Posted by
Locutisprime on Friday, October 23, 2009 9:02:42 AM
Escalation: White House Tries to Exclude Fox From Press Pool Interview
There was a point a week ago after the White House began its first
attacks on Fox News, when it might have been considered amusing to
watch. Now it is now. When the White House led by this president can
even attempt to stifle media coverage of this administration on any
level...... that is a serious transgression of our basic freedoms in my
estimation.
And the American media and the American people should
be standing up and collectively shouting ...."like hell you do! We
won't stand still for that!" It is literally unimaginable to me, that
an act as egregious as this could even occur, much less that it has
been given less than casual lip service in the media by any agency
other than Fox since it occurred.
To their credit, the rest of the White House media Pool immediately balked and refused to participate if Fox was to be excluded.
The White House sent out an alert
today to the press pool that "Pay Czar" Kenneth Feinberg would be doing
a press availability— a round robin with the major news networks, in
which Fox is customarily included. The administration specified that
everyone was invited except Fox News, according to Bret Baier on
"Special Report" tonight.
The press pool, acting in the interest of its members, admirably
stood up to the White House bullying. All the other networks declared
that if Fox was not getting an interview, they would not be conducting
interviews. The White House responded by cutting Feinberg's time with
the networks from five minutes to two minutes.
Even so, the White House continued to press its arrogance in dealings
with the media in the pool by cutting the time allotted for their
precious Czar to be made available to media for questions. And that was
done in retaliation against their favored liberal media pool.
Ladies and gentlemen? There is something very very wrong going
on inside the Obama administration. From their attempts to isolate and
control media at their whim, to White House officials openly bragging
about how they have successfully manipulated media to their own
advantage since last years election. To their going on national Sunday
programs to basically admit their prejudices and declare so what when
questioned about it.
While there may be those who are presently considered alarmist
and even conspiracist as it concerns this administration, the reality
of what is going on in this administration and how business in being
conducted by this White House is inescapable. And the sense that we
have a renegade administration, answerable to no one except the
approved elect of liberal socialist elitism is palpable IMO.
The
media polls today reflect that this president has lost more public
support faster than any previous president of the past fifty years. In
light of this administration's treatment of the press and the White
House attempts to isolate and control all information concerning this
president and his policies? Is there really any doubt that he
apparently could care less what main stream liberal press has to say
about him. His focus and concern is obvious centered on Fox and as
obvioused by the past week, he intends to demonize Fox and deny them
any opportunity to participate in day to day reporting on this White
house.
There are many parallels and analogies that can be draw to the
history of the 1930's IMO, but I will leave those analogies to my
readers to sort through and assign value to on their own. Never the
less, the people of this country had better begin to stand up and
defend their freedoms and they have better start doing it very soon
IMO, or else we may soon wake up to a literal "coup de etat" of all
freedom of the press.