Axelrod: Fox News Is ‘Not Really A News Organization’

FOX News is like most of the rest of the programming on its network….trash. Murdoch has made a fortune pawning trash TV to the American public while decrying the breakdown of civilization. They have made an institution of hypocrisy.

it’s called Fox Faux for a reason..

The only reason the WH is declaring war with Fox is because Obama’s got the rest of the news organizations in his back pocket, but Fox won’t bow to His Highness.

Fox News hammers the Government for their bad decisions be it GOP run or Dem run. We are Canadian/English and firmly believe that Fox News is more fair than the others combined

Mr. Arod’s comments indicate to me that he is using his skill as a WH spokesman to convince the public of another falsehood. If FOX is not a news network then why do they even bother to mention it. I think they are scared. Afterall what happened to that energy czar freak that disappeared so suddenly from the picture. Now it is time for Anita Dunn and Mark Lloyd to go as well. Anita Dunn thinks Mao Tse Tung is great!! Good grief people wake up and smell the crack.Lloyd thinks Chavez is wonderful.OMG!!!!!!

FOX is at the top of the idiot tier. It is a tabloid network-no news, just opinions. Close behind are the other ‘networks’. Yellow journalism. ABC-CBS-MSNBC report and slant gossip garbage for the most part. FOX creates the garbage.

create ‘classes’, and encourage warfare between them…

FOX NEWS! “Biggoted and Slanted”!!

To all you Fox News supporters stop drinking the cool-aid. Ever since the Fox News network went on the air in 1996 they were never a news outlet, but the communication arm of the Republican Party and still are. They wouldn’t know what was fair and balance was if it hit them in the face.

Please George…
you know Rahm.
Can you tell him that this strategy is so asinine, demeans the presidency, and makes someone like me, who wants the policies of this administration to succeed, be so totally turned off by the thuggery of the Chicago advisers?
Anita Dunn, Gibbs, Axelrod, Emanuel… and, sadly, Obama… STOP.
You make yourselves look small.
Obama promised to be the president of all Americans, to listen especially when they disagree.
Regardless of the news content at Fox, it is the channel that troops in Iraq and Afghanistan tune into, that people throughout this country tune into — Americans.
What do you gain by dissing so many people?
I am so disgusted. So absolutely disgusted by the lack of decency, the inability to take the high road, and the disrespect for presidential prestige displayed by this administration.
They’re embarrassing us. And we want President Obama to succeed. We want health care reform, and climate change legislation, and immigration reform, and support the foreign policy by in large.
But this sort of thuggery is appalling and I can’t stand to be so associated with it. It makes me lose my respect for the administration and wish for and administration that would restore respect for all Americans regardless of what they believe.
Why are they so blind and stupid, George????
Please tell Rahm.

The fact that Fox is anti-Obama is immaterial in my opinion. The problem I have with Fox is that they call obvious falsehoods and half-truths news. If you are so against someone or something you should be able to provide truth that shows why the person/idea is so bad, Fox has shown repeatedly that they cannot.
The only time Fox attacks any Republican is when the Republican has said something that doesn’t agree with the Fox storyline.

If Fox is an arm for the GOP then MSNBC and CNN are arms for the Obama administration. The administration attacks on FOX exhibits to me a fear that they have for critism and the massive step the are willing to take to supress freedom of speech. This is not exactly the unity Obama spoke of during his campaign. Appears that division is the name of the game and divide and conquer may be the objective. It is all about perception mr. president….it is all about perception.

This story is simply a subtle attempt by the WH to make future “censorship” of news organizations possible and more socially/politically correct, aided by the liberal media. If Nixon were President today and his staff were making these kind of statements against a news organization, there would be outrage by the media, not what we are seeing now.
Anyway, “news” shows is a relative term. In my area we have a 3-hour “morning news” show with 15 minutes of actual news reports and the rest “chit-chat” among the anchors dealing with non-news nonsense and trivial matters. They do have sexy female anchors though!

I have watched ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN and Fox news is tackling the issues.
It appears that this administration has a problem when a news organization that comes out with legitimate questions about there policies. We have to remember. There was a reason that the fore fathers of this country put in the freedom of the press. It was to keep the people informed of what is going on. So knowing that why would the current administration be attacking a news organization that is telling it like it is. Think about it.

The Fox News Channel is the most trusted news source in America, according to a new poll released by the BBC and Reuters that surveyed 10,000 news consumers around the world.
Asked which news source they most trusted, 11 percent of Americans named Fox News – more than any other news source in the U.S.
Fox News led the broadcast networks by substantial margins, with ABC coming in at 4 percent, NBC – 4 percent and CBS – 3 percent.

more recent?
An annual survey ranked Fox News as the country’s most-trusted news source … and the least-trusted.
Sacred Heart University’s third annual “Trust and Satisfaction with the National News Media Survey” found that Fox News topped the list when people were asked which news source they trust the most.
Fox News had 30% of the vote, then CNN (19.5%), NBC (7.5%) and ABC (7.5%).
When asked for which organization they trusted the least, people picked Fox News again (26.2%), then NBC (9.9%), MSNBC (9.4%) and CNN (8.5%).
Another interesting result from the study: Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly ranked as the most-trusted news anchor on cable TV.

Noam Chomsky Praises Marxist Hugo Chavez But Compares Rightwing Media to Nazis
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 1:00 AM
Jim Hoft
Venezuelan Marxist Hugo Chavez praised Noam Chomsky at the United Nations in 2006 and said Bush was like the devil.
ENOUGH SAID AMERICA DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU ELECTED?

often has liberal commentators —LOL!!! what Fox news has is what a right winger would IMAGINE a liberal commentator to say. But if you actually are not a right winger and you listen to their ‘liberal’ point of view, you grow very confused as to why the ‘liberal’ doesn’t actually KNOW any of the liberal points of view on that topic and curiously looks likes…..he’s acting. Fox News is essentially the news world’s equivalent to professional wrestling.

FOX Noise is much more accurate…..

Axelrod is a little jealous of Fox’s success lately. Actually all the major networks are impartial unfortunately. I actually like Fox business because they ask where is the spending going to take us down the road as opposed to Obama’s cheerleaders on the other networks. Fox does have a lot of Hollywood trash on their front page. This is unfortunate.

I do, on occasion follow the same story with all the Networks. I’ve discovered that Fox will leave out a portion of an AP report because it contradicts the message they are trying to send. Fox absolutely has no class. Never have I heard a New commentator on any channel other than Fox make such outlandish remarks about our President. Hannity said on the day that President Obama was elected “He would be nothing without Oprah”. President Obama had graduated from one the most prestigious Universities in the US with a very high grade point average, was a community organizer and state legislator before he met Oprah. Hannity, Limbaugh and Glen Beck however couldn’t make it through the first semester of a second rate college. Fox spoon feeds hate, paranoia, and lies.

Good grief! These guys won’t let it go. They have used all the other networks to promote their healthcare agenda, economic stimulus program, etc. Imagine the outrage from the liberals if the Bush administration would have favored Fox News. 2012 can’t come soon enough to get these clowns out of the Washington.

Mr. Axelorod needs to concentrate on REAL issues instead of initiating a smear campaign against everyone who disagrees with Obama. I am a Democrat who is totally disgusted with this administation. If they only spent an ounce of time working on real problems like the economy, wars, etc. instead of promoting their Socialism agenda they might earn a little respect. Can’t wait until 2010 so we can start getting rid of the Democratic mess. Yes I am through with the Democratic Party. I didn’t like George Bush but he looks like a saint compared to this group!!!

NBC – National Barack Cheerleaders, ABC – All Barack Cheerleaders. No news organizations there. Just a bunch of cheerleaders that “get a tingle running up and down” their legs whenever Obama speaks. How pathetic that this administration cannot fathom non-sanctioned reporting. And how embarassing as an American to see my President whine so much. I guess the “blame Bush” tact has run its course and this is what they have now devolved to.

Fox news is not news organisation. Then, what is it? He said, ‘It’s really not news, it’s pushing a point of view.” Which news organisation does not sell their point of view? All have. What he said like he was convincing 5 years old kids. That was not a problem of wrong public speech. It was an attitude that he thought Americans were easily convinced by simply twisting the facts.

Fox News never reports anything good that the present government is doing. Everthing is negative. News should be balanced and objective. Hanity hates the President so much, you can see toxic fumes coming out of his mouth whenever he mentions the president name.

I see the right-wing Sour Grape Kool-Aid drinkers (now in convenient teabag dispensers)are out in force today. Such anger over calling out their Lord and Master’s entertainment for what it is.
Oh, and Jon Stewart was the most trusted cable news person, not anyone on Fox. How about that, a real comedian beat out all the wannabes.

How much more whining are we going to get from this administration?

Fox can’t even get a defition correct. Socialize medicine is when the government OWNS the medical community – owns the hospitals, owns the actual medicine, owns the laboratoris, pays the doctor’s bills. The VA is socialized medicine. Why, if right wingers are so up in arms about not having socialized medicine, why are htey not freaking out saying the VA should go private???? and why, for the love of God, are they calling having health insurance, “socialized medicine”???? Does no one on Fox news not have a freakn dictionary????

This administration is out of touch.
Jon Stewart’s criticism of the news industry in “The Audacity of Hos” is spot-on (and hillarious). Even SNL’s little skit reflects the obvious … this administration is incompetent. Unfortunately, most of the mass news media is blind to it.
Let’s hope no one else in this administration idolizes Chairman Mao or the other atheistic communist murderers that have polluted history. Be careful out there … don’t get on their enemies list.

to view fox news as “fair and balanced” pretty much went out the window year’s ago…it’s easy to test the validity of axelrod’s statement, even for a college dropout like me! compare headlines from the major news brands and then read the stories. fox news always embellishes and reinfoces any story that boosts conservative morale/ republican agenda… however you want to look at it. shep smith is cute though. i’m pretty sure he’s an alien though.

They all bias the story mainly through omitting parts that do not tend to support their agendas. A good example is the huge story about Bush vs Chaney over pardoning. The left side made a big deal out of this and omitted the real story which is the difference between Bush not pardoning anyone compared to all that came before him. Big omission.
I watch FOX. I find it less biased when it comes to the news.

hey seriously- i think you are correct. hey stanley- i think you are incorrect.

Thus, i’m a bit perplexed as to why the WH is so fearful of FOX and what some of their opininated pieces have to say. —–I dont think by saying “they’re phoney baloney” is saying that you fear them. Just the opposite. Fox doesn’t simply have different opinions. They omit HUGE things from their stories, they slant what they report to support their agenda. you watch the same news story from three stations, NBC or some such, Fox and then NPR or CNN, and by far, you will get the most indebt analysis of a story from CNN or NPR. They are new stations, they have the time, the budget and they will dissect the story andthe history behind it, like a ruling from the supreme court. For instance, when is the last time you heard of a recent ruling from the supreme court reported on Fox????? Ever???? NPR reports each and every supreme court ruling as it is handed down and goes into the indebt details ofthe case and which judge voted which way. THAT is news. If there is a big news day, like the day Lehman Brothers fell, you go on NPR and they all about Lehman, have economist on saying what does this mean, on CNN, same thing, on NBC, they report it, maybe 3 minutes, on to the sports…on FOX….all you hear for a solid straight half an hour is “Bill Ayers…” You’d think somethign that happened 20 years ago was more important than an indication that our economy was about to go in free fall. I dont think one Fox news watcher would have even known Lehman fell on the day it did, nevermind what the bigger repercussions of that meant. Sure, they’re all happy wiht the news they got that day. How did they know they just missed a HUGE happening in our country. how did they know? Did they ever? does anyone on here remember the day Lehman fell? And the anxiety that brought to folks? I’m sorry, but fox news is NOT news. It is sensational entertainment. Compare what is being reported on the NEWS that day and it takes about two days to see the glaring difference.

Is it in fact that Fox News isn’t a ‘News Channel’ or is that the content is such that the Administration isn’t happy with it? Case in point Obama’s 43 Czars.

If it comes down to whether FOX or Obama is telling us the truth, I’d take FOX any day of the week and twice on Sunday!

