Brushing off suggestions Tuesday the media is not critical enough of his administration, President Obama couldn't help but take aim at one cable news channel in particular.
"It's very hard for me to swallow that one," Obama told CNBC when asked whether he thinks the media is too easy on him. "First of all, I've got one television station entirely devoted to attacking my administration."
The interviewer quickly assumed Obama was referring to Fox News, a suggestion the president didn't disagree with.
"Well, that's a pretty big megaphone," he said. "And you'd be hard-pressed, if you watched the entire day, to find a positive story about me on that front."
"We welcome people who are asking us some, you know, tough questions," he continued. "And I think that I've been probably as accessible as any president in the first six months–press conferences, taking questions from reporters, being held accountable, being transparent about what it is that we're trying to do. I think that, actually, the reason that people have been generally positive about what we've tried to do is they feel as if I'm available and willing to answer questions, and we haven't been trying to hide them all. "
Not mentioned is the fact that in a number of those press conferences everyone from crazy left-wing radio hosts to all the major networks got questions...except Fox News. He's clearly afraid of them because they're not blindly parroting everything he says.
And Fox has yet to do a two hour wet kiss White House tour as NBC did, or give him an hour in prime time to debate himself on the issue of health care as ABC plans to do.
Shame on them. How can they refuse to fall in line with the rest of the sheep in the media?
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