VIDEO: NEW WHITE HOUSE MOUTHPIECE WHINES ABOUT FOX

This role used to be played by Linda Douglass, who has been an unequivocal disaster as a spinmeister for the Obama Administration. The fact that Anita Dunn is actually doing no better (perhaps worse) than Douglass, might provide fuel to the argument that the problem is not with people like Douglass or Dunn but with the president whose case they're tasked with making.

There is a whiney tone to Anita Dunn, for sure but perhaps she wouldn't be needed if Obama would actually respond to the very legitimate questions posed by talk radio, conservative blogs, and people like Glenn Beck instead of ignoring them.

I find it interesting that CNN has been airing panels and interviews in which it serves as the neutral bystander when the Fox News Channel is the topic. I guess if you're not going to carry programming that challenges the president, the next best thing is to talk about the network that does.



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VIDEO: COLBERT ANALYZES GLENN BECK PHENOMENON

Laughed out Loud several times watching this. As someone who rarely misses Beck's program, I took no offense to this roasting at the hands of Colbert. On the contrary, this segment on Beck would likely garner him more viewers. I particularly liked when James Carville's analysis of Beck was shown. Carville called Beck "nuts" and a "blatant hypocrite".

As he did so, I think Glenn Beck was inside his head.......yelling.

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VIDEO: CNN COVERS FOX COVERAGE OF OBAMA

Not sure what the bigger story is here. The Obama administration singling out Fox News in true Alinsky Rule #8 style (keep the pressure on) or CNN actually discussing how great Fox News Channel's ratings are.

What's more amazing than all of that is the fact that CNN and others are making absolutely NO EFFORT to follow the winning formula Fox News has discovered. Instead, they apparently want to do play by play and color analysis of the battle between FNC and Obama. Perhaps they should stop fact-checking Saturday Night Live skits directed at Barack Obama as a start.

Interesting to watch, though. The overwhelming sentiment seems to be that going after FNC publicly is a bad move by the Obama White House. Obviously, their biggest beef is with Beck, Hannity, and O'Reilly (probably in that order). However, instead of answering the questions posed by those hosts (Beck in particular), they stonewall and cry foul.

Pretty pathetic........and pretty telling.

Beck and company must be onto something.



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