Obama Versus Faux News (from the New Zealand Media)

[brettdale]

Havent been following the news much the past few days, busy with other things.

But we just had an item on our news here, about how the war between Obama and Faux News is getting worse.

They said, their reporters are back calling him racist and Obama will now not be interviewed by faux News or take questions at press conferences from them.

Have I missed something in the past few days??? Or is our media here, finally waking up to faux?

Did Beck go too far?????

[Pirate Smile]

1. The White House went after Faux. We all say Yeah!

WH Communications Director Dunn has been the front person doing multiple interviews on it. One with Time, with NYT and on CNN. I'll find the links. Faux is responding by acting like Faux, of course :)

CNN interview - Anita Dunn: Fox News Is "Research Arm of the Republican Party" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AEt180Wnls

Time Mag: Calling 'Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1929058,00.html

New York Times: “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent,” said Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12fox.html

[brettdale]

3. Thanks

Thanks for the links!!

[walldude]

2. It's been fun. The WH smacked down Faux as an arm of the Republican party

Faux responded with it's usual moronic statement that the WH is not distinguishing between "news" shows and "commentary" shows. You see it's only those commentary shows that are calling Obama a Hitler like socialist, who is not really a US citizen, that wants to kill grannies, take away your civil liberties, destroy the constitution, and put all conservatives in concentration camps. The news shows don't say that so they are really a news network.