On Fox, Wash. Post's Lane Asks For Its Emails About Obama -- We Deliver
While participating in a panel discussion about new emails purportedly showing "White House Bias" against Fox News, Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane commented that he'd "like to see the internal emails here at Fox about the Obama administration" as a contrast. Lane is in luck. Internal emails obtained by Media Matters have shown attempts by Fox News executive Bill Sammon to slant news coverage against President Obama and his policies.
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Judicial Watch Claims Emails Show White House "Attacked, Excluded" Fox
Judicial Watch: Obama White House "Attempted To Exclude" Fox From Interviews "Executive Pay Czar." From a July 14 Judicial Watch press release headlined "Documents Show Obama White House Attacked, Excluded Fox News Channel":
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered documents from the Obama Department of Treasury showing that the Obama administration, contrary to its repeated denials, attempted to exclude the Fox News Channel (FNC) from a round of interviews with Treasury's "Executive Pay Czar" Kenneth Feinberg. The documents, which include email exchanges within the Department of the Treasury and between Treasury and White House staff, also provide colorful evidence of an anti-Fox News bias within the Obama White House. [PRNewswire.com, 7/14/11]
On Fox, Lane Says He'd "Like To See The Internal Emails Here At Fox" About Obama
Wash. Post's Lane: "Frankly, I'd Like To See The Internal Emails Here At Fox About The Obama Administration. Maybe A Few Things Would Turn Up That Wouldn't Look So Great." From Special Report with Bret Baier:
SHANNON BREAM (guest host): This is a White House -- they made a decision regarding access to interviewing a senior Treasury official. It's their decision. Ethically, though, how should they go about deciding who's in and who's out?
LANE: Well, this goes back to '09, the first year of the administration. David Axelrod attempting to get the rest of the quote-unquote mainstream media to kind of ostracize Fox News. That really failed very badly, and they've since backpedaled off of that.
So I think Jay Carney is right. This is, in a way, old news. A couple of emails? Frankly, I'd like to see the internal emails here at Fox about the Obama administration. Maybe a few things would turn up that wouldn't look so great.
And you know, they -- they are very -- any kind of press coverage that they don't like really gets under their skin. I can tell you that from my experience at the Post. This to me is not that big a deal as Tom Fitton seems to describe it. Somebody calls Bret a lunatic, which of course is not true, in an email. So I pronounce it a non-story. [Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier, 7/14/11]
Fox Emails Show Attempts To Slant News Against Obama And His Policies
Fox News Executive Admitted To Lying About Obama "Advocat[ing] Socialism" -- As Referenced In Internal Email
Sammon Email Stresses "References To Socialism, Liberalism, Marxism And Marxists" In Obama's Memoir. From a 2008 email sent by Bill Sammon, then Fox News' deputy Washington managing editor and now its Washington managing editor, and obtained by Media Matters:
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 1:02 PM
To: 069 -Politics; 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com)
Subject: fyi: Obama's references to socialism, liberalism, Marxism and Marxists in his autobiography, "Dreams from My Father." Plus a couple of his many self-described "racial obsessions"...* "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." (Obama writing about his time at Occidental College in "Dreams.")
* After his sophomore year, Obama transferred to Columbia University. He lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for "thesocialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union," he recalled, adding: "Much of what I absorbed from the sixties was filtered through my mother, who to the end of her life would proudly proclaim herself an unreconstructed liberal."
* After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama spent a year working for a consulting firm and then went to work for "a Ralph Nader offshoot" in Harlem. "In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of SNCC and Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia. At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature."
During this period, according to Obama, he began a serious romantic relationship.
* "There was a woman in New York that I loved. She was white," Obama wrote in "Dreams." "We saw each other for almost a year. On the weekends, mostly. Sometimes in her apartment, sometimes in mine. You know how you can fall into your own private world? Just two people, hidden and warm. Your own language. Your own customs." But Obama said their relationship was doomed by the racial difference. "I pushed her away," he recalled."The emotion between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing from ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
* In June 1985, Obama was interviewed in New York by Marty Kaufman, a community organizer from Chicago. Obama recalled: "There was something about him that made me wary. A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white." [Media Matters, 2/1/11]
Show Notes Written In Preparation For Fox & Friends The Next Day Included The Subject Line Of Sammon's Email Word-For-Word. Sammon also appeared on that episode. [Media Matters, 2/1/11]
Sammon Later Admitted That He Had Lied On-Air "About Whether Barack Obama Really Advocated Socialism." Speaking on a 2009 Mediterranean cruise sponsored by a right-wing college, Sammon described his attempts the previous year to link Obama to "socialism" as "mischievous speculation." Sammon acknowledged that "privately" he had believed that the socialism allegation was "rather far-fetched." [Media Matters, 3/29/11]
Sammon Email Instructed Fox Journalists To Use GOP Term To Describe "Public Option"
Sammon's "Friendly Reminder": "Please Use The Term "Government-Run Health Insurance." From Media Matters:
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:23 AM
To: 054 -FNSunday; 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 069 -Politics; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 036 -FOX.WHU; 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers
Subject: friendly reminder: let's not slip back into calling it the "public option"1) Please use the term "government-run health insurance" or, when brevity is a concern, "government option," whenever possible.
