Obama Plays Hardball with FNC
Slander me, screw you. Ahem, I mean, you air lies about me, get used to the cold shoulder, baby.
Sources tell The Sleuth that the Obama camp has \”frozen out\” Fox
News reporters and producers in the wake of the network\’s major screw-up in
running with the erroneous Obama-the-jihadist story reported by Insight magazine.\”I\’m still in the freezer,\” one Fox journalist said, noting that
the people at Fox \”suffering the most did nothing wrong.\” (It was
\”Fox and Friends\” host Steve Doocy who aired the Insight magazine
piece, which reported that operatives connected to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
(D-N.Y.) found out that Obama, as a child, was educated at a Muslim madrassah
in Indonesia.)Another Fox journalist called the network\’s airing of the story \”unfortunate\”
for the network\’s journalists who have to cover Obama and who are being adversely
affected despite not being involved in the incident.Since the madrassah incident, Obama has given interviews to ABC, CNN, CBS
and NBC — pretty much every other network except Fox. Sources close to Obama
acknowledged that they\’re not thrilled to play ball with Fox journalists,
but they stopped short of saying they are freezing the network out.(snip)
No one is suggesting the icy conditions are permanent. In fact, a thawing
of sorts may already have begun thanks to two telephone conversations Fox
News Channel CEO Roger Ailes had with Obama. …
Does anyone else have a problem with the title of The Sleuth\’s article? \”Grudge?\”
Excuse me, but when someone accuses you of attending a radical madrassa
that is code for he\’s a radical Islamic wacko in training since youth,
which has the potential of scuttling your presidential hopes, I\’d say sending
a message is a more appropriate title. When Fox gets it wrong, as they do so often,
they need to pay the price, which has nothing to do with holding a \”grudge.\” FNC gets away with this stuff far too often.
Oddly enough, sometimes Democrats are complicit and do the hit job themselves. Take \”Fox \’News\’ Analyst\” Kirsten Powers slamming anti-war protesters, while getting off a shot at Howard Dean recently. Both Schwartz and Powers worked in the Clinton administration. Alan Colmes goes after Democratic Congressman Cohen over the Fairness Doctrine. Colmes and I had a disagreeable shouting match on his radio show over the Fairness Doctrine as well, because at the start he decided to lower my volume for the audience and interrupt me at every turn. Fox Democrats like Schwartz, Powers and Colmes do nothing for progressive causes and promote an image of the Democratic Party that is anything but strong.
Obama gave Fox what they deserved. They should get it from Democrats more often. When this started I doubted that Obama was tough enough to take on Fox \”News\” and other political bad guys. He\’s proven he is plenty tough.
Hillary has it right. When someone attacks you, \”deck\” them.
\”When you\’re attacked, you have to deck your opponents,\” she said, expanding on a more tepid initial response. She added: \”I want to run a positive, issue-oriented, visionary campaign. But you can count on me to stand my ground and fight back.\” - Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate
Rule number one: Never play footsies on Fox.
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