A defeat in Obama's attempt to muzzle Fox News
We read:
"The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.
The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the network pool except Fox News. The pool is the five-network rotation that for decades has shared the costs and duties of daily coverage of the presidency and other Washington institutions.
But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks consulted and decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included. The pool informed Treasury that Fox News, as a member of the network pool, could not be excluded from such interviews under the rules of the pool.
The administration relented, making Feinberg available for all five pool members and Bloomberg TV.
The pushback came after White House senior adviser David Axelrod told ABC News' "This Week" on Sunday that Fox News is not a real news organization and other news networks "ought not to treat them that way."
Media analysts cheered the decision to boycott the Feinberg interview unless Fox News was included, saying the administration's gambit was taking its feud with Fox News too far. President Obama has already declined to go on "Fox News Sunday," even while appearing on the other Sunday shows.
"I'm really cheered by the other members saying "No, if Fox can't be part of it, we won't be part of it,'" said Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik, calling the move to limit Feinberg's availability "outrageous." "What it's really about to me is the Executive Branch of the government trying to tell the press how it should behave. I mean, this democracy -- we know this -- only works with a free and unfettered press to provide information," he said.
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21 comments:
Fascism lives! Adolf and Benito would be proud.
Obama got PWNED!! Funny how the mainstream press ignores it!
fascism |ˈfa sh ˌizəm| (also Fascism)
noun
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
• (in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.
The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43), and the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach.
I'm willing to wager after this episode from the WH that the media, all of it, will start to take notice of other, seemingly small things the Obama administration is trying to control. I hope this is the downfall of this administration and the media wakes up to how bad they really are.
Obama's fellow brownshirts don't realize that war against Fox News is war against every Fox News watcher. Fox is not just #1 among conservatives, libertarians and independents also love our network and they are the kinds of voters Obama needs to win reelection.
I'm glad the rest of the fringe media stood up for Fox News, I guess they realized that today Obama attacks Fox tomorrow it might be NBC.
Obama and his party hunger for control whether its communism ( gov. owned gov. controlled ) or fascism ( privately owned gov. controlled ) control is control .
the methods of the politically radical must be constantly scrutinised ( people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it ) .
the last time I checked conservatives were not considered radical .
SMTSA
@Mr. Clean
Writing your own definitions, are we?
You can't use 'authoritarian' and 'right-wing' together - they are contratictions. Right-wing suggests pro-business and limited government. Authoritarian suggests dictators and total state control. Business may be privately owned under a fascist system, but when the state has 100% control over what is produced and how much can be charged, it is hardly a pro-business system.
Obama is a fascist. I wouldn't be surprised to see him name himself Dictator-for-Life before all is said and done.
Thank God the press (other than Fox) finally woke up!
Definition taken from Apple's Dictionary program. Just cut and pasted, no editing. No, I did not make it up.
Whatever
Luke, are you trying to make a rational, factual argument to a leftist? You would do better talking to a door knob.
Anon 4:47, for an argument to occur, a minimum of two parties need to be involved. I have NO desire to argue with Luke. You are right. He is better off talking to a doorknob, but not because I am conservative, independent, anarchist, libertarian, moderate or what you fondly call leftist. If he wants to comment on every post I make, more power to him. That doesn't mean that I have to respond to his right wing rantings.
"for an argument to occur, a minimum of two parties need to be involved."
Proving that you don't know what an argument is.
Argument:
2. a. A course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating truth or falsehood: presented a careful argument for extraterrestrial life.
2. b. A fact or statement put forth as proof or evidence; a reason: The current low mortgage rates are an argument for buying a house now.
2. c. A set of statements in which one follows logically as a conclusion from the others.
Anon,
His "Whatever" comment was typical of those who don't even want to consider the possibility that they might be wrong whenever they're confronted by a serious challenge. I fully expected it, but there are still those who read these comments who might be swayed by an unanswered claim such as his. Therefore, for their sake, his claim needs to be answered even though I know beforehand that he's not even going to think the argument through, nevermind actually debate the argument on its merits.
His "whatever" comment was made to marginalize you. He clearly stated that he does not want anything to do with you. In effect, he is telling you to "go piss off".
Yep. I've seen that plenty of times from teenagers who don't want to hear what they're being told. It equates to "I don't care what the facts are. My mind is made up and I'm not listening."
I care what the facts are, but not from you or other right wingers.
Thanks for admitting that you ignore any facts you don't like. That's progress.
I hope you figure out the problem with this approach before reality tears you to pieces. Reality is a cast iron bitch about ignoring personal preferences. It is what it is and it ALWAYS wins.
Wrong again.
You talk about reality when you believe in an invisible man in the sky? I find that rather odd.
Giving you a full answer would be way off topic and time consuming. I'll just say that I've been looking at all the arguments and evidence for decades and I gotta say that I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
Fair enough.
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