Obama's War on Fox
I’m finally starting to understand what’s taking the administration so long to decide on General McChrystal’s troop request; they’re too busy waging a “good” war against…Fox news! Today’s Chicago Tribune has a stunning story on the White House’s efforts to intimidate Democratic political consultants from appearing as guests on Fox news programming:
At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama administration.
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One Democratic strategist said that shortly after an appearance on Fox he got a phone call from a White House official telling him not to be a guest on the show again. The call had an intimidating tone, he said.The message was, “We better not see you on again,” said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to run afoul of the White House. An implicit suggestion, he said, was that “clients might stop using you if you continue.”
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White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said Thursday night that she had checked with colleagues who “deal with TV issues” and they had not told people to avoid Fox. On the contrary, they had urged people to appear on the network, Dunn wrote in an email.But Patrick Caddell, a Fox News contributor and a former pollster for Democratic President Jimmy Carter, said he has spoken to Democratic consultants who have been told by the White House to avoid appearances on Fox. He declined to give their names.
Caddell said he had not gotten that message himself from the White House. “They know better than to tell me anything like that,” he said.
Caddell added: “I have heard that they’ve done that to others in not too subtle ways. I find it appalling. When the White House gets in the business of suppressing dissent and comment, particularly from its own party, it hurts itself.”
For the most Post-Partisan!, Ethical!, Transparent!, administration-EVAR! this is a pretty disconcerting revalation. I guess it must be more of that New Kind of Politics! that Obama promised to bring to Washington, and on it’s face appears to have a decidedly cliche Chicago flavor. It sounds like the old Hollywood admonishment, “You’ll never work in this town again!”
In addition to outlining the fecklessness of this latest strategery, Cap’n Ed at Hot Air also points out that it is self undermining; not simply because of the bad press it may generate, but because it also undermines the credibility of the networks on which those strategists do appear! Doubtless, it may also serve to further increase the ratings of their target, Fox, even moreso than their entire petty vendetta has already…
But that seems to be the signature of this administration’s use of Smart Power!
Ohnoes, Rocket Man’s got his beans stirring! Ohnoes!
I haven’t had the luxury of time to flip through Fux Nutworks and listen to today’s bitter white trash meme list. I guess it’s the old we’re the victims, us silly peroxide blond fascists are teh pwetty victims of big black Obama!
Hahaha.
It’s so sad, really. The lower rung of whites on the economic ladder are so full of spite for their fellow man, especially if ‘emz ones bein’ a black. Maybe you see non-whites as your competition in a zero sum game, I suppose.
Then there’s the old southern tradition of ignorance-is-might! They more ignorant you are the whiter you be! White Power, people! If and when you can’t figure out the American economy and it’s failings – it’s ‘em niggers fault!
This, of course, is why persons of the Judaic faith tend to vote Democratic, Eno, if you want the truth. Education!
So what’s our Rocket Prop propagating today, it’s not like I couldn’t figure it out by clicking through the right-wing scum stew of r-wingered websites or by tuning the dumb-box to Fox for 10-minutes, but it’s a rhetorical question anyway.
Why wouldn’t Obama step on the throats of the stupid Goebbel-esque propaganda machine known as Fox News? It is the channel of rural White church-going cowards and welfare pussies, is it not? The White-skinned race-baiting hayseeds!
Obama is a patriotic American, unlike the enemies of America at the Fux Nutwork. See how that works.
What in the hell r u blathering about, Tohr?
Uh, the Chicago Tribune is hardly a bastion of Wingnuttia, Horace McFisted-alot.
So you think it’s OK for the administration to intimidate people into shunning Fox news? I mean, in a post-partisan way of course…
You think it’s OK for Obama, healer of the nation’s divisions, and leader of the most Transparent! administration-EVAH! to try and silence criticism of him in this heavy-handed way?
You think that it’s dignified to act in a petty fashion more befitting a miffed BMOC than the President of the United States?
‘Cuz, I just want to be clear on where you’re comin’ from…
Where do you get all these names?
Yes, Fux News is Wingnuttia, it’s the bastion of, so to speak.
Fux Nuts is where you get intellectual geniuses who say lowering cap-gain taxes increases tax revenue. Such theory extends itself to the 0% tax-rate creating the highest dollar amount of tax revenue, when, in fact, $0 is the lowest possible dollar amount. A fuckin’ barnyard animal should be able to forget this out.
How many times did Dick Cheney – Dickless Loser – go on a MSNBC news show as compared to the number of times he was on Fux Nutworks while he was VP? Now we have a Transparent administration that comes out and openly says they will not dance with a non-news network that parades around as one. That’s what I call honesty in handling the media.
Fill your tea cups with Glenn Beckian tears, tea-fags. To your failing mental health, toast and drink!
Nice try at mocking me thor, but I have never implied anuthing like the ridiculous statement you make about Cap-gains going to zero; of course there is a break even point.
Cheney was interviewed by NBC on several occasions, and more importantkly did not try to vilify nor single out for punishment any of the newtorks.
Fox is up there with the alphabets in terms of audience share and ratings. They are the major player, and the only netweork that offers both sides of issues instead of the usual liberal spin. Don’t confuse their actual news outlet with the opinion programs, run by commentators such as Beck…
2008 Survey results show that 33% of those who watch Fox News identify themselves as Democratic, and 22% as Independent. This compares to 36% and 29% for the general public. Republicans come in at 39% and 25%. So a plurality of the viewers of Fox News is not the hicktard republican rightwingers. Once again, thor, you don’t have a fucking clue what you’re talking about.
bohr didn’t get its flu shot…oh wait, only 23% of the total vaccines arrived. Let’s give the government healthcare to run. The Kremlin says the additional 77% will be here any day, or by spring.
Thor needs to get a vaccine for loser troll syndrome.
Mike, he’s an excepttional troll. Who could expend this amount of energy on a blog comment section? I think Bob is the only one who actually reads every one of bohr’s entire rants. I don’t have the time nor the inclination. Mocking his lame ass is the extent of my effort. Although, in a peverse way, it feeds his immense ego.
Yes, fag, you’re one of my precious groupies.
I’m just not into fags, that’s why I ignore you. And please stop tossing your man-panties at me during my guitar solos. They smell.
I’m sure your a fine Guitar Hero vidiot.
your=you’re