O'Reilly takes victory laps over W.H. Press Corps awarding Thomas seat to Fox Propaganda Ministry©

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/how-craven-beltway-village-wh-press

How craven is the Beltway Village? WH Press Corps awards front-row seat to Fox

By David Neiwert Tuesday Aug 03, 2010 10:00am



Bill O'Reilly was all giddy last night about the news that in the wake of the seat-shuffling that followed Helen Thomas' departure from her front-row seat at White House press conferences, Fox News has managed to nab a front-row slot (the AP was awarded Thomas' coveted spot).

BillO even implied that he'd be coming down and making things rough on Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Ho ho ho ho hah.

But as Lynn Sweet's report notes, Fox was awarded the spot over two other superb news organizations: NPR and Bloomberg. Indeed, both are at least legitimate news organizations and not the brazen propaganda outlet that Fox News has become.

[bluethruandthru]

1. I hope all the administration's "reaching across the aisle" stuff pays off.

Haven't seen it yet...but you never know.

[KansDem]

2. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...

[rocktivity]

3. I thought AP got Helen's seat and Fox got AP's seat.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[EFerrari]

4. NPR is not a superb news organization. It's a well spoken rw outlet.

At least this process has outed the White House press corpse, if anyone had any doubt about them.

[SpiralHawk]

5. The WH Press Corps (R) has jumped the cred shark

They are blow-dry, bent-knee republicorporate presstitutes...as they have again demonstrated.

[AnArmyVeteran]

6. I hope the Helen bashers are happy now...

The WHPC is a useless organization with almost no real journalists. They are just high paid regurgitaters. If there were many journalists on the WHPC we wouldn't have gone to war against Iraq because at least one person would have asked "How could Iraq attack the US within 45 minutes in the form of a mushroom cloud?". But not one person on the WHPC ever asked that simple question. They let an illegal and immoral war start without a single competent question...

[Ignis]

7. Disgusting.

:puke:

[damntexdem]

8. It's time for America to wise up -- and give him a victory lapse.

Which goes double for Faux News -- the Newt-ered channel.

[sharp_stick]

9. AP got the spot not faux

the noise channel moved up to the front row to take the spot of AP.