White House Says Fox News is Neither Fair Nor Balanced
Tell us something we didn't know. Rather than make peace with the conservative-minded network, Barack Obama's White House advisors declined to end their feud with Fox News, and instead decided to fuel the fire on the Sunday talk show circuit.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told rival cable TV news channel CNN's "State of the Union" that Obama considers Fox News "not a news organization so much as it has a perspective." Compared with other news outlets, "that's a different take", Emanuel added.
Another Obama political advisor, David Axelrod, hit up ABC where he told "This Week" that Fox News "is really not news. It's pushing a point of view."
Last week, White House communications director Anita Dunn claimed:
"Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party."
Fox News, of course, reacted quite strongly to the White House accusations.
Fox News Senior Vice President Michael Clemente said in a statement:
"Surprisingly, the White House continues to declare war on a news organization instead of focusing on the critical issues that Americans are concerned about like jobs, health care and two wars."
The White House has blackballed Fox News in recent months amid scathing coverage of its health care reform debate. They have not accepted invitations to appear on its programs in months as well.
It's interesting that the White House has decided to attack Fox News for its well-known and obvious bias. Fox leans heavily on the conservative Republican side, and most people know this. It's direct opposite is MSNBC, which is essentially the Democratic Party's mouthpiece. MSNBC looked like nothing more than an Obama cheerleader during the 2008 Presidential elections, so why aren't they too being ripped on by the White House for their obvious bias? Oh, that's right, because they support Obama and the Democratic Party's agenda.
Most cable TV news watchers know this. If you want to hear what the Democrats have to say, watch MSNBC. If you want to know what the Republicans have to say, watch Fox News.
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Almost but not quite
Although Fox News has a lot of conservative talk show hosts, their actual news segments are not a Republican mouthpiece. They are well known for their opinion shows... and even then, they aren't as right as MSNBC is left.
There is no NEWS on Fox
There is no NEWS on Fox news. It is all political commentary for the right. They are using the tried and true Republican mode say it enough and it will become fact. They almost never have a counter point on any stories. Fair and balanced what a joke.
Sheer Window Dressing!!!
Go Figure:
60% Employer-Paid-Insurance,
27% Govt. Care *
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= 87% of Americans have Health Insurance...
27 million uninsured made more than $50,000!!!
14 million uninsured qualify for govt. programs but never enrolled!!!
20% of the uninsured aren't US citizens!!! **
11 million are children now covered under CHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program)***
REFORM = Increased Rates, Longer Waits!!!
Meanwhile, virtually all other Developed Countries have Single-Payer Health Insurance!!!
Single-Payer with $50 deductible (about $1 per month for 5 years) after annual check-up is just what the Doctor Ordered!!!
This doesn't mean that Docotrs can't make, say, $175,000, nor that the wealthy can't hold-on to their Premium Policy...
--OR--
"... Massachusetts ... require all residents to buy health insurance."
"Just a year after ... The New York Times reported, state insurers were already jacking up rates to twice the national average." ****
"... rather than creating a utopia of high-quality affordable health care, the result has been the exact opposite — skyrocketing costs, worsened access, and lower quality health care." *****
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* Risk pools for the medically uninsurable ( http://www.healthinsurance.org/risk_pools/ )
**The Myth of the 46 Million / American Spectator ( http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/20/the-myth-of-the-46-million )
*** Obama signs bill insuring more children / SF Chronicle ( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/05/MNAS15NE9A.DTL
****Universal coverage? First, look at the disaster in Massachusetts / Washington Examiner
( http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Universal_coverage_First_look_at_the_disaster_in_Massachusetts_011109.html )
*****Mandating health care coverage is a costly mistake / Denver Post ( http://www.denverpost.com/guestcommentary/ci_8854133 )
Where are the WH
Where are the WH priorities?
I'll tell you. They are foaming at the mouth incensed that a network has journalists and investigators who are skilled and capable of reporting on issues and agendas that this "transparent" administration doesn't want revealed.
They are enraged that FOX opens the doors and windows for the world to get a glimpse of the administration’s ties to ACORN and political boiler room dealings that are the exact opposite of what the kool-aid train promised. So they waste taxpayer dollars strong arming FOX and attempting to sway advertisers and consumers away from this venue by smearing them.
They preach tolerance out of one side of their mouths but use every in-the-bag media tool available to muzzle any view that credibly opposes theirs.
If they could rewrite the US constitution - which they now call a "living" document - they would tweak in a well crafted clause that would bookend freedom of the press to "acceptable" opposition. Who knows, the new SCOTUS might just hammer that out.
History, unless we ignore it (Iran) or rewrite it, teaches us that controlling or socializing the media ends badly for the citizens.
Ask the journalists, reporters and anchors in the MSM to recite the Journalist's Creed. Their eyes will glaze over - because they've never even read it. Or they will immediately attack you like the White House is doing to FOX- a sign that they fear exposure.
Need proof?!?
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference. The story, recently reported by Aaron Klein of WND.com, has also been linked to the Drudge Report.
"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.
"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.
"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it," Dunn said.
My, my…Uncle Joe would be proud!
Frightening
It doesn't bother me that Fox leans right and it doesn't bother me that MSNBC leans left. What truly frightens me is that the left has an army of people (and now the White House) willing to attack Fox News for it's political bias, yet they remain blissfully ignorant of MSNBC and it's bias towards the left.
As sted before; if you want the democratic view, tune into MSNBC. If you want the republican view, tune into Fox.
I wish there were more educated, open minded people that could see it that clearly.
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