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witterpitters - > -> FOX NEWS LOCKED OUT
FOX NEWS LOCKED OUT

Fox News Locked Out
by A.W.R. Hawkins

On September 20, 2009, Obama appeared on five Sunday morning news shows in one day -- Fox News Sunday was not included. Two weeks later, following what the New York Times referred to as a “Fox Summit” between Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News, and David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Obama, Fox News was told they wouldn’t get to conduct any Obama interviews in the foreseeable future and all members of the administration, from the top down, were ordered to stay off Fox News.

When it was learned that the reason for the administration’s animosity toward Fox News was based in part on the network’s coverage of Obamacare and Glenn Beck’s opposition to bringing the Olympics to the Chicago, Fox News’ Chris Wallace called Obama a “crybaby” and the battle began.

The last time such a war raged between the White House and a media outlet, Richard Nixon was President, and his V.P, Spiro Agnew, was doing all he could to blackball the New York Times over their unflattering coverage of the Vietnam War. This time, the war is between a President whose skin is at least as thin as was Nixon’s, but whose motives are far more self-serving.

To put it bluntly: Obama doesn’t like the fact that Fox News personalities like Glenn Beck point out dichotomies between what the President says and what he does, between what he promises and what he delivers. Obama and his administration actually equate such critical journalism with warfare.

Of course Obama, ever the victim, wants to paint this as a war someone else started. This much was clear from the words his point person, Anita Dunn, used when she popped up on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” over the weekend: “[Fox News is] undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House.” i.e., “Fox News started this, we didn’t.”

As a consequence of what Fox News has supposedly started, Dunn said the administration was “gonna treat [Fox News] the way [the administration] would treat an opponent.” And why shouldn’t they? Since, according to Dunn, “Fox News often operates…as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.”

Can this administration get any more petty?

Sure they can -- and they have.

On September 30, 2009, on the tax-payer funded WhiteHouse.gov, the administration devoted a full page to pointing out Fox News’ “continued…disregard for…facts in [the network’s] attempt to smear the Administration’s effort to the win the Olympics for the United States.” The post centered on quotes from Glenn Beck, which appeared under the heading “rhetoric,” and were countered by quotes from the administration, which appeared under the heading “reality.”

The big problem for the administration is that some of what Beck said is irrefutable, such as his claim that Obama’s fellow Chicagoan and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett would “benefit financially” from the Olympics. While the administration dismissed this as rhetoric, Michelle Malkin contends that if the games had come to Chicago, Jarrett would have received an “untold windfall” because she owns a portion of the land on which the Olympics would have been held.  

To be “fair and balanced,” I should point out that Obama and his administration are not the only ones who currently handle probing questions, factual assertions, and honest journalism in this way. Rather, it is a common tactic taken by many Democrats.

Al Gore, resident global warming expert and inventor of the internet, recently took the same approach when questioned about factual inconsistencies discovered in his propaganda film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” At a gathering of 500 “environmental journalists” in Madison, Wisconsin, on October 9, 2009, Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer dared to “[ask] Gore to address nine errors in his film identified by a British court in 2007.” When Gore sidestepped the court’s findings with his answers, McAleer pressed further, only to have his microphone turned off.

In other words, McAleer’s role in the discussion was ended in Madison just as Obama and Dunn want Fox News’ role in their discussions in D.C. to end. But the problem with trying to silence an outlet like Fox News or a personality like Beck is that they’re not limited to one microphone in Madison, Wisconsin.

Barring Fox News from the White House and administration officials from Fox News will do nothing to diminish the network’s ongoing, thorough examination of the chasm that exists between what Obama promises and what Obama delivers. And as Fox senior VP Michael Clemente points out, this attempted strangling of what remains of a free press in this country only drives their viewership higher. Clemente believes this “year…[will] be the Fox News Channel’s highest rated.”

To make matters worse for Obama, Europe’s newspapers are increasingly more critical of the administration as well. Days ago -- October 12, 2009 to be exact -- the UK’s Telegraph outlined 10 pledges Obama made on the campaign trail which he has already broken as president.

What will Obama do in response to this? Will he ban members of his administration from accessing the Telegraph on the web or taking calls from its reporters?

It really doesn’t matter what he does next. Ever since September 20th, when he went out of his way to send Fox News a message by avoiding their Sunday show but appearing on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Univision, it’s clear that he’s petty and too weak to handle criticism.

There’s only one word for President Obama -- “crybaby.”




