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<DIV><SPAN class=178082016-02102009><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>This article
reveals how despicable the Obama Administration is! </STRONG>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=178082016-02102009><FONT face=Arial>When one of the
few members of the mainstream media does not engage in fawning adoration of
Obama, then the White House goes berserk.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=178082016-02102009><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=178082016-02102009><FONT face=Arial>I hope this article does
not intimidate Fox News or any other media to "pull its punches" in
any way covering the many horrible things Obama and Company are doing every
day!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=178082016-02102009><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=178082016-02102009><FONT face=Arial>Conservatives should
continue to use the new and alternative media to communicate with citizens about
salient issues (especially Obamacare--with its dangerous provisions for
rationing, euthanasia, and abortion).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=178082016-02102009><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=178082016-02102009><FONT face=Arial
size=4><STRONG>Art</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091001/ts_ynews/ynews_ts935</FONT></A></DIV>
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<H1><FONT face=Arial>White House lashes out at Fox News for 'lies'</FONT></H1>
<DIV class=byline><FONT face=Arial><ABBR class=timedate
title=2009-10-01T14:14:34-0700>Thu Oct 1, 5:14 pm ET</ABBR>
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<DIV class="mod ad darla_ad"><FONT face=Arial>In the past few months, <SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_0>Fox News</SPAN>' critical coverage of the
Obama administration has been the subject of scornful scrutiny by left-leaning
pundits and political satirists. But now the <SPAN class=yshortcuts
id=lw_1254450509_1>White House</SPAN> appears to be willing to get dirt on its
own hands, jumping into the fray by blasting the network's "disregard for facts"
in </FONT><A
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts935/33590571/SIG=12vhedcjm;_ylt=AkVe7kaOrUw254uFSjKMXHwEq594;_ylu=X3oDMTFoMTQxZzhqBHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl9zdG9yeV9wcmludF9jb250ZW50BHNsawNhcG9zdG9udGhlb2Y-/*http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Reality-Check-Turning-a-Point-of-Pride-into-a-Moment-of-Shame/"><SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_2><FONT face=Arial color=#4485be>a post on the
official White House blog</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face=Arial>.</FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Written by White House Online Programs Director Jesse Lee,
the post takes issue with Fox News' coverage of the president's attempts to help
the city of Chicago secure the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_3>2016
Olympics</SPAN>, saying that Rupert Murdoch's cable news juggernaut, which
famously bills itself as being "fair and balanced," has "continued its disregard
for the facts in an attempt to smear the Administration's efforts" to convince
the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_4>International Olympic
Committee</SPAN> that the U.S. should host the games.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Lee specifically takes issue with <SPAN class=yshortcuts
id=lw_1254450509_5>Glenn Beck</SPAN>, who in July </FONT><A
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts935/33590571/SIG=12mcbe3pk;_ylt=AhBfNkbWfZmRjS8ZVYlWnecEq594;_ylu=X3oDMTFoNmFhOXVkBHBvcwM1BHNlYwN5bl9zdG9yeV9wcmludF9jb250ZW50BHNsawNhY2N1c2VkdGhlcHI-/*http://gawker.com/5325081/fox-news-finally-addresses-glenn-becks-unrestrained-lunacy"><SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_6><FONT face=Arial color=#4485be>accused the
president</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face=Arial> of being a "racist" with "a
deep-seated hatred for white people or white culture," for showing that "nothing
is worthy of respect if it can be used as part of a partisan attack to boost
ratings." Lee then goes on to "reality check" a number of assertions recently
made by Beck on his afternoon program, in addition to directing readers to
</FONT><A
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts935/33590571/SIG=140o358hk;_ylt=Apw.VL1Hq2hVsw9EKdpbmywEq594;_ylu=X3oDMTE4bzBmdTVxBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl9zdG9yeV9wcmludF9jb250ZW50BHNsawN0aGU-/*http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/30/steve-doocy/beck-and-others-repeat-claim-white-house-political/"><SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_7><FONT face=Arial color=#4485be>the St.
