(Charles Krauthammer via NRO):
"On the White House attacking Fox News:
"This is a president who got so used to the hagiographic, enthralled coverage that he had last year that he can't stand a network that, in the words of one analyst, is "insufficiently obsequious."
"We don't have anchors here at Fox who get a thrill up their leg in the middle of an Obama speech. I don't recall it ever having happened, at least while I was on the set.
"The problem for the administration is I'm not sure how smart it is to attack Fox. There are a lot of independents the president has lost in public opinion. A lot of independents watch Fox and they know, as the average American knows, that there is a difference between the A-section and the editorials, between opinion shows and news shows like this one.
"One example is that I think this show is incredibly scrupulous and analytic in looking at health-care reform. Your correspondents, like Jim Angle, have gone so far out into the weeds that we needed search-and-rescue to get him home alive.
"So the administration is an administration that is losing confidence in itself and does not like opposition.
"You know, last year — in the Bush years — dissent was the highest form of patriotism. And now it is a form of sedition."
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