Judging by their ratings the majority of Americans would disagree with dilrods comments! If I was the Obama administration I would worry more about Iran, Pakistan, Russia and China……….they think he is a clown and seem to enjuoy yanking his chain!!

To many(most?), the president’s spat with Fox News is childish and immature.

Everyone at faux news should be jailed and waterboarded. Hannity and beck can be given shock treatment continuously.

For all of you that are shock by news that fox news is not a real news station. It will also shock you when I tell there is know santa clause or tooth ferry.There is some good news, no boogie man are under your bed. But if you still belive it is real news organzation, I have a bridge in brooklyn I can sell you. And the aliens are coming so drink the kool aid

the president’s spat with Fox News —-What spat? It’s Fox who keeps crying Obama wont appear. Obama is the president of the United STates. He’s a busy man. He could give two craps about Fox. His spokesperson is simply answering a question. “THEY ARE NOT NEWS” is simply an answer to a question.

I am an independent that tilts democratic. i do watch foxnews and i love o’reilly. The problem with hannity and glenn is they seem to preach to the few extremes in the US. Just like MSNBC’s olbermann. There must be some decency in opinionated reporting; calling a president racist without any evidence is not and should never be considered decent!
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Seriously, if cons are so against socialized medicine, why has it been good enough for our troops? Where have you people been all this time? And even now? Why have you not been crying and whining to get Veterans health care privatized? Why are you not crying to have it changed now? Answer this, right wingers!

“The fact that Fox is anti-Obama is immaterial in my opinion. The problem I have with Fox is that they call obvious falsehoods and half-truths news. If you are so against someone or something you should be able to provide truth that shows why the person/idea is so bad, Fox has shown repeatedly that they cannot.
The only time Fox attacks any Republican is when the Republican has said something that doesn’t agree with the Fox storyline.
Posted by: Tom | Oct 18, 2009 11:01:08 AM”
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Alright now, present some credible evidence to support that false babble.

Fox news is the only one creditable any more. The rest have their heads stuck up the white houses’ rear. They will say whatever they are told to say.

So Fox News is the only news group pushing an ‘opinion’? Oh Really? I guess MSNBC is straight down the middle huh? I guess Keith and Maddow are just a bunch of neutral observers on their shows?
Please people. Don’t listen to this joker or anyone else in the WH. Also ABC, NBC, CBS, etc, don’t you want to at least question the WH on this sort of thing? What happens when you guys are against an admin, you will be next.
BTW people, watch Fox, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS for youselves and make judgement. Don’t let people tell you what is bias or what, figure it out for yourself.

Why are they so obsessed over Fox News?

Hey President Obama…..might want to tell your staff to stop showing their immaturity and inexperience by taking the “bait”. Turning this into a school-yard girl fight does absolutely nothing to help your position, and will most likely be used against you by Fox as “proof” that you are a Marxist Socialist who wants to control the media. Axelrod’s comments just gave Fox an entire week of headline stories and I bet Hannity/Beck/O’Reilly are busy celebrating and trying to decide how best to spin this to their MILLIONS of viewers. Even CNN and MSNBC are shaking their heads at the stupidity. Wait a minute….I wonder….are your people really so thin-skinned and naive….or….is this just a ploy to get Fox talking about something other than the health care/cap and trade bills??? Not bad……………

I agree with Jenna’s comments about wanting our President to succeed. Why does his administration feel they need to come at a Network? Don’t we have National issues his administration can be putting their efforts towards?
I am a conservative and feel that FOX News right now is discussing issues that I feel are important. Shouldn’t people like me be represented, too? What right does the President have to stifle my 2nd amendment rights? Isn’t that why we have the 3 branches of gov’t? I am fearful that he oversteps his powers as he appoints his czars without governmental (by the people) vetting. What can WE do?
On a different point, why do so many people refer to our president by his first name? Those songs that those kids were singing, refered to him as Barack. It’s just another feather in the cap of disrespect for this man. Have you seen the video of the Russians refusing to shake his hand and his reaction? (like a chastised school boy)
So, it does not surprise me that he has taken his eye off the real issues and is fighting the Fox News network. Americans contact your congressmen/women and let your voices be heard. We may have 4 years with Mr. Obama, but we don’t have to have 4 years with the same congress. VOTE

malcat … way to go dude!

Wow, they must be really scared of you, Fox! Keep up the good work.

What’s funny is EVERY other “news” channel out there spews liberal based propaganda. At least the folks at FOX admit that they are republicans and know the difference between news and opinion. Another example of if you disagree with King oh wait that’s presidant Obama then you’re under attack. What’s happening to our country is sad and people better wake up.

Mr. Axelrod has got it all wrong. FOX is the only news organization in the country, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and spanish/latino Univision are arms of Obama’s Socialist White House. If you really want to know the truth you have to watch FOX or else listen to talk radio or look for the facts and the truth in the internet. It’s OK George let them keep it up, they are just digging themselves into a deeper hole little by little, the American people know what is going on. Even liberals are beginning to doubt Obama, he is great at talking but not at delivery. By the way you asked the best questions to Obama during his interview with you!

For instance, when is the last time you heard of a recent ruling from the supreme court reported on Fox????? Ever????
——–THE FOX NEWS SHOW! Nice try. We’re not talking about obama appearing on a website, are we? The Fox News Show has NEVER reported on a supreme court decision. Everytime I drive home and hear NPR do an indebt analysis of a supreme court decision, I come home and turn on Fox news just for kicks and see what they reported that day and it’s hysterical. When Lehman brothers fell I came home and turned on Fox news and you’d think the biggest story in the nation that day was a guy named Ayers. How many Fox news WATCHERS on here even remember the day Lehman fell?????? You didn’t even know it did, did you? and if you did, it had to have been someplace other than Fox.

axelhood and the rest of obamas clowns are just a bunch of chicago scumbags, and obama said to judge him by who he hangs around with , so he must be a csb

Boo, Hoo, Fox is not real news! What a bunch of whiners. Fox is more accurate then most. Especially the organization that sez “Our Healthcare reform will not add one thin dime to the deficit”. The White House is after Fox because their investigative journalism has outed so many administration officials by exposing this administrations Maoist and Communist bias.

REV JEREMIAH WRIGHT says he always watches fox news.

David Axelrod is illogical.
MSNBC is pushing “one view.” Just watch their commentators to realize this. Why does he not call MSNBC out for pushing “one view.”
The White House is ridiculous.

They are just mad because fox news doesnt like him, every other news channel like ABC, NBC, CBS, etc… are biased and only talk about democrats and talk down to republicans/conservatives all the time. Thats why i stopped watching ABC most of the time. Its a bunch of hippie liberal bull

I don’t for one minute believe that they are a republican mouthpiece simply because they disagree with many of the policies of the Obama administration—-I dont either. I think their lack of reporting of anything good that smells of partisanship for me. FOr instance. LAst year this time, we had over 600,000 layoffs PER MONTH. This past month, how many??? If you listen to other news sources you would know. WE went from 600,000 layoffs a month to 12,000 a month last year, clearly indicating that we are coming OUT of the recession. Did you hear those numbers from Fox news? No. If you listen to fox news, you think we’re headed INTO recession and deep depression even though every indicator is that we’re improving. It is the OMMISSION of news and facts shows how partisan Fox is. Fox NEVER reported on democrats having hearings on Predatorial Lending Practices before the meltdown. Why not? Well, then, it would make democrats look smart, on the ball, ahead of the ball and predicting what came down 6 months later. If you only watch Fox, you think democrats had no idea it was coming or was doing anything to stop it. How convienent.

New headline…
Non kool-aid drinking Americans: Mr. Axelrod’s boss is “not really a world leader.”

If you watch carefully, their news is cherry picked to attack this administration at all times. The news itself is embellished with heresay and not news at all. FALSE NEWS NETWORK would be more apt.

All these news channels are pushing their own agenda. I switch from one channel to another to see what different shows are reporting. I watched MSNBC Morning Meeting and it was the most bias disgusting show I have ever seen! Fox News is News. Yes, they have a more conservative agenda…but they by far show more of both sides than any other news channel I have watched. They have some very conservative/anti liberal programs that are NOT news shows. Fox News is excellent on covering all sides of issues though. This administration is going after them as “not really news” because they are the only station calling this administration out on serious issues. Axelrod was stumbling all over the place this morning. He went way out of his way not to answer some important questions. It is obvious he was sent to do damage control.

Fox News Is ‘Not Really A News Organization’??
Yeah, right!! Fox is the closest thing America HAS to a real news organization. The likes of ABC News, MSNBC, CBS, CNN, Al Jazera; they’ve all followed the National Enquirer model… no investigation, maximum sensationalism, sell advertising, and entertain (vice inform).
But then again, I’m not surprised that Obama, like Clinton, would try to redefine a term in common usage… like NEWS!!!
Hey, Axelrod, go fly a kite!!! You have 380 days before the INDEPENDENTS in this country send you and yours back to the STONE AGE!!!

Dunn and Axelrod are both idiots! As a retired Engineering Manager I believe I know stupidity and political BS when I see it! This whole administration with it’s self-righteous Craz’s and not so hidden agendas are a group of self serving socialist lairs. Hopefully the rest of the country will figure it out by November 2010!

OK, “Seriously”, your posts clearly demonstrate a total lack of respect for all who disagree with you. Yes, I (white, conservative and leaning to the right) am quite aware Lehman fell; I knew it the day it happened and knew it was coming before it happened. I heard about it on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, ABC and CBS. You are either deaf, blind, or just plain so biased you hear and see only what you want to see. Instead of tuning in a station just so you can mock others, tune in to listen to all viewpoints. It’s what an intelligent, reasonable, unbiased person would do.

I thought I would watch “This Week” for a change. A minute after George Stephanopoulos asked David Axelrod the pre-assigned question, “Is President Obama tough enough” and Axelrod began to drone-on with tired rhetoric geared to an eight-grade audience, I ‘clicked’ off the TV set and went on to other endeavors. And they criticize Fox News?

Hey ‘mom’, don’t stop watching any of them. I’m conservative as heck, but I do my darndest to listen to all viewpoints. If we don’t know or undertand the opposing view, how can we speak out against it?

I don’t see anything untrue about the statement. Fox is a branch of the GOP, always has been. Their views are horribly slanted to the point where it is ridiculous. They pass on slanted GOP favorable stories, that are questionable at best, as if it were gospel. I think they should have to change the name of their broadcast to something like “The Globe” or the National Star… perhaps “The GOP Shill” might be more appropriate.

Dan the Man
You think cnn,msnbc,and the others dont do the same thing, except tilt their stories in the opposite direction, if you think they dont, you need help.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. Patton

This just tells me that BO and his lackeys are running ABC now…..

seriously – this administration had nothing to do with the slowing of layoffs – it is part of the natural economic cycle. It would have slowed without any government intervention. Heck – we are exactly on track for what the analysts said would happen if the government did nothing. And I happen to watch all of the news channels to get all sides of the issues – do you?

To DTH: First and most important, Thank you, thank you for your service. The sacrifices you and your loved ones are making ARE appreciated. I mean that sincerely, deeply and without reservation. Please take care of yourself and your fellow warriors. I pray everynight that all of you will be able to come home soon…well and whole. I currently have 3 family/friends in Iraq, 1 family in Afghanistan and 5 scattered around the globe. Every warrior that falls has earned the highest respect and honor the US can give.
My husband has Tricare due to military retirement now; it’s good insurance. And it provides excellent financial support after Mediare. My brother is disabled due to service in Viet Nam. In our area, he has to obtain healthcare for those medical problems from VA. It’s not the best, but it’s not the worst.
Again, be safe!

Nixon tried this stuff in his day!

Chairman Mao would be proud of Axelrod

Malcat, this debate has run its course, lets talk about something interesting. Do you read Camille Paglia? Paglia writes for Salon. You can link to her through Drudge. She is seriously brilliant and often surprising. I find her independent views on many issues totally refreshing. She is unpredictable, and unafraid to criticize anyone on either side of the aisle. I recommend her to everyone, regardless of their politics.

sieg heil! Yes, Fox is not really a news organization.
And Herr Alexrod is not really an unscrupulous influence peddler from that great Chicago dirtbag tradition that is such a fine model for political virtue. Hey, earth to Dave stick to lining your family’s pockets and pushing your leftist agenda. And most of all keep trying to shut down all dissent while pretending to advance freedom. You and the Chicago cow(s) you rode in on.

