WHITE HOUSE DECLARES WAR! On free speech.

Yes the White House has declared war, on of all things, Fox News Network. The White House is sending out it’s propagandists to declare that Fox News is not a real news network. Of all the things that Obama has to handle right now, the economic mess, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the quandary of whether to send more troops or not, nuclear weapons in Korea and Iran, what’s the main thing occupying their minds? Fox News… Ya, way to set your priorities there guys…

So let’s take a look at what they are saying. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN 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 said the other media outlets should join the Obama administration and also declare that Fox is “not a news organization.” While speaking to ABC, he said, “Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way. We’re not going to treat them that way.”

White House communications director Anita Dunn said Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.”

So they’ve clearly decided to single out one network and wage war on them directly.

So let’s take a look at one reason the communications director is upset with Fox News Sunday. She criticized Fox News Sunday for fact-checking an administration official on the show. Now, she’s not upset that the fact-checking was wrong, she’s upset that they dared to do the fact-checking. She is upset with Fox News Sunday because they dared to question their administration official, not that they were wrong or inaccurate in their reporting. Then she has the gall to say they are not a news network. Right…

Take a good hard look at what they are doing here. AT NO TIME have they brought up any inaccuracies in Fox’s reporting. AT NO TIME have they said they got anything wrong. They can’t because everything Fox reports is the truth, plain and simple. If they were misrepresenting the facts, you can bet the White House would point it out, but they haven’t. Basically, they’re just hurling insults.

So why are they doing this? Because they want to do everything they can to silence the opposition. They want to silence Fox because they are the only network that is reporting some of the things that are going on behind the scenes in the “shadow government” that you don’t see in the daylight. These people in this administration are people that idolize Socialists like Hugo Chavez and have spoken out about how he controls the media in his country and they wish they could do the same thing here. Their problem is, they can’t send in troops to take control of the stations like Chavez does, so they are trying to do it with propaganda. They are making blanket accusations at Fox News, trying to marginalize the one network that isn’t under their control. All the other networks are being lap dogs right now and reporting what the administration tells them to report and not digging up facts and exposing the people in the shadow government like Fox is.

Make no mistake about it; every time the administration speaks out against Fox News, they are speaking out against free speech. Fox News is simply the one network that dares to report anything other than the government line and they don’t like it one bit. They don’t want any voice of opposition at all so they are trying this propaganda tactic to try and silence them.

It’s no secret that Fox has a lot of conservative commentators so you could say they have a right wing slant, but that’s their commentary and not their news reporting. But even if the news had a right wing slant, so what? All the other networks clearly have a left wing slant so what’s wrong with one network that goes the other way? Because it’s not the administration’s way. It’s not the government line. That is the only reason they are going after Fox. Simply because they ARE the other viewpoint.

But guess what, this is a losing proposition for Obama. He might think it feels good to lash out at the network that is a thorn in his side, but even the other networks are saying it’s the wrong thing to do. Even the liberal networks realize that this is a blatant assault on free speech. They realize the insidious danger in government controlled media. Maybe if the white house keeps it up, it will jolt the other networks awake and they’ll change from being lapdogs back to being watchdogs like they should be. Let’s watch and see.