It is kind of sad to think that the White House is playing all these partisan games with Fox News when they should be focusing on Afghanistan and getting rid of the "jobless" part of the jobless recovery. Now they are freezing out Fox News from interviewing the "Pay Czar."
Decide for yourself what the most disgraceful aspect of this is. Was it the fact that Gibbs told Jake Tapper explicitly on Monday that the White House wouldn’t try to dictate to the press pool who should and shouldn’t be included — before doing precisely that? Was it Anita Dunn going out of her way to say she respects Major Garrett as a fair reporter — before the administration decided he didn’t deserve a crack here at Feinberg? Or was it the repeated insistence by Dunn and Axelrod that of course the administration will make its officials available to Fox — before pulling the plug today?
This is simply an unwinnable battle that they are waging. There is no way that they would delegitimatize Fox News without the press banning together to protect their own asses from the next time there is a GOP President. All I can think is that the White House somehow links their cratering poll numbers with Fox News or talk radio or something.
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