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Howard Kurtz

Note to Obama and Al Gore: Stop whining about right-wing media

I have been through this before. It was on my “Reliable Sources” program, in the fall of 2009, that the White House declared war on Fox News. Anita Dunn, then the White House communications director, called Fox “the communications arm of the Republican Party” and said, “It is not really a news network anymore.”

The resulting furor gave Fox months of fodder and was widely judged a tactical misstep that if anything elevated the network’s role.

There are times when many Fox programs, including in the nonopinion hours, appear to be on a jihad against the administration. And these days, MSNBC can be counted on to defend the Democrats almost around the clock.

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There will be NO way bho/bore/bhopress/d’s will EVER stop whining about Fox, Rush, and any other group that does not kiss bho’s skinny hind end!
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letget on February 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM

Hard to stop when its all you do… I mean what would the alternative be?

Gatsu on February 4, 2013 at 1:10 PM

There are times when many Fox programs, including in the nonopinion hours, appear to be on a jihad against the administration.

And by “jihad,” Howie means “dare to hold the administration accountable” on issues such as Benghazi, Fast & Furious, and the lack of jobs and the green energy boondoggle. The nerve…

rcpjr on February 4, 2013 at 1:17 PM

The media is the enemy.

GardenGnome on February 4, 2013 at 1:19 PM

Obama and the Democrats have 90% of all network media and a large majority of the print media in their pocket and still that is not enough.
It is not so much that the other networks always agree and support the administration but more that they know they will be punished for not towing the line.
It is fact that most of the media coordinates their coverage of Obama with the White House who has editorial approval.
If Obama had his way Fox News would have been banned from the White House press corp.
It is a soft form of govt. censorship.

NeoKong on February 4, 2013 at 1:19 PM

MSNBC is a liberal cargo-cult facsimile of what the left thinks Fox News is like. And like those classic cargo-cults, they wonder why the airplane never comes.

JeffWeimer on February 4, 2013 at 1:20 PM

There is no such thing as ‘the conservative media’. The media is run almost entirely by the democrat party.

Even the majority of political donations among Fox News employees goes to democrats.

nazo311 on February 4, 2013 at 1:23 PM

There are times when many Fox programs, including in the nonopinion hours, appear to be on a jihad against the administration.

But a jihad is a quest for spiritual fulfillment, right, media?

Why don’t you want FOX to be spiritually fulfilled?

Washington Nearsider on February 4, 2013 at 2:02 PM

lol, just ventured to the link and there are almost 1,700 comments. The Stupid is all over the place too. Had to get out of there.

Del Dolemonte on February 4, 2013 at 2:48 PM