OBAMARAMA

File this story under “K” for “Kicking Ass and Taking Names:”

[T]he Obama camp has “frozen out” Fox News reporters and producers in the wake of the network’s major screw-up in running with the erroneous Obama-the-jihadist story reported by Insight magazine.“I’m still in the freezer,” one Fox journalist said, noting that the people at Fox “suffering the most did nothing wrong.”

…Since the madrassah incident, Obama has given interviews to ABC, CNN, CBS and NBC — pretty much every other network except Fox. Sources close to Obama acknowledged that they’re not thrilled to play ball with Fox journalists, but they stopped short of saying they are freezing the network out.

While it undoubtedly can’t last for ever, the silent treatment of FOX News by a major presidential candidate like Sen. Obama sends a much needed message. There’s reason to believe it is being received, too, as FOX News CEO Roger Ailes has reportedly spoken to Sen. Obama twice on the phone. No word on whether or not he apologized — though, for what it’s worth, the incident seems to have sparked a change of policy at the network:

John Moody, vice president for news at Fox, issued this missive to staff in his daily editorial note on Jan. 23: “For the record: seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC. The urgent queue is our way of communicating information that is air-worthy. Please adhere to this.”