I mean, I recommend Paglia to everyone I know who is able to process what she says, IE, the intellectual people that I know. Your concise writing tells me you are one of those intelligent people!!!!!!!!

My God! What do these libs want? Is it not enough that ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NYTs, WaPo, LA TIMEs, etc. are in 100% lock-step with this administration? Are they looking for complete control of the media by the government the way China, Venezuela, and other Communist countries that they admire have?
Is it really so bad to have one news organization that is willing to hold Obama’s feet to the fire and approach his socialist policies with a skeptical eye?
What good are the media if they are not asking the hard probing questions and providing opposing viewpoints to what the government is saying?
Will the libs be calling ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NYTs, WaPo, LA TIMEs, etc. “fake” news organizations the next time we have a Republican President and they start questioning & criticizing that administration? What hypocrites!

no NDMOMx2, I haven’t read her writings. I will try to do so. I try to stick with news shows versus commentary. I prefer to read facts and then make my own decisions..most of the time. For instance, I don’t spend a lot of time watching Hannity, Beck, Chris Wallace and so forth.
I once accidently flipped to FOX when Rush was on; broke a fingernail changing channels.
I never listen to those analysis things media do after the President speaks. They ALL are biased. I heard what the President says; I do not want to hear some talking head tell me what he ‘really’ said. I’m just that way.

Benjamin, your viewing is way too narrow, if for no other reason than you ought to inform yourself on how the opposition thinks. Take off the blinders and listen to everyone. You don’t have to agree with them, but at least know how your fellow Americans think. And respect that they can have an differing point of view. It is called democracy!

Fox news: it’s not news, it’s a lot of people yelling and screaming and sounding like hysterics. In my more innocent days, I thought it was just a couple of the commentators. I know better now so my opinion of Fox has not changed. I look to other media outlets for a more balanced view of the news.

Thanks for the compliment, NDMOMx2. I try to use what brains God gave me.
Can I ask a question: without revealing any personal info you don’t want to, but what does you ‘name’ mean? I like it!

I wonder why he doesn’t complain about MSNBC pushing a point of view. Probably because it’s Obama’s point of view that’s being pushed.
Stop whining, you losers. This is a distraction from your failure of you super-brilliant “stimulus” pork bill to fix the economy, you inability to prosecute an effective wartime strategy in Afghanistan and your failure to convince the American electorate that a government takeover of health care is in their best interest.
Get back to work, you crybabies.

Yes, you may ask what my name means, my children went to a little school in South Bend, Indiana. We’re a Notre Dame family…with some Ivy League thrown in.

to JGR: There are many different “shows” on the air on many channels where talking heads scream and yell. Those are commentaries, not news. Fox News broadcasts are news. You may not agree with the stories they cover, but it’s news. As are news broadcasts by other stations. They also pick and choose the stories they want to cover. ALL media is biased!! We haven’t had unbiased news in this country for many years. That’s why I listen to them all, research, and make my decisions using my brains instead of letting someone else (liberal or conservative) tell me what to think or believe.

Terrence ODay – You are 100% correct about one thing! FOX has the sexiest and smartest anchors, they are much more sexier and much more smarter than all of the other news media organization combined, and they are by far the fairest and most balanced news group, that is why they have exceed all others in their viewership. Too bad for Obama and Axelrod that they have decided to stay away from FOX, I guess they are afraid to face the music!

Yes, all of the news organizations push a “point of view”. It just so happens that ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN all push the same point of view as the Obama administration. Let’s see – Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Anderson Cooper, etc…..all have the same point of view as the President. Fox just doesn’t happen to have the same “point of view” as the administration.
It’s SO obvious that they want to silence their opponents and create a “warfare” between the ideologies so that the American public doesn’t know what’s really going on. And it’s a sign of desperation. Really classy on the part of our government to use taxpayer dollars to target independent media.

Axelrod this old played out thug tactics trying to discredit someone who opposes your views is tiresome and just doesnt work. Nobody is litening to you that has any education. See most people are tired of these antics and it actully works against you. So the bigger question is are you trying to discredit them because the administration was unable to monitor the big bonuses the bank executives are receiving after they were bailed out by tax payer monies? Or how about not being transparent with the health care bill or maybe Obamas promise not to raise taxes on anyone making under 200,000 dollars or the inability to maske a decision in Afganistan or maybe the 10% unemployment rate or maybe the 1.4 trillion dollar deficit? My god I just started to name a few things that this administration has failed to address this quiote scarry. Nevermind Axelrod keep trying to discredit people because I just realized we are in worse shape than I thought!

“Fox News blows away this network and others week-in, week-out. How does Axelrod explain this? Rush Limbaugh blows away the radio competition, day-in, day-out. How does Axelrod explain this? Conservative books often hold the top 10 NY Times book list week-in, week-out. How does Axelrod explain this. Sarah Palin’s book is a bestseller on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and is in Amazon’s top 100 bestseller list. Curious, since the book hasn’t been released yet (November 17th). How does Axelrod explain this?”……… Oh here, let me explain this. Jerry Springer seems to still have a show, correct? There is no shortage of idiots in this country. Frankly I think ALL NEWS is messed up. I just happen to get that Fox is about the worst. You guys that lap up Fox would remain O.K. if you’d knock off ONLY watching Fox. That’s where the problem is.

Malcat, you know we were all tuned in yesterday..it is a family affair. Even the in-law is a Triple Domer. Well, the odds makers were wrong on the point spread, and the Irish made it a roller coaster ride in the fourth quarter. But surely your neighbor didn’t think the Irish would beat Southern Cal? Speaking of names, do you have a bad cat? LOL!

Everyone should watch Fox occasionally to get a different perspective. But those who believe that Fox is the only one to be “telling it like it is” and the only one “to really be giving Americans the scoop” is delusional -> you have surrendered your brain to Rupert Murdoch -> he owns you, you no longer think for yourself. And the beauty of it all is that he is so skilled with the spin that he makes people think that if they watch Fox, they’re the “true independents.”

“There are many different “shows” on the air on many channels where talking heads scream and yell. Those are commentaries, not news. Fox News broadcasts are news. You may not agree with the stories they cover, but it’s news.”………. I’ve noticed something over on Fox. Beck or Hannity will choose the days talking point. Say, “Obama has a secret czar government.” Maybe they’ll choose the latest czar to go after. Then what does Fox “news” run all day? Any story they can to give creedence to this. A wad of which is bogus trumped up nothing. Do this enough 24/7 and you can have people believing anything. The next day you have it on see if you can spot the theme.

ncpilot10, 11% of Americans thought Richard B Cheney was doing a great job even up to the bitter end of the disaster that was the Bush/Cheney administration. So to use a stat that says that 11% of Americans cite Fox as their news organization of choice tells a critical thinker NOTHING except perhaps confirms how thoroughly duped 11% of Americans are. Pull up your plane before it stalls…

This White House administration wants a government run news agency so that the American people will only hear what they want us to hear.

“I almost fell out my seat laughing when I read this. Are you kidding me???? In the USSR, the media did not DARE ask hard questions or criticize the government. To do so would have landed them in prison. Fox is the ONLY news organization in this country asking the hard questions and offering critical analysis of this administration. “………. Key words – “This administration.” See, this one is all evil. That last one was perfect. An example might be “when in the WORLD did “feel good” war reporting become a trend?” Why, when it was Bush’s war. Over on Fox they ran fluff pieces about how we built a school.

OMG FOX NEWS opinion shows sheds light on the real agenda of the White House. How awful is that for the country? MSNC and CNN are ‘real news outlets’?That is laughable. I think the first item of this administration is to get rid of media that upholds the public interest and not the interest of the White House. I believe that is how China, Iran, Cuba, Russia, and Chavez operates. Can we not go there? Let all media live or die by how many people watch or read them. Can the Obama Administration really stand up for America out in the world if they are afraid of FOX NEWS?

Actually Obama’s fools shouldn’t even try to trash National Enquirer…since even they have more accurate than Obama’s typical propaganda sites like MSNBC and even ABC. Who was it again that broke from the kool-aid crowd and first released the story of John Edwards and his hanky panky? Oh yeah, the National Enquirer. There was a time that I would laugh at anyone claiming the NE was actually news, but given what Obama’s site pass off as news, even the NE is more worthy of news title than they.

Glenn Beck unleashed on Mao loving Dunn (Obama’s girl) who earlier in the week declared war on Fox. Glenn Beck has since been making fun of Dunn and her love affair with the mass murderer Mao and her comments of war. Beck even put up a direct line to his station for Obama’s administration particularily the fool DUNN (who is the only one with the number to this particular line) to call him IF ANYTHING BECK SAYS IS ANY WAY INACCURATE about the corrupt administration known as Obama. Of course, they can’t call because Beck has been dead on…but this leaves Obama/axelrod/dunn in a very bad situation…..Obama must now toss Dunn under the bus since her love affair with all Mao has come to light, but what an embarrassment for Obama so now Axelrod and I am sure others will slowly be put in to take over for Dunn.

So when does this White House pull a Hugo Chavez and take over all the news media? We have a Dictator in the making and we can thank all those that voted for this corrupt Illinois politician in into office! All the other news media is already in his pocket!

Every network has hard news shows and opinion shows. While I’ve heard blatant cheerleading for Obama on NBC, ABC and CBS hard news shows, I’ve never heard any cheerleading for either Bush or Obama on Fox’s hard news. As far as the opinion shows, they’re just like the op-ed pages in the newspapers…opinions. Apparently, the White House doesn’t like some of the opinions expressed on Fox. If they’re upset because some disagree with them, they’re wasting a lot of time being upset.

What is the White House scared of FOX news? I mean BUSH never did this to NBC despite the trashing from MSNBC. Isn’t Chavez doing something like this, too? I would think some alarm bells should be going off in those who support the 1st Amendment. Why is it the executive branch of the government’s job to attack the media for doing it’s job.

Seems like this is a warning to Fox…you’d better get in line with the other networks and only report favorable administration news! Can a government takeover of Fox be far off?

Chris | Oct 18, 2009 10:45:54 AM you said….Fox News hammers the Government for their bad decisions be it GOP run or Dem run…………. Your comment simply isn’t serious – on election night, the FoxNews roundtable was a public wake – only the Greek choir bemoaning the loss of its soulmates Palin and (less so) McCain was missing.

Fox news viewers demand a certain point of view and Murdoch who was up front when he launched his news admitted that… by saying he was going to represent the conservative point of view because he believed that the other news channels were giving the liberal point of view. To Fox viewers and Murdoch, “liberal” is anything that they don’t want to hear …Fox obliges their viewers with trash that they want to hear, making it impossible to separate news facts from news opinion. It’s pathetic!

Axelrod please stop using these played out attacks on someone who disagrees with you. We are all aware of these tactics and they just dont work anymore. These tactics usually demonstrate something you are trying to hide or discredit. So what are you and the White House trying to discredit? Maybe the transparency promise where we now have a few hiding behind closed doors writing a health care bill? Or maybe allowing the public to view it 72 hours before it is voted on? Or maybe the reconciliation approval? Or maybe the banks our tax dollars went to bail them out and their still getting multi million dollar bonuses. Or maybe 10% unemployment and the fact the half the stimulus money created 30,000 jobs at a cost of $500,000 per job of tax payers money or maybe the 1.4 trillion dollar deficit that will burden generations to come to pay it back? Or maybe the inability to make a decision in Afganistan? Geez I better quit now before I really get depressed!

