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Media Honeymoon Over for White House?

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    FBN’s Lou Dobbs on the mainstream media’s treatment of the White House.

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Well tonight this is sort of a congratulations.

To the to the members of the mainstream liberal media.

I've been wanting to do this for a long time and compliment you when you finally start pushing back against the Obama administration.

I mean let's be state you've been taken for granted aperture.

Or -- it seems was for a left leaning legendary journalist like Bob Woodward to disclose.

The White House economics advisor Gene Sperling -- warned him he might quote really -- his reporting on the sequester.

Thanks to of that democratic attorney Lanny Davis in the national journal's -- form here.

-- coming forward -- -- forecasts.

Of White House bullying and threats.

We can count are you -- at least seven.

Other seven other threats.

By this administration.

The -- the White House just can't help it's a -- And the lap dog media -- can't call a lap dog media anymore because there's -- show independents and really.

Want to return to the responsibilities.

As members of the fourth estate.

With those old lap -- media members stayed away from.

And here are some of the examples of what has happened with this White House and they started out early with my -- of my favorite outfit box of course.

In October of 2009.

October of 2009.

Right off the bat.

The president trying to boycott Fox News from around of interviews with pay czar Kenneth Feinberg your member -- The backlash their eventually led to a reversal by the Obama white -- in April.

April of 2010.

There the White House that are correspondent for Bloomberg and then president the White House associate our correspondents association Ed Chan.

-- asked for a meeting within press secretary Robert Gibbs to improve relations.

According to chin in his ten plus years at the White House.

Rarely have -- -- such a level of anger over White House practices and attitude.

Toward the perhaps in April.

In April of 2011.

I mean this thing goes back a ways to us.

A -- for Cisco chronicle reporters at a White House threatened -- banned her from participating in the White House pool because she used herself -- and record people have port.

A -- that having that familiarity.

To heckled President Obama.

In October.

October of that same year.

I mean this thing goes on and -- CBS reporter -- acts and one of the best reporters in the business.

Had this to say about White House spokesman Eric Schultz I quote the guy from the white house on Friday night literally screamed at me and constant me.

That response triggered by -- -- reporting.

And efforts to get answers on the government's fast and furious operation.

Which has resulted.

In -- contempt of congress citation that's still stands against attorney general Eric Holder.

Is it any wonder that a new Rasmussen poll finds just.

6%.

6%.

Say.

That the news media is structural.

And what about rating.

After NBC decided to drop all pretense.

And -- police step out as they've liberal media operation.

I mean their brand is now would insinuated.

With the left -- And it looks like NBC's beginning to pay a price or cost -- assets and that.

Dropping to get.

NBC.

Dropped to fifth.

In the February sweeps period behind Univision.

Now is that because of the blatant politics that have infiltrated the the network and insinuated itself into the brand.

We will see in the months ahead whether that in fact is the case.

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