White House’s point person in war with Fox News resigns
The Daily Beast’s Cheat Sheet directs us to this news item in the Washington Post’s political blog The Fix: Anita Dunn, the White House’s point person in the “war” with Fox News, is quitting.
Here’s the Cheat Sheet synopsis:
OutFoxed?
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, the face of the Obama administration’s war against Fox News, will step down at the end of the month. It may appear as though this is another scalp for Glenn Beck and crew — they recently had been attacking Dunn for quoting Chairman Mao favorably — but, according to The Washington Post, Dunn was only serving on an interim basis and that this move was expected all along. She will hand power over to Dan Pfeiffer, her deputy. Dunn will return to Squier Knapp Dunn, the consulting firm where she is a partner. She will continue to consult the White House on communications and strategic matters.
There are some who see more behind the resignation than does The Fix. For example, the Kansas City Star editorial blog has an item titled: “Dunn vs. Fox News: Dunn loses”
Steve Parker is the deputy managing editor for news, and oversees the Post-Dispatch's front page. STLtoday's online news editors are on his newsroom team. Parker has been at the paper since September 1980. 
Dunn is DONE. Thank God. Never in my life have I seen someone affiliated with the leadership of this nation appear so weak, so childish, as this woman.
Ms. Dunn was also the one who, in a speech this past June, told the audience of her admiration for mass-murderer Mao-Tse Tung, referring to him as one of her ‘favorite political philosophers.’
True to form, Glenn Beck highlighted the speech on his television show on FOX News in mid-October.
Also, true to form, the speech was completely ignored by the mainstream media. They didn’t consider it newsworthy…
…and one wonders why Beck’s numbers are through the roof - while traditional media outlets are floundering…
John - Now, we couldn’t expect the media to actually cover something that would put Obama in a negative light, could we? FOX deserves a ton of credit - and never got even an ounce from the White House - over exposing the fraud that ACORN is.. And isn’t it amazing the White threw the egg bomb at Fox right after this? Hm.
Now if Bryan Burwell would step down, everyone could be happy!
–Not everyone, I won’t be happy until the silly partisans who call themselves “site”, “story”, or “editorial board” editors are frogmarched into a courtroom for violating the first amendment and the “fourth estate”
code of conduct written into the Constitution.
I would like to see the PD cover the liberal “boycotts” and their success.
Because of healthcare and Glenn Beck, the libs went after Whole Foods and Glenn Beck. Fox is the top rated cable news show and Whole Foods stock price has doubled. In fact, try to find a parking place there. Thanks libs for all your efforts. They really worked. Who is your next target?
Try the Post-Dispatch, perhaps their subscriptions numbers would triple.
ha-ha-ha-ha!
No doubt this was done in preparation for taking a position with Fox.
So what if Fox has many viewers? Hitler had a lot of supporters, too. That doesn’t mean anything he ranted, raved and sold best sellers about Communists and Socialists wanting to overthrow the government was true!
Shrinking protest “inadvertently” misrepresented?
The cable news channel whose slogan is “Fair and Balanced” claims that an ‘inadvertent’ mistake was made. At the end of his show on Wed., Nov. 11 Sean Hannity said:
“Although it pains me to say this, Jon Stewart … was right… It was an inadvertent mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.”
In a story about a group of dissidents in Washington D.C. on Nov. 5th - Hannity said that 20,000 people came to Capitol Hill for the “Super Bowl of Freedom.” A guest said there were 45,000 protesters. The program aired video during the segment of people protesting. But the footage was complied by splicing real video together with footage from a totally different event.
The Washington Post estimated attendance at 10,000, but the Hannity depiction suggested growing numbers in direct opposition to the truth. Opposition is shrinking.
Does Hannity monitor his technicians? Does the network? Is this standard operating policy? Did Hannity order it done? Did Ted Turner? Will the policy change or continue?
The claim that this was an ‘inadvertent’ mistake - leads toward a conclusion that the policy is at least still in force as of Wed., Nov. 11. Unless September footage was ACCIDENTALLY inserted- Sean Hannity and Fox owe a much better explanation.
If there is no sanction against this kind of misrepresentation, there should be.
Krewson, were you as upset when MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer showed a protestor carrying a gun at an Obama event in Phoenix accusing the holder of being a racist but failed to show the man, who was Black?
Hogan, you are a hoot. Obama also has “a lot of supporters.” So what exactly is your point?