Faux or CNN on AF1? White House scribe asks for the remote

[babylonsister]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/27/whitehouse.fox/index.html

White House scribe asks for the remote
Reporter asks to watch CNN on Air Force One

Friday, April 28, 2006; Posted: 6:22 a.m. EDT (10:22 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It wasn't the price of gasoline, Darfur or the rebuilding effort in New Orleans that preoccupied the White House press corps Thursday aboard a flight on Air Force One.

It was what channel they could watch on the White House televisions, Fox or CNN.

During a briefing led by White House spokesman Scott McClellan as President Bush was traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana, the Washington Post's Jim VandeHei asked why the White House televisions always seemed to be tuned to Fox News and if it was possible to have them tuned instead to CNN.

"It's come to my attention that there's been requests -- this is a serious question -- to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied," VandeHei told McClellan, who is soon to be replaced by former Fox anchor and self-described conservative Tony Snow.

"My question would be, is there a White House policy that all government TVs have to be tuned to Fox?" VandeHei asked.

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[electropop]

1. Actually, that's not just White House policy,

They're working to make it apply to all of us. As they buy out and buy up all the media, they are at the same time beginning the Internet takeover. Damn bloggers, buggin' em with the truth all the time, ya know?

[babylonsister]

2. No shit. Tony Snow? All Faux all the time. Sucks to be us

with these jerks in the driver's seat, though I trust that will change soon.

[MADem]

3. Well, it explains why they didn't see those shitty poll numbers coming!!!

The Faux "Hey man, that suit looks GOOD on you!" crowd can praise the sartorial skills of a nekkid man with a straight face!