NYT: Obama whined about Fox News at off-the-record briefing with lefty pundits
posted at 9:43 pm on October 22, 2009 by Allahpundit
Speaking privately at the White House on Monday with a group of columnists and commentators, including Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert of The New York Times, President Obama himself gave vent to sentiments about the network, according to people briefed on the conversation…
Mr. Clemente suggested that the fight with Fox was part of a larger White House strategy to marginalize critics. He cited a report in Politico about a strategy session in August at which officials discussed plans to move more aggressively against opponents.
White House officials acknowledged that Fox News did come up at that meeting, although not, they said, as a central topic. A number of issues had been added to the White House’s list of grievances by then, including the network’s heavy coverage of some of the more heavily anti-administration commentary at town-hall-style meetings on health care and Mr. Beck’s remark that Mr. Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people.”
Dude, Glenn Beck’s own fans don’t obsess about him this much. How do we put The One’s mind at ease here? Taxpayer-funded psychotherapy? A week off at Camp David? A security blanket, perhaps emblazoned with the “O” logo that he loves so much? I’m not being altruistic; we’ve reached the point where, purely out of self-interest, we may need to start worrying about this guy being on the red line with Medvedev, chatting about nukes, and letting his mind wander to what Sean Hannity said about him that night. What can we do to help this poor afflicted individual get the help he needs?
Update: Remember, though, he’s not losing sleep over it.
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Good idea – will do it right now.
DerKrieger on October 22, 2009 at 10:50 PM
most petty and pathetic president ever!
moonbatkiller on October 22, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Scathing essay on Mr. Obama’s poll drop headlining at drudge right now. From the UK.
ted c on October 22, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Note sent to Mark. Rush is next.
DerKrieger on October 22, 2009 at 10:53 PM
RightWinged
Word!!!
ndulik on October 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
This will be the best duty ever for the 101st Airborne. They can catch a few shows, maybe see a ballgame, and be done with the whole invasion in an afternoon.
Beagle on October 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Sure he’s not losing any sleep over this. Sure! *wink wink*
Bottom line is, he loved the accolades, glory, and the unquestioning devotion, and loyalty he recieved during the campaign. Now, he’s well aware that while he still has his kool aid drinkers, the numbers have lowered. Support is going down, and he knows it. It’s a desperate attempt to contain, and control what he sees as the reason for this falling support.
No wonder he’s to ashamed to release his grades.
capejasmine on October 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
The Peanuts Administration?
I don’t know if it’s an artifact of the breathless coverage from all of President Linus’ globetrotting while they try to catch up, but has the President spent more days in the Oval Office than out yet this year?
Blacksmith on October 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
oh obama needs his pacifier
unseen on October 22, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Does anyone still doubt when Mr. Thin-Skinned scratched his face with his middle finger on two occasions when he was addressing perceived disses, that he wasn’t doing it on purpose. Let’s roll that tape again!
deedledee on October 22, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Now that I think of it, the timing of the White House directing the MSM not to report on anything Fox News does is kind of interesting. Does BO know what Beck has & know that if the other media outlets report on it that he’s toast?
Colorado Anne on October 22, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Like the teabag campain gesture I’m assuming. That one went over real well.
disillusioned on October 22, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Actually this would be better since it is a statement on Obama as a petulant child rather than a policy statement.
DerKrieger on October 22, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Captain Ahab lives again.
redslippers on October 22, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Geez, his constant whining about the media reminds me of you guys!
crr6 on October 22, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Do not forget Ms. Jarrett’s time at the University of Chicago Hospital and Mrs. Obama’s time working for her. Remember the people who were dismissed without further assistance, and, remember Mrs. Obama’s incredible raise.
Perhaps something happened during their short lived tenure there. Perhaps actual people who understand medicine, are medical practioners of all kinds, and just maybe, a few folks who did not bend to these ladies’ will, might have challenged them.
Hmmm… again, all of their collective perceived slights and personally perceived wrongs, must be corrected. This is not social justice; it is all the people who did me wrong justice. (Golly, were they not asked to the prom?)
