Posts about David Axelrod as of October 19, 2009

By DanielPublished:October 19, 2009Posted in: National, PoliticsTags:administration, Axelrod, Dunn, election, Fox News, ObamaComments [0]Digg it!Facebook It was no secret that the media was in it for Barack Obama during the election. Now it is being bragged about by Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, that they “controlled” the media to look “popular.” This comes as Dunn and the White House is attacking Fox News.What Dunn said:She explained that the campaign favored live interviews

In case you’ve not been paying attention, the White House is feuding with Fox News. In the latest salvo, President Obama’s senior political adviser David Axelrod told ABC’s “This Week” that Fox’s programming “is not really news” but “pushing a point of view.” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel echoed those remarks on CNN’s “State of the Union” program Sunday, saying Fox “is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective.” The White House began pushing back against Fox’s coverage of the Obama administration a week ago after the president won the Nobel Peace Prize.

By Tom Bevan Every White House complains about its press coverage. A contentious relationship between the Executive Branch and a free and independent media is part of America’s DNA. Always has been. But this White House seems to feel they’re different. It’s not just that the current occupant of the Oval Office has a particularly thin skin when it comes to criticism – which is especially ironic given that he’s been the recipient of more glowing press coverage than possibly any candidate or president in modern American history.

Karl Rove on Sunday likened the White House’s feud with Fox News network to former President Richard M. Nixon’s battles with the media.Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Rove said:“This is a White House engaging in its own version of the media enemies list. It’s unhelpful for the country and undignified for the president of the United States.”An article by Krissah Thompson in Monday’s Washington Post reports that senior Obama adviser David Axelrod said on ABC’s “This Week” that administration officials

I came across this article a few days ago… Barack Obama’s silly obsession with Fox News David Axelrod, then Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist, put it best when he told his boss: “You care far too much what is written and said about you.” That was in 2006 but, three years on, some things don’t change. Obama is [...]

White House communications director Anita Dunn has called Fox News an arm of the Republican Party. FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty: The Obama White House may have started another war it can’t win. On yesterday’s Sunday talk shows – Senior Adviser David Axelrod said of Fox News, “It’s not really news. It’s pushing a point of view.” And he asked that other news organizations not treat Fox like it’s news.

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle Today Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, Leader of the Free World and Champion of Free Speech declared War on Fox News Channel . Using his Kapos , he has attempted a Blitzkrieg upon the Network. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want “the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox.” Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on

Key members of the Obama administration have escalated the feud between their camp and Fox News by encouraging other networks to give their right-leaning competitor the cold newsy shoulder, prompting an indignant Karl Rove to remark, via Fox News, that said Obama aides are “going to cut your legs off” if they’re opposed—a curious comment coming from someone still picking pieces of other peoples’ legs out of his teeth.  For a less Murdochian take on the matter, click here .  —KA Fox

With both David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel appearing on Sunday news shows and echoing the sentiments of Anita Dunn last week, the Whitehouse has taken the bold approach of being quite open and honest about their position as to whom and what Fox News actually is and isn’t. The folks over at Fox have made it their mission to humiliate themselves even further.

By Kay B. Day There’s a war on, pitting leftwing Democrats against conservatives, and although the most recent target appears to be Fox news and assorted rightwing talk show hosts, fact is the war was on as early as October, 2008. Conservative blogger Protein Wisdom featured a post that same month based on a leftwing post titled ‘Crush their Spirits’ by Markos Moulitsas, headmaster for the leftie school kids at Daily Kos. The intent was clear.