Rules For Radicals: Obama Orders The Rest Of The Media To Isolate Fox News

Obama’s war with Fox News escalates:

The White House is calling on other news organizations to isolate and alienate Fox News as it sends out top advisers to rail against the cable channel as a Republican Party mouthpiece.
Top political strategists question the decision by the Obama administration to escalate its offensive against Fox News. And as of Monday, the four other major television networks had not given any indication that they intend to sever their ties with Fox News.
But several top White House officials have taken aim at Fox News since communications director Anita Dunn branded Fox “opinion journalism masquerading as news” in an interview last Sunday.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN on Sunday that President Obama does not want “the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox.”
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is “not a news organization.”
“Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way,” Axelrod counseled ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “We’re not going to treat them that way.”

For what it’s worth, Saul Alinsky’s 12th rule from his “Rules for Radicals” reads: “RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy.”
Apparently, the Obama administration is trying to isolate Fox News from the rest of the media. That might have worked, except that Fox routinely gets more viewers through primetime than CNN and MSNBC combined.
But what’s a little shocking is an elected leader picking a media outlet like this and attacking it so viciously. If this were a Republican President the liberals would be screaming from the rooftops about fascism and the crushing of dissent.
But it’s ok when Obama does it. Because as Alinsky also said, “In war the end justifies almost any means.”

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  • http://Array sayanything-48

    Among the findings?

    GHAAAAA!! Stop with the facts already!! What good are facts when
    you already have a feeling defined to go on?!?

  • sayanything-2

    And yet you are the one who continually spews lies. Why is that, lying bitch?

  • sayanything-4204

    Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
    Mao Tse-Tung

  • Pfeh

    Note quite applicable here, but …

    “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”

    They’re a bit mixed up on the order, but hey? Communists are always a little mixed up.

  • sayanything-2

    And more lies from another lying bitch.

  • sayanything-2

    And more lies from dinothefakehomo’s suckpuppet.

  • sayanything-48

    Not a good idea to attack the #1 news source on the
    planet. The death throes of a failed administration.

    And the funny part is FOX only reaches 3 million or so.

    Thanks,

    Seth Yantiss

  • TheTodd

    “If this were a Republican President the liberals would be screaming from the rooftops about fascism and the crushing of dissent.”

    Republicans have been making this claim for about 40 years–basically, starting with the Nixon Administration. Repeatedly claiming the “mainstream media” was liberally biased is what allowed Fox News to exist.*

    *Much more importantly, it’s what forced the New York Times and the Washington Post to spread the Whitewater conspiracy during the Clinton Administration. It’s what forced MSNBC to spread lies about Al Gore during his campaign.

    You’re pissed that liberals have finally decided to play your game.

  • sayanything-2407

    Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is “not a news organization.”

    So does this mean they are revoking Fox News Press Pass and not allowing their reporters in Press Briefings at the Whitehouse?

  • sayanything-1714

    like your hero Obama is a joke, trying to make this about Bush is absurd.

    Was that supposed to be english?

    So comparing how they treated Bush to Obama is absurd??

    Idiots.

  • sayanything-106

    More Rob Derangement syndrome.

  • sayanything-2407

    Curious though, isn’t Fox news considered a business and if it is a business does this mean the government is singling out and attacking a business?

    Would it be similar to the government telling people not to buy Ford cars and trucks because they don’t like Ford?

  • TheTodd

    ” But to deny that the bias in the media is overwhelmingly liberal is to deny reality.”

    Where were you from 1992-2007? Did Vince Foster, Whitewater, and “earth tones” just not exist for you?

    Our “liberal” newspapers pimped the Whitewater lies. The “liberals” at MSNBC spent 2 years bashing Al Gore at every opportunity, making up “lies” about trivial topics (“Love Story, 3 Mile Island, etc.). Chris Matthews repeatedly compared him to Hitler. Maureen Dowd wrote column after column expanding on the trivial lies her paper pimped about Gore and how they were indicative of “character flaws.”

    The Left spent the past 2 decades defending themselves from media-hyped conspiracies. To this day, not a single person in the “mainstream media” talks about their War on Gore… it’s officially down the memory hole.

  • sayanything-1714

    Again, Fox News never covered Bush negatively, like MSNBC, CBS, NBC, CNN covered covered Clinton.

  • TheTodd

    Yes, MSNBC went after Gore one time. My God you’re dense.

    This was before you started following politics, Rob, so it’s okay to admit your ignorance.

  • sayanything-2

    And not a single example to prove your lie, lying bitch. Why is that?

  • sayanything-342

    This administration is weak and it shows. This stunt to isolate FOX wont work. Obama isn’t fooling anyone that doesn’t want to be fooled.

  • Mark

    If this Saviour would work on the real problems of the country, instead of inflating his ego, maybe something would get done.

  • sayanything-2

    And here is dinothefakehomo’s suckpuppet. Right in line with dinothefakehomo’s lies, too.

  • sayanything-2

    More “control” of the media by Barri? What a joke!