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posted by witterpitters on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 01:27 PM
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posted by catpaw on Oct 16, 2009 at 02:57 PM

Don't tell me, let me guess: Fox News is objective, unbiased and factual. Its reputation to the contrary is a liberal smear campaign. The National Enquirer  has the same problem. So does Jerry Springer. 

posted by sagefever on Oct 16, 2009 at 03:03 PM

They didn't carry  the Presidents speech on Sept 5th 2009~ I think both sides bear culpability here.


posted by pogo on Oct 16, 2009 at 03:06 PM

I read the aricle and found it interesting, although a little slanted in favor of Fox. So I decided to go to the humanevents.com website to check it out. Lo and behold, it is described as "the conservative underground". Just the type of non-biased, fair and balanced site I would go to to get a report on the WH and Fox News. Witter, try checking out some of the outrageous things that have been on Fox and gone un-corrected and ask yourself if you would want to use them for information. If you do, that is certainly your privalege, but if you do, I shall in the future all your opinions as suspect.

 

posted by ApolloDawn on Oct 16, 2009 at 03:14 PM

Witters, I have to agree with Pogo.  It would be to your benefit to consider your sources first.  (You've been improving, really!  hee hee :)

Many of the people who contribute to Human Events would be more than happy to throw me in jail for being a Witch or an uppity liberated woman.

If I would be in such danger, you wouldn't be all too safe, either.  :)

 

posted by witterpitters on Oct 16, 2009 at 03:16 PM

I shall in the future all your opinions as suspect.

My opinions are just that.....................mine. don't like them don't read the blog and certainly don't comment. Kind of like the TV - don't like the program, change the channel.I have watched MSNBC-FOX-CNN and lo' and behold they each have their own agenda - surprise, surprise. I find MSNBC to be just as liberal leaning as you find Fox conservative leaning. sooooo - the point would be what???  Again - don't like it - change the channel or turn it off!  THAT is called 'choice'.

SPAM CODE:  I UZZ U <----WHAT A HOOT!!!!

posted by pogo on Oct 16, 2009 at 03:21 PM

Witters, I am not commenting on your opinion, just your citation. I usually value your opinion, even though we don't always agree on politics. You are not one of these posters (Pax) who contiually cite some obscure web site as gospel. I was just a little shocked when I checked it out.

I watch Fox sometimes, especially Shep Smith, I believe that I should be informed on both sides of questions. We all tend to watch what we agree with, makes us more comfotable in our skin.

posted by pogo on Oct 16, 2009 at 03:25 PM

off topic Apollo, have you read the Physick Book of Deliverance Dane? Good mystery on the Salem thing.

posted by NancyII on Oct 16, 2009 at 03:26 PM

What are the facts here?  Has the White House ordered people to stay off Fox news or not?

"a “Fox Summit” between Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News, and David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Obama, Fox News was told they wouldn’t get to conduct any Obama interviews in the foreseeable future and all members of the administration, from the top down, were ordered to stay off Fox News."
 

Is that true or not?  If both are true, then you can ignore the opinions and the rhetoric but what about the president of the USA unning a blockade on a major news channel?  Is that the "American" way?

posted by ApolloDawn on Oct 16, 2009 at 03:30 PM

Pogo, I have not.  I already have a stack of books to bore through!

Another book to buy now?  Calgon, take me away!  ;)

 

posted by pogo on Oct 16, 2009 at 03:48 PM

Nancy, I don't know if it is true or not, I am googling like mad to find out. If it is true, so much for "Transparancy"

 

posted by pogo on Oct 16, 2009 at 03:58 PM

This is what I found at first look

 

Roger Ailes, David Axelrod Have A 'Cordial Conversation' in Manhattan

By Chris Ariens on Oct 06, 2009 05:19 PM

Politico reports White House senior adviser David Axelrod met with Fox News founder and chairman Roger Ailes when Pres. Obama was in New York during the UN General Assembly two weeks ago.

The two discussed news coverage and the relationship between the organizations. An FNC spokesperson tells POLITICO that Ailes and Axelrod had a "cordial conversation" over coffee...

During the month of September, Fox News passed on carrying certain speeches from the president.

