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White House to Fox News: "How DARE you fact-check us?!"

Posted 20 Oct 2009 in Barack Obama, intolerance, lies, media bias, stupidity, totalitarianism

This might actually be funny aside from the fact that it’s pathetic and dangerous for the Obama administration to “go to war” against a news organization simply because it asks tough questions and investigates the answers.

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.

Top political strategists question the decision by the Obama administration to escalate its offensive against Fox News. And as of Monday, the four other major television networks had not given any indication that they intend to sever their ties with Fox News.

But several top White House officials have taken aim at Fox News since communications director Anita Dunn branded Fox “opinion journalism masquerading as news” in an interview last Sunday.

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.”

Axelrod’s assertion is a play straight out of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”: rules+for+radicals

“RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy…”

Now, it’s been obvious that Fox News has been a gadfly to the hordes of Kool-Aid-swilling Obamatons, but this latest tactic represents a new desperation. What could possibly have the White House so upset that they abandon all pretense and attack a news outlet for not marching in lock step?

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.”

“She criticized ‘Fox News Sunday’ last week for fact-checking — fact-checking — an administration official,” Wallace said Sunday. “They didn’t say that our fact-checking was wrong. They just said that we had dared to fact-check.”

Of course, it’s just fine and dandy for CNN to fact-check a parody skit on Saturday Night Live that mocked the president, but don’t dare fact-check what’s actually being said by White House officials! Our thin-skinned president and his staffers are already accustomed to the media rolling over and reporting what the Obama administration wants them to report, and they’re offended that there’s somebody out there that won’t play along. In fact, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn is on record admitting their efforts to control the media:

The Obama campaign’s press strategy leading up to his election last November focused on “making” the media cover what the campaign wanted and on exercising absolute “control” over coverage, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told an overseas crowd early this year.

In a video of the event, Dunn is seen describing in detail the media strategy used by then-Sen. Barack Obama’s highly disciplined presidential campaign. The video is footage from a Jan. 12 forum hosted by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in the Dominican Republic.

“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control,” Dunn said, admitting that the strategy “did not always make us popular in the press.”

Unfortunately, this kind of amoral totalitarianism is nothing new for Obama. He learned it as an acolyte of Alinksy, who teaches, “In war, the end justifies almost any means.”

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UPDATE: Brit Hume lays the smack down against the mainstream media lapdogs:



“So the president’s aides appear on other news channels to say that Fox, unlike those outlets, is really not a news organization but an arm of the Republican Party. One wonders how our colleagues at CNN and elsewhere like being patted on the head and given the seal of approval by the White House. These outlets already stand accused of being in the tank for Mr. Obama. Do they really want to open themselves up to more such criticism by ignoring legitimate stories because they originate here?”

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