Over the past couple of weeks, the White House has piled on the Fox News Channel, with a trio of high-ranking administration officials publicly criticizing it, followed by words from President Barack Obama himself about Fox News and topped off with the White House attempting to exclude Fox from the White House press pool. That has some members of Congress questioning why they are doing this..
Earlier, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., took on the issue and defended Fox and its audience. However, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, also took on the White House and questioned why it would be something Obama and his administration should be concerned with in comments from the floor of the House of Representatives on Oct. 20.
"Mr. Speaker, with unemployment at a 26-year high, a record budget deficit and a looming health care bill that punishes taxpayers and bankrupts the government, what is the White House doing? They are attacking Fox News for telling the truth. The White House spokesman says that Fox News is quote, ‘not a news organization,' end quote. We need to fact check the White House on whatever they say about Fox and any legislation since they are not being straight with the American people."
The Texas Republican cited two independent studies that showed Fox News was balanced. One study was by the Pew Research Center about the 2008 presidential campaign and the other from the Center for Media and Public Affairs, which took a look at the run-up to the 2008 presidential primaries.
"Separate studies by the Pew Research Center and the Center for Media and Public Affairs found that Fox News coverage is more balanced than any other network. The White House has no problem with other national news outlets because they offer biased reports and give the administration a free pass.
However, Smith also noted a recent report put out by the Media Research Center's Business & Media Institute in July that found stories on ABC, CBS and NBC favored proponents of Obama's brand of so-called health care reform to its critics by a margin of more than 2-to-1 (243 to 104).
"In fact, network news programs have favored proponents of the administration's health care proposal over critics of the plan by a margin of more than 2-to-1, according to the Business & Media Institute," Smith said. "The White House, like the national media, should let the American people make up their own minds - not try to control what they hear."
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Barack Obama a Loose Cannon
October 23, 2009 - 01:19 ET by Retired GeekBarack Obama is a 'Narcissistic Megalomaniac' and as such WILL NOT TOLERATE any criticism of himself, his ideas or proposed legislation on his behalf.
It was predicted that he will become more dangerous with each criticism that is lodged against him.
Barack Obama is a loose cannon and has surrounded and insulated himself with those who caters to his every whim and his 'Handlers' are finding Barack Obama more difficult to control with each passing day.
At some point in time, Barack Obama will lose all 'Control' publicly against those who criticize him in any way - the 'Time Bomb' within Barack Obama is ticking away.
In case of fire break glass
October 23, 2009 - 07:46 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsHere's a read about Obama's narcissism. Written by an Iranian. Interesting and frightening at once.
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Oh boy.
October 23, 2009 - 09:50 ET by jon_torlinOh my dear Lord, I actually got sick reading all that. I tried to tear myself away from it, but the more I read, the sicker I got and had to run to the bathroom. I just got back and believe me, this is making me shake. I've always suspected something like the writer wrote, but never read it spelled out like that.
I've been one of the ones making the comparisons to Hitler, but even this surprised me. Good God, what next?
-Jon
Wow...
October 23, 2009 - 18:13 ET by Corny_McPooThis should be required reading...for ALL of us.
Signed, Corny McPoo
Do Something Amazing!
Wow, And thank you...
October 23, 2009 - 01:21 ET by upcountrywaterRecorded into the congressional record.
Keep up the good work.
BTW RINO's STFU
Obama Needs A Pacifier or Teddy Bear
October 23, 2009 - 02:06 ET by Retired Geek"I will listen to you, especially when we disagree."
Barack Obama
Victory Speech 2008
Barack Obama is exposing his childish, petty and weak emotions and leadership every time he goes against his own words.
The
entire Barack Obama Administration claim that Rush Limbaugh and Fox
News are insignificant, that they only give opinions rather than 'Real
News' - why then is the entire Barack Obama administration being sent
out to attack them?
Why, because Barack Obama is a 'Narcissistic
Megalomaniac', who suffers emotional torture every time someone
disagrees with him or his 'Special Anointing' of the 'One the World is
waiting for'.
Barack Obama actually believes there is 'No Higher Power' than Barack Obama and his 'Cultist Followers' agree.
