After months of a well documented White House vs Fox News spat, Barack Obama sat down for an interview with Fox’s Bret Baier. There was a lot of interrupting.
White House vs. Fox News
Glenn Beck: Since when is Obama a war expert?
The war in Afghanistan is turning into another Vietnam because the Democrats are too weak to do what they actually believe in, says Fox News mouthpiece Glenn Beck. If Obama doesn’t agree with General Stanley McChrystal, then he should fire him.
VIDEO: Obama does Fox News
After a nasty and public war of words between the White House and Fox News, Barack Obama has finally appeared on the network, receiving a “lighting round” grilling from Fox’s White House correspondent Major Garrett.
The war is over: Obama to appear on Fox News
The White House appears to have called a cease-fire in its war with Fox News, with news President Obama is scheduled to give an interview to the network next week.
Fox News: Obama has proved himself to be a politician, nothing more, nothing less
Barack Obama isn’t a socialist, a racist, or un-American. To be any of those things he’d need a set of political beliefs, which he doesn’t have. Rather, he’s just a politician who created a campaign persona for voters, writes S.E Cupp of Fox News.
Jon Stewart: Fox is “not even close to news”
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart weighs-in on the ongoing stoush between the White House and Fox News, and the network’s own claim that they only broadcast nine hours of actual news per day.
Why is the media siding with Fox against Obama?
Fox News isn’t generally on great terms with the rest of the mainstream media, but since coming under attack from the White House, journalists are suddenly siding with their own — even if that means sticking up for the very people who routinely attack them.
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White House and Fox News call a truce
According to a “very reliable source”, Fox News SVP Michael Clemente and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs have met to bury the hatchet over on their recent spat. Aww, just when it was getting good!
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The White House boosts Fox News’ ratings
All the attention the White House is giving to Fox News on other news channels seems to be backfiring: the network’s ratings have been soaring even higher since Obama officials started slagging it off in the media.
Why is the White House throwing red meat to Fox’s angry white men?
The public don’t expect cable news networks to be unbiased or accurate, so the White House’s war on Fox News is futile, and just makes the station even more popular with its core conservative constituency, says Louis Menand.
Fox News vs. The White House: it’s on
A bloody fight is brewing in the US media. In the blue corner, the White House. In the red corner, Fox News. Will Obama’s message of hope beat the the right wing shock jocks in submission? asks Aaron Flanagan.
White House vs. Fox News: why Obama can’t win
Fox News may have baited them, but Barack Obama — who has always tried to depict himself as above petty partisan squabbling — should never have allowed the White House to bite, writes David Carr.
Fox News is un-American
“The Australian-British-continental model of politicized media that Murdoch has applied at Fox is un-American” says Jacob Weisberg, calling on journalists to boycott appearing on the network. Hey, don’t blame us, Weisberg!
White House vs. Fox News: Fox is “not really news”, says Axelrod and Emanuel
The White House war (or retaliation, depending on how you see it) on Fox News continues, with both White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel declaring on Sunday talkshows that the network is “not really a news station” and its content is “not really news.”
White House doesn’t wear the Fox hat
Travelling through the US, Simon Burrow reports on the battle of Fox News vs. the White House. Has open war broken out between old and new media?
Yes, he went there: Glenn Beck compares White House attacks on Fox with the Holocaust
Proving that any stupid argument will inevitably descend into Hitler comparisons, Fox News’ Glenn Beck has likened the Obama White House’s treatment of Fox News to the Nazi persecution of Jews.
Forget the GoP: Fox News is the new Opposition Party
Fox News is no longer in the business of journalism, says Eric Boehlert: it has turned itself into the Opposition Party of the Obama White House, and the rest of the media needs to start treating it as such.
White House vs. Fox News: round two
The White House’s attacks on Fox News continue, with a spokesperson accusing the network of being an “arm of the Republican Party” and waging a “war” on Obama.
White House slams Glenn Beck and Fox News
The official White House blog is getting pretty lippy for such an official government channel, attacking Fox News host Glenn Beck for his “attempt to smear” the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid and providing rebuttals to Fox’s “lies”. Meow.
The Atlantic / Thursday, 22 October 2009
So what if Fox News is conservative? asks Matthew Cooper. That’s no excuse for the White House to completely shun it: “If the White House can reach out to the Iranians and North Koreans, for gosh sakes, they can talk to Shepard Smith.”