Petersburg Times' Politifact site</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face=Arial>, which
rebuts accusations made by Fox News' <SPAN class=yshortcuts
id=lw_1254450509_8>Steve Doocy</SPAN> against <SPAN class=yshortcuts
id=lw_1254450509_9>Patrick Gaspard</SPAN>, the director of the <SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_10>White House Office</SPAN> of <SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_11>Political Affairs</SPAN>.<BR><BR>The move
by the Obama White House sets a new watermark in its seemingly escalating war
with Fox News. Back in June, President </FONT><A
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts935/33590571/SIG=111mrdvbv;_ylt=ArzR0_XA_OLjK_4QnT.ZS6UEq594;_ylu=X3oDMTFoaG1wbDlnBHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl9zdG9yeV9wcmludF9jb250ZW50BHNsawNvYmFtYWdhdmVhbmk-/*http://www.cnbc.com/id/31391532"><SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_12><FONT face=Arial color=#4485be>Obama gave
an interview to CNBC</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face=Arial> in which he criticized
the network for being "entirely devoted to attacking my administration," and
later </FONT><A
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts935/33590571/SIG=12q09qavt;_ylt=AsxzViHmiTFS9UbYYop3cvwEq594;_ylu=X3oDMTFoZzlxcmowBHBvcwM4BHNlYwN5bl9zdG9yeV9wcmludF9jb250ZW50BHNsawNwcm9taXNlZHRvY2E-/*http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/09/30/the-call-em-out-white-house-targets-fox-news/"><SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_13><FONT face=Arial color=#4485be>promised to
"call out" anyone who misrepresents him</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face=Arial> when
he delivered his address on <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_14>health
care reform</SPAN> to a joint session of Congress. Taking it a step further,
Obama slighted Fox News during the White House's recent pro-health care reform
PR blitz, appearing on five Sunday news shows, not to mention <SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_15>Late Night with David Letterman</SPAN>,
while declining to grant an interview to a single <SPAN class=yshortcuts
id=lw_1254450509_16>Fox News program</SPAN>, a move that led <SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_17>Chris Wallace</SPAN>, host of the network's
<SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_18>Fox News Sunday</SPAN>, to </FONT><A
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts935/33590571/SIG=136mqou5q;_ylt=ArIzWd73CYh1Vl4Kc8dfgXEEq594;_ylu=X3oDMTFobTBkMDNqBHBvcwM5BHNlYwN5bl9zdG9yeV9wcmludF9jb250ZW50BHNsawNsYWJlbHRoZW9iYW0-/*http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0909/Wallace_calls_WH_biggest_bunch_of_crybabies.html"><FONT
face=Arial color=#4485be>label the Obama White House as the "biggest bunch of
cry-babies I've ever seen."</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial> Some objective observers
of politics and the media feel that the ire expressed by Wallace is somewhat
understandable. After all, the Obama administration's frustrations stem
not from non-partisan hosts like Wallace, but from Fox News' roster of
unabashedly partisan hosts like Beck and <SPAN class=yshortcuts
id=lw_1254450509_19>Sean Hannity</SPAN>, who've both gone so far as to compare
the Obama White House to Hitler's Germany and the communist Soviet
Union.<BR><BR>While many are raising hay about the White House acting
aggressively to combat perceived smears from Fox News, it isn't unprecedented
for a president and his administration to feud openly with the media. <SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_20>George W. Bush</SPAN> and CBS came to blows
in 2004 after </FONT><A
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts935/33590571/SIG=12udv81oi;_ylt=AupikUOmyLrt76WUDt4wrGEEq594;_ylu=X3oDMTFpZjBubzBpBHBvcwMxMARzZWMDeW5fc3RvcnlfcHJpbnRfY29udGVudARzbGsDZGFucmF0aGVyYWxs/*http://www.bernardgoldberg.com/content/2009/08/25/a-lost-fact-in-the-rathergate-mess-part-1/"><SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_21><FONT face=Arial color=#4485be>Dan Rather
alleged on 60 Minutes II</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face=Arial> that Bush had used
his family's connections to manipulate his enlistment in the <SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_22>National Guard</SPAN> to avoid serving in
combat in Vietnam, an incident that led to the firing of CBS producer <SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_23>Mary Mapes</SPAN> and badly tarnished
Rather's reputation as an objective newsman. Prior to that, <SPAN
class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_24>Hillary Clinton</SPAN> famously alleged
that forces in the media were involved in a "<SPAN class=yshortcuts
id=lw_1254450509_25>vast right-wing conspiracy</SPAN>" to destroy her husband's
presidency, while Nixon's infamous enemies list contained numerous names of
media members and the news organizations they worked for. In short, animosity
existing between the White House and the media isn't anything new.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>During the 2008 campaign, candidate Obama did what many
<SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254450509_26>presidential candidates</SPAN> of
both parties have done over the years: promised to "change the tone in
Washington." By using the White House blog to defend itself from perceived media
distortions, the Obama Administration may be unintentionally signaling that
their promise to alter the nation's political discourse was a lofty notion that
they might fail to fulfill, just like every past presidential Administration to
make the same promise.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>-- Brett Michael Dykes is a contributor to the Yahoo! News
Blog.</FONT></P></FONT></DIV></BODY>
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