October 20, 2009

Obama's Dumb War on FOX News

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post

There's only one thing dumber than picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel -- picking a fight with people who don't even have to buy ink. The Obama administration's war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels. It makes the White House look weak, unable to take Harry Truman's advice and just deal with the heat. It makes the White House look small, dragged down to the level of Glenn Beck. It makes the White House look childish and petty at best, and it has a distinct Nixonian -- Agnewesque? -- aroma at worst. It is a self-defeating trifecta: it distracts attention from the Obama administration's substantive message; it serves to help Fox, not punish it, by driving up ratings; and it deprives the White House, to the extent it refuses to provide administration officials to...

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