Anita Dunn: Fox

Anita Dunn is American political strategist. Explore interesting quotes on fox.

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“We're going to treat them [FOX News] the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don't need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

The New York Times interview, October 11, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12fox.html?pagewanted=1&ref=todayspaper

“What I think is fair to say about Fox — and certainly it’s the way we view it — is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party. They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.”

CNN interview, October 12, 2009. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/10/white_house_reveals_tactics_in.html

“The Mao quote is one I picked up from the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater from something I read in the late 1980s, so I hope I don't get my progressive friends mad at me. The use of the phrase 'favorite political philosophers' was intended as irony, but clearly the effort fell flat -- at least with a certain Fox commentator whose sense of irony may be missing.”

CNN interview, October 16, 2009. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/16/beck.dunn/index.html