Seriously, geez go back to school….Freddie and Fannie guaranteeing bad loan risks (thus inducing orginators and lenders which could be defined as a foreseeable MORAL HAZARD) which in turned encourage bad loans. Was it the only reason? No, but it was one of the major ones. It along with the Housing queen Barney Franks little law forcing banks and lenders to have a GOOD COMMUNITY SCORE really screwed us all. You see the housing queen and Obama’s best bud ACORN had a legalized criminal racket going with the Home lending. Ghettos and other other bad risk areas were were forced upon banks if a bank ever wanted a COMMUNITY SCORE good enough to grow or expand…the only way a bank could avoid these forced loans to druggies and other bad risk was………TO DONATE DIRECTLY TO ACORN according the law. If ACORN didn’t get shown (APPRECIATION) then they COMMUNITY ORGANIZE to extort the bank. Blagovich’s appreciation should be ringing bells when thinking of Obama and ACorn and Barney Franks.

FauxNews is pathetic, and I automatically lose any respect for anyone who believes anything that is said on Murdoch’s network. I think the “National Enquirer” has more credence as a serious journalistic endeavor. Beck, Hannity and (of course) Bill-O all blatantly push their far-right agenda across as “fair and balanced” reporting, when it’s obvious to anyone with half a brain that their agenda is the spread of false propaganda designed to enhance the stature of the right, and to use scare tactics on people in order to discredit the left.
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LOL. Obviously you never watched OReilly. OReilly defends Obama more than anyone else on Fox. I cant stand when he does that, even though I admire him for trying to be neutral. I dont want neutral, I want his opinion. And try to discredit the left?? Thats not hard to do. Look at all the BS you Liberals are doing out there, ruining this country. And then you wonder why jobs are going overseas, and our economy is tanking. Your agenda is whats killing this country…too much spending, too many taxes, and no leadership. You are quite pathetic.

What the White House means is that Fox is the only NEWS source not in the hip pocket of the Liberal witchhunters. They are all about freedom of speech unless someone dares be smarter and more realistic than they are. Hilarious! You go, Fox News! We depend upon you for the truth.

Where’s the beef?, before you babble on with claims that Fox news is a branch of the GOP, perhaps you should research work on growing a brain muscle since if you watch Fox news programs take shots at both parties. Glenn Beck is a LIbertarian btw.

Hooloo – Again, seek knowledge, Fannie and Freddy didn’t do it: Federal Reserve Board data shows that:
More than 84 percent of the subprime mortgages in 2006 were issued by private lending institutions.
Private firms made nearly 83 percent of the subprime loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers that year.
Only one of the top 25 subprime lenders in 2006 was directly subject to the housing law that’s being lambasted by conservative critics.

Liberals crying about Fox news is music to my ears… Please keep crying Liberals… PLEASE!

Mr. Axlerod’s answer is to be expected. How else would the administration explain why they are not allowing interviews with FOX NEWS. The administration does not like it when Fox News provides opposing view points. Therefore they will continue to shun Fox News. In the end I believe this to be a mistake on the part of the administration.

Well now atleast Obama can start getting away with his very tired old card of it’s Bush’s fault for his failings. Now, he can say it is Fox’s fault that he is abysmal failure.

Secondlook, first off, I am dudette–not dude. Secondly, Obama is a fascist pig blaming Beck and Fox for Obama’s shortcomings is really pathetic.

Third secondlook, If Fox/Beck said anything not true—–Obama would be able to call Beck and say it isn’t true—but they can’t because you and I and everyone else knows all the nasty very bad things Beck and the others are saying about the fascist pig Obama is very very true.

ells I totally get that. My point is there’s a HUGE difference. One “leans” a way – the other is absolute propaganda that is ALWAYS pro republican. I can’t think of the last time I saw anything but pro-republican on Fox. I frankly think our press is a mess in general and it needs to be addressed. This goes for all of them.

talkhoo you’re killing me. NO PRESIDENT is going to acknowledge some stupid ranting talk show fool by picking up the phone to argue with them. The fact you think they should makes me crack up. What? Since Beck dared that President he should be phoning? It’s absurd. He doesn’t owe Beck anything. Now, be a good Beck supporter and go study up on that Commie art on the Rockerfeller center. Maybe buy some kleenex for the pansy man that cries entirely too much. I can’t believe so many of you buy into his nonsense. And BTW, half of his junk is spin and he’s playing you to make money.

Look how skewed the view of many FOX “News” Channel viewers are, they think a real news network like CNN is liberal. It’s only liberal in the fact that it it actually is fair and balanced. Thanks to the warped view of the world that FOX provides, many viewer can’t tell the truth, if it slapped them in the face. In addition, just because MSNBC is really a liberal mouth piece it doesn’t change the fact that FOX “NEWS” isn’t full of half truths.
I can honestly say I include a regular diet of all the the “news” networks, including MSNBC and FOX news. And while I’m listening I put on my critical thinking hat on and actually analyze what I’m hearing. If everyone did that there’d be no issue. The great danger of FOX “NEWS” is that it has an enormous audience of people who don’t think about what they are hearing enough to see that a good amount of what FOX “NEWS” is spewing doesn’t add up. It’s easy to get angry, It’s easy to be scared, It’s hard to sit back and think your way through the garbage.
Finally, I’m in the US Army and we are not liberal, we are not conservatives we are Americans. The Military is full of a bunch of people, with many different views of life. Don’t lump us into one point of view.

Anita Dunn is just ticked because Fox blew the lid off the fact that she stated in a commencement address that she admires Mao Tse Tung as one of her favorite political philosophers.

of course she thought ND would win; she thinks they could beat Heaven’s angels!
My name is based on 2 things. The ‘mal’ is the first part of a nickname given to me by, of all people, an FBI agent. I used to do fraud investigations for a private company holding a Medicare contract and had a reputation for ‘bulldog determination’ to find all the facts. Me being female, he didn’t what to reference ‘dog’ in any way so he named me ‘malicious’. The second part (cat) is because I adore cats. My co-workers put the 2 together and voila…malcat.

Keller, you wish. Fox does have a lot of influence; they are depended upon to escape the Liberal dogma everyone else belches constantly. 1996? Get real! That is worse than stale information. Do you really think a show with 9.4 million viewers or even 4 million would get cancelled today in this fragmented and oversaturated environment? Fox does just fine, and will continue doing better. They wipe up the floor with those blatant Democratic lapdogs MSNBC and Critic-In-Chief Keith Olberman!!

One could just as easily argue that this “president” is not a real president. Not in the true meaning of the word as he does not represent the nation, but rather his own agenda and ego which more often than not put American interests at the bottom of the list.

So much for a “new age in politics” thats unless you call the new age, more of the same.

I think the obama orgaization is afraid because of Glenn Beck. Since he has been on, they have been firing shots at fox because he has reported on the multiple aids in Obama’s office that have openly admitted they are communists or praise communist idols.

Just one thing.I like foxnews and am greatful that they hold the presidency accountible for their actions.Who knows what would be going on behind close doors if fox didn’t investigate.I don’t see any other news channels holding this “change” accountible.I personally don’t think it’s change we need,but rather a step back in time when my grandparents told me things were so much better.(before the 60′s)I also personally believe the only reason Obama is pres is because it was the COOL thing to do amongst this college hip-hop crazed generation.So Mr.Pres…You can thank mostly the politicial iliterate for that seat you sit in.I’m pretty sure YOU won’t be sitting there in 2012.

Secondlook, first off I corrected you on your claims of Freddie and Fannie not being responsible—secondly I specifically said they weren’t the only reason in the same post—Don’t try spinning nonsense now about your orginal statements. Secondly, before you ramble off about what you know nothing about again…such as the recent claim of yours about me being in the party of vitue which I assume you mean republicans, try to think. I am a LIBERTARIAN (HATE oBAMA, but I am not overly fond of any republicans either although compared to the demmies the republicans look downright mild in comparison as of late.)

AGREE !! FoXNEWS is like TMZ , A bunch of right party HACKS with circus OPINIONS, The scary part is’ there is people out there who is not very BRIGHT that thinks its actual NEWS and believe everything that they say.
fair and balance to me is putting the cameras on the politicians and feeding it back to us the viewers’ and NOT injecting a SINGLE OPINION ….. Thats our JOB, I know thats NOT FLASHY… but thats how NEWS is suppose to be.
Outside of that.. they are NO different from TABLOID SHOW .thats why the Whitehouse needs to shut them out.

Hello SecondLook. I agree with your comments: “Frankly I think ALL NEWS is messed up. I just happen to get that Fox is about the worst. You guys that lap up Fox would remain O.K. if you’d knock off ONLY watching Fox. That’s where the problem is.”—But let’s be fair. There are people who ONLY watch liberal news/commentaries. Yes, people who want to be informed must realize that all media is biased. All media picks and chooses what they want to cover. We should listen to all sides and then use our brains to decide what to believe instead of letting someone else tell us.

malcat – I’d agree that ANYBODY doing tailored is foolish. It’s dangerous for us all. I’m a centrist. I watch it all and somehow manage to annoy both parties half the time. I’m just more inclined to take up for the Obama administration currently because republicans are just so absurd lately that they seem to bring this out in me. I believe they’ve raised the bar on dumb and mean. I’m going to give the man a bit more time here, like I did Bush. Axelrod would have come across better had he addressed ALL of the issues with the press, and not just gone partisan with his gripe. I think they need to break it back up for one thing.

Another reason he’s part of the Fox viewership is that he needs a perspective he’ll never get from the Left. The Left has us in an illegal war!!!! Remember: George Bush’s “illegal” war in Iraq. Obama has us in it but now there’s not so much talk about the prez. having us in an illegal war. Where’s the outrage from the left? Short memories!

Hey George, I think you should wear a donkey pin in your profile photo. Let’s stop beating around the bush.

Come on, People, Axelrod is right after every “news” program shown on the Fox News Network there is a caveat “the OPINIONS EXPRESSED here do not represent..blah.blah…” and I don’t have a problem with that Murdoch and his sort have the right to express whatever they want, yet the Fox Channel is not the only ones…this opinion based programming began I think in CNN with crossfire, so Axelrod should also call them out also.

I find it hard to believe that anyone can watch Fox(Faux)
news and HOESTLY say they see no bias. Or that all the other news outlets have a “liberal” bias. Come ON! Everyone not completely blinded by their own bias knows that Fox spouts a right-wing line. Every story (and they select particular stories that support their editorial slant and ignore others) is reported from a pro-Rep./anti-Dem. perspective. I suspect those who see a liberal bias in other outlets are just so used to the blatent bias on Fox they perceive unbiased, neutral jouralism as “liberal”, since it lacks the “conservative” commentary they consider “fair and unbiased.” No accident that Fox was the only news on at Rep. headquarters during the election…it is not news, it is commentary aimed at reinforcing the beliefs of viewers.”—-I can’t honestly say there is no bias. There is. I am not blinded by prejudice. I watch all news channels everyday (with the rare exception of course). They are ALL biased. Let me repeat: They are ALL biased. If you cannot see that, then I think you are the one biased and blinded. You see Fox as evil and all others as balenced. Yep, you are just as blinded by your prejudice as SOME of Fox viewers.

crafty like a fox. Only idiots believe it is news. I hugely glad to see someone say what it is. Join me a never watch Fox again!

If Fox is not a really a news organization, then why does the Obama Admin even mention it? If something is irrelevant, then you don’t ‘declare war’ on it. Therefore, the Obama/Emanuel/Axelrod White House must feel threatened. One thing they cannot have is dissent in the news; it must all go according to their agenda. CNN, ABC, and MSNBC have drunk the kool-aid on that.

Fox News is 10% news and 90% commentary. It’s an entertainment network more than most other “news” networks. All the other news networks are not free of criticism, however. But let’s face it. News is not exactly entertaining. Reporting the pure dry facts can put people to sleep. At least Fox News network puts some drama into theor shows. Just don’t take them any more seriously then your average hollyweird TV show.

