Alinsky’s RULE Number 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
The Obama White House is not only isolating and targeting FOX News (see Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals) for reporting on the radicals in the administration and the destructive nature of the White House policies, they also are ordering other the state-run media outlets to alienate and isolate FOX News.
FOX News reported, via Free Republic:
The White House is calling on other news organizations to isolate and alienate Fox News as it sends out top advisers to rail against the cable channel as a Republican Party mouthpiece.
Top political strategists question the decision by the Obama administration to escalate its offensive against Fox News. And as of Monday, the four other major television networks had not given any indication that they intend to sever their ties with Fox News.
But several top White House officials have taken aim at Fox News since communications director Anita Dunn branded Fox “opinion journalism masquerading as news” in an interview last Sunday.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN on Sunday that President Obama does not want “the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox.”
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is “not a news organization.”
“Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way,” Axelrod counseled ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “We’re not going to treat them that way.”
Asked Monday about another Axelrod claim that Fox News is just trying to make money, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that while all media companies fall under that description, “I would say sometimes programming can be tilted toward accentuating those profits.”
October 19th, 2009 | 5:13 pm | #1
You seen Beck’s ratings?
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_friday_october_16_140604.asp
Looks like it’s working well, for FNC.
October 19th, 2009 | 5:22 pm | #2
What do you think would have happened if George W. Bush had gone after MSNBC for Olbermann’s Special Comment against him?…
They’d still be talking about it today…
October 19th, 2009 | 5:24 pm | #3
boy, the FNC stories must have hurt them a lot more than they let on
they are still bitter over Van Jones, and then ACORN? and Ann?
Natch, the media will just say yes, Sir…how high Sir?
October 19th, 2009 | 5:25 pm | #4
I’m curious as to when this administration and Congress finally decides to take the full plunge and attempt to pass its version of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
October 19th, 2009 | 5:25 pm | #5
I hope they keep attacking FOX News.
October 19th, 2009 | 5:28 pm | #6
YES WE CON!
YES WE CON!
October 19th, 2009 | 5:28 pm | #7
@ghHorse, Glenn Beck beat Juan Williams easily in that link you provided….
The day before was the show on the Anita Dunn video, Beck eclipsed 3+ million viewers and beat O’Reilly in the demo, chart here:
http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/glenn-becks-show-on-anita-dunn-video.html
October 19th, 2009 | 5:31 pm | #8
i don’t think i’ve ever watched Fox, but then again, i don’t watch much TV anyway. after all, the reason that it is referred to as a medium is because it’s neither rare, nor well done….
however, if what they are doing is pissing off Ear Leader and his fellow morons, i may just have to check them out and see what all the fuss is about.
somehow, i really don’t think this “campaign” by the first moron is going to have quite the results he had hoped for…..
October 19th, 2009 | 5:32 pm | #9
In Australia we have a crisp, pointed, and in-your-face put-down for such a campaign:
“Get stuffed!” or,
“Drop on your head!”
I trust Rupert Murdoch, as a former Australian and joint owner of Fox News, will have the temerity to tell Mr Obama and his henchmen where to get off!
October 19th, 2009 | 5:36 pm | #10
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Barry, Right, Jim Hoft, Anita Miller, Linda Zumpano and others. Linda Zumpano said: RT @gatewaypundit: Alinsky Rule 12: White House Orders Other Networks to Isolate FOX News http://bit.ly/7UOES #tcot [...]
October 19th, 2009 | 5:36 pm | #11
This is getting good…
the Democrats continue to dig their grave deeper every day
can’t wait to see the blowback from all of this insanity
October 19th, 2009 | 5:42 pm | #12
Organizing to call his own government
Obama Lobbies his Own Congress Tuesday
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15966
Tomorrow—Tuesday, October 20th—change is coming to your neighborhood. Just minutes from your house, local Organizing for America, OFA volunteers will be gathering in living rooms and community centers, reaching out to key voters and asking them to call on their representatives to support reform and thank those already doing so.
And, that evening, President Obama will be joining in via a live web broadcast exclusively for volunteers.
It’s a critical time—when every member of Congress is finally in the thick of the debate—so we’ve set an ambitious national goal of 100,000 calls to Congress placed or committed to in a single day. Can we do it? That depends on you.
You’re getting this email because there’s a “Time to Deliver” event tomorrow in your neighborhood. Please check out all the details and RSVP right away:
http://my.barackobama.com/TTDattend
October 19th, 2009 | 5:45 pm | #13
Leader of the free world…..right
October 19th, 2009 | 5:46 pm | #14
Seek and destory; seek and destroy. Obama has it out for Fox News, and the Whitehouse is doing to try its best to alienate and obliterate Fox News. The are such bloody communists.
