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Obama, in Media Blitz, Snubs 'Whining' Fox

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As President Barack Obama goes on an unprecedented presidential blitz of media appearances, the White House is in a war of words with the network that did not get an interview: Fox.

"We figured Fox would rather show 'So You Think You Can Dance' than broadcast an honest discussion about health insurance reform," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told ABC News.

That's a reference to the program the Fox network aired at 8 p.m. on Sept. 9, when other major broadcast networks were airing the president's speech to the joint session of Congress.

The idea of punishing Fox for not airing the president's speech didn't sit well with Chris Wallace, the anchor of Fox News Sunday.

"They are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington," Wallace said on the Fox News program "The O'Reilly Factor."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamas-media-tour-include-fox-news/story?id=8621065

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Fox is not a news channel, why should it report news? Fox does well reporting the sensational, perverse and bizarre. Fox can call itself a news channel, a variety channel, a comedy channel, a sports channel a religious channel ETC. It remains a tool of Rupert Murdoch for manipulation of public opinion.

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Much to my dismay, I live in one of the reddest counties in Florida. Yesterday, I went into a local UPS Store, and there was a big TV mounted to the wall tuned to Fox News. I got to thinking about it and realized that every TV I've ever seen in a business or government office in this town was showing Fox. I can't remember a single instance when I walked in and saw somebody watching CNN or MSNBC. That was unsettling.

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In certain counties in Florida both literacy, science and watching objective news are frowned upon as dangerous imports of Yankee elitists.

Hey, you've been to where I live! It's amazing, I moved here from Tallahassee, which is one of the few historically blue counties in the state. It has two major universities, a large community college, a growing community of tech companies and, of course, the state government, so there tends to be more open and free-flowing thought there. I felt like I left civilization and landed in the middle of Green Acres...if all the characters in Green Acres were small-minded and spiteful.

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