And let us not begin to calculate the amount of money the United States and our universities have given to this crew. And really, for what, and how did they earn their fine Ivy League educations? And why would they wish to radically transform this wonderful country that has given ALL OF THEM SO MUCH?
bbh on October 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
DerKrieger-
A suggestion–Try tweeting Beck. He seems to read & respond to tweets.
conservative pilgrim on October 22, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Agree. they’re creating a pre-emptive defense. I surmise that the information coming out involves a tell all interview with Bill Ayers and just how that book got written. Maybe it’ll be laid out just like the ACORN videos have been, dribble here–watch the lies, dribble there, watch the lies–then show the whole thing and twist the knife. It has something to do with the Afghanistan decision and the original anti war protestor Bill Ayers. No wonder it is being delayed, they’re building a defense.
Someone at Fox knows something.
tick tock tick tock…
ted c on October 22, 2009 at 11:07 PM
I’d think the press or MSM would spin this idea as the sender being the petulant child other than the addressee. I wouldn’t disagree with the thought, but rather the method.
disillusioned on October 22, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Corrected.
Now fix it or you will get a D- next time instead of just a D.
BTW I just demoted you from a 343 to a 243.
Del Dolemonte on October 22, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Maybe Axelrod, in his recent meeting with Roger Ailes, tried to muzzle him, was told “no way” and now they’er trying to smear/destroy FOX preemptively.
We haven’t seen the end of ACORN either.
Schadenfreude on October 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM
The Americans are interested in how they’re “creating jobs” and handling the war in Afghanistan??? What is this guy smoking? Or perhaps his crossed legs are cutting off the oxygen supply to his brain.
But he is correct that Americans are concerned about those two issues because he is an epic fail. There are no jobs and he has done NOTHING in Afghanistan.
The man lives in an alternate universe.
conservative pilgrim on October 22, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Unfortunately, tactical surface-to-air missiles on the main target are out, because the Fox News studios are only 300 feet or so south of where Olbermann and Maddow broadcast from in the GE Building.
jon1979 on October 22, 2009 at 11:16 PM
very possible
runner on October 22, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I know it’s been said before but……what I wouldn’t have done to be a fly on the wall at that little meeting!
Colorado Anne on October 22, 2009 at 11:16 PM
great point! forgot about that.
yep. I betcha a dollar to a donut there’s a story about a man needing some writing help, an unrepentant terrorist, a book and a story about a president.
gaping holes.
ted c on October 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM
with the greatest common factor of the two being a 3. So how does this ranking system work?
disillusioned on October 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM
excellent idea. fox should send baracky a box of pacifiers (even though he doesn’t lose any sleep over it)
runner on October 22, 2009 at 11:19 PM
I bet that O’Keefe and Giles have ushered in a new era of covert journalism. Subversion. Salacious. Damaging.
I suspect that GB has something up his sleeve.
ted c on October 22, 2009 at 11:19 PM
I won`t mind still seeing ACORN in the news. My deepest hope is that that news will be the story of their destruction along with all the players that have been involved.
bluemarlin on October 22, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Allahpundit
Washington’s “new” foreign policy: ‘Pax Americana’ with President Barack Obama’s human face – plus an unearned Nobel Peace Prize, no less. The clock is ticking and patience is running out.
BDU-33 on October 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Interesting hypothesis. The timing is curious.
conservative pilgrim on October 22, 2009 at 11:23 PM
So your whining about the media isn’t credible or multi-sourced?
crr6 on October 22, 2009 at 11:26 PM
This is a man who cannot handle unpopularity. Having a President who is both arrogant and naive is a lethal combination. Throw in an unquenchable desire to be loved, and we’ve really hit the trifecta with this one. God help us all.
These tactics are going to backfire in a big way. There will be plenty in the media that are in bed with him while Rome burns, but they are forcing some defections with these tactics. Once this takes effect, and his approval ratings crater further, this thing is going to reach a boiling point. I don’t look forward to how this administration is going to react.
stldave on October 22, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Maybe a vacation in the 57th state?
Branch Rickey on October 22, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Does Obama not have one adviser (just one) who can tell him: Mr. President, seriously, let it go.
