….when he can’t come to terms with an American media outlet?

This is beneath the dignity of the office of the presidency, this sniping affair with Fox News. Obama started criticizing that network by name in his campaign last year, complaining about their coverage of him and marginalizing their reporters. He recently did televised interviews with five networks and went on the late night comedy show with David Letterman. But he scorned Fox, and now his director of communications is criticizing the network more vociferously.

Oddly, Obama actually shares an identity issue with Fox. Just as he’s keenly known and appreciated by the majority who elected him for not being Bush, Fox is well known and appreciated by the audience that made the network ‘number one’ as not being….the monolith of all the other networks that adore Obama.

Naming Fox as an adversary and lobbing criticisms of them is a disquieting reminder of the Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals Obama was trained in as a community organizer.

“For example, his rule 12 is “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

But when you’re president of the United States, you also give that target considerable attention and gravitas. As that NRO Media Blog points out…

“Fox’s programs have drawn record numbers of viewers this year.” Many of whom are independents and liberals. President Obama might reconsider, and actually dialogue with them.