I think the WH is making a big mistake going after Foxnews like this.
I’ll admit Murdoch makes money off of sleeze and there is a fair amount of sleeze on the Foxnews website, but this is also true of all the other major news outlets as well.. They are all doing it.
The fact that he didn’t point to any of the others that are very favorable toward the WH ruins his credibility… sounds political. If it really was about fairness in the news then he should also point to outlets like MSNBC & which is know by many as the Obama network which is owned by GE, a major contributor to the Dem. party. Bias in the media is a reality, so going to different outlets, some that lean left some that lean right, & getting the different angles (eg. quotes or bits of info.) on the story that other articles may leave out gives a better sense of things. Also there are things that Fox reports on that others don’t and vice versa. I think getting rid of the 1 more conservative leaning major cable news network is a dangerous thing as it will take away balance in the news world.. If they are all on the same page then no one will point it out when they do something wrong. It’s like having a 1 party system… very dangerous & the WH is just playing into the criticism/notion that they want to control everything.

Johana: Are you actually saying that any on-air person of Fox News cheered when Chicago lost the Olympics? Really?
I didn’t see any cheering. I did hear some objecting to President Obama spending personal time on that instead of dealing with the very real and serious problems troubling the country as a whole.
I did hear some state that Chicago simply was not financially capable of preparing for the Olympics.
I did hear some say Chicago shouldn’t host that type of event because of its problems with high crime.
I heard all of that on Fox….
and CNN….and MSNBC.

I’ll admit that my two main news networks are ABC and FOX. I like to watch both because I can get both sides of the issues that way. The generally liberal side from ABC and the generally conservative side from FOX. Personally, I would like to see someone come up with a network that is truly fair and balanced.

Thank you America! Isn’t it great that people can think for themselves, and not have the White House telling them what news to watch of what to eat, when to buy health insurance, and when not too. OPPOSITION IS A GREAT THING! TO BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE. The White House cannot take criticism. They can’t stand it. And typical policians that they are, they easily point their finger at their opposition and simply state that it isn’t real. If you want to talk about POOR standards in journalism, take a look at CBS, ABC, AND NBC. WHen you compare FOX News to these networks that put a constant “spin” on the news, Fox doesn’t look so bad. And that’s probably why their growing constantly, while the main stream media outlets are loosing viewers. I admire opposition if its genuine! Fox is genuine.

Adios, I look forward to finding you on future comment boards.—
Same to you. It’s always a pleasure to ‘meet’ people able to debate issues with honesty, candor and civility whether I agree with them or not.

I’m as unbiased as youll find anywhere and was in the media over 40 years. I find FOX news (not opinion shows) to be much more fair and unbiased that any other news outlet. I think if you have a idealogical bias then FOX news will not please you. If you’re middle of the road politically..then FOX news will be your choice.

FOX Noise is a sick joke on its listeners and the world. Murdoch even admitted, after the Iraq war was becoming a disaster that he was not reporting the issues as news but as a sales pitch for the war.
And their motto is “Fair and Balanced News”. Rubbish! They are conning people and playing on their partisanship and disappointment and make a mockery of the truth at every turn. Murdoch is a rabble rouser.

At the time of biggest economic meltdown in US and word, what was the biggest “news” in Fox News? It was all Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright from morning to night.

Of course Second, you would have be logical to follow along with a scientifical test for telling which news sites aren’t really news sites.

“At the time of biggest economic meltdown in US and word, what was the biggest “news” in Fox News? It was all Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright from morning to night.”
Perhaps Fox felt that the possibility that the President of the US ‘might’ be a racist and/or anti-American was worthy of reporting. The actions of such a person would be a far greater threat to the US than an economic meltdown. An extremist with those beliefs in the office of president could destroy the very foundation of our country.
Maybe, that’s fine for you….not for me along with the huge majority of fellow Americans.

Axelrod. If anyone knows about making money then I suggest it is you. The difference between you and the rest of us is that we live within the rules that govern us whilist you and others like you, use the government as a cash cow.

FOX News is like most network news… Slanted factual information. AT LEAST FOX has the guts to go one on one with the opposition and ask for facts. Unlike CNN repeating unsubstantiated statements about RUSH like they were fact then throwing out a HALF hearted apology after the damage was done.
Who blew up the truck to try and prove their point? Was that NBC? And how about the anchors with their chuckles and sly remarks like they actually know something someone else doesnt. Who was it that didnt know about the ACORN news story? Oh yeah ABC’s main Anchor Charlie Gibson.
The shear arrogance and lack of actual fact checking have made the news media a laughing stock.
CNN reporting what Sadam wanted because they wanted to stay in Baghdad. WOW who remembers that fact!
AND the fact they are acting like complete LAP DOGS for President Bush and now Obama shows how much they lack integrity.

When Bush was in office and spoke on national T.V., all channels had a Democratic rebuttal immediately following his speech. When Obama gives speeches, the ONLY channel that allows rebuttal is FOX.
At least we hear BOTH sides from FOX.

secondlook – MSNBC and CNN are also full of propoganda. You have to watch all of them & pick through the propoganda. You can’t pretend that MSNBC & CNN aren’t as biased as Fox.

I think fox has too celebrity news but it is definitely a news organization. To say that it is not is purely asinine. Consider that if it was purely political and Republican why would there be any celebrity news? I mean come on, January Jones on GQ? How does that attack the Obama agenda? Balloon boy hoax? I was sick of that on Thursday and it won’t go away on Fox or CNN…

George you got your daily call from Rhambo and went with it. ROFL ABC lap dogs.

Check it out folks WHO Rhambo calls in the AM? George you are on that short list aren’t you? ROFL ABC getting s shiver up their legs because they might loose to FOX news.

MORE SLANDER from the White House. YAWN whats new? First its DOCTORS doing bad things. Then its insurance companies. Those CRAZY Nazi Astro Turf protesters…
Now its Fox News. More SLANDER being spewed by the White House. Nothing new to see here move on.

Secondlook, if you can honestly say that Keith Olberman merely “leans” and is not blatant, you are not as smart as I took you for initially. He is more blatantly partisan than anything on Fox. Have you ever watched Bill O’Reilly? He takes special pains to present both sides, but he doesn’t allow the spin and Liberal or any other extremist talking points the other networks use as staples. Yes Fox leans right; thank God at least one source does; the others are in the tank for the Libs, everybody knows that.

You have at least one NEWS source, Fox, that at least goes against the popular flow of Demo dogma. Thank God. Criticism from the likes of this Bozo Dunn and the geniuses bashing Fox on this board are actually a very good sign that they are doing something right! You go Fox News…..

Chris is griping about people “who is not very bright” watching Fox. Good job, Chris. Do you use Ebonics in every conversation? Figures…

Brian – Olberman and O’Reilly don’t really have dogs in this fight. Neither one is news. They are both political commentary shows. The only reason Beck got brought up today was because a Foxbot kept trying to suggest he should call all the shots on what is news now or something. You guys do get that Beck, Hannity, etc. are NOT news? Maybe this is where the problem is.

Kemuel, your suggestion has a lot of merit. Fox and ABC together are not bad. I would not waste my time with MSNBC. That dimwit Keith Olberman is the most partisan figure on TV. Their pathetic offering is laughable.

Secondlook, I was gone for a while, but you did say something during the interim which I definitely agree with: the media in this country is a problem that needs to be fixed. I am not sure how best it would be done, but news sources need to be out of the political pockets of anyone, and need to represent the good of the American people, period. Their job is too important for them to continue to be political hacks.

And the “All Barack Channel” is news?

hey joe, just saw your post: malcat … way to go dude!
It’s dude-ette actually, but thanks all the same.

“I have this feeling running up my leg” — oh yeah, that was Chris Matthews and MSNBC. Ain’t got a problem with them, do you Axe?

How come this man is whining so much about Fox? He has an opportunity to speak his mind about his choice of legislative issues and he chooses to whine about Fox. Go home, little boy!

And again Second, why don’t you understand Obama administration of corrupt communists thugs and fascists is NEWS. And even without Beck, all REAL news stations should be reporting about the slime Obama has in…but no they don’t so by the rules of the scientific test–they are the ones that aren’t real news stations. Fox has fulfilled its requirement to be considered a newsstating because they unlike the Obama proganda sites have been and I should say been putting up REAL NEWS…instead of the proganda nonsense.

Second, you won’t need to go to China—obama’s administration madly in love with China’s mass murderer here will bring it here if we continue to allow Obama communist adminstration free reign because the Non-news sites refuse to report real news…hence it being real news to report Obama’s Dunn love affair.

I wonder what story or stories that Axelrod thinks are slanted? It looks like if you make an accusation then you would have an example and further it looks like the host would have ask; which one?

Axelrod continues his attack on Fox News because it’s an easy way to rile up Obama’s most devoted supporters as well as divert attention from the things Obama’s doing his base is not so happy about. It sad they don’t seem to be able to tell the difference between Fox’s hard news programs and its news analysis programs. Any analysis program not presenting opposing points of view is a waste of time…you know, like NBC.

Axelrod would have gotten more respect out of me if he’d included them all. He should have.————————— Good point, Secondlook.

It is truely pathetic how people just can’t handle the truth. Fox shows both sides on every issue. I always wonder why are liberals so afraid of people who have other opinions. why are they so desperate to hold onto their beliefs even when they are wrong.

johnny – Fair and balanced my hoo hoo. “Shows both sides of an issue?” That just means when they have some talking head on about some story they have one on both sides. Many times they’ll have about three republicans and one democrat I might add. The part news can mess with is “what” they choose to report on and what “facts” they put in the article. Or even what they choose not to report on. BTW, while they do this? They constantly run a flag in the corner (so you’ll feel all patriotic to watch) and all lettering is red, white and blue. It’s so propaganda it’s absurd.

Many of you must have slept thru how Fox had a love affair with Bush. All the feel good stories about wars.

Foxnews is the only real news channel out there! They are the only ones who do real investigating to find out the facts- the others CNN,NBC,ABC& CBS- all believe what Obama and his Chicago gang says and roll over and play dead. Of course Axelrod is going to discredit FOX- because they do not want you to know the TRUTH! WAKE UP AMERICA-stop being so trusting. The people in the WH are out to destroy you!

Who is this “George”?

Damage Control for What???? Oh, I know, “Obama’s SECRET PLAN for SOCIALISM” Now this sh! came from “a news” station. Be for REAL. OOOOO, I’m scared…………….LOL
And by the way again….Jerry Springer made alot of money off of Ignorance, Irrational thinking, Fights, Anger and INCEST… and someone’s sad, sad life.. Who was watching him … he had high ratings…..other sad, anger, violent, ignorant people.

Wow!…The White House is really worried about Fox news. Why?

Seriously, the VA hospitals are not socialized medicine. You are uninformed and deluded. The expenses of war caused disease and injury are a necessary medical expense of having a military. The Veterans Administration cares for those who injuries are borne on behalf of society but should not be a freebie health program for aliens and the improvident who would sooner flee than serve to defend the United States.

The WH owns NBC. GE stands to make billions off of health care and cap and tax. Very dirty hands. The alphabet stations will not report or only half report if it makes Obama look bad. They are excellent at repeating though. Many people who bash FOX have never watched. Usually they get hooked like myself, because other news seemed to be just fluff. Many Liberals, Democrats and Independents watch FOX because other networks will not report all the facts. The WH controls other news. I call that propaganda. The WH going on a smear campaign to demonize FOX seems like a slippery slope to end free speech, kind of like the way Chavaz has been successful at. This WH gives me the creeps.

Fox news is actuall news organization, obama is actual the fake one.

The other networks had better wake up. Fox today-you tomorrow?

Axelrod isn’t telling us anything new. He really speaks from a common sense centrist point of view, and he has the job of getting so much done against so much obstructionist resistance. It must be a maddening job at times.

Hitler declared war, called newssites non-news sites too that spoke out against him. Then worked to have them shut down for telling the truth about him. Funny how history repeats itself and funny how much Obama and his people remind me day after day of Hitler and his people.

If you think Fox News is the Right Wing mouthpiece than answer this: What is hell is CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS??? They all slant left except when caught up in something that can’t be denied like the “Lewinsky” incident. Most “Mainstream” newspapers are extremely Left wing — I can’t even remember the last time The Washington Post or The New York Times endorsed ANY republican candidate.

