At the rate this administration is going, the term "Nixonian" may soon be replaced "Obamian"
A Washington Post opinion piece started off with a headline that said, “Obama’s dumb war with Fox News.” Then it got even tougher.
There’s only one thing dumber than picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel — picking a fight with people who don’t even have to buy ink. The Obama administration’s war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels. It makes the White House look weak, unable to take Harry Truman’s advice and just deal with the heat. It makes the White House look small, dragged down to the level of Glenn Beck. It makes the White House look childish and petty at best, and it has a distinct Nixonian — Agnewesque? — aroma at worst. It is a self-defeating trifecta: it distracts attention from the Obama administration’s substantive message; it serves to help Fox, not punish it, by driving up ratings; and it deprives the White House, to the extent it refuses to provide administration officials to appear on the cable network, of access to an audience that is, in fact, broader than hard-core Obama haters.
Insert one of those screeching-to-a-halt sound effects at the end of that last sentence.
Did the Washington Post just admit that Fox News’ audience is broader than hard-core Obama haters?
Someone call a medic. Keith Olbermann is going into cardiac arrest.
Source: Washington Post
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Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper
—Mother Teresa
Maybe Obama will start posting on this site. We all hate the media.
after that article in the washington post about obamas war on fox and the audience is broader than expected from some, i think that tingle going up Chris Matthews leg just went up his left arm