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RealClearPolitics - White House Tactics Go Too Far

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Defend Fox from whom? Defend Fox from the likes of Anita Dunn? She's been attacked for extolling Mao's political philosophy in a speech at a high school graduation. But the critics miss the surpassing stupidity of her larger point: She was invoking Mao as support and authority for her impassioned plea for individuality and trusting one's own choices. Mao as champion of individuality? Mao, the greatest imposer of mass uniformity in modern history, creator of a slave society of a near-billion worker bees wearing Mao suits and waving the Little Red Book?

EDIT: A Related Article:

NYT: Behind the War Between White House and Fox

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us...BoPYzNJ+agAQZA

This could be a watershed issue in the USA. Essentially, the free press is being called out by the White House. This may force some news organizations to turn against the WH in a hope to save themselves. They are stuck in the middle of losing market share because they are irrelevant, and following a party line which no one cares about anymore.

The majors see the implicit threat against advertisers who accepted government funding, to as I interpret "to more thoughfully consider the ramifications of their ad placement".

This is a fight that needs to be fought.