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White House Apparently Unaware That Disdain May Be Mutual

Apparently, Axelgrease met with Roger Ailes over a cup of coffee:

But attitude towards Fox at the White House has been souring for months. On a recent Sunday, President Obama pointedly declined to appear on Fox News Sunday, prompting host Chris Wallace to call Obama aides, "the biggest bunch of cry babies."

Though White House aides are hesitant to criticize the network on the record, their disdain for the programming--including Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck--is clearly evident. "They are the paid political programming for a party, and occasionally a couple of news stories break out in the midst of 23 hours and 45 minutes of political rantings and opinion," said one senior administration official. "Everything about it is one-sided political opinion directed at a base. Period."

Yeah, well they blew another network off over having an author on whom they don't like, so . . . .

What this shows, more than anything else, is that ideological straightjackets = other people's beliefs, when they don't happen to coincide with yours, even when you're getting caught lying and lying.

Wonder if anyone's going to ask Gibbsy about the info showing that among major insurers, evil government-run Medicare is the most likely to reject a claim.

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