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Monday
12Oct2009

The Princess Of Peace Prize Diaries

DateMonday, October 12, 2009 at 09:41PM

The big story today on Fox is the war that the Obama administration has finally decided it had to win.  The good war... the war on Fox News.  Anita Dunn, the administration's media hoohah, came out swinging sometime this weekend (sorry I'm so vague: I'se tired you see, but I couldn't let a good, literary metaphor go to waste):

"Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," Dunn said.

I saw the video of Ms. Dunn saying this, and one doesn't want to shoot the messenger but it this case an exception should be made for aesthetic reasons.  That aside, it used to be true that the news outlets did serve a research function- for the citizenry.  Some of the citizens are party members, and so could use whatever news to their advantage.  That's actually a legitimate function of a free press.  Well, never mind: we have to bring the errant Fox News to heel.  It must really chap Obama that he can't just shut them down the way is pals in Venezuela, Iran, and China can.

It really is pathetic.  The President of what was the most powerful nation on earth (before he turned it into Doormatistan, the Peaceprizeable Kingdom) singling out one news outlet because they aren't sufficiently deferential.  Pile the cushions to the sky: a thousand MSNBC's, CNN's, NBC's, and CBS's and the rest of the alphabet soup, complete with tingly-legged, man-crushing bedfellows, and our dainty Princess President will toss and turn because of the pea of Fox News.

Now that I think about it, it's even more pathetic that so-called news outlets have volunteered to become what journalists in other countries are forced to do.

 

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"[...] shut them down the way is pals in Venezuela, Iran, and China can." Don't forget Argentina: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h70XfVfDj4pFHawUTDaI5N45zCKA

As thin-skinned as he is, maybe we should start calling him President Onion.
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