The War Obama Will Fight: Fox News

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.

That whole “reaching out” thing hasn’t done too well, not surprisingly.  Russia is very cool to the idea of sanctions against Iran, the Taliban have upped their attacks on civilians and troops in Afghanistan, North Korea continues to fire missiles off like it’s the 4th of July, and Obama, by giving away SDI to the Russians in Eastern Europe, has weakened relationships with our friends there.

But Fox News is a great threat!  Why is Fox News such a great threat?  They have the audacity to check facts that’s why!  Here’s why the White House Communication’s Director had to say about it on CNN:

In the round of Sunday shows, Chris Wallace from the Sunday shows. And I told Major quite honestly that we had told Chris Wallace that having fact-checked an administration guest on his show, something I’ve never seen a Sunday show do, and Howie, you can show me examples of where Sunday shows have fact-checked previous weeks’ guests.

We asked Chris for example where he had done that to anybody besides somebody from the administration in the year 2009, and we’re still waiting to hear from him. When they want to treat us like they treat everyone else — but let’s be realistic here, Howie. They are — they’re widely viewed as, you know, part of the Republican Party. Take their talking points and put them on the air. Take their opposition research and put them on the air, and that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.

Well, it seems as though Ms. Dunn should have used Google because the answer to her question is right there:

Today on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace tried to pin down a straight answer on Palin’s bridge position from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis. When Davis refused to acknowledge Palin’s misleading statements, Wallace detailed her support for millions of dollars in earmarks, including the bridge:

WALLACE: During her 1.5, 2 years as Governor, Alaska continued to get more federal money for pork-barrel projects per capita than any state in the country and…she supported the Bridge to Nowhere. And it was only after the federal government dropped it out, killed it, the Congress killed it that she then opposed it. And in fact she still got the money for the approach, the ramp to the Bridge to Nowhere.

So the Obama White House is upset that on a hard news show the moderator would actually do research before the interview to challenge guests should they provide inaccurate or misleading information.  We have an example as to when Fox’s Wallace tried to get a straight answer about Sarah Palin’s “Bridge to Nowhere” yet Ms. Dunn said no example of this existed.

And when Saturday Night Live ripped into Obama for not doing anything while he’s been president CNN devotes an entire segment on Wolf Blizter’s Situation Room to debunking the assertions.  CNN didn’t come to the defense of the Bush administration when they were mocked numerous times or when Tina Fey made fun of Sarah Palin.  What did the White House Communication’s Director have to say about the mocking of Obama?

I think the bigger point is that — and the president himself said this, that he was surprised, as I think most of the press corps was. He feels that he, you know, didn’t really deserve it, as I think there are many people who feel this is still particularly in terms of this presidency, it’s the first year.

So I think that those people who are saying this is really quite unusual. This really does seem to be, you know, a big surprise to everyone…

Too early in his presidency?  Was there a grace period during the last (Republican) administration?  No.

By “taking on” Fox News yet agreeing to talk to corrupt dictators bent on destroying the United States the Obama administration shows where its priorities are.  If anything, Obama should go on to Fox News Sunday to defend himself and answer the tough questions… but that’s what this really is about – not answering the tough questions combined with a “how dare you challenge me” attitude.

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