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Obama tries to bar Fox News from interviewing pay czar…and fails, embarrassingly so

Has anyone checked the forecast in Hell today?  Details:

Today the White House stepped up its attack on Fox News, announcing that the network would no longer be able to conduct interviews with officials as a member of the Press Pool. The Pool is a five-member group consisting of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC organized by the White House Correspondents Association. Its membership is not subject to oversight by the government.

Before an interview with “Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg, the administration announced that Fox News would be banned from the press pool. This marks the first time in history that an administration had attempted to ban an entire network from the press pool.

To their credit, the other networks objected. They told the White House that if Fox were banned, none of the other networks would participate. The White House relented, but in an apparent act of petulant retaliation, it restricted each network to a two-minute interview instead of the standard five.

That’s right: ABC, CNN, and others actually threatened to boycott the interview if Fox was not allowed to participate.  So while B.O. and his bunch may not see FNC as anything more than an extension of talk radio, FNC’s brethren in the MSM apparently don’t see it that way.

Allah has a theory, and I suspect it’s dead-on accurate:

The other networks deserve the praise they’re getting for standing up to the Baby-in-Chief, but if they had acquiesced in this freezeout, a precedent would have been set that would have been eagerly used by future Republican presidents to close them off too. And don’t think they weren’t all keenly aware of it.

Probably true.  Let’s not delude ourselves into thinking that the other MSM outlets did this out of the goodness of their hearts.

If the rest of the MSM sits back and giggles like Barney Frank at a Village People concert while Fox gets skewered by Uhhhhhhhbama’s attack dogs, they know that the precedent will be set whereby the Republican who throttles Chairman Zero in 2012 will feel free to give the NYT, CNN, and MSNBC (assuming they’re all still around then) the same treatment.  How do you think Olbermoron and Leg Tingle Matthews would like hearing President Romney/Huck/Pawlenty/(fill in name here) say “Well, MSNBC isn’t a real news organization.  We’re sorry if this offends both of their viewers!”?

Anywho, this is humiliating for President Training Wheels, and it’s a clear slap across his Marxist face.  For this country’s sake and our soldiers’ sakes, let’s pray that he manages the war in Afghanistan better than he ran this ill-conceived war against Fox News.

October 22, 2009 Posted by | CNN, Fox News, media bias, Obama | 4 Comments

Obama meets with MSNBC liberal hosts

Hmmmmm.

Let’s see: wasn’t The One and his Kool-Aid drinkers griping about a network that has news and commentary as not being a “legitimate news organization”?  Yet for some really weird reason, he has a behind-the-scenes shindig with Maddow and Olbermann.  But hey, that Fox News sure is illegit.

And while we’re talking about “legitimate” news organizations, Gwen Ifill (you know, the “unbiased” moderator of presidential debates?), Eugene Robinson of the Washington “skewed poll samples” comPost, and Gloria Borger of the “we’re so legitimate, we fact check anti-Obama SNL skits” network known as CNN were all at this little rendezvous.  Borger took her dictaphone along for the ride, and after receiving her talking points (and pat on the head) from her overlord in the White House, she dutifully passed them off into her column entitled: “Republicans snipe instead of offering solutions”!

While on the air, MSNBC’s Mika Brezzezezewzewzsky (or whatever her name is) gets an e-mail “correction” from the White House in the middle of her segment…so naturally, she corrects it post haste and begins parroting the WH talking points with zeal.

But Fox News isn’t a real news organization?  Got it.  Thanks for the clarification.

As Allahpundit notes:

Needless to say, The One’s entitled to talk to whomever he wants, but playing pattycake with MSNBC’s primetime stars does further raise the question of why Beck and Hannity are problematic “opinion” shows while Olbermann and Maddow aren’t. And yes, that question is entirely rhetorical.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

October 22, 2009 Posted by | CNN, Fox News, media bias, moonbats, Obama | 1 Comment

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer thinks all black men look the same

She mistakes Jesse Jackson for Al Sharpton…while Jesse is sitting there!  For the video comedy gold, click here.

As Gawker puts it: “If Fox News did this, there would be sit-ins.”

October 22, 2009 Posted by | media bias | Leave a Comment

Obama “paymaster” slashes executive pay at bailed-out companies

Story here.

Topic of discussion: Do you have a problem with this?

My answer may surprise you: No, I do not have a problem with it.  Hear me out, please.

These companies asked the taxpayers to bail them out for their lousy business decisions.  When they agreed to take our money in order to survive, they agreed to be subjects of the federal government and its whims.  Everyone knows that nearly all forms of federal assistance come with a boatload of provisions.  For example, if you’re on welfare and you get a job, your welfare money gets cut.  If you take a federal student loan (or a private loan subsidized in whole or in part by the government), you MUST pay it back, and even bankruptcy won’t get rid of it.  In short, accepting taxpayer funds makes the companies, in essence, wards of the state.

Yes, I know that B.O. is doing this because he’s anti-capitalist and is playing the class warfare card.  And if he were doing this to a private company that had not accepted taxpayer bailout money, I would be raising quite a stink over it and would support a lawsuit against the government to stop such an action.  As such, I don’t have any pity for companies that fail on their own, ask us to bail them out, then get stepped on by the feds.

What say you?

October 22, 2009 Posted by | capitalism, Obama | 3 Comments

   

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