Axelrod met with Roger Ailes to whine about Fox News’s non-worship of Obama
posted at 8:13 pm on October 6, 2009 by Allahpundit
He’s got one cable news network fact-checking comedy skits about him and another running hour-long infomercials for his health-care plan.
And he still can’t stop complaining.
At a time of tension between their organizations, White House senior adviser David Axelrod met with Fox News chairman and chief executive officer Roger Ailes two weeks ago, sources tell POLITICO.
The two met privately in Manhattan during the president’s visit to the United Nations.
The two discussed news coverage and the relationship between the organizations.
An FNC spokesperson tells POLITICO that Ailes and Axelrod had a “cordial conversation” over coffee while the president was in town.
In Axelrod’s defense, so dominant is FNC these days that Red Eye’s pulling more viewers in the 25-54 range at 3 a.m. than CNN is at 8 p.m. Which I guess means the White House is better off scheduling Hillary for an interview with Pinch, the New York Times marionette, than with Campbell Brown. More whining:
Though White House aides are hesitant to criticize the network on the record, their disdain for the programming–including Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck–is clearly evident. “They are the paid political programming for a party, and occasionally a couple of news stories break out in the midst of 23 hours and 45 minutes of political rantings and opinion,” said one senior administration official. “Everything about it is one-sided political opinion directed at a base. Period.”
In honor of the “biggest bunch of crybabies” to hit D.C. in years, enjoy the Onion’s special report on ObamaCare, a pitch-perfect parody of what the left would have you believe runs 24/7 on Fox News. Exit quotation: “Let me dispel these ridiculous rumors once and for all and set the record straight: Under my plan, seniors are going to be killed the way they want to be killed, end of story.”
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We live in dangerous times.
TheBigOldDog on October 6, 2009 at 8:15 PM
“Everyone should worship us….Waaaaaaaaaaa!”
P*ssies!
HornetSting on October 6, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Aw, Azzelrod has to complain because the Crybaby-in-Chief has thin skin.
ICBM on October 6, 2009 at 8:19 PM
You’re so right,
BillAllah.TXUS on October 6, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Whining I don’t worry about. It’s threats I worry about
Sekhmet on October 6, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Uh oh. Are you sure that the Ailes who came out is the same one who went in?….Just sayin’.
Randy
williars on October 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Tnat’s an awful nice News Netowrk you’ve got there, Roger. It would be a shame if it were hit with a massive audit or an avalanche of piddlin’ civil suits.
kingsjester on October 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM
unreal.
homesickamerican on October 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Did he bring Luca Brasi with him?
ThePrez on October 6, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Netowrk=Network
oops
kingsjester on October 6, 2009 at 8:21 PM
“Hey, Rodger….that’s a nice network you got there….be a shame if something happened to it…..cream and sugar?”
BobMbx on October 6, 2009 at 8:21 PM
A base that is kicking the butts of all the propaganda outlets that ask the “tough” questions like “if you were a tree what kind of tree would you be?”
The filthy lying coward going on with Hannity for an hour-long interview would do far more to convince the public than that ridiculous marathon of what was the same interview with different hosts. It would only work to sway public opinion if the filthy liar actually answers the questions but it is a far more reasonable gamble than going to Copenhagen to wow the IOC that he knows Oprah.
highhopes on October 6, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Jester…beat me to it.
BobMbx on October 6, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Will CNN fact check the Onion , to be safe?
the_nile on October 6, 2009 at 8:23 PM
I can’t believe you passed this up AP.
ronsfi on October 6, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Someone needs a waaaaambulance. Sheesh, what a girl.
milwife88 on October 6, 2009 at 8:23 PM
BobMbx on October 6, 2009 at 8:22 PM
That’s okay. Knowing these thugs, it was an obvious line.
kingsjester on October 6, 2009 at 8:23 PM
What if Bush did..
the_nile on October 6, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Imagine what news we would be getting if it were not for Fox. There is no doubt that we are manipulated by the media, including Fox. I kinda like the balance.
bbordwell on October 6, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Well most of the country cannot stand that tool Gibbs, I see it has not changed his job title yet much as we wish it would. FOX really gets under their skin, if they are squirming about it, all the better.
bluemarlin on October 6, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Gotta bring those heretics in line ….
tom on October 6, 2009 at 8:24 PM
these are not the snot nosed brats we were waiting for…
Ris4victory on October 6, 2009 at 8:24 PM
I feel so SAFE with so many crybabies in this administration that want to protect terrorists, but are afraid of Fox News.
