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    White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Tuesday pointed to two top-rated opinion shows on Fox News as the reason why the Obama administration has castigated the network as an illegitimate news organization.

    Gibbs weighed in on the controversy after several top White House advisers have gone on other channels to criticize Fox News' coverage of the administration, dismiss the network as the mouthpiece of the Republican Party and urge other news organizations not to treat Fox News as a legitimate news station.

    Gibbs said White House officials "render (that) opinion based on some their coverage and the fairness of that coverage."

    But asked how Fox News was different from other news organizations, Gibbs mentioned the channel's 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. shows, in an explicit reference to "Beck" and "Hannity" -- even though the two shows represent opinion programming.

    Informed that those hours are for opinion programming, Gibbs said: "That is our opinion."

    Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news for Fox News, issued a statement Tuesday defending the company: "Hundreds of journalists come to work each day at Fox News all deeply committed to their craft. It's disappointing that the White House would be so dismissive of their fine work and continue their vengeful war against a news organization," he said.

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October 30, 2009 at 12:43 am

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I listen to fox radio everyday from 7am to 2pm,and it's shocking what I hear,It's not fair and balanced at all.Democrat or Republican,Black or white,It dose not matter,all that matters is this man is the US President!I am disgusted by the words these Talk show host utter about our President,it's awful the way they attact him,then cry foil when he says something about FOX.If u can't take the heat stay out the kitchen.Fox your starting a Civil War,and I know u know this.PLEASE STOP,PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

October 26, 2009 at 9:20 pm

HMMMMM--now u unwashed, red necks, etc, listen up, keep ur mouth shut,we only want positive news about us. We don't like Fox cause they are outing all of the czars about their political leanings,and we don't care about the 1st Amendment, we control everyone, except those who r in heaven.< Demoncrats and we are feasting on our power. Above is the holy grail, subdue all who object to the takeover dictatorship now going on.

October 24, 2009 at 5:22 pm

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this is how chavez started on the press stand up now all the press not just fox its are constition

October 23, 2009 at 7:45 pm

What ever your political preference, All of this is just to obvious and too historical not to be able to see that it is an attempt to squash any opposition. You can bet on one thing. President Obama's lackeys watch Fox news very carefully. I would expect them to have people who are on the taxpayer payrolls that watch and report. They want to know what is being said. on another subject in answer to the difference between the two pictures, in all honesty, how do you get Gibbs to look good?

October 23, 2009 at 5:14 pm

Why isn't more being reported about BO's declination to an invitation by Germany's Chancellor to commemorate the anniversary of Berlin's tearing down the wall,compliments of Ronald Reagan a real leader?

October 23, 2009 at 10:57 am

It sounds like the White House is trying to do its own version of suppressing Freedom of Speech!

October 22, 2009 at 9:57 pm

Talk radio and FOX News are the only two sources for the conservative viewpoint. Both have large audiences, but the liberal media still holds 75% of the media in terms of bulk dollar ownership. As print media organizations continue to go bankrupt, that 75% may shrink to 50% or less, thus ending their stranglehold on information. No wonder the Obama administration is on the attack. Wouldn't surprise me if the Fairness Doctrine doesn't get secretly appended to some large spending bill soon.

October 22, 2009 at 9:03 pm

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October 22, 2009 at 8:43 pm

it looks like to me that Fox news can't take the heat. They can dish it out, but yet when the white house decided to call them out and give them a little of thier own medicine, then they start crying foul. They do not report all the news. If they did, they would show a video of John McCain giving a speech at an Acorn convention in 2006 and Sean Hannity's connection with this crooked guy that bilked all of these people out of their money. His last name is Sanford.

October 22, 2009 at 4:45 pm

ROBERT SMITH

I agree with Mr. John Nagasaki. If you hang around with drug addicts, you eventually turn into them. Weren't Rush and Beck drug addicts?

October 22, 2009 at 3:17 pm

Robert Smith

There is nothing fair and balanced about FOX News! I am staunchly independent, I tend to vote for the best candidates out there, but the outrageous news (opinions) coming out of FOX makes me cringe.

October 22, 2009 at 3:13 pm

So Fox news is not a legit news organization? Like the MAObama Socialist Network broadcasting company (MSNBC) and the Communist News Network (CNN), are better? Mouth piece for the Republicans? Seriously?? Talk about the pot and the kettle! They're just mad because someone dares to "render (that) opinion based on some their coverage and the fairness of that coverage." How dare you Fox News? Hannity you and the rest at Fox are ALL Great Americans!! Keep fighting the tyranny.

October 22, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Jean Hampton

My grandmother always told me "the guilty dog barks the loudest". Why is this White House & Administration barking so loudly if they don't have anything to hide? It hurts when Fox News cuts through the layers & touches the nerve of truth and the progressives can't stand the pain! Keep telling the truth, Fox - you seem to be the only network that will!

October 22, 2009 at 8:26 am

Steve Cerez

I have been living/working in China for at least 9 out of the last 12 yrs. If you live overseas that long, you can appreciate and feel great/proud to be an American. I feel good each time I'm asked by a Chinese citizen, where I'm from and respond with "Wo Meiguo" (I'm American) We as Americans live in a free and open society, which includes "Freedom of the Press", but after reading/watching what the Obama Adm. is doing to Fox lately, threatens that American right.

October 22, 2009 at 4:42 am

WAYNE MEEKS

"ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS" The ratings of Beck, Hannity, and Fox News are SOARING; The ratings of President Obama and his administration are PLUMMETING. Perhaps the true voices of America are speaking; “Can You hear Them”?

October 22, 2009 at 3:36 am

God Bless Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck! Speak the truth! If people speak words and there is no validity to the words spoken than no objections are raised. But when someone speaks the truth, generally the person who is behaving in corruption will respond harshly. Cults, or corrupt officials, attempt to cut off people who oppose their corrupt points of view. They do this through various means such as calling on other new media outlets to "isolate" them. They fear because they are being exposed.

October 22, 2009 at 2:25 am

Richard C

Gibbs is a pathetic loser and entertaining in his lack of skill.

October 22, 2009 at 2:06 am

I am so frustrated that whatever the differences Sean has with Glenn, they can't be forgiven. They are both such a force for good and this divide on the side of Sean is so petty and destructive, and frankly has taken away any respect that I had for him. Come on! It's time to grow up. It doesn't matter who said what first, who gets paid more-whatever-Our country could be over soon and then you may be equal-whatever good that will do. We need to all be a true team.

October 21, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Diana in Texas

They would put Gibbs on it. He's the only one outside of Obama that can talk and talk and say absolutely nothing of any consequence! This isn't about Fox or anything else except Obama going to Copenhagen and signing us into the EU so elections and such will be of no consequence to the powers that be.

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October 21, 2009 at 3:25 pm

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President Bush was bashed for 8 years & still is, but no one is supposed to speak out against this idiot. Obama is not presidential material, just a Chicago thug who brought the whole gang with him.

October 21, 2009 at 3:14 pm

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