The leftist & MSNBC,demomized President Bush for 8 years, and continue to do so, and now all eyes and targets are on FOX News. Demonize the the messenger, and never answer the hard questions, The Democrats do it so well. Mr. Obama will never answer the hard questions, he just wants his way. He is surrounded by socialist radicals, Pelosi and Reed could care less if their health care bill ruins the economy of the USA. Why don’t all you so called mainstream media hacks and leftists, look at the possible effects of the the new taxes in the health care bill to the economy. Taxes and expenses always get passed down to the consumers. How bad will this be. They say some $860 billion to fund this thing. Well that is $860 Billion of new taxes that will not be spent by the consumer on other things. Things like clothes, cars, toys, TV’s etc. Jobs will be lost. Could it be that is why no one is hiring right now, because of this health care mess. We are in the worst recession since the Depression, and the Democrats are about to force down Americas throats a huge tax increase. The did that in the Depression raised taxes and things got worse. They want to put a tax on Insurance “Cadillac” Plans. $8,000 and up. Well guess what that is a normal plan that most of America has. it is hardly Cadillac. So Reed & Pelsoi, go ahead and pass this thing and say good bye to your office. Are the Democrats so calis they don’t care, and pass it anyway. They are willing to loose power, but they got their way, and push the country into a depression. Reed & Pelsoi, see you in the unemployment line after your next election. Did either of you read the stimulus bill that is not creating jobs, did you read this either, have you ever read any of the bills you passed. Do what is right solve the problems, but tax us anymore, don’t force things on the american public they don’t want. And stop trying to silence a vocal voice, “FOX News”. We do not live in a communist, or socialist country. Those countries control the media and the message. The USA Government does not. Stop this petty nonsense and creat some real jobs already, and no new taxes……

(LOL) The truth hurts FOX. What I’m wondering is when is the GOP going to start being required to disclose FOX as a 24 hour political contribution. How much money is all that airtime worth anyway?

FOX is a disgrace to the U.S. and it’s people. If Canadians and English people believe they are most fair, you could not be further brainwashed. They should not be allowed to spew their poison.
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Actually Fox News with their conservative bent AND other stations with their liberal bent are wonderful examples of what our Constitution stands for. Remember that little thing about ‘free speech’.
Americans have the right to freely argue their positions. We have the right to disagree with those of different views. Just because one political party is ‘in power’ does not mean those who disagree with one, a few or even all of their policies have to shut up.
You have your opinions and I have mine. Thank God and the Constitution of the United States of America that we can freely express them without fear of that ‘knock on the door’ that other countries need to fear.

You could lump the Lefts blend of ABCCBSNBCMSNBC and PBS news together and not touch one show on FOXNews. Bash them all you want they clean the LeftNEWS clock. The majority of Americans have voted with their remotes MZ Dunn and Mr Axelrod!

Despite the fear of starting another round of raving rants and hostile childishnees, may I propose a new issue that is relevant to this article?
President Obama was elected to be POTUS? I didn’t vote for him; don’t care for mose of his policies. But, he’s the President for the next 4 years (God forbid some raving lunatic does the unthinkable!).
He’s the Prez. Of the whole country. That includes conservatives, Republicans, red states…all of us.
We have a saying in church: “Don’t just speak to the choir.” If I were the President and wanted to gain acceptance for a policy, why would I only want to speak to those who already agree with me.
Now people here are saying that FOX News listeners are all Republicans and conservatives. (I will leave out the insults and filth some of you have used.) Some of you say that Republicans and conservatives are too stupid to listen to other news outlets. According to some of you, Rs and Cs would be a captive audience almost.
So, here’s the question. Why would an intelligent President repeatedly decline to speak to the very people he should be talking to?
Just asking?

Most people that watch FOX, only watch FOX because as far as they are concerned 99.9 percent of the media is a conspiracy against righteousness. They do it looking for justification for their spitefulness about losing the election. They are looking for ammunition to regurgitate during political discussions in social settings. FOX spins the news into a false reality their viewers want to hear.

Objective commentary by the President is met by unobjective hyperpartisanship by the right. Fox is not up to the standards of ABC or CNN, or PBS, for example. An objective study was done some years back, and FOX was found to be the most biased news source as compared to other major networks.

Axelrod, Rahm, Duncan, Obama hate free speech – they can’t stand it.
Blatant attempt at suppressing free speech. Unbelievable, and these fools honestly believe they are right.

the one thing libs dont do is research try it sometime it shows that fox of all the networks is the only true news network keep it up libs its fun to see you fall

Why is FoxNews so popular? Don’t you think the Obama administration would WANT to go on their shows and rebuff their slanted reporting? I think the administration is AFRAID of Fox news for exposing the Obama administrations lies. Ooops I pulled a Joe Wilson.

Axelrod, Rahm, Dunn, Obama LIE!!

I find it interesting that our media today is not up in arms about the censorship that is going on in this admistratition. I is really scarey how our government want to shut up anyone that does not agree with them. Look at how they are going after the health insurance companies for daring to have an independent study on how this health care reform is going to affect our lives. No one dare contradict this admistration. Fox is the only new orginization that is willing say question our President, because the rest have lost their balls along time ago.

“Murdoch has made a fortune pawning trash TV to the American public while decrying the breakdown of civilization. They have made an institution of hypocrisy.
Posted by: indy_voter”
LOL, too true. It’s sad but very true. Remends me of once seeing Fox News and they were going on about Obama and democrats being immoral and “just telling people what they want to here now before they charge them big later”. Then it went to a commercial break where up popped a lady telling me how all my debt worries could be solved if I take out another loan with them.
The utter hypocrisy was so funny I was almost in tears.

Only extremists watch faux news.And those that are unable to think for themselves.

If Fox News is so wrong all the time, please clearly explain when? They aren’t wrong. They are dead on. AND liberals can’t tolerate it. Liberals can’t stand to be challenged. They attempt to shut down anyone that doesn’t preach the part line. People, this is a dangerous time for America. Fox News is the only news outlet daring to ask questions of the Obama administration. I look forward to the coming revolution.

Tough talk from Obama, I’m sure Foxnews is quaking in it’s boots. When Putin or that guy in Iran is “pushing a point of view” will the Obama administration be equally tough?

Fox News is #1 in Cable News rating by more than 2 to 1 margin. 57% of homes have cable. It would be interesting to see what Fox would do to the fringe networks if they had access to all TV owners. The White House would come begging.

All right thank you fore fathers for the free press. You know what the cool thing on this is Fox is correct on there news reporting more often than the rest of the news organizations. And the truth is upsetting the current administration.

What most of you don’t get is this: it is NOT okay for a supposed “news” channel to try to sway the opinion of viewers. Objective and unbiased reporting is an ethical requirement of journalistic standards. Fox News does NOT abide by that – using news “reporting” as a platform from which to espouse their own agenda which is to not-so-subtly influence the opinions of viewers! It is NOT okay for a ‘news’ channel to hold up two objects, one black and one white and then state “Pssst, white is better”. If they wanted to get expert opinion from BOTH sides, as to the merits of black or white, that’s fine. But Fox doesn’t.

THANK GOODNESS THERE IS FOX NEWS! The rest cnn, msn, abc, cbs are all biased.

And MSNBC is not Obama TV? This is just a petty diversion because They can’t accomplish anything of substance. There are bigger fish to fry for the White House. This only makes them look petty!!

Unbelievable that the WH makes statements that NBC and the other news organizations “…ought not to treat Fox news like a legitimate news organization”. I understand clearly that Fox news has a bias when reporting news, but so do the other news outlets. However, the WH has no business telling any new organizations what they should or shouldn’t do.

Fox news is only a new organization in name only they care about ratings that is it and they will do anything even if it is unethical to obtain those ratings. So I think it is fair to call them out after all all that really comes out of Fox News is Anti-America this, anti-democroacy that and so on.

And MSNBC is not Obama TV? This is just a petty diversion because They can’t accomplish anything of substance. There are bigger fish to fry for the White House. This only makes them look petty!!

Axelrod,and his Chicago thugs,are going to loose in the long run. These guys will hang themselves on there own. There in over their heads. Chicago politics on a national scale. Keep hiring commies to work with. A Chicago street gang could run the country better. How’s that change working out for you Obama Voters. Bring on 2010/2012. What a laugh these guys are.

I can’t see it ending well for republicans. Fox is just completely ruining your party over there.

FOX NEWS: UNFAIR AND BIASED……

It’s clear that they see FOX as a threat. They should challenge them head on. Go on FOX, tell your side. But no, they allow Olbermann & the other guy, Maddow tell the story. This makes them look Pathetic and petty!!

Let’s try this again. Maddow and Olbermann are NOT news. Neither is Beck and O’Reilly. Nobody is dogging on political shows. Well, Beck maybe. Cauz he’s a lying idiot.

secondlook -and this is the third time I’ve said this. You can’t slam Fox for being 100% propoganda and NOT slam MSNBC & CNN for the same thing. Those two are JUST as guilty as Fox.

talkloohoo – well, see you’re wrong about a whole bunch of things. Educated people gather information to form their opinions from a variety of sources, excluding Fox. And for you to construe Axelrod’s remarks as some kind of attempt to “shut down” a station is ridiculous! He’s doing no such thing. Where did you get the idea that the WH is trying to axe the channel??! You’re drawing some crazed over-the-top conclusions here. He said “They are not news” – how is that an attempt to quash the channel?

Must be a reason why FOX is beating every media outlet. It’s clear this White House is why out of touch with the American People. He is a one term president.

I always thought that mentioning that the left wingers who were supported by CBS..NBC..ABC..CNN…and all the other left wing news organizations should have at least one competitor.
While the left whines about 4600 guys getting killed in Iraq…we complain about 9,600,000 children that were slaughtered in abortion clinics during the same period of time.
Whoa be it…that we mention the lefts Hypocrisy in counting dead troops every day of the week on the Liberal News Media, to bring down a president, without mentioning 9.6 million babies deaths.
When they are digging up dinosaurs in the arctic and antarctic….and looking at fossilzed tyranasaurus tracks in the northern reaches of the Brooks Range in Alaska…And while digging up Dinosaurs near glaciers in Antarctica…..why would we question hacks like Al Gore and his henchmen, on global warming.Being that Antarctica and the Arctic were obviously very warm to begin with…since dinosaurs roamed there…. Why would we want to question whether the planet was ever supposed to have these stupid glaciers to begin with.
Why would you need people like Fox News to ask some pertinent questions.
Only Liberals ideas are really important we assume.

ells I’m not saying this again. Yes the MSM “leans” left. I’m sorry but FOX is NOTHING but the all republican channel. They’re the worst. And evidently their people don’t understand math either. Because if they think they’re number one it’s because they don’t split the pool three ways.

This is petty and Stupid, not a single Champaign Promised has been accomplished!!! Yet they start a war of word with FOX!! What are they doing????

Second and you would be wrong again, calling Fox the republican channel. For instance, I have Beck bash the hell out of my Senator (my as in from my area, but I that Had figured him out years ago and refused to vote for him last election) Graham who is a republican.

Again, BECK IS NOT NEWS.

I too believe that the Obama Administration fears Fox News. What they do not realize is that all the attention to Fox News leads to more viewers for Fox.
I’m one of them!

Never watched FOX or Listened to Rush Limbaugh until I saw what the fuss was about. Im sure Im not the only one…

Second, going after the Fairness Doctrine? What are you smoking? Obama is tring to have it instated with it requiring successful networks like Fox and Rush to go bankrupt doubling their costs to pay for pro-Obama sites since no most people don’t want to listen to the Obama propaganda sites. Obama is in otherwords trying to force non-minority Obama sites out of business as a way to work around that pesty Constitution that he doesn’t like.

Beck is more news than Georgie Straphaolus here on ABC.

“As the president stated during the campaign, he does not believe the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated,” White House spokesman Ben LaBolt told FOXNews.com.

Dear Mr. Axelrod:
Taking the “White House vs. Fox News” position is beneath the dignity of the United States and its American people.
This unseemly and amateurish tactic will only serve to reinforce poor opinions of this administration.
Perhaps even more damaging, it will likely further contribute to both domestic and international perceptions of inexperience and incompetence within the Obama administration.
Remember:
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. -Ecclesiastes 9:17

From Obama’s Racist Diversity CZAR—”It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
“[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance.”

