This looks like a formal declaration of War from the White House to Fox News.  Everything thing else the past few weeks were shots over the bow. 

If Fox News isn't really reporting the news...then Mr. Axelrod and company are cowards and I wonder if he lost his man card some time ago.  Not showing up on Fox programs, to me, proclaims their fear.

Fox news may lean more right in some of their opinion shows, but to say it's Republican is crazy.  Mr. Rivera, Juan Williams and Alen Colmes aren't exactly out there proclaiming vitures of the right.

Plus, if BOR is so right, he would never let Juan Williams host his show when he is off.

Some say this administration is red, but I think it is more yellow.

who exactly can we listen to, Mr. President - and "still get things done".

  Remember the GWOT? The G is for global. As in a global threat.

  Fox News is only a threat to socialists in the White House. Islamic fanatacism is a threat to the planet. Idiots. 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

Every other network and news outlet represents a point of view these days.  This website is bloated with sourced proof of it. 

Just be honest Axelrod and admit that you don't like FNC because they're not in lockstep with your point of view, unlike NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, LAT, AP, Reuters, McClatchy, HuffPo, DailyKos, DU, and most other major and minor news outlet. 

Obama isn't really a President.  All he is is a Chicago gangster trying to shove his own marxist beliefs on the rest of us.  The other media outlets are just a bunch of puppets for him.  He just can't stand it to have one not taking his talking points.

Before we have a government that can supply us with everything we will have a government that can provide us with nothing.

axelrod said, "...it's not just their commentators, but a lot of their news programing, it's pushing a point ..."  this is a common talking point by the white house. he, anita, rahm and gibbey both say this garbage, but NO ONE seems to call their BS except Beck et al.  they make these ridiculous claims, but never back them up with things that i like to call facts.  i know that liberals/progressives consider facts as inconvient things to dismiss, but these people are seriously delusional!

-ascended conservative

I am amazed at the fact that they seem to be oblivious to the fact the more they criticize Fox, the more they solidify their position. It also seems a bit hypocritical when there are a few people on MSNBC that behave much in the same way as Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity but for the other side, for liberal ideas. Neither Beck nor Hannity say they are journalists. None of them hide their political affiliations like the others do. It is amazing that these guys would behave this way. Chris Wallace was right, they are crybabies. Did they complain when the former president was attacked every day by these other people on MSNBC? Did they complain when Bill Maher ravaged president Bush on a daily basis? Did they complain when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert insinuated president Bush was an idiot frequently? Did they complain when all of his policies were fought on their megaphones? Collectively the opponents of president Bush did have a huge megaphone. And were was the outcry? If the ideas are so great why do they need to worry about what Fox News says? It should be easy to convince the people. It is hard because common sense states that people do not believe them.

it was the white House that declared war on Fox News not the other way around.  Axelrod sure does have it backwards.

you know Fox News didn't declare war they were just reporting the news and comments as they see it.  what is wrong with that.  All other networks can do it why can't Fox.

because Fox is not into positive reinforcement of Obama's self image by being part of his new age health and wealth prosperity team that is teh MSM.

Lighting wil not strike with out a negative.  Negatives are a reality and should be dealt with normally not glossed over so someone can feel god about dong nothing.  Like a Noble for nothing prize.

Here's a fact that's worth the knowing, So treasure and mark it well.  When the mind is through with growing, the the head begins to swell.             Sir Nosmo King

Axelrod said.  "And I understand that their programming is geared toward making money."

ABC and MSNBC would NEVER stoop so low as to make money...or tell the entire news.

Their programming highlights Hollywood more than the news.

Keep yapping, a**h**e.  The more the public sees your fat face and greasy hair and hears your obnoxious Marxist rhetoric, the more it will be ready to stand up to your empty suited Manchurian Candidate.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Fox News is seen by only 1 to 2% of the U. S. population. CNN and MSNBC are viewed by far less than that.

One big news story that seems to go unreported is that TV has hardly any audience anymore. Rush Limbaugh has more listeners than most TV shows have viewers.

Why is Fox News so Successful?

1. Fox news was one of the first cable news organizations to use the crawl at the bottom of the screen. It has a graphics dept. that uses clear and enticing images.

2. They have attractive and intelligent news presenters. The Pretty Blonde Anchors are not an accident.

3. They hired Britt Hume and he basically tarined the entire news division on how the job should be done. As Britt has said Fair and Balanced is not an attitude but a skill set.

4. They keep it moving. There is a mix of political, world news, and entertainment. It is a business and they have to keep the eyeballs on the screen.

5. They always have opposing points of view for any story presented. They are never disrespectful of thier guests even if they disagree. Bill O'Rielly being the only exception when he really lost it one time with Barney Frank.

6. They have entertaining opinion shows. If an opinion show does not have the numbers to continue they will either change the fromat or put something else in its place.

