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Kirsten Powers: The WH war on Fox News continues

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2013/01/29/kirsten-powers-the-wh-war-on-fox-news-continues/

Posted: January 29, 2013

And while conservatives rush to pat Powers on the back for making this point against her short-term political interests, perhaps we should keep this in mind when the shoe is on the other foot ... assuming we can win a national election in the future. … Whether you are liberal or conservative, libertarian, moderate or politically agnostic, everyone should be concerned when leaders of our government believe they can intentionally try to delegitimize a news organization they don't like. … Discussing breaking Washington's partisan gridlock, the president told TNR,"If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News...for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you'll see more of them doing it."…

Did NPR sign up for Obama’s war on Fox?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/12/07/did-npr-sign-up-for-obamas-war-on-fox/

Posted: December 7, 2009

The presence of Liasson and Juan Williams demonstrates a balance on its news programming and analysis (apart from the commentary shows, which Liasson rightly pointed out to NPR) that one rarely sees on MS-NBC, CBS, or at times even CNN, although the latter does employ the formidable Bill Bennett. … She has also told colleagues that she's under contract to Fox, so it would be difficult for her to sever her ties with the network, which she has appeared on for more than a decade. … Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network's top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network's political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said…

The curious link between MMFA and the White House war on Fox

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2012/02/1...ween-media-matters-and-the-white-house-war-on-fox/

Posted: February 14, 2012

Only after this ill-advised war began to unsettle more friendly media outlets and expose the President to gales of criticism over the spectacle of the government launching an attack on a media outlet did the White House retreat at the end of the month from the war they had started. … Yesterday, I wrote that the true red flag in The DC's exposé wasn't the fact that MMFA successfully got its message out via the media; lots of orgs manage to do that, including some we like, and reporters/commentators like Ben Smith and Greg Sargent didn't do anything the rest of us eschew. … According to a September 2009 e-mail obtained by Tucker Carlson at the Daily Caller, Media Matters Director of Media Relations Karl Frisch proposed to founder David Brock and MMFA president Eric Burns that the organization conduct a campaign to "embarrass and discredit" Fox News, which Frisch called the "enemy" which the progressive movement needed after winning the presidency and control of Congress…

Great news: State Department goes to war … with Fox News

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2014/09/0...t-news-state-department-goes-to-war-with-fox-news/

Posted: September 4, 2014

Russia has all but seized eastern Ukraine, Islamist terrorists have seized a large part of Syria and Iraq, Libya has collapsed into a failed state run by other Islamist terrorists, and Boko Haram has declared its own caliphate in Africa, and ... this is what gets Harf's attention? … Rather than dealing with the actual issue of the Obama administration's utter incoherence on the approach to ISIS, Harf and State have decided that the real enemy is ... Bill O'Reilly … When Fox News reporter James Rosen explained to Bill O'Reilly that Jen Psaki didn't have a very good answer for the contradictory messages coming from Barack Obama yesterday as to the goals of his administration in dealing with ISIS, Psaki's colleague Marie Harf took exception to the discussion, which included a criticism of Psaki's "gravitas" and her ability to handle the job…

Heart Ache. Media Matters declares victory in War on Fox News

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2013/12/14/h...media-matters-declares-victory-in-war-on-fox-new/

Posted: December 14, 2013

Even if you just look at the key ratings demographic for the day, you'll see that total viewership for Fox actually exceeds CNN, MSNBC and CNBC combined. … But to get the full impact of exactly how badly Media Matters has destroyed the Fox Right Wing Trickery Machine, I decided to check in at TV By the Numbers to see what the last available ratings were for the various cable news networks. … Its dozens of staffers monitor the network's leadership, hosts, guests and financial dealings incessantly, calling out misinformation, conflicts of interest and evidence of a partisan agenda, in a bid to shed light on the workings of the right-wing echo chamber…

Fox News primetime hits record high ratings, MSNBC falls to record lows

https://hotair.com/archives/gabriel-malor/2014/10/...ts-record-high-ratings-msnbc-falls-to-record-lows/

Posted: October 1, 2014

According to the Hollywood Reporter, reruns of the reality program Shark Tank on CNBC during primetime outperformed every MSNBC primetime show for the quarter. … MSNBC's three primetime shows, "All in with Chris Hayes," "The Rachel Maddow Show," and "Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell," each had their lowest rated quarters ever in the demo. … Among total day and primetime viewers, MSNBC had its lowest rated quarter since Q4 2007 in total viewers and the lowest since Q2 2006 in the A25-54 demo…

