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Eric Boehlert: Memo to the media: Fox News is now the Opposition Party
Fox News has changed the rules. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News. Rupert Murdoch's cable cabal is now, first and foremost, a political entity. Fox News has transformed itself into the Opposition Party of the Obama White House, which, of course, is unprecedented ...
White House Escalates War of Words With Fox News - Political News
foxnews.com — Calling Fox News "a wing of the Republican Party," the Obama administration on Sunday escalated its war of words against the channel, even as observers questioned the wisdom of a White House war on a news organization. "What I think is fair to say ... (more) White House Escalates War of Words With Fox News - ...
Fighting Words: Fox News Lashes Back At White House
tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com — Fox News lashed back at the White House for calling the cable channel "a wing of the Republican Party," releasing a statement calling the remarks "self-serving." "It's astounding the White House cannot distinguish between news and opinion programming. ... (more) Fighting Words: Fox News Lashes Back At White House
The Smoking Gun - O'Reilly Falafel Suit Turns Five
The Smoking Gun - O'Reilly Falafel Suit Turns Five
thesmokinggun.com — OCTOBER 13--Happy anniversary, Bill O'Reilly! On this date five years ago, the Fox News Channel host was named in a sexual harassment lawsuit brimming with lurid details about vibrators, phone sex, threesomes, masturbation, Caribbean shower fantasies, ... (more) The Smoking Gun - O'Reilly Falafel Suit Turns Five
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Michael Calderone's Blog — Deutsch bleeped while talking about Limbaugh. Beck, O'Reilly defend Fox. Todd w/o a goatee; Tapper with one. Scarborough loses DC radio affiliate. Boehlert: Fox is the opposition party. More buyouts at the Star-Ledger. GQ lists DC's 50 most powerful. Atlantic names 27 "brave thinkers." Smoking Gun marks five years since O'Reilly suit." (My contribution).

BlogTalk: What Is Up With This Hitler Talk?
The Caucus — ... power as he does — do you really believe after he takes out the number one news network, do you really think that this man is then not going to turn on you? That you and your little organization is going to cause him any hesitation at all not to take you out? If you believe that, you should open up a history book, because you’ve missed the point of many brutal dictators. You missed the point on how they always start. Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media Matters for America, says “Fox News has exited the journalism community this year. It’s a purely political player, and ...

Eric Boehlert: 30 reasons why Fox News is not legit
The Hollywood Liberal — ... is not legit “Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.” — Society of Professional Journalists Why the Beltway press has invested so much time and energy in recent weeks defending Fox News, with one scribe even claiming that the White House’s public critique of the network was “dangerous to press freedom,” and why the press refuses to acknowledge what’s so obvious about the cable channel’s political pursuits , remains baffling. The facts regarding Fox News’ lack of ...

