White House snubs Fox -- again

"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace says the White House continues to snub his show.

He said the White House was asked for someone to appear on his show Sunday to talk about the harsh administration rhetoric about Fox News, but the White House refused to book any aide on that subject -- or any others.

Wallace settled instead for a debate between former top Bush White House aide Karl Rove and former Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who said he spoke with the White House before appearing on the show to defend its strategy. McAuliffe said several times that Obama would come on Fox again.

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn opened a new front on the Democratic war with Fox News last week by calling it a "wing of the Republican Party."

"This is an administration that is getting very arrogant and slippery in its dealings with people and if you dare to oppose them, they will come hard at you and cut your legs off," Rove said.

"The administration is making a mistake for itself," Rove continued. "But more importantly, it is demeaning the office of the president by taking the president and moving him from a person who wants to be talking to everybody and communicating through every available channel the same, if you oppose me, you question me, if you are too tough on me, by gosh, me and my people are not going to come on, we are going to penalize you. That is just wrong, fundamentally wrong."

It should be noted that the Bush White House was also known for freezing out its critics in the media.

Carrie Budoff Brown is the editor of POLITICO Europe.