September 29, 2010
— DrewM You'd think with all the time it takes to do such damage to the country, this administration wouldn't have time to play media critic. I guess they are good multi-taskers.
"If you're on the left, if you're somebody like Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow or one of the folks who helps to keep our government honest and pushes and prods to make sure that folks are true to progressive values, then [the president] thinks that those folks provide an invaluable service,” (Deputy Press Secretary Bill) Burton told reporters.
Contrast that to Obama's statement that Fox News has a "Point of view that... is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country"
It's rather unseemly that the White House is in the business of passing out gold stars to certain news organizations and lumps of coal to others. Of course this is nothing new for the Obama gang but it's not wearing any better with age or repetition.
There are only two instances I can really remember the Bush administration getting into it with specific news organizations. One was with NBC over the editing of an interview. In that case, the White House sent a letter to the network and in the other I think there was some back and forth with the NY Times over stories focusing on secret security programs. There may have been others (and I'm not talking about the normal granting of access type issues but public feuds) but I don't recall them.
The difference between this and the last administration (at least on this issue, there's obviously many more), Bush never called into question the legitimacy of either organization, just their judgment in very specific cases. I don't recall Bush saying CBS had an agenda in trying to swing the '04 election by broadcasting lies about his service in the Texas Air National Guard.
Obama however is a thin skinned whiner who simply can't rise above his training as a community organizer and Chicago pol to be President. If you want the big chair and all the vacation time that comes with it, that means you don't get to swing back every time someone takes a shot at you. You don't get to confer approval on the editorial direction of some news outlets and disapproval of others.
Well, obviously a President can do these things but in electing to do so, he once again demonstrates his unworthiness for the office.
Related: Media types are starting to get all worked up over the fact that FNC has a bunch of potential GOP presidential candidates on their payroll as commentators. I admit, it's a little hinkey for a news organization to have actual news-makers on the payroll but none of them are active candidates. Is that a bit of a charade? Sure and Fox (and the individuals) may or may not pay a price for that but as of now, none of the six people identified are candidates, so they are free to hire themselves out to Fox, just like supposed objective journalists are free to take money to go on Olbermann or Maddow's shows.
The real story is that journalists worried about FNC's roster of commentators don't seem to have much interest in the White House giving thumbs up/thumbs down to certain news organizations.
You have to be a fool or a liberal (no need to Venn diagram that one) to think FNC is more dangerous to the republic than an administration with an enemies list.
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Posted by: Have Blue at September 29, 2010 09:25 AM (mV+es)
Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2010 09:26 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Queef Olberman providing an invaluable service to Obama at September 29, 2010 09:27 AM (UOsvH)
Posted by: les grossman at September 29, 2010 09:27 AM (K/USr)
And Sarah Palin's kid did a shitty job on Dancing With The Stars last night.
Posted by: The White House Press Office at September 29, 2010 09:27 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Original Mikey at September 29, 2010 09:27 AM (dOatv)
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 29, 2010 09:28 AM (NwEKc)
Posted by: The MFM at September 29, 2010 09:29 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: alexthechick at September 29, 2010 09:29 AM (bQ5xy)
So keep it up, Team Obama. You're investing just as wisely in media as you do in business.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 29, 2010 09:32 AM (swuwV)
It started the day he was born to a Kenyan father.
Posted by: elspeth at September 29, 2010 09:32 AM (0AkWH)
Posted by: Drinky Crow at September 29, 2010 09:32 AM (mAm+G)
Mallamut at 11 - "Toeing" not "towing". The phrease comes from the procedure used to muster Royal Navy sailors in ranks during the old sailing days. Sailors were told to, "Toe the line", i.e. line up with their toes even to a particular seam in the wooden deck.
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Posted by: Have Blue at September 29, 2010 09:32 AM (mV+es)
Posted by: George Will at September 29, 2010 09:33 AM (0BXUB)
Just curious what will happen when Comcast takes over.
They might have to actually, you know, show a profit.
Posted by: CUS at September 29, 2010 09:33 AM (wOGfT)
Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2010 01:26 PM (FcR7P)
I figure that when Obama isn't fapping it in front of a full length mirror, he's fapping it to MSNBC drooling over him.
