White House: Fox News Is 'A Wing Of The Republican Party' [View All]

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Source: Talking Points Memo

White House: Fox News Is 'A Wing Of The Republican Party'
Ben Frumin | October 11, 2009, 12:22PM

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn slammed Fox News in an interview on CNN with Howie Kurtz this morning, saying that Fox News "is more a wing of the Republican Party" than an objective news organization.

"The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," Dunn said.

But this morning, Dunn seems to have taken the White House's criticism of Fox News to the next level. For instance, she said that when President Obama talks to Fox News, he approaches it differently than other cable networks.

*** When he goes on Fox, he understands he's not going on it really as a news network at this point, he's going on to debate the opposition.



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