The coming Barack Hussein Obama thugocracy

[dude1394]

Hard to argue much with this blogger imo. I've never seen a president of the US target a single news organization like this.

http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/12/obamas-war-on-fox-news/

Appearing on CNN [Sunday] morning, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said Fox News exists simply to further the agenda of the GOP.
“Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party,” Dunn said.
This is the second time in a week that Dunn has blasted Fox.
She was quoted in Time Magazine on Thursday blasting the cable network as “opinion journalism masquerading as news.”

These statements (and others; see here: “they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House”) are no accident; Dunn is an official White House spokesperson. And they go along with the curious fact that Obama himself has repeatedly taken time out from his busy day to personally blast pundits on the Right such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity in a way that used to be considered un-Presidential.
It seems that having all three networks, plus CNN and MSNBC (have I left anyone out?), as well as most of print journalism (AP, the Times, Time, Newsweek) firmly in his pocket isn’t good enough for Obama. He must have a Pravda/Izvetzia/Tass situation; no dissidents allowed!
I noted early on that Obama is no fan of free speech—if that speech happens to be critical of him. So will he be following in the footsteps of admirer Hugo Chavez some day? If not, it will only be because he can’t, not because he wouldn’t want to:

Venezuela will pull the plug on 29 more radio stations, a top official in President Hugo Chavez’s government said on Saturday, just weeks after dozens of other outlets were closed in a media clampdown.
Infrastructure Minister Diosdado Cabello closed 34 radio stations in July, saying the government was “democratizing” media ownership. Critics say the move limits freedom of expression and has taken critical voices off the airwaves.
The powerful Chavez ally has threatened to close over 100 stations in total, part of a long-term campaign against private media that the government says are biased against Chavez’s government.

Whether Obama’s attempt to clamp down on the media that dares to challenge the party line will be through the mechanism of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, or through some other means such as actions resembling Chavez’s pitch for “democratizing” media ownership, or whether Obama will just continue to use himself and/or surrogates to attack media voices that happen to disagree with him, it’s a dangerous—and dare I say un-American—move.
Here’s a video of Dunn explaining herself with almost laughable projection (”Let’s not pretend [Fox] is a news network the way CNN is”):