By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
Obama has demeaned the office of the Presidency with his dirty attacks
By launching coordinated,fully-blown warfare on Fox News,as is their style,the Obama administration is stopping far beneath the dignity of the office of president. The recent round of attacks became particularly intense as White House communications staff,senior advisors,and even the president himself each took their turns at lobbing potshots at the top cable news station.
This conflict began brewing during the presidential campaign with Obama cracking jokes and complaining about Fox News,continued through the early months of his presidency,and then increased their momentum to reach the unprecedented crescendo of the recent bombardments. The first new round of shots was fired when Obama visited five Sunday morning shows in one day,including the big networks,CNN,and Univision,but clearly neglecting to appear on the leading cable news station,Fox.
The real battle began on October 12,when Communications Director Anita Dunn defined Fox News as "a wing of the Republican Party” then mocked and belittled it by saying,“But let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.” She continued her diatribe by calling Fox News "opinion journalism masquerading as news."
This statement is most ironic given that CNN dubbed legitimate tea party protesters “tea baggers” and whose own reporter shouted down protesters,lecturing them about how wonderful Obama’s policies are for them. In a recent recording,Dunn brags about how the Obama campaign controlled their message and their media coverage. Evidently,Anita Dunn abhors Fox News because they refuse to be lapdogs like the rest of the media. Dunn pridefully declared that no one from the Obama administration will be appearing on Fox for at least the rest of this year.
The attacks intensified when White House senior advisers Valerie Jarrett,David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel played their roles by hitting the Sunday talk-show circuit with their disdain for Fox News. They repeated the same prepared lines from the White House,stating that Fox was not a news organization. Evidently Emanuel and other team members are upset that Fox covers newsworthy stories,including ACORN and Van Jones,while the mainstream,liberal media barely mention them. Fox represents a voice they don’t control. Consequently,Team Obama is engaging in the tactics of Obama’s extremely radical,left-wing mentor,Saul Alinsky,to isolate and discredit them.
The assaults sunk to new lows this week when President Obama personally entered the scene. Illustrating just how thin-skinned our commander-in-chief is,he pronounced that Fox News is “operating basically as talk radio,” meaning,talk radio allows people to criticize Obama. It is particularly telling when a president stoops to the level of criticizing a news organization,because it reveals how desperate,frightened and threatened he truly feels.
The lapdog media have responded as expected to this unprecedented assault on free speech and a news organization. Only Jake Tapper of ABC and Helen Thomas,dean of the press corps,have stood up and argued that the White House is using outlandish,reprehensible tactics. Outside of these two,the lapdog media remain passive and mum. In a column for Newsweek,Jacob Weisberg is even calling for a media boycott of Fox News,claiming that the organization is “Un-American.”
The hypocrisy and double standard displayed by these media types is truly unbelievable. If Bush or a Republican candidate for office had ever criticized MSNBC and declared it to be a wing of the Democratic Party,the criticism would never end. The worst hypocrite of all is Keith Olbermann.
In 2008,White House Counsel Ed Gillespie sent a letter to the president of NBC accusing the network of selectively editing Bush’s answers to distort the president’s position. Olbermann later blasted Gillespie in his “Worst Person in the World” segment,accusing Gillespie of “whining like a high school sophomore.”
What is Olbermann doing now? He is out front cheerleading the Obama administration’s attacks on Fox and attended a meeting with Obama this week in a summit for fellow liberal influencers including Rachel Maddow,Eugene Robinson and Maureen Dowd.
Lapdog Olbermann the Doberman is an outspoken bigot,evidenced by his own words:"Mr. Bush,shut the hell up!""You’re a fascist! Get them to print a T-shirt with the word ‘fascist’on it!” “George W. Bush is ‘psychotic’ with ‘blood on his hands,’” and calls the GOP the greatest terrorist threat in America. The liberal double standard is out in full force. Thankfully,Americans are ignoring President Obama’s pettiness and attacks by tuning into Fox for the unbiased story in record numbers. The American people know bias when they see it,and they want to know the truth.
IN my opinion,obama is acting out like a teenager who has serious mental and emotional disabilites and is acting like a spoiled,petulant,CHILD! He was probably afraid his grandmother would reveal his true character.
I refuse to watch any other media save Fox news. Throughout 2007 and 2008,more and more,the bias of the main stream media continued bashing our sitting President while doing homage to a new name on the scene,Barack Obama. Little was known about this "new kid on campus,"except for the speech he gave at the 2004 Democratic convention. When I learned who was behind him,George Soros and the Liberal branch of my Party,I knew what was coming. I continued to support our sitting President,which every American should do,and knew that if the Liberals ever gained total control we would all pay dearly,and we are. Unfortunately,it is just beginning and will only get worse. I urge all Americans to read:http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=3107 to see how this all began and also to see where this is going. Fox news is fighting for the truth and to save our nation while the Liberal/fringe media is bowing and scraping to the "one."He may be your "one,"but he will never be mine. He is too fragile to lead anyone anywhere.
Clifton L. West
Great review of the latest Obama travesty. From this situation I have actually gained a greater respect for the liberal commentators and O'Reilly and Greta's careful balancing acts on Fox. I agree that the more foolish BO and Co act,the better we,the people,may see to our own business regarding the preservation of the American Republic!
