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  It is about time the white house speak out against the media I turn the news off more now because of all the negative comments made by the media againt the president just report the truth no comments

  Posted 10/12/2009 respond (flag)

Gibbs: The Only Way to Get Someone From Crowding the Plate Is to Throw a Fastball at Them ...Or a Dirtball Sissy Pitch (Video)
Gateway Pundit — White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs had this say recently about the state-run media's rare negative coverage: "The only way to get somebody to stop crowding the plate is to throw a fastball at them." Or, a dirtball sissy pitch. TIME Magazine reported that the White House is going to start calling out opponents who confront them on their lies: All the criticism, both fair and misleading, took a toll, regularly knocking the White House off message. So a new White House strategy ...

Beat The Press
Oliver Willis — Looks like the Obama team is going to be more proactive in their interactions with the press. The general in this war is Dunn, 51, a veteran campaign strategist who arrived at the White House in May. She has been a force in Democratic campaigns since the late 1980s and helmed Obama’s rapid-response operation during his run. At the White House, she has become a devoted consumer of conservative-media reports and a fierce critic of Fox News, leading the Administration’s effort to block officials, including Obama, from appearing on the network. ...

W.H.'s Dunn calls Fox News 'opinion journalism masquerading as news'
News — ... "It's opinion journalism masquerading as news," Dunn told Time magazine. "They are boosting their audience. But that doesn't mean we are going to sit back." ...

Dunn slams Fox: 'opinion journalism masquerading as news'
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Time’s White House correspondent Michael Scherer writes that in the face of criticism from the right, "the White House decided it would become a player, issuing biting attacks on those pundits, politicians and outlets that make what the White House believes to be misleading or simply false claims…” ...

Calling 'Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... normal rules of engagement don't apply." And for his boss, Anita Dunn, the aha moment came when the Washington Post ran a second op-ed from a Republican politician decrying the "32" alleged czars appointed by the Obama Administration. Nine of those so-called czars, it turned out, were subject to Senate confirmation, making them decidedly unlike the Russian monarchs. "The idea — that the Washington Post didn't even question it," Dunn says, still marveling at the decision. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,192905...

White House Calls 'Em Out
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — When Obama aides realized they could not let the media moderate policy debates, Time reports a new White House strategy emerged: "rather than just giving reporters ammunition to 'fact-check' Obama's many critics, the White House decided it would become a player, issuing biting attacks on those pundits, politicians and outlets that make what the White House believes to be misleading or simply false claims... Obama cheered on the effort, telling his aides he wanted to 'call 'em out.'" ...

White House Communications Director calls Fox News ‘opinion journalism masquerading as news.’
Think Progress — ... by Politifact. In an article today on the White House’s increasingly aggressive interaction with Fox News, Time’s Michael Scherer quotes White House Communications Director Anita Dunn dismissing Fox as an “opinion journalism masquerading as news“: ...

The White House Needs A Babysitter
JammieWearingFool — Obama aides say they can't rely on reporters to referee public debates. That is the caption next to picture contained in a Time story about how the White House is vowing to fight back at the news media. Take that to mean one news outlet in particular, Fox. Chris Wallace was right when a couple of weeks ago he described this administration as the biggest bunch of crybabies he has seen in 30 years of covering Washington politics and presidents. I have no idea who they intend to strike out at, other Fox News and of course conservative bloggers, since 99% of the ...

White House: Fox News is 'opinion journalism masquerading as news'
five feet of fury. (spoiler alert: the lion is jesus.) — Fab-tastic! Meanwhile, my co-defendant has a regular feature called "Not Waiting for the Asteroid", chronicling the decline of the mainstream media. When I spot suitable stories, I email the links to her with the subject line "LaBrea Tarpits Dispatch." But guys -- I was just kidding! Longtime "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert's office, complete with Buffalo Bills pennants and a journalist's clutter, will go on display next month at the Newseum. The office will ...

