Quote:Fox News seems to enjoy being on the White House's enemies list.

A festering enmity between the Obama administration and the cable network boiled over Sunday when The New York Times quoted White House communications director Anita Dunn as saying of Fox: “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent.”

Fox Senior Vice President for News Michael Clemente fired back at what he called the White House’s “attack mentality.”

“Perhaps the energy would be better spent on the critical issues we are worried about,” Clemente said in a statement the network issued.

If Fox’s ratings are any clue, the administration’s attacks seem to be having the opposite of their desired effects. As of last week, the network has averaged 1.2 million viewers throughout the year, up from around 1 million viewers a year ago. This surpasses the network’s previous viewership record of 1.1 million viewers, which was set in 2003, the year the war began in Iraq.

In June, President Obama attacked Fox without mentioning it by name, saying it was devoted entirely to attacking his administration and that its coverage of his actions were all negative.

“Every time they [attack], our ratings go up,” Bill Shine, Fox’s senior vice president for programming, told the Times.

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I can't understand why any administration would be openly hostile to any news outlet. If The O can't handle Fox, then how is he going to deal with the Taliban, Russia, China....? I thought this guy could reach across aisles and find common ground. What a bunch of BS.

You know Obama had to sign off on this tack. But I'd bet dollars to donuts, that it's Axelrod's idea. He despises Fox. The wheels may be coming off the cart at the Whitehouse. The Democrats lead by the Whitehouse are now officially "Tilting at Windmills."

Left has all the power, but they still need a Boogey Man to point to and whip up the masses against.

Since its no longer Bush, he's been replaced with:

Rush, Beck, Sarah Palin and Fox News this year.

(10-15-2009 04:00 PM)GGniner Wrote:  Left has all the power, but they still need a Boogey Man to point to and whip up the masses against.

Since its no longer Bush, he's been replaced with:

Rush, Beck, Sarah Palin and Fox News this year.

Don't forget the astroturfers.

The left has never had any sensible ideas (they used to have no ideas, but Obama's marxist dreams of his father are at least ideas) so they continue to attack the right.

(10-15-2009 04:11 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(10-15-2009 04:00 PM)GGniner Wrote:  Left has all the power, but they still need a Boogey Man to point to and whip up the masses against.

Since its no longer Bush, he's been replaced with:

Rush, Beck, Sarah Palin and Fox News this year.

Don't forget the astroturfers.

The left has never had any sensible ideas (they used to have no ideas, but Obama's marxist dreams of his father are at least ideas) so they continue to attack the right.

Birthers