2) When it is necessary to use the term "public option" (which is, after all, firmly ensconced in the nation's lexicon), use the qualifier "so-called," as in "the so-called public option."
3) Here's another way to phrase it: "The public option, which is the government-run plan."
4) When newsmakers and sources use the term "public option" in our stories, there's not a lot we can do about it, since quotes are of course sacrosanct. [Media Matters, 12/9/10]
Michael Clemente, Senior VP For News, Replied That Sammon's Third Phrasing Was "The Preferred Way To Say It, Write It, Use It." From Media Matters:
From: Clemente, Michael
To: Sammon, Bill; 054 -FNSunday; 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 069 -Politics; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 036 -FOX.WHU; 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers
Sent: Tue Oct 27 08:45:29 2009
Subject: RE: friendly reminder: let's not slip back into calling it the "public option"Thank you Bill
#3 on your list is the preferred way to say it, write it, use it.
Michael Clemente
SVP-News
212.XXX.XXXX [Media Matters, 12/9/10]
Sammon Email Became Major Anti-Obama Talking Point For Fox's Coverage Of Cairo Speech
After Obama's 2009 Speech In Cairo, Sammon Wrote That The President Hadn't Used Any Iteration Of The Word "Terror." From Media Matters:
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:23 AM
To: 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 069 -Politics; 036 -FOX.WHU; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers
Cc: Clemente, Michael; Stack, John; Wallace, Jay
Subject: FYI: My cursory check of Obama's 6,000-word speech to the Muslim world did not turn up the words "terror," "terrorist" or "terrorism" [Media Matters, 2/8/11]
But Sammon's Criticism Was Misleading: Obama Talked At Length About Taking On Al Qaeda, Other "Violent Extremists." Obama devoted a significant section of his remarks to denouncing and confronting Al Qaeda and other "violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security." Sammon's criticism also disregarded the analyses of Middle East and terrorism experts who viewed Obama's word choice as an effort to remove as a source of tension terms that, through overuse and misuse, have become incendiary in the Muslim world. [Media Matters, 2/8/11]
Fox Hosts And Reporters Repeatedly Used Sammon's Talking Point. Shortly after Sammon sent his email, he appeared on America's Newsroom, and host Megyn Kelly asked him what he made of Obama not mentioning "terror, the war on terror, or terrorism." Sammon responded, "Well, I make of it that he has taken us off a war footing as a nation." Kelly also hosted former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen, who commented that Obama "didn't mention the word 'terrorism' once in the speech." Fox personalities Shepard Smith, Bret Baier, Wendell Goler, Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, and Steve Doocy subsequently used Sammon's "terror" framing to discuss and analyze Obama's speech. [Media Matters, 2/8/11]
Fox Has Repeatedly Covered Judicial Watch Emails As Evidence Of "White House Bias"
Camerota Said Emails Represented "The Obama Administration's Handling Of The Media." From America Live, guest-hosted by Alisyn Camerota:
[Fox News, America Live, 7/14/11]
Fox & Friends Graphics Claim Emails Are Evidence Of "Bias" Against Fox, Suggest Fox Is A White House "Target." From Fox & Friends:
[Fox News, Fox & Friends, 7/14/11]
Goldberg: Obama Administration "Not The First" To "Go To War With The News Media, But I Don't Think This Administration Wants To Be Compared To Richard Nixon." From The O'Reilly Factor, featuring Fox News contributor Bernie Goldberg:
[Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 7/14/11]
Why should they get special treatment when Nickelodeon, Disney, QVC and the SyFy Networks aren't afforded the same kind of access.
They have a bigger audience than Fox - and smarter too.
Well, if Obama is somehow constitutionally required to be interviewed BY Fox, aren't Republican office holders and candidates equally obliged to be interviewed by someone OTHER than Fox?
You know, this also puts taint to any and all of the websites run by FOXPAC... oh how sweet it is.
you forgot,Fox also just flat out lies and makes things up all the time!!!
The American media needs a conservative Enema
Flush Fox Down The Toilet!!!!
I can see it now, "Laura Ingram's: The Obama Diaries, The Series"
1. Fox News has repeatedly gone out of its way to slant stories against Obama.
2. They then gin up outrage about Obama administration's bias against Fox News for their slanted coverage.
When you get something you ask for, you have no right to complain.
Randy
And by the way, how many times must Obama capitulate before FOXPAC zombies like yourself see he's been trying to work with the republicans since he took office.
Oh stupid question, you're a FOXPAC zombie
THE point is that if FOX is being hostile toward the Obama administration in the first place, there's no obligation for the administration to pander to them in order to be "fair". Indeed there have been instances that have shown that FOX isn't being excluded from the whitehouse's list of newscasters (even though one can argue that they SHOULD be, they are not newscasters after all).