Video: Democrat’s “War on Fox News” turns into hilarious rout; Update: Missed filing deadline?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2014/04/1...mocrats-war-on-fox-news-turns-into-hilarious-rout/

Posted: April 11, 2014

On Thursday morning, the Virginia 7th Congressional District Democratic Committee announced that it would cancel this year's nominating convention, because no one had filed to run against incumbent Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. … Greta van Susteren has a delightful time dismantling Dickinson and his "war," and the only one who doesn't seem to realize what a national joke he'd become is Dickinson himself. … Dickinson turned out to have no intellectual substance at all on his other arguments either, unable to square the reality of his own desire to tell it like it is with the right of Tea Party supporters to do the same…

Dems on FEC tried to charge Fox News criminally over primary debate

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2016/06/30/d...to-charge-fox-news-criminally-over-primary-debate/

Posted: June 30, 2016

The idea that a media outlet providing a forum for presidential candidates (particularly the ones who were polling at near zero at the time) to make their case to the public amounts to an illegal campaign contribution is beyond staggering. … They had to draw the line somewhere in terms of who would be invited but even by the standards that were decided upon, the number of hopefuls was far too large for a single stage, resulting in the "undercard" debates that we all sat through. … Finally making good on long-harbored anger at conservative media, Democrats on the Federal Election Commission voted in secret to punish Fox News' sponsorship of a Republican presidential debate, using an obscure law to charge the network with helping those on stage…

Rove: Obama building an enemies list

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/10/19/rove-obama-building-an-enemies-list/

Posted: October 19, 2009

The truth is that Obama has lost the public debate on health-care reform, and he's left with only the option of slamming something through Congress that will be incredibly unpopular, and then blame its unpopularity on Fox News. … Nixon built his enemies list as an extension of his general paranoia, but it took a little longer than the first few months of his presidency for that to reveal itself in that way. … " In this clip, Rove -- who knows a thing or two about being in a beleaguered White House -- answers Terry McAuliffe's defense of Barack Obama that a little demonization is perfectly acceptable in order to get health reform passed…

Gibbs: Many stories on Fox News aren’t true

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/10/14/gibbs-many-stories-on-fox-news-arent-true/

Posted: October 14, 2009

It almost sounds to me as if they're already regretting their decision to launch a public war with Fox, perhaps stung by criticism from the Left, such as The Nation, that paints them as crybabies unable to play in the big leagues -- or as Nixonian with a new kind of enemies list. … Is Gibbs accusing all of the media of being enemies of the Obama White House, or is it just confirmation of what Chris Wallace said last month -- that this administration is the biggest bunch of crybabies ever? … Robert Gibbs: (long pause) We…get questions throughout the day, seven days a week, about policies here at the White House, questions you guys want answered, and our goal is to make sure that you have the facts, that you do your job…

Is the White House freezing Fox out of pressers?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2013/01/16/is-the-white-house-freezing-fox-out-of-pressers/

Posted: January 16, 2013

A Smart Politics analysis finds that ABC reporters have been called on the most frequently during Barack Obama's solo news conferences followed by CBS, the Associated Press, and NBC with FOX News coming in at a distant ninth at less than half the rate of the top outlets and less than 40 percent of press conferences overall. … But as for FOX, these have been relatively lean years in terms of getting the presidential nod at news conferences, particularly in light of the news outlet's reach vis-à-vis some of the other media organizations which have received more questions. … Over the course of the president's first term, he has generally maintained the tiered approach as to which outlets ask the questions (with the Big 3 and Associated Press usually getting the green light), although the president has departed from tradition on occasion - famously calling on a digital-only media outlet's reporter (Huffington Post's Sam Stein) during his first news conference in February 2009…

Video: Rubio uses Crist’s words against him

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/10/28/video-rubio-uses-crists-words-against-him/

Posted: October 28, 2009

Crist and others like him put a false imprimatur of bipartisanship on a process that was all sharp elbows from the Democrats, capped by Obama's proclamation to Capitol Hill Republicans that "I won." … It might have helped to withhold his effusive support until Obama forced Nancy Pelosi to give Republicans effective input on drafting Porkulus, which would have allowed many of them to vote for the bill. … However, it does seem very debatable that the best thing for Florida was to suck capital out of the markets, especially future markets, in order to spend profusely on a stimulus package that was short on stimulus and very long on Democratic Party pork items…