  • sayanything-48

    So wait… Todd. You were one of the five viewers of MSNBC when they, what, first started… so you saw them rail against Al Gore?

    Did that horrid attack cause the present day insanity that we see from him?

    Perhaps his current delusions are caused by his constant ribbing on SNL?

    Even if MSNBC did call Gore onto the carpet… so what?

    The liberal news media has MSNBC, CBS , ABC, CNN, NYT, WSJ, AP, NPR, and almost every other news organization out there… so Conservatives (and this is still arguable considering what Shep said last week) have FOX and talk radio… SO WHAT?

    They ALL have their ideology… ALL OF THEM. Every person alive has a bias of their experiences, to suggest otherwise is delusional at best.

  • sayanything-48

    You live in an alternate reality.

    Alternate from you is good.

    Thanks,

    Seth Yantiss

  • TheTodd

    “Meanwhile, Fox continues to trounce all comers in the ratings.” Naturally. They’re the most biased.

    If you forgot about MSNBCs War on Gore, I don’t know what to tell you. Read a book sometime?

  • sayanything-2

    And yet more lies from the lying bitch.

  • sayanything-13784

    Not a good idea to attack the #1 news source on the planet. The death throes of a failed administration.

  • sayanything-1714

    Where were you from 1992-2007? Did Vince Foster, Whitewater, and “earth tones” just not exist for you?

    Our “liberal” newspapers pimped the Whitewater lies. The “liberals” at MSNBC spent 2 years bashing Al Gore at every opportunity, making up “lies” about trivial topics (“Love Story, 3 Mile Island, etc.). Chris Matthews repeatedly compared him to Hitler. Maureen Dowd wrote column after column expanding on the trivial lies her paper pimped about Gore and how they were indicative of “character flaws.”

    Fox News has never done that to Bush and would NEVER do that to a conservative.

    Robs response to this is comical.

    What a joke.

  • sayanything-1714

    The difference is that Fox News only tears apart Democrats….period…end of story. MSNBC tears down both, but has a leftward bent.

    Rachael Maddow even attacks Obama……i mean…who does that to Bush on Fox?

  • sayanything-1714

    The difference is that Fox News only tears apart Democrats….period…end of story. MSNBC tears down both, but has a leftward bent.

    Rachael Maddow even attacks Obama……i mean…who does that for Bush on Fox?

  • sayanything-3035

    like your hero Obama is a joke, trying to make this about Bush is absurd.

    you clearly don’t watch FOX NEWS….the only news at 6pm eastern that covers all sides of the story. Fair and balanced.

    this Hugo Chavez attack on FOX NEWS is as stupid as THE ONE himself…and the blowback will undo any left over good will Obama once had with the people.

  • robert108

    You lie again, H. Geraldo and Shep Smith bash Republicans all the time. Geraldo even participated in the terrorist attack on Rush.
    You’re wrong, as usual.

    Hint: Obama is the President, George Bush is a regular citizen. Get it?

  • sayanything-106

    Looks a lot what Hugo is doing in his country and our left wingers love Hugo.

  • sayanything-2407

    “Meanwhile, Fox continues to trounce all comers in the ratings.” Naturally. They’re the most biased.

    DO you really want to talk balance?

    If Fox News is so biased, please explain the following:

    The Pew (PEJ) report for the 2008 election cycle is out.

    Among the findings?

    FOXNEWS provided the most balanced cable coverage of the 2008 presidential election among major news outlets (CNN, MSNBC, FOXNEWS) and likely the most balanced of all six outlets (NBC, CBS, ABC included), although they oddly didnt release the latter three network’s numbers. Keep in mind, while Pew bills itself as Independent, it certainly leans to the left, which is probably why they didnt release all the numbers. God forbid they stated FoxNews was the most fair of any television network, as it’s doubtful any network bested the Fox numbers below since the Fox positive/negative are almost a perfect match. Interestingly, while they released the numbers for MSNBC and FOX, they didnt release individual CNN numbers, choosing to say it closely reflected the “Total Coverage” numbers below, putting it somewhere between MSNBC and FOX.

    The Best (least biased) and the Worst (most biased) news coverage?

    BEST (FOXNEWS)
    Positive Obama Stories 25%
    Positive McCain Stories 22%
    Negative Obama Stories 40%
    Negative McCain Stories 40%

    WORST (MSDNC)
    Positive Obama Stories 73%
    Positive McCain Stories 10%
    Negative Obama Stories 14%
    Negative McCain Stories 43%

    TOTAL COVERAGE (all media added together – 2,412 stories from 48 outlets)
    Positive Obama Stories 36%
    Positive McCain Stories 14%
    Negative Obama Stories 29%
    Negative McCain Stories 57%

    Link

    See Graph HERE

    Among the findings:

    - MSNBC stood out for having less negative coverage of Obama than the press generally (14% of stories vs. 29% in the press overall) and for having more negative stories about McCain (73% of its coverage vs. 57% in the press overall).

