I'm sitting here watching Glen Beck today and he starts talking about Anita Dunn (White House Communications Director). Turns out she had some pretty interesting things to say about Fox News.
Now anyone in their right mind knows that Glen Beck, O'Reilly, and Hannity are OPINION Shows.. not News programs. Same as Chris Matthews and Olbermann are OPINION shows, not news programs.
Anyway.. this is what she had to say on CNN
If you click the link you can watch the actual video, but I'll post a few of her comments here.
Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the
communications arm of the Republican Party," Dunn told
CNN, adding, "let's not pretend [Fox is] a news organization like CNN
is." Dunn also took her beef to The
New York Times, saying in a Sunday interview that Fox is "undertaking
a war against Barack Obama and the White House [and] we don't need to pretend
that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave."
In the most significant exchange on CNN, Dunn
stressed that President Obama now personally views Fox as a partisan opponent,
rather than a journalistic organization. "When he goes on Fox he
understands he is not going on it as a news network at this point," she
explained, "he is going on it to debate the opposition."
As an OPPONENT? So that must include the viewers of Fox News too, correct? I mean, we all remember Obama's condescending remarks about "people waving their little teabags around" mocking the very people that could be the deciding factor on whether he is a one or two term President.
Isn't declaring war on Fox News just a wee bit childish? Chris Wallace called it right when he said this Administration was nothing but a bunch of cry babies.
So lets look at some statistics on the cable news programs. (News and Commentary)
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 997,000 viewers (426,000) (711,000)
American Morning- 426,000 viewers (188,000) (270,000)
Morning Joe- 380,000 viewers (188,000) (215,000)
Squawk Box- 129,000 viewers (46,000) (69,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 307,000 viewers (205,000) (217,000)
5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,588,000 viewers (662,000) (1,191,000)
Situation Room—663,000 viewers (151,000) (259,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—555,000 viewers (174,000) (283,000)
Fast Money—159,000 viewers (a scratch w/50,000) (90,000)
Prime News–285,000 viewers (107,000) (166,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier– 2,038,000 viewers (470,000) (927,000)
Situation Room—521,000 viewers (142,000) (216,000)
Ed Show—566,000 viewers (162,000) (289,000)
Mad Money —145,000 viewers (a scratch w/32,000) (102,000)
Prime News — 241,000 viewers (100,000) (141,000)
7PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report w/ Shep –1,854,000viewers (373,000) (721,000)
Lou Dobbs Tonight—532,000 viewers (119,000) (201,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews—597,000 viewers (169,000) (310,000)
Kudlow Report —129,000 viewers (a scratch w/48,000) (81,000)
Issues– 392,000 viewers (122,000) (179,000)
8PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor– 3,125,000 viewers (825,000) (1,334,000)
Campbell Brown – 609,000 viewers (149,000) (224,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 958,000 viewers (304,000) (454,000)
Fast Money– a scratch w/88,000 viewers (a scratch w/31,000) (a scratch
w/49,000)
Options Action– a scratch w/72,000 viewers (a scratch w/27,000) (a scratch
w/39,000)
Nancy Grace – 703,000 viewers (200,000) (353,000)
9 PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,066,000 viewers (562,000) (889,000)
Larry King Live —607,000 viewers (181,000) (232,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —896,000 viewers (266,000) (401,000)
The Suze Orman Show. – 187,000 viewers (82,000) (75,000)
Joy Behar- 515,000 viewers (173,000) (233,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren —1,706,000 viewers (498,000) (809,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —531,000 viewers (167,000) (250,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 593,000 viewers (249,000) (350,000)
American Greed – 205,000 viewers (108,000) (116,000)
Nancy Grace –480,000 viewers (198,000) (265,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,554,000 viewers (513,000) (827,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —464,000 viewers (192,000) (243,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —471,000 viewers (183,000) (246,000)
Mad Money – a scratch w/104,000 viewers (a scratch w/51,000) (79,000)
Showbiz Tonight– 421,000 viewers (212,000) (254,000)
Hmmmm... Fox News Channel, #1 in ALL TIME SLOTS. Some of the shows beat out the other channels COMBINED!!
So anyone that watches Fox News, listens to Fox News, or goes to the Fox News website... The White House considers you an OPPONENT!
How comforting to know that the President is AGAINST the majority of the country's population.