Obama’s Growing Obsession with FOX NEWS Raises Questions About Real Motive

In an attempt to diminish the entire FOX NEWS organization, the Obama administration trotted out chief of staff, Rahm EmanuelRahm Emanuel and presidential advisor, David AxelrodDavid Axelrod on the Sunday talk shows to suggest that FOX isn’t even a news organization, but, “…an organization with a view”. As if reading off the same script, Emanuel and Axelrod both suggested that other news organizations should not pick up on any of FOX’s news stories.

As if these types of comments coming from a president’s administration shouldn’t be concern enough for the right of free speech, more disturbing was the interviewers’ lack of concern or follow-up questioning on these radical points of view coming from two of the administration’s highest ranking officials. Trying to stifle a particular story is one thing, but trying to put a muzzle on an entire new organization is a dangerous threat to our democratic institutions.

It’s such an alarming precedent for any administration to take, one has to pause and wonder why this administration would attack FOX NEWS in this way.

Safe to say that, unlike the other major media outlets new bureaus, FOX NEWS has been unwilling to follow the administration’s wishes to provide non-stop positive coverage of President Obama as ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and PBS have. Unlike these other outlets, FOX makes an earnest effort to provide both sides of a particular issue and let’s the viewer decide for themselves.

So although the Obama administration castigates FOX NEWS, it appears their real beef is with a commentary show like Glenn BeckGlenn Beck. While Beck has many critics, it was Glenn Beck that broke the stories on controversial appointee Van Jones and the revealing undercover tapes that led to the defunding of ACORN. And , by his own admission, he’s not even a journalist.

If you watch Glenn Beck’s daily show you will see that he asks many questions about the President Obama’s past and present associates, his appointments, his socialistic roots, his left-leaning policies, and his intentions with respect to “…fundamentally transforming America…”. For all of its displeasure with the conclusions that Glenn Beck may be drawing from these questions, the White House has not disputed or challenged any of Beck’s primary conclusions.

Last week Glenn Beck installed a red phone on his set which only Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, has the number to so she could call during the program to dispute anything Mr. Beck was saying. After three days, Anita Dunn has yet to dial the phone.

As Anita Dunn recently revealed in an interview taped in January, the Obama administration is uniquely focused on controlling the message and dealing with these “pesky” reporters as little as possible. It seems clear then, that the Obama administration is more interested in stifling the truth.