Chuck Chuck Bo Buck Fanana Fana Fo #@#$! leads off the above with "There may be a truce of sorts at any given moment, but there’s no doubt that there’s been a war going on between Fox News and the Obama White House."
Obama gave the media a war against Fox News and nobody came. For the record, the White House press corps - ever concerned about the First Amendment right to free speech - backed Fox News after the White House declared a Fox fatwah.
Defeated, Obama and his henchmen began parceling out interviews to Fox News, specifically an Obama sit-down with Fox News Special Report anchor Bret Baier that received mostly rave reviews.
Me: De Tocqueville also observed: "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
The naive, vindictive, hubris-driven attempts to chill Fox News backfired. In the Cold War military strategy of brinkmanship, the idea was to push aggressively until your foe backed down, conceded, folded, offered concessions et al. In this case it was Obama and his wag the dog doofuses who blinked when the dog, er Fox, growled back.
So the president is now attempting to restrain iPods and iPads.
Obama is winning one war:
ReplyDeleteMore and more, technology does allow him to circumvent the press corps, and we'll come to rue this day.