When CNN Compares Obama To Nixon The WH Strategy Has Backfired
by Colby Hall | 8:51 am, October 22nd, 2009
This is probably not the result that White House officials had in mind when they came up with the strategy of marginalizing Fox News. Last night Anderson Cooper had on guests James Carville (Democrat) and Kevin Madden (Republican) to debate a growing meme that should concern the Obama administration: do they have a “Nixon-type enemies list”?The discussion came after the cable news network aired a clip Senator Lamar Alexander on the Senate floor making the specific comparison between Nixon and Obama, offering the friendly suggestion that the current administration change tactics, saying “as those of us who worked in the Nixon administration know, that can get you into a lot of trouble.”
Carville’s opening point focused on the fact that 11 Nixon officials went to jail, presuming somehow that attacking a media outlet is somehow okay if it’s all legal. But he summed up with a rather basic, but true position that this is “something called politics.” Got that right!
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