The White House is calling on other news organizations to isolate and alienate Fox News as it sends out top advisers to rail against the cable channel as a Republican Party mouthpiece…
…White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN on Sunday that President Obama does not want “the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox.”
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is “not a news organization.”
“Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way,” Axelrod counseled ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “We’re not going to treat them that way.” …
…The White House stopped providing guests to “Fox News Sunday” after host Chris Wallace fact-checked controversial assertions made by Tammy Duckworth, assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in August.
Dunn said fact-checking an administration official was “something I’ve never seen a Sunday show do.”
Perhaps, Ms, Dunn, if you and the rest of the merry band of Obamaniacs wouldn’t lie at every opportunity, there would be less need to fact check you? Maybe if, say, you had told the truth about what you said vis a vis Mao we’d have a bit more trust in your words? I dunno – call me strange, if you like, but some how or another, people who tell the truth tend to be trusted…
Anyways…
This is the most clear and alarming bit of liberal fascism we’ve seen out of the Obama Administration – they are trying to get the rest of the MSM to turn on Fox. The implied threat: if you don’t, you’ll lose access, too. And we’ve seen the lengths to which outfits like CNN will go to maintain access – they shilled for Saddam’s regime in order to keep access in Baghdad…what will they do in DC to maintain it there? There is a hope – slight though it is – that the MSM will awaken in horror to what is happening. This is an attempt by Obama to put the MSM entirely and directly under his control – to make it a mere tool for his propaganda.
Any MSMer who has a shred of self-respect will reject this out of hand…we’ll see how many there are.
UPDATE: And some are showing a bit of courage – heck, when our Crazy Aunt in the Attic is coming down against Obama, you know they’ve screwed up.
Blogs For Victory 