White House lashes out at Fox News Glenn Beck for 'lies'
n the past few months, Fox News' critical coverage of the Obama administration has been the subject of scornful scrutiny by left-leaning pundits and political satirists. But now the White House appears to be willing to get dirt on its own hands, jumping into the fray by blasting the network's "disregard for facts" in a post on the official White House blog.
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More..grams Director Jesse Lee, the post takes issue with Fox News' coverage of the president's attempts to help the city of Chicago secure the 2016 Olympics, saying that Rupert Murdoch's cable news juggernaut, which famously bills itself as being "fair and balanced," has "continued its disregard for the facts in an attempt to smear the Administration's efforts" to convince the International Olympic Committee that the U.S. should host the games.
Lee specifically takes issue with Glenn Beck, who in July accused the president of being a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or white culture," for showing that "nothing is worthy of respect if it can be used as part of a partisan attack to boost ratings." Lee then goes on to "reality check" a number of assertions recently made by Beck on his afternoon program, in addition to directing readers to the St. Petersburg Times' Politifact site, which rebuts accusations made by Fox News' Steve Doocy against Patrick Gaspard, the director of the White House Office of Political Affairs.
The move by the Obama White House sets a new watermark in its seemingly escalating war with Fox News. Back in June, President Obama gave an interview to CNBC in which he criticized the network for being "entirely devoted to attacking my administration," and later promised to "call out" anyone who misrepresents him when he delivered his address on health care reform to a joint session of Congress. Taking it a step further, Obama slighted Fox News during the White House's recent pro-health care reform PR blitz, appearing on five Sunday news shows, not to mention Late Night with David Letterman, while declining to grant an interview to a single Fox News program, a move that led Chris Wallace, host of the network's Fox News Sunday, to label the Obama White House as the "biggest bunch of cry-babies I've ever seen." Some objective observers of politics and the media feel that the ire expressed by Wallace is somewhat understandable. After all, the Obama administration's frustrations stem not from non-partisan hosts like Wallace, but from Fox News' roster of unabashedly partisan hosts like Beck and Sean Hannity, who've both gone so far as to compare the Obama White House to Hitler's Germany and the communist Soviet Union.
While many are raising hay about the White House acting aggressively to combat perceived smears from Fox News, it isn't unprecedented for a president and his administration to feud openly with the media. George W. Bush and CBS came to blows in 2004 after Dan Rather alleged on 60 Minutes II that Bush had used his family's connections to manipulate his enlistment in the National Guard to avoid serving in combat in Vietnam, an incident that led to the firing of CBS producer Mary Mapes and badly tarnished Rather's reputation as an objective newsman. Prior to that, Hillary Clinton famously alleged that forces in the media were involved in a "vast right-wing conspiracy" to destroy her husband's presidency, while Nixon's infamous enemies list contained numerous names of media members and the news organizations they worked for. In short, animosity existing between the White House and the media isn't anything new.
During the 2008 campaign, candidate Obama did what many presidential candidates of both parties have done over the years: promised to "change the tone in Washington." By using the White House blog to defend itself from perceived media distortions, the Obama Administration may be unintentionally signaling that their promise to alter the nation's political discourse was a lofty notion that they might fail to fulfill, just like every past presidential Administration to make the same promise. Less..
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Obama is a small petty man.
Don't tell Priority though. He gets testy and bans people who don't agree with him.
Posted Oct-1-2009 by "lonewolf6972" (R)
Don't tell Priority though. He gets testy and bans people who don't agree with him.
As do many republiturds on here.
Posted Oct-1-2009 by "bommer1" (R)
name one lie!
You *DO* know what a LIE is? most progressives haven't a clue!
Posted Oct-1-2009 by "spadata" (R)
Don't tell Priority though. He gets testy and bans people who don't agree with him.
He is doing the right thing by calling out Fox and Beck.
Fox is pure neocon propaganda and most know that.
Posted Oct-1-2009 by "WillyWillKill" (B)
What Lies? I'm not a big Glenn Beck fan, but the sad part of it, he is telling the truth. The So-called White House is just pissed at the guy for finding these facts out.
Posted Oct-1-2009 by "mdp1nvegas" (R)
Wanna really piss off a politicians? Tell the truth about them.
Wanna see people spew defensive, hatefull, meaningless rhetorick? Tell the truth about thier idols.
Wanna see team work and unity? Stop arguing and LISTEN to one another. To debate is good but to simply stand blindly on an issue is foolish.
