White House tries to shut Fox News out of the media pool– the other networks side with Fox News over Obama

  I haven’t written anything on the Obama administration’s feud with Fox News because I feel that there are much more important issues to focus on and because I feel that this is a diversionary tactic that is being used by the administration that is designed to take the focus off of the real issues the country is facing, the issues that Barack Obama is failing on. Frankly, I find his attack on Fox News to be silly and beneath the office of the presidency.

  But something happened yesterday that I found interesting and worth writing about when it comes to the Obama’s administration’s feud with Fox News. The president tried to cut Fox News out of the White House television pool interview that was being given by Obama’s “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg. In a show of solidarity, all of the other networks said that if Fox News was not allowed to attend the interview that no other network would attend. An embarrassed White House was forced to cave in to the rare show of support.

The Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV news networks consulted and decided that none of them would interview Feinberg unless Fox was included – and the administration relented, making Feinberg available to all five pool members and Bloomberg TV

  While most of the other networks fawn over President Obama and while most of the other networks agree with all of his radical leftist positions, when it comes to “protecting one of their own” the media has a way of circling the wagons. Even the liberal networks were not willing to acquiesce to the president on this issue.

  The Obama administration is using its attacks on Fox News to let it be known to the other networks that this could happen to them also if they do not fall in lockstep with the administration. But it seems to have had the opposite effect. Instead of cowering to the oppressive Obama regime, and fearing that the administration could target them next, or try to tell them what they should report, they came to the aid of Fox News. The president was forced to allow Fox News to attend the interview if he wanted to get his message out and he did.

  President Obama is trying to control the media and trying to make sure they report the stories in a manner that he approves of; while the mainstream media does not like Fox News they like being told what to report and how to report it even less. President Obama’s attempt to control his message through an all too willing media may have just proven to be his downfall.