Unreal. White House Bans FOX News from Press Pool Interview — Then Relents After Prot

**stephanie** · 10-22-2009, 10:32 PM

just maybe the lamestream media is coming to see that they could BE NEXT and of course they are hemorrhaging money by being the little Marxist lap poodle...

Thursday, October 22, 2009, 8:19 PM
Jim Hoft
Hugo Chavez would be proud–
The White House banned FOX News today from interviewing the Pay Czar along with the other four major state-run media outlets. FOX News has been a member of the five network rotation since 1997. Surprisingly, the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV news networks stepped in an agreed to skip the interview if FOX was not included.
The administration relented… this time and allowed FOX to attend.

FOX News reported:
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Unreal.
But remember… Barack Obama is a moderate.

HotAir added this on the disgraceful move by the White House:

Decide for yourself what the most disgraceful aspect of this is. Was it the fact that Gibbs told Jake Tapper explicitly on Monday that the White House wouldn’t try to dictate to the press pool who should and shouldn’t be included — before doing precisely that? Was it Anita Dunn going out of her way to say she respects Major Garrett as a fair reporter — before the administration decided he didn’t deserve a crack here at Feinberg? Or was it the repeated insistence by Dunn and Axelrod that of course the administration will make its officials available to Fox — before pulling the plug today?

From...
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/

**red states rule** · 10-23-2009, 07:10 AM

Funny how the Obama drones were saying how people were "overreacting" after Dunn's admission on how the Obama administration was controlling the media

Fox News is doing it job - reporting the news like Van Jones, ACORN, the budget numbers that do not add up, what is in the various bills going thru Congress, and the background and political views of all the Czars

It is clear it is not the opinion shows that Obama objects to - it is the facts that Fox News reports it its news broadcasts

**theHawk** · 10-23-2009, 07:31 AM

I'm not really that surprised that the little Marxist would do this. What a fucking shmuck.

**Joe Steel** · 10-23-2009, 08:08 AM

I can't find this reported by any news organization.

Are you sure it happened?

**red states rule** · 10-23-2009, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Steel

I can't find this reported by any news organization.

Are you sure it happened?

You really are an idiot. Try watching something other then MSNBC and you will see what is going on in the real world

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**Joe Steel** · 10-23-2009, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by red states rule

You really are an idiot. Try watching something other then MSNBC and you will see what is going on in the real world

Has it been reported by a news organization, dumbass?

**red states rule** · 10-23-2009, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Steel

Has it been reported by a news organization, dumbass?

Is that your excuse now Joe to try and cover for the childish behavior of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?

Try and act like it did not really happen?

Even Jake Tapper of ABC is fed up with Obama's temper tantrum

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**stephanie** · 10-23-2009, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Steel

Has it been reported by a news organization, dumbass?

JS you are beginning to sound a little unhinged..what a matter, your (Progressive-Commie-Democrat) party's PLANS and your "dear leaders" VISIONS not falling to place..those darn American people getting in your all's way..

**red states rule** · 10-23-2009, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by stephanie

JS you are beginning to sound a little unhinged..what a matter, your (Progressive-Commie-Democrat) party's PLANS and your "dear leaders" VISIONS not falling to place..those darn American people getting in your all's way..

The day after the 2010 midterm election Joe will think, well Republicnas won back 4 seats in the House, and according to MSNBC they had minor setbacks in 45 other congressional districts. Nothing to worry about at all

**Joe Steel** · 10-23-2009, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by red states rule

Is that your excuse now Joe to try and cover for the childish behavior of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?

Try and act like it did not really happen?

Even Jake Tapper of ABC is fed up with Obama's temper tantrum

Jake Tapper is just another shill. He pretends to be a journalist but, from what I've seen, he's not much better than a Fox Isn't News PR agent.

**Joe Steel** · 10-23-2009, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by stephanie

JS you are beginning to sound a little unhinged..what a matter, your (Progressive-Commie-Democrat) party's PLANS and your "dear leaders" VISIONS not falling to place..those darn American people getting in your all's way..

Got a link?

All you have to do is show me a report by a news agency about the incident at issue.

