The Obama Administration has drawn a line in the sand that is beyond contempt and quite frankly beneath the dignity of the office.
Such tactics may not be frowned upon by brass-knuckle operatives working for the political machine in a one party town. But it’s different when you’re the President of the United States. Most Americans of all political stripes don’t want to see the President using the majesty and power of his office for heavy handed attacks on any organization simply because it has been critical of the President.
In other words, the White House’s strategy may be the Chicago way, but it isn’t the American way.
Obama’s Chicago imports flack David Axelrod and thug Rham Emanuel parrot Anita Dunn’s ‘FOX is not news’.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Final question. Your colleague, Anita Dunn, told the New York Times this week that Fox News was undertaking a war against the White House and said the White House would treat Fox the way we would an opponent. Here’s what Rupert Murdoch had to say about that.
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RUPERT MURDOCH, NEWSCORP: There were some strong remarks coming out of the White House about one or two of the commentators on Fox News. And all I can tell you is it has tremendously increased their ratings.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: That does seem to be true. Are you worried that your strategy is fortifying your enemy?
AXELROD: Well, I don’t — you know, I’m not concerned. Mr. Murdoch has a — has a talent for making money, and I understand that their programming is geared toward making money. All — the only argument Anita was making is that they’re not really a news station, if you watch — even – it’s not just their commentators, but a lot of their news programming, it’s really not news. It’s pushing a point of view.
And the bigger thing is that other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way. We’re going to appear on their shows. We’re going to participate, but understanding that they represent a point of view.
Link to full transcript.
It’s not so much a conflict with Fox News. But unlike I suppose the way to look at it, the way the President looks at it and we look at it, it’s not a news organization so much as it has a perspective. And that’s a different take. And more importantly is not have the CNNs and the others in the world, basically be led and following Fox as what they’re trying to do as legitimate news organization in the sense of both sides and a sense of valued opinion.
I suspect this attack against FOX News is likely not only an attempt to suppress dissent but a handy distraction to avert America’s eyes from the agenda behind the agenda.
Obama’s FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd writes against “free speech and a free press”…
Lloyd is in fact a Saul Alinsky disciple. In his 2006 book entitled Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, he calls for an all-out “confrontational movement” against private media. He wants leftist activists – through incessant political pressure – and the government – through the creation of a totally untenable operating environment of fees, fines and regulations – to work together to force the commercial broadcasters out, to be replaced by public broadcasters.
And in his tome, Lloyd had this to say about the First Amendment:
“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
“[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance.”
…and glorifies Hugo Chavez’ ‘Incredible…Democratic Revolution’…
“In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela.
“The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled – worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country.
“And we’ve had complaints about this ever since.”
“I will also propose the solution to the problem of bad speech is not censorship but better speech“
FCC as in Federal Communications Commission. If you are not frightened…you should be.
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