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| Jarrett charges Fox is biased, backs off on mention of MSNBC | |
| 2009-10-29 | |
| A White House aide on Tuesday quickly backtracked on her charge that Fox News was biased after a reporter asked her whether she believed MSNBC was similarly skewed. "Of course they're biased," Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett said about Fox's coverage, adding that the administration was going to "call them on the carpet" for "all of the distortions." But when CNN's Campbell Brown pressed Jarrett to say if MSNBC's reportage also possessed a political slant, Jarrett revised her original reply: "Actually, I don't want to just generalize all FOX is biased or that another station is biased." "I think what we want to do is look at it on a case-by-case basis," Jarrett explained about the White House's media strategy. "And when we see a pattern of distortion, we're going to be honest about that pattern of distortion." Jarrett's remark on Tuesday is merely the Obama administration's latest salvo in an ongoing battle against the Fox network, which White House officials have recently decried as too opinionated to qualify as news. Fox reporters, however, have increasingly fired back at that strategy, and a number of Republicans have similarly accused the White House of trying to stamp out dissent. But Jarrett dismissed that premise during her interview. She explained the administration was instead committed to correcting the many inaccuracies pervading national debates over such landmark issues as healthcare reform -- an effort, she added, that is not exclusively targeted at Fox. "I think that what the administration has said very clearly is that we're going to speak truth to power," Jarrett said.
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 Isn't Jarrett the spokesperson for Subway? How's the diet doing Jarrett? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-10-29 19:05 |
| #4 Speaking truth to power? So...is that an admission our prez is a sissy boy? |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-10-29 17:07 |
| #3 "speak truth to power" Odd they'd be using an old Quaker phrase for this. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-10-29 13:21 |
| #2 we're actually calling everybody out." Back atcha......the people will call you out!1 |
| Posted by: armyguy 2009-10-29 09:27 |
| #1 Yep, even when they get the power, they're the victims. Victimocracy! Victimhood trumps the basics of civil and human rights and the democratic form of government. I guess when they're taking lessons at the madrases they don't cover Aesop's "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-10-29 08:16 |