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Obama White House Tries to Freeze Out Fox

In the span of just a couple of weeks, the Obama administration has gone from merely accusing Fox News of bias, to meeting and strategizing with more pliable members of the media, to actively trying to freeze Fox News out of covering administration officials. On Thursday, the Obama White House made "Pay Czar" Ken Feinberg available to the White House press pool, of which Fox has been a member since 1997 (along with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN). The White House told four members of the pool that they were welcome to interview Feinberg, but Fox was not invited. In fact, Fox was told it could not come to the interview. The other members of the press pool stood with Fox, and the network was eventually allowed in.

The White House does not get to choose who is and is not a member of the press pool. But it tried bullying Fox directly, and the other pool members indirectly, in a move that was indefensible, to say the least. And make no mistake here - the White House's actions Thursday were not merely childish or petulant reactions to unfavorable news reporting. They directly threatened the First Amendment.

The threat from this administration to our basic freedoms grows by the day. This time, the Obama administration attempted to crush dissent out in the open by trying to isolate and disable a news networks ability to cover the executive branch of our government. It does this while its agencies are bullying the US Chamber of Commerce over health care, negating previously existing compensation contracts with corporate executives, and demonizing insurers and Wall Street. This is what they're doing out in the open. What are President Obama and his many radical czars and appointees attempting to do behind closed doors?
(article found on texasgop.org)

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