White House Defends Attacks on Fox News: 'They Will Say Anything'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The administration has undertaken a campaign to counter messages from Fox News; to "call 'em out," in the President's words. Speaking with Time Magazine, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said that the White House intends to be "more aggressive rather than just sit back and defend ourselves, because they will say anything. They will take any small thing and distort it." ...

Calling 'Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press
The Political Carnival — ... All the repetitive hyperbolic coverage of "indoctrination", killing grandma, communist czars, sex clinics at schools, death panels, and unAmerican Olympics distortions were so over the top that even our even-keeled president reached the end of his rope: ...

What Even The White House Likes About Fox News
Swampland — In the course of reporting a story for this week's TIME magazine , which is about the White House's determination to take the fight to its critics, I came across a lot of sentiments like this quote about Fox News that ...

Welcome To The Waah! House
Riehl World View — ... Are you ready for some laughs? Can you believe it? The administration that has received more fawning press that any other administration of either party in modern times is crying about the press. ha ha ha Yeah, that's right. Leave Barack Alone!! Oh man, talk about nerve. ...

White House can’t stop crying about all the bad press it gets
Hot Air » Top Picks — White House can’t stop crying about all the bad press it gets posted at 6:11 pm on October 8, 2009 by Allahpundit Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Fun stuff , especially coming hot on the heels of Axelrod’s fine whine to Roger Ailes . Incredible though it may seem, we may be nearing the point where the White House starts blaming Obama’s political failures on … a biased media . All the criticism, both fair and misleading, took a toll, regularly knocking the White House off message. So a new White House strategy has emerged: rather ...

Obama’s Snark Czar
RedState — ... Since the inauguration, however, the practice has become more frequent and more sophisticated. Time reports that the White House has decided they are going to be a “player” in how the press is won. ...

Meredith Jessup: White House Whins to Time About Unfair Press Coverage
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Yep, you read that title correctly. The White House actually thinks the media are being too hard on the Obama administration. And who better to give their whimpers a voice than Time Magazine ? All the criticism, both fair and misleading, took a toll, regularly knocking the White House off message. So a new White House strategy has emerged: rather than just giving reporters ammunition to “fact-check” Obama’s many critics, the White House decided it would become a player, issuing biting attacks on those pundits, politicians and outlets that make what the ...

Thank Heaven We Didn't Endure A 'B+' Year
JustOneMinute — ... a lot more curiosity than respect around the world.  And rather than bringing Washington together Obama and his team are adopting a bunker mentality faster, and with less reason, than any White House in memory. I shudder to think what a B+ would have looked like. THE ENDLESS SUSPENSE:  I haven't steeled myself to look - does Michelle get an A+ or an A?  Let me re-phrase that - is the highest available grade an A+ or an A?  FWIW, Joe " ...

Lightbulb Goes On At The White House
Daily Kos — This is both pitiful and long overdue. First the pitiful: There was never a single moment when White House staff decided the major media outlets were falling down on the job. There were instead several such moments. For press secretary Robert Gibbs, the realization came in early September, when the New York Times ran a front-page story about the bubbling parental outrage over President Obama's plan to address schoolchildren ... For deputy communications director Dan Pfeiffer, the more hyperbolic attacks on health-care reform this summer, ...

Matched Set
Jules Crittenden — ... For some reason these articles make a good pair. One’s about Obama’s image. The other is about Stalin’s.   TIME , Michael Scherer: “Calling ‘Em Out. The White House Takes on The Press. Obama aides say they can’t rely on reporters to referee public debates.” I made it through two or three of the examples before I became nauseated by the whining of second- and third-tier functionaries about their semantic beefs with one of the most ingratiating, lickspittle White House press corps of the modern era. They really dislike the use of the word “controversial.” OK, moving on.  ...

White House Moves to Increase Ratings of FoxNews
GayPatriot — ... Speaking with Time Magazine, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said that the administration intends to be “more aggressive rather than just sit back and defend ourselves, because they will say anything. They will take any small thing and distort it.” ...

