Time for Obama to Quit Attacking Fox News and Grow Up (OMG Fox invokes Hunter S Thompson!)

[Gman]

The Obama White House looks like it is has taken a page out of the playbook of the late Nixon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. In a fit of pique, during the 1972 presidential campaign, Ziegler barred Rolling Stone reporter and Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson from flying on the lead campaign press plane, notwithstanding that Thompson had been covering the race, that there was space on the plane, and that Thompson was an accredited reporter. Thompson's problem was that he did not report things the way the Committee to Reelect the President would have liked things to have been reported.

Well, Robert Gibbs,the Obama press secretary, is doing all he can to follow in Ziegler's footsteps. Gibbs is trying to get the news organizations that cover the White House to drop Fox from the White House press pool. Pressed on his efforts to get the press to dump Fox from the pool, Gibbs demurred. Despite repeated questioning by ABC's Jake Tapper, Gibbs would not give a straight answer on where the White House stood on Fox and pool coverage.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/10/23/lloyd-green-fox-news-white-house-attack-hunter-thompson-gibbs/

Can you believe Fox is actually invoking Nixon's treatment of Hunter S Thompson as a reporter? Have they watched "Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas"? That reporter they're invoking?

And, apparently they never read Hunter S Thompson's article in The Atlantic when Nixon died:

Richard Nixon is gone now, and I am poorer for it. He was the real thing -- a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous enemy. He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. He lied to his friends and betrayed the trust of his family. Not even Gerald Ford, the unhappy ex-president who pardoned Nixon and kept him out of prison, was immune to the evil fallout. Ford, who believes strongly in Heaven and Hell, has told more than one of his celebrity golf partners that "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon."

I have had my own bloody relationship with Nixon for many years, but I am not worried about it landing me in hell with him. I have already been there with that bastard, and I am a better person for it. Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.
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The family opted for cremation until they were advised of the potentially onerous implications of a strictly private, unwitnessed burning of the body of the man who was, after all, the President of the United States. Awkward questions might be raised, dark allusions to Hitler and Rasputin. People would be filing lawsuits to get their hands on the dental charts. Long court battles would be inevitable -- some with liberal cranks bitching about corpus delicti and habeas corpus and others with giant insurance companies trying not to pay off on his death benefits. Either way, an orgy of greed and duplicity was sure to follow any public hint that Nixon might have somehow faked his own death or been cryogenically transferred to fascist Chinese interests on the Central Asian Mainland.

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/graffiti/crook.htm

God Bless Hunter S Thompson. Nixon's hatred did have a way of making his enemies seem honorable, even to Fox News.

[AzDar]

1. Good Gawd, I wish the good Doctor had lived to see this shit.

:smoke:

He'd have LOVED it.



"When the going gets weird, the weird turn Pro".

[Gman]

3. Nixon's hatred reaches from the dead 35 years after leaving the White House

and the right wing nuts that are crazier than even Nixon are finding one of Nixon's biggest enemies honorable. As someone that at one time considered myself an expert on Watergate, this just blows me away.

[unpossibles]

2. Headline: FOX "news" confuses "Gonzo Journalism" with "Bozo Journalism"

This stuff practically writes itself.

[damntexdem]

4. No, time to renew attacks on Faux News and throw up.

;-)

[Arkana]

5. FOX is still under the impression that they're a legitimate news outlet.

[janx]

6. And they're in overdrive trying to make people believe it. n/t

[Cha]

7. faux is lying through their yellow teeth..bunch a whiney ugly bullies.

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"Treasury Department Denies it Tried to Exclude Fox News From Interviews"

Treasury Department Denies it Tried to Exclude Fox News From Interviews
by Tommy Christopher | 6:26 pm, October 23rd, 2009

We reported earlier that when Fox News was banned from a round-robin interview with Obama administration “Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg, the bureau chiefs of the other major networks banded together to thwart the White House. Now, Mediaite has learned exclusively that the Treasury Department, who set up the interviews, denies the story.

A Treasury Department spokesperson tells Mediaite the following:

There was no plot to exclude Fox News, and they had the same interview that their competitors did. Much ado about absolutely nothing.

Reporting on the story has been sketchy thus far, with Fox News being the only network to report it so far. In their report, they also fail to make it clear that it was the Treasury Department, not the White House, who was responsible for setting up the interviews. Neither Fox News nor the Treasury Department has provided copies of the bulletins that were sent to the press pool, which Politico reports were missing Fox’s name. Politico also reports that Treasury contacted the White House about the omission, and in a statement, the White House told Politico “The fact that Major Garrett conducted and interview with Ken Feinberg at a time when all the other networks did speaks for itself…”

TV Newser points out, via an anonymous source, that a decision by the other nets to skip the interviews may have been more financial than principled:

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