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Obama overly sensitive to criticism. He is a
cry baby about criticism from Fox News
Most Americans don't like a president who
threatens them and refuses to listen to an entire half of the country who
disagrees with him. Fox News was informed by the White House that Obama
would grant no interviews to the channel until at least 2010.
The White House continues to criticize Fox News for Lies. What about
MSNBC? Let me guess, Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews
are objective journalists whom the White House approves. It's not that they
object to viewpoint journalism, they merely object to criticism (even when
earned). They whine like a bunch of school children. To quote Harry Truman;
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Like Al Gore the
other day, when they pulled the plug on a questioner who asked him to
explain nine false statements in his movie. No dissent, no discussion, no
freedom of speech unless they approve.
As for Dunn's complaint about Fox News' coverage of the Obama campaign, a
study by the Pew Research Center showed that 40 percent of Fox News
stories on Obama in the last six weeks of the campaign were negative.
Similarly, 40 percent of Fox News' stories on Obama's Republican
opponent, Sen. John McCain, were negative.
On CNN, by contrast, there was a 22-point disparity in the percentage
of negative stories on Obama (39 percent) and McCain (61 percent). The
disparity was even greater at MSNBC, according to Pew, where just
14 percent of Obama stories were negative, compared to a whopping 73
percent of negative McCain stories -- a spread of 59 points.
On CNN, the network's senior political analyst David Gergen called the White
House attacks "a risky strategy, and it's not one that I would advocate."
David Zurawik, a media critic for the Baltimore Sun is usually harshly
critical of Fox News. But Zurawik blasted the White House campaign as
"dangerous to press freedom, and it should concern everyone in the press,
not just Fox."
He slammed White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who has led the
charge against America's top-rated cable news network as "sounding so
uninformed and blatantly biased." "Dunn is absolutely wrong about Fox's
coverage of the election last fall. I did watch it every day and wrote about
it several times a week for this blog. And while I didn't like a lot of what
I saw with soft interviews and only favorable coverage of Sarah Palin, it
wasn't all about Bill Ayers and ACORN by a long shot," added Zurawik.
Writing at the Atlantic website, Derek Thompson sniped the White House
"looks petty and pathetic" taking on Fox News.
10/11/09- Calling Fox News "a wing of the Republican Party," the Obama
administration on Sunday News shows escalated its war of words against
the channel, even as observers questioned the wisdom of a White House war on
a news organization.
"What I think is fair to say about Fox -- and certainly it's the way we view
it -- is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party," said Anita
Dunn, White House communications director, on CNN. "They take their talking
points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the
air. And that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news network the way
CNN is."
Fox News senior vice president Michael Clemente, who likens the channel to a
newspaper with separate sections on straight news and commentary, suggested
White House officials were intentionally conflating opinion show hosts like
Glenn Beck with news reporters like Major Garrett.
"It's astounding the White House cannot distinguish between news and opinion
programming," Clemente said. "It seems self-serving on their part."
In recent weeks, the White House has begun using its government blog to
directly attack what it called "Fox lies." David Gergen, who has worked for
President Bill Clinton and three Republican presidents, questioned the
propriety of the White House declaring war on a news organization.
"It's a very risky strategy. It's not one that I would advocate," Gergen
said on CNN. "If you're going to get very personal against the media, you're
going to find that the animosities are just going to deepen. And you're
going to find that you sort of almost draw viewers and readers to the people
you're attacking. You build them up in some ways, you give them stature."
He added: "The press always has the last barrel of ink."
Gergen's sentiments were echoed by Tony Blankley, who once served as press
secretary to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
"Going after a news organization, in my experience, is always a loser,"
Blankley said on CNN. "They have a big audience. And Fox has an audience of
not just conservatives -- they've got liberals and moderates who watch too.
They've got Obama supporters who are watching. So it's a temptation for a
politician, but it needs to be resisted."
