–”The White House stopped providing guests to ‘Fox News Sunday’ after Wallace fact-checked controversial assertions made by Tammy Duckworth, assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in August. Dunn said fact-checking an administration official was ’something I’ve never seen a Sunday show do.’”–FoxNews.com

–”Wolf Blitzer: It seems no politician is safe from Saturday Night Live. While many people think SNL has mostly spared President Obama, what they’re doing now is not necessarily all that kind. They essentially cast the leader of the free world as a do-nothing president, at least so far. Even though SNL deals in comedy, what they said about the President rings true for a lot of you, apparently. So, did the show accurately capture a mood, or did it go off track for comedic effect?

Let’s bring in CNN’s Kareen Wynter. She’s checking the facts for us. All right, Kareen, what are you finding out?

Kareen Wynter: Hi there, Wolf. Well, some observers say- sure, we are just talking comedy here, but that, on many points- well, SNL couldn’t have been more off the mark.”–NewsBusters.org

–“Those are Limbaugh’s words. So are these: ‘I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back. I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.’ I know how those words play out in Idiot America. They are embraced as gospel. But inside the locker rooms of the NFL, where the overwhelming majority of the players are descendants of slaves, Limbaugh’s ignorant ramblings resonate with entirely different emotions.”–St Louis Dispatch sports writer Bryan Burwell, Oct. 7th

“Let’s go along for the full ride and believe that it [the slavery quote] was all a horrible ‘fabrication.’ So what are we left with? Well, essentially, I think we just threw a deck chair off the Titanic. There is still a huge pile of polarizing, bigoted debris stacked up on the deck of the good ship Limbaugh that he can’t deny or even remotely distance himself from.”–St Louis Dispatch sports writer Bryan Burwell, Oct 14

–”Let’s not pretend they’re a news network. Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.”–White House Communications Director Anita Dunn on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Oct. 11, 2009

“And the third tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa… the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple plan…”–White House Communication Director Anita Dunn, June 2009 St. Andrew’s Episcopal School at the Washington National Cathedral

–”White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want ‘the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox.’ Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is ‘not a news organization.’ ‘Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way,’ Axelrod counseled ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. ‘We’re not going to treat them that way.’”–FoxNews.com

–”First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist; then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist; then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist; then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew; then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.”–attributed German Pastor Martin Niemoller

Draw you own conclusions.

atahlert@comcast.net

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