Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director Says "Fox News An Outlet For GOP Propaganda" (VIDEO)

The White House's communications has charted a new course to push back hard against news stories that are either inaccurate or unflattering to the Obama Administration. That new strategy was in full force Sunday as communications director Anita Dunn gave a lengthy and scathing denunciation of Fox News, calling the cable outlet a vehicle for Republican Party propaganda and an ideological opponent of the president. Ouch.

Here are just a few choice gems from Dunn's appearance on CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz:

"If we went back a year ago to the fall of 2008, to the campaign, that was a time this country was in two wars that we had a financial collapse probably more significant than any financial collapse since the Great Depression. If you were a Fox News viewer in the fall election what you would have seen were that the biggest stories and the biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and a something called ACORN."

"The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it is not ideological... what I think is fair to say about Fox, and the way we view it, is that it is more of a wing of the Republican Party."

"Obviously [the President] will go on Fox because he engages with ideological opponents. He has done that before and he will do it again... when he goes on Fox he understands he is not going on it as a news network at this point. He is going on it to debate the opposition."

"[Fox is] widely viewed as a part of the Republican Party: take their talking points and put them on the air, take their opposition research and put it on the air. And that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news organization like CNN is." Source: Huffington Post

If the truth be told, it has been common knowledge that MSNBC is enamored with President Obama and have often been more sympathetic to his administration. MSNBC doesn't distort the news like Fox News and harbors a bunch of hatemongers such as Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and idiots such as Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy. Then there's the endless parade of bottom feeders such as Michelle Malkin, Dick Morris and others, that deliberately slant the issues to suit their misguided and often flawed analysis.

Parents of Students at Eagle Bay Elementary in Utah, Upset over 'I Pledge' Video

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Ofelia Wade, the principal at Eagle Bay Elementary in Farmington has apologized for showing a video on August 28, at an assembly that Gayle Ruzicka, president of conservative Utah Eagle Forum, has called "radical, leftist propaganda." The video opens with an image of President Barack Obama and part of a speech in which he says, "Let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." The video then features celebrities making pledges about how they will help the president and the world. That's what has riled some people.

Many pledges, such as supporting local food banks, miling more, and caring for the elderly are noncontroversial. But other pledges have caused a great deal of consternation -- "to never give anyone the finger when I'm driving again," "to sell my obnoxious car and buy a hybrid" and to advance stem cell research cross the line.

Chris Williams, Davis School District spokesman, said school principal Ofelia Wade and school PTA leaders decided to show the video as part of an assembly about the school's theme for the year, service. He said the PTA board chose the video and Wade did not see it before it was shown in the assembly. Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

Sorry, I don't believe anything that can be remotely considered as political should be shown in any of our schools and churches, no matter which party. I found some of the pledges to be utterly ridiculous -- "I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama," "I pledge allegiance to the funk, to the united funk of funkadelica," and pledges to not use plastic grocery bags and not flush the toilet after urinating. Come on people, parents have a role to play in teaching their children values, not a video.