Dunn mocks Fox

Sam Stein notes that in Anita Dunn's parting shots at Fox she not only accused them of "inventing the story," but also tossed aside the notion that Joe Scarborough's network was Fox's liberal equivalent, said her criticisms of Fox weren't just expressions of her personal views, and mocked Fox for falsely claiming to have gotten an exclusive interview with President Obama.

Last month, Dunn got caught up in a war of words between the White House and Fox News when she made the rather bland observation that the network carries a Republican agenda. On Friday, she was asked whether she considered MSNBC to have a counter-balancing bias -- a common retort offered by Fox's defenders. Dunn replied by noting that for three hours every morning that network handed over its programming to "a former Republican congressman who was a member of Newt Gingrich's revolution": Joe Scarborough.

Elsewhere in her remarks, Dunn acknowledged that her decision to go after Fox News was not an example of her "going rogue." White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and perhaps even the president himself gave her the green light. She also mocked Fox for proclaiming that it had secured an exclusive sit-down interview with President Obama during his trip to Asia when, in actuality, it was simply part of a rotating pool of reporters.

Dunn also saluted Jon Stewart for his take downs of both Fox and Sean Hannity.