October 19th, 2009 | 5:48 pm | #15
Gateway, I enjoy your site very much, but is there a problem with your new format? When I click it on, the articles don’t begin until halfway down the page and there is a dark blue column running down the right side of the webpage that is cutting off part of your articles from the right side.
October 19th, 2009 | 5:48 pm | #16
I mean – is ‘going’ to try its best……
October 19th, 2009 | 5:48 pm | #17
OT from radioviceonline – more insanity. buying
an electric go-cart and making money. good ole’
obama…
http://radioviceonline.com/firts-cash-for-clunkers-now-free-golf-carts/
October 19th, 2009 | 5:49 pm | #18
And we have 3.3 years left of this bull$*it!
October 19th, 2009 | 5:58 pm | #19
CONTROL; that’s the watchword for today and everyday in the fraud’s administration. Despite the indignation for the incredibly bitter diatribe that spews from Olberdork’s mouth, it is his Constitutional Right. It’s called Freedom of the Press. Shutting him down, simply because you don’t like what he says, would be a violation of his Constitutional Right to Free Speech and Freedom of the Press.
This president’s actions are bordering on (if not already across) the line as an on-going violation of that Right as it pertains to FOX. He/they know that no action can be taken against the president because they have both houses of Congress locked up tight. But, that lock just might become loosened considerably after the midterms. We can only hope!
October 19th, 2009 | 6:01 pm | #20
Or not. Drudge is running the headlines that the NY Times just had to cut another 100 jobs. That they couldn’t even sell the Boston Globe. And, that their advertising dollars went south.
As to what Axelrod says, the most amazing thing to me, is Obama’s tolerance. It’s not as if he were Richard Nixon, and would have to cut his own tongue out to stop this nonsense. But these guys from Chicago aren’t just parasites, Obama’s afraid to be without them. How come? Is he allowed to kick them around the office? Or does he get other “privileges?”
Where’s the common sense? Anyone who thinks this is a workable business model should talk to Punch, over at the NY Times. He’d probably trade ya a spot on the Brooklyn Bridge, for the rag that’s left of his newspaper.
To be like Fox? Well, you’d have to be like Murdoch. Much more interested in growing viewership, than in protecting your elite buddies. And, running an elite protection racket on your trust fund proceeds.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:04 pm | #21
This is an outrage!
Do we really want people like Rahm and Axelrod running our war? When our men and women in uniform are at risk?
Come on, Libs, is this really what you voted for?
Kristol: Gates Blindsided by Rahm
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/10/kristol_gates_blindsided_by_ra.asp
October 19th, 2009 | 6:11 pm | #22
Glenn Beck is good at shining the light on all those cockroaches in the WH.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:12 pm | #23
[...] White House Orders Other Networks to Isolate FOX News: “ [...]
October 19th, 2009 | 6:17 pm | #24
They must be afraid of FNC.
Glenn Beck is good at shining the light on all those cockroaches in the WH.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:21 pm | #25
Just displaying what a joke the MSM has become. One Democrat operative (Axelrod) telling another Democrat Operative at ABC (Stephanopoulos) to tell the other Democrat operatives at MSNBC(Matthews) and so forth thru the stables of Democrat Operatives pretending to be “reporters” and “analysts” at CBS and CNN to shun FOX News.
Yah. Seems Murdoch’s sin is that he didn’t hire Democrat Party Operatives when they were thrown out of work eight years ago.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:24 pm | #26
Alinsky and friends didn’t listen to the Mark Twain rule:
“Never pick a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel.”
Mark Twain
Obama: Good luck in your fight with the media. Last I checked, it’s still a free country.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:29 pm | #27
I don’t care if this thing comes out of “Alinsky’s rules.” It’s the dumbest stuff a politician could do. If Obama were Nixon he’d need his tongue cut out to stop doing this stupid stuff.
Heck, even Nixon had to fire Haldeman and Erlichman. It’s not as if working in the line of fire doesn’t eventually get your feathered hat blown off.
So, we’re gonna keep watching. Nothing to do with Alinsky. More to do with traffic accidents. And, the sounds they make that call your attention to them, in the first place.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:34 pm | #28
Go to FoxNews online now and give them some traffic. It’s quick, easy, and pisses the White House off when the traffic numbers for major sites like that one come in each week. And don’t think they don’t look for it.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:37 pm | #29
So, in response to claims that all news stations except FOX News are biased towards 0bama, 0bama is helping verify that claim?
In the words of The Simpson’s Chief Wiggum, “No, no. Dig UP, stupid!”
