White House Escalates War of Words With FOX News

Via: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/12/white-house-escalates-war-words-fo...

In recent weeks, the White House has begun using its government blog to directly attack what it called "Fox lies." David Gergen, who has worked for President Bill Clinton and three Republican presidents, questioned the propriety of the White House declaring war on a news organization.

"It's a very risky strategy. It's not one that I would advocate," Gergen said on CNN. "If you're going to get very personal against the media, you're going to find that the animosities are just going to deepen. And you're going to find that you sort of almost draw viewers and readers to the people you're attacking. You build them up in some ways, you give them stature."

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[tlafountains]

Obama is a pussy... cant take a REAL question! WEAK!!  shows in his foreign policy! Obama... american and the world are laughing at you!!! look at the rating idiot!!!!

[joshpnw]

Damn cry babies... He is the POTUS for god sake... ACT LIKE IT!

I don't recall Bush ever crying about nearly every damn left leaning news outlet oozing vitriol about him nearly every night.

[sylvestew]

lol ive watched fox and best ratings dont mean best news channel. im pretty sure cnn's ratings are so low is because all they show is the news. and news dosent make good tv

[urdaddy4321]

Obama is a left wing Nixon in his view of the media and in his political ethics

[SocialistDemokrat]

@ddenn, there's a reason why ratings at Fox News blows away the competition. People tune in to who has the most information and who's the most fair. MSNBC isn't capable, they've become a mouthpiece for the white house, unions and the DNC. CNN rarely try's anymore.

I just like to hear both sides to the story and let me make up my own mind.

[ddenn]

there are some instances where Fox straight up lies or are arguing false points.

a few were exposed on the CBC when they did a story about left and right media. now, the context they put it in is mainly canadian, but it does shed light that if fox personalities are misinformed or just straight up wrong and still report it as fact, then IMO i dont think it is unreasonable to say that they have made these stretches on other occasions.

The video is interesting but has a liberal viewpoint

[moonphibes]

If Fox News is right wing then what does that make the rest of the media?

Left Wing?

Fox News is the only news organization that has the perfect balance of viewers with opposing political views: Conservatives, Independents and Liberals.

The other networks can't say that. CNN and especially MSNBC, have mostly Liberal viewers.

That's why Fox News was the only news organization to break the ACORN scandal and the radical communists within the Obama White House.

[Kelji98225]

If the white house can say that fox news is not a news organization... well then the american people that watch fox news can say that the obama administration is not our government.

[SocialistDemokrat]

Too funny, Obama's cult followers in the White House are mad because Fox News actually did a fact check when one of their cronies appeared on the news.

Heaven forbid that the press would actually verify the accuracy of the comments made by White House officials.

[roscoe85cj]

Wow .. the Coward-In-Chief ramps up the attack on Fox News ... understandable though, I mean what marxist posing as leader of the free world wouldn't !~

Hussein runs from Fox ... run Hussein, run ... see Hussein run !

[muckstar23]

you actually think any of this is real....