White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that the Fox News Channel is "not really a news station" and that much of the programming is "not really news."We know that the White House monitors CNN and MSNBC. Don't they have a perspective too? Don't they do a lot of opinion programming?
"I’m not concerned," Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week" when George Stephanopoulos asked about the back-and-forth between the White House and Fox News, founded by Rupert Murdoch.
"Mr. Murdoch has a talent for making money, and I understand that their programming is geared toward making money. The only argument [White House communications director] Anita [Dunn] was making is that they’re not really a news station if you watch even — it’s not just their commentators, but a lot of their news programming.
"It’s really not news — it’s pushing a point of view. And the bigger thing is that other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way. We’re going to appear on their shows. We’re going to participate but understanding that they represent a point of view.”
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Fox "is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective."
"It’s not so much a conflict with Fox News," Emanuel told John King. "I suppose the way to look at it and the way … the president looks at it, we look at it is: It’s not a news organization so much as it has a perspective. And that’s a different take. And more importantly, is not have the CNNs and the others in the world basically be led in following Fox, as if what they’re trying to do is a legitimate news organization …
Or could it be that their opinions so closely track with the White House the spokesholes can no longer differentiate between opinion and fact?
The White House is playing a foolish game devoting so much attention to Fox, and thus driving their ratings to new heights. And, according to the NY Times, Fox has already won the war.
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Why is Mr. Axlerod even talking,he wouldnd't know what to do if he was concerned. This group of insiders are worse than grammer school children trying to play government officials. In other words they are a joke.
Maybe a joke, but a bad one indeed. It is difficult to laugh at the money being lavished on groups and organizations that rely upon extortion and deceit for modus operandi.
It is difficult to imagine how any presidency could survive open support of Acorn!
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