RSSThe White House Declares War On Both Fox News AND Congress
Carl Andrews | October 25, 2009
In it’s latest childlike maneuver, the White House attempted to exclude Fox News from a press pool interview of White House “Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg.
The Treasury Department attempted to make Feinberg available to all of that day’s participants in the pool except Fox News.
That scheme failed when the Washington bureau chiefs of the other five television networks taking part came to the conclusion that if Fox News was not included, none of them would conduct an interview with Feinberg.
The interview took place, with Fox participating, in spite of the fact that the White House did not want to invite them.
This is the sort of behavior one expects to see at a day-care center, not in our nation’s Capitol.
It appears that despite the White House urging the other major networks to boycott Fox News and not to treat them as a legitimate news organization, some members of the media still understand the meaning behind the words “a free and unfettered press.
Showing his usual disdain for a subject he does not want to be held accountable for, President Obama had this to say about his administration’s portrayal of Fox news as illegitimate:
“I think that what our advisers simply said is, is that we are going to take media as it comes,”
“And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that’s one thing. And if it’s operating as a news outlet, then that’s another. But it’s not something I’m losing a lot of sleep over.”
So rather than be kept awake at night by the questions raised by such Fox News commentators as Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, our President would rather be lulled to sleep by the praises of such unbiased reporters as Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.
Funny, but any time that I think of those three passing themselves off as legitimate journalists, it tends to keep me awake at night!
However, Fox News isn’t the only thing that President Obama is refusing to allow to interrupt his nap time.
Another is Congress.
The White House has told Congress it will reject calls for many of President Obama’s policy czars to testify before Congress.
The fact that Congress has a Constitutional mandate to investigate the actions of any Presidential administration is something else that the President is not loosing any sleep over.
In spite of the fact that not one of the multitude of “Czars” that President Obama has appointed has gone through any sort of Senate confirmation process, White House counsel Greg Craig told members of congress this week that none of the Czars would be made available.
Mr. Craig did explain that the White House is not attempting to circumvent Congress.
“We recognize that it is theoretically possible that a president could create new positions that inhibit transparency or undermine congressional oversight. That is simply not the case, however, in the current administration,”
In other words Congress, take our word for it.
Otherwise we may be forced to pull a Fox News on you.
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