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To: Road Walker who wrote (526773)	11/7/2009 12:50:19 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578127

White House Strongly Denies Threatening Dem Who Appeared On Fox The White House is strongly denying a story claiming that White House officials privately threatened to retaliate against a Democratic strategist for appearing on Fox News — a claim generating a big stir on the right as the latest example of the White House's victimization of the network. "While we have our disagreements with FOX, administration officials appear on the network and we have no issue with others who choose to do so," White House senior communications adviser Dan Pfeiffer emails me. The Chicago Tribune got this ball rolling today by reporting that "at least one Democratic strategist" had "gotten a blunt warning from the White House" never to appear on Fox. The strategist, who wasn't named, said the White House's warning carried the suggestion that he might lose business if he went on again. Needless to say, such a claim is gold for those looking to paint the White House pushback against Fox as a Nixonian campaign of intimidation designed to squelch Fox's legitimate journalistic scrutiny of the administration. Right wing bloggers have been all over the story. But Pfeiffer argues that the evidence proves the story false. "This is simply not true," he emails. "At the same time the reporter was writing this story, David Plouffe was appearing on FOX and David Axelrod was on the day before." Side note: There are plenty of administration supporters who probably wish this story were true, and would like to see the White House playing even rougher with the network. But the White House is saying it isn't true. If anything, the claim that officials have "no issue" with anyone who goes on seems like another effort to dial the feud down a few notches. White House Strongly Denies Threatening Dem Who Appeared On Fox \| The Plum Line (7 November 2009) theplumline.whorunsgov.com