Obama Administration Fox News Is a Political Opponent

The Obama administration says it's treating Fox News Channel as a political opponent, and executives at the top-rated cable news network are responding that the White House can't tell straight reporting from opinion.

White House communications director Anita Dunn recently told Time magazine that she thinks the channel offers "opinion journalism masquerading as news," and kept up the criticism on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday and in The New York Times Monday.

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."

And Fox's senior vice president for programming, Bill Shine, told the Times every time the White House criticizes the network, "our ratings go up."

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Fox has drawn a record number of viewers this year, averaging 1.2 million viewers, up from 1 million viewers last year. It's previous high came in 2003, the year the Iraq war started, when it had nearly 1.1 million viewers.

While Clemente maintained that the White House unfairly mixes its perception of the network's reporters and its pundits — whom he compares to "the op-ed page of a newspaper" — Dunn says she does indeed differentiate between White House correspondent Major Garrett and "the opinion guys" such as Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. "I'm talking about the overall programming," she explains.

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The Times reported that the White House recently limited administration members' appearances on Fox News Channel. Last month, when President Barack Obama himself made the rounds of Sunday morning talk shows, he skipped Fox. That provoked Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace to call the administration "the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington."

Dunn says people from the administration would still talk to Fox and that Obama was likely to be interviewed on the network in the future. But, she says: "We're not going to legitimize them as a news organization."

On Monday, Fox did a comprehensive report about the battle and harkened back to when President Richard Nixon wanted to freeze out The New York Times.

When his program came on later, Beck averred: "They're more worried about the war on Fox than the actual war in Afghanistan."

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[whocares30252]

Yea his priorities are to dismantle America at the core. He's doing a good job. And just think..he's only in the 'infancy' of his presidency, just wait until his 4th yr! 34 CZARS to date and these weirdo's are absolute lunatic's!! Cass Sunstein?! He thinks animals should be able to sue their owners in court!! Read his book!! CRRRRAZY! Hillary just gave Russia full access to all our nuke facilities, for NOTHING IN RETURN!!! I'm telling you WERE DOOMED!! These people are the enemies within!

[TrooperRaven]

The thugs from Chicago have picked a fight very early on. And with a cable news channel to boot! It is amusing to watch as the cracks have started to appear and grow ever wider (almost by the day) in Obama's carefully constructed facade.

As Bugs Bunny was fond of saying, "What a maroon!"

[lulusername]

TIme to label FOX as a terrorist organisation and send a drone in.

[alexandreleverrier]

fox news isn't a news channel, everybody knows that.

[ohmybentley]

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is prodding House and Senate Democrats to get him a final health care bill as soon as possible, encouraging them to bypass the usual negotiations between the two chambers in the interest of speed.

Obama delivered the message at an Oval Office meeting Tuesday evening with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his No. 2, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., joined in by phone.

[tysonboss22]

the thugs from Chicago trooperraven? what about the thugs from the Bush administration...which was basically the whole administration.

[solardragon223]

Trooper....Simply well put doc....

[Dastgreene]

The Elitists don't dispute the information! They want to shut it down! Just like all efffective dictators, they want to shut down all opposition! All Americans should be angry. Fox is not inherently dishonest. The elitists are terrrified. Networks like Fox threaten the Movement! Give Fox a chance. Make up your own mind.

[jeffmagic32]

White House communications director Anita Dunn is a proud Maoist. So when she criticizes a private media outlet, keep in mind that she works for the government and that her political hero is history's greatest mass murderer.