How Obama Lost the War Against Fox News

President Obama's war against Fox News seems to have run into withering fire from an unexpected direction. The White House tried to exclude Fox News from an interview with Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg. The other news networks were not amused.

The Washington Bureau Chiefs of the five broadcast networks consulted briefly and then handed the Obama administration an ultimatum. Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg would not be interviewed by anyway unless Fox News would also be included. The Obama administration quickly backed down and beat a hasty retreat.

The Obama administration strategy had been to try to isolate Fox News from the other broadcast networks and delegitimize it as a real news organization. Obama surrogates, including well known admirer of Chairman Mao Anita Dunn, suggested that Fox was nothing more than an arm of the Republican Party. President Obama himself compared Fox News to radio talk shows such as Rush Limbaugh. Obama also whined about the treatment Fox News has been given him to a group of liberal reporters, mainly from MSNBC, in a closed door, Oval Office meeting.

The ire President Obama feels toward Fox News is understandable. Fox News has led the way in breaking stories that have been embarrassing to the Obama administration, including Van Jones, ACORN, and the hidden time bombs tucked within health care reform. Even Anita Dunn, Obama's point person on the assault on Fox News, suffered embarrassment when her admiration for a mass murderer, Chairman Mao, was unveiled.

The Obama administration thought that the other networks would acquiesce to the savaging of Fox News out of envy, as Fox News has been beating them in the ratings. But President Obama reckoned without a couple of developments. First, Fox News' ratings soared after being singled out by President Obama as enemies of the people. Second, the other networks seem to have concluded that being patted on the head by President Obama as officially approved news networks would be very bad for their bottom line.

Hence, the reaction of the news networks to the attempt by President Obama to snub Fox News, acting as a NATO alliance that an attack on one is an attack on all. Obama's supporters always said that he would bring enemies together. Who would have thought that he would have brough CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News together?

President Obama's war against Fox News is over and President Obama has lost. He had ridden down the Valley of Death, up the Little Big Horn, and against Cemetery Ridge, and has been defeated in detail. It is time to raise the white flag of surrender and turn ones attention to the real enemies of the Republic, say, the terrorists.

Source: White House Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News from Pay Czar Interview, Fox News, October 23rd, 2009