{"id":2667753,"date":"2026-09-22T18:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-obama-walks-into-own-trap-trashes-trump-wh-for-booting-cnn-then-video-of-his-wh-booting-fox-hits\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T18:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:27:55","slug":"watch-obama-walks-into-own-trap-trashes-trump-wh-for-booting-cnn-then-video-of-his-wh-booting-fox-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-obama-walks-into-own-trap-trashes-trump-wh-for-booting-cnn-then-video-of-his-wh-booting-fox-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Obama Walks Into Own Trap, Trashes Trump WH for Booting CNN, Then Video of His WH Booting Fox Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-obama-walks-into-own-trap-trashes-trump-wh-for-booting-cnn-then-video-of-his-wh-booting-fox-hits%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2667753&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided content contains a mix of HTML code, scripts, and text snippets discussing various topics. The main points include a critique of media treatment during the Obama and Trump administrations, highlighting alleged bias and censorship issues. It references Obama&#8217;s history of excluding certain news outlets like Fox news from press access and contrasts this with his and other liberal outlets&#8217; lack of criticism toward his actions. The content also discusses President Trump&#8217;s approach to the press, including his decision to exclude certain outlets and his labeling of some as &#8220;fake news,&#8221; emphasizing perceived hypocrisy in these actions. the text examines media fairness, government influence over the press, and political double standards.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.<\/p>\n<p>The hypocrisy of President Obama condemning President Trump from excluding certain members of the press is almost laughable.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, our 44th president sat before students at Colgate University in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CYhJPO5__Kc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wide-ranging discussion<\/a> about AI, democracy, and Trump\u2019s recent eviction of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, \u2018You know what, Fox News? Get out of here.&#8217;\u201d Obama said. \u201cIt\u2019s unimaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No it\u2019s not. In fact, it happened in the first year Obama was in the White House.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Look what I found.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2009, David Axelrod, senior adviser to the Obama administration, argued on ABC News that Fox News was not a \u201creal news organization.\u201d The Obama White House later excluded Fox News from a pool interview with Treasury official Kenneth Feinberg and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JJDbsqcMFe\">pic.twitter.com\/JJDbsqcMFe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I Meme Therefore I Am \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ImMeme0) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ImMeme0\/status\/2101664776996757653?\">September 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In an Oct. 18, 2009, episode of the ABC News Sunday show \u201cThis Week,\u201d Obama senior adviser David Axelrod argued that Fox News wasn\u2019t a real news organization and that it shouldn\u2019t be treated that way, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2009\/10\/fox-not-really-news-says-axelrod-028417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> reported at the time. Following that interview, the Obama White House attempted to keep Fox out of a round-robin interview with a top Treasury official in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>The administration suggested that the incident was all just an accident, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/files\/documents\/2011\/treasury-foxnews-docs.pdf#page=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">s uncovered in 2011<\/a> by the conservative group Judicial Watch revealed that the attempted exclusion was quite intentional.<\/p>\n<p>In an Oct. 22, 2009,  regarding a White House pool interview with the Treasury official, Dag Vega, then the director of broadcast media for the Obama White House, wrote Jenni LeCompte, then-assistant secretary for public affairs at the Treasury Department with a very specific request:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me know which cables you add \u2026 and, we\u2019d prefer if you\u2019d skip Fox please,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s couched politely enough, but it\u2019s a direct White House directive to leave Fox out of an important news event.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/administration-loses-bid-to-exclude-fox-news-from-pay-czar-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reported on Oct. 23, 2009, the attempt failed, thanks to other networks rallying around Fox.<\/p>\n<p>In the hours and days that followed, the Obama communications team spent a good deal of time and effort attempting to deny it had tried to exclude Fox in that specific incident, but as one  that Judicial Watch turned up showed, in the process it basically proved that the White House not only was willing to take that kind of action against Fox, but that it had done so.<\/p>\n<p>In the , Josh Earnest, then-deputy White House press secretary, essentially bragged about the White House\u2019s power to hurt a network it didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have demonstrated our ability and willingness to exclude Fox News from significant interviews \u2013 but yesterday, we didn\u2019t,\u201d Earnest wrote in the Oct. 23, 2009, .<\/p>\n<p>For Earnest, that might have counted as a denial. For a normal person, it\u2019s a damning confession that the Obama White House had no qualms about taking action against a media outlet it disapproved of.<\/p>\n<p>Fox, however, was not the only target of exclusion during Obama\u2019s presidency. His administration consistently restricted the access of <em>all<\/em> members of the press. Oftentimes, the only photographs given to the public were those taken and approved by White House staff \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/22\/us\/politics\/photographers-protest-white-house-restrictions.html\">not independent photographers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist and political commentator Amy Holmes argued in a 2013 CNN roundtable that these news releases from the White House were starting to \u201csmack of propaganda.\u201d She concluded that \u201cfinally, it seems possible that the media love affair with this administration might be over and they\u2019re no longer willing to be lapdogs taking predigested tidbits.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MUST WATCH. With all the gaslighting going on about Obama and his supposed transparency with the press, this is the a great reminder of the truth.<\/p>\n<p>2013. CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter does a segment on the growing frustration of the press over not being given access to Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter\u2019s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8tUFpwDuKO\">pic.twitter.com\/8tUFpwDuKO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MAZE (@mazemoore) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mazemoore\/status\/2101727950139699219?\">September 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is possible that media outlets were becoming disillusioned with the controlling behavior of the White House, but even after 38 major news organizations sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-white-house-photographers-20131127-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint letter of protest<\/a>, the Obama administration ignored their concerns and continued with the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his avoidance of reporters, limits of non-approved photography, and exclusion of content-based journalists, not one liberal news outlet accused Obama of being a fascist. They never described him as authoritarian or censorious, \u201can enemy to a free press,\u201d or an \u201cexistential threat to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump on the other hand, has received all of these epithets, even though according to CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins, he is such an \u201caccessible president.\u201d In fact, in May, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-press-journalists-100-days-ba1277f580d45605386abf4e4e33a221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a> reported on a study that showed that Trump had spoken to journalists more in his first 100 days in office than all previous presidents, including Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you agree with Trump\u2019s decision to remove CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press pool, it\u2019s easy to understand why he calls them \u201cfake news.\u201d The hypocrisy is clear.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of hypocrisy, it is well to remember that Obama has been using this blame tactic for years now. He\u2019ll constantly accuse Trump of a crime of which he is equally guilty (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/23\/us\/politics\/shift-on-executive-powers-let-obama-bypass-congress.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use of executive orders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/smart-justice\/president-obama-wants-continue-imprisoning-immigrant-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strict immigration enforcement<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/commentary\/top-10-ways-obama-violated-constitution-during-presidency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenging constitutional norms<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration might be history, but its ridiculous double standards will never pass away.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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