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Opinion: Obama communications director steps down -- another win for Fox News?

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First, Van Jones resigned as the Obama administration‘s green jobs czar after taking a pounding from Fox News’ Glenn Beck. The charge: Jones signed a petition seeking an inquiry into whether the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Now comes word that Anita Dunn, under fire from Beck for saying in a speech to high schoolers that Mao Tse-tung and Mother Teresa were two of her favorite political philosophers, is leaving her post as communications director.

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Dunn, handing over the reins to her assistant, Dan Pfeiffer, has led the White House charge against Fox, saying the network is not a news organization but essentially part of the Republican Party. She also said her remarks to the high school students were meant as irony.

Insiders insist Dunn is not a casualty of the Beck offensive, noting that she had never planned to stay in the role permanently, and will remain at the White House as a consultant.

Some bloggers have their doubts. Niall O’Dowd writes in Irish Central that Dunn’s departure is ‘a victory for Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly and Fox News.’

But Michelle Malkin thinks that the story is much ado about nothing. As she put it, ‘Don’t get excited: Anita Dunn is not being thrown under the bus.’

-- Johanna Neuman

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