So no the whitehouse isn't exactly being biased against FOX, can't say the same for vice versa though.
Show that he lied.
What he SAID, in effect, is that bothering with FOX is beyond a waste of time. It's neither legitimate nor unbiased. That's a whole lot different than your preposterous conclusion.
I know it's complex and I know I rarely, if ever, engage with you on substance. (see above: it's beyond a waste of time.) And I really don't know why I'm doing so here. It's not like you'll understand my explanation, or accept it, or try to find some insignificant objection or exception to it. And you're not even talking about the subject matter. You're here, like all of us, for psychology reasons. There's where the real substance is. That's why I usually address them instead of the pathetic arguments you put forth.
Now go ahead and tell me why everyone isn't fair game to respond to the way I do you. But you have to be willing to read the response.
With Boulder, as far as I know, he was never that name and his present one concurrently. Boulder was banned - basically, he ran it into the ground - and since he wanted to continue commenting he waited a while and came up with another identity.
Why he doesn't admit to it (some do) is another question. I would guess, since he had a bad rep as Boulder, he wanted to wipe the proverbial slate clean.
Besides, who you are is beside the point where I am concern. It's what you make yourself to be with your posts.
And you've pretty much made yourself out to be everything everyone else here is saying you are apart from a multi-screename user (which can't be proven unless we obtain your IP address).
a.) Non-consequential, whatever their personal opinion of Fox is, they still regard them as a newscaster group (just why I don't know).
b.) Even if they ARE biased against FOX, it's pretty much karma. FOX has been attacking that administration from the start.
You are the only one that has been mentioning about Obama being biased, and that's not only because you believe that, but you want to peddle that idea so that others would agree with you too.
You have your work cut out for you there.
Yes, it is. It's impossible to find a living human being with no biases. I hope the POTUS is biased in favor of working people. of honest people, of those who try to make the world a better place.
I hope the president is biased against liars and frauds.
On that basis, bias against Fox is legitimate.
It is basically an ant on an anthill in the middle of the rain forest, a cipher. Who cares?
If you saw some guy leering after your six year-old daughter, would you be "biased" against that person? Or would you offer him a babysitting job? Where's your middle ground here?
a. A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment.
b. An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice.
I am not impartial toward psychopaths. I have no intention of being impartial to psychopaths.
Do you have a problem with that?
Everyone is rejecting your constant LIES. A point you assiduously avoid. That you are a LIAR. Treating someone different because of their avowed hostility toward you is not bias AGAIN
a. A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment.
b. An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice.
Doesnt meet the definition
Every single person on earth is biased. That's not relevant to anything. It's what you do about it that matters.
Biased about what?? He better darn well be biased toward the progressive side of political issues that's why the clear majority of voters put him in office. He understands he is president of red and blue America but he better not forget which side he is representing in discussions about policy.
You are pathetic. No that was obviously true. Doesnt mean you have to treat those who are hostile to you the same way you treat those who are treating you with respect. My GOD but you are stupid
I have already reported the post calling you a lying moron as abuse.
However. I do want to point out, from the sentence on the top of this post, the two are *NOT* mutually exclusive.
Those two are not mutually exclusive. You are pathetic and stupid and you are a lying moron. A normal human would not have needed that clarification
If there was any lie involved it came from Fox News.
Oh and that it still insists on being a "fair and balanced" news network.
Absolutely correct.
"There's also no news on Fox. "
Fox is the American version of Pravda. With a bit of Isvestia tossed in for spice.
Is this really hard for you to understand? Yeah its ok for Obama to consider Fox a hostile venue when they have proven to be a hostile venue and treat them that way. Just like it is ok for me to punch someone who has taken a swing at me.
Yes.
What you do with it is another matter.
Obama admin will give up its e-mails about FoxNews, as soon as the former Bush admin gives up its e-mails about the media at large.
Anyone want to bet which administration is going to be more dismissive of the media?
Here's what I don't understand. We have the OBama administration, or someone within the administration, basically saying FoxNews is after Obama, which is objectively true, as we can ascertain from just this website for one, and for another, just watch the station for about, oh, 10 minutes at any given point during the day, and they'll be attacking Obama over something.
Show me an alleged liberal media who does the same thing, or did the same thing to previous republican administrations. Doesn't. Happen.
Now, go and get the statements from all conservatives, and or republicans who constantly complain, openly, about the "liberal media" day in and day out, and yet, said same media still covers them and fall all over themselves for them (Palin comes to mind).
So the Obama admin doesn't like FoxNews? So what I say. They have plenty of reason to NOT like them, and yet, they're still there in the briefing room. They still get interviews with the POTUS, and other people in his administration.
Get over yourselves.
http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/judiciary/60425-fox-sues-wins-right-lie-news-broadcasts.html
Maybe instead of Fox News, it should be "Fox-Tales"