It is nice to see that not all national media folks are completely in the tank for Obama. You know, to the point where they may be aiding him in an unConstitutional power grab.

The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to manipulate other news networks into isolating and excluding Fox News, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.

The Obama administration on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News. The pool is the five-network rotation that for decades has shared the costs and duties of daily coverage of the presidency.

But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks consulted and decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included.

Why it matters?

Media analysts cheered the decision to boycott the Feinberg interview unless Fox News was included, saying the administration’s gambit was taking its feud with Fox News too far. President Obama has already declined to go on “Fox News Sunday,” even while appearing on the other Sunday shows.

“I’m really cheered by the other members saying “No, if Fox can’t be part of it, we won’t be part of it,’” said Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik, calling the move to limit Feinberg’s availability “outrageous.”

“What it’s really about to me is the Executive Branch of the government trying to tell the press how it should behave. I mean, this democracy — we know this — only works with a free and unfettered press to provide information,” he said.

Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. said the administration was potentially in violation of the Constitution with its attempt to restrict access to the “eyes and ears” of the country.

“What was averted was a very serious constitutional violation by the White House,” Johnson said. “There cannot be selective and arbitrary access to the White House based on some subjective determination.”

Obama is clearly drunk with power, or so scared that the truth will derail his war against American way of life, that he has to silence critics, you know, like all good dictators and marxists do.

On Wednesday, Obama, speaking publicly for the first time about his administration’s portrayal of Fox News as illegitimate, said he’s not “losing sleep” over the controversy.

“I think that what our advisers simply said is, is that we are going to take media as it comes,” Obama said when asked about his advisers targeting the network openly. “And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that’s one thing. And if it’s operating as a news outlet, then that’s another. But it’s not something I’m losing a lot of sleep over.”

Of course Obama is not losing sleep over the fact that he is willing to sit down with his smear merchants and tip toe around openness, transparency, and the Constitution. Well, tip toe may be the wrong way to put it, more like throwing it in the old Nixon shredders and getting all wee weed up …

Obama and his administration have just about completed the transition from President to Emperor. Yes, when a Nation’s leader is more concerned about demonizing his domestic critics and free market economic backbone – then he is unifying the country ……

Crush dissent. Create economic chaos. Sounds like an Emperor more then a President to me.

Hats off to the White House Press poll on this one. Let’s hope that we start to see some journalistic spine reenter this debate about the future of the country.

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