Posted by: ErikW at September 29, 2010 09:33 AM (eZ2Da)
Note what the Deputy Press Secretary has just admitted about President Obama. He's no longer even trying to pretend he's a "centrist" and a "uniter."
Posted by: stuiec at September 29, 2010 09:33 AM (fgCQL)
Posted by: Erik Larsen at September 29, 2010 09:34 AM (jbWs+)
then you're what we call "the enemy". Proof positive this is a war for the nation's survival.
Olbermann? Are you kidding me? Old Princeton Ag himself with the little, tiny peter?
And Madcow?
These people are fucking COMMUNISTS. THE ENEMY.
This isn't a Republic. It's a Clusterfuck.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 29, 2010 09:34 AM (5aa4z)
Posted by: Miss Mona Lisa Vito at September 29, 2010 09:34 AM (1bZ96)
Posted by: Roman Polanski (who else?) at September 29, 2010 09:34 AM (UOsvH)
Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2010 09:35 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Vic at September 29, 2010 09:35 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: CUS at September 29, 2010 09:36 AM (wOGfT)
Posted by: WalrusRex at September 29, 2010 09:37 AM (xxgag)
then [the president] thinks that those folks provide an invaluable service
Ya know, it's not exactly good that these people believe this.
What really scares me, though, is that they think it's a good idea to say it out loud.
Posted by: Mama AJ at September 29, 2010 09:37 AM (XdlcF)
Olbermann & Maddow keep them honest?
Yeah, look at the stuff they did on Coates' testimony to the malfeasance in the Department of Social Justice.
Posted by: generic commentor mode: on at September 29, 2010 09:37 AM (hBqOU)
Posted by: Vinny Gambini at September 29, 2010 09:37 AM (QKKT0)
Did anyone else think that was bullshit?
Posted by: Drinky Crow at September 29, 2010 09:38 AM (mAm+G)
Posted by: CUS at September 29, 2010 01:36 PM (wOGfT)
Can I get me a huntin' license 'round here?
Posted by: John F'n Kerry at September 29, 2010 09:38 AM (eZ2Da)
News services pushing for freedom, federalism, fiscal responsibility, "ItÂ’s a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive"
GOT IT!
Your a F*ing hard socialist/borderline communist.
Had a chance to read that book Hugo gave you? I'm sure you'll love it.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 29, 2010 09:38 AM (0q2P7)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 29, 2010 09:39 AM (eNxMU)
Obama is out there saying The GOP are liars.... And that we cannot go back to a time when we had a lower deficit, lower unemployment and lower taxes.
(the horror!)
Well -- Obama didn't say it like that, but the meaning is the same.
Yahoo News/AP giggle
Obama - you are the liar. Even during a war, our deficit was lower than it is today. Yet you keep claiming we couldn't afford any war. Meanwhile, you and your clowns in congress have ruined our future with your out of control addition to our national debt.
Obama's own voters don't understand -- where's the hope and change they were promised? They have no idea that ObamaCare is it.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 29, 2010 09:39 AM (0fzsA)
It's all about perception and optics. When you've got Hollywood choreographers managing your campaign appearances, it's obviously all a big "show" to engage the rubes.
Posted by: Pyrocles at September 29, 2010 09:40 AM (cv5Iw)
http://tinyurl.com/2bojw42
Caution: It goes to the HuffPo. Someone at the HuffPo found a nasty quote from Jon Stewart on the back of Beck's most recent book. Since they apparently have never looked at the back of one of Beck's books they didn't realize that Beck always put nasty quotes from people who hate him on his books. That's the joke: Liberals hate Glen Beck!
But the HuffPo person didn't get the joke and ran the story like "Stupid Glen Beck doesn't get the joke!" and all the comments are of the same variety.
Stupid Liberals don't get the joke! Check it out, the comments are hysterical.
