As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.

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White House communications director Anita Dunn on the Obama administration’s unwillingness to engage FOX News.

My biggest problem with FOX is their continued and rather flagrant conflating of news and opinion. O’Reilly and Hannity and Beck cheekily insist that they are news analysis programs but their viewers don’t seem to care about the distinction when they rattle off any number of falsehoods to justify their narrow-mindedness. “Fox and Friends” a so-called “entertainment show” is even more dangerous because, other than being staffed by either convenient fools or complete idiots, they blur that distinction beyond recognition.