Obama is such a wuss. Pathetic people in the White House. George Washington shakes his head in shame.
cubachi on October 6, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Nothing to do with this thread, just LMAO…..Your chuckle for the day……….*sigh*
http://www.hulu.com/watch/99370/the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien-sesame-street-does-health-care
clinker46 on October 6, 2009 at 8:25 PM
I hopes Ailes doesn’t roll over, and I hope he gave Axle-grease a lesson in the watchdog press. God help us all if Fox stops covering the Obama administration from an adversarial point of view. They’re the only news outfit that is doing its job. Political leaders are supposed to be worried about bad press when they screw up, lie, cheat, and have bad ideas. Such bad press, after all, is easily avoided with honor, integrity, and competent leadership. Obama might want to try it. Then he’ll have no problems with Fox News at all.
Rational Thought on October 6, 2009 at 8:26 PM
I think it Hugo a long time to finally take over the last independent network as well…
d1carter on October 6, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Wonder if Axlegrease brought up that the State Run Media was kind enough to not show Dear Leader’s staff passing out white coats to the “Docs” that love his non-existing health care program for the dog and pony photo-op…even though they did it right in front of the “press”?
Where is Dear leader’s plan…haven’t seen it.
Where did they get all those white jackets and, magically, they fit?
What if W had done this?
Dingbat63 on October 6, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Ailes should have slipped him some rohypnol, had him de-pantsed and left him lying in a gutter somewhere.
Where he belongs.
JammieWearingFool on October 6, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Does kingsjester’s comment on 6 October 2009 at 8:20p.m. sound like a threat to anyone else???
What a bunch of whiney, b@tchy little girls. That’s the cost of winning an office in this country. You are subject to any comment, friendly or otherwise, from any person in this nation. Keep whining…It makes the commenting more fun! =)
Driefromseattle on October 6, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Wahhhhh!
Sucks to be you, Commie crybaby combover!
Gob on October 6, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Obama and the liberals don’t know what journalism is suppose to be like. They are only use to psuedo-journalism as practiced by NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Pravda, etc. When they see real journalism they think it is “biased”.
What a bunch of ignorant people Obama and the liberals are.
MeAlice on October 6, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Safe school czar says problem with schools is they promote heterosexuality.
http://www.breitbart.tv/uncoverd-audio-obamas-safe-schools-czar-criticizes-schools-for-promoting-heterosexuality/
Speechless.
milwife88 on October 6, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Gee, no one ‘likes’ the self-important A$$hats in the White House. Their feelings are hurt. Far as I’m concerned they can OD on their own koolaide.
GarandFan on October 6, 2009 at 8:30 PM
I think Fox will keep the ratings and laugh at Axelrod. BTW, Axelrod is the prototypical greasy weasel…I wouldn’t buy a stick of gum from that sleaze-ball.
AUINSC on October 6, 2009 at 8:30 PM
I don’t agree with, but can understand, the criticism that FNC is too conservative. However, when you see an MSNBC interviewer actually interrupt the Obama spokesreaper to interject emphatically “we need to get this passed now,” I’m willing to cut FNC some slack on the objectivity.
highhopes on October 6, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Meanwhile, up in Alaska, Sarah types out another Facebook article. Short and sweet and to the point.
BetseyRoss on October 6, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Another man overboard?
- on “Hardball” tonite (@:50 mins) “Obama’s acting like a Prom King”
Did someone kidnap the real Chrissy ?
/.
CaveatEmpty on October 6, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Next up, CNN will take on political cartoons.
