Hell hath no fury like a propaganda outlet scorned.
The White House has finally realized that it's futile to work with Fox News and, therefore, decided not to include them in President Obama's Sunday talk show Full-Ginsberg round of interviews. How does Fox News respond? Chris Wallace goes onto Bill O'Reilly's show and whines like a big crybaby about how the White House is the "biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington" :
It's really kind of creepy watching this conversation between Wallace and O'Reilly. They accuse the White House of the exact same pettiness they display in their attempt to convince themselves that they are a "fair and balanced" news organization at the center of the world of news. They truly believe that their audience consists of the moderate independents that are essential to winning elections rather than the rump of right-wing wackos who need their talking points handed to them and who would never give this President or anyone outside the most extreme Wingnuts the benefit of the doubt. The bell jar of fetid air that recirculates at that network is so clearly on display during this desperate attempt by these two to understand why they are left out of the loop. They truly believe they are not ideological. It's crazy.
Of course, we should not be surprised by this sorry spectacle. As KingOneEye illustrates in his Recommended diary, CNN's Rick Sanchez To Fox News: You Lie!, Fox needs to believe they are this bastion of balance and reality, reporting what other networks are too biased to report. Thankfully, the other networks are fighting back and showing what a sham Fox actually is:
There must be a method to their madness that those of us in the reality-based community just can't understand. Maybe this is just a matter of Fox making themselves the subject of the news and the creator of news rather than the reporter of news. Even their slogan "We Report, You Decide" is just a head-fake packaged as a talking point. Nevertheless, even a fair-minded person who repeatedly witnesses such sorry displays of circle-jerk mental reinforcement on display as epitomized by the Wallace-O'Reilly can't help but sometimes wonder - if only for a second or two - whether in fact these numbnuts know something we don't know. Thankfully, that thought lasts only for no more than a fleeting moment.