Documents Show Obama Staffer Threatened to Stuff Dead Fish in FOX News Cubby

Documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that an Obama White House staffer threatened to stuff dead fish in the FOX News cubby. Another document proves they were committed to excluding FOX News from interviews with a top Obama official.
It’s the Chicago way.

Judicial Watch reported:
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered documents from the Obama Department of Treasury showing that the Obama administration, contrary to its repeated denials, attempted to exclude the Fox News Channel (FNC) from a round of interviews with Treasury’s “Executive Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg. The documents, which include email exchanges within the Department of the Treasury and between Treasury and White House staff, also provide colorful evidence of an anti-Fox News bias within the Obama White House.

The documents, obtained last week by Judicial Watch pursuant to an October, 28, 2009, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, concern a series of interviews with Feinberg, who served as the Special Master for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Executive Compensation, on October 22, 2009, organized by the Treasury Department. According to press reports, the Fox News Channel was specifically excluded from joining the pool of reporters which precipitated a backlash among the networks and a reversal by the Obama Treasury Department…

…internal Obama administration emails obtained by Judicial Watch provide evidence that FNC was specifically singled out for exclusion. According to one October 22, 2009, email exchange between Dag Vega, Director of Broadcast Media on the White House staff, to Jenni LeCompte, then-Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the Treasury Department, Vega informs LeCompte that “…we’d prefer if you skip Fox please.”

Regarding general anti-FNC bias within the Obama White House in an October 23, 2009, email exchange between Jennifer Psaki, Deputy White House Communications Director and LeCompte, Psaki writes, “I am putting some dead fish in the fox cubby – just cause”. In an email on the night of October 22, 2009, commenting on a report by Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier noting the exclusion of the network from the pool, Psaki writes to Compte and fellow White House colleagues, “…brett baier just did a stupid piece on it — but he is a lunatic”.

#1 July 14, 2011 at 1:12 pm
befuddled commented:

Truth to Power. It hurts their wittle fweelings.
#2 July 14, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Anita commented:

Another REMINDER for Brett Baier to avoid the fair & balance crap & avoid lefties on his show. Nothing wrong using the O’s name once in a while, as calling him again & again – “the president” several times in a single sentence is nauseating at times.
#3 July 14, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Rock commented:

Damn WTF really did bring a bunch of children to the White House, petty pathetic childish behavior within the confines of our most sacred halls of Government. If the National debt was as low as the morals of WTF and his followers we would be damn near debt free.
#4 July 14, 2011 at 1:25 pm
john03 commented:

That’s right out of the Rahm Emanuel playbook.
#5 July 14, 2011 at 1:28 pm
bacadog commented:

Psaki writes to Compte and fellow White House colleagues, “…brett baier just did a stupid piece on it — but he is a lunatic”.

Yet they obsessively watch Fox.
#6 July 14, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Garrison commented:

enough with Obamma and his tacktics! Wish he had of never left Indianna!
#7 July 14, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Reaganite Republican commented:

One of Rahm’s devil-spawn apparently lol
#8 July 14, 2011 at 1:31 pm
befuddled commented:

Libs have been on this Fox News diatribe since Obama brought it up in his campaign. Not a peep about Fox news, beforehand. Not a peep about Fox when Bush was president. Now that the fascists have complete media control, their immediate reaction is to shut down free speech. They got their marching orders and darn if they aren’t going to follow through, like a bunch a red shirted Chavistas carrying machetes and patrolling the streets. Get rid of the opposition by any means possible. This is how far America has come.Welcome everyone to the Banana Republic.
#9 July 14, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Mark commented:

“Executive Pay Czar?” let’s investigate ALL of Obama’s idiot commissars.
#10 July 14, 2011 at 1:46 pm
#1AMERICAN commented:

thugs, commies, goons, all part of herr odumbos team…makes you real proud to be an american… NOT…this entire admin needs to go to prison some how
#11 July 14, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Adirondack Patriot commented:

Clearly, the children are in charge.
#13 July 14, 2011 at 1:53 pm
BuddyG commented:

Hey 0bama Administration, a fish stinks from the head.
#14 July 14, 2011 at 2:14 pm
jorgen commented:

Amazing! The Dems don’t know that many if not most Conservative Republicans are giving up on Fox for being too much to the left.
#15 July 14, 2011 at 3:49 pm
David commented:

What passes for quality on Fox News is no more than a reflection of the values of the Rupert Murdock who controls it.

Apparently Mr. Murdoch is not satisfied with being a billionaire. He wants to also control governments. He has a lock on the GOP in the USA and has had, until recently, a lock on the Conservative party in the UK.

The evil part of his empire comes from doing anything to gain control. He preys on the weak minded through his media outlets. Fact checking Fox news could be a career for a legion of journalists. The fact Fox news is so successful is a damning indictment of public education in the USA.

Well, what goes around comes around. This little scandal is only a glimpse of what lies hidden in the empire. We can only hope all involved are revealed for what they really are.
#16 July 14, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Chisum commented:

David,

Substitute Soros for Murdoch.

Fact checking Fox News? MMfA does that and THEIR traffic is in the crapper. They definitely “prey on the weak-minded”.

We can only hope all involved are revealed for what they really are.

Yep.
#17 July 14, 2011 at 4:16 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

being in washington with this administration is ehat it must have been like to live in marxist russia.
#20 July 14, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Rock commented:

David you did mean Soros, correct? Oh I forgot he signs your paycheck.
#21 July 14, 2011 at 7:25 pm
befuddled commented:

David, you nutter, how long would Gatewaypundit stay conservative if it was able to funnel millions of dollars from Soros like Media Matters? You fascists have won. You have complete control of the media and entertainment and the other facets of society, from teachers to Justices. Unless you are a white racist living in a bunker in the Appalachians, you liberals control our life. From goverment mandates to education, we live at the whim of you liberals. I also agree with you that the republic has been over thrown and you people are the conquerors. Still, with such vast resources and money at your disposal, why the need to squelch Fox News?Why is there all of a sudden a need now to bring them down? What is the fear?
#22 July 14, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Obamas regulation destroy jobs commented:

Communists only want ONE voice–theirs! They do not want us to have a voice…and only one side—theirs…!!!
#23 July 14, 2011 at 8:45 pm
lol commented:

did anyone in this administration move past junior high? bullies and crybabies are what they are. Can’t wait until 2012 when they get voted out of office.
#24 July 15, 2011 at 1:01 am
Ben commented:

If this administration doesn’t go down in history as a failure of Carter proportions it will at least be remembered as the whiniest and pettiest administration in the history of the U.S.
#25 July 15, 2011 at 6:31 am
PJ commented:

When the Saudi prince “invested” in FOX, we lost the last network voice for the conservatives.

FOX has ceased to have any merit. Shortly after the prince’s payment, all investigation into Obama’s past stopped. It’s been downhill ever since.

Islam and Marxists now rule all media. Global elites are in full control. Will they win?