After that, bumper stickers. And then, Wolf is going to show up at office water coolers to make sure any opinions shared is “on the level”.
Chuck Schick on October 6, 2009 at 8:32 PM
And as the door hit the senior adviser in the shiny part of the Brooks Bro’s, a snort of a chortle came from deep within the editorially cameral chamber: “Got your Axelrod right here, pally!“
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Driefromseattle on October 6, 2009 at 8:29 PM
The gang around here, unlike Liberals,such as yourself, actually haa a sense of humor and the intelligence to use it. Anytime you wish to address me, give a shout out. I’ll answer, even Trolls like you.
kingsjester on October 6, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Anybody ever notice the similarities between axel-douche and Mr spacely from the jetsons?
SHARPTOOTH on October 6, 2009 at 8:35 PM
I’m not sure what Axledork’s problem is. It’s about six thousand to one right now, with the six thousand all singing the praises of Dear Leader! The White House is trying hard to ignore FOX but the ratings say that Obambi would have reached more people if he had ignored everyone EXCEPT FOXNews when he did his media marathon for HealthScare.
As was mentioned earlier; if they can’t handle FOXNews, how in Hell can we expect them to handle Iran, North Korea, Chavez, or all of the above?
GoldenEagle4444 on October 6, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Sarcasm-google it.
HornetSting on October 6, 2009 at 8:36 PM
<blockquote “They are the paid political programming for a party, and occasionally a couple of news stories break out in the midst of 23 hours and 45 minutes of political rantings and opinion…”
MSNBC?
CNN?
ABC?
CBS?
PBS?
The real issue here is that David Axelrod is mad that all media is not worshiping the Chicago moron.
IntheNet on October 6, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Ailes should have handed him a wheel of cheese to go along with Axelrod’s whine….
right2bright on October 6, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Nope, I kinda enjoyed the comment. I thought it was funny. Not you?
d1carter on October 6, 2009 at 8:37 PM
It’s the administration wanting it both ways. They intentionally ignore Fox News and snub them whenever possible. Fox, in turn, stands alone and doesn’t pre-empt popular programming on their commercial network for unimportant infomericals from the filthy lying coward (saying you can catch the performance on FNC). The popular program on Fox gets a higher rating than any single channel that aired the propaganda- sometimes coming close to outpolling the aggregate number. The sine qua non of antagonism was when the administration deliberately snubbed Fox News Sunday.
Axlerod was trying to mend fences long broken. I suspect it didn’t work.
highhopes on October 6, 2009 at 8:37 PM
TRANSLATION:
Get on board or we’ll sic Mark Lloyd on you. You know what happened in Venezuela, don’t you?
technopeasant on October 6, 2009 at 8:38 PM
And we’re subjected to 36″-chested sally’s from Seattle. Say, sonny, is that your Suburu your boyfriend’s Shitzu is shittin’ in the back of?
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 8:38 PM
If Fox was so unfair, why is it the only place I’ve seen that ratface is on Fox?
Of course, I ignore the other networks…
JammieWearingFool on October 6, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Ailes, ails, ales.
PaCadle on October 6, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Isn’t it hard to type when you’re all bent over from grabbing your ankles? Just wondering…
lovingmyUSA on October 6, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Did Ailes suffer any loss of memory, stupor, headache, or other neurological symptoms after this meeting? Did any eyewitnesses report that a small pill or powder packet was dropped into Ailes’ coffee when he visited the men’s room? Did Axelrod attempt the Jedi hand wave, and, if so, did Ailes’ successfully defeat it?
these are the things that the folks want to know.
ted c on October 6, 2009 at 8:42 PM
the last time they did this was with CNBC after their guys started blowing up over the bailouts.
the result was that CNBC had to feature Arianna Huffington and Howard Dean on their business shows.
All of CNBC’s program ratings are below Red Eye…so what the diff I guess
Axelrod of course comes from a proud leftist tradition with his mother having writen for some Left publication in the 50s.
r keller on October 6, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Ailes what cures you… of dreaming the impossible dream. Now get the F out of my office and go tilt at Nancy’s skirt.
