Documents Show Obama White House Attacked, Excluded Fox News Channel

[thelaughingman]

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered documents from the Obama Department of Treasury showing that the Obama administration, contrary to its repeated denials, attempted to exclude the Fox News Channel (FNC) from a round of interviews with Treasury’s “Executive Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg. The documents, which include email exchanges within the Department of the Treasury and between Treasury and White House staff, also provide colorful evidence of an anti-Fox News bias within the Obama White House.

The documents, obtained last week by Judicial Watch pursuant to an October, 28, 2009, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, concern a series of interviews with Feinberg, who served as the Special Master for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Executive Compensation, on October 22, 2009, organized by the Treasury Department. According to press reports, the Fox News Channel was specifically excluded from joining the pool of reporters which precipitated a backlash among the networks and a reversal by the Obama Treasury Department.

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Think Fox could sue?

[Eupher]

There was a lot of discussion about this on yesterday's Bret Baier news show, which was hosted by Shannon Bream as Bret was out. The Fox "All Stars" panel pretty much made it a non-issue.

One of the outputs from this encounter was the fact that the WH currently treats FNC like something other than the ostracized and ridiculed ugly red-headed stepchild, meaning that their efforts to marginalize FNC were a dismal failure...

...like everything else the WH has attempted to do.

Yeah, it's remarkable (but not unexpected) that it took the WH 18 months to respond to Judicial Watch's request for information. Stonewalling -- it's what most administrations do when they're confronted with requests for information that present a damaging image.

Bret Baier isn't a lunatic and the fish in the cubby thing was just more partisan bullshit from that particular asswipe. Emails that trash other people are bound to be found everywhere, so by itself it merely confirms what people already had known -

The WH doesn't like FNC. It tried to marginalize them, but couldn't because of FNC's heavyweight status in the media. So now the WH plays "nice" with FNC to at least some level.

This is just one of those stories that people should tuck away and keep in mind, but by itself all it indicates is that the WH plays partisan politics.

So what else is new? 

[DumbAss Tanker]

The apologists for the Oministration mostly blew it off as "Old news."  However, it is rather more recent than the phone hacking which is blowing up in England and leading to demands for investigation here, and involves the additional factor of Oministration officials getting caught in an outright lie.   

[CG6468]

Fox's competitors loudly complained about FoxNews being blackballed. Blammo backed down.