{"id":125,"date":"2009-10-12T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-10-12T03:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:36:00","slug":"the-gop-propaganda-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/12\/the-gop-propaganda-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP Propaganda Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wooo Hooo!!&#160; Someone from the Obama Administration finally called out <em>Faux Noise<\/em>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/TheGOPPropagandaMachine_39BA\/Foxsheep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fox-sheep\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"162\" alt=\"Fox-sheep\" src=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/TheGOPPropagandaMachine_39BA\/Foxsheep_thumb.jpg\" width=\"179\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> I am delighted to see the White House finally hitting back at Fox News and the media. In my opinion, they are doing it in the right way: by throwing a spotlight on their tactics. A few days ago,<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,1929058,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time<\/a> <font color=\"#000000\">magazine reported on a new White House strategy to, in the words of President Obama, \u201ccall \u2018em out.\u201d In the same article, White House communications director Anita Gunn commented that Fox News is \u201copinion journalism masquerading as news.\u201d Earlier today, she amplified on those comments and signaled that President Obama will engage with Fox but on his own terms. With video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">This morning, Gunn explained to CNN\u2019s Howard Kurtz her earlier comments and confirmed that Fox&#8217;s partisanship is why President Obama declined to appear on Fox during a blitz of appearances on Sunday talk shows last month&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshounds.us\/2009\/10\/11\/white_house_communications_director_fox_news_often_operates_as_almost_either_the_research_arm_or_the_communications_arm_of_the_republican_party.php\" target=\"_blank\">News Hounds<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The article also included this video:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WWoc3PQiweQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WWoc3PQiweQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I have long opined that <em>Faux Noise<\/em> is the GOP Reichsministry of Propaganda.&#160; I\u2019m glad the White House finally agrees!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wooo Hooo!!&#160; Someone from the Obama Administration finally called out Faux Noise! I am delighted to see the White House finally hitting back at Fox News and the media. In my opinion, they are doing it in the right way: by throwing a spotlight on their tactics. A few days ago, Time magazine reported on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/12\/the-gop-propaganda-machine\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}