Posted by: Beppo at September 29, 2010 09:40 AM (hsCKa)
Beck pretty much came right out with that yesterday on his 5:00PM EST show. Minimally paraphrased, he told Obama he should come out already and just tell everyone, openly, that he's a Socialist. Be a man about it all.
If you saw the blackboard list of CPUSA and all the related tentacles within and "surrogating" for Obama's circle, it's an undeniable fact. It's not if Obama is a socialist any more; it's how Marxist/Communist he is.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 29, 2010 09:41 AM (swuwV)
Obama said that he thought about joining the military, but there wasn't a war on, so his fierce war-fighting abilities were not needed?Posted by: Drinky Crow at September 29, 2010 01:38 PM (mAm+G)
I hadn't heard that one. Lanky McLadyshoulders a mean fighting machine?
My ass.
Posted by: ErikW at September 29, 2010 09:41 AM (eZ2Da)
Well, all it tells me is that Fox had the foresight and money to hire these guys before they were hired by someone else.
Riiiight. Like CNBC was going to hire a Newt.
Posted by: CUS at September 29, 2010 09:41 AM (wOGfT)
"Obama however is a thin skinned whiner who simply can't rise above his training as a community organizer agitator and Chicago pol to be President."
Fixed it.
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at September 29, 2010 09:42 AM (YVZlY)
AoSHQ Scrabble is cool, because you can play any five letters and call it a "hash tag."
Posted by: stuiec at September 29, 2010 09:44 AM (fgCQL)
oh cool I just a got an email from Boner
Is that how the cool kids are saying "I'll be in my bunk" these days?
Posted by: Mama AJ at September 29, 2010 09:45 AM (XdlcF)
Hey, what about us?
Posted by: White women with college degrees at September 29, 2010 09:46 AM (FJQB5)
Posted by: Steve S at September 29, 2010 09:46 AM (IfigT)
Posted by: Hutch at September 29, 2010 09:47 AM (thkYe)
Posted by: Vaginas Everywhere at September 29, 2010 09:48 AM (aOKEC)
Posted by: Boots at September 29, 2010 09:48 AM (06JTY)
Posted by: Get Out The Vote, Houston! at September 29, 2010 09:48 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 29, 2010 01:41 PM (swuwV)
Interesting that the Deputy Press Secretary let the mask slip for that one moment.
Posted by: stuiec at September 29, 2010 09:49 AM (fgCQL)
Posted by: Portia DeRossi at September 29, 2010 09:49 AM (0BXUB)
Like Elitot Spitzer's new show on CNN.
Are you a disgraced former-governor (hypocrite(D)) politician who got caught hiring hookers all while accusing your political adversaries of the same?
No problem. Have a talk show. On CNN.
It's all good.
"Spitzer had at least seven or eight liaisons with prostitutes from the agency over six months, and paid more than $15,000 for their services. Federal agents had him under surveillance twice in 2008. According to published reports, investigators believe Spitzer paid up to $80,000 for prostitutes over a period of several years — first while he was attorney general, and later as governor."
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 29, 2010 09:50 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: ErikW at September 29, 2010 09:50 AM (eZ2Da)
Posted by: Maddow and Olbermann at September 29, 2010 09:50 AM (jdyTs)
Posted by: President Jugears McStumblefuck at September 29, 2010 09:51 AM (9hSKh)
5 Does the Administration have anything better to do than analyze TV coverage of themselves all day?
There's something vain and kinda creepy about grown men spending that much time preening for the cameras and watching the reaction. That's something best left to those who want to be famous for being famous, ala the Hollywood clueless, not actual world leaders.
Posted by: Boots at September 29, 2010 09:51 AM (06JTY)
Old Princeton Ag
Or Cornell.
Yes, it's a neat trick that some New Yorkers and Cornellians know about. Cornell University is in the Ivy League, but, as with most universities, it comprises many different schools, including seven different undergraduate schools. Among those undergraduate schools is the the Ag School. What many may not know is that the Cornell Ag School is a New York state school, which means that its in-state tuition is much lower than in the Arts & Sciences, Engineering, and other undergraduate schools. So, Cornell Ag school grads get an Ivy League degree for the price of in-state State-University tuition. Q.E.D.