Interestingly, on the Saturday following the Axelrod-Ailes Manhattan chat, Fox News carried Pres. Obama's entire speech at a Congressional Black Caucus event, while MSNBC and CNN did not.

posted by witterpitters on Oct 16, 2009 at 04:13 PM

I tried snopes and found nothing yea or nay.

posted by Patrick319 on Oct 16, 2009 at 04:33 PM

Try, Fox News is not really news, but rhetoric?

posted by siouxcityranch on Oct 16, 2009 at 04:36 PM

 catpaw So does Jerry Springer. 

on that note they left out the huffin post and the other news media sources that were so 'unbiased' during the campaign and after..so much for their recanter witters..dont let em sweat ya..anything they can toss we can catch and throw back twice as hard..

posted by Neverleft on Oct 16, 2009 at 05:06 PM

Obama is dumb. As was said the other day, "Don't pick a fight with someone who likes to fight". 

posted by ALICEN on Oct 16, 2009 at 06:05 PM

I just know one thing, WP, and that is that blackballing Fox was the best advertisement Fox could get.  To think that you were the one really major news channel not to be graced by the presence of you-know-who.  One might conclude that y-k-w was simply too scared to sit down with someone who didn't get that special tingle up their leg. 

posted by catpaw on Oct 16, 2009 at 06:05 PM

Like any headline-hungry celeb, Fox News is just trying to get its name in the news.

posted by drilnliftcrude on Oct 16, 2009 at 06:27 PM

Fox should be proud to be on 0bama's enemy's list.  They earned it with videos of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn saying that Chairman Mao Tse Tung was one of her favorite philosophers while looking like she'd been mainlining crystal meth for days before her speech. 

How many of his own countrymen's deaths was Mao responsible for?   And now he has admirers in the White House. 

posted by ALICEN on Oct 16, 2009 at 06:30 PM

driln:  Amen.

catpaw:  I guess they succeeded.  

posted by ALICEN on Oct 16, 2009 at 06:31 PM

WP:  Love your new avatar.  Love it!

posted by savvydude on Oct 16, 2009 at 06:44 PM

I agree, neverleft.  For all of the pundits who have said "he is extremely smart', everything he has attempted has shown his lack of intelligence.

posted by samheath on Oct 16, 2009 at 07:00 PM

Go with it WP! You know I'm on your side when it comes to Obama and Company. Keep up the good work.

posted by proam on Oct 16, 2009 at 08:28 PM

From all I have watched of Beck, he proves what he says through videos of the culprit's themselves. Can't get much better proof then the person themselves doing the speaking.  This administration is Ugly!

Good going WP!

 

posted by NancyII on Oct 16, 2009 at 09:04 PM

I've been to dinner, a staff meeting, a trip to the bank and  I'm still waiting for someone on the left to disprove the article.

When discounting a story because of it's source, be sure the article itself is wrong otherwise it doesn't matter if the source is right wing.

posted by dragoon on Oct 16, 2009 at 09:51 PM

President Obama doesn't need an enemies list, at least not one with anybody on the right. If anything happens to the man it will probably come from within his own ranks. Look at the freakazoids he surrounds himself with: Marxists, radicals, and mad bombers, all of to whom he is indebted. He had better not renege on any promises to that bunch of mobsters.  The latest being Anita Dunn the Chairman Mao lover whose tongue darts out involuntarily and then she begins a chewing action like she had just speared a fly on which to dine!  I didn't want to look at her but I was compelled to out of morbid curiosity. She gave that speech in front of a group of high-schoolers and I'll just bet the front row was mocking that tongue-flicking action of hers.

spam code: WDBUG

posted by NancyII on Oct 16, 2009 at 09:59 PM

Proam, even when Beck provides transcripts he's called a liar.  If the information comes from the right, the left will always saay it's a lie.

posted by learnem on Oct 17, 2009 at 09:09 AM

honestly, a person has to DIG to find straight to the point unbiased news....and for those of you protecting and making excuses for Obama...it goes on with both sides

even more reason for a powerful 3rd party so we can finally put all this R and D crap to bed once and for all

posted by samheath on Oct 17, 2009 at 10:55 AM

The Devil loves his own, WP. Obama made the cut with the Evil One and Beck didn't.

posted by witterpitters on Oct 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM

AMEN Sam!  Now if people would stop being sheepeople we could get vote out the wolves in sheeps clothing eh!


posted by pogo on Oct 17, 2009 at 01:32 PM

Gee Nancy, I thought I posted something yesterday that said the meeting was friendly and that Fox immediately covered POTUS. Guess you missed that one. As for the rest of it, I am happy for you on the Right that you have something to congratulate yourselves on. Have fun.

I am in deep, deep mourning over the OU-Texas game, so cannot be bothered with the usual political drival from both sides.

Woe is me for another year. How long Lord, How Long?

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