Truce?

I don't think I'd dignify the term "war" to describe the ObamaHouse's primal anti-Fox squeal of the past month - as I've noted several times, if they wanted to shut down FNC, they were much more direct (if blatantly illegal and unconstitutional) ways of doing so - so it's an even safer bet that words derivative of "war" aren't going to be on the worthy etymological menu.

But if you insist, I'd say that this particular Obamunist Waterloo landed a week ago, after which it was all over but the flimsy ass-covering spinning.  Which came today:

A senior Obama adviser says that, even though the West Wing has been roundly criticized by both adversaries and some allies for blasting Fox as an arm of the Republican Party and not a real news organization, administration insiders are pleased with how things stand.

The fuss has energized core Democrats who have wanted Obama and his advisers to get tough with Fox and other critics of the administration, the adviser says. And it has made the point that Fox is an outlier in the journalistic community, a notion that many liberals embrace…

One drawback, which even Obama aides concede, is that Fox is using the quarrel with the White House as a public-relations tool to stir up its own support among conservatives and to boost ratings. “They’re still at it,” says a senior Obama aide, who adds that White House officials don’t expect to fire another shot in the battle unless Fox strikes first.

Fox is "an outlier in the journalistic community" by virtue of actually BEING journalists and not Obama fellators.  Which explains a great deal of both the ratings goose Barry handed them and the fact that the support it boosted ranges far afield of just conservatives, if the tidal surge away from The One among independent voters is any indication.

Beats me what "the West Wing" has to be "pleased" about.  The aforementioned journalistic toe-suckers (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN) were compelled by their tantrum to circle the wagons around Fox as a news organization, which would seem to be the diametric opposite result of the one the ObamaHouse was pursuing.  It's difficult to see what additional "energization" it'd purchase with the fever swamps since (1) it's purely symbolic and (2) it backfired like one of Yosemite Sam's cannons.

But then, it isn't really a "truce" if the administration is throwing around warnings against Fox "not firing the next first shot," which is, of course, inevitable since Fox IS a news organization whose baseline mission includes covering and analyzing the Obamunists for another three years.  All of which makes this supposed PR armistice, from FNC's viewpoint, as irrelevant as the so-called "war" that preceded it.

UPDATE: But have no fear, Fifth Columnists everywhere: your god isn't giving up on his anti-Fox fatwa - he's just outsourcing it back to his loyalist footsoldiers, who could use the work long about now.