White House begins the first move to pull the FCC license for Fox news

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Woe to those who call evil good & good

evil,

who put darkness for light & light for darkness,

who put bitter for sweet & sweet for bitter...

 

Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw

& as dry grass sinks down in the flames,

so their roots will decay

& their flowers blow away like dust...

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Luke 21:36...

Watch ye, then, in every season,

praying that ye may be accounted worthy

to escape all these things that are about to come to pass,

and to stand before the Son of Man.

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But as for me & my house...

WE WILL SERVE THE LORD!!!!

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And by the way...

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb

deciding what to have for dinner.

Liberty is a

well-armed lamb. "

- Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obama is dangerous...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ This is the first step

to force signature hosts, including Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Shepard Smith, & Neil Cavuto all of whom host programs which are on the list of the top ten

most watched programs on cable news.[30]

In January 2009, commentator Glenn Beck was added to the list of personalities at Fox News Channel off the

air. When the White House communications director starts

claiming a channel is an ideologue and lies; the next step is to investigate

ways to have their license pulled. ]

 

 

FOXNews.com

Monday, October 12, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

White House

communications director Anita Dunn, shown

here, says FOX News

is a Republican Party " wing. " (AP Photo) [ translation: FOX station is thus subject to FCC review and

possible revocation of their FCC license ]

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 it -- is that it really is more a wing of

the Republican Party, " said Anita Dunn, White House communications

director, on CNN. " They take their talking points, put them on the air;

take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that's fine. But let's

not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is. "

Fox News senior vice president Michael

Clemente, who likens the channel to a newspaper with separate sections

on straight news and commentary, suggested White House officials were

intentionally conflating opinion show hosts like Glenn Beck with news reporters

like Major Garrett.

" It's astounding the White House cannot distinguish between news and

opinion programming, " Clemente said. " It seems self-serving on their

part. "

In recent weeks, the White

House has begun using its government blog to directly attack what it called

" Fox lies. " David

Gergen, who has worked for President Bill Clinton and three Republican

presidents, questioned the propriety of the White House declaring war on a news

organization.

" It's a very risky strategy. It's not one that I would advocate, "

Gergen said on CNN. " If you're going to get very personal against the

media, you're going to find that the animosities are just going to deepen. And

you're going to find that you sort of almost draw viewers and readers to the

people you're attacking. You build them up in some ways, you give them

stature. "

He added: " The press always has the last barrel of ink. "

Gergen's sentiments were echoed by Tony Blankley, who once served as press

secretary to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

" Going after a news organization, in my experience, is always a

loser, " Blankley said on CNN. " They have a big audience. And Fox has

an audience of not just conservatives -- they've got liberals and moderates who

watch too. They've got Obama supporters who are watching. So it's a temptation

for a politician, but it needs to be resisted. "

Nia Malika Henderson, White House correspondent for the Politico newspaper,

also questioned the White House offensive against Fox.

" Obama's only been a boon to their ratings and I don't understand how this

kind of escalation of rhetoric and kind of taking them on, one on one, would do

anything other than escalate their ratings even more, " she said.

Dunn used an appearance on CNN's " Reliable Sources " over the weekend

to complain about Fox News' coverage of the Obama presidential campaign a year

ago.

" It was a time this country was in two wars, " she recalled.

" We'd had a financial collapse probably more significant than any

financial collapse since the Great Depression. If you were a Fox News viewer in

the fall election, what you would have seen would have been that the biggest

stories and biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers

and something called ACORN. "

Ayers was co-founder of the Weather

Underground, a

communist terrorist group that bombed the Pentagon and other buildings in the

1960s and 1970s.

In 1995, Ayers

hosted Obama at his home for a political function and

the two men later

served together on the board of an anti-poverty group known as the Woods Fund.

The Association of Community Organizations for

Reform Now (ACORN), which once had close ties to Obama, has been

accused by a variety of law enforcement agencies of voter fraud. In recent

weeks, the Democrat-controlled

Congress moved to sever funding to ACORN after Fox News aired undercover

videotapes of ACORN employees giving advice on how

to break the law to a pair of journalists disguised as a pimp and prostitute.

As for Dunn's complaint about Fox News' coverage of the Obama campaign, a study

by the Pew Research Center

showed that 40 percent of Fox News stories on Obama in the last six weeks of

the campaign were negative. Similarly, 40 percent of Fox News' stories on

Obama's Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, were negative.

On CNN, by contrast, there was a 22-point disparity in the percentage of

negative stories on Obama (39 percent) and McCain (61 percent). The disparity

was even greater at MSNBC, according to Pew, where just 14 percent of Obama

stories were negative, compared to a whopping 73 percent of McCain stories -- a

spread of 59 points.

Although Dunn accused Fox News of being a " wing of the Republican

Party, " she said the network does not champion conservatism.

" It's not ideological, " she acknowledged. " I mean, obviously,

there are many commentators who are conservative, liberal, centrist -- and

everybody understands that. "

Still, Obama

refused to appear on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace on Sept. 20, the day he

appeared on five other Sunday shows. At the time,

the White House characterized the snub as payback for the Fox Broadcast

Network's decision not to air an Obama prime time appearance. But last weekend,

Dunn blamed Fox News Channel's coverage of the administration for Obama's snub

of Fox News Sunday.

" Is this why he did not appear? " Dunn said. " The answer is

yes. "

Wallace has called White House officials " the biggest bunch of crybabies I

have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington. "

Dunn was asked by CNN's Howard Kurtz whether Obama would grant an interview to

Fox News by the end of the year.

" Obviously, he'll go on Fox, because he engages with ideological opponents

and he has done that before, he will do it again, " Dunn replied. " I

can't give you a date, because frankly I can't give you dates for anybody else

right now. "

But last week, Fox News was informed by the White House that Obama would grant

no interviews to the channel until at least 2010. The edict was relayed to Fox

News by a White House official after Dunn discussed the channel at a meeting

with presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs and other Obama advisers.

" What I will say is that when he (Obama) goes on Fox, he understands he's

not going on it really as a news network, at this point, " Dunn said on

CNN. " He's going on to debate the opposition. And that's fine. He never

minds doing that. "

Dunn also strongly implied that Fox had failed to follow up on a New York Times

story about a scandal swirling around GOP Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, although Fox News broadcast the

stories on numerous shows, including Special Report with Bret Baier.

Clemente questioned the motives of the White House attack, which comes in the

wake of an informal coffee last month between Fox chairman Roger Ailes and

Obama adviser David Axelrod.

" Instead of governing, the White House continues to be in campaign mode,

and Fox News is the target of their attack mentality, " he said.

" Perhaps the energy would be better spent on the critical issues that voters

are worried about. "

Blankley suggested the war on Fox News is unpresidential.

" It lowers the prestige, " he said. " If you're president or

speaker, at a certain level, you don't want to be seen to be engaging that kind

of petty bickering. If you're just a congressman, maybe you can do

it. "

In an interview over the summer, Obama made clear that Fox News has gotten under his

skin.

" I've got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my

administration, " he told CNBC's John Harwood. " You'd be hard pressed

if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that

front. "

At the White House Correspondents Dinner in May, Obama even mocked the media

for supporting him.

" Most of you covered me; all of you voted for me, " Obama said,

spurring laughter and applause from the assembled journalists. " Apologies

to the Fox table. "

Gergen said the White House should delegate its attacks to outside support

groups.

" Why don't they take this over to the DNC, over to the Democratic National

Committee, and have their struggles like that fought out over there and not out

of the White House? " Gergen said. " I have real questions about that

strategy. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

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