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Obama’s First Attack, Lob’s Dunn At Fox News!
kynikos.wordpress.com 10/12/2009 — As is becoming clear to the Obama administration, close inspection uncovers many flaws. In an effort to quiet the new governance’s detractors, quick and immediate attention was offered in the form as a frontal attack on Fox News, with benignly chatty Anita Dunn. Dunn’s ...
White House Says Fox Is Not A News Network
newsbusters.org 10/12/2009 — " I think what is fair to say about FOX and certainly the way we view it is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party...[When President Obama] goes on FOX, he understands that he is not going on -- it really is not a news network at ...
White House Tells CNN They Are Punishing FOX News (Video)
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 10/12/2009 — 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 ...
Fox News accuses Obama of delaying troop deployment to win Nobel Peace Price
mediamatters.org 10/14/2009 — Fox News personalities have reacted to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize by accusing Obama of -- in the words of Fox News contributor Dick Morris -- "delaying the decision to commit troops to Afghanistan" in order to "win this prize." Responding to ...
The War Obama Will Fight: Fox News
harrisonprice.com 10/14/2009 — And I thought Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing peace. He won’t commit to Afghanistan, he makes distinctions between “good” and “bad” Taliban, he offers to meet with Iran but yet his spokespeople call Fox News the enemy. Interesting times.  ...
Beck continues long history of invoking Nazis by comparing Fox to the Jews during the Holocaust
mediamatters.org 10/14/2009 — During the October 13 edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck likened the Obama administration's treatment of Fox News to Nazi persecution of Jews, telling other media outlets: "When they're done with Fox, and you decide to speak out on something," it ...
Beck compares Fox News to Jews during Holocaust
dailykos.com 10/14/2009 — If Obama = Hitler , then clearly Fox News = Jews during Holocaust : When they’re done with Fox, and you decide to speak out on something. The old, "first they came for the Jews, and I wasn’t Jewish." When you have a question, and ...
Gibbs: Many stories on Fox News aren’t true
hotair.com 10/14/2009 — Tommy Christopher catches Robert Gibbs in continuing the Obama adminstration’s war on Fox News. [...] Read the rest »
Conservative media fearmonger that Fox News is part of White House "enemies list"
mediamatters.org 10/15/2009 — Following White House criticism of Fox News for its ideological slant, conservative media figures are again fearmongering that the White House has an "enemies list," and that Fox News is -- in the words of Glenn Beck -- "another enemy" that ...
FOX News vs. White House: Round three
swamppolitics.com 10/16/2009 — by Mark Silva In Glenn Beck's pursuit of every member of the Obama administration who ever hung a Che Guevera poster on his college dorm wall, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn has become a new target for.... Well, for criticizing ...
Obama's right. It's time to stop taking Fox's skewed news seriously.
slate.com 10/17/2009 — Last week, when White House communications director Anita Dunn charged the Fox News Channel with right-wing bias, Fox responded the way it always does. It denied the accusation with a straight face while proceeding to confirm it with its coverage. [ ...
The Battle Between the White House and Fox NewsDemocratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]New York Times[/b] The Obama administration, which would seem to have its hands full with a two-front war in Iraq and Afghanistan, opened up a third front last week, this time with Fox News. Until this point, the conflict had been mostly a one-sided affair, with Fox News hosts ...
Obama made FOX's apologists cryAMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
About time Obama made somebody cry on the right. You really should read this op ed in USA Today . You see, if the White House finally calls FOX News on its partisan campaign to put Republicans in office, and take Democrats out of office, that means, according to the FOX apologists, that the ...
Fox News: Good Economic News Shows It’s The “Bush Recovery”The Moderate Voice
The brazenness of partisan rhetoric each day hits new lows. And here is one for the books: For months since January 20, 2009 when President Barack Obama took over any bad economic news was attributed to Obama, even when he was in office for less than a month. But now the stock market has ...
White House Goes To War Against Fox NewsStones Cry Out
Frankly I can’t understand why any White House would declare war on a single media outlet but that’s exactly what the Obama Administration has decided to do with Fox News . Fox’s own Brit Hume succinctly points out what a huge losing strategy this is: Hat tip: Don Surber
Fox News’ Neil Cavuto: “Is this now the ‘Bush Recovery’”?Think Progress
For months and months , conservatives blamed President Obama for the slumping stock market. “Obama, since he’s elected, has tanked the markets,” Fox News’ Sean Hannity said in March. Now that the Dow has rebounded to over 10,000 , what are the conservatives saying ? On his Fox News today, Neil ...
Dow Hits 10,000… Fox News Gives Bush CreditOliver Willis
This right wing propaganda was not from what Fox has tried to call its opinion hours, but during what is supposedly straight news. When the Dow is down its Obama’s fault, and when its up? Clearly its thanks to the Republicans. I can’t imagine why the White House doesn’t ...
Obama WH’s war on Fox News: How NixonianSister Toldjah
Michelle Malkin has a great write-up this morning on the players behind the WH’s all-out assault on Fox News. It all sounds very Nixonian, what with both the vicious attempts at smearing a news outlet that refuses to roll over and crown Obama as King of America as well as a growing ...
White House Aide Blasts Fox NewsDrudge Retort
Calling Fox News "a wing of the Republican Party," the Obama administration on Sunday escalated its war of words against the channel, even as observers questioned the wisdom of a White House war on a news organization. "What I think is fair to say about Fox -- and certainly it's the way we view ...
Fox News accuses Obama of delaying troop deployment to win Nobel Peace PrizeThe Hollywood Liberal
Fox News accuses Obama of delaying troop deployment to win Nobel Peace Prize Fox News personalities have reacted to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize by accusing Obama of -- in the words of Fox News contributor Dick Morris -- "delaying the decision to commit troops to ...
Glenn Beck Likens Criticism of Fox News To The HolocaustTPMCafe
The Obama administration offered some mild criticism of Fox News the other day (it called its reporting opinion and not news and labelled it a de factor arm of the GOP. Glenn Beck responded by likening this onslaught to the murder of Six Million Jews. Beck said: "When they're done with Fox, ...
Brit Hume Fires Back at White House Attacks on Fox News: Calls It 'Risky Strategy'; Says 'Republican' Label IntentionalNewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
It's obvious the Obama administration has a low regard for Fox News as a media outlet. Whether it has been President Barack Obama hinting at what he has thought about Fox News, the administration passing over Fox News in a recent round of Sunday morning interviews or as White House ...
White House Escalades War With Fox NewsPat Dollard | Young Americans
Fox News: Calling Fox News “a wing of the Republican Party,” the Obama administration on Sunday escalated its war of words against the channel, even as observers questioned the wisdom of a White House war on a news organization. “What I think is fair to say about Fox ...
CBS’s Smith Touts White House ‘Full Frontal Assault’ on Fox NewsNewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Speaking with political analyst John Dickerson on Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith asked about the latest attack on Fox News by the Obama administration: “Anita Dunn, the communications director for the White House, pushed back against Fox. This is the first time that we’ve seen ...
Game On: Obama Advisor Calls Fox News “Arm of the Republican Party”Blake's Think Tank
Somehow I missed this over the weekend. White House communications director Anita Dunn took on Fox News, a move that is sure to ignite even more tensions with the cable news outlet. According to The Week , Ms. Dunn said that Fox News “”often operates almost as either the research ...
Obama’s war on Fox Newsneo-neocon
This is disturbing: Appearing on CNN [Sunday] 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 ...
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Must View Bravo! Obama Communications Director Anita Dunn: Fox News is "a wing of the Republican Party." Read my recent post on why the Obama White House's strategy to marginalize Fox News.
The White House Has Decided: Fox News Isn’t NewsWSJ.com: Washington Wire
The testy relations between the Obama White House and Fox News aren't getting any better. White House communications director Anita Dunn unleashed an unusual barrage against the network during an interview Sunday on CNN, repeating her charge that Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as ...
White House Communications Director Calls Fox an “Arm of the Republican Party.”Liberal Values
For years Fox has been treated as if it was a legitimate news outlet, even by those who recognized its conservative bias. There is a considerable difference from the types of bias seen from time to time from all news outlets and the manner in which Fox was established for the purpose of ...
Obama aide accuses Fox of operating as GOP arm (AP)Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - One of President Barack Obama's top aides says Fox News Channel acts like a wing of the Republican Party.