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 8:43 PM
btw, when I heard Chris Wallace say that I though of Beck. GB would get emails during his show from these guys
and it’s not about cry babies, it’s about control
r keller on October 6, 2009 at 8:45 PM
AUINSC on October 6, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Hey Axle: Ummm Ummmm Ummmm.
Dingbat63 on October 6, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Libs are pussies. It’s fun to watch the chicken s**t POTUS, while Sarah is ready to conquer Afghanistan.
He is LBJing the Afghanistan War.
Sapwolf on October 6, 2009 at 8:46 PM
They are scared to death and I’m loving every minute of it.
Knucklehead on October 6, 2009 at 8:46 PM
I hope Ailes told him that Fox now has a righteous wind at their backs and they are going to ride it all the way in.
sherry on October 6, 2009 at 8:47 PM
I think Bill O’Reilly is quite fair to Obama. Does Axelrod not watch O’Reilly?
terryannonline on October 6, 2009 at 8:47 PM
I think that this statistic is utterly staggering….
You mean to tell me that there are more people up at 0300 watching Fox, than will watch CNN at 2000?
Insomnia is either a pandemic, or this bloc of people is really, REALLY hungry for some right wing comedy.
I fully believe that if Roger Ailes, Breitbart, or Michelle Malkin were to field a TV show that is the right wing equivalent of SNL–it would be absofrickinglutely HUGE. You think conservative book sales are big now, wait till they fielded that show. Red Eye is lucky, I’ve seen it a couple times and I was like “big deal.” If we had our own SNL show, there’d be a whole lotta we weein’ goin’ on.
ted c on October 6, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Actually the part of Mr. Axelrod is played by Dabney Coleman in the role of a lifetime.
Tyrone Slothrop on October 6, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Exactly.
Honestly, I’d trade Obama for Putin straight up.
Sapwolf on October 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Does kingsjester’s comment on 6 October 2009 at 8:20p.m. sound like a threat to anyone else???
What a bunch of whiney, b@tchy little girls. That’s the cost of winning an office in this country. You are subject to any comment, friendly or otherwise, from any person in this nation. Keep whining…It makes the commenting more fun! =)
Driefromseattle on October 6, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Meant as sarcasm or not, he is correct, everyone has the right to be offended, so exercise your right if you find it to be such. How you could find some kind of a threat in there is beyond me as friendly and unfriendly comments are made everyday on the networks.
bluemarlin on October 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM
I sure hope Mr. Ailes walked in and slammed his fist down and said it was high time we had another beer summit…
ted c on October 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM
BOR doesn’t count because he’s too busy kissing the butt of Obama in hopes of getting another interview. Until he gets rid of the race-baiter Marc Lamont Hill, he has no credibility in my book.
Knucklehead on October 6, 2009 at 8:51 PM
did red eye ever get rid of that talking muppet stupid thing with the big eyeballs?
ted c on October 6, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Axelrod of course comes from a proud leftist tradition with his mother having writen for some Left publication in the 50s.
r keller on October 6, 2009 at 8:43 PM
FYI, Both Axelrod’s & Obama’s, mentors sat on thje same lefty board in Chicago prior to FMD going to Hawaii. Can’t fish the name off the top, but same board included Valerie Jarretts step-dad. All these AZZHOLES ran in the same Chicago south-side commie circles. Hyde Pk in particular has been the hub of collectivist thinking, inluding FDR who saddled us with the unsustainable SS system.
Archimedes on October 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Tru’ dat.
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Wasn’t Mr. Spacely a capitalist? Axelrod is a leech.
Sapwolf on October 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Mr. Spacely actually built stuff. Axelrod welches.
ted c on October 6, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Because we have a history of and constitution establishing a free press, all Obama can do is whine about Fox. However, if we were a country without freedom of the press so deeply embedded in our culture, Obama would be working to shut down Fox and other press they feel subversive. It happens in just about every leftist, collectivist culture eventually.
And he would be doing it because Obama thinks he is morally superior than we are so he knows best for the country. And Fox News ain’t it to him.
