in no way shape or form is obama like chavez. chavez TAKES OVER AND CLOSES media stations (and newspapers). obama (intelligently i may add. helen thomas disagrees, but i sure as shite wouldn't be dealing with faux 'news' either) just disses them and doesn't really talk to them. they distort (i want to say lie, but i won't). they blur, they give one half of a story. they instigate. they stir up. they have ONE point of view. anyone who cites faux 'news' as an authentic source (for anything other than a simpsons quote) lacks credibility AND a brain
Perino: Obama’s Criticism Of Fox Is Akin To Chavez’s Tactics, Sets A Bad Example For ‘Emerging Democracies’
ByToday on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace made sure to devote plenty of time to covering President Obama’s “war on Fox News”; he even played a clip of Sean Connery as Jim Malone “The Untouchables” talking about “the Chicago way” of getting things done. Former Bush press secretary Dana Perino sharply criticized the Obama administration’s tactics and expressed absolute shock at the example the United States was setting for “the free press in emerging democracies,” comparing the criticisms of Fox News to when “Hugo Chavez shuts down television stations”:
PERINO: That was a coordinated, calculated attack. It was unbecoming. And if you look at some of the coverage of what mainstream media covers when, for example, somebody like a Hugo Chavez shuts down television stations, he calls them illegitimate.
Now, I’m not suggesting that this White House believes that they are going to come over here and shut down Fox News. But they are defining a narrative in their first year, and it’s going to be very hard to recover from it. [...].............
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