Calling ‘Em Out
Delaware Liberal — Time Magazine reports that the White House is getting more aggressive in taking on the disinformation that gets into the press: All the criticism, both fair and misleading, took a toll, regularly knocking the White House off message. So a new White House strategy has emerged: rather than just giving reporters ammunition to “fact-check” Obama’s many critics, the White House decided it would become a player, issuing biting attacks on those pundits, politicians and outlets that make what the White House believes to be misleading or simply false claims, like the assertion that ...

TGIF! Your Three-Day Weekend Has Arrived!
Page One — ... professor of management). [Click for Details] Fairdale Bigfoot is running for Mayor of Louisville. He writes a weekly advice column. And, dudes, you can get a FDBF t-shirt! [Consuming Louisville] An English teacher at Ballard High School won a $25,000 education prize. [Toni Konz] Oh god. This is so scary. Barack Nobama is taking on your beloved Faux News for being worthless hype. [TIME] This is the only thing no earth that is possibly gayer than ...

Time channels The Onion … and DOJ sockpuppets! [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom — [image] In the Age of Obama worship, so-called mainstream media has been among His most reliable acolytes. Occasionally, though, they go off narrative. Even reporting facts that the Obama White House finds embarrassing will engender His Mighty Wrath. Look no further to get a real idea of such ankle-licking than Time’s coverage of the White House “push back”. There was never a single moment when White House staff decided the major media outlets were falling down on the job. There were instead several such moments. [...] All the criticism, both fair and misleading, took a ...

Hiatt Dismisses Criticism Of His Publication Of Misleading ‘Czars’ Op-Eds: ‘I Did Question It’
Think Progress — ... . Noting that White House Communications Director Anita Dunn recently criticized the Post for running the op-ed without even questioning Cantor’s facts, The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz asked Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt to explain how Cantor’s ...

The Obama Administration all “Wee-Weed” Up on FOX News
Flopping Aces — ... to enjoy a smooth ride. It would have been one thing had the Bush Administration gone after, say, the NYTimes for leaking information vital to national security interests. It would have been quite another had they expended their energies going after Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann, 60 Minutes, and CNN. Apparently the Obama Administration has no such qualms. And in fact, sees it as a critical front in their personal crusade to remake America. Time White House correspondent Michael Scherer: a new White House strategy ...

Washington Post Opinion Section Continues Its Reckless Indifference to the Truth
Matthew Yglesias — ... In her comments to Time, Dunn specifically griped about the Post running the claim that all the so-called “czars” bypassed Senate confirmation, despite the fact that many of them did go through that process or hold positions statutorily created by Congress. In fact, ...

WH communications director: Fox News operates as ‘a wing of the Republican Party.’
Think Progress — ... This morning on CNN’s Reliable Sources, White House communications director Anita Dunn defended her recent comment to Time magazine that Fox News is “opinion journalism ...

White House blasts Fox News: 'Wing of the Republican Party'
News — Fox News is simply "a wing of the Republican Party," a top White House aide said today. Appearing on CNN this morning, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said Fox News exists simply to further the agenda of the GOP. "Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," Dunn said. This is the second time in a week that Dunn has blasted Fox. She was quoted in Time Magazine on Thursday blasting the cable network as "opinion journalism masquerading as news." The administration ...

VIDEO- WH communications director: Fox is wing of Republican Party
The Political Carnival — ... This morning on CNN’s Reliable Sources, White House communications director Anita Dunn defended her recent comment to Time magazine that Fox News is “opinion journalism ...

Cable News Irony Alert: CNN, Fox and The Disappearing General Audience
Swampland — White House Communications Director Anita Dunn appeared Sunday morning on Howard Kurtz's CNN show Reliable Sources to discuss her comments in my TIME magazine story this week. She continued her criticism of Fox News: But let's be realistic here, Howie.  You know, they are widely viewed as, you know, part of the Republican Party.  Take their talking points, put them on the air.  Take their opposition research, put them on the air and that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is. The ironic part came later, during the commercial break. All morning, ...

