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Washington, DC -- July 14, 2011 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.
Regarding general anti-FNC bias within the Obama White House in an October 23, 2009, email exchange between Jennifer Psaki, Deputy White House Communications Director and LeCompte, Psaki writes, “I am putting some dead fish in the fox cubby – just cause”. In an email on the night of October 22, 2009, commenting on a report by Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier noting the exclusion of the network from the pool, Psaki writes to Compte and fellow White House colleagues, “…brett baier just did a stupid piece on it -- but he is a lunatic”.
The Treasury Department blacked out a key email regarding its refusal to make available Treasury Secretary Geithner for an interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
“The Obama administration seems to have lied about its attempt to exclude Fox News Channel from access to an interview with the ‘pay czar.’ These documents show there is a pervasive anti-Fox bias in the Obama White House,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The juvenile Mafioso-talk in these emails has no place in any White House. For the Obama administration to purposely exclude a major news organization from access to information has troubling First Amendment implications.”
Republicans say the Obama White House is engaging in "Chicago-style politics" by "demonizing" its opponents. On Thursday, even Fox News's competitors indicated that the White House had gone too far.
Obama aides recently have described Fox News as an arm of the Republican Party, as the opposition, and as a noncredible news operationt
“The administration promised during the campaign that they were going to usher in an era of ‘post-partisanship’ in here in Washington, but what they are doing is flat-out despicable,” Boehner said on Thursday.
Originally posted by guohua
Republicans say the Obama White House is engaging in "Chicago-style politics" by "demonizing" its opponents. On Thursday, even Fox News's competitors indicated that the White House had gone too far.
Originally posted by buster2010
Yes Obama is telling us lies. How dare accuse FOX of being a news service.
Originally posted by xxsomexpersonxx
If I was constantly down talked and often completely misrepresented, I wouldn't be able to hold a completely neutral view on the people doing it.
Originally posted by guohua
... I've listen to many a Liberal on Fox
and found it hard for anyone else to get a word in between the liberal yelling and drowning everyone else out.
emphasis mine
According to one October 22, 2009, email exchange between Dag Vega, Director of Broadcast Media on the White House staff, to Jenni LeCompte, then-Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the Treasury Department, Vega informs LeCompte that “…we’d prefer if you skip Fox please.”
Originally posted by GuyverUnit I
The Director of Broadcast Media on the White House staff....therefor the WHITE HOUSE... wants to BLACKBALL a news outlet for daring to disagree/support an opposing opinion.