JohnInCA on October 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM
The setting: a 3 am phone call:
Mr. President: (groggily) Hello?
Press Aide: In watching the rerun of Mr. Beck’s program, we noticed that he referred to you as a ‘Grubenshnitzel’.
Mr. President: What!! Get Axelrod & Rahm down here right away. Call ‘em both up and have ‘em meet me in the War Room.
Press Aide: Yessir, right away. At least I only have to make one call, since they are sharing a room in Barney Frank’s basement.
Mr. President: I don’t care if they are running a threesome with Nancy — this insolent behavior must be stopped at once! Alert the Speaker too!
Press Aide: OK. That saves me another phone call.
GnuBreed on October 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Mark your calendars; the Clown has just insulted President Linus. The cracks are mounting!
Blacksmith on October 22, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Maybe he needs to sit down with Orca and Dr. Oz and talk about his feelings.
Maybe he should watch reruns of Mr. Rogers that might make him feel better.
If not send him a box of pampers, a binky, and a soft fuzzy blanket so he take a nap during the day so he doesn’t have to think about FOX.
Brat4life on October 22, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Speaking of GB. Does anyone know what he was up to with that phone call in the middle of his program today? He kept referring back to it, almost taunting the White House that he had a source on the inside. It had something to do with Anita Dunn, but he was coy and cryptic about it. Can anyone help me out on this one?
JohnInCA on October 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM
The One sure doesn’t like criticism, heck even during the campaign he couldn’t help calling out Hannity and Limbaugh by name. It has just built up since then, but I am not sure that it is entirely his soft ego. I think it has a lot to do with ACORN. Bringing down ACORN will hit real, real close to home for our dear leader community organizer.
blamegame on October 22, 2009 at 11:36 PM
It’s obviously true. And he’s managed to build an adminstration that feels the same way, in the important places. The fact that Holder is still AG really infuriates me. The guy should be in jail, literally.
And The Precedent is just out for revenge. For exactly the reason that he said he would raise capital gains taxes, even if it meant reduced receipts – “it’s a matter of fairness”. “fairness” means revenge, and his policies (and feigned indecision) have all been designed at revenge (except for the payoffs, to keep the machine running, of course).
progressoverpeace on October 22, 2009 at 11:37 PM
The hateful one speaks out again?
All your posts show you’re nothing more than an abuser.
You have shown here you hate us here, by your own words. Why do you keep coming back when you’ve shown your venom toward us?
Liam on October 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Stick this in your meth pipe and smoke it…
http://mediamatters.org/research/200604270005
Del Dolemonte on October 22, 2009 at 11:40 PM
2 things;
1. Obama says not losing sleep over it. Means he is.
2. Is that eyeshadow above his lids? Very attractive, Barack.
redneck hippie on October 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Also to Fins, and the other libs: Why do you keep coming here, when you show nothing but hate for us? Are you masochists, or do you think your insults will turn us your way?
What is up with you, what is wrong with you?
Liam on October 22, 2009 at 11:42 PM
How much would it cost to have 10,000 pacifiers imprinted with the Fox News logo?
JeffinOrlando on October 22, 2009 at 11:43 PM
They just love to show off their hangups.
Schadenfreude on October 22, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Give it up. That egg is still on your face after plastering all those authoritative Rush-is-racist Wikiquotes here. Using that same old “credible and multi-sourced” line isn’t helping. Go back to Wiki and find us some more juicy, authoritative quotes.
ddrintn on October 22, 2009 at 11:45 PM
By your own posts for many months, you show yours is an abusive personality. Is that the reason you keep coming back, to endlessly attack us and our various religions?
I declare, by your own posts, you’re an abuser.
Liam on October 22, 2009 at 11:45 PM
I don’t like conspiracies…but Beck is batting 100% right now..so I don’t have room to doubt him. This makes your hypothosis very interesting indeed!
Rndguy on October 22, 2009 at 11:45 PM
I think he has at least 2 sources in the White House. I bet that drives BO crazy!!!!! The paranoid one probably suspects everyone. Beck probably trying to get under their skin.