Anita Dunn: Fox News An Outlet For GOP Propaganda
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... That said, the administration clearly is pursuing a strategy of direct engagement when it comes to the fourth estate - one in which even the most trivial of unflattering stores do not go unanswered. Earlier in the week, Dunn told Time Magazine that she and her team were no longer going to "just sit back and defend ourselves, because [conservative media] will say anything. They will take any small thing and distort it." ...

How it's Dunn
Political Animal — HOW IT'S DUNN.... Time 's Michael Scherer had a piece this week about the White House's media strategy, and the realization in the West Wing that much of the political discourse has gone mad. Different staffers came to the realization at different time. For Roberts Gibbs, it was the NYT 's front-page piece on "outrage" over the president encouraging kids to do well in school. For Dan Pfeiffer, it was "death panel" nonsense. "When you are having a debate about whether or not you want to kill people's grandmother," he said, "the normal rules of engagement don't apply." And for ...

White House Communications Director Calls Fox an “Arm of the Republican Party.”
Liberal Values — ... . White House communications director Anita Dunn was recently quoted by Time as saying “It’s opinion journalism masquerading as news.” Today, on CNN’s Reliable Sources, Dunn ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... The Time article on the Obama White House inexplicably refers to Obama, whose closest advisor is Valerie Jarrett and whose secretary of State is a woman as operating in an all boy's club except for this woman. But look at this: ...

White House Communications Director: Fox News Often Operates As Almost Either The Research Arm Or The Communications Arm Of The Republican Party
News Hounds — ... I am delighted to see the White House finally hitting back at Fox News and the media. In my opinion, they are doing it in the right way: by throwing a spotlight on their tactics. A few days ago, Time magazine reported on a new White House strategy to, in the words of President Obama, “call ‘em out.” In the same article, White House communications director Anita Gunn commented that Fox News is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” Earlier today, she amplified on those comments and signaled that President Obama will engage with Fox but on his own terms. With video. ...

White House Tells CNN They Are Punishing FOX News (Video)
Gateway Pundit — Well they certainly don't do this. White House Communications Chief Anita Dunn whines about FOX News... again... for 9 minutes: She also admits that Obama was punishing FOX News by not going on the network. It's just too bad this White House cannot point out any specific inaccuracies aired by the network. The White House also whined about FOX News this week in TIME Magazine. Obama, of course, has received a record amount of positive coverage from the media this year. ...

Ari Melber: New White House Line Against Fox: It's War
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Dunn's new pressure is part of a larger "call em out" strategy, recently telegraphed in Time magazine, to attack lies as "lies" and treat Fox as a place for rough debate with opponents -- not journalistic exchanges. Gibbs ...

links for 2009-10-12
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Glenn Fleishman: Cloud Data Blown Away for Sidekick Users Michael Scherer: Calling 'Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press There was never a single moment when White ...

Obama Administration Calls Out Fox
Taylor Marsh — ... Last week, Michael Scherer wrote a piece for Time magazine about the Obama administration’s new engagement with the news media. Post Sarah Palin’s “death panel” shriek, which put Pres. Obama in a defensive crouch, it was time for a new strategy. However, when the White House communications director comes out on the front lawn to say “… Fox News often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party,” you know that we’re in a different moment in Obama time. ...

Dissecting Leftism — ... offer no apologies. "The best analogy is probably baseball," says Gibbs. "The only way to get somebody to stop crowding the plate is to throw a fastball at them. They move." The general in this war is Dunn, 51, a veteran campaign strategist who arrived at the White House in May... Since her arrival, the communications operation has been tightly refocused, with greater emphasis on planning ahead to shape the news cycle and controlling staff contacts with the press. More HERE ************************* A hiring tax credit returns from the dead ...

