Posts about David Axelrod as of October 23, 2009

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WaPo : Fox wars The ‘post-partisan’ president makes an enemies list By Charles Krauthammer Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed. Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily. The White House has declared war on Fox News.

* Do Dems fear a 2010 election day overshadowed by “Obama’s recession”? * Another prominent Democrat has pulled out of left-leaning pro-Israel group J-Street’s big conference, which is under assault from the right. J-Street spokesperson Amy Spitalnick confirms to our reporter Beth Marlowe that Senator Kay Hagan has pulled out as of this afternoon. She’d been on the conference’s host committee, and she didn’t give a reason for dropping out.

Yesterday my commentary dealt with the White House attack on Fox News.  The point being that this was not simply an attack on one news organization but rather the beginning of a much more widespread attack on the free press and ultimately free speech.  Slippery slope argument. I heard that.  Seriously though, is it? When the Democrats ramped up the money confetti drop on AIG, GM, and the like, there were already stories going around about the financial shape of major newspapers, such as The Washington Post.

Fox wars The ‘post-partisan’ president makes an enemies list By Charles Krauthammer Friday, October 23, 2009   Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed. Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily. The White House has declared war on Fox News.

It’s been a minute since Marilyn Parker has spewed forth an email blast. We were beginning to think the poor woman had disappeared into the abyss before we could get gay married to her, by a Muslin, just because! If her last mess about machine guns or whatever didn’t take the cake? He latest certainly will. I can’t even make fun of her appropriately without almost passing out from laughter.

On KHOW’s Peter Boyles Show Thursday, the talk radio host compared President Obama’s “War with FOX News” to Hugo Chavez’s takeover of Venezuelan media outlets. “This is the Authority of the United States going after a… news outlet,” Boyles said. “Right now in Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is having a field day.” Discussing the Obama administration’s decision to mandate salary reductions for executives at banks that received TARP bailout funds, Boyles described the move as socialist, which brought him to the administration’s recent decision to hold FOX News at a distance.

to exclude FOX news from Pay Czar Interview! The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House. The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the network pool except Fox News.

In a move not dissimilar from the New York Post trying to will Eliot Spitzer back into office with a series of scantily sourced front page stories , Politico  reported earlier that friends of Fox News president Roger Ailes are encouraging the businessman to consider a run for President of the United States in 2012. Politico Click — the new, gossipy wing of the highly influential D.C.

The New York Times reports that last month, senior White House adviser David Axelrod and Fox News chief executive Roger Ailes met secretly to defuse tensions between the Obama administration and the network. So much for that. There’s now open combat between presidential aides and Fox. “We simply decided to stop abiding by the fiction, which is aided and abetted by the mainstream press, that Fox is a traditional news organization,” said Dan Pfeiffer, the deputy White House communications

George ReismanCampaign For Liberty Friday, October 23, 2009Anita Dunn, is described by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as “one of the major decision makers of the Obama campaign” and as one of Obama’s “four top advisers (along with David Axelrod, David Plouffe, and Robert Gibbs).” She currently holds the position of “White House Communications Director.” She is married to the President’s personal lawyer, Robert Bauer.

George Reisman Campaign For Liberty Friday, October 23, 2009 Anita Dunn , is described by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as “one of the major decision makers of the Obama campaign” and as one of Obama’s “four top advisers (along with David Axelrod, David Plouffe, and Robert Gibbs).” She currently holds the position of “White House Communications Director.” She is married to the President’s personal lawyer, Robert Bauer. In 2008, Newsweek named Dunn and Bauer the new “power couple” in Washington, D.C.

Wonder if him and Rahm call each other team Rahm-Rod WASHINGTON — Late last month, the senior White House adviser David Axelrod and Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive of Fox News, met in an empty Palm steakhouse before it opened for the day, neutral ground secured for a secret tête-à-tête. Mr. Ailes, who had reached out to Mr. Axelrod to address rising tensions between the network and the White House, told him that Fox’s reporters were fair, if tough, and should be considered separate from the Fox commentators who were skewering President Obama nightly, according to people briefed on the meeting.