October 19th, 2009 | 6:39 pm | #30
…and while you’re following Def Leppard’s advice to give FOX News, some traffic, check out their story, “Top White House Official Says Obama Team ‘Controlled’ Media Coverage During Campaign”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/19/white-house-official-says-obama-team-controlled-media-coverage-campaign/
October 19th, 2009 | 6:44 pm | #31
Silver lining: White House Press Secretary Robert FIBBS admits that FOX’s model makes money. Bankrupt and near bankrupt news orgs take note.
October 19th, 2009 | 6:49 pm | #32
redc1c4No Gravatar
October 19th, 2009 | 5:31 pm
Your comment just gave me my laugh of the day. Kudos. Now go check out Fox. They don’t want you to agree with them, just listen and make up your own mind, and add to their traffic numbers.
October 19th, 2009 | 7:00 pm | #33
LOL!
What are they going to “isolate” them with? Thousands of their former employees with their resumes in hand?
I can almost hear Rupert Murdoch laughing and saying “Thanks for the ratings, chump!”
October 19th, 2009 | 7:02 pm | #34
I wish the FNC would expose the corrupt Congressional Leaders the same way they are exposing the WH goons. They all need to fear the voters more than a news channel.
October 19th, 2009 | 7:03 pm | #35
AHA!! This blog no longer has Little (PINK) Green Footballs on the blogroll. Excellent. Traffic is way down over there as well. Chuckles has taken the proverbial sh^t in his nest.
October 19th, 2009 | 7:04 pm | #36
[...] Brit Hume joined in. The two discussed Team Obama’s attacks on FOX News including the latest directive from the White House to the state-run media to “isolate” the poopular fair and balanced [...]
October 19th, 2009 | 7:15 pm | #37
These spoiled children that are in the WH are a complete joke. The fourth grade bully tactics being employed by these grown cry babies is shameful. They should ALL be ashamed. Every single one of them.
How is that false hope and loose change lookin’ now?
October 19th, 2009 | 7:21 pm | #38
[...] (Video)Obama Mural Defaced – Now Reads: “Yes We Can… Lose Our Freedom”White House Orders Other Networks to Isolate FOX NewsOutrage! Obamacare Will Put Planned Parenthood Clinics Inside Schools Next YearObama Commie Gear [...]
October 19th, 2009 | 8:20 pm | #39
This is totally incredible! Unprecedented.
Senior white house staff/advisors, dancing all over Washington on any TV show they can get on — to whine and snivel that, “Fox is bein’ mean to us; and Fox is pickin’ on us. Waah. Waah. Waah.”
These are supposed to be grown men and women, advisors to and servants of “the most powerful man on Earth”, but instead, come off as a bunch of whiney teenage girls in some high school clique – complaining about some girl who won’t go along with their program; and, instead, steals their boyfriends.
These guys are supposed to be professionals at the game of politics, schooled in all its finer points and able to play hardball better than anyone else in the game. But they look and act like the most rank, first-time amateurs ever to speak for the president.
If they’re the ones giving obama advice, it’s no wonder that he looks like a complete fool.
Of course, every time they open their mouths, everybody at Fox dances for joy because their ratings take another jump upward.
And Murdoch must be dancing a jig for joy and praying they keep it up.
October 19th, 2009 | 8:30 pm | #40
Thank God for Fox News!
October 19th, 2009 | 8:35 pm | #41
When will some technocrats drop the bomb on facebook, wiki, tweet, that O does not want Hwood and atheletes to make over 50,000.
October 19th, 2009 | 8:40 pm | #42
everything you said was dead on Solaratov, but it is still deeply disturbing that a president and his minions and political party is trying to isolate and squelch free speach and any press that doesnt felate them on a daily basis…
October 19th, 2009 | 8:42 pm | #43
[...] Hume joined in. The two discussed Team Obama’s attacks on FOX News including the latest directive from the White House to the state-run media to “isolate” the poopular fair and balanced [...]
October 19th, 2009 | 8:52 pm | #44
The era of unintended consequences is upon us.
Keep on talking on warring on FOX, you libs.
You are only going to guarantee the other “3″ networks are going to LOSE VIEWERS & thereby RATINGS.
If I were them, I would be very worried.
October 19th, 2009 | 8:57 pm | #45
Nixonian indeed.
October 19th, 2009 | 9:15 pm | #46
Fantastic news! The more they pile on Fox, the more people watch.
I really am unimpressed with Chicago politicians. They have this scary reputation, but I think their thuggish way of governance only works in the big cities where their constituents are descendants of people who were kicked around by the caciques and Cossacks and expect no better from their own government.
