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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) recently took to the Senate floor and compared President Obama's pushback against Fox News to Richard Nixon's paranoid "enemies list."

How crazy is that? While Lamar's speech has given Fox pundits hours of happy speculation and entertainment... that doesn't make it any less silly.

Obama’s team only made a few very mild attacks...all justified. Remember that Fox fired the first shot. Nixon took revenge on his enemies by directing federal prosecutors to investigate journalists, spy on them, dig through their tax returns and break into their psychiatrists' offices to steal medical records, etc.

While Nixon used the power of his office to try and destroy his adversaries, all Obama has done is point out a little bias...then said the WH would start treating Fox News more like an opponent and less like a news channel.

Look, Republicans have been complaining about "liberal media bias" since Nixon's time...even when there was little evidence of it.

Now it's Obama's turn...his administration is simply pointing out the obvious fact that Fox News is conservatively biased. That's hardly a "war"...even though one of the benefits of this strategy is putting the shrinking, weakened and more radical Republican party in the same corner with the guys who are slandering him.

The same Republican party who started out calling him the anti-Christ...then he was a secret Muslim supporter of Osama bin Laden...then they called him Hitler and Stalin in the same breath, then they said he wasn't an American...and Fox gave them all the air time they needed.

They must be running low on insults...they've gone from Hitler to Stalin to Nixon...

Murdoch's Fox News isn't broadcast journalism anymore than the National Inquirer is print journalism. Any thinking reasonable person can see that Fox has, at the very very least, a strong leaning toward Republicans.

A news channel helping to organize and promote political protests, where teabaggers and birthers yell about socialism and say the President is Hitler? Puh-lease! Murrow and Cronkite are spinning in their graves.

One thing for sure, Obama makes it very uncomfortable for true journalists -- because they either have to acknowledge Fox News' blatant bias, or deny it and sacrifice their own credibility. It's been interesting watching them.