Obama Freezes Out FOX News After Madrassah Story (this keeps getting better)

Imagevision

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Wed Jan-31-07 10:44 PM
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Obama Freezes Out FOX News After Madrassah Story (this keeps getting better)

These are chilly days on Capitol Hill ... and on the campaign trail for Fox News journalists -- at least when they're anywhere near Sen. Barack Obama these days.

Sources tell The Sleuth that the Obama camp has "frozen out" Fox News reporters and producers in the wake of the network's major screw-up in running with the erroneous Obama-the-jihadist story reported by Insight magazine.

"I'm still in the freezer," one Fox journalist said, noting that the people at Fox "suffering the most did nothing wrong." (It was "Fox and Friends" host Steve Doocy who aired the Insight magazine piece, which reported that operatives connected to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) found out that Obama, as a child, was educated at a Muslim madrassah in Indonesia.)

Another Fox journalist called the network's airing of the story "unfortunate" for the network's journalists who have to cover Obama and who are being adversely affected despite not being involved in the incident.

Since the madrassah incident, Obama has given interviews to ABC, CNN, CBS and NBC -- pretty much every other network except Fox. Sources close to Obama acknowledged that they're not thrilled to play ball with Fox journalists, but they stopped short of saying they are freezing the network out.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/01/obama.html

Ingenious, anyone whith FOXnews gear? ---> go to the rear of the building....

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illinoisprogressive

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Wed Jan-31-07 10:47 PM
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1. Don't you love it! leave it to Barack to do it in his own classy way

and take a stand against Fox without fanfare or shouting and whining. Just pure class all the way...

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rpannier

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Wed Jan-31-07 10:47 PM
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2. About time someone took a stand against the pravda of US media

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Imagevision

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Wed Jan-31-07 11:17 PM
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3. Don't think FOX is going to get around this being that Obama quickly resolved the problem!

Obama, you attempt to smear me? well then you don't talk to me. Have a nice day.

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Redneck Socialist

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Wed Jan-31-07 11:48 PM
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4. Great news if it's true

Other Dems should follow suit.

Makes me like Obama more.

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donco6

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Thu Feb-01-07 12:47 AM
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5. They SHOULD be ignored. They are not news.

Don't feed the propagandists. Good for Obama.

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Tatiana

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Thu Feb-01-07 01:32 AM
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6. I just LOVE it when our politicos show spine. n/t

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Swamp Rat

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Thu Feb-01-07 01:35 AM
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7. oh, BOO HOO! ... "Waaah! We didn't do it! The other guy did it!"

:eyes:

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Azathoth

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Thu Feb-01-07 01:39 AM
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8. It's sad that they had to wait for Fox to run such an egregious smear piece

No Democrat should ever play ball with Faux. Faux has a large audience solely because all the wingnuts have convinced themselves that the vast liberal media conspiracy(TM) controls every other news outlet on the planet. A Democrat is not going to reach anyone that matters by granting interviews to Faux "reporters".

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Thu Feb-01-07 01:45 AM
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9. Wouldn't it be sweet if Obama won the Presidency?

I'm not a fan but hey...if he won and froze Fox out it would render them irrelevant.

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