WaPo Calls Obama's Ill-Advised Fight with Fox News "Dumb"

They're starting to turn on him now- calling Obama's propaganda offensive against Fox News "Agnew-esque", the liberal Washington Post's liberal Ruth Marcus wrote today:

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...

Where the White House has gone way overboard is in its decision to treat Fox as an outright enemy and to go public with the assault. Imagine the outcry if the Bush administration had pulled a similar hissy fit with MSNBC...

Read the rest in the WaPo -here-

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Update: Wake Up America has Jake Tapper of ABC drilling the Gibster good on all of this, plus Helen Thomas and others' reactions... and of-course the resultant Fox News ratings bonanza -here-

Michelle Malkin ROCKS on Fox

Fresh off a masterful dicing-and-slicing of the Obamapologist yentas on The View, Michelle told Hannity why the DNC/Team Obama's bizarre allegation -that the RNC was deploying "K-Street funded mobs" to disrupt town hall meetings and other events- is the epitome of hypocrisy... and why there is likely soon to be a huge public backlash against this mother-of-all-smear-campaigns.

Team Obama's latest Alinskyite political assault comes as some on the left have taken to labeling even nuanced opposition to the misguided Obamacare proposal as "disinformation", "far-right-wing", even "hate radio" [h/t: Stop Socialism Now].

Partisan bully-boy-ballerina Rahm Emanuel was called-out publicly by Rep Darryl Issa (R-Ca) for knocking Capital Hill heads together in a desperate effort to harvest political souls. Meanwhile, President Obama and the DNC were deploying an unsettling Orwellian campaign asking people to turn-in to a White House website any "fishy" emails or blogposts that dare to challenge the Dear Leader's omnipotence. [h/t: Maggie's Farm] The administration's desperation as Obamania implodes is palpable.

And it seems as though the hypocrites of the Democratic Party are merely projecting: you'd have to have been living in a cave in North Korea for the last year to have not noticed where the real paid-mobs are coming from... both on the ground, and on the internet. Team Obama's appalling Soros-seeded astroturf programs are a lot of things... but subtle isn't one of them. These faux-grassroots efforts -such as door-to-door Obamacare canvassing and battalions of internet trolls- have been largely ineffective in the face of growing popular resentment of The One's taking a sledgehammer to this society.

Hope-n-Change brownshirts of ACORN are now getting close to actual physical confrontation [h/t: Moonbattery] with what are just normal American citizens involved in healthy participatory democracy. You have to wonder how anyone could still believe Barack Obama as he purports to be "post-partisan", "bi-partisan", and "interested in listening to opposing views" -please. Rather, he's here to ram a heavily-seasoned crap sandwich down our throats as fast as we can swallow... while lying about most anything that suits his purposes and aggressively attacking opponents Chicago hardball style. Many are figuring this out as the ether finally wears off- and they come to realize that it's un-American the way the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate operates.



Ultra-liberal pedal-to-the-metal Obama has unecessarily aroused a largely silent opposition with his power grabs... betraying poor judgement and political instinct. We've got our new Patrick Henry's in Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, et. al.- and they're bringing the truth The Left try so hard to depress, deflect, and obsfucate. Those who felt resigned to their fate under an Obama Administration are starting to speak up- and as we see now, exposing themselves to the wrath of the disingenuous Obama machine. It wasn't enough apparently, simply attacking and painting with a broad brush right-leaning Obama critics in the media such as Hannity and Limbaugh- Obama has now turned the DNC character-assasination guns on the American electorate.... and it's not going to win him any new friends in this country.

This shameful episode should make clear to anyone still giving Obama the benefit of the doubt just what this far-left elitist thinks of your opinion. Note that whenever Obama, Emanuel, or Gibbs are asked about why polls show so many people oppose the Cap-n-Trade and Obamacare proposals, they always segue right-into "we need to educate the public...".

LOL- sorry Barack, Constitutionally-aware

patriots don't take lectures from Marxists.

And just keep digging- Americans have had just about enough of your wack-pack cabinet, dubious tactics, and habitual dishonesty... and after the failure of the Porkulus bill to stimulate anything but inflation, IMO the Democrats will be decimated in midterms 15 mos. from now. In short, you blew it... and are only making things worse by smearing good-faith opposition. Even Bill Clinton had the sense to hire Dick Morris and moderate his policies in 1994, working the the GOP in a way that got him re-elected easily... but not this crew- apparently it's Revolution-or-Death this time.

Barack and Rahm like to think of themselves as sharp-elbowed, street-smart operators always on the offensive- but this hubristic pair of Chi-Town hustlers don't handle the pressure so well now that they're on the other-end-of-the-hose. With the unprecedented goodwill he came to DC with, all Obama had to do was be mediocre really, smile alot, and play to the narrative that he's doing his best to fix "Bush's" mess. Instead, he has stepped-in-it big-time, his political momentum promptly evaporating... a monumental wasted opportunity for this myopic would-be revolutionary.

h/t for video: Government Mess

Michelle Malkin is on-a-roll. Her new best-selling book is titled

Culture of Corruption... debut @ #1 on the NYT Best Seller's list.

Congratulations Michelle- keep up the good fight!