Fox News and the Obama Administration talking (Limbaugh, interview, CNN)
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Interesting. But more so because Campbell Brown of CNN (and people in my last article on CNN say they are as left-biased as Fox News is "right" ) asked Valerie Jarrett about MSNBC (which really is quite "left biased", but in my view not quite as bad as Fox News is on the right, but still bad enough that I hardly consider them "news" either) and she went into "no comment" mode.
This is one battle that Obama does not need to fight. It has put the Office of the President in a bad light. Obama needs to let go of this and move on. There are more important things for him to worry about.
The network confirmed reports that Fox news executive Michael Clemente met at the White House on Wednesday with Robert Gibbs, President Barack Obama's press secretary. There were no details given about the meeting.
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Meanwhile, Fox received support Wednesday from an unlikely source: CNN's prime-time host Campbell Brown. She interviewed Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and asked whether the White House considered left-leaning MSNBC biased as well. Jarrett wouldn't speak about the network.
She "seems loathe to admit that MSNBC has a bias," Brown said. "And that is where I think the White House loses all credibility on this issue."
This is one battle that Obama does not need to fight. It has put the Office of the President in a bad light. Obama needs to let go of this and move on. There are more important things for him to worry about.
I agree. I'm far from a fan of Fox News and I agree with a lot of the Obama Admin's rants about them (though the point about MSNBC is mostly true too), but it makes it look like they are trying to control the press and the last thing he needs is another comparison to the old Soviet Union.
This is one battle that Obama does not need to fight. It has put the Office of the President in a bad light. Obama needs to let go of this and move on. There are more important things for him to worry about.
I think Faux News makes more of it than there really is -- it's good for their ratings to blow it up.
Just like typical bullies, they pick and pick and pick and when the one they're picking on turns around and smacks them, they start yelping. But what did they expect?
Air America is leftist. MSNBC is mainstream centrist. Fox is an arm of the GOP (more accurately, a far-right propaganda outfit). All you need for proof is to see the videos of the Fox News producers staging the teabaggers and cheerleading that "protest." MSNBC doesn't do anything like that. Their journalistic integrity is higher than that. Still not high enough, but higher than that.
Second, the Obama Administration has just said some mild things about Fox. They haven't actually done things like the Bush Administration did against the NY Times and NBC, for example. I don't recall any of the whiners here complaining about actual vindictive behavior on the part of Bush.
I think Faux News makes more of it than there really is -- it's good for their ratings to blow it up.
Just like typical bullies, they pick and pick and pick and when the one they're picking on turns around and smacks them, they start yelping. But what did they expect?
If Obama would vet his people a little better, perhaps there wouldn't be so much to pick on?
If Obama would vet his people a little better, perhaps there wouldn't be so much to pick on?
What is there to vet? According to many posters here, as long as they are radical marxists who love Mao and Chavez, all is good to go.
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) asked Valerie Jarrett about MSNBC (which really is quite "left biased", but in my view not quite as bad as Fox News is on the right, but still bad enough that I hardly consider them "news" either) and she went into "no comment" mode.
Fox News, White House communicating