**red states rule** · 10-23-2009, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Steel

Jake Tapper is just another shill. He pretends to be a journalist but, from what I've seen, he's not much better than a Fox Isn't News PR agent.

Translation - Ah Hell I am beaten here. Time to go back to the Dem Underground where up is down, and anyone who dares to disagree with Lord Obama is an enemy of the state

Hey Joe, ready tio admit your guy Obama is acting like a spoiled brat who is pissed a news netowrk actually reports the news, and tried to have them tossed rom the WH media pool?

Even Helen Thomas said Obama should stop his war with Fox news

**stephanie** · 10-23-2009, 09:19 AM

who cares what the little commies say about Fox news..they've been saying this since the Clinton administration and all it's done is grow their viewership...Remember when Clinton went on Fox and acted all tough and angry...that is what we will be seeing here soon from the little Marxists administration, mark my words..

keep up the good work kiddies..it worked so well for ya before..

**red states rule** · 10-23-2009, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by stephanie

who cares what the little commies say about Fox news..they've been saying this since the Clinton administration and all it's done is grow their viewership...Remember when Clinton went on Fox and acted all tough and angry...that is what we will be seeing here soon from the little Marxists administration, mark my words..

keep up the good work kiddies..it worked so well for ya before..

I guess these Dems wil be tagged traitors by Joe. At least some in the Dm party see how petty Obama and his staff are these days

White House attacks worry moderate Democrats

A White House effort to undermine conservative critics is generating a backlash on Capitol Hill — and not just from Republicans.

“It’s a mistake,” said Rep. Jason Altmire, a moderate Democrat from western Pennsylvania. “I think it’s beneath the White House to get into a tit for tat with news organizations.”

Altmire was talking about the Obama administration’s efforts to undercut Fox News. But he said his remarks applied just the same to White House efforts to marginalize the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a powerful business lobby targeted for its opposition to climate change legislation.

“There’s no reason to gratuitously piss off all those companies,” added another Democrat, Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia. “The Chamber isn’t an opponent.”

POLITICO reported earlier this week on an all-fronts push by the White House to cut the legs out from under its toughest critics, whether it’s the Chamber, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck and the rest of the Fox News operation.

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn has defended the push, saying the administration made “a fundamental decision that we needed to be more aggressive in both protecting our position and in delineating our differences with those who were attacking us.”

Congressional Republicans counterattacked Thursday. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the administration was “targeting those who don’t immediately fall in line” with “Chicago-style politics” aimed at “shutting the American people out and demonizing their opponents.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28638.html

**red states rule** · 10-23-2009, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Steel

Got a link?

All you have to do is show me a report by a news agency about the incident at issue.

Is the NY Times good enough for you Joe?

snip

Speaking privately at the White House on Monday with a group of mostly liberal columnists and commentators, including Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert of The New York Times, Mr. Obama himself gave vent to sentiments about the network, according to people briefed on the conversation.

Then, in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, the president went public. “What our advisers have simply said is that we are going to take media as it comes,” he said. “And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that’s one thing. And if it’s operating as a news outlet, then that’s another.”

In a sign of discomfort with the White House stance, Fox’s television news competitors refused to go along with a Treasury Department effort on Tuesday to exclude Fox from a round of interviews with the executive-pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg that was to be conducted with a “pool” camera crew shared by all the networks. That followed a pointed question at a White House briefing this week by Jake Tapper, an ABC News correspondent, about the administration’s treatment of “one of our sister organizations.”

White House officials continue to interact with Fox News correspondents whom they have complimented as professional, including Major Garrett and Wendell Goler.

But Michael Clemente, senior vice president for news and editorial programming at Fox, said the White House was conflating the network’s commentary with its news coverage. That, Mr. Clemente said, “would be like Fox News blaming the White House senior staff for the Washington Redskins’ losing record.”

“I think we’re doing the job we’re supposed to be doing,” he said, “and we do it as well as anyone.”

Mr. Clemente suggested that the fight was part of a larger White House strategy to marginalize critics. He cited a report in Politico about a strategy session in August at which officials discussed plans to move more aggressively against opponents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us...ics/23fox.html

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