Fox is just simply a great example of corporate capitalism running amok. They are also the best example of what is wrong with American politics (so divisive that nothing positive can ever be accompluished for the majority of Americans) But the joke will be on them. They behave so ridiculous “in the name of news”, that they are making conservatism a “cult”. And that is why moderates have left the Republican Party in droves – because nobody wants to vote alongside conservatives any more. Fox is simply making money at the Republican Party’s expense.

I agree, Fox News is not even close to being fair and balanced. They are pushing the rights agenda for sure.

Then there are these other articles regarding Obama’s attempts to kill free speech. WASHINGTON – As popular opposition to the reinstitution of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” mounts, Barack Obama and the Democrat-dominated Congress will end-run critics with legislation that will curb dissent on talk radio through the imposition of “localism” rules and community watchdog boards across America, charges a new book by a former NBC Westwood One talk-show host.
In “Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech,” author Brad O’Leary says the plan amounts to the development of party-approved “commissar committees” to censor the kind of lively and free-wheeling debate America has known since the scrapping of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” by President Reagan’s Federal Communications Commission in 1987.
By demanding radio stations answer to local community watchdog boards to ensure programming is “balanced,” “fair,” “diverse,” “tolerant” and “serving the public interest locally,” O’Leary says the rules and legislation being planned will once again make talk radio accountable to politicians, political activists and bureaucrats at the FCC.

Second and again Obama lies CONSTANTLY. Only an idiot doesn’t know this guy has lied day in and day out. His actions speak louder than his words and sorry hun, but Obama has been trying to kill the gun amendment. Again, the guy has already said he does not like our constituion (what self respecting fascist and communist would like our constitution?)and has worked to kill it.

Nixon had far more morals than Obama BY FAR.

Anyone that does not watch fox news does not know what is going on in this country or the world for that matter.
Fox news rules, you can not silence the ratings no matter how much any of you liberals or this administration tries. LOL

Did I hear Dunn correctly when said Fox news is not a news org. like CNN? That is the best compliment Foxnews could ever receive. CNN and MSNBC are so far up Obama’s ### that every time Obama speaks they break into a news alert. It is one thing to hope for a president to succeed but it is totally another to make an effort to support a President. I say bring it on and let the racist america hating white house..via chicago politics try to win this fight. I guarantee millions of Americans on every street in every town across America will stand up and fight back..Obama should be impeached and Axelrod and Emanuel should be imprisoned. In another year they may be.

Thank you merci, for putting a face on the stupidity of Fox “news.” Even conservatives are knocking that garbage.

love em or leave em. If no one loves them, they will disappear. If they are watched, they will not go away. So, if they have a viewing public, they probably have as much right to the airwaves as anyone else and it the WH doesn’t like it I guess they can get a new czar in place to regulate them.

The last tiem a US President attacked a news organization the way Obama and his administration are doing was guess who? Tricky Dicky …. yse, Republican Richard Nixon going after the New York Times, he actually kept a black list of media organizations he woul attack, how ironic that President Obama 40 years later is doing the same, he and his administration are attacking all media outlets that may get on their way, FOX, and radio talk shows. Anybody that questions or points out the many lies of the administration is attacked or accused of being racists, except this time unlike the 70′s when Nixon was doing it, it is a totalitarian socialist adminitration and the liberal media are just arms of Obama’s propaganda team. The only news organization that presents opposing points of views are FOX News and talk radio and you liberals who are supposed to be so open minded canot take, you just rather destroy all the opposition, this is beginning to look more and more like Castro’s Cuba or Chavez’s Venezuela.

Mr. Stephanopoulus, of all of the reporters that interviewd Oabama the weekend that he refused to talk to Fox News you were the only one that asked any good questions, how does it feel working for ABC News an arm of Obama’s Administartion and the Democrat Socialist Party? Have you considered going to work at FOX or maybe in a talk radio show? You shoul a little soul searching because you sir still have some hope as a journalist, and I do mean it sir with all due respect. If it not were for FOX News Journalism is non-existent in this country.

When I was living in Cuba under Castro’s Regime there was only one source of news and information … it all came from Castro’s Office, he dictated all of the news and all of his agenda, there were no dissenting or opposing views, everyone was to follow his views like zombies, and this is the way it has been for the last 50 years, is this what this nation is coming to with Obama’s Socialist Administration?

Anybody can see that the panels on FOX are always one-sided. It’s the GOP-Right Wing network with no attempt to be fair and balanced. Everyone can’t see it because bigotry, if nothing else, is a blinding force.

Axelrod and the administration don’t like Fox because Fox “calls them out”.
Obama will sit at the table with Chavez but is afraid of Chris Wallace?
Meanwhile Fox’s ratings continue to climb!

The First Ammenment of our Constitution is for Freedom of Speech: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech; or the right of people to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Our Government, the Obama Administration is doing everything they can to suppress freedom speech by attacking anyone that disagrees with their socialist agenda, accusing them of being racists, extremists, bigots and the like. It is demeaning for the Office of the President of the United Staes to take such stands taht resmble so much the ones taken by Richard Nixon in the 1970′s. It is a travesty and a disgrace!

Every news channel appears to have an agenda, the question is whether they clearly differentiate the opinion shows from the news shows. To shut up the opposition is exactly what dictatorial regimes do – like Chavez in Vz, Castro in Cuba, K. Jong Il, etc. Please don’t tell me that George Steph is not pro-democrat after working for Clinton. Please don’t tell me that R. Maddow, C. Matthews and K. Olbermann are not over the top Left wingers. The network news anchors time again have given their opinions while supposedly reporting news. This is a desperate response from the Whiner in Chief and his Chicago lackeys.

After reviewing these blogs on Axelrod’s statement reagarding FOX news, I can say taht I watch both FOX news and ABC News so I can hear every opinion out there and folks there are very encouraging signs in these blogs that there are more citizens standing for freedom of speech and defending FOX against the White’s House assault against free speech than I expected. There are of course many which like zombies are willing to follow in line with the White House propaganda and that is very unfortunate but that is part of the freedom that we enjoy. The day the Obama Administration starts cracking down on FOX, talk radio and blogs like this one on ABC we will be in serious trouble, I can see it coming in the very near future if Obama can have it his way.

If Fox News is not News, then I suggest NBC, CNBC ABC and CBS are nothing more than a propaganda arm for the Obama Administration and left wing radicals.
Obamas’s problem with FOX is Beck and Hannity educate folks about the People Obama surrounds himself with. Communists and Marxists are abundant in the Obama Administration. Just take a look at Van Jones and Mark Lloyd. Then you have Anita Dunn herself disclosing her deep admiration for Mau te Sung. I see no one at the WH disputing Obama’s ties with Fascism, Marxism or Communism.
The Devil Obama hates the truth and know millions are becoming wise to his agenda. He is getting nervous that a revolt will upset his plans to enslave The U.S. under a Socialist regime.

FOX and MSNBC are both opinionated trash, not real news. Want real news, watch Bill Moyers Journal!

Second, I am younger than you…..but even at 40 I remember the nightmare called Carter…he was the worse beyond a doubt up till Odummy that is. How did the American people let in someone worse than Carter, geez.

The Obama regime has made a pattern of attacking anyone who object to his agenda. From Joe the Plumber to Insurance Companies and now FOX News.
The idea is to shut up and take away our freedom of speech. Obama has Mark Lloyd (a Marxist) working in the FCC to shut down conservative talk radio.
The left wing and Obama hate to see the truth come out.
Let’s face it, it was clear from the beginning Obama was a tool for the far left and his heroes too are Communists, ,Marxists and radicals.

For those who claim FOX lies; How about facts? Come on…what specifically did they lie about?
Now if you are looking for a Liar and deception, listen to Obama’s mouth running. He appears to have forgotten other speeches he made that leaves an evidence trail. He has failed to cover his Czars records…I mean Communists and Marxists??? and even Anita is in love with Mau te Sung.
Hey Obama…where is the transparency and the congressional hearing made publicly on C-SPAN?
Axelrod, and Emanual are a disgrace and should be sent to a Gulag for reprogramming. Obama needs to go back to his inner city politics where he is appreciated.

If Obama and his regime continue to show such disrespect for America, it would be no wonder if we were to see a Military Coup. If I were a military man, I would have no respect for the paper Commander in Chief!
Obama appears to be suppressing our rights and has failed to demonstrate the “opinion” of Glen Beck to be false. Marxists and Communists surround Obama. The fact his administration wants to push his agenda down our throat is evidence he is wrong for America.

I love when the government gets to decide what is news!

Down with Obama and the left.

The Obama administration is out of control on its war with Fox. It is a shame they don’t make a decision on the war in Afganistan with such speed and venom.
The Obama administration borders on treason.
It will be interesting when they step on NBC’s toes. Hell hath no fury like a scorned lover.
You guys need to cover the Obstruction of the First Amendment. This is a huge story.

I watch fox and am an independent. Is the only channel I trust in this mess. the other news channels have been in bed with the white house since the campaign election and their news is partisan. While I support the president I take offense to his view that fox is partisan seeing the other channels so warped you can’t get the right story on anything. This article and comments above really have me thinking.

thuggery alive and well in usa. if hope and change don’t work, use abuse and thuggery.

It is so funny to read the posts, just admit it …if you are liberal you hate Fox news and you probably hate Lou Dobbs on CNN as well. Most all of the other News channels are in the pocket of the liberals. Simple solution..you get your news from the state run media outlets and I and people like me who want to hear both sides of the issues whether I support them or not will listen to the only 2 stations that have people reporting the truth. The White House better listen up..most people are moderates ..we are not left leaning liberals. If they want to get there message across they need to do it on the news stations that the majority of the people are watching. To have the Politicians & the Government try to alienate those Stations only makes me want to watch them more. This is America people…not Cuba…

I agree with Axelrod. Fox News has every right in the world to broadcast whatever it wants. But it’s not news. It’s like Air America, but on TV. It is a right wing, perspective editorial channel, with its prime time shows featuring Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck, all ultra-right-wing conservatives. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. But the White House is right in not treating Fox as a news organization.

Hey Mr. Axelrod why is this administration undies so musshed-up on Fox’s not in step with other blind networks in reporting your agenda, afraid that the Chicago crooks whom are currently employed in the W/H be made known? You’re time will come and it’ll be a disgrace time for our country but we will prevail by throwin all you morons out.Thank you Fox News..

If FOX news and its shows are reporting false facts and reports on what the Obama adminstration, House and Senate are doing or trying to shove down our throats then Dispute the facts that they are reporting, but NOOOO, all we here is that Fox News is only a reporting something that is only for entertainment and should not be taken seriously. If the WH is thinks this, why do they keep bringing this up. Most Americans do not have a lot of time to keep up on the day to day politics and can only stomach seeing the President on TV 80x a week and FOX News has a variety of news topics more then the other WH run media. Why do you think they have the Top Ratings.

A lot of normal people occasionally also watch Fox. It provides a valuable benchmark, sort of like the Black hole of Calcutta or Absolute zero or Ishtar.

i think fox news is pretty ridiculous, but i think this administration is even more ridiculous for engaging in this nonsensical smearing of it. this is akin to a teenaged girl circulating nasty rumors about her rival for homecoming queen. on top of that, it has to make people wonder why it is that this administration is so preoccupied with telling us who all the boogeymen are. and strangely enough, all the boogeymen just happen to be opposed to obama. according to what i can remember, everyone opposed to obama (any industry not currently controlled by obama, republicans, conservative news outlets, citizens who speak out against the administration) is evil and dangerous to america. this administration is every bit as paranoid as the last and the only real difference is that the mainstream media give immediate attention to every tantrum obama and his aides throw. you’d think the office of the president is the underdog in american politics.

THEY CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!FOX is the only network that doesn’t follow the leftist party line that Obama is preaching.

