FTA: Speaking privately at the White House on Monday with a group of mostly liberal columnists and commentators, including Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert of The New York Times, Mr. Obama himself gave vent to sentiments about the network, according to people briefed on the conversation.
Then, in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, the president went public. "What our advisers have simply said is that we are going to take media as it comes," he said. "And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that's one thing. And if it's operating as a news outlet, then that's another."
While Spud agrees that doing things like trying to exclude FAUXnewsmen from the daily WH news pool has backfired quite spectacularily Spud also holds that punishing FOX by not going on Wallace's Sunday show is a legitimate tactic to take against of the odious tactics of the unofficial propaganda arm of the GOP here.
The pool thing was dumb because when you are dealing with the people most likely to make a story about themselves in ithe first place and you then give them a legitimate reason to make themselves the story you are playing right into their hands.
That all sed, noting these folks propensity for making mountains outta molehills and playing the martyr card incessently there is also a lesser risk of a similarly counter productive end with the Wallace boycott thingy.
"We simply decided to stop abiding by the fiction, which is aided and abetted by the mainstream press, that Fox is a traditional news organization," said Dan Pfeiffer, the deputy White House communications director.
Openly chiding people who's business it is to chide you is a mug's game.
Like fucking with the people who bring you yer food.
That sed, Pfieffers right here.
He's just wrong to note it publicaly.
Be Well.
