James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal posted this item today about MoveOn.org’s attack on Fox News:
MoveOn.org, the ghastly people who brought us “General Betray Us,” have joined President Obama in his war against Fox News Channel. Yesterday we received an email from MoveOn’s Noah T. Winer that begain:
“All year, FOX has worked 24/7 to block President Obama’s agenda—repeating lies about “death panels,” promoting Tea Party protests, and whipping up fake political scandals.Now, President Obama is fighting back. The White House communications director said FOX is a “wing of the Republican Party . . . let’s not pretend they’re a news network.” To draw attention to its biased coverage, President Obama will not appear on FOX for the rest of this year.
It’s about time Democrats stood up to FOX! Can you sign this petition asking Democrats to support President Obama’s stance by staying off FOX as long as he does?”
We think Fox is too left-wing, so we signed the petition in the hope of remedying that.
Seriously, though, we are of two minds about this, and we should begin by disclosing our direct interest in the matter: We have been an employee of Fox’s parent company, News Corp., since it acquired Dow Jones & Co. in December 2007, and we own some News Corp. stock.
Of course it delights us to see the president and his most unsavory supporters promote Fox as the only TV news network that isn’t in the tank for the administration. Although this isn’t entirely fair to the other networks–in particular, ABC News’s Jake Tapper has shown a strong independent streak–it is well-deserved recognition for the work Fox has done in bringing to the fore such stories as the Van Jones and Acorn scandals, which many other news organizations ignored for as long as they could.
On the other hand, we are an American, and Barack Obama is our president too. It cracks us up when MoveOn.org cheers on the president for “fighting back” by “not appearing” and “staying off.” “Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about, and gallantly he chickened out.”
But it scares the hell out of us to think that this also seems to be Obama’s approach to dealing with America’s enemies.
Emphasis mine – Obama seems unable to face his enemies, political or otherwise.
Fox Hunt cartoon via the Patriot post.