From Media Matters: By 10:45 a.m. ET on March 4, Internet gossip Matt Drudge posted the headline “ENEMIES LIST: WHITE HOUSE PLOTS LIMBAUGH COVERAGE” on his website. The article to which Drudge’s headline linked, posted March 4 on Politico, reported that “[t]op Democrats” were “depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House,” but did not use the term “enemies list.” Following Drudge’s headline, several media figures — including Limbaugh himself, CNN host Lou Dobbs, syndicated columnist Tony Blankley, and Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich — have advanced Drudge’s claim that Obama, like President Nixon, had an “enemies list,” or compared the Obama White House to the Nixon administration.

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