If you Google the coinage "Richard Milhous Obama" you get a lot of hits. President Nixon was famous for, among other things, having a enemies list. President Obama seems to have no problem with a five o'clock shadow, but he does have his own enemies list.

The health insurer Humana got on it this way:

The government is investigating a major insurance company for allegedly trying to scare seniors with a mailer warning they could lose important benefits under health care legislation in Congress.

One might have thought that even an insurance company could send a letter expressing a particular political opinion without being investigated for that.

The health insurance industry as a whole is now on it for sponsoring a report arguing that the Baucus plan would lead to increased premiums for most Americans who now have health insurance. The Administration responded to the heinous act of doing a study by threatening punitive legislation.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is on it for, well, being the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Fox News, however, seems to be occupying the position of enemy number one. The White House has waged a public campaign against Fox. A number of Administration officials have openly declared that Fox News isn't a real news agency. The Administration also seems to be boycotting Fox. This is less serious than the sort of legislative threats and investigations that insurers have to worry about, but it is serious nonetheless.

Fox News is biased. Its straight news programming is clearly slanted in favor of conservative positions and Republicans in general. The Fox panels are usually stacked about three to one with conservative and liberal pundits respectively. Its opinion shows, with the likes of Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Shawn Hannity, are clearly conservative shows.

That said, Fox is no more biased than the major news networks. Consider that curing the recent election campaign the New York Times ran a piece suggesting that John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist. The piece was utterly without foundation, and the Times was duly embarrassed. But the Times couldn't be bothered to investigate credible, and as it turns out, true rumors about John Edward's love child. CNN recently fact checked a Saturday Night Live routine poking fun at President Obama, for which they were justly skewered by John Stewart. The fact is that all the major networks, along with the public networks, are biased in favor of Democrats and the Left.

I am a conservative, but I have long read more left-center periodicals than conservative ones. I know what the conservative ones are going to say, and I prefer to be challenged by the sensible left (the New Republic) and occasionally even the Twilight Zone left (Harpers). But when it comes to daily TV news, I watch Fox.

The reason is simply that Fox News is more reliable. When I compare Fox reporting with that of any TV news outlet, or news magazine, or newspaper, Fox usually presents more interesting information and more points of view. More importantly, I can't think of one major story that Fox missed but the other networks picked up on. I can think of several that would never have seen the light of day had not Fox gone after them.

That, of course, is why Fox is on the President's enemies list. With Fox around, he can't count on getting away with as much. Fox runs circles around other cable news networks, and speaks to a large portion of America, including a lot of independent voters. When the President boycotts Fox, he is writing off a lot of Americans. So much for his promise to be a uniter rather than a divider.