While violence is escalating in Afghanistan, and US casualties are rising, President Barack Hussein Obama (Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm) continues doddling away deciding whether or not to send an 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.
Conversely, his White House is wasting no time attacking who they see as their real enemy: Fox News.
It began Sunday, with Communications Director Anita Dunn calling Fox News the "research arm of the Republican Party" and implied that the network was not a real news network like the Obama-friendly CNN.
The White House is also using several outlets of their lapdog media to trumpet their claims (AFP).
The White House has gone on the offensive against its critics in the press, singling out Fox News and going so far as to accuse the News Corp.-owned network of waging a "war against Barack Obama."Fox News hosts responded yesterday to these Nixonian styled attacks by the Obama White House.
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn has led the charge, appearing on CNN television and conducting interviews with Time magazine and The New York Times in recent days to make her case.
The unusual White House campaign comes as President Obama faces mounting opposition to his health care reforms, growing concern over the situation in Afghanistan and a continuing general economic malaise.
The president also suffered a setback recently when his personal effort to win approval for Chicago to host the 2016 Olympics was rejected and his Nobel Peace Prize has met with more barbs than bouquets.
Speaking of media magnate Rupert Murdoch's Fox, Dunn told the Times in an interview published Monday: "We?re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent.
"As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don't need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave," she said.
In comments just days earlier to Time magazine, Dunn, a veteran Democratic Party communications strategist who joined the White House in May, denounced Fox as "opinion journalism masquerading as news."
"They are boosting their audience. But that doesn't mean we are going to sit back," she said.
Glenn Beck (interviewing Democrat Strategist Pat Cadell):
Bill O'Reilly, who has been a softball critic of "That One."
Neil Cavuto
Veteran correspondent Brit Hume also appeared on O'Reilly's show.
Keep it up, Anita Dunn and the rest of your boss' administration. You're really proving how true Chris Wallace was when he said....
"..they (Obama Administration) are the biggest bunch of crybabies I've dealt with in my 30 years in Washington."
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