This week war is raging between the Administration and Fox news and guess what your freedom of speech is again in the cross hairs...and the media and the White House have been peddling the Propaganda since Sunday with the Rahm Manuel Interview and will continue all week long...
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Why the White House Picked Anita Dunn to Wage War With Fox

* 10/15/09 at 10:13 AM
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Dunn with David Axelrod, plotting to take over the world.

Dunn with David Axelrod, plotting to take over the world.Photo: Getty Images

This weekend, after White House communications director Anita Dunn forthrightly declared war on Fox News, some people thought she might have gone a little too far in explaining a tacit understanding in the Obama administration that they didn't deal directly with the right-leaning network. One almost expected to see a clarification of the remarks afterward, as Fox anchors like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck gleefully ran with the story. But of course, Dunn's statements had been carefully scripted by the Obama team — as is pretty much everything you hear from them, except things that are supposed to be off the record. And what's more, Dunn herself was selected to fire off the opening salvo for a specific reason: On a strategy team largely dominated by men, she's acknowledged to be the toughest member.

According to the Washington Post, this lifelong political consultant is the only person in the communications department that "can withstand the blowback." A veteran of the Obama campaign, she started work in Democratic politics in the Carter administration, and worked on John Glenn and Bill Bradley's failed presidential bids. She's known as a ruthless and smart strategist who is not afraid to fight with the media.

But there's another reason she was picked for the Fox News fight — she's only an interim communications director, filling in until the end of the year. If this whole skirmish backfires on Obama, she'll be gone in two months and the administration will have time to distance itself. In other words, the communication team's toughest member is also their sacrificial lamb.

Newly Out In Front for White House: An Ol' Pro [WP]



http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/10/wh ... d_ani.html

Anita Dunn: Fox News An Outlet For GOP Propaganda


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The White House's communications staff announced this week that it was charting out a new, more aggressive strategy this past week, defined largely by a pledge to push back hard against news stories that are either inaccurate or unflattering.

On Sunday, the strategy was on full display as communications director Anita Dunn gave a lengthy and brutal denunciation of Fox News, calling the cable outlet a vehicle for Republican Party propaganda and an ideological opponent of the president.

Here are just a few choice nuggets from Dunn's appearance on CNN's Reliable Sources

"If we went back a year ago to the fall of 2008, to the campaign, that was a time this country was in two wars that we had a financial collapse probably more significant than any financial collapse since the Great Depression. If you were a Fox News viewer in the fall election what you would have seen were that the biggest stories and the biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and a something called ACORN."

"The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it is not ideological... what I think is fair to say about Fox, and the way we view it, is that it is more of a wing of the Republican Party."

"Obviously [the President] will go on Fox because he engages with ideological opponents. He has done that before and he will do it again... when he goes on Fox he understands he is not going on it as a news network at this point. He is going on it to debate the opposition."

"[Fox is] widely viewed as a part of the Republican Party: take their talking points and put them on the air, take their opposition research and put it on the air. And that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news organization like CNN is."

Dunn's remarks are notably blunt and direct, especially from a White House that has received a large amount of flattering coverage and, when it doesn't, usually airs its grievances in private. They also are a bit misleading, as both the president's staff and its campaign arms at the DNC have cultivated favored members of the media of their own to which they routinely feed access and opposition research. It's a fact of politics and press, regardless of which party is in power.

In response, Senior Vice President of News for FOX News Michael Clemente defended the network in the following statement to CNN's Reliable Sources:

An increasing number of viewers are relying on FOX News for both news and opinion. And the average news consumer can certainly distinguish between the A section of the newspaper and the editorial page, which is what our programming represents. So, with all due respect to anyone who still might be confused about the difference between news reporting and vibrant opinion, my suggestion would be to talk about the stories and the facts rather than attack the messenger...which over time, has never worked.

All told, the Obama administration clearly is pursuing a strategy of direct engagement when it comes to the fourth estate - one in which even the most trivial of unflattering stores do not go unanswered. Earlier in the week, Dunn told Time Magazine that she and her team were no longer going to "just sit back and defend ourselves, because [conservative media] will say anything. They will take any small thing and distort it."

The next day, the DNC ripped apart a short but rather absurd article in Politico that revealed Obama's presidential campaign had received $34,000 from defenders of troubled filmmaker Roman Polanski.



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Here is Glenn Beck on Anita Dunn and her hero worship of Mao Tse Tung



Here is the video of Anita Dunn and her two favorite Philosophers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiBDpL2dExY

And here is some thing from the American spectator

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Dunn initially juxtaposes the two to make it a joke. "Not often coupled with each other," she says, to a few laughs. Dave Weigel thinks the whole thing's a joke that everyone but Glenn Beck gets.


Oh Really!!!!

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/10/16/an ... e-tung-fan

I want you to know this makes me so sick and I hope the saying what goes around comes around really does work!!!

Kathyet