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HuffPost's Nico Pitney: Fox News Largely "A 24-Hour Campaign Against The Obama Administration" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post national editor Nico Pitney appeared on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday morning to debate the White House campaign against Fox News. Amanda Carpenter of The Washington Times argued that the Obama administration had made its fight with Fox News the story, forcing other networks to cover it. Pitney said that taking on Fox News was exactly the right thing...

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Pitney: Fox News Basically "A 24-Hour Campaign Against The Obama Administration"

Appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday Morning, Huffington Post national editor Nico Pitney debated the White House "campaign" against Fox News. Pitney said: "If the Republican National Committee had a television network, how would it be any different? And Fox admits it. [...] The senior vice-president of programming, say in an interview that...

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WH v. FNC: The Debate Continues

... debate continued this weekend on CNN's "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz . HuffPo's Nico Pitney , TWT 's Amanda Carpenter and Jane Hall , a former FNC contributor, joined Kurtz to hash out the topic further. Not surprisingly, Pitney said that taking on Fox News was the right thing to do. "If the Republican National Committee had a television network, how would...

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Laura Ingraham on 'This Week:' 'I Might Not be Invited Back George;' Calls Out Charlie Gibson over ACORN Awareness

... CNN's "Reliable Sources" discussed the issue as well. Huffington Post national editor Nico Pitney, declaring, "By and large, the network is a 24-hour campaign against the Obama administration." Pitney, like John Podesta on the "This Week" panel, used the talking point about Fox News SVP Bill Shine saying that Fox news is "the voice of the...

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VIDEO- Ex-Foxer: I was "uncomfortable with Beck" so I left.

... years, said, "Trust me, it is not Nixonian of them [the White House] to go after them." Nico Pitney summed it up well, when he said, "Fox News is the voice of the opposition...By and large, the network is a 24-hour campaign against the Obama administration."

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The Village and its Idiots

... fascists are walking among them. The whole thing reminds me of when Dana Milbank called HuffPo's Nico Pitney a "planted questioner" and a "dick", jealously upset that a new media outlet like HuffPo actually got a question in a live White House press conference. It's Villagers guarding their corridors of power, whether the people trying to come in is the HuffPo...

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Milbank on Grayson: 'A cult hero on the left'

Dana Milbank...real credible source, there. The male Maureen Dowd. Nico Pitney, in a pretty priceless takedown of this preening uber-villager, last June: "...and it's interesting that Dana, of all people, wrote this [typical smear-job, then of Huffington Post-er Pitney]...I mean this is a person, Dana, who, when HE had a chance to ask Obama a question, he approached him in the...

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Sunday guest list: Jane Hall talks to CNN about White House vs. Fox News; Joe Scarborough, Tavis Smiley on 'Meet the Press'

The "Reliable Sources" portion of looks at the running battle between the Obama administration and Fox News. Jane Hall, who has been a commentator on Fox News, weighs in. Joining the discussion are Nico Pitney of The Huffington Post and Amanda Carpenter of The Washington Times. You can catch them in the 10 a.m. hour of the four-hour program Sunday.

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Weekend TV Talk Shows: The White House vs. Fox News

... (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Reliable Sources The White House versus Fox News: Jane Hall, American University; Nico Pitney, the Huffington Post; Amanda Carpenter, the Washington Times. Media duped: Mark Feldstein, George Washington University; Sharon Waxman, TheWrap.com. (N) 7 a.m. CNN The Chris Matthews Show Dan Rather, HD Net; Helene Cooper, the New York Times; Andrew Sullivan, the Atlantic;...

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A thousand words

... capture the two of them in those moments. In contrast, I got this gallery of the UN reception from Nico Pitney at twitter. I found it to be, as Nico put it, bizarrely entrancing and an example of when being President must be really awful. Indeed I looked at about half of the 130 shots and was reminded my own excrutiating social rituals of that sort. This looked much worse....