[Apologetics] White House lashes out at Fox News for 'lies'

[Art Kelly]

This article reveals how despicable the Obama Administration is!  When
one of the few members of the mainstream media does not engage in
fawning adoration of Obama, then the White House goes berserk.
 
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!
 
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).
 
Art
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091001/ts_ynews/ynews_ts935
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091001/ts_ynews/ynews_ts935> 

White House lashes out at Fox News for 'lies'

Thu Oct 1, 5:14 pm ET 
 
In the past few months, Fox News' critical coverage of the Obama
administration has been the subject of scornful scrutiny by left-leaning
pundits and political satirists. But now the White House appears to be
willing to get dirt on its own hands, jumping into the fray by blasting
the network's "disregard for facts" in a post on the official White
House blog
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-/*http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Reality-Check-Turning-a-Point-of-Pride
-into-a-Moment-of-Shame/> .

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 2016 Olympics, 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
International Olympic Committee that the U.S. should host the games.

Lee specifically takes issue with Glenn Beck, who in July accused the
president
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-/*http://gawker.com/5325081/fox-news-finally-addresses-glenn-becks-unre
strained-lunacy>  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 the St. Petersburg Times' Politifact site
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mdTVxBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl9zdG9yeV9wcmludF9jb250ZW50BHNsawN0aGU-/*http://ww
w.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/30/steve-doocy/beck-a
nd-others-repeat-claim-white-house-political/> , which rebuts
accusations made by Fox News' Steve Doocy against Patrick Gaspard, the
director of the White House Office of Political Affairs.

The move by the Obama White House sets a new watermark in its seemingly
escalating war with Fox News. Back in June, President Obama gave an
interview to CNBC
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-/*http://www.cnbc.com/id/31391532>  in which he criticized the network
for being "entirely devoted to attacking my administration," and later
promised to "call out" anyone who misrepresents him
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3590571/SIG=12q09qavt;_ylt=AsxzViHmiTFS9UbYYop3cvwEq594;_ylu=X3oDMTFoZzl
xcmowBHBvcwM4BHNlYwN5bl9zdG9yeV9wcmludF9jb250ZW50BHNsawNwcm9taXNlZHRvY2E
-/*http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/09/30/the-call-em-out-white-hous
e-targets-fox-news/>  when he delivered his address on health care
reform 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 Late Night
with David Letterman, while declining to grant an interview to a single
Fox News program, a move that led Chris Wallace, host of the network's
Fox News Sunday, to label the Obama White House as the "biggest bunch of
cry-babies I've ever seen."
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3590571/SIG=136mqou5q;_ylt=ArIzWd73CYh1Vl4Kc8dfgXEEq594;_ylu=X3oDMTFobTB
kMDNqBHBvcwM5BHNlYwN5bl9zdG9yeV9wcmludF9jb250ZW50BHNsawNsYWJlbHRoZW9iYW0
-/*http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0909/Wallace_calls_WH_
biggest_bunch_of_crybabies.html>  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 Sean Hannity, who've both gone
so far as to compare the Obama White House to Hitler's Germany and the
communist Soviet Union.

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. George
W. Bush and CBS came to blows in 2004 after Dan Rather alleged on 60
Minutes II
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3590571/SIG=12udv81oi;_ylt=AupikUOmyLrt76WUDt4wrGEEq594;_ylu=X3oDMTFpZjB
ubzBpBHBvcwMxMARzZWMDeW5fc3RvcnlfcHJpbnRfY29udGVudARzbGsDZGFucmF0aGVyYWx
s/*http://www.bernardgoldberg.com/content/2009/08/25/a-lost-fact-in-the-
rathergate-mess-part-1/>  that Bush had used his family's connections to
manipulate his enlistment in the National Guard to avoid serving in
combat in Vietnam, an incident that led to the firing of CBS producer
Mary Mapes and badly tarnished Rather's reputation as an objective
newsman. Prior to that, Hillary Clinton famously alleged that forces in
the media were involved in a "vast right-wing conspiracy" 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.

During the 2008 campaign, candidate Obama did what many presidential
candidates 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.

-- Brett Michael Dykes is a contributor to the Yahoo! News Blog.




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