It doesn’t work on us Anglo-Saxons. We shoot back.
October 19th, 2009 | 9:29 pm | #47
it is still deeply disturbing that a president and his minions and political party is trying to isolate and squelch free speach and any press that doesnt felate them on a daily basis…
rumcrook®
October 19th, 2009 | 8:40 pm
It’s always worked for them before.
They’re just a mob of Chicago political hacks (thugs) who have absolutely no understanding of nuance.
They don’t know any other way to behave – and they probably can’t understand why Fox doesn’t fall right into line if they want to “do business”.
And, they need to control the “news”, and Fox won’t play the game. Fox reporters keep asking the “wrong” questions and exposing the “wrong” people to public inspection (not to mention ridicule).
In the final analysis, the obama cabal is a mob of fanatical amateurs, schooled in methods which don’t work the way they want them to work – and trying to institute a system which has *never* worked on a people who refuse to be enslaved for “the good of mankind”.
They’re doomed to failure in the end.
The only real problem is that they’ll want to take down the country with them. (Much like the spurned lover who declares, “If I can’t have you, no one can.” And kills the object of their obsession.)
October 19th, 2009 | 9:49 pm | #48
BTW.
For GP-
Great blog move! What a brilliant and classy way to be rid of the ad packages that clashed with what you were trying to do.
October 19th, 2009 | 9:51 pm | #49
I really don’t miss not seeing Obama as much. And maybe that’s one of the reasons Fox’s ratings are up; not curiousity as some have said might be case. Noo… not curiosity, relief. lol
October 19th, 2009 | 9:53 pm | #50
Watch everyone who is ’somebody’ take it in the butt from O’Dumbo. He can’t have no smart people making more money than he. He’s more of a pre-school spoiled brat than a man. Democrats thought they elected and empty suit but they got an empty skin, even the white half. Then again Soros probably selected the most stupid person he could find to do his bidding in the white house. If so he hit 100%.
October 19th, 2009 | 9:58 pm | #51
For those dim witted trolls and fence sitters, this article, coupled with the WH bragging they control the media aought to convince them barry is attempting to turn the US into Cuba.
This makes alot of Democratic voting Americans uncomfortable enough to vote them out
October 19th, 2009 | 10:02 pm | #52
Joanne
October 19th, 2009 | 5:46 pm
Seek and destory; seek and destroy. Obama has it out for Fox News, and the Whitehouse is doing to try its best to alienate and obliterate Fox News. The are such bloody communists
=———–
He doesn’t have it out for FOX news, he has it out for ANYONE that sheds light on the dirty dealings, corruption, powergrabs and destruction he is doing to the US. It so happens that FOX is the only network station reporting the REAL goings on. They are messing up Dear Leaders bid to be supreme dictator by messing up his total Pravda
October 19th, 2009 | 10:03 pm | #53
Jean said (October 19th, 2009 | 6:17 pm ):
“They must be afraid of FNC.
Glenn Beck is good at shining the light on all those cockroaches in the WH.”
Yeah … and if he makes some profit while he’s doing that; I’m A OK with it. :)
October 19th, 2009 | 10:06 pm | #54
President Narrcissist is his own worst enemy. His Narcissist Personality Disorder will be the thing to take him down. He can’t stop himself and will only ratchet it up even more no matter how damaging it is to himself. Give it another month and he will be blathering incompetancy about how FOX should be thrown in a gulag forever
This is the NPD in all it’s glory
October 19th, 2009 | 10:16 pm | #55
This whining bunch of pinko trash in the white house are an embarrassment to the Republic. The quicker we get rid of these pretenders, the better off we’ll be. First step: November, 2010. Go Fox News. Keep up the good fight. If you want your “Obama in a Mao hat” t-shirt, please move to communist China. I hear that’s a real hot item there right now.
October 19th, 2009 | 10:21 pm | #56
tale tale signs that Bozo is in deep concentration of the Maoism politics.
October 19th, 2009 | 10:35 pm | #57
[...] think of the president of the United States, do you really think of someone who pettily tries to take down a media company just because it doesn’t report him in a favorable light? Or someone who crows success [...]
October 19th, 2009 | 11:20 pm | #58
One of my “wonderings” is–Do any of the tweeny dopes who were suckered in by Obongo have any clue what is happening or are they all busy sitting around with their thumbs on their cell phones staring into space and waiting for something to happen? Talk about proof of evolution, just like a bunch of chimpanzees and look what they have done to us and our country.
Took two generations to destroy their brain cells in government schools, prolly take two more to undo the next bunch of little morons.