Mallard T. Drake on October 6, 2009 at 8:53 PM
We’ll know if the meeting worked if O’Reilly begins to swallow instead of just plain ol’ sucking…IYKWIMAITYD.
SouthernGent on October 6, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Axelrod was pushing a re-distribution of journalism plan to Ailes. It’s not fair that Fox has sooo many viewers, time to spread the viewership around.
smartsy on October 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Sounds like MSNBC, ABC or CNN.
alliebobbitt on October 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Agreed. BOR used to be tough, now he’s a douchebag.
HornetSting on October 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM
What makes O’Reilly’s show interesting to me is that he has people with opposing views on his show. I don’t want him to debook Marc Lamont Hill.
terryannonline on October 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Knucklehead…oh man, you are not as your handle says!
Great points on Loofah Boy (O’Reilly…oh yeah, I’ve not forgotten!) and race-bating Lamont Hill.
He ain’t looking out for us no more!
Gob on October 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Principal Rooney- out to get FOX:
http://blogs.mycentraljersey.com/yankees/files/2009/02/rooney.jpg
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Ooh, Hornet, I like your sting! Solid!
Gob on October 6, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Give me a break. O’Reilly is enamored by Obama. Ever since he got the interview before the election, he’s been tripping over his tounge to bless Obama.
Todays word of the day… ‘enamored’. Don’t be enamored.
bbordwell on October 6, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Why do you think Axlerod was attempting to mend fences? The filthy lying coward is solid with the echo chamber but the dissenters are not there to be swayed. IMO, CNN should be congratulated for being the groundbreaking news network and then sent to a death panel. There is nothing about the programming that is relevant. Its format is hour after hour of bitter, humorless, liberal ideology (not surprising with Ted Turner).
highhopes on October 6, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Don’t be “enthralled”.
Doorgunner on October 6, 2009 at 8:57 PM
I don’t think O’Reilly is enamored with President Obama. I just don’t think wants his show to turn into a daily ad hominem attack on President Obama.
terryannonline on October 6, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Did anyone read the comments at Time? Someone thinks the president should pull all of FOX’s credentials. Wow, how dictator thug-like these liberals are.
Cindy Munford on October 6, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Those who whine that Fox is too biased have never read the newspapers of past generations.
highhopes on October 6, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Send the Whaaaaambulance!
infidel4life on October 6, 2009 at 8:59 PM
HornetSting on October 6, 2009 at 9:00 PM
If Axelrod was a woman and he mated with Waxman, would we have a new strain of rat?
HornetSting on October 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Sorry Axelgrease, but you don’t get to play Josef Geobbels in the Obama regime. So, crawl back into your hole and quit trying to intimidate the Fox News.
BottomLine5 on October 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Thanks Stinger, I couldn’t have put it better myself.
thomasaur on October 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Agree. I emailed Fox News today questioning Hill’s appearances.
I also asked Fox News about Shep Smith’s rant today about the government run health care. He embarrassed a guest by naming thirty Dems who would not come on his show today and then saying essentially, so we have this lady…? WTH
d1carter on October 6, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Oh really now, so I guess you like race-baiters, huh?
Maybe you should read up on what an idiot Marc Lamont Hill really is. And the link and story is right here at HA.
Enlighten yourself so don’t always look so stupid.
Knucklehead on October 6, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Axelrod oozes corruption.
alliebobbitt on October 6, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Larry’s a Squish, she like BOR and dislikes Beck.
thomasaur on October 6, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Bush had every news network and paper against him except Fox News–and at times, Fox News was even against him. Yet Bush didn’t complain.
Obama has every news network and paper with him except for Fox News–and at times, Fox News is even with him (O’Rielly). Yet, Obama is complaining.
Are the adults really in charge?
Enoxo on October 6, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Why, a sophist-tree, of course. :-)
Mary in LA on October 6, 2009 at 9:05 PM
***so you don’t look so stupid terryannonline****
Knucklehead on October 6, 2009 at 9:06 PM
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