Obama takes aim at Fox News

[sabra]

Source: CNN

(CNN) – Brushing off suggestions Tuesday the media is not critical enough of his administration, President Obama couldn't help but take aim at one cable news channel in particular.

"It's very hard for me to swallow that one," Obama told CNBC when asked whether he thinks the media is too easy on him. "First of all, I've got one television station entirely devoted to attacking my administration."

The interviewer quickly assumed Obama was referring to Fox News, a suggestion the president didn't disagree with.

"Well, that's a pretty big megaphone," he said. "And you'd be hard-pressed, if you watched the entire day, to find a positive story about me on that front."

"We welcome people who are asking us some, you know, tough questions," he continued. "And I think that I've been probably as accessible as any president in the first six months–press conferences, taking questions from reporters, being held accountable, being transparent about what it is that we're trying to do. I think that, actually, the reason that people have been generally positive about what we've tried to do is they feel as if I'm available and willing to answer questions, and we haven't been trying to hide them all. "

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[Joe Bacon]

1. CNN is just as biased as 19th Century Fox.

Both of them are cogs in the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press (CCCP) propaganda machine!

[Magleetis]

4. Right

Neither CNN nor Fox is a news channel. Media Matters has proven that.

[rasputin1952]

2. FAUX is about as popular as gonorrhea...

and just about as painful.

[pattmarty]

5. Not for the dumbfucks that take EVERYTHING they hear on Fox..............

...........as "gospel". I think most of us here at DU watch (or listen) to "conservative" media just so we know what they are whining about at any given time. But all of us here know also that the morons that watch Fox (and RW radio) believe ALL the bullshit they see and hear.

[rasputin1952]

6. Yep...nothing we can do about it either...

education and seeking knowledge are not their strong suits.

They're morons, they want to believe that hell is 3 inches under their feet, it justifies the constant fear/hate they have. 99.9% of the population of the earth are people who want to just live and get along. The .1% cause the problems, and they are like sparrow farts in a hurricane. They get the press, the admonitions, and everybody else suffers because they get their Human Rights flushed down the drain w/each new law that destroys the human spirit...they just don't get it...:(

[indepat]

3. A a cadre of shrill CNBC RW talking-heads shrilly blast away at any initiative

that would change the status quo regarding the evils that have brought us to this juncture. :P

[RedCloud]

7. Nobody asked Bush about the promise not to sue to the 9/11 families.

And it wasn't that prick's money to decide in the first place. It was our no strings attached donation. But Bush made them sign promises not to sue him or no 9/11 donation money.