We Knew That: FOIA Documents Show Obama WH Declared Jihad On Fox News, Trashed 1st Amendment Right To Free Press

That 1st amendment to the US Constitution that enshrines freedom of the press in law? It means as much to our community organizer-in-chief as the rest of the US Constitution - not worth the paper it's printed on. Via memeorandum: Documents Show Obama White House Attacked, Excluded Fox News Channel. I'll cut to the money quote at the end of the piece:

The Obama administration seems to have lied about its attempt to exclude Fox News Channel from access to an interview with the ‘pay czar.’ These documents show there is a pervasive anti-Fox bias in the Obama White House,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The juvenile Mafioso-talk in these emails has no place in any White House. For the Obama administration to purposely exclude a major news organization from access to information has troubling First Amendment implications.”
A picture is worth 1,000 words:
Just one example of Obama's jihad against the news org: Emails reveal White House calling Fox News host Baier ‘a lunatic’
Back in 2009, the feud between the Fox News Channel and President Barack Obama’s administration reached its height. Then-White House Communications Director Anita Dunn publicly attacked the network on CNN, and former Fox News host Glenn Beck spearheaded an effort that resulted in the resignation of White House “green jobs czar” Van Jones.

That dust-up led to White House rumblings about excluding Fox News from the official press pool, a notion from which the Obama administration promptly backed away.

But in the lead-up, White House officials had some choice words for “Special Report” host Bret Baier. According to a press release, emails obtained by the the watchdog group Judicial Watch reveal that then-Deputy White House Communications Director Jennifer Psaki threatened to put dead fish in “the fox cubby,” and also called Baier a “lunatic”: ...
This is how a regime operates, not an administration. More from Sister Toldjah, Hot Air, Mediaite, Doug Ross, YID With LID, Weasel Zippers, Verum Serum, Big Journalism, Gateway Pundit, Pajamas Media and The Lonely Conservative 

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