Tag Archive 'Fox News'

Thomas Frank’s weird defense of Obama’s attack on Fox News *UPDATED*

As far as I can tell, Frank’s primary defense of Obama’s attack on Fox News is that Obama isn’t as bad as Nixon’s attacks on the press were.  Given the low esteem in which liberals hold Nixon, I think we can safely call that damning with faint praise.  (Or, perhaps, praising with faint damns would [...]

What Obama really seeks to destroy by destroying Fox News

Charles Krauthammer identifies the enormous damage the Obami risk doing as they attack and try to destroy national entities associated with conservatives (the Chamber of Commerce, talk radio, Fox news): There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics. Nor unconstitutional. But our politics are defined not just by limits of legality or constitutionality. We have norms, [...]

First they came for Fox News *UPDATED*

Kudos to the major news networks for refusing to allow the Obama administration to blackball Fox: Here’s how Pastor Martin Niemöller would have seen it, if he was alive today: First they came for Fox News, and we did not speak out—because we did not have openly conservative commentators as part of our news program; [...]