I say we bomb Fox News tomorrow.
Invade the remains, rape the women, behead the men. Sell the body parts. Make bone scalpels and perform abortions with them. Etc.
More details in our ongoing war against Fox News. Turns out Fox hadn’t asked for the Ken Feinberg interview.
The network pool crew noticed Fox wasn’t on the list, was told that they hadn’t asked and the crew said they needed to be included. Treasury called the White House and asked top Obama adviser Anita Dunn. Dunn said yes and Fox’s Major Garrett was among the correspondents to interview Feinberg last night.
Simple as that, we’re told, and the networks don’t want to be seen as heroes for Fox.
Whoops, they were granted the interview anyway. I mean, it’s Ken Feinberg, not exactly the most interesting interview subject for ratings. Perhaps they thought Fox was too busy asking Ann Coulter to run her mouth off about the War On FOX (leave none alive, I say!). When asked, Major Garrett got to interview him.
Remember all those interviews with combative oppo-journalists Dubya did? Remember how Katie Couric asking Sarah Palin basic, softball questions was “gotcha” journalism?
The Obama administration did take a chance to chide Fox:
“This White House has demonstrated our willingness to exclude Fox News from newsmaking interviews, but yesterday we did not,” said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
Obama’s position is of disinterest in Fox. Nothing’s been ruled out, Obama is saying he simply doesn’t care much what is said on or by Fox. Fox has had access before, they’ll have it again, but the channel is a political outfit and everybody knows it. The “War on Fox” is this year’s “War on Christmas.” Mostly smoke and mirrors drummed up for ratings. The Obama admin simply sees no reason to jump through hoops for Fox. And they shouldn’t, because they’re going bonkers bananas on that channel (see post below).
The next Republican president should be expected to give daily interviews to the Huffington Post. Not that Huffington Post is as crooked as Fox, but everybody understands they are liberal, and HuffPo doesn’t try to pretend any different. They never expected a sit-down from Dubya. And they don’t run around panicking like nervous paranoiacs that Dick Cheney is happy to appear on Fox but won’t talk to them.
-jb
p.s. Rupert Murdoch, enemy combatant!
October 24th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
And there title says it all. Even on a rhetorical level the thought is, don’t like something bomb it.
To say Fox is lying about what went down is to say that CBS and CNN are also lying, since theyare giving the same story.
So do I believe 3 networks who are competeing against each other, and have no interest in collusion, or Talking Points Memo? Sorry TPM unless you come up with something more substantial than “TPMDC dug into it, and here’s what happened.” gonna have to give the benefit of the doubt to actual journalists.
But hey prove them wrong and I’ll be the first to have your back.