The New York Times reported to on a meeting between Roger Ailes and David Axelrod just before last weekend’s doubling-down of President Obama’s attacks on Fox News, a network e has long loathed and which he succeeded in having the Democratic presidential debates boycott.“By the following weekend, officials at the White House had decided that if anything, it was time to take the relationship to an even more confrontational level.

Part of a new series I’m starting to explore social, creative, and economic opportunities specific to London Ontario. Recently I posted about the benefits of educating citizens to think like journalists. Since then I found a lot of great examples of a collaborative approach to journalism — not just between professionals and amateurs, but between organizations and (in a sense) collectively.

Charles Krauthammer just hit one out of the park in one of his latest columns at the Washington Post.  To be fair, the “mainstream media” actually did the heavy lifting, but Charles brought it to light where I don’t know of others doing so. The Obama Administration has tried to marginalize Fox News, but has had little success.  Their one success that I can see is that none of the “mainstream media” has bothered to cover the story in any meaningful sort of way.  They’ve left Van Jones and the Acorn scandal alone for the most part which must be comforting to the sitting President.

By Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON — Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’ bed. Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily. The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” Patting rival networks on the head for their authenticity (read: docility), senior adviser David Axelrod declared Fox “not really a news station.” And Chief of Staff Emanuel told (warned?) the other networks not to “be led (by) and following Fox.” Going Rogue by Sarah Palin FREE Meaning?

. . . . . . . The Grating Communicator By Ann Coulter ____ October 21st, 2009 ANN COULTER.COM The Obama administration has attacked Fox News in order to prevent government corruption stories broken on Fox from bleeding into the other media, which are all-consumed with daily updates on Levi Johnston’s Playgirl spread and Carrie Prejean’s breast implants.

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times : Behind War Between White House and Fox   —  WASHINGTON — Late last month, the senior White House adviser David Axelrod and Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive of Fox News, met in an empty Midtown Manhattan steakhouse before it opened for the day, neutral ground secured for a secret tête-à-tê te.

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times : Behind the War Between White House and Fox   —  WASHINGTON — Late last month, the senior White House adviser David Axelrod and Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive of Fox News, met in an empty Palm steakhouse before it opened for the day, neutral ground secured for a secret tête-à-tê te.

See these posts: Message to GOP: Can you hear conservatives now? and The bootlicker media and The Marxist House vs Fox News and Media Matters & President Obama in Lockstep and  SHOCKING! JUST SHOCKING! and More FNDR: Fox News Derangement Syndrome and  Fox News Winning the “Debate” As Obama Cringes and  Obamedia: Media Bias In The Networks and  Jacob Weisberg: Obama’s New Sycophant and Let The Fruit Loops Whine, Complain and Consort and  Marc Lamont Hill Fired From Fox News and The Marxist House vs Fox News…Who Wins That One?

Fox wars (Krauthammer)WashPost ^ | 10-23-09 | Charles Krauthammer Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:47:24 PM by STARWISERahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed. This StoryNot very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily.The White House has declared war on Fox News.

SLAM!! The White House got a major league bitch slap today as it tried to escalate its censorship of Fox News but received no cooperation from the other networks. On today’s special report host Bret Bair told the story of Obama’s foolishness (see video below). “Today there was an announcement by the administration,” Baier said. “They were putting out the pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, as we showed you earlier for the White House pool – that Feinberg would be doing a round-robin interviews with the five-network pool that covers the White House – basically shares the costs and the daily coverage duties of covering the president.

VIDEO: VP Cheney’s Full Frontal and Flank Attack On The Lame Sac-less Obama Administration WSJ : Obama Goes Wobbly on Afghanistan The president can sustain bipartisan support for the war if he demonstrates his personal commitment. By KARL ROVE In an interview with CNN’s John King on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said President Obama is now asking tough questions about Afghanistan “that have never been asked on the civilian side, the political side, the military side and the strategic side.” It was a not so subtle dig at Mr.