Glenn Beck is still waiting today for a call from Anita Dunn, White House communications director, via a specially-installed, red hot-line phone to his Fox News studio, observes Grumpy Editor.
Beck has an assistant, Joe, standing by (and sometimes seen on camera), ready to pick up the phone.
All this week Beck has encouraged the White House --- even sending a registered letter reminding Dunn of the “secret” phone number --- in efforts to get the administration on air to comment on what it terms Fox “mistakes” and cite “what’s not true.”
With all this going on, Beck showed a video clip of President Barack Obama, after the Senate finance committee’s vote on Tuesday in connection with the health care measure, declaring it “won’t add a penny to the deficit.”
Latest figure on health care costs over the next 10 years: $829 billion.
“The White House can call and comment on anything on this program,” Beck explained. “I would like a serious conversation with the White House.”
Dunn, who arrived at the White House five months ago and is married to the president’s personal lawyer, has been complaining much about Fox News lately.
Last week, to Time magazine, she described Fox News as “opinion journalism masquerading as news.”
Then on Sunday she said Fox News “acts as the communications arm of the Republican Party.”
That charge was compounded when White House press secretary Robert Gibbs at Tuesday’s briefing declared he found many Fox stories “not to be true.”
So during the week, Beck --- with reminders at intervals during his hour-long daily program --- has been urging Dunn to dial his studio (via the secret number known only to Beck and her office) to point out what’s not true.
So far, the red hot-line phone has been silent.
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