Colorado Anne on October 22, 2009 at 11:46 PM
I’m fed up with abusers.
Liam on October 22, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Deep down, they know they’re full of shit. What they can’t stand is that they know we know they’re full of shit.
ddrintn on October 22, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Remember the enlightened like crr6, Afrolib (racist), Fins (racist), and others of their kind want Rapist Polanski off the hook.
Keep in mind their ‘enlightened’ hate for us.
Liam on October 22, 2009 at 11:50 PM
And he was inferring that he has a tip that BO is about to appoint Anita Dunn’s husband to some “big position”. I think he’s a lawyer or something.
Colorado Anne on October 22, 2009 at 11:51 PM
That said, and I agree, it shows to me they’re full of hate.
Liam on October 22, 2009 at 11:51 PM
http://www.newsbusters.org
That is my source for whinning about the media. Very well sourced! Pour that on your Cherrios!
Rndguy on October 22, 2009 at 11:51 PM
You’re a hateful abuser, as all your posts for months have shown.
Liam on October 22, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Liam…I think you need a refreshing adult beverage! You have been waging a good battle!
However applying reasonable thoughts to unreasonable people is an agrument that will always frustrate you. May I pour you a drink for a good job tonight!
Don’t get frustrated with ccr, fins or the others! Facts are not what they are after, rather your emotions!
Rndguy on October 22, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Zero is near the breaking point. No narcissist can repel reality of this magnitude.
He may be the first President ever carted out of the White House, to the Insane House.
wildcat84 on October 22, 2009 at 11:58 PM
That’s a lie and a smear. I’ve said repeatedly here that Polanski is a scumbag that should face the music.
Also a blatant, shameless lie. Everything I cited was from snopes, not wiki. No one disapproved any of the quotes I posted. You guys really are having a rough night.
crr6 on October 23, 2009 at 12:01 AM
I’m quite OK, thanks!
I’m out to trash those people here, for they lie to hurt people like you and me. And the people here don’t deserve that.
I have no choice but to conclude liberals are abusers of their fellow man. Then they hide.
For example, here what a die-hard lib posted:
This comment is RACIST, and when I complained I got this:
So, to this lib, racism is bad but when a lib makes such comment, it’s suddenly First Amendment.
That’s abuse on all counts, against those who done kowtow to the enlightened Fin.
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:02 AM
OH MY GOD – maybe Anita Dunn’s lawyer is going to be BO’s defense lawyer when the shite hits the fan. I’m not a conspiracy theorist either but wouldn’t THAT be something.
Colorado Anne on October 23, 2009 at 12:04 AM
I disagree, I think he’s had several already…
crr6 on October 23, 2009 at 12:04 AM
You have defended Polanski, no quotes are needed. We all know it, we have seen your posts.
End of story, you hateful bigot. You hate us as shown by so many of your other posts.
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Anita Dunn’s HUSBAND I meant to say. Getting myself excited with this theory. Ha!!!!!
Colorado Anne on October 23, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Yeah, right. You were one of the regular troll troop who was dragging out the slavery and James Earl Ray garbage. The egg’s still there, sweetness.
ddrintn on October 23, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Don’t get that worked up about them. They’re amusing.
ddrintn on October 23, 2009 at 12:09 AM
You’re a hateful bigot who has mocked our beliefs, our persons, our families, our values, and our religions. We recall your posts, we remember the things you have posted.
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Nope, I never have you lying piece of excrement. In fact I’ve said repeatedly said that he belongs behind bars and I’ll say it again here. If your assertion is so easy to back it up….then back it up.
You can’t, scumbag.
I hate liars, and that includes you now.
crr6 on October 23, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Sort of, maybe. The people here don’t deserve the slanders crr6 and others of his ilk have dished out.
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Nope. Prove it. I never cited either of those quotes.
crr6 on October 23, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Pissy now, are you? Good! Because others know what you have posted. I’ll leave it to them to decide in their own minds, as YOU have put out in these threads.
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Debate can be more productive than ad hominem comments.
disillusioned on October 23, 2009 at 12:13 AM
BTW–as you showed from your beginning here, you hated me from the start because I’m conservative and you’re liberal.
