O: Fox is Talk Radio

Kind of like Rachel Maddow is NPR.



Actually, he is losing sleep over it. If not, the two heavy White House hitters - Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and top advistor David Axelrod - wouldn't have appeared on Sunday programs bemoaning a news network.
Also, the American people are concerned about the economy?
That's right, Mr. President.
And how do you think we learn about what you are doing to the economy?
Through the news.
And how do you think we find out the whole story?
Through FoxNews.
And when did it become the job of government to tell us what is news?
Never here. Check Iran.

Precious few other media outlets will even report the job loss numbers. Or in doing so, they will talk about how things are really quite good out there, with nearly 10 percent unemployment, calling it the "new normal".
This, in itself, is a notation of their liberal bent. Bush's five percent unemployment meant he was destroying the country.

And third point, they are taking the news as it comes? Uh, no, Mr. President. The White House, via Rahm and Axelrod both, are urging other news networks to shun FoxNews and get on board, to band together against any voices of dissent.

The entire reason for journalism, the entire purpose of it's creation, is to keep power - namely government - in check. And now we have the ultimate power trying to shut down the remaining media who haven't pledged their integrity at Obama's pitter-pattering-toward-total-domination feet.

Geez. He's like an evil superhero: The Controller, if a Marvel comic; the Controlux, if from Transformers.

Michelle Malkin responds to O's comments and has three excellent questions he needs to answer.



The names have been released concerning those who attended that private meeting in the White House. They are being called Presidential Approved Punditry. Since the White House already has a press secretary and PR department, doesn't that make them pretty much useless?

Here's a curious turn in the White House vs. Fox News fight.

On Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow were among several people who attended an off-the-record briefing with Pres. Obama at the White House. Sources tell us other attendees at the two-and-a-half hour chat included Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Gwen Ifill of PBS and Gloria Borger of CNN. Perhaps not surprisingly, no one from Fox News was in the room.

...Update: The White House has sent TVNewser the complete list of those who attended the off-the-record briefing Monday: Eugene Robinson, E.J. Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib, Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifill. Several members of the staff also attended.