This is no surprise to anyone paying attention, but its remarkable to get this kind of frank admission.

"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.

"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.

"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it," Dunn said.

Anita Dunn is the White House Communications Director and was in the news most recently for calling Fox News "an arm of the Republican party" and "opinion journalism masquerading as news".

Hell of a way to elect a President, or any "representative" of the American people.

But its getting worse. The Obama administration has stopped providing administration officials to Fox News for its Sunday news shows after Chris Wallace had the temerity to "fact-check" (see if someone is lying) Tammy Duckworth, assistant-Secretary of the Department of Veteran Affairs.

"She criticized 'FOX News Sunday' last week for fact-checking -- fact-checking -- an administration official," Wallace said Sunday. "They didn't say that our fact-checking was wrong. They just said that we had dared to fact-check."

"Let's fact-check Anita Dunn, because last Sunday she said that Fox ignores Republican scandals, and she specifically mentioned the scandal involving Nevada senator John Ensign," Wallace added. "A number of Fox News shows have run stories about Senator Ensign. Anita Dunn's facts were just plain wrong."

Fox News senior vice president Michael Clemente said: "Surprisingly, the White House continues to declare war on a news organization instead of focusing on the critical issues that Americans are concerned about like jobs, health care and two wars. The door remains open and we welcome a discussion about the facts behind the issues."

Now they are openly calling on other news media organizations to "stop following" Fox News. When a network breaks news, other media networks follow the coverage. What the Obama administration is trying to do is get NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN to simply ignore Fox News and its stories, to pretend that it doesn't exist.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox."

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is "not a news organization."

"Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way," Axelrod counseled ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "We're not going to treat them that way."

The arrogance implicit in these requests is almost unbelievable except for the fact that you and I have seen the administration do this repeatedly as far back as the early days of the campaign. Can you imagine if a senior Bush administration had tried something like this? The comparisons to Hitler would have been deafening.

Of course, the left doesn't view its actions in terms of right or wrong because its intentions that matter, and since conservatives are EVIL, everything they do is automatically a case of ill-intent. By contrast, since everything the Democrats do is well-intended, we must construe all their actions, no matter how egregious, as necessary, good and right.

The left complains about the moral certainty of Evangelicals, but the reality is, they simply don't like the competition. They know what's best for you and you better like it or else...

If freedom is an American value, what can you say about this?

Addendum

Obama's call for unity consists of everyone with a differing view to be silenced.