Obama Administration Calls Out Fox
12 October 2009 8:08 am by Taylor Marsh
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“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent,” said Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.” – Fox’s Volley With Obama Intensifying
Last week, Michael Scherer wrote a piece for Time magazine about the Obama administration’s new engagement with the news media. Post Sarah Palin’s “death panel” shriek, which put Pres. Obama in a defensive crouch, it was time for a new strategy.
However, when the White House communications director comes out on the front lawn to say “… Fox News often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party,” you know that we’re in a different moment in Obama time.
The President is being particularly aggressive ratcheting up his criticism of the one network whose got anchors that never stop the barrage, even claiming a few political scalps. The big difference now is that Fox has Glenn Beck, one cable barker who is even more outrageous than the normal fare.
But will Obama go back on Fox? Of course, said Elizabeth Dunn, he’ll just consider it debating the opposition.
