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To: Alighieri who wrote (520547)	10/14/2009 11:13:18 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575654

'WHINER IN CHIEF' "The Obama administration really needs to get over itself," the liberal Nation magazine's John Nichols writes at www.thenation.com. "First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant. "Then, an anonymous administration aide attacks bloggers for failing to maintain a sufficiently pro-Obama slant. "These are not disconnected developments," Mr. Nichols said. "An administration that won the White House with an almost always on-message campaign and generally friendly coverage from old and new media is now frustrated by its inability to control the debate and get the coverage it wants." Mr. Nichols noted that NBC White House correspondent John Harwood reported that an anonymous White House "adviser" told him that liberal bloggers who have been criticizing the Obama administration need to take off their pajamas, get dressed and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated and difficult. Mr. Nichols added: "As for the Obama administration, whether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is 'whining.' And nothing - no attack by Glenn Beck, no blogger busting about Guantanamo - does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner in chief."

To: Alighieri who wrote (520547)	10/14/2009 11:14:28 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575654

OBAMA VS. FOX "White House Communications Director Anita Dunn has decided to effectively declare war on Fox News," John Fund writes at www.opinionjournal.com. "She told CNN's 'Reliable Sources' on Sunday that the White House views the cable network as 'a wing of the Republican Party.' ... [When President Obama] goes on Fox, he understands that he is not going on -- it really is not a news network at this point. He's going to debate the opposition.' "But the White House's stepped-up rhetorical attacks -- its Web site rails against 'the lies of Fox News' -- carry a potential downside. 'It can look a little petty and a little small as it sort of ... punches down at a cable network,' says John Dickerson of Slate.com. 'And so they have to make sure that if they're going to take on Fox News, that they don't seem overly obsessed by it.' "That no longer seems possible," Mr. Fund said. "Brit Hume, the former White House correspondent for ABC News who has been a mainstay on Fox for the last decade, used his commentary time on Monday to address the White House attack. 'Every president ends up disgusted with the news media in general and with certain individuals or outlets in particular,' he pointed out, 'but there is an old adage often attributed to Mark Twain that advises against picking fights with people who buy ink by the barrel. He was speaking of the big media of his day, which were newspapers. Most presidents, though, refrain from directly attacking media outlets, perhaps with that adage in mind.' "We'll soon see if the Obama White House's decision to treat Fox News as a direct adversary works out for it or just makes the White House seem like another antic performer in Washington's political mud-wrestling contests."