And whatever its intent, Dunn's inane admission that all-star mass murderer Mao Zedong was one of her "favorite political philosophers" (insert Hitler for Mao, a Bush administration figure for Dunn and stir) is a story worth hearing.
Hey, Mao was no dummy. That's probably why Dunn is employing the noted dictator's notion that one should "despise the enemy strategically but take him seriously tactically." In this case, it is precisely the legitimacy of the stories Fox News covers -- rather than the bias of the station -- that drives the administration to conflate news with opinion.
The public doesn't need to be reminded that Fox News Channel is a right-wing cable news network any more than it needs to hear that MSNBC is a left-wing network. We can handle all the opinions.
In reality, the symbiotic relationship between right and left continues. Good for Fox News. Good for Obama.
Even so, it doesn't change the fact that the nation's most dominant government entity -- an entity that allegedly represents all Americans -- is using tax dollars and its considerable influence to try to squash a privately owned news organization that disagrees with it.
In the sinister years of the former administration, this would have been referred to as chilling free speech. And if this administration can't handle one cable station's opposition, what does that tell the American people about its mettle on issues that matter?