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Michael Calderone's Blog: HuffPost: Gibbs admits mistake re Fox
TPM Election Central: White House Insists Gibbs Didn't Apologize To Fox
RedState: Conservative News and Community: Forget Fox: White House vs Treasury Department
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The Obama administration lied about its attempt to exclude @foxnews from a pool-report interview: http://bit.ly/2AftHE. #accuracy #media 10/25/2009 |
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RT @slone: HuffPo: Fox requested Feinberg interview; Gibbs admitted “mistake” http://bit.ly/2AftHE 10/25/2009 |
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Fox News Exec On Attempted Feinberg Interview Snub: We Requested Feinberg ... http://bit.ly/sGf3d 10/25/2009 |
HuffPost: Gibbs admits mistake re Fox
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Huffington Post reports that Robert Gibbs told Fox News White House correspodent Major Garrett that the attempt to exclude Fox News from a series of interviews with Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation Kenneth R. Feinberg was a mistake by a young Treasury Department staffer. Fox News exec Michael Clemente comments. ...
White House Insists Gibbs Didn't Apologize To Fox
TPM Election Central —
... Several readers brought a Huffington Post story to our attention this weekend. They have an interview with Fox VP Michael Clemente where he claims White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs apologized for the situation. ...
Forget Fox: White House vs Treasury Department
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... points and desperate to position itself as a victim.”
The most popular quote, though, was from White House spokesman Josh Earnest, who told TPM that “this White House has demonstrated our willingness to exclude Fox News from newsmaking interviews, but yesterday we did not.”
“Simple as that,” said Talking Points Memo. Only it turns out, not quite.
Today Fox News provided more details on the sequence of events to the Huffington Post.
“Of course we requested an interview,” Fox ...
Forget Fox: White House vs Treasury Department
RedState —
... points and desperate to position itself as a victim.”
The most popular quote, though, was from White House spokesman Josh Earnest, who told TPM that “this White House has demonstrated our willingness to exclude Fox News from newsmaking interviews, but yesterday we did not.”
“Simple as that,” said Talking Points Memo. Only it turns out, not quite.
Today Fox News provided more details on the sequence of events to the Huffington Post.
“Of course we requested an interview,” Fox ...
Charles Johnson caught spreading a lie - Amazingly no correction forthcoming
doubleplusundead —
... : "You know that story that was on Fox News yesterday, claiming that Fox had been excluded from a “roundtable” interview with pay czar Ken Feinberg? And then (according to Fox News) all the other networks stood up and said, “If Fox isn’t there, we’re not going to be there! We’re all Fox News now!” Well, turns out it didn’t exactly happen that way." Apparantly, according to HuffPo, it did happen that way . According to the article at the ...
Monday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... should stop taking advantage of Medicare immediately. * Before the controversy over Treasury "snubbing" Fox News goes away completely, Fox News is contesting the administration's version of events, and the White House is ...
Garrett explains Feinberg interview: Had 'standing request' with Treasury
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... that Fox had never actually put in a request with Treasury to interview Feinberg. However, Fox senior vice president Michael Clemente quickly shot down such reports, telling the Huffington Post that "of course we requested an interview." ...
