Fox News gets front row-seat in WH briefing room

Awesome news:

The White House Correspondents Association voted unanimously Sunday afternoon to move Fox News to the front row of the White House briefing room.

The seating change was prompted by the resignation of veteran UPI reporter Helen Thomas.

According to Ed Henry, the senior White House correspondent for CNN and member of the WHCA board, the Associated Press will move to the front-row middle seat formerly occupied by Thomas.

Fox News will replace the AP in its former seat, also in the front row, and NPR, which lobbied for Thomas’ seat along with Fox and Bloomberg News, will take Fox’s former seat in the second row.

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Liberal groups had lobbied for NPR’s placement in the front row over Fox, which one petition called a “right-wing propaganda outlet.”

LOL. Even if we pretend for five seconds that Fox was indeed a “right wing propaganda outlet,” there’s no question that NPR is a “left wing propaganda outlet” of the highest order and, well, don’t we have enough left wing propaganda outlets in the WH press briefing room as it is …?

Just sayin’.

Anyway, congrats to Major Garrett and the Fox News correspondents’ team for a big victory. Being in the front row just makes you guys a lot harder for FibbsCo. to ignore now.

doanli says:

August 2, 2010 at 12:31 pm

HOORAY!!!!:d

RogerCfromSD says:

August 2, 2010 at 2:43 pm

Those liberal groups who protested this must be feeling very grumpy today.

Carlos says:

August 2, 2010 at 3:25 pm

When anyone politically to the right of Lenin is considered a right-wing radical, it’s not hard to understand why the MSM considers Fox a conservative outlet.

But that hardly makes it so in reality.

Are they more conservative in their coverage of political news? Generally, yes, but that’s kinda like saying measles is a better disease to have than ulcers. They both make you sick, and they can both kill you.

Steve Hussein Skubinna says:

August 3, 2010 at 6:28 am

It must be miserable being a progressive. They own the executive and legislative branches, they’ve shoved through about three quarters of their confiscatory, redistributive and statist agenda, and yet they are still so ridden with angst and fury.

Just the suggestion that not everyone loves them and their program sends them into a teeth gnashing rage. If the Journolist members got their wish to watch Rush Limbaugh die before them, they’ll still feel cheated that Ann Coulter wasn’t being gang raped as well.

Walk up to a leftist temporarily enjoying a moment of happiness and ask “Did you see Fox News this monring?” Watch the mood change instantly.

Dana says:

August 3, 2010 at 3:07 pm

Our esteemed hostess wrote:

Even if we pretend for five seconds that Fox was indeed a “right wing propaganda outlet,” there’s no question that NPR is a “left wing propaganda outlet” of the highest order

According to our friends on the left, NPR is fair and balanced. :)

Actually, they really do think that. Because what they hear on the mainstream media matches how they look at things, it doesn’t seem biased at all to them.