NY Times disappears Fox's history of attacking Obama as "racist" and a fascist

[babylonsister]

NY Times disappears Fox's history of attacking Obama as "racist" and a fascist
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In a September 21 article, The New York Times reported that President Obama "gave five back-to-back television interviews broadcast on Sunday," but engaged in an act of "Medici vengeance" and showed "a rare sign of frustration, and payback" by not "speak{ing} to 'Fox News Sunday.' " The Times reported that "the presidential slight" occurred because "Fox did not broadcast Mr. Obama's health care speech to Congress on Sept. 9," but the Times did not address that Fox News hosts have maligned Obama as a "racist" and repeatedly compared him to Hitler.

NY Times claimed Obama engaged in "Medici vengeance" in "boycotting" Fox News

From the September 21 New York Times article:

Mr. Obama declined to discuss his proposals on the one outlet guaranteed to find fault (or change the topic to the Acorn scandal). And that made his star turn look less like a media blitz than Medici vengeance -- Fox did not broadcast Mr. Obama's health care speech to Congress on Sept. 9, so Mr. Obama did not speak to "Fox News Sunday."

That omission was not as tactical as it was telling: a rare sign of frustration, and payback, by a White House that prides itself on diplomacy and an even keel. Mr. Obama sought on Sunday to bring a little order and civility to a debate that grows ever more heated and shrill. But by boycotting, the White House seemed to be getting caught up in the kind of hostilities that increasingly divide Fox News Channel from its rivals.

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But Mr. Obama chose to make a statement -- and raise a distracting fuss on Fox News -- by declining to speak.

And Fox milked it. When he was not talking about Acorn, Mr. Wallace bemoaned the presidential slight, asking, "Whatever happened to reaching out to all Americans?" He told Bill O'Reilly that the White House aides were "a bunch of crybabies."

Apparently, the feeling is mutual. "We figured Fox would rather show 'So You Think You Can Dance' than broadcast an honest discussion about health insurance reform," a White House deputy press secretary told ABC News on Saturday. "Fox is an ideological outlet where the president has been interviewed before and will likely be interviewed again; not that the whining particularly strengthens their case for participation any time soon."

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http://mediamatters.org/research/200909210004

[blogslut]

1. I just love Alessandra Stanley's Wikipedia entry

Alessandra Stanley is an American journalist. In 2003 she became the television critic for The New York Times. She was previously co-chief of the paper's Moscow bureau.<1> She previously served as the Rome bureau chief, and as a correspondent for Time. Stanley is the daughter of defense expert Timothy W. Stanley.

Complaints have been raised regarding the accuracy of her reporting, including a September 5, 2005 article on Hurricane Katrina, the name of Everybody Loves Raymond, and a July 18, 2009 retrospective on the career of Walter Cronkite. Clark Hoyt, the Times' public editor, while examining the Cronkite article described Stanley as "much admired by editors for the intellectual heft of her coverage of television" but "with a history of errors".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Stanley

[Cetacea]

2. Obama should snub Fox from now on. We'll see who the real "cry babies" are.

[samsingh]

6. totally agree with you

the right wing, repugs, conservatives - treacherous assholes that they are - are the biggest crybabies anywhere.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. It is not in the president's or the country's interest to associate with fanatical groups

[babylonsister]

4. No, it's not, but it 'should' be in the NYT's best interests to tell the truth.

Too bad they massively fail at that regularly.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. I guess one should contact the NY Times?