Cavuto to CNN: How does it feel to get presidential belittling?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2017/01/1...n-how-does-it-feel-to-get-presidential-belittling/

Posted: January 13, 2017

In October 2011 (only five months after joining Fox), Ed Henry asked a question about Iran's provocations while quoting Mitt Romney, who was then running for the Republican nomination and directly criticizing Obama. … The WHCA was almost certainly pushed into that action by Jake Tapper's outspoken and singular criticism of the White House's treatment of Fox back when Tapper was at ABC -- and he's now at CNN. … While the rest of the media acted shocked, shocked that a president-elect would rudely belittle a reporter from a press-conference lectern, Neil Cavuto reminded them that Donald Trump's rebuke to CNN's Jim Acosta was hardly unprecedented…

WaPo: Justice spied on Fox reporter in 2010

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2013/05/20/wapo-justice-spied-on-fox-reporter-in-2010/

Posted: May 20, 2013

Heck, even I did that with the Adscam-Gomert inquiry information I got in 2005 (although not nearly as elaborate as Rosen's, I must admit), and I seem to recall a couple of guys in Washington who did that in 1973-4 by meeting with a high-ranking FBI source in parking garages. … The case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, the government adviser, and James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, bears striking similarities to a sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week in which federal investigators obtained records over two months of more than 20 telephone lines assigned to the Associated Press. … When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material…

The Ed Morrissey Show: Kerry Picket, Heather Heidelbaugh

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/12/1...d-morrissey-show-kerry-picket-heather-heidelbaugh/

Posted: December 10, 2009

(And if the log-in prompt doesn't come up in the chat box below, use this link instead.) Jazz Shaw of The Moderate Voice and The Monster moderate the chat, and they have Troll Gun Trivia Contest running before the show, for those who get there early -- and are registered! … Before that, we'll talk with Heather Heidelbaugh, Vice President of the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA), about Anita Dunn, ACORN, and the war on Fox News. … Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we welcome back Kerry Picket from the Washington Times, who will bring us up to date on all the Beltway happenings…

Rasmussen Obama index at -13

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/10/21/rasmussen-obama-index-at-13/

Posted: October 21, 2009

Rasmussen uses likely voters, a much more predictive method, which should have Democrats very, very worried about pursuing their radical agenda. … The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. … According to the latest Rasmussen presidential tracking poll, Barack Obama now has a passion index of -13, with only 27% of respondents strongly approving of his performance and 40% strongly disapproving…

Open thread: Obama to appear on Fox News

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/03/17/open-thread-obama-to-appear-on-fox-news/

Posted: March 17, 2010

I doubt this moves the needle for Obama -- but it will make it harder for the White House to try another war on Fox later in this election cycle, if they didn't learn their lesson the first time. … Or, in the spirit of the NCAA tournament and March Madness, we should say it's considered the biggest dance there is to dance. … After siccing his media handlers on Fox last year in an ill-advised attempt to isolate the most popular of the cable news networks, President Obama has suddenly deigned to appear on the channel that a few months ago was described as nothing more than a propaganda outlet for his opposition…

Obamateurism of the Day

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/05/05/obamateurism-of-the-day-264/

Posted: May 5, 2010

Is THAT why he basically boycotted Fox News during his campaign, has largely boycotted it since being elected, and has had numerous members of his Administration INCLUDING HIMSELF bad-mouth the network as not being a news organization? … But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and our beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from. … Whereas most Americans used to get their news from the same three networks over dinner or a few influential papers on Sunday morning, we now have the option to get our information from any number of blogs or websites or cable news shows…

Obama’s new Snitch Central: AttackWatch

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/09/14/obamas-new-snitch-central-attackwatch/

Posted: September 14, 2011

They'd do better to spend the money to hire better economists to consult the President than the coterie of academics that keep pushing the same Obamanomics that have flopped for the better part of three years. … In fact, it's not inconceivable that people who really wanted to spread "rumors" would do so by reporting them through AttackWatch and waiting for the campaign to publicize rumors through their response. … It didn't quite last a fortnight, thanks to an outcry of anger over the idea that a President would be so petty and so paranoid as to need an official informant bureau in the White House…

Lauer to Trump: Do these feuds work for you?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2015/08/26/lauer-to-trump-do-these-feuds-work-for-you/

