"It's astounding the White House cannot distinguish between news and opinion programming."

No comment necessary.

Fuck Fox. Call them out for what they are. And then yank Australian Murdoch's "right" to own US media. Do it all, but do it from a fact-based platform.

What an idiot that Anita Dunn is. This is a softball for Fox. There is opinion programming on Fox -- for sure -- but there is also very clearly a news group. And, the Obama people better get on the ball. They have to address Fox, just the way that W had to deal with the NYTimes. W never dealt with the NYTimes and, not surprisingly, they could not wait to knock him out.

Fox who? News what?

Perhaps it's time to pull FNC's White House Press credentials a la Jeff Gannon. My feeling is that they don't deserve any recognition and should just be ignored.

Clemente said: "Perhaps the energy would be better spent on the critical issues that voters are worried about."

Oh right, sir, you mean those issues voters care about that you dont cover? Or when you do, you slant them in a staggeringly cynical way? You mean those 'issues', sir? Right, hmm? Can't hear you? Gonna release a thin-skinned statement on my comment to part of your comment? Well, are you?

Fighting words eh? How 'bout, "I believe this guy is a racist & has a deep seated hatred for white people".
Keep Beck, Hannity, Malkin, etc. etc. & lose access to our President, it's as simple as that
It appears the Liberal Media Bias isn't what Fox claims it is. They can't brag about their lead in viewers & ratings & then cry about media bias can they? They're part of a monopoly owned by a right-wing billionaire with a definite agenda. Hell they even use Rove tactics as Standard Operating Procedure.
Not to mention being classless, heartless sell-outs.

Wasn't James Rosen caught on film coaching teabaggers? Now he is mad that his "news organization" is being frozen out?

Give me a BREAK!!! He's got all the MSM's licking his butt and Fox News is the only one (or about the only one) that shows the Emperor Has No Clothes. WTF?? Don't they have anything better to do than this chicken-sh*t B.S.?

You know, I voted for him, but damned if I'm not regretting it now. His administration is getting weirder and weirder and more ineffective by the day.

No, I won't be voting for Obama for a second time if he keeps this crap up. Do some work, ya bum! It's what we put you in office for, not to have a spat with a News organization that holds your feet to the fire! Grow up and start acting Presidential, instead of trying to freeze out a different viewpoint than your own. I'm a big boy and can tell what's B>S. and what's not. I certainly don't need my President telling me what the truth is and what is not.

Apparently the new strategy from the Obama White House is to whine about FOX News. That’s really going to work out well. I think the number one complaint I hear from people these days is all the unfair, probing coverage Obama gets from all the major news organizations. Everyone is just so mean to him! Someone should give him another Nobel Peace Prize to wipe his tears with.

Iran nearly has nuclear weapons and North Korea just tested some new missiles, so do we really need a president who whines like a little bitch? Do you remember Bush ever crying about the unfair coverage he got when he got about one millionth of the favorable press Obama has gotten? This is why you don’t elect presidents who have girl parts where man parts should be; you can’t be a leader and a crybaby.

And it’s a little disturbing when Obama has three networks and two 24-hour cable news channels and all of Hollywood carrying water for him and all he can focus on is the one who dares air criticism of him. I know he’s too impotent to actually do anything, but I still don’t like it. It’s un-American. But so is being a crybaby.

I think the Obama Administration has made the rather obvious conclusion that it will lose no support by insulting Fox and perhaps even gain some, as there is little overlap between loyal Fox watchers and Obama voters.

There is no love for Fox among other news organizations either, so don't expect the media establishment to complain about Obama's snubbing of the network.

Obama is making it clear that he does not perceive criticism from Fox as objective, but politicallly motivated and unreliable.

For decades the conservative movement has accused the establishment media of being arrayed against them, and have used this argument to great effect in both rallying the base and convincing the middle that any attention towards Republican scandal is driven by liberal bias in the media. This belief has been the key to Fox's success, and Obama is merely turning it back around on them.

James Rosen may do well to recall that Richard Nixon's crusade against the New York Times didn't prevent him from getting 61% of the vote in 1972. The perception among the greater public the the Republican Party has been taken over by its fringe may lead to a similar Obama landslide in 2012, even if there is some dissatisfaction with his record among swing voters.

Nixon was hardly beloved, even by Republicans, and true conservatives were shocked at some of his policies, both domestic and international. His first term was mired by economic recession, creeping inflation and a failure to achieve "peace with honor" in Vietnam, as had been promised. None of this mattered to an electorate that came to see McGovern as the choice of the radical left, never mind that he was repeatedly elected Senator from South Dakota, hardly a hotbed of flag-burning, acid dropping, neo-marxist abortionists and black nationalists.

Whoever the Republicans nominate in 2012, they will likely be seen by voters at large through the prism of their more lunatic supporters, even if the candidate is more reasonable in tone.

It will be interesting to see if Fox chooses to double down on being a megaphone for the fringe by then, or if it seeks to promote a more rational conservatism in order to salvage the movement.

Fox News can also be called, The Jesus Channel/ GOP TV/ The Glorious Official Republican Government News Network.

While Fox News has the highest ratings, it’s also the same group of people that make up just 20% of America’s electorate… the far right-wing of the GOP.

There will always be an audience for the far right and that’s Rupert Murdock’s Fox News demographic.

Rupert keeps them frothing at the mouth with manufactured fear and GOP talking-points, phony outrage.

Fox is also a right-wing echo chamber.. notice that when “The Wall Street Journal”, “The Weekly Standard” people are on Fox News there’s never disclosure that these people are all Rupert Murdock employees.

Imagine if MSNBC or CNN did this… I don’t know how Fox News gets way with constantly recycling Rupert Murdock’s employees (sockpuppets) from his various media properties.

There’s hardly a word on the “MSM” about Murdock’s world wide (far right-wing) media empire.

Murdock has a lot of influence, example: all of his various sockpuppets, Hannity, Beck, etc, and all of Murdock’s worldwide media holdings trash global warming, President Obama and anything else right-wing Rupert Murdock dislikes.

I think that press and especially individual journalists are deathly afraid of Rupert Murdock and what he can do to them professionally.

Rupert Murdock is the new William Randolph Hearst.

Another thing, Sarah Palin, who is a favorite among the Faux News/ Right-wing crowd is getting Rupert Murdock’s wingnut welfare.

Palin’s (Rupert Murdock’s ghostwriter) book publisher is HarperCollins… a wholly owned Rupert Murdock subsidiary, you ‘betcha.

Also, there should be an award given to the guy that writes the ominous, scary music for Fox News... he's obviously a full-time employee.

No seriously... whenever there's a special where Rupert Murdock wants to convince Americans that Saddam Hussein has WMD, or that Iran/North Korea is going to attack America tomorrow, or a Hannity or Beck segment where they want to scare their right-wing audience (even more) there's always that ominous music to go along with the story.

It's like a scary GOP music video.

I'm a big boy and can tell what's B>S. and what's not. I certainly don't need my President telling me what the truth is and what is not.

You don't have to listen to sane people, just listen to hannity and limbaugh, they tell the truth.

They may be #1, but in a diversified market place with so much competition, let's not confuse there status with the majority of viewers. They only have the most. More people are NOT watching FOX then do.

I wonder if the TPM staff could look into the log for this thread. I'm sure a lot of IP addresses map on to the Fox News offices...

"Instead of governing, the White House continues to be in campaign mode,"

Anyone remember that Karl Rove fellow?