Anita Dunn Says Fox News is Not a News Network, like CNN
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Why can’t we get straight news? The White House aides, according to this LA Times article, are leaning heavily on Democratic party political experts to snub Fox News, in an apparent effort to push the news source even further away from them. Any one-sided news source is worthy of suspicion in my opinion, but to actually force a medium to be more biased by refusing to talk? How far from Obama’s campaign promises can they go?
In contrast, they praise CNN, which with its one-sided coverage of the Honduran crisis, created most of the isolation and worked hard to paint the image of the military coup that wasn’t. Anita Dunn is quoted as saying of Fox: “Let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.”
I prefer neither. I would prefer both to be committed to unbiased truth.
If the Times article is true, it is a sign that Obama needs someone to whisper over his shoulder, as once was done for Roman generals: “Remember thou art mortal”. When a leader is surrounded by lackeys and sycophants, expect evil ahead. Look at what happened to Bush before September 11 and Iraq, people were afraid to tell him the truth. Observe the crowd of worshippers the paranoia of Hugo Chavez have done to him.
By alienating oneself from criticism, one only makes the fall harder. The truth will set us free. Obama’s downfall would be his pride, as with all people of power. Power is intoxicating; a heavy dose of humility is necessary, if one is not to make oneself a fool. He started out by putting people around him who didn’t necesarily agree with him. He needs to do that again, before he becomes polarized, and destroys further his potential as a leader.
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