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Even though this is taken from a blog, I feel it showing the feelings of anyone who thinks that attacking the press regardless of which news network it may be is wrong.  This story started when a member of the Obama Administration one Ms. Dunn attacked FOX NEWS.  It is just like that of the Nixon days when he attacked the New York Times.

It was wrong then, it is wrong now.  To attack a news organization is always wrong, and the Obama Administration should stop now and concern them self with the 2 wars we are in, the economy and so forth…  And those are my thoughts…

That’s right.  Because they don’t like what’s being said on Fox News.

“What I think is fair to say about Fox — and certainly it’s the way we view it — is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party,” said Anita Dunn, White House communications director, on CNN. “They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.”

The problem of course is that the White House fails to see the difference between the news stories throughout the day and the Opinion stories of people like Glenn Beck, O’Reily, Hannity.  These are commentators, they are not news people – they are paid for their opinions.

In recent weeks, the White House has begun using its government blog to directly attack what it called “Fox lies.” David Gergen, who has worked for President Bill Clinton and three Republican presidents, questioned the propriety of the White House declaring war on a news organization.

I like to draw the correlation between the White House (Obama) and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela (who I might add had a great time with Obama at the Americas summit.).

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez threatened to close down an opposition-sided news network, saying the defiant Globovision channel’s days on the airwaves will be numbered if its directors don’t stand down.

Chavez on Thursday urged executives at Globovision “to reflect” upon the TV channel’s tough anti-government stance — or else the station “won’t be on the airwaves much longer.”

Wow, so a TV station that reports the news whom the President says is “anti-government” he’s trying to silence.  Obama of course hasn’t personally said anything like this.  Yet… but really his people have.  Seriously what type of person did we elect to office?

Updated Monday 10-19-09:

Over the weekend Obama’s staff continued attacks against Fox news:

The White House is calling on other news organizations to isolate and alienate Fox News as it sends out top advisers to rail against the cable channel as a Republican Party mouthpiece.

But several top White House officials have taken aim at Fox News since communications director Anita Dunn branded Fox “opinion journalism masquerading as news” in an interview last Sunday.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN on Sunday that President Obama does not want “the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox.”

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is “not a news organization.”

“Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way,” Axelrod counseled ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “We’re not going to treat them that way.”

Asked Monday about another Axelrod claim that Fox News is just trying to make money, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that while all media companies fall under that description, “I would say sometimes programming can be tilted toward accentuating those profits.”

A couple things to note.  One – The ratings and polls speak for themselves  Fox is the most balanced news organization out there.  Two – Fox News beats all other organizations in the ratings day in and day out. Three – since when did making money not be a common factor on ALL news organizations? And when did making money become a bad thing?