So the White House sent out Anita Dunn to attack Fox News as being “The research arm of the GOP”. She does this at a time when most American’s, according to polls feel that there is a liberal bias in the media. As if we needed a clearer example that this President, while pretending to be a non-partisan, is actually anything but.
According to a late 2008 Pew Research poll, some 70% of the American people felt that the media was biased in favor of Barack Obama. The highest ever recorded. MSNBC and CNN, joined with the White House to single out and ridicule the motives of the Tea Party Protesters, with MSNBC going so far as to manipulate a video to suggest racism where there was none. No such treatment was given to the G20 protesters, who were violent.
All the while the Fox News audience has continued to grow and dominate the so-called competition. The addition of Glenn Beck to the 5 P.M. slot has really helped the network. Beck, has been most effective at exposing, what the left media won’t. The President could care less about objectivity in the media. What they don’t like is how Fox News refuses to kiss their ass like MSNBC and (sometimes) CNN does. So many months of a Pro-Obama bias and they have come to expect the worship.
Fox New’s Special Report handled the issue by doing a fair and balanced review of both sides of the issue. They had in-depth commentary from both the left and the right on the issue. In my opinion the White House has made huge mistake, here. The audience of Fox has more “left of center viewers” watching them than the other channels combined. Glenn Beck, Bill O’reilly and (even the partisan) Shawn Hannity are doing well because they present compelling view points that are almost never heard on competing stations.
The White House may think that going after Fox News is the answer to their problems, but in reality the solution would be to appear on Fox News as much as possible to deal with this perceived bias head on and win on the issues. However this White House feels it can’t do that.
