Before Fox News declared war on 'Obama phones,' Obama declared war on Fox News!

GOPUSA via OneNewsNow ^ | 15 May 2015 | Bill Bumpas 

A media watchdog was paying attention this week when President Obama singled out Fox News for influencing the debate over poverty.
The President forgot to point out how the liberal media has been framing the discussion for the last 50 years, says Rich Noyes with the Media Research Center.
The media could also improve its coverage, he says, by analyzing the massive federal spending to conduct the "War on Poverty" launched by Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
"So I think we can have a real debate about this without stigmatizing Fox News or others as being somehow anti-poor if they want to take a real critical look at the effectiveness of government spending," Noyes tells OneNewsNow.
Speaking on the subject of poverty Tuesday at Georgetown University, the President accused Fox News of portraying poor people as lazy who "just want a free Obama phone."
He said Fox's coverage is influencing political leaders, naming the Republican leaders in the House and Senate.
"If we're going to change how John Boehner and Mitch McConnell think," Obama said, "we're going to have to change how our body politics thinks, which means we're going to have to change how the media reports on these issues."
Fox News reported on the "Obama phones" in 2012, using a video that went viral of a black woman who told the camera, "Keep Obama as president. He gave us a phone."
The story highlighted troubles of a federal program called Lifeline, which helps poor Americans get federally subsidized phone service. But the story also quoted a Democratic U.S. senator criticizing the program after she received Lifeline mail telling her she was eligible.
The program cost taxpayers $1.6 billion in 2012 according to the story.
Obama has vilified the conservative 24-hour news channel since the beginning of his presidency.
"Over the weekend, White House communications director Anita Dunn announced the official beginning of the Obama administration's war with Fox News," New York Magazine declared on October 12, 2009, three years before the "Obama phone" story ran on the air.
Noyes says the liberal media could use its influence to expose welfare fraud and waste -the main topic of the Lifeline story from 2012.
"They can change their coverage by digging into that side of the story a little more intensively then they have," he says. "And I think that might change perhaps the way politicians like Barak Obama think about poverty."