Hey, Have You Chosen a Side in the White House War on Fox News?
In honor of Christopher Columbus I did some traveling this past weekend, except I hardly tortured any indigenous people at all, so I was in an airport when a TV screen flashed an "urgent update" about a "declaration of war" from the White House (!!??). Later, at my gate, I looked up at another screen just in time to see Glenn Beck arranging model tanks on a map of New York City, and after that I don't remember much because I figured I should take another anti-anxiety pill or three.
Anyway! Turns out Barack Obama has declared war on Fox News, and we know this because his warmongering communications director Anita Dunn spent the past few days complaining that Fox is unfair and imbalanced, so Fox "fired back," get it, with sentence-bombs like this:
Fox's senior vice president for news, Michael Clemente, issued a statement Monday, saying: "It's astounding the White House can't distinguish between news and opinion programming. It seems self-serving on their part."
Surges of words, from both sides! Meanwhile, in the interest of not being self-serving, Fox News is keeping this war as exciting as possible with fun polls, the aforementioned model tanks, headlines about 'escalation,' etc.
So now that I have reported, you decide: what color should our patriotic lapel ribbons be, for this War on Fox News? That sort of purple color Bill O'Reilly sometimes turns?
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I love that at the bottom of the poll, they say "this is not a scientific poll". Thanks Fox News, I was so impressed by your correctitude, truthiness, unbiasality, that I assumed that all polls and information on your website had a scientific foundation. See, just another example of how Fox News is out there, spreading the truth…
What I loved even more was how Newt Gingrich's former press secretary said "They have a big audience. And Fox has an audience of not just conservatives — they've got liberals and moderates who watch too. They've got Obama supporters who are watching." I think there was a little bit of subtext, or perhaps the evil liberal media edited it out, but I'm sure he meant to say "They have a big audience. And Fox has an audience of not just conservatives — they've got liberals and moderates who watch too (for a laugh, or to raise their blood pressure). They've got Obama supporters who are watching (because their local cable provider just switched, and they have yet to memorize the new channel numbers)."
Finally, something that looks like strategy from the White House. Fire across the bow of the HMS Fox and she will retaliate – abandoning her previous mission of raiding DNC political capital.
I've spent the last nine months wondering if anyone in the Administration played chess. Looks like at least when Ms Dunn gets her head in the game she can made some choice checkers moves.
Anyway the egos at Fox are such that they will spend a few days whining about direct White house attacks and NOT squealing about a socialist agenda, DODT, health care that will kill granny or Nobel awards.
Since "Zorro" means "Fox" in Spanish, I suggest Glenn Beck should have to wear a mask.