President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, whose judgment has shown itself in her championing of Van Jones and other spectacular lost causes, here tries to explain to CNN why her administration is pursuing such a Chavezian vendetta against Fox News.

In language sure to annoy Jon Ham, she avers that “We’re going to speak truth to power.”

Ma’am, Mr. President, other statist lunatics in the Obama administration: YOU ARE THE POWER. What you have been objecting to these past few months is people speaking truth to you. And now your dictatorial bent has begun to alienate more and more members of the press (though not all of them, of course), former allies who see how you are treating their own colleagues and friends and beginning to realize the logical ends of your actions. Stew in it.