Irony Alert: White House Praises 'Unbiased' CNN as Network Runs Promo Appealing to Democrats
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... about White House communications director Anita Dunn whining at length on Howard Kurtz's "Reliable Sources" about how supposedly unfair Fox News is. Her appearance on that show was instigated by Dunn's complaints about White House coverage by Fox News in a Time magazine story by Michael Scherer. Among her attacks upon Fox News was the assertion that it wasn't a real news network "the way CNN is." Well, Michael Scherer himself wrote a followup ...

Fox News’ James Rosen: Obama Administration Won’t Be Doing Interviews With Fox This Year
Say Anything — ... This campaign by the Obama administration is dangerous to press freedom, and it should concern everyone in the press, not just Fox. If you want to get a sense of little regard Team Obama has for the press in general, check out this “Time” magazine article. You have to wonder who else is on this administration’s enemies list. ...

Fox News: WH told us last week Obama won’t do any interviews with us this year; Update: Nixonian?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... criticism — especially when it comes to the Fox News Channel. I have compared the current administration to the White House of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, and believe me, I did not do that lightly. Nixon-Agnew was a very dark time for the First Amendment… This campaign by the Obama administration is dangerous to press freedom, and it should concern everyone in the press, not just Fox. If you want to get a sense of little regard Team Obama has for the press in general, check out this “Time” magazine article. You have to wonder who else is on this administration’s enemies ...

Media Note Anderson Cooper 360 Playing To Liberals, Ignore Playing To Conservatives
Crooks and Liars — ... White House Communications Director Anita Dunn appeared Sunday morning on Howard Kurtz's CNN show Reliable Sources to discuss her comments in my TIME magazine story this week. She continued her criticism of Fox News[..]. ...

Life On Planet Obama
Wizbang — "Calling 'Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press" So states the headline from an article at Time.com . According to administration officials, most notably Anita Dunn, Obama's interim White House Communications Director, the "media" has been just too darn hard on President Obama and his agenda. As Time explains: "There was never a single moment when White House staff decided the major media outlets were falling down on the job. There were instead several such moments." To sincere, logical people, "falling down on the job" would mean that they failed to objectively report on ...

White House vs. Fox News, Part 34
Political Punch — ... was part of a larger campaign launched against the cable news network. White House communications director Anita Dunn told TIME that FNC is "opinion journalism masquerading as news," and went on CNN's "Reliable Sources" earlier this week to ...

Liberal Media Split on Obama's Enemies List
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... was part of a larger campaign launched against the cable news network. White House communications director Anita Dunn told TIME that FNC is "opinion journalism masquerading as news," and went on CNN's "Reliable Sources" earlier this week to ...

Taking the Fox problem seriously
Political Animal — ... . The strategy became clearer two weeks ago with an interesting piece from Time 's Michael Scherer, which quoted Communications Director Anita Dunn describing Fox News as "opinion journalism masquerading as news." Pressed to defend her remarks last week on CNN, ...

"To Referee Public Debates"
The American Scene — ... According to Time, the Obama administration decided the press was “falling down on the job” after three perfectly sensible stories appeared in the media: The New York Times reported that parents objected to the idea of a presidential address to the nation’s schoolchildren, several outlets covered public outrage over health-care reform, and The Washington Post ran two op-eds by members of Congress who objected to the president’s reliance on advisors who were not subject to Senate confirmation or congressional oversight. It seems that the ...

The White House’s Curious War Against Fox News (Guest Voice)
The Moderate Voice — ... Couple this with the recent push by the White House toward calling out the very few members of the press who have had questions about the current agenda or who have apparently not lived up to the White House standards of “fair referees.” What emerges is a picture of an administration that after only nine months cannot deal with negative publicity of any kind and reacts in the only way it knows how – smear the messenger and silence the critics. ...

Fox News: 'We Wish Anita Dunn Well'
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... TIME magazine called Dunn "the general" in the administration's war against conservative media, and Dunn's appearance on CNN on October 11 — when she ...