Does wittle Bawaky...
October 23, 2009 - 02:40 ET by Forest for the Treesneed his Binky?
Yes he does. There, there wittle Bawaky, don't cry, not everybody hates you, just most of us.
That's how the lefties roll....
October 23, 2009 - 06:57 ET by superconThey cannot stand it when someone who disagrees with them gets to
speak. Just about anytime you hear or read about someone having their
speech rights curtailed it is almost always some group of lefties
behind it. It could be a totally unbiased news network running a
health care info-mercial with absolutely no dissenting opinion. It
could be a college campus or a public sidewalk or even some sort of
public event with thousands of people. Who are the people who
invented those pens on public streets that they call "free speech
zones" where they confine people who try to counter-protest some leftie
event...? Their message is so weak that they cannot allow any opposition to be near it.
No one will step on your rights quicker than a leftie.
" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him...." -Sen. Jim DeMint
" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him...." -Sen. Jim DeMint
AS BHO moves forward-
October 23, 2009 - 08:11 ET by JIMMY1660he proves to all of us-he is not qualified to be in the oval office.each and every topic that we push back and not act like lemmings-he and his staff bristle.not one time during the POTUS campaigning-was he asked tough questions by the media. he was never vetted. this is not a high school term paper, he is killing America, intentionally or not he must wake up, or we will all be broke.
Change-yes going the wrong way.
BHO- THE PROGRESSIVE PIRATE
mind control
October 23, 2009 - 08:11 ET by soosanAm enjoying the whole fox news debate stuff but thought I should mention that the label "narcisstic meglomaniac" sounds kind of snobby - The folks who check out our blog might find the term a little too "inside". One elitist party in our country is enough.
Or not.
This White House is one coordinated lie
October 23, 2009 - 08:17 ET by KC MulvilleWhen a partisan group (therefore, inherently biased themselves) disapprove of one news outlet but not others, they implicitly approve of the ones they don't attack. Like Brit Hume said, the White House is patting the others on the head.
Logically, since the approval comes from a partisan group, it says more about the bias in the approved news outlet than what it says about the disapproved.
This White House is itself a lie. They operate entirely on partisan political motives ... even to the point of subjugating the decision on war in Afghanistan to concerns about how the radical left will react ... but they demand that the news media collude on their fiction that they're not partisan.
Lamar Smith thank you very much!
October 23, 2009 - 08:29 ET by WorriedIf this is not a 1-2-3 punch to Obama and his commie squad I don't know what is:
"Mr. Speaker, with unemployment at a 26-year high, a record budget deficit and a looming health care bill that punishes taxpayers and bankrupts the government, what is the White House doing? They are attacking Fox News for telling the truth. The White House spokesman says that Fox News is quote, ‘not a news organization,' end quote. We need to fact check the White House on whatever they say about Fox and any legislation since they are not being straight with the American people."
The
October 23, 2009 - 09:20 ET by jessieHThe white house and the media are afraid of Fox. They lie through their teeth to the people and the media repeats their lies. Fox News tells the truth to the people and the white house tells the media to destroy them with lies. The media isn't the media, anymore. They are boot lickers. Sellouts. Propaganda pushers. Call them anything but journalists.
Taliban Yes, Fox No
October 23, 2009 - 10:00 ET by slickwillie2001It appears that the Bamster is literally begging the Taliban for direct talks, yet he won't talk with Chris Wallace. What a hopeless doofus.
Obama Administration Pleaded With Mullah Omar for Talks: http://www.weaselzippers.net
Well you have to admit...
October 23, 2009 - 11:00 ET by Patriot IIThis is a change of pace! I got sick and tired of hearing the narcissistic clown blaming everything up to and including his dog peeing on the carpet on Bush....at least he has switched temporarily to Fox news!! This clown has to go....I have two initials for him I. and I. "impeach and imprison the alien phony"!!!!imho
Rep. Smith (R-TX)
October 23, 2009 - 17:18 ET by UnsaneI have spend much of my adult life in Lamar Smith's district. If only I could be in his district today instead of that idiot Lloyd Doggett.
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