"There's Room For One More."

It was a "Twilight Zone" episode, I think.  Where a guy freaks out when a ghoul only seen by him materializes as an elevator operator and  utters a ghastly "There's room for one more" before the scared shitless guy shirks the elevator which crashes to the ground.  Same thing with an airplane.

If the mainstream media scared shitless by the WH's heavy-handed Oddjob torture of Fox News believe they'll stay on Obama's good side by keeping their yaps shut should think again:  There's Room For One More.  ABC's Jake Tapper found that out when he was recently threatened with a cut-off of the access valve when he questioned something the WH did.

I've warned before:  you smug assholes out there gleefully reveling in rival Fox in the WH crosshairs better be prepared for the day when you're on Obama's shit list.  I've also pointed out WH senior advisor David Axelrod's Sunday spin show appearance where he said, in essence, the goal is media divide and conquer. In other words, reducing the dialogue to choosing sides while burying the alarming attempts to control the dialogue by silencing opponents.

Here's Fox News contributor and ex-MSNBCer Tucker Carlson opining Fox has embarrassed the WH and that's the reason for the takedown.  I submit it goes far beyond that:  Obama and his henchmen find Fox is screwing with Obama's agenda.

Tucker:  Why is the press corps giving the White House a pass for behavior it never would have tolerated from other administrations? Conservatives believe it’s simple bias. They point to the more than a dozen journalists who have quit their jobs to work for Obama, or to the network employees who wept with joy in public the night he was elected.

The answer is slightly more complicated. Most journalists don’t think the attacks on Fox have anything to do with them. They agree with Obama’s program. They voted for him. What could go wrong?

 Except the Obama people aren’t at war with Fox because it’s conservative. They’re angry because Fox has embarrassed them. Its correspondents ask hard questions. Its primetime hosts got Van Jones fired from the White House by exposing him as a 9/11 denier. If Keith Olbermann had done the same thing—and don’t hold your breath—David Axelrod might be denouncing MSNBC this week. Politics is seldom as ideological as it seems.

Which is something the White House press corps ought to keep in mind as it stands by in silence while Fox is bullied: Your politics won’t save you. You’ll be next.

Wash Post's Howard Kurtz takes the media temperature

Question:  Who is at fault for the chaos in the Republican party?  Glenn Beck? Rush Limbaugh?  Wussy Republican members of Congress?   Obama and Dems are setting the table for an Animal House food fight between scared shitless GOP and conservative media megaphones.