No News Is Good News

While the Wingers are getting all self-righteous on the Obama White House's adversarial treatment of FOX News, it's important to note that the Bushies did the same thing to MSNBC, as admitted by former Bush press secretary Dana Perino:

On Fox and Friends this morning, host Brian Kilmeade tried to paint a contrast between the Obama administration and the Bush administration, telling former Bush press secretary Dana Perino, “not only did you not go after” networks critical of Bush, “you gave them interviews, as did the president.” Perino corrected him, however, saying that “towards the end,” the Bush administration largely froze out MSNBC:

KILMEADE: And not only did you not go after them, you gave them interviews, as did the president.

DOOCY: Sure.

KILMEADE: Gave them all interviews. Read Ronald Reagan’s diaries…

PERINO: Towards the end we didn’t do a lot with MSNBC. That’s, that is the case.

Really? But gosh, that would mean that Wingers are hypocrites.

Perino said that it would have been “a bridge too far” for her to “go after MSNBC” from the White House Briefing Room. But she seems to be forgetting the public letter that her White House colleague Ed Gillespie sent to NBC News President Steve Capus, in which Gillespie accused NBC and MSNBC of blurring the line between “news” and “opinion.” As ThinkProgress noted last week, Fox News cheered on Gillespie’s shot at NBC.

And gosh, that would mean that the Bush White House was full of hypocrites too.

Go figure. The difference is when NBC or MSNBC reported something true that the Bush White House didn't like, they got attacked. When FOX flat out lies about Obama however, that's a reason for journalists to stick together against the mean ol' Obama administration.