The Obama administration has completely disregarded the First Amendment recently and made itself judge, jury, and attempted executioner of FOX News. Why?
FOX isn’t real news.
At least if you listen to White House spokesmen Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod. Gibbs personally lambasted FOX for the “type” and “fairness” of coverage, complaining specifically about the programming in the 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. slots. Notice how he went about that, though.
Glenn Beck is on at 5 p.m. EST. Bill O’Reilly is on at 9 p.m. EST. Gibbs was specifically referring to OPINION shows, but he excused himself from having to answer questions about the WH decision to castigate FOX by simply giving the time slots that they referenced.
Just this past Sunday, David Axelrod went on George Stephanopoulos’s show and declared FOX was “not a news organization,” saying further, “Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way. We’re not going to treat them that way.” Rahm Emmanuel went further by saying that the Obama administration doesn’t want “the CNNs and the others in the world (to) basically be led in following Fox.” (I’d have to ask Mr. Emmanuel when was the last time he ever saw any of the other networks following FOX’s lead–they’re usually deriding FOX anyway!)
What the Obama administration is doing is reprehensible. Forget the First Amendment; they don’t like the hard questions being asked by the opinion shows at FOX because they’re asking the questions no other network will ask. O’Reilly, at least, was as hard on Bush as he’s being now on Obama, so it can be rightly argued that Obama just has his hidden G-string in a twist because he doesn’t like being questioned.
It gets better, though: White House aide Anita Dunn was captured on video at a Q&A session in the Dominican Republic back in January that the Obama campaign “controlled” the press coverage. I’ll have to post the actual clip when I get home–I can’t access streaming video where I am right now–but it’s becoming more and more clear that the current administration is dead-set on making sure nobody is allowed to show the truth.
Now there’s word of Democrats opening up an “inquisition” into reports of so-called “hate speech” in the media. There were anti-media protests in more than 100 cities this weekend, and I’m having a hard time finding facts about them (three guesses why, and the first two don’t count).
The current administration scares me more and more every day. And if anybody who regularly argues that FOX makes up its own version of the news, lies, or twists the facts, feel free to post evidence–links to FOX news reports and a link to support the claim that it’s a lie–in the comments section.
If Bush and his spokesmen had waged such a campaign against a single major network, he’d have been immediately impeached.