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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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From: jmhollen	10/19/2009 9:37:53 AM
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"..ALGORE, PUKOSI and the BIDYBOWL MAN have now taught the White House how to whine in 'D Sharpton minor'.... War on Fox: Is this best use of White House talent? I have ben thinking all day and much of the night about Week 2 of the White House attack on Fox News Sunday. You can read my Sunday post on it here under the headline "Emanuel, Axelrod offer more bad media criticism." The administration's criticism is that Fox isn't somehow a "real news network," but rather an opinion "arm" of the Republican Party, to quote White House communications director Anita Dunn. I have said before, as many problems as I have with Fox News, I am fundamentally opposed to any administration trying to bully any part of the press into submission as this one is doing. Beyond that, though, I am troubled by the hypocrisy of the West Wing press critics who "call out" Fox for its emphasis on "opinion" journalism, but not MSNBC. Is MSNBC a "real news network"? The highly-partisan, pro-administration channel doesn't even cover the news on weekends. It runs prison documentaries instead -- something I have also complained long and loud about. But here is what kept me up most of the night thinking about this: all of the people I know who have lost their jobs in the last year as the recession and Wall Street greed savaged the economy. The White House chief of staff and President Obama's most trusted strategists aren't out there on the Sunday morning talk shows offering plans to put people back to work or at least trying to rally the spirits of the unemployed and the millions of others who fear they will soon lose jobs. Think Franklin Roosevelt, radio and his White House team. No, the Obama brain trust is instead spending in Sunday morning TV capital attacking a cable news channel with bad arguments. Where are their priorities? (And let's not even go into how cowed this administration still seems to be by Wall Street.) I will take the press critics in the West Wing like Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod seriously when they condemn MSNBC for the same sins and worse than Fox. And I will take this administration more seriously when it starts doing the real work of governing instead of worrying primarily about its image and trying to silence anyone who would be critical of it. There is something wrong with President Obama running from TV interview to TV interview with everyone except Fox, while his highest-paid and most trusted presidential advisers spend their time on Sunday mornings TV trying to take down Fox instead of building up the country. Maybe they should spend a little more time on the reality of where this country finds itself today instead of trying to use the media to polish the president's image and punish any outlet that doesn't co-operate. weblogs.baltimoresun.com .

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