. . homestead exemption claim on his $1.9 million D.C. mansion – which he listed as his primary residence despite voting in South Dakota and claiming it as his primary residence in order to run for re-election. And Dunn was with Daschle during the years he failed to pay gobs of taxes on a luxury car and driver provided to him by crony donor Leo Hindery, Jr.

After working as communications manger for Obama’s political action committee and then as senior adviser to his 2008 presidential campaign, Dunn “trained” White House press secretary and anti-Fox sniper Robert Gibbs. Deputy communications director Dan Pfeiffer is another young protégé of Dunn’s who worked with her on the disastrous 2004...

. . homestead exemption claim on his $1.9 million D.C. mansion – which he listed as his primary residence despite voting in South Dakota and claiming it as his primary residence in order to run for re-election. And Dunn was with Daschle during the years he failed to pay gobs of taxes on a luxury car and driver provided to him by crony donor Leo Hindery, Jr.

After working as communications manger for Obama’s political action committee and then as senior adviser to his 2008 presidential campaign, Dunn “trained” White House press secretary and anti-Fox sniper Robert Gibbs. Deputy communications director Dan Pfeiffer is another young protégé of Dunn’s who worked with her on the disastrous 2004 Daschle re-election campaign.

(Another Daschle connection: Obama transition adviser John Podesta, who served as Daschle’s counselor and has helped staff the administration with many alumni of his left-wing think tank, the Center for American Progress. One CAP fellow, Hugo Chavez-admiring radical Mark Lloyd, has attacked conservative talk radio – second home of several Fox News hosts — and is now the FCC’s “Diversity Czar.”)

Dunn is married to Robert Bauer, a Washington, D.C. corporate lawyer who served as general counsel for Obama for America. It was Bauer who lobbied the Justice Department unsuccessfully last fall to pursue a criminal probe of American Issues Project (AIP), an independent group that sought to run an ad spotlighting Obama’s ties to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.

It was Bauer who attempted to sic the DOJ on GOP donor Harold Simmons and sought his prosecution for funding the ad. It was Bauer who tried to bully television stations across the country to compel them to pull the spot. All on Barack Obama’s behalf.

While conservatives revel in the Left’s hysteria over Fox News Channel’s dominance, more of Obama’s friends hope he’ll wipe his nose and man up. Fat chance. [b]As long as he’s surrounded by career flacks who demonize dissent to distract

There is something both petty and pathetic in watching the White House going on the warpath against FoxNews, with White House communications director Anita Dunn calling the network ”a wing of the Republican Party“. And this isn’t the first time she’s whined about FoxNews. Even the President has joined in the attacks.

Guess they’re upset they’re not getting the same fawning treatment from Fox they got from the rest of the news media.* And it does seem a strange use of the White House Communications Director’s time to lead an attack on a news network. I mean, I thought her job was to communicate the President’s message, not malign independent messengers.

But, then, maybe this White Hous...

There is something both petty and pathetic in watching the White House going on the warpath against FoxNews, with White House communications director Anita Dunn calling the network ”a wing of the Republican Party“. And this isn’t the first time she’s whined about FoxNews. Even the President has joined in the attacks.

Guess they’re upset they’re not getting the same fawning treatment from Fox they got from the rest of the news media.* And it does seem a strange use of the White House Communications Director’s time to lead an attack on a news network. I mean, I thought her job was to communicate the President’s message, not malign independent messengers.

But, then, maybe this White House does seem to need an enemy to vilify. You know how Obama did so well by running against Bush. (Hey, it does seem to have worked, he won election and even won a Nobel Peace Prize for not being that much maligned Texas Republican.)

I mean, by any normal stretch on the imagination, the White House’s assault is counterproductive and without merit. The treatment Obama gets from FoxNews is no worse, if not slightly better (indeed, I would say, in some cases, significantly better) than his predecessor got from the other networks. And then there’s that veneration he receives from the rest of the news media.

(Not just that, of the three major news network, FoxNews provided the most balanced coverage of last fall’s Presidential election and had the politically most diverse audience.)

Jennifer Rubin finds the Administration’s whining “comical.”