as the video at the bottom of this post says, presidents and the press have always been at war. no one is going to agree with everything a president does, and even fewer will agree if the news paints them in a negative light. fox news openly claims to not be liberal. they say they are fair and balanced. some people think that means they are conservative and some think they are telling the truth, it really depends on if you agree with them or not. whether they are conservative or fair doesnt matter though, cause what ever you believe about them you cant deny that they are not fans of Obama. being so obama is not a fan of fox, and recently he has tried to fight back. presidents before have tried this before in some instances, and in some cases they have won. obamas tactics have bordered on the illegal though, with an attempt to block them out of interviews. An act of which was so upsetting to every news station that the competition even spoke out about it till obamas administration decided to reverse that decision. and rightly so. the president is the most powerful man in the country, but if he tries to use that power to silence those that dont agree with him democracy dies right then and there. that is the number one fundamental right we have, freedom of speech, that separates us from these 3rd world dictatorships. if he wants to refuse interviews with them (which he has) thats his right, but to block them from press conferences and only allow people that agree with him to join in, that is horribly horribly wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ1gkLqBmlg
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