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NEWS ABOUT: Anita Dunn

Anita Dunn stories: 9 news summaries
TURNOVER DEPT

 White House's 
 Fox News Foe 
 Stepping Down 

Communications director Anita Dunn leaving as planned

Nov 10, 09 2:11 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama’s communications director will cede her post to a deputy at the end of the month, Chris Cillizza has learned. Anita Dunn notably took on the Fox Network and accused it of being a Republican mouthpiece. Dunn, who said from the start she was taking the post on... More »

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White House • resignation • Obama administration • President Obama • Anita Dunn • Dan Pfeiffer • communications director • senior staff

feud? what feud?

 White House 
 Warns Dems 
 to Avoid Fox 

Strategist reports intimidating phone call after appearance

Nov 6, 09 4:50 PM CST
(Newser) - The Obama administration has toned down its war of words against Fox News, but behind the scenes, it's warning Democratic strategists not to appear on the network. One consultant who made a recent appearance says he received a call afterward from a White House official who told him, "We... More »

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White House • feud • Fox News • David Plouffe • television news • Anita Dunn • political consultant

OPINION

Beck's Silent Red Phone
Is 'a Hotline
to Nowhere'

Host's willful nonsense is the 'new ignorance'

Nov 4, 09 6:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Glenn Beck likes to say that the red phone on his desk is a direct line to the White House, but of course it's a hotline to nowhere, just like the Fox host's whole schtick. Beck complains piteously that White House libbers won't call to respond to his issues, Thomas... More »

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Fox News • Glenn Beck • right wingers • tea parties • Anita Dunn

 Fox Ratings 
 Soar After 
 Obama Tiff 

Conservative station still trounces cable news competitors

Oct 27, 09 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Maybe Roger Ailes is on Barack Obama’s Christmas list. His administration sure seems to have given Fox News a gift anyway; in the two weeks since Anita Dunn publicly slammed the network, its ratings are up 9% overall, and 14% among the all-important 25-to-54 demographic. Shepard Smith’s show... More »

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Fox News • Roger Ailes • Obama administration • Shepard Smith • cable news • Anita Dunn

analysis

 In Fight With Fox, 
 White House Can't Win 

Administration has 'brought a knife to a gunfight': David Carr

Oct 18, 09 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - By tackling Fox News head-on, the Obama administration has almost certainly bitten off more than it can chew, apparently prioritizing payback ahead of rising above the fray. "While there is undoubtedly a visceral thrill in finally setting out after your antagonists," media columnist David Carr writes for the... More »

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television • media • White House • feud • Fox News • television news • Obama administration • White House blog • Anita Dunn

worth crying over

White House Doesn't Take Glenn Beck 'Very Seriously'

Administration not sweating Fox host's campaign against Anita Dunn

Oct 16, 09 7:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fox talking head Glenn Beck has White House communications director Anita Dunn in his crosshairs, but the administration isn't exactly sweating. "I caught some of that from the Glenn Beck show yesterday, but I don't think anybody takes it—takes his attacks very seriously," the deputy White House... More »

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White House • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Mao Zedong • Obama administration • President Obama • Anita Dunn

White House-Fox Spat Now Involves ... Mao

In old video, communications director Anita Dunn calls Chinese leader a favorite

Oct 16, 09 2:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - That was quick. The White House sent communications director Anita Dunn after Fox over the weekend, and now an old video has surfaced—much to the delight of Glenn Beck and others—in which she calls Mao one of her "favorite political philosophers." In a speech to high... More »

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White House • Fox News • Michelle Malkin • Mother Teresa • Glenn Beck • Mao Zedong • Obama administration • conservative media • Van Jones • Anita Dunn

 Obama White House 
 Tells Fox to Take a Hike 

White House says it's finished pretending network is 'legitimate news'

Oct 12, 09 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fox News Channel has pulled record numbers of viewers this year as it's ratcheted up its fury at the Obama administration, and the president's team has had enough. The White House communications director, Anita Dunn, tells the New York Times that Fox is "undertaking a war against Barack Obama,... More »

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Barack Obama • Fox News • bias • right wingers • Obama administration • cable news • Anita Dunn

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 GOP to Obama: 
 Give McChrystal 
 His Troops 

McCain: Not granting request 'would be an error of historic proportions'

Oct 11, 09 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghanistan was the name of the game on the talk shows today, with John McCain pointedly warning President Obama on State of the Union that sending Gen. Stanley McChrystal anything less than the 40,000 troops he's requested "would be an error of historic proportions." Lindsey Graham chimed... More »

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Afghanistan • John McCain • Lindsey Graham • Stanley McChrystal • Fox News Sunday • Sunday morning talk shows • Anita Dunn

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