Barack Obama formed a talented team of savvy professionals that effectively used the modern day media and internet to get him elected President. Those same modern day tools that helped put him in office now serve as weapons against him. As a result, the White House has recently declared war against the leading sword bearer, Fox News Channel (FNC).

The Obama Administration’s electronic domestic enemies stem from an era of twenty-four hour opinionated cable news, right wing radio, and conservative political bloggers. There is also no shortage of foreign policy, political, and economic pseudo-pundits who moonlight as teachers, firefighters, nurses, and plumbers. They have the ability to communicate to the world and attack the President using Twitter, Facebook, and personal blogs.

FNC is now leading this electronic assault against the White House under a right wing camouflaged vail. Their tough journalistic style is different from their counterparts at MSNBC and CNN in glaring ways. They have shiny studios and fancy hosts like their counterparts, but FNC has obviously calculated that the ratings sweet spot for them is to cater to the politics of the right. Glenn Beck declared that the President has a “deep seeded hatred for white people” for daring to weigh in on the Professor Skip Gates and Officer James Crowley incident. FNC not only helped to organize the Tea Party Protests, but also blatantly promoted them. There are zero liberal opinion journalists at FNC to balance out the conservative rhetoric of Hannity and O’Reilly. What happened to Alan Colmes?

Because of FNC hyper-biased reporting, the White House has declared them to be a wing of the Republican Party. FNC has an insatiable appetite for attacking the President, his policies, and those who work for him. This is the same network that opposed few if any political decisions made by the Bush Administration.

The declaration of war against FNC was a necessary means of survival, and not a way to thwart criticism. No such declaration was made against MSNBC or CNN who also have those who criticize the Obama Administration daily.

The results of the White House punching back at Fox News remains to be seen, but it will at least show them that the Obama Administration will not be electronically swift-boated without a