Posted: August 26, 2015

If Trump can transition to being the kind of candidate who has actual policies and positions, rather than just a very loud and abrasive voice, then his popularity may well be insurmountable for other Republican candidates. … To answer Lauer's question, the conflict model definitely "works" for Trump, which is one reason why head-on attacks against Trump don't work out well for other Republican presidential hopefuls. … Trump has allegedly rebuffed Ramos's repeated requests for an interview, so the journalist has taken to stalking the pol online like a hunter on safari, firing off Twitter salvos after each Trump appearance…

Hot Air’s top 50 posts in 2014: 21-30

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2014/12/29/hot-airs-top-50-posts-in-2014-21-30/

Posted: December 29, 2014

#25: Shakedown: Treasury now seizing tax refunds from adult children to pay parents' decades-old Social Security debts - After reading the headline, you'd be tempted to respond that it sounds so stupid that only Congress could have created the problem -- and you'd be right. … Update: AP calls it for Dave Brat - AP was just joking when he wrote the headline, and sure enough, Graham easily won his primary -- because Graham knows how to do constituent services and spent considerable time in his state to prepare for it. … #30: Montana Democrats have made a huge mistake - John Walsh was supposed to be the safety valve for Democrats in Montana, and Barack Obama gave Max Baucus a key diplomatic assignment to get him out of the way so that Walsh could get a shortcut to the Senate election…

Hillary on Trump and Megyn Kelly: He’s outrageous — but what Marco Rubio said about abortion is just as troubling; Update: Rubio fires back

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2015/08/10...co-rubio-said-about-abortion-is-just-as-troubling/

Posted: August 10, 2015

Kelly herself has called that "epic television" in the making; now that she's in the national spotlight as a respected woman news anchor who's been attacked by Trump, Hillary could agree to appear knowing that it'd be seen symbolically as a feminist statement of solidarity. … The problem with believing that "Trump will ruin the Republican brand," apart from the fact that it was already ruined in many ways before he even thought of running, is that Trump is so sui generis as a candidate that it's hard to impute his views on anything to anyone else. … The Clintons, at least for now, are still betting that they have more to fear long-term from Rubio than from Trump; at the very least, they think Rubio's comment might be seen by single women as representative of the party as a whole in a way that Trump's remark about Kelly isn't…

Fox-bashing Obama aide to step down

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/11/10/fox-bashing-obama-aide-to-step-down/

Posted: November 10, 2009

The change does give the administration an opportunity to withdraw from the Fox War, though, and it has already given hints of reconsidering its widely-panned strategy of marginalizing the network. … The passing of the baton from Dunn to Pfeiffer had long been expected within White House circles as she had made clear when she took the job that the "interim" in her title was meant to be taken literally. … Anita Dunn, who also got heavily criticized for stating that one of her philosophical touchstones was Chinese communist Mao Zedong, will return to the private sector but remain available to the Obama administration as a consultant…

WH to Dem strategists: Stop making Fox so … balanced?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/11/0...wh-to-dem-strategists-stop-making-fox-so-balanced/

Posted: November 6, 2009

The fact that they have to threaten fellow Democrats to bully them out of their media appearances on Fox just highlights the fact that Fox airs their views -- which undermines their public argument about Fox. … At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama administration. … Bitterly complaining that the news channel does not provide a balanced presentation of the issues, the Obama administration has now warned strategists from the Democratic Party that they won't work with them any longer if the strategists appear on Fox's programming as guests…

First up to CNN’s defense in lawsuit is … Fox News?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2018/11/14/first-cnns-defense-lawsuit-fox-news/

Posted: November 14, 2018

Color me skeptical that it will turn out well for CNN, except to the extent that it goes up the appellate chain and stays alive as a La Résistance story, rather than an example of stupidity on all sides. … While we don't condone the growing antagonistic tone by both the President and the press at recent media avails, we do support a free press, access and open exchanges for the American people." … Fox News, setting aside competitive differences, will file an amicus brief in support of CNN's lawsuit against the White House, which seeks to reverse an administration decision to suspend chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass…

Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/10/25/poll-what-was-the-obamateurism-of-the-week-20/

Posted: October 25, 2009

"If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." … Rather than just go with two hundred -- er, two thousand -- uh, two choices, I'm adding a third choice to include what happened Friday morning between the White House and the major broadcast nets. … As OOTD readers know, we just had our most productive Obamateurism week in decades -- but at least I managed to get two more items off of my agenda than Obama has this summer and fall…

Choose the Obamateurism of the Year: flight 7

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/12/29/choose-the-obamateurism-of-the-year-flight-7/