    - On Fox News, in contrast, coverage of Obama was more negative than the norm (40% of stories vs. 29% overall) and less positive (25% of stories vs. 36% generally). For McCain, the news channel was somewhat more positive (22% vs. 14% in the press overall) and substantially less negative (40% vs. 57% in the press overall). Yet even here, his negative stories outweighed positive ones by almost 2 to 1.

    - CNN fell distinctly in the middle of the three cable channels when it came to tone. In general, the tone of its coverage was closer than any other cable news channel to the press overall, though also somewhat more negative than the media overall.
    The distinct tone of MSNBC—more positive toward Democrats and more negative toward Republicans—was not reflected in the coverage of its broadcast sibling, NBC News. Even though it has correspondents appear on their cable shows and even anchor some programs on there, the broadcast channel showed no such ideological tilt. Indeed, NBC’s coverage of Palin was the most positive of any TV organization studied, including Fox News.

    - At night, the newscasts of the three traditional broadcast networks stood out for being more neutral—and also less negative—than most other news outlets. The morning shows of the networks, by contrast, more closely resembled the media generally in tone. That might surprise some who imagined those morning programs were somehow easier on political figures. Overall, 44% of the morning show stories were clearly negative, compared with 34% on the nightly news and 42% in the press overall.

    Heck, Obama was on Fox with O’Reilly doing an interview. For those that never saw Obama on O’Reilly, see the 4 segments below.

    Part 1 (War on terror) – Click Here
    Part 2 (Economy) – Click Here
    Part 3 (Associations) – Click Here
    Part 4 (Energy) – Click Here

  • sayanything-1714

    Ill stipulate that Fox has a rightward bent. What I don’t understand is why you think that excuses msnbc, for instance.

    Two words….Joe Scarborough.

    He excoriated Obama on Monday. The fact that you are blind to the criticism is not my issue….it’s yours.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    The phrase about those things at the time that the news media was in a rush
    to be second. In other words Whitewater was all over the conservative press
    well before the msm was forced to cover the story.

    In general they acted like members of the defense rather than an impartial
    media.

  • TheTodd
  • sayanything-4808

    You seem to be the only idiot on Earth to remember such a thing there Toad.

    When only one person “remembers” and cannot produce any evidence whatsoever, that’s called delusional.

    How long has it been since you were evaluated, anyhow?

    Meanwhile, Fox continues to trounce all comers in the ratings. Predictably, the arrogance of the left rears its head and tries to dismiss the opinion of the public, condescend to them and tell them what is and is not worthy of their time, and only make the backlash against the government worse.

    I love the human capacity for self-fulfilling prophecy. Liberalism won’t stop, like a child having a tantrum, until like that child being grounded by talking his way into his parents’ anger, the public will ground them by turning them off and turning their backs.

  • sayanything-4808

    I was a regular nightly news watcher during the Clinton years as well as a Rush Limbaugh listener during the day and in between, during the late afternoon, I studied political science at the local state university library for my own amusement.

    THERE WAS NO WAR ON GORE EVER. PERIOD. FULL STOP. END OF SENTENCE.

    If you claim otherwise, you’re either a liar or delusional. Cut and dried.

    Now their treatment of Dan Quayle and George Bush Sr. when they were Vice Presidents…

  • sayanything-177

    Study up on Hugo Chavez. This is what the beginning of tyranny looks like.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Really, Hannitized? Never? Not once?

    Ill stipulate that Fox has a rightward bent. What I don’t understand is why you think that excuses msnbc, for instance.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    So, we’re just supposed to believe that liberal media bias doesn’t
    actually exist?

    Personally, I think that all reporters are biased. I actually wish
    that reporters would wear their biases on their sleeves. But to deny
    that the bias in the media is overwhelmingly liberal is to deny
    reality.

    Not that you and reality see much of each other these days.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    So you’re going to select a few stories and build your entire case on that?

    Who am I suppoesd to believe? TheTodd and his anecdotal observations or study after study showing an overwhelmingly leftward cant to our nation’s media.

    Hmm….

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Two words….Joe Scarborough.

    He excoriated Obama on Monday.

    And the other day Glenn Beck went after President Bush for abuse of power in the war on terror.

    What’s your point?

  • sayanything-2804

    Actually, his present day activities may just be a coping mechanism. A desperate attempt to prove to himself that he matters in the world, since he failed quite spectacularly at fulfilling the destiny for which his Father even consented to be a part of his conception.

  • sayanything-6955
  • mplsbob

    wow. one time. get out of here toad. Can you provide a date or link to that one time?
    Quit drinking the kool-aid toad

  • sayanything-277

    All totalitarian regimes need absolute control of the national media. Seemingly Fox is the only major network not bowing to ‘the one’ so if it can’t be controlled it must be marginalized.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Right. Because, uh, reading a book will tell you what’s on MSNBC.
    So now MSNBC went after Gore one time and suddenly their paragons of
    journalistic balance?

    Are there unicorns where you live?

  • sayanything-2804

    What a joke.

    Redundant as always H.
    You don’t have to sign with your Nom De Plume, it says “Hannitized right in the upper left hand corner of your post.

  • sayanything-4416

    #1 Propaganda source.

    You live in an alternate reality.

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