Two news events surfaced over the weekend signaling President Obama’s move to media censorship and control, targeting Fox News, and suggesting a further government attempt to steer reporters away from negative news.

The full court press on media censorship and control surfaced a week ago when White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said Fox News was operating as, “a wing of the Republican Party.”

The White House attack on Fox escalated this weekend when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said that other media outlets should not consider Fox News as a bonafide news network, suggesting other outlets should boycott Fox News.

Emanuel, appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” said,  “It’s (Fox) not a news organization so much as it has a perspective”

Axelrod told ABC’s “This Week”, “They’re not really a news station.  It’s not just their commentators, but a lot of their news programming if you watch, it’s really not news.  The bigger thing is that other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way.  We’re going to appear on their shows.  We’re going to participate, but understanding that they represent a point of view.”

The White House refused to appear on any Fox Sunday programs this past weekend.

In a video of an overseas event that took place earlier this year, but revealed this weekend, Dunn told a crowd that the Obama campaign press strategy leading up to his election, was on “making” the media cover what the campaign wanted and on exercising  absolute “control” over coverage.

During the video Dunn explained how they would feed the mainstream media nuggets of information, but then refer them to an Obama internet site if they wanted to develop the story further.  It was this way, she said, that they ‘controlled’ the message.

We can now connect the dots of Obama exerting media control during a presidential campaign, with the thesis of ‘my way or no way’ , and the media censorship or control under a Democracy.

It is obvious the White House wields little control over Fox and obviously was miffed over the relentless coverage of the ACORN scandal caught on video tape suggesting ways to avoid the law and the forced resignation of czar Van Jones, Obama’s special adviser for Green Jobs, because of his extreme views, course rhetoric and cavalier association with radical and repugnant sentiments.

POLITICO reported the following today quoting an un-named White House official:

“We’re doing what we think is important to make sure news is covered as fairly as possible,”  a White House official told POLITICO, noting how the recent ACORN scandal story started because Fox covered it ‘”breathlessly for weeks on end.”

“And then you had a couple days of breast-beating from The Washington Post and The New York Times about whether or not they were fast enough on the ACORN story,” the official said. “And it’s like:  Wait a second, guys.  Let’s make sure that we keep perspective on what are the most important stories, and what’s being driven by a network that has a perspective.  Being able to make that point has been important.”

This White House strategy for media censorship and control is directly from the playbook on community organizing, “Rules for Radicals” by Saul D. Alinsky.

Alinsky was a self-proclaimed radical and Marxist, whose teachings Obama closely followed during his community organizing days in Chicago.

The basic Alinsky organizing strategy dealt with the concerned enemy or target – in this case Fox – then assembling pre existing organizations – in this case other media – into a dense pack and to force them to do what the neighborhood wanted – in this case the White House.

There is no room in a Democracy for this heavy handed media censorship and control, as the White House is attempting along with many other Obama Chicago-like bullying tactics.  The test of time, the people and the press will prove-out this thesis.

As we have said before, it is a foolhardy communications’ strategy, for as Mark Twain said years ago, “Don’t get into fights with people that buy ink by the barrel.”