Propaganda Czar Anita Dunn: We control news media

By John Allison III: Oh and how the liberal lapdog press played right into the hands of their master manipulators! But what happens when they can't control a player in the news arena?

We on the right have long argued the relationship between the Obama campaign (and now administration) and the mainstream media was more like puppeteer and marionette than the public servant and public watchdog envisioned by our founders when they insisted on the freedom of the press in our 1st Amendment. But now we have President Obama's chief propagandist gloating about pulling the strings to manipulate the supposed objective media.

"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.

"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.

"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it," Dunn said.

Now we musn't forget this is the same Propaganda Minister Anita Dunn who last week initiated a war on Fox News, attacking the organization as a "wing of the Republican Party."

With video of the Obama administration equivalent of Joseph Goebbels boasting about controlling the press, it seems clear White House animosity towards Fox stems more from its inability to control the network's coverage than the purported bias.

Some are questioning the wisdom of the White House strategy of waging a war with a major news outlet. "It's a very risky strategy. It's not one that I would advocate," David Gergen said. But such thoughts may represent a level of naivete in thinking the Obama administration still respects the rules of the game, and American traditions such as freedom of the press. But our President may be willing to take yet another lesson from some of his new buddies like Chavez and Castro.

After all, Obama and his Democratic allies haven't tried to camoflauge their intentions for the future of talk radio. They've already made clear, to anyone with open eyes, they intend to destroy any broadcaster who dares air messages critical of the Obamessiah.

Chavez' media strategy of 'if you can't control it, kill it' may be what Obama has in mind for Fox. I mean, the President's Propaganda Minister proudly proclaims Mao Tse Tung is one of her most admired political leaders. Mao was responsible for the deaths of some 70 million to establish control of the Chinese population.

What can we infer from such radical idolization of a murderous, Communist tyrant and the war now being waged on Fox News by the White House Propaganda Ministry? Maybe the White House intent is to control the message, or destroy the messenger.

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