BHO reminds me of a snake in the grass who slithers throughout the country eating Senior Citizens the spits them aside the road and goes to the next Senior.
Seriously,I truly think he wants anyone over 65 to die quietly and quickly. He feels we will be a burden to HIS society.
Don't trust this whole maneuver. It's like a chess game they are all playing and I believe FOX is being used as a sacrifice play sort to speak. While all this attack is going on;two bills are sliding through the Senate;Cap &Trade and the Obamacare. I think this is a smoke screen to distract us from noticing what they're doing,so we'll let our guard down. Aren't you all beginning to wonder what their game is in the attacks which may not be attacks at all perhaps?
Does anyone else see a simlarty between any Dem and the news media. Doesn't any dem try to shut any news media down that talks about them in a negative vain? They talk a lot about free speach,but only if it is good press on them. Just a thought,is Obama focasing the news on him while his congress works benind our backs on something else?? Is it all smoke and mirrors?
The arrogence is astounding,all across the board,not just concerning FOX. This man obviously believes he is so loved and admireed –the Nobel Prize only excasberated it –that he can get away withy anything and his sheepish followers,including MSM,so deeply invested in "hope"will never question and never call him out. He's absolutely amazing. Quite a study for a psychologist,I would think.
Obama and most of his administration are in the dark and have no idea what's going on outside Washington. Most of them think they are still in Chicago where this is all normal and accepted by the people there. As I see it they are all a bunch of cry babies and need their toys and play their own game. That is all they seem to be doing in Washington is playing mind games and the rest of America is tired of it as of now. Wake up Obama the campaign is over,time to quit the games.
There are children running our country –at all levels. Very self centered children. Kind of reminds you of the Clinton years doesn't it!
Something everyone should know:Chief of Staff "Raw"Emanuel is a duel citizen. His father,Israeli-born immigrant automatically confers dual citizenship to his children,Rahm being one. Where do his national interests lie,Israel and the Middle East or the United States? Emanuel should resign from such a sensitive post as Chief of Staff. His buddy,Axelrod is a dual citizen as well. These men and their ties to the Israeli Lobby should be investigated.
Noone in this administration seems in any way kindly disposed to Israel including Mr. Emanuel. The above article and these comments have
done a good deal toward informing me of the terrible situation this administration is placing all American citizens in.
CHICAGO MOB WITH BHO IN CHAIR THINKS THEY ARE STILL IN CHICAGO HEARDING THEIR CHEATING AND MOBSTER STYLE OF GOV. WAKE UP AMERICA AND QUIT TAKING ALL THIS RAMRODDING-IRRESPONSIBLE-CRAP COMING OUT OF WASHINGTON WHICH IS TAKING ALL THE FREEDOM -FROM ALL OF US LEGAL CITIZENS. GET RID OF THE CHICAGO-CHEATERS,CROOKS-MOB AND ESPECIALLY BHO WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHERE HE CAME FROM BUT IS PAYING MILLIONS TO HIDE THE TRUTH -WHICH NONE OF THEM KNOW WHAT IT IS OR HAS COMMON SENSE AMONG THEM. GET RID OF "ALL OF THOSE IN WASHINGTON GOV.ASAP". WAKE UP AMERICA-NOW!!!
I agree with you 100%! I just don't understand why they can't get this crew out of office on the grounds of "abuse of power". They are selling us out! I truly don't think O wants to win in Afghanistan. His handlers are telling him what to do! Fox problems are a diversion while they screw us again behind closed doors –this is one of their major strategies and has been from the beginning. Also I think he knew about the NPP because he was over there right before and he has to go back again and he will sign our soveringty away! Luckily,this will need Senate votes to happen. Some scary shit happening –everyone better pay attention to what they are doing to us!!!
I find this administration and especially Obama to be self indulgent,power hungry,and ideologues of the worse kind. Obama in his college thesis said the Constitution never covered “the redistribution of wealth”??? It wasn’t meant to you numbskull. Harry Reid tells us the health care bill will cost 2 trillion,and some of his own dem buddies say no it’s more like “less than 1 trillion”. Whatever it is,it’s too much. Our economy is suffering,we need more troops in Afghanistan and he sits on his hands and instead of doing the right thing starts a fight he can’t win with Fox News,and the Chamber of Commerce? Where is this guy’s head? Why haven’t we seen the bipartisanship,and transparency promised by Obama and “Nasty”Nancy Pelosi? Fear of losing control and power that’s why. Wake up Amercia before it’s too late,if it isn’t already!
Amen,Obama choose to fly off to Minnissota to address an astroturf group on 912 when 2 million of us shut down Washington DC. Washington police had to stop bus traffic because of the overflow of people into the capital area! We were protesting congress,Obama policy,overspending and we didn't even know he was going to attack Fox News and Chamber. Who does he think America is? Its this vast majority that pay the bills and make everything Washington does possible. At least that was the case before they decided they can spend trillions we can't collect in taxes in the foreseeable future without bankrupting the hand that feed them!
Vote-vote-vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!