White House gives “blunt warnings” to democrats to not appear on Fox News

fox-news-logoChicago style politics has never been as blatant as it is now. With all the talk about some BS truce between Obama/Fox News, at least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, according to The Swamp. One Democratic strategist said that shortly after an appearance on Fox he got a phone call from a White House official telling him not to be a guest on the show again. The call had an intimidating tone, he said.

The message was, “We better not see you on again,” said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to run afoul of the White House. An implicit suggestion, he said, was that “clients might stop using you if you continue.”

Patrick Caddell, a Fox News contributor and a former pollster for Democratic President Jimmy Carter, said he has spoken to Democratic consultants who have been told by the White House to avoid appearances on Fox. He declined to give their names.

Caddell said he had not gotten that message himself from the White House. “They know better than to tell me anything like that,” he said.

Caddell added: “I have heard that they’ve done that to others in not too subtle ways. I find it appalling. When the White House gets in the business of suppressing dissent and comment, particularly from its own party, it hurts itself.”

The White House has taken an aggressive stance toward Fox. When President Obama appeared on five separate talk shows one Sunday in September, he avoided Fox.

“It would be foolish for us to just treat it like it’s CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS,” said a White House aide. “That doesn’t make any sense. That would be like saying we’re going to do [interviews] with the news magazines and we’re going to do Time, Newsweek and the [conservative] National Review.”

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November 6, 2009 · Filed Under Democrats, Fox News


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  • Sarah Farley

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