October 19th, 2009 | 11:22 pm | #59
Oh, and on topic… Go Fox and Beck, Hume, Hannity, Limbaugh, and I guess, O’Reilly (harmless really).
October 20th, 2009 | 2:46 am | #60
Most importantly, the WH intervention in the abrogation of free speech is patently unconstitutional.
Any attempt by the government to breach the right to free speech as spelled out in the First Amendment and impose state-controlled media responses to obliterate opposition is a move toward tyranny. This is a step toward totalitarianism.
October 20th, 2009 | 6:01 am | #61
Obama Rahm and Axlerod…Dunn…going after the media that doesnt put them on a special pedestal and shine glorious light on them…just light that exposes them for what they really are…deceptive.
But then…their supporters are actively and publicly now going after what they want…to make the United States of America a communist/socialist nation. They dont hide it anymore and I dont think they are unaware what Obama and his henchmen are doing…they support him doing it. Silence all critics, diminish critics, and get rid of them eventually…like Chavez did.
That is…if we let them.
Far as Im concerned, FOX is the only news channel I watch. I used to watch CNN, MSNBC… but I felt they were very biased and not giving me the whole truth or perspective…FOX gave me that other side and I found it agreeable. I am not a leftist and do not want to get all my information from the leftist cheesecloth, especially finding them to be utterly dishonest as they are.
The more the leftist President and his goons Rahm, Axlerod, and Dunn work to shut down free speech and good reporting like FOX, the more I will defend them and support them.
:)
October 20th, 2009 | 6:46 am | #62
[...] House hotline is now wearing a Mao commie outfit on the show. Click Image for Video No wonder the Alinskyites in the White House can’t stand Beck and FOX News… They keep outing all the commie-lovers in the [...]
October 20th, 2009 | 7:05 am | #63
[...] Maybe they’re tuning into to see Glenn Beck’s White House Hotline guy in a Mao suit. Whatever, this Politburo’s even having trouble getting CCTV on board. [...]
October 20th, 2009 | 7:50 am | #64
++
ht JRD @ 8:35 am via TRBO
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/glenn-beck-show-october-19-2009/
FCC-Church Conspiracy to Silence Talk Radio and Fox?
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/20/fcc-church-conspiracy-to-silen/print
[ It invited me as a UCC member to join a "fast from media violence" sponsored by So We Might See. The invitation says:
Does violence in the media, particularly hate speech against immigrants, impact levels of actual violence?
That's the question we will be asking during the 2009 Media Violence Fast, October 19-26. We invite your participation at http://www.mediaviolencefast.org.
So far so usual. The staff of my denomination, lovely people I'm sure, are in fact hardcore left-wingers in their politics, even though UCC pews are filled with politically self-identified conservatives.
Then came the interesting part, or, if you will, the part that sent a chill through my radio. Reverend Guess, on behalf of my own denomination -- without so much as a by-your-leave to the rank-and-file 1.2 million members -- made plain, in the name of the United Church of Christ that:
As a participant, you will be asked to sign a petition to the Federal Communications Commission asking that it open a notice of inquiry into hate speech in the media. We will also urge the National Telecommunications and Information Agency to update its 1993 report, The Role of Telecommunications in Hate Crimes.
Read the key phrases again. "Open a notice of inquiry into hate speech in the media." Meaning, church members are being asked to sign on to an already-in-progress petition to the FCC that is opening the door to legal sanctions from the federal government on "hate speech in the media."
Targets?
Together, we can express our concern about the frequency and tone of anti-immigrant remarks made by several TV and radio commentators, such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Lou Dobbs.
Hate speech in the media is a growing problem that must be examined before it can be solved.
So I took a look at this petition to Commissioner Copps, properly made out in the finest protocol to his colleague, the new Obama FCC Commissioner Julius Genachowski. Also listed in the formal address was Lawrence E. Strickling the new Obama Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information. And what did I find there?]
RTWT!!
==
October 20th, 2009 | 9:36 am | #65
Their tactics….are the same ones used by Hitler and Stalin:
“It is not truth that matters, but victory.”–Hitler
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”–Stalin
I rest my case
October 20th, 2009 | 8:14 pm | #66
The White House residents and workers, ha ha, can just about get away with whatever they want. We all know that.
Remember, Bill Clinton NEVER HAD SEX WITH THAT WOMAN!
John DeFlumeri Jr
October 23rd, 2009 | 3:58 pm | #67
[...] veröffentlichte), wird der Sender nicht nur vom Weißen Haus ausgegrenzt. Die Regierung Obama befiehlt anderen Sendern Fox News zu isolieren. Bisher größtenteils erfolglos, wie es scheint. Was einige nicht daran [...]
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