Nia Malika Henderson, White House correspondent for the Politico newspaper,
also questioned the White House offensive against Fox.
"Obama's only been a boon to their ratings and I don't understand how this
kind of escalation of rhetoric and kind of taking them on, one on one, would
do anything other than escalate their ratings even more," she said.
Dunn used an appearance on CNN's "Reliable Sources" over the weekend to
complain about Fox News' coverage of the Obama presidential campaign a year
ago.
"It was a time this country was in two wars," she recalled. "We'd had a
financial collapse probably more significant than any financial collapse
since the Great Depression. If you were a Fox News viewer in the fall
election, what you would have seen would have been that the biggest stories
and biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and something
called ACORN."
Ayers was co-founder of the Weather Underground, a communist terrorist group
that bombed the Pentagon and other buildings in the 1960s and 1970s. In
1995, Ayers hosted Obama at his home for a political function and the two
men later served together on the board of an anti-poverty group known as the
Woods Fund.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which
once had close ties to Obama, has been accused by a variety of law
enforcement agencies of voter fraud. In recent weeks, the
Democrat-controlled Congress moved to sever funding to ACORN after Fox News
aired undercover videotapes of ACORN employees giving advice on how to break
the law to a pair of journalists disguised as a pimp and prostitute.
Still, Obama refused to appear on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace on
Sept. 20, the day he appeared on five other Sunday shows. At the time, the
White House characterized the snub as payback for the Fox Broadcast
Network's decision not to air an Obama prime time appearance. But last
weekend, Dunn blamed Fox News Channel's coverage of the administration for
Obama's snub of Fox News Sunday.
"Is this why he did not appear?" Dunn said. "The answer is yes."
Wallace has called White House officials "the biggest bunch of crybabies I
have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington."
Dunn was asked by CNN's Howard Kurtz whether Obama would grant an interview
to Fox News by the end of the year.
"Obviously, he'll go on Fox, because he engages with ideological opponents
and he has done that before, he will do it again," Dunn replied. "I can't
give you a date, because frankly I can't give you dates for anybody else
right now."
Fox News was informed by the White House that Obama would grant no
interviews to the channel until at least 2010. The edict was relayed to
Fox News by a White House official after Dunn discussed the channel at a
meeting with presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs and other Obama advisers.
"What I will say is that when he (Obama) goes on Fox, he understands he's
not going on it really as a news network, at this point," Dunn said on CNN.
"He's going on to debate the opposition. And that's fine. He never minds
doing that."
Dunn also strongly implied that Fox had failed to follow up on a New York
Times story about a scandal swirling around GOP Sen. John Ensign of Nevada,
although Fox News broadcast the stories on numerous shows, including Special
Report with Bret Baier.
Clemente questioned the motives of the White House attack, which comes in
the wake of an informal coffee last month between Fox chairman Roger Ailes
and Obama adviser David Axelrod.
"Instead of governing, the White House continues to be in campaign mode, and
Fox News is the target of their attack mentality," he said. "Perhaps the
energy would be better spent on the critical issues that voters are worried
about."
Blankley suggested the war on Fox News is unpresidential.
"It lowers the prestige," he said. "If you're president or speaker, at a
certain level, you don't want to be seen to be engaging that kind of petty
bickering. If you're just a congressman, maybe you can do it."
In an interview over the summer, Obama made clear that Fox News has gotten
under his skin.
"I've got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my
administration," he told CNBC's John Harwood. "You'd be hard pressed if you
watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front."
At the White House Correspondents Dinner in May, Obama even mocked the media
for supporting him.
"Most of you covered me; all of you voted for me," Obama said, spurring
laughter and applause from the assembled journalists. "Apologies to the Fox
table."
Gergen said the White House should delegate its attacks to outside support
groups.
"Why don't they take this over to the DNC, over to the Democratic National
Committee, and have their struggles like that fought out over there and not
out of the White House?" Gergen said. "I have real questions about that
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