Comments on: Obama tries to bar Fox News from interviewing pay czar…and fails, embarrassingly so http://crushliberalism.com/2009/10/22/obama-tries-to-bar-fox-news-from-interviewing-pay-czar-and-fails-embarrassingly-so/ Liberalism: Why think when you can "feel"? Sun, 27 May 2012 11:43:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: tnjack http://crushliberalism.com/2009/10/22/obama-tries-to-bar-fox-news-from-interviewing-pay-czar-and-fails-embarrassingly-so/#comment-11996 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:36:55 +0000 http://crushliberalism.com/?p=5650#comment-11996 DDM must have a point in there somewhere. I mean it must be FNC because I couldn’t be smart enough to figure out on my own that I don’t like the decisions this Liar-in-Chief has been making!

]]> By: crushliberalism http://crushliberalism.com/2009/10/22/obama-tries-to-bar-fox-news-from-interviewing-pay-czar-and-fails-embarrassingly-so/#comment-11995 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:59:12 +0000 http://crushliberalism.com/?p=5650#comment-11995 Presidents have their preferred and/or favorite news organizations and attempt to position themselves, even manipulate, to get the most favorable coverage. I get that. Bush was no different than anyone else in that regard. Where Bush was different, though, was that I do not recall him calling out a specific network or newspaper for their coverage (Rather’s forged documents, anyone?) and prohibiting them access. Heck, I wished he had done that with the NYT when they started running stories with sensitive and classified national security information.

But why is your issue with Fox calling themselves “Fair and balanced”? While that may not be the slogan of the rest of the MSM, they tell us that they (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, ABC, NYT, etc.) are indeed “objective”…and you and I both know that it’s not true. So please tell me that your point of contention with Fox that they aren’t really objective is also your point of contention with the aforementioned MSM sources, and I will commend you for your consistency. However, if you are ludicrously claiming that the aforementioned MSM sources are indeed unbiased and objective, please say so, so that I may ignore you henceforth.

BTW, you and I will have to “agree to disagree” on your statement that “Even some of their hard news segments are slanted to favor Conservatives.” I don’t think there’s anything slanted about showing newsworthy stories such as ACORN, Van Jones, Anita Dunn’s praise of Mao Tsetung, or Tea Parties, since FNC is simply filling a huge void left by the leftstream media sources who refuse to cover those stories. Now if we were to hear a Fox News anchor say “This is a Fox News alert! The Communist in Chief was kissing Iranian madman booty today when…”, then I would totally agree with your statement.

And if you believe that “if Fox was more honest about their mission statement the White House would be more accommodating to them”, then I’ve got a massive tract of swampland I’d like to sell you. :lol: That’s the point of this post and others like it, dude: B.O. is so supremely thin-skinned and has such an inflated image of himself that he doesn’t process criticism (real or imagined) very well. He’s had it so easy his whole political career in the bluest of blue areas that he just assumed everyone adored him (and based on his coronation from the MSM last year, I can see where he’d get that idea). Now that he’s been elevated to Prez, he’s stunned to see it’s not true, and he’s getting bullyish and petty. If people object to his tax-happy, deficit-ballooning, Marxist policies, it MUST be Fox News causing that backlash…it couldn’t POSSIBLY be him or the sheer unpopularity of his ideas!

]]> By: DDM http://crushliberalism.com/2009/10/22/obama-tries-to-bar-fox-news-from-interviewing-pay-czar-and-fails-embarrassingly-so/#comment-11994 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:24 +0000 http://crushliberalism.com/?p=5650#comment-11994 Awww, heck, GWB infamously restricted access to certain news organizations. He might not have specifically done this, but W certainly manipulated his news coverage.
I’m glad that the other news networks stuck together though, we don’t want to set a bad precedent. Btw, I don’t have a problem with a Conservative News Network, or a Liberal News Network. But I do have an issue with Fox labeling itself “Fair and Balanced.” They’re just not. Even some of their hard news segments are slanted to favor Conservatives. Again, that’s fine, but please don’t use deceptive marketing campaigns claiming to be impartial. Maybe if Fox was more honest about their mission statement the White House would be more accommodating to them?

]]> By: TheBad http://crushliberalism.com/2009/10/22/obama-tries-to-bar-fox-news-from-interviewing-pay-czar-and-fails-embarrassingly-so/#comment-11991 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:42:42 +0000 http://crushliberalism.com/?p=5650#comment-11991 “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.”

As far as I can see, he’s losing that war too.

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