7. They have hired good reporters who ask hard questions no matter who the person being questioned is. They asked President Bush many hard questions.

I could go on but for all the readers here it is obvious that Fox does not fit the old idea of a news organization in that they are not old fashioned they and are not elitist. All the others have tried unsuccessfully to copy Fox but they have only managed to copy the trivial. The other news organizations are jealous of Fox News and wonder why thier viewers keep abandoning them while Fox keeps increasing thier numbers. What really gets thier goat is that Fox, the supposed Wing of the Republican Party, has the most balanced viewership of ANY news outlet. They have more Liberals and Independents as well as Conservatives. If Fox were just spouting right wing talking points the only viewers they would have would be right wingers.  

How's the OBAMA-REID-PELOSI-OBEY PORKULUS PACKAGE working out?  3 MILLLLLLLLLION LOST JOBS since the BOY-KING took office.  Unemployment is 10% and rising.  Boy-King promised less than 8% IF we passed the PORKTARD bill.   Iran is near to having NUKES.  Afghanistan, THE REAL WAR, that MCCAIN and BUSH....SHOULD HAVE FOUGHT is not going well, and OPIE has had his COMMANDERS PROPOSAL on his DESK for 6 plus weeks. Yet Obama and the LIBTARDS are desperately trying to RAISE OUR TAXES with SOCIALIZED MEDICINE and NONSENSICAL "GLOBAL WARMING" JUNK SCIENCE.....TAX and KILL JOBS legislation.

 SO!  LOOOOOOOOOOOOK!  A boy in a balloon!!

Then today,  Axelrod and Emanuel, bitch like sissy girls on TV news shows about FOX. Then today Axelrod and Emanuel, bitch like sissy girls on TV news shows about FOX.

Wow.  What leadership,

After all the news media, conservative and liberal main stream alike who have said this was a bad policy for the White house to attack a free press...THEY HAVE ( the WHITE HOUSE) DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND PULL SOME CHICAGO STYLE MOVES.

This will so backfire on Obama and the real powers known as Axlerod and Rahm.

I swear Axelrod looks like the fat guy from Borat

Axelrod and the MSM for that matter are chastasing Fox or condemning them for doing what they've been doing for at least 50 yrs. It's a typical marxist trick. Blame your enemies for exactly what you've been doing. The idea is to marginalize Fox. Fox may very well lean to the side of liberty (conservativism) in the political arena. So what? The Obama regime in concert with the MSM would have us believe that Fox News is on the anarchist fringe, while they represent mainstream America. MSM does this not to pull conservatives away from Fox, but to target the independent voter, to keep them onboard with the socialist plan as if that were mainstream ideology. The left wing media has been pushing marxism (a.k.a.stalinism, nazism, fascism, socialism, progressivism, and liberalism) for years. The statist media tries to portray conservatives,as Rush Limbaugh says, as sexist, racist, bigoted, homophobes thus marginalizing them. The attack on Fox News is just part of the attack on conservatism in general.

Obama talks a big game, but when a news network actually does it job and points out the facts about his programs then he can't handle it.  This is no more than an old Fascist-tactic of trying to stamp out dissent by marginalizing and discrediting Fox News.

 http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-6996-Louisville-Economic-Policy-Examiner~y2009m10d19-The-Real-Problem-with-Obamas-Skin

Rob Binsrick - Louisville Economic Policy Examiner

"Democrats; Breeding voters like farm animals since 1962"

            Fox News has reported more stories, both sides, than the rest of them put together. It's the other media outlets that cover the fluff stories. If not for Fox News, we would truly be sheep. Every one of these people (Axelrod, Stefanopoulis, ect.) have been bought by Soros & the white house.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

With the agenda Obama has, it's going to be difficult to slip it under the radar with Fox News watching, so Axelrod and Emanuel want to delegitimize them. If the press allows them to get away with it, and I have no reason to believe they won't that will be the final nail in their coffin. 

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

The way the admistration keeps saying they arent a 'real' news outlet, they arent a real 'press'.  Since freedom of the press only extends to the 'press' and the Obama administration has already muzzled one healthcare company from their right to speech with their own customers ...could they be making the case that muzzling FOXNEWS is okay because they arent a 'real' press outlet?  They have already stated they like the way Chavez conducts a 'democratic' shutdown of the news outlets in that country.  It is in the fascist / marxist playbook...next they demonstrate how FOXNEWS harms the country or causes discontent and then WHAM..no more FOX on the air for the protection of America...is it that far fetched?

why such a fuss?

The vital, nerve may have been hit. Feel the push back, like a pebble in the shoe.

we are not going to let you take America down a path that is Non American without a fight.

They are Marxist/Socialists-Liars!!

BHO-  THE PROGRESSIVE PIRATE