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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - October 27, 2009
Fox Wars
by Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON - Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live
pollster. Now he's put a horse's head in Roger Ailes' bed.
Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn't scare
easily.
The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House
communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is
"opinion journalism masquerading as news." Patting rival
networks on the head for their authenticity (read:
docility), senior adviser David Axelrod declared Fox "not
really a news station." And Chief of Staff Emanuel told
(warned?) the other networks not to "be led (by) and
following Fox."
Meaning? If Fox runs a story critical of the administration
-- from exposing White House czar Van Jones as a loony 9/11
"truther" to exhaustively examining the mathematical
chicanery and hidden loopholes in proposed health care
legislation -- the other news organizations should think
twice before following the lead.
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The signal to corporations is equally clear: You might have
dealings with a federal behemoth that not only disburses
more than $3 trillion every year but is extending its reach
ever deeper into private industry -- finance, autos, soon
health care and energy. Think twice before you run an ad on
Fox.
At first, there was little reaction from other media.
Then on Thursday, the administration tried to make them
complicit in an actual boycott of Fox. The Treasury Depart-
ment made available Ken Feinberg, the executive pay czar,
for interviews with the White House "pool" news organiz-
ations -- except Fox. The other networks admirably refused,
saying they would not interview Feinberg unless Fox was
permitted to as well. The administration backed down.
This was an important defeat because there's a principle
at stake here. While government can and should debate and
criticize opposition voices, the current White House goes
beyond that. It wants to delegitimize any significant
dissent. The objective is no secret. White House aides
openly told Politico that they're engaged in a deliberate
campaign to marginalize and ostracize recalcitrants, from
Fox to health insurers to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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There's nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy
tactics. Nor unconstitutional. But our politics are
defined not just by limits of legality or constitution-
ality. We have norms, Madisonian norms.
Madison argued that the safety of a great republic, its
defense against tyranny, requires the contest between
factions or interests. His insight was to understand "the
greater security afforded by a greater variety of parties."
They would help guarantee liberty by checking and balancing
and restraining each other -- and an otherwise imperious
government.
Factions should compete, but also recognize the legitimacy
of other factions and, indeed, their necessity for a
vigorous self-regulating democracy. Seeking to deliberately
undermine, delegitimize and destroy is not Madisonian. It
is Nixonian.
But didn't Teddy Roosevelt try to destroy the trusts? Of
course, but what he took down was monopoly power that was
extinguishing smaller independent competing interests. Fox
News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of
liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox.
The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical -- and that
doesn't even include the other commanding heights of the
culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood,
the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.
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Fox and its viewers (numbering more than CNN's and MSNBC's
combined) need no defense. Defend Fox compared to whom? To
CNN -- which recently unleashed its fact-checkers on a
"Saturday Night Live" skit mildly critical of President
Obama, but did no checking of a grotesquely racist remark
CNN falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh?
Defend Fox from whom? Fox's flagship 6 o'clock evening news
out of Washington (hosted by Bret Baier, formerly by Brit
Hume) is, to my mind, the best hour of news on television.
(Definitive evidence: My mother watches it even on the odd
night when I'm not on.) Defend Fox from the likes of Anita
Dunn? She's been attacked for extolling Mao's political
philosophy in a speech at a high school graduation. But
the critics miss the surpassing stupidity of her larger
point: She was invoking Mao as support and authority for
her impassioned plea for individuality and trusting one's
own choices. Mao as champion of individuality? Mao, the
greatest imposer of mass uniformity in modern history,
creator of a slave society of a near-billion worker bees
wearing Mao suits and waving the Little Red Book?
The White House communications director cannot be trusted
to address high schoolers without uttering inanities. She
and her cohorts are now to instruct the country on truth
and objectivity?
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