Want to know the truth? Then truthfully examine the data, find the facts and draw an axiom from them. And if there is a fault anywhere in the process then go back to your premises and find out where you made the mistake. If you accept the mistake and add into your equation as a nonabsolute then you end up with a wrong conclusion.
Drop the emotional attacks and defensive hyperbole and just TALK to one another! You may find out you're stance is not as accurate as you thought. And we may ALL find out that the people we allowed to lead us are not as trustworthy as we'd hoped.
Posted Oct-2-2009 by "jsczerby" (R)
clearly you've never researched any of the "news" he distorts to you or you'd know he tells half truths and his delusional mind spews out his idiotic conspiracy theories for which he has to explain to his audience using a blackboard, little pictures, and diagrams. He's a nutcase but people love em! *rolls eyes*
Posted Oct-2-2009 by "RicoShay" Premium
Wanna see people spew defensive, hatefull, meaningless rhetorick? Tell the truth about thier idols.
Wanna see team work and unity? Stop arguing and LISTEN to one another. To debate is good but to simply stand blindly on an issue is foolish.
Want to know the truth? Then truthfully examine the data, find the facts and draw an axiom from them. And if there is a fault anywhere in the process then go back to your premises and find out where you made the mistake. If you accept the mistake and add into your equation as a nonabsolute then you end up with a wrong conclusion.
Drop the emotional attacks and defensive hyperbole and just TALK to one another! You may find out you're stance is not as accurate as you thought. And we may ALL find out that the people we allowed to lead us are not as trustworthy as we'd hoped.
damn... i forgot to reply to you from yesterday... been busy as hell at work. I think I need to take another break from LL.... shit gets me all riled up hahahahah
well said comment from you here... have you gone all soft on us hehe :)
Posted Oct-2-2009 by "RicoShay" Premium
Wanna see people spew defensive, hatefull, meaningless rhetorick? Tell the truth about thier idols.
Wanna see team work and unity? Stop arguing and LISTEN to one another. To debate is good but to simply stand blindly on an issue is foolish.
Want to know the truth? Then truthfully examine the data, find the facts and draw an axiom from them. And if there is a fault anywhere in the process then go back to your premises and find out where you made the mistake. If you accept the mistake and add into your equation as a nonabsolute then you end up with a wrong conclusion.
Drop the emotional attacks and defensive hyperbole and just TALK to one another! You may find out you're stance is not as accurate as you thought. And we may ALL find out that the people we allowed to lead us are not as trustworthy as we'd hoped.
damn... i forgot to reply to you from yesterday... been busy as hell at work. I think I need to take another break from LL.... shit gets me all riled up hahahahah
well said comment from you here... have you gone all soft on us hehe :)
No, ma'am. This has always been my belief. It may not seem that way sometimes. Thing is, when I'm confronted with pointless hate and intentionally instigative antagonistic rhetorick then I see no reason to be polite. And I've never really had a lot of patience for people who know damn well that something is wrong but continue to swear up and down that it is right.
"A" is "A" and "B" is "B". No matter how much you want "A" to be "B", "B" remains "B".
BTW, nice to see you back.
Posted Oct-2-2009 by "jsczerby" (R)
Both extremes play the middle in order to get attention for themselves. Beck is no different. Pay less attention to the messenger and more attention to the message.
Posted Oct-2-2009 by "USA1" (R)
I love how the left is always calling people names, always lying about stuff, then crying about others calling names, and accusing others of lying.
Ever notice how they attack Beck and FOX news as liars, but never really go in depth as to what they supposedly lied about? Hmmmmm
Posted Oct-2-2009 by "rightwingmob" (R)
Don't tell Priority though. He gets testy and bans people who don't agree with him.
He is doing the right thing by calling out Fox and Beck.
Fox is pure neocon propaganda and most know that.
LOL Yeah, as opposed to MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and CBS, which are in NO WAY biased.
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Posted Oct-2-2009 by "rightwingmob" (R)
This. THIS. This is sad.
Speaking as a non-political 'non-left/non-right' American citizen, it's more than obvious that this dude is suffering from serious mental problems. He needs to settle down. Way, WAY too uptight.
People in America take this dude SERIOUSLY?
Wow. Glenn Beck is in dire need of mental evaluation.
Posted Oct-2-2009 by "FeedTheCollapse" (R)
I doubt you'll EVER see 7,000 people come to hear what Olberdouche or Madcow have to say!
Posted Oct-2-2009 by "Tenaceus" (R)
Google, Glen Beck lies.
Posted Oct-2-2009 by "sclaus4" (B)