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:14 AM
No scumbag, you made the assertion, you back it up. You can’t squirm out of this one.
I never defended Polanski. You saying so is a lie and a smear.
crr6 on October 23, 2009 at 12:14 AM
LOL. If anything this exchange has been a instructive in that it’s proven your and ddrintn’s irrational hatred of me. You’ve both attributed things to me (false quotes, defending Polanski) which I never actually said. Facts don’t get in the way of your blind, desperate hatred.
crr6 on October 23, 2009 at 12:17 AM
My, you’re so upset, liberal!
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Nah, I’ll use the Limbaugh standrd. Prove that you didn’t use specious quotes.
ddrintn on October 23, 2009 at 12:18 AM
I don’t hate you. You’re funny.
ddrintn on October 23, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Here’s a post of me condemning Polanski. It took 2 minutes on Google. Perhaps Liam should have invested the same 2 minutes before his blind, hateful smear.
crr6 on October 23, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Maybe you never actually said such things, but you intimated them, you made yourself clear.
Nice dodge! But not quite exculpatory. As I said earlier, others will decide their own views of you based on your own posts.
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Case in point. That’s hilarious, the sudden revulsion to lies and smears. Tsk tsk. Wonders never cease.
ddrintn on October 23, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Cute. So no proof then? You can join Liam in the time-out corner for lying.
Yes, pardon me, but being falsely accused of supporting a child-rapist makes me a tad perturbed.
Go back to your hole you lying waste of life.
crr6 on October 23, 2009 at 12:21 AM
Libs hate being caught, trapped, and held to their own words an standards.
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Terrific. Hold me to my words then. Go ahead. Show me where I defended Polanski.
crr6 on October 23, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Your posts and demeanor stand before you. You want to escape and, now accused you go as you are right now.
I’d feel your pain but…
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Go easy on crrappy6 and the other troll- bots. They’re having a hard time tonight trying to defend whiny Precedent Toonces jumping the whale and going Captain Queeg/Hugo Chavez.
Their going schizo because he’s taking the gaspipe on all fronts and they can’t deal with it.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on October 23, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Did you support Ted Kennedy? That’s worse.
Supporting Polanski would be a step up for you.
progressoverpeace on October 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM
I’m not going to go after every last of your quotes, but your other posts tell me and everyone else you back Polanski. Even tho I’m not going to try proving anything, I strongly believe, based on all your past posts, you’re comfortable with letting Polanski off the hook for raping a child.
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM
My, my, that lying little crapweasel is getting in a tizzy, isn’t it? Poor little thing. I think I can almost see the veins bulging on its forehead.
Buford Gooch on October 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM
What’s the “etc. etc.”? A “smear”?
ddrintn on October 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Off to watch TV a while.
‘Night, Friends!
Liam on October 23, 2009 at 12:29 AM
I had no idea it was this bad. He openly freaks in front of the other networks’ reporters about Fox?
No doubt. This guy is just a spoiled child. Of course if you study his past, it is no surprise. However, you would think that Axelrod and Rahm would work with him on this.
So insecure. Textbook son with no father.
He’s gonna have a meltdown if he has not already.
Resignation or impeachment down the road?
Sapwolf on October 23, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Yeah, sometimes you libs realize that you shouldn’t admit your true feelings.
You don’t have a reputation for honesty, though, so why should we believe you here?
malclave on October 23, 2009 at 12:34 AM
He’ll never resign. He’s on a political suicide mission.
progressoverpeace on October 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Disgusting. You have no evidence other than your personal “strong belief”, which is not supported by any evidence. I have posted a previous quote condemning Polanski, and I have done it again here. He is disgusting rapist and he belongs behind bars.
Annnnd the liar slithers away. Convenient.
crr6 on October 23, 2009 at 12:37 AM
The commenter crr6 hasn’t ever, in the posts that I’ve read, had any “backing” of Polanski. Sad to say, your on the losing end here being the proverbial “troll” you obviously detest.
disillusioned on October 23, 2009 at 12:38 AM
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