Challenged Over WH Criticism Of Fox News; President Obama ‘Not Losing Sleep Over It’
President Obama was asked if it is appropriate to be “working the umps” in regards to White House officials repeatedly calling Fox News “not a news organization.” The President appeared neither aggrieved nor apologetic in accessing the contentious relationship between Fox News and his administration, though he did claim that it was “not something that I’m losing a lot of sleep over.”
The President said “I think what our advisers have said is that we are going to take the media as it comes, and if media is operating, basically as a talk radio format, then, that’s one thing, and if it is operating as a news outlet, then that’s another, but I’m not something that I’m losing a lot of sleep over.”
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14 comments
He doesn’t seem to lose sleep over much
ImNotBlue says: Is it true that this part of the interview didn’t air on the network… and was just part of the website availability?
Hmmmm… not losing sleep. Funny… I don’t think FNC is either.
He has sure done a lot to raise the ratings at FNC. Beck is just destroying what credibility that they had manufactured for the guy.
As for your question, INB, MSNBC is blocked from my house so this is all that I have seen.
Sunnyr says: This guy is SUCH a lying sack of feces! You could tell he was as annoyed as hell at the question and I will bet that he DOES lose a little sleep over it. His ratings fell again today and Fox News keeps going UP UP UP! LMAO!!
TfT says: This from the man who spent two and one half hours with Rachel and Keith and Gloria, rather than spend the time making a decision about Afghanistan.
So he uses the term tv like talk radio….now he is reduced to discussing the format of shows? He really is losing sleep over it and pretending he is not.
I guess he only supports talk radio show type hosts who agree with his position and give him his due deference.
He started the war and if he was smart he would end it sooner rather than later.
TfT says: Colby:
Could you get a comment from NBC as to why they excluded this part of the interview from the TV Audience?
Not quite understanding why they asked the question and then withheld the answer from their viewing public.
Thanks,
ChrisNH says: I’m glad Obama isn’t ‘losing any sleep;’ otherwise, FNC might be inclined to soften up. Sounds like the Dear Leader has given them the ‘all-clear’ signal.
m says: >This from the man who spent two and one half hours with Rachel and Keith and Gloria, rather than spend the time making a decision about Afghanistan.
OMG! “Obama goes to the bathroom when he needs to do a number 2, rather than spend the time making a decision about Afghanistan.”
If one and an half hours drives you insane, I can only imagine how your mouth would be frothing when you heard that George W. Bush was going to be on vacation for 4 weeks at his ranch.
straitshooter says: Obama is a very smart man who intentionally picked a very dumb fight, one he knew would suck all the oxygen out of the room. Here’s the reasoning:
• 1. Health reform is complicated, Obama lacks the ability to explain it and his plan has generated tepid support and enthusiastic opposition.
• 2. The economy is complicated, but employment numbers are not. He can’t afford to have the media dwelling on 10 percent unemployment while replaying the clips of his administration promising that the stimulus plan would halt unemployment at 8 percent. In politics, this either means he was either lying or incompetent.
• 3. Afghanistan is complicated, but he boxed himself in on this issue with Bush-like campaign rhetoric about this being a war of necessity. The longer he goes without making any decisions, the more he looks like a state senator who prefers to vote “present.”
So, here we have a president who is loathe to make difficult decisions for fear they might turn out to be wrong (or right, but unpopular). So he has decided to create a loud and colorful distraction the media can’t resist. This big silly conversation is dominating the cablers but — in all honesty — doesn’t really interest most of the country. This is a classic inside the beltway controversy, lots of razzle-dazzle and virtually no substance. Unless the administration starts making decisions that affect Fox’s ability to function as a news network (Fairness Doctrine, revoking press credentials, etc.), this is much ado about nothing.
ImNotBlue says: m says:
October 22, 2009 at 8:28 am
M… can you justify this for me?
Olbermann recently met with Obama… yet, back in 2006 he said the following on his program after Hannity (and others) met with Bush:
“The born again and the born talkers: The President takes 90 minutes worth of your taxpayer dollars to entertain right-wing radio yack-ers in the Oval Office,”
and…
“In January, the President consulted with 13 former Secretaries of State and Defense about Iraq, spoke for 40 minutes, allowed discussion for 5 to 10 minutes. The figures for the 5 conservative radio show people is double that. Is there an explanation of that that does not include the President using the Oval Office for purely political purposes and even indirectly for political fund-raising?”
Now some might say that’s Olbermann being really hypocritical. Some might say, that’s also YOU being really hypocritical.
But what do YOU say?
Zakk says: straitshooter hits the nail on the head. This entire skirmish with FOX is just a distraction from his lack of doing anything. Changing the conversation from Healthcare, the economy and Afghanistan to FOX news gets the heat off of him.
During the campaign wasn’t there a joke going around about if Obama is afraid of FOX News how will he ever fight the Taliban? I guess this is his version of ‘manning up’ to fight FOX news, meanwhile PEOPLE ARE DIEING IN AFGHANISTAN!!!! Cut the bullshit with FOX and get to work.
matt111 says: @Chuck Steele: Glenn Beck and Credibility!!!! LOL!!!! Hilarious. Glenn Beck is dumb and feeds off of viewers of low IQ. It’s clear that his target audience intelligence and his own intelligence is a couple steps down from the other worthless bags of hot air out there, on both sides (Limbaugh, Olbermann, Hannity…)
@straightshooter: “his administration promising that the stimulus plan would halt unemployment at 8 percent. ” Did this really happen? I’ve heard this comment several times lately, so it’s obviously the latest republican talking point. I remember at the time economists were predicting 8% unemployment as the peak (I think it was when Bush was still in office) it seemed ridiculously and impossibly optimistic at the rate of job losses. Anyone who actually crunched some numbers would have assumed it was just cheerleading.
matt111 says: @ImNotBlue
LOL, am I missing something here? Why would ‘m’ care about what Olbermann said? It has nothing to do with his hilarious post he made above. Either there is some past history between you and him I’m missing or you are totally retarded.
ImNotBlue says: matt111 says:
October 23, 2009 at 12:37 am
In January, the incoming administration predicted in a white paper study that without a huge stimulus package, unemployment would reach just over 8%, and would be contained at under 8% with a stimulus package.
matt111 says:
October 23, 2009 at 12:39 am
Oh for Pete’s sake. Read the comment from M that I referenced above. I posted the date and time for a reason. It was a direct reference to what M posted in his comment.
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