pastafariasm, tongue in cheek take that is church of the spaghetti monster. it s never good when people who bring you the news become part of news. but watchdog group shows fox news is target of hostility from the obama white house. jim angle has the details. reporter: in the first few months the obama administration sought to exclude fox news from interview with feinberg as pay czar. the white house says it s a mistake but judicial watch has e-mails between officials suggesting otherwise. we filed open record freedom of information request in october of 2009. we have didn t get response from the obama administration until last week which is well over 18 months later. at the time, the officials flatly denied there was any intention to include fox but after first offering interviews to three biggest networks, officials decided to expand the access to include cnn and possibly other cable networks but not fox.
official e-mailed the white house saying do you think we should include fox in this? and got then a response back from a white house official who said we prefer if you skip fox, please. so it didn t start at treasury. it started at the white house. sounds like it was taken out of context. john less than earnest said this at the time he was deputy press secretary said we ve demonstrated our willingness and ability to exclude fox news from significant interviews. fantastic. the best well, here s another one. e-mail from jennifer, how do you say it? white house communications good, i m glad we got to this one. i m putting some dead fish in the fox cubby, just cuz. there she is invoking that godfather saying. tom fenton from judicial watch, he says this, the obama administration seems to have lied about its attempt to exclude fox newschannel from access to an interview with the pay-czar. these documents show there is a
license photo, called pastafariasm, tongue in cheek take that is church of the spaghetti monster. it s never good when people who bring you the news become part of news. but watchdog group shows fox news is target of hostility from the obama white house. jim angle has the details. reporter: in the first few months the obama administration sought to exclude fox news from interview with feinberg as pay czar. the white house says it s a mistake but judicial watch has e-mails between officials suggesting otherwise. we filed open record freedom of information request in october of 2009. we have didn t get response from the obama administration until last week which is well over 18 months later. at the time, the officials flatly denied there was any intention to include fox but after first offering interviews to three biggest networks, officials decided to expand the access to include cnn and possibly other cable
a media legal analyst argued the administration sought to separate fox from the other networks. you can all interview mr. feinberg, the pay czar, but fox news, we don t like what you have been doing in your news programming. and in your opinion programming. you can t come along. because the network pool was involved and fox is a member, the other networks questioned the move. the white house specifically sought to exclude fox. they were ultimately unsuccessful because of the intervention reportedly of other media. but they didn t want to let fox in. today, white house spokesman jay carney tried to put it all in the past. that was then, and, you know, we obviously deal with fox news regularly. call you regularly and we give interviews to fox news, including bill o reilly. fox did get the interview with feinberg after all. the senior vice president for news for fox today said on and off-air relations with the administration has come a long way since then and if the
i don t know why i m on alcoholics and spending spree but i feel like having a drink after seeing what is going on in washington! steve, chime in. no more anti-business than george bush was against winning the iraq war. he voted for the biggest bail-out ever of wall street. he pushes through the economic stimulus. all that said, it s fair to judge him on the record. he hasn t produced results. wall street bail-out only helped the wall street banker bankers. [ overtalk ] you are making a good point about the bail-out. look at details. pay czar, training the competitors of calling them speculators. in the commencement speech in spring, he said you want a fancy enough car and title, corporate offers through the competition, you know, better