{"id":709,"date":"2007-12-14T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T23:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=709"},"modified":"2007-12-14T15:20:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T23:20:54","slug":"its-best-when-everybody-thinks-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"It’s Best When Everybody Thinks Alike"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this administration, as in the halls of Fox News, it’s best when everybody thinks alike – No matter how much they pretend otherwise.<\/p>\n

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The White House held it’s annual “Holiday”<\/em> (that’s right, holiday) Party for the media last night and the guest list was, to no one’s surprise, heavily weighted<\/a> to the right-wing regurgitators<\/a> of whom the President is so fond.<\/p>\n

This morning Dana Perino, the President’s press secretary, visited with a regurgitator on Fox News and had the following exchange<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Steve Doocy:<\/strong> [H]ow weird is it to have, Dana, people who appear on other channels, who bash the president all the time, and then, one night a year, they come into the White House, they bring their kids, and they say, Hi, how are you, as if they haven’t been bashing the president all year long?<\/span><\/p>\n

Dana Perino:<\/strong> It’s a little awkward. And it was amazing to me, being in charge of taking the requests for invitations this year, how audacious some people are to call and ask to be invited to the president’s Christmas party.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was nice of Doocy to so openly reveal that it is the “other channels”<\/em> who bash the President, and not Fox, the President’s Cheerleading Squad. That sort of honesty has been more in view since Rupert Murdoch admitted that he tried to shape the agenda<\/a> on Iraq. And Perino’s discomfort with reporters who are critical of the President says something about her lack of professionalism and her immaturity in the role of press secretary.<\/p>\n

And speaking of lack of professionalism, another Fox regurgitator, Neil Cavuto, interviewed his boss<\/a> Rupert Murdoch yesterday. The conversation covered Murdoch’s acquisition of Dow Jones (and the Wall Street Journal) and the launch of the Fox Business Network, for which Cavuto is the Sr. VP. Have they really sunk this low? A senior Fox News executive interviewing his boss on air. That would be like Dana Perino interviewing the President for broadcast (maybe I shouldn’t give them any ideas). What exactly would we expect to learn from that?<\/p>\n

I guess we’ll just have to get used to Fox News employees interviewing other Fox News employees. And we’ll have to accept that the White House is no longer the people’s house, but an office for partisan business and gatherings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this administration, as in the halls of Fox News, it’s best when everybody thinks alike – No matter how much they pretend otherwise. The White House held it’s annual “Holiday” (that’s right, holiday) Party for the media last night and the guest list was, to no one’s surprise, heavily weighted to the right-wing regurgitators […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[98,133,135,134,17],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-christmas","tag-dana-perino","tag-neil-cavuto","tag-steve-doocy","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-br","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32012,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32012","url_meta":{"origin":709,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Host Rants About Clinton Emails – Was Bush Shill When 5 MILLION Emails Vanished","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/7\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"With the conclusion of the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails, clearing her of legal wrongdoing, partisans on both sides are spinning this issue to their respective advantage. 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