Posted: December 29, 2009

Today's is the toughest of the finals so far, with seven choices (one of these had to have more than 5) and at least three outrages that will get a lot of play. … Over the next few days, I'll offer polls in different brackets (or "flights") of previous Obamateurism of the Week winners, and you'll pick the winners between five or six selections in a new poll each day, except Christmas. … We've been highlighting the amateurish stumbles of our new President since March, and now it's time for Hot Air readers to pick the Obamateurism of the Year!…

Choose the Obamateurism of the Year: flight 6

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/12/28/choose-the-obamateurism-of-the-year-flight-6/

Posted: December 28, 2009

In my defense, I didn't expect at that time that Obama would go to Copenhagen again and come back empty-handed again. … Over the next few days, I'll offer polls in different brackets (or "flights") of previous Obamateurism of the Week winners, and you'll pick the winners between five or six selections in a new poll each day, except Christmas. … We've been highlighting the amateurish stumbles of our new President since March, and now it's time for Hot Air readers to pick the Obamateurism of the Year!…

The Ed Morrissey Show: Andrew Malcolm

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2012/02/14/the-ed-morrissey-show-andrew-malcolm-51/

Posted: February 14, 2012

The daunting possibility that she took her life, and the signs that cannot be ignored, still weighs heavily on our minds — as do all the other frightening possibilities as her case remains unsolved and unresolved. … The last twenty minutes will be our Lightning Round, where our Chatizens ask the questions and we provide the pithy answers, so be sure to register for your free Ustream account today to participate! … The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss the curious case of Media Matters and coincidental timing of the war on Fox News in October 2009, and all of the hot political stories of the day…

Report: Trump telling aides, “Keep an eye on Fox News”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/04/18/report-trump-telling-aides-keep-eye-fox-news/

Posted: April 18, 2019

He might end up boosting the audience's sense of dissatisfaction with Fox but not actually cost them much in ratings, which would make him look weak by suggesting he has less influence over his own base than everyone suspects. … "The president knows Fox News viewers are far more loyal to him than the network, meaning he can push those supporters to more overtly friendly outlets like One America News Network or Newsmax with just a couple of tweets and some extra access. … "Keep an eye on it," Trump started telling aides [last month], according to two people with direct knowledge of his directive, in conversations about what was going on behind-the-scenes at Fox, and if there was any cause for concern for even the slightest positive coverage of any Democrat…

Obama WH adds position to deal with bad press online

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/05/2...ma-wh-adds-position-to-deal-with-bad-press-online/

Posted: May 24, 2011

That will keep Lee spinning on the same ground for longer than the White House will probably like -- and it will significantly raise the profile of those bloggers that Lee takes on. … "This week, Jesse Lee will move from the new media department into a role in the communications department as Director of Progressive Media & Online Response," read an internal memo from Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, provided to The Huffington Post. … The Obama administration has created and staffed a new position tucked inside their communications shop for helping coordinate rapid response to unfavorable stories and fostering and improving relations with the progressive online community…

Conway to Cuomo: Why do you care if Trump tweets?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2016/11/21/conway-to-cuomo-why-do-you-care-if-trump-tweets/

Posted: November 21, 2016

Democrats have been shrieking about Trump's appointment of Jeff Sessions to Attorney General, but Conway points out that they didn't seem to worry about Sessions a couple of years ago when it might have mattered … Conway, a senior adviser to Trump, criticized media coverage of the social media controversy, saying that Trump is "just trying to cut through the nonsense of people telling Americans what is important to them, which we saw through the elections wasn't true. … CNN host Chris Cuomo tangled with Conway over Trump's tweeted ripostes to the cast of Hamilton this weekend, arguing that a president-elect should aim to heal divisions rather than provoke them -- and shouldn't he be busy with the transition rather than trolling on Twitter anyway?…

Coming soon: Bannon News Network?

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2017/08/20/coming-soon-bannon-news-network/

Posted: August 20, 2017

Hannity allegedly has a "key man" clause in his that would let him leave the network now that Ailes is gone, but he wouldn't be an ideal fit for Bannon TV. The whole point of Bannon's crusade going forward is to undermine the administration when it veers from nationalist priorities by attacking Trump's "Democratic" inner circle. … The odd thing about Bannon going to war with Fox now, at a moment when rumors are swirling that Laura Ingraham will soon get her own show, is that there's never been less room for a nationalist alternative to Fox in primetime. … Here was my guess on Friday, after news broke that he was out at the White House: "I'd be surprised if Bannon is content to return to Breitbart now that he's a nationally famous political figure whose every move will be watched…