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Women Bemoaned 'Hostile Workplace' to Obama
Women Bemoaned 'Hostile Workplace' to Obama
'CONFIDENCE MEN'
Sep 20, 2011 7:35 AM CDT

Women Bemoaned 'Hostile Workplace' to Obama

The president then made a conscious effort to improve things

(Newser) - Women felt so frustrated in the early months of the Obama administration, that they eventually complained to the president himself, prompting a November 2009 dinner in which Obama listened to their grievances and vowed to improve things, the Washington Post reports. Female staffers’ discontent is a major point in Ron...

White House Hits Back at Confidence Men

Key figures deny harsh quotes, assertions of Obama weakness

(Newser) - The Obama administration is fighting back against allegations from Ron Suskind's coming book Confidence Men that the president's top advisers undermined his authority and ignored his orders, reports Politico . “This is not what I told the author, this is not what I believe, and anyone who knows...

White House's Fox News Foe Stepping Down
 White House's 
 Fox News Foe 
 Stepping Down 
TURNOVER DEPT
Nov 10, 2009 2:11 PM CST

White House's Fox News Foe Stepping Down

Communications director Anita Dunn leaving as planned

(Newser) - President Obama’s communications director will cede her post to a deputy at the end of the month, Chris Cillizza has learned. Anita Dunn notably took on the Fox Network and accused it of being a Republican mouthpiece. Dunn, who said from the start she was taking the post on...

White House Warns Dems to Avoid Fox
 White House 
 Warns Dems 
 to Avoid Fox 
feud? what feud?
Nov 6, 2009 4:50 PM CST

White House Warns Dems to Avoid Fox

Strategist reports intimidating phone call after appearance

(Newser) - The Obama administration has toned down its war of words against Fox News, but behind the scenes, it's warning Democratic strategists not to appear on the network. One consultant who made a recent appearance says he received a call afterward from a White House official who told him, "We...

Beck's Silent Red Phone Is 'a Hotline to Nowhere'

Host's willful nonsense is the 'new ignorance'

(Newser) - Glenn Beck likes to say that the red phone on his desk is a direct line to the White House, but of course it's a hotline to nowhere, just like the Fox host's whole schtick. Beck complains piteously that White House libbers won't call to respond to his issues, Thomas...

Fox Ratings Soar After Obama Tiff

Conservative station still trounces cable news competitors

(Newser) - Maybe Roger Ailes is on Barack Obama’s Christmas list. His administration sure seems to have given Fox News a gift anyway; in the two weeks since Anita Dunn publicly slammed the network, its ratings are up 9% overall, and 14% among the all-important 25-to-54 demographic. Shepard Smith’s show...

In Fight With Fox, White House Can't Win
 In Fight With Fox, 
 White House Can't Win 
analysis
Oct 18, 2009 4:24 PM CDT

In Fight With Fox, White House Can't Win

Administration has 'brought a knife to a gunfight': David Carr

(Newser) - By tackling Fox News head-on, the Obama administration has almost certainly bitten off more than it can chew, apparently prioritizing payback ahead of rising above the fray. "While there is undoubtedly a visceral thrill in finally setting out after your antagonists," media columnist David Carr writes for the...

White House Doesn't Take Glenn Beck 'Very Seriously'
White House Doesn't Take Glenn Beck 'Very Seriously'
worth crying over
Oct 16, 2009 7:05 PM CDT

White House Doesn't Take Glenn Beck 'Very Seriously'

Administration not sweating Fox host's campaign against Anita Dunn

(Newser) - Fox talking head Glenn Beck has White House communications director Anita Dunn in his crosshairs, but the administration isn't exactly sweating. "I caught some of that from the Glenn Beck show yesterday, but I don't think anybody takes it—takes his attacks very seriously," the deputy White House...

White House-Fox Spat Now Involves ... Mao

In old video, communications director Anita Dunn calls Chinese leader a favorite

(Newser) - That was quick. The White House sent communications director Anita Dunn after Fox over the weekend, and now an old video has surfaced—much to the delight of Glenn Beck and others—in which she calls Mao one of her "favorite political philosophers." In a speech to high...

Obama White House Tells Fox to Take a Hike

White House says it's finished pretending network is 'legitimate news'

(Newser) - Fox News Channel has pulled record numbers of viewers this year as it's ratcheted up its fury at the Obama administration, and the president's team has had enough. The White House communications director, Anita Dunn, tells the New York Times that Fox is "undertaking a war against Barack Obama,...

GOP to Obama: Give McChrystal His Troops
 GOP to Obama: 
 Give McChrystal 
 His Troops 
TALK SHOW ROUNDUP
Oct 11, 2009 11:19 AM CDT

GOP to Obama: Give McChrystal His Troops

McCain: Not granting request 'would be an error of historic proportions'

(Newser) - Afghanistan was the name of the game on the talk shows today, with John McCain pointedly warning President Obama on State of the Union that sending Gen. Stanley McChrystal anything less than the 40,000 troops he's requested "would be an error of historic proportions." Lindsey Graham chimed...

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