Since the Obama administration began accusing Fox News of being “a wing of the Republican Party,” the war of words has intensified.

The latest counterattack from Fox’s defenders is the claim that the White House is putting Fox on a Nixon-like enemies list, a list which Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) describes as also including the insurance companies and the US Chamber of Commerce.

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Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), however, believes that an enemies list is exactly where Fox belongs.

“Fox News and their Republican collaborators are the enemy of America,” Grayson told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz on Wednesday. “They’re the enemy of anybody who cares about health care in this country, the enemy of anybody who cares about educating their children, the enemy of anybody who wants energy independence or anything good for this country. And certainly the enemy of peace, there’s no doubt about that. They are the enemy.”

Grayson thinks that the White House is doing exactly the right thing in going after Fox, because “what you do with a bully is you confront the bully and the bully backs down.”

“That’s a good description of Fox News,” Grayson explained. “People come on the air, they insult them as they did me. … Why would anybody think that Fox News is some sort of valid news organization?”

Grayson did not go any easier on the Republican Party than on Fox. “The Republicans operate simply by vilifying their enemies and nothing else,” he told Schultz. “All they do is try to distract people from issues of health care, issues of jobs, issues of energy independence. They’ve got nothing. … The Party of No is well on its way to becoming the party of nobody.”

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Liberal sites like Daily Kos have been predictably enthusiastic about Grayson’s remarks, while conservative bloggers have just as predictably attacked him as “off his meds.” In a post mockingly titled, “Alan Grayson: Fox News, GOP are the enemies of America, peace, puppies,” Allahpundit described Grayson as a “grandstanding idiot” who’s “relishing his role as the left’s new golden boy / attack dog.”

This video is from MSNBC’s The Ed Show, broadcast Oct. 21, 2009.





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