Is Fox News a “legitimate news organization?” This question can be answered with a flip or the same question. “Is this administration legitimate?” Those who ask this question are marginalized and labeled “wingnuts”, “fringe”, “un-hinged”, tin hat hypes. The same response should be given to an administration which uses the bully pulpit of the White House to attempt to marginalize and isolate all critics and messengers which gain traction. The question is “Where are the jobs?’. This administration missed the mark by 2,000 billion dollars in estimating the deficit, and their so called” stimulus”; the absolute antidote to unemployment exceeding 8%, is an abject failure. The Federal Reserve is now the lender to America, the consumer is non-existent, and we look more and more like Japan’s lost decade. Can you say double dip? Memo to Mr.Axelrod; your “enemies list” is growing in conjunction with your policy failures and inititatives, I suggest a mirror sir to seek your culprit.

Fine, you don’t like Fox News. The bigger issue here is the Government dictating what private companies can or can not do. Where is your outrage that the White House is attempting to silence a private company?

Fox news is associated with conservative, unbiased news. They investigated Acorn, and two czars who were fired after the truth came out. No other news organizations talked truth to power. It really doesn’t matter what the White House does, or what ABC “news’ tries to enable the White House to do. Viewership of Fox went up 20% after the White House made them an enemy. GE, NBC, MSNBC, identified as the White House Propaganda Arm, are losing revenues, losing profits, and fading away. I personally won’t buy a GE product nor buy any products advertised on what is now ironically called Main Stream Media. It is fun to watch them going down, though.

The Obama administration cannot handle the truth. FOX reports the truth everyday no matter what the subject is or the persons political affiliation. As far as opinion, CNN, NBC, CBS and this network ABC all have their opinions, but I listen to them all. This way I can decide for myself. Unfortunately, MSNBC seems to be handled by the White House, more so than the others. You have to ask yourself, what is the Obama Administration afraid of? Why are they attacking a news organization, with inaccurate innuendo? Why does the White House choose to ignore all the citizens of this great country who watch FOX? Does the White House really care about them? Doesn’t seem so. You decide.

If you want the truth watch FOX NEWS. ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN are allslanted to the left and are puppets of the current administration

The White House thinks it’s in a popularity contest.

When a sitting administration starts going on a vendetta against a news station, all news media outlets should cringe. Michelle Obama said our country is “mean” and she was right, as evidenced by the above vicious comments. Obama complains that America is racist, derisive, dismissive, and divisive,and then proves it with his own actions against the citizens in the country that elected him, the first biracial president in American history. We have been accused of being cowards by Holder, and then the administration exhibits its own cowardice by attacking a news station? Are you serious? Don’t let this type of rhetoric divide us all. Freedom of press and speech is uniquely ours and we shouldn’t let any elected government “employee,” no matter who he or she is, attack our freedoms in this way. We would never have let any previous administration get away with this, so stop letting this administration get away with it! All news channels (and I’ve watched all of them) are guilty of the very things Fox News is being accused of, so get off your soap boxes and quit being bullied by our elected officials. If you don’t like what you are watching, hearing or reading, voice your opinion and then watch, listen to or read something else!

First this fight with Fox News and now I read that they are at odds with the chamber of congress thats some half a million businesses that they represent whos next,probably the A.M.A. cause those guys are intellegent and we cant have that.

When is Obama going to start making tough decisions and stop running around in campaign mode dogging Fox,America,Insurance companies,the wealthy,wall street,Doctors and anyone else that disagrees with him. What happened to transparency? He promised to engage all..especially those that disagreed with him! His words,not mine!
Spineless!!!

Will wrote: “The only reason people who call Fox News “fauxnews” and “worse than the national enquirer” is because they have either never actually watched Bill O’Reilly or Glen Beck (mind you he is crazy) or they are so blinded by their own beliefs that they are not willing to listen to other political points of view.”
Bill O’Reilly recently quoted from a poll which found that more Americans trusted Fox News for accurate reporting. However, O’Reilly left out the second half of the quote which found that Fox also topped the list of LEAST trusted TV news outlets – more than a quarter of Americans surveyed didn’t trust Fox. You can’t even trust their “No Spin Zone” guru to give viewers the whole story about who’s most trusted.
And how about when Fox ran full-page ads in three major newspapers claiming that ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN missed the story of the TEA party protest in Washington. Lies don’t get much bigger or more blatant than that.

It’s no surprise Fox leans to the right. It should also be NO surprise all the other networks (ABC, CNN, MSNBC, etc) either “lean” to the left, or are as far to the left as Fox is to the right. MSNBC may as well be called “Mucho Socialist News for Barrack Channel” because of the “tingly” leg comments and comparing Obama to God.
So that’s not the debate. The debate SHOULD be that the US Gov has absolutely NO right to try to sway public opinion and attack & marginalize a private enterprise!
WAKE UP PEOPLE! The same people making us scared of insurance companies, Wall Street, Mortgage companies (and soon to be energy companies & next gun companies) are the VERY SAME people who have CREATED the mess they “claim” they can fix!
THINK about it! The Gov is NOT the solution to the problems, the Gov IS THE PROBLEM!
And they should NOT be demonizing ANY private industry, for it is the businesses & innovation that have made America what it is! It has been free market capitalism & entrepreneuriship, NOT socialism!
HOW DARE the White House try to tell ME (and YOU) who we should & should not listen to? They are VASTLY overstepping their bounds here, and are treading into places that the Nazis went in trying to control the media!!

Idiot Liberals, Weak Conservatives

Rupert Murdoch who actually owns Fox News also owns other tabloids, including the supermarket tabloid Star. He’s made billions on exploiting others.

It is not they are giving subjective opinion. What Fox is saying is prove them wrong. IF the White House does not start answering or come out of hiding, then Obama will and already has loss credibility.

If you notice, Fox is raising serious questions about the dems and reps

If they think FOX IS wrong how can they handle N Korea, Iran, Russia, Cuba etc….
They can’t even handle being criticized by THEIR OWN CITIZENS!!!!
Wasn’t that the argument used against Palin if she can’t handle critical questions by the press was she really ready to be VP??? THE PRESS DEFENDED THEM SELVES IN THAT LINE OF REASONING.
That works both ways you knuckle heads in the press.
When your white house is based on personality and image you can’t very well defend yourselves with debate can you?
The white house can’t even handle FOX news how can they handle foreign threats.
God help us.

has Obama gone mad, he’s dissing more than half of America. What on earth is he doing? This is utterly unbelievable, this man is off his trolley. Keep thsi Obama and you will be impeached and you might end up back to teh south side of chicago with your old acorn job!

This whole story is a joke !! It shows the White house is immature and childish
boohoo they won’t talk to fox so what! I quit watching ABC NBC CBS and CNN a long time ago they are to much to the left and this country is not left wing the are on the right or the middle
And poor baby they don’t agree with him !!
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he behaves like a spoiled rotten brad , he must stamp his feet too

I seemed to have heard all this before. The Obama White House = The Nixon White House. Forget about truth and honesty. Enemies list, Attack the media, Smear Campaigns. Pointing fingers at different groups. Yes, if you are old enough you have seen this show before.

I’ve been watching Fox News every night for the past several years precisely because I got tired of the bias of CNN, NBC, PBS, etc.
I have a question for Mr. Axelrod and Ms. Dunn: Are we now living in a dictatorship? Are we under Mao’s rule where anyone deferring from the government is to be shut down?
I certainly hope not!

You know what is amazing? It is the videos, the quotes, the films of these czars, the press advisors and the president himself. The fact is that Fox News plays the videos, shows the quotes and ALWAYS proves where they come from. It is amazing that even after all that, people still do not believe.
If you saw a video of one of the czars saying he believes in socialism would you believe it? or would you says that Fox News made it up? I really want to know. Because I have been watching Beck and he proves by showing videos that these people are out to socialize the US. When will you wake up? Obama is surrounding himself with socialist and puts down everyone that disagrees with him and his policies.
I only ask that you watch one show of Beck and then come back here and let me know what he has wrong. If you consider yourself a fair and open minded person, watch one show of Beck. Nightly at 5: pm eastern time.
Please it is driving me crazy that this is going on under our noses and we are not doing anything about it.

you know what funny, this sound like elementary school pointing fingers. Dems or Republicans, they new orgizations better stand together for free speech, the shoe can always be on the other foot! Does the White House not have better things to do!

From the very early days of this administration.I said that this president sees himself as a black victim and that he will go all out to correct the supposed evils. He is young and will learn that the solution to one problem will result in another that might be worse. Go slow.

The WH has some concern ?
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

The Obama Administration are not dummies. They realize they have a very short window to achieve their political agenda. If the mainstream American public find out how Obama’s agenda is going to effect them, they will activate politically against his policies.
Fox news is the only media network standing in their way which shortens that political window. They know FOX must be neutralized, even at the risk of discontent. Unpopular politics always work best in the shadows of spin.
What the other news networks must remember is: what goes around comes around. They will be next. If they lose the ball on media censorship when the policy is in their favor, the day will come when the political window will close on them too.
Freedom of speech, press, and opinion to speak out, for or against, our government has been the only true check and balance of the US Constitution. Don’t allow political bullies take it from you.

Rupert Murdoch who actually owns Fox News also owns other tabloids, including the supermarket tabloid Star. He’s made billions on exploiting others.
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I don’t know about the STAR but I do know he also owns the Wall Street Journal and other news publications and would like to buy the NY Times. I say GO FOR IT, Mr. Murdock. Turn the Slimes into the Times again. It will drive the liberal twits nuts!

Give me a break… There is not 1 media outlet in the US that isn’t biased politically. Mr. Axelrod could actually be honest and admit that MSNBC, CNN, ABC & CBS are some of the largest contributors financially for the Democratic Party. Plain & simple, we Americans get watered down news everyday and the propaganda we have to swollow isn’t provided by just 1 media outlet, they’re all involved equally!!

Thank you to ABC News for standing up to the this Administration for trying to control the news media, they attack Fox News, who will be next?? A free press is essential to our freedom — I have more respect for all the major news networks since finding out that they are defending the position of all networks to control their own programing without censorship.

When the President of the USA’s obvious lack of experience is pulled out into the public eye with his rediculous cabinet choices and “pay back” positions by a news network, he thinks his office gives him super powers over public opinion. Little did the country realize until now that they elected a talking head that is driving the country into the Stone Age. Fox did the homework and the public listened. They had the highest rated shows way before this and Obama have built them into the super power of news now. Anybody notice: Fox rating are through the roof and Obama is falling fast in opinion polls passing 45% as we speak. Actions speak ;ouder than words and Obama has none. Why crack on Fox for exposing this guy? Polls are the real numbers. Not left wing news organizations and their followers. Look at these postingd for Obama loving ABS. Many supporting Fox or at least defending. Talk is cheap and only one side will be laughing in 3 yrs. Enjoy your ride.

If a conservative doesn’t like a certain news channel, he switches the station.
Liberals demand that those they don’t agree with be shut down.

Yeah, that’s right. Fox News represents a point of view alright, a conservative point of view. The White House under Obama represents a point of view too, a radically liberal one. That’s why Obama’s focusing more presidential energy when not vacationing or supporting some sports star or team (for those not watching ESPN) on pushing liberal agendas like abortion hidden in the health care bills or homosexual marriage or embryonic stem cell research, as opposed to actually fixing the economy – classic bait & switch.
The big reason Obama hates Fox News is they are a conservative news station. NBC is a liberal news station but they’re on the same side as Obama with the same radical POV, so the White House is all rah-rah for them. Cut the hypocrisy, every station, every person, every news anchor has a POV. To be unbiased or at least close to it isn’t silencing points of view but trying to display all views equally. Fox News for all its POV-pushing at least isn’t afraid to bring liberals on the shows and air out the differences then and there. Obama on the other hand is trying to silence the one news station unafraid to call him out on stuff like ACORN – which the other news stations did not and should have picked up on. Yeah, sometimes Fox throws junk out there, but other times they report the criticism of liberal politics that is accurate and otherwise wouldn’t get reported. Obama won his first election not by defeating his political opponents but challenging their petition signatures after the filing deadline with a team of lawyers. The guy isn’t about free speech or fair play, just winning. People should’ve figured this out about our lawyer in chief.