "community" box to be doled out to the kids through the year. A simple lesson in Socialism.
PS. We are mostly old enough to remember the days when anything we bought with our own money was ours. If we wanted to share, we could, of course. And our parents paid taxes so the schools could provide us with pencils, notebooks, and crayons.
Yes, you are right but the incredible force that the media has now to form the thinking of the masses is frightening—mob rule. The control is almost absolute...they are strangling all those outlets that will disagree with their Marxist message and indoctrination. The homosexual mafia proves how there is no logical discourse allowed anymore and their power with Gov. Brown and forcing the atheism and the unnatural on children in public schools. This forcing demonic worldview on children which undermines all the principles of Natural Law and God’s Law which our Constitution was founded on—shows the irrational power they have. Republicans are aware of the power....they will be destroyed if there is any skeleton in their closet—and everyone has one—they know it and they are NOT willing to sacrifice, although they will have to if we are to save the American Way from this fascism.
Cultural Marxism (PC) which raises “emotions” to a higher status than the “intellectual” prevents rational dialogue. This deliberate effort to destroy knowledge (hey, ho western civ has got to go;==Stanford U 60’s) is an attack on all the philosophy and genius that created the Constitution of the US. The Postmodernism is all about irrational thinking—no logic, reason and science allowed (unless they twist and deform it into something demonic).
That Constitution is the result of thousands of years of collected intellectual genius throughout human history-—Marxists have to destroy it, because intelligent people want to be their own masters.
We are fighting a massive Marxist propaganda machine put into the media and schools by the 1930’s.....this mass indoctrination and misinformation and the censorship of all the intellectual brilliance of Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Locke, Thomas Reid has to be erased....it makes sense—it is logical-—it creates a flourishing free people who don’t need masters. They believe in Universal Truth—right and wrong determined by God—so they can not redesign man into their own demonic normal-—two men can marry.
They are devoid of logic and reason and there is no way the Republicans can have a discourse with such people who constantly lie and distort the truth and history. Until people understand the evil of their philosophy, we will not win the support of the masses.
We have to destroy the indoctrination center....the public school and get back to Just Law and reform the Judicial system which was destroyed by the Marxists, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes.
When we get back to a Just legal system, everything else will fall into place-—and get rid of all the centralized government bureaucracies which are nothing but fascist ways to control the masses and ideology. Totally unconstitutional.
Orwellian-— That’s the best way to sum up what the left has done to our media and our language.
Resistance is NOT futile, it’s patriotic!
Orwellian-— That’s the best way to sum up what the left has done to our media and our language.
Resistance is NOT futile, it’s patriotic!
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