Daniel Greenfield: The White House Takes a Chokehold on the Media

"Even as the White House preaches tolerance toward Muslims and Sikhs, it is practicing intolerance, signaling that anyone who challenges the leaders of an embattled America is cynical, political and—isn’t this the subtext?—unpatriotic… We should dread a climate where the jobs of columnists and comedians are endangered by dissent."—Maureen Dowd, New York Times, September 30, 2001