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Is The White House Crazy Like A Fox?

The White House has stirred up a hornets’ nest of controversy in its “war” against Fox News (see our many posts here on TMV by scrolling down). Some call it a major political mistake. But the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, who was also critical of the White House, has begun to think that the White House may be “crazy like a fox…”

  • vey9
    My US Rep., Grayson managed to scare off four local GOP challengers in the week he went after the GOP. That "crazy guy spouting those crazy things" discouraged all the locals (except for a couple of teabaggers) and now the State GOP is thinking about importing a candidate from Miami. This, in a district that is 65% registered Republican.

    Sometimes mouthing off pays, no?
  • SteveK
    Sometimes mouthing off pays, no?
    Yes!

    What amazes me is how the story is "The White House War on Fox" when in reality it has been "The Fox War on The White House" since before Inauguration Day.

    Fox started spinning this with their first whimper and with their 24/7 repetition it's become the excepted (though false) description of what has happened.
  • vey9
    One of Grayson's GOP challengers claimed that veterans would support him because he was a prime mover to get a new VA hospital built here, but then he also claimed not to be in favor of "socialized medicine."

    To which I ask, "How can someone that isn't in favor of socialized medicine support expansion of the most socialized medicine scheme in the world?" A good question, I think. He announced and quit in three days -- has to be record.
  • I just did a post on this and said I thought Obama's war on FOX was a good idea.
    There are those among the DC brain(dead) trust who think that Obama's war against FOX news is a mistake - I disagree. If you are a student of fiction you know that it is the antagonist that empowers the protagonist - every good guy needs a bad guy.

    And SteveK you get it right. Republican political operative and president of FOX made it clear from the beginning that FOX would be attacking Obama 24/7. That makes FOX a great Obama antagonist.
  • vey9
    If Obama points out the obvious, is that "wrong?" I don't see how and since I am one of the "swing voters" I don't see how folks like me could see it as wrong, either.
  • I agree! And that makes it only more right.
  • DaMav
    Yes, brilliant strategy. And the Fox marketing department says "Thank You"! Bonuses for everyone this year.
  • JSpencer
    Well sure, there's plenty of money to be made by exploiting division. It's not so great for the country though.
  • DLS
    ObamaCo and their arrogance and conceit, as well as liberal childishness and temper-tantrum-throwing aren't limited to being divisive; they mastered that before trying to attack Fox. They are not satisfied with a still-largely-adoring-and-complicit liberal media, and with stage-managing press conferences and otherwise exploiting Obama's public image to manipulate public option (among the intellectually or morally weak, at least, the Dem & Obama Faithful). They are now going beyond the Communistic "traitor-naming" invitation they sought earlier in their health-care-"reform"-failure frustration, to lashing out at Fox as a manufactured and enlarged demon. Throw that tantrum, kick and thrash, hurl those insults like your fellow low-lifes, and keep up that aggressive outlet for your little frustrations over your self-created health care "reform" failure!

    Then it's time for you to boost your Lysenkoism (and worse) with climate "change" legislation and the big masturbatory-and-worse session in Copenhagen. Will you ape or go below what Gordon Brown has said and done, and what the EU twits are clucking about doing? (Better people won't like it if you do!)

    They know they can't keep blaming Bush for their numerous failures and wrongdoings; few are so stupid as to accept that, still. Now it's Fox's turn to be attacked.
  • DLS
    "Yes, brilliant strategy. And the Fox marketing department says "Thank You"! Bonuses for everyone this year."

    Just wait until the Copenhagen pow-wow of the (mentally and morally) Little Green Fascists and their drooling drivel. And don't forget, provided that they don't continue to be the equivalent of air crews of Dim Lawn Dart Airlines, they have to get out of their health care "reform" nose dive first [snicker]. No, neither Afghanistan nor Copenhagen and climate-politics lunacy are going to successfully distract many.
  • JSpencer
    I'm guessing it's time for somebody to wipe off their monitor. ;-)
  • DLS
    Don't forget to go out in the woods for an hour or two after wiping it.
  • JSpencer
    Yer gonna be passing up a lot of good material if you don't learn how to laugh at yourself bucko.
  • DLS
    Who says I've never done that? Oops. Another mistake there...

    Meanwhile, what this place needs still more of:

    Health care? Bank loans? Bah! Humbug. Are there no emergency rooms? And pawn shops?
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