Posted by: Drinky Crow at September 29, 2010 09:51 AM (mAm+G)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 29, 2010 01:41 PM (swuwV)
Trying to rally the base for the November elections? Getting the die-hard progs to turn out and vote is their only hope...
Posted by: Pyrocles at September 29, 2010 09:51 AM (cv5Iw)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 29, 2010 09:52 AM (61b7k)
Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2010 09:52 AM (FcR7P)
I'd try that at my next Scrabble game, but I usually play my landlady and she'd probably raise my rent.
Posted by: Joanna at September 29, 2010 09:52 AM (HaYO4)
Posted by: John Galt at September 29, 2010 09:52 AM (F/4zf)
Posted by: robviously at September 29, 2010 09:53 AM (fKPuo)
Posted by: Joanna at September 29, 2010 09:54 AM (HaYO4)
Posted by: gomm at September 29, 2010 09:54 AM (73jUp)
Yep. Its obvious for those willing to look at the facts. Criminey.
Beck just keeps showing and telling and that jugeared prick just keeps whining.
Call the damn red phone and man up, prissy pants.
Posted by: Derak at September 29, 2010 09:54 AM (6RcfV)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 29, 2010 09:55 AM (jDhPF)
Posted by: Dan at September 29, 2010 09:57 AM (1jzSs)
Posted by: Crusty at September 29, 2010 09:57 AM (GvSpB)
Yes. It really is unsavory.
BTW, when interviewing the President, he likes his testicles cupped with the right hand, just so, as you bob your mouth slowly up and down on his penis.
Every 4th bob, stop and lick the shaft while looking straight into his eyes. That's how he likes it.
We'll put a memo out so everyone remembers.
Posted by: Left Wing Media at September 29, 2010 09:57 AM (fE6tn)
Posted by: FOX, growing its viewership daily at September 29, 2010 09:57 AM (gbCNS)
Can I get me a huntin' license 'round here?
Posted by: John F'n Kerry at September 29, 2010 01:38 PM (eZ2Da)
Understand something. People on the East Coast believe that west of the Alleghenys is Indian Country. Really. They are absolutely certain that we don't have plumbing.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 29, 2010 09:58 AM (5aa4z)
the horror which is Geraldo on the Fox payroll.
Bob Beckel sure tried to match him this week. I'm still ticked off about how he threatened Pam Geller.
Posted by: Mama AJ at September 29, 2010 09:59 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: Drinky Crow at September 29, 2010 09:59 AM (mAm+G)
Posted by: the Hair Club for Men at September 29, 2010 10:00 AM (6SGWt)
Mallamut - No offense but that one error is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. The phrase and its origin is part of what makes English such a great language.
The part about Grammar and Spelling Nazis was poking fun at myself for being such a prick as correcting someone elses usage.
Posted by: Have Blue at September 29, 2010 10:00 AM (mV+es)
Posted by: Rachel Maddow at September 29, 2010 01:59 PM (UOsvH)
I'm pretty sure a 'Rachel' would not go 'Fap fap fap fap fap'. What?
Oh my.
Posted by: CUS at September 29, 2010 10:01 AM (wOGfT)
So I suspect that the first case brought against a "deep pocket" employer that iusn't covered by the federal laws will go up court and this ruling will be overturned on those grounds.
Posted by: Vic at September 29, 2010 10:01 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: tertiary syphilis at September 29, 2010 10:02 AM (oLT/p)
Liberals are funny. They do whatever they accuse of their enemies. Hilarious.
I get spam e-mails from some chick that wants to shut down Fox News....which is her right, of course. But, if Fox just shouted inane banter and provocation of filthy right wingers, wouldn't it be exposed for broadcasting such idiocy? Why is this information so dangerous if it's so silly? It simply highlights the fact that liberals believe in certain rights when only they have them.
I mean, come on, no one takes the New Black Panthers seriously. Or Jackson. Or Sharpton. Or Grayson. Or Sheehan. If something is ridiculous, it will be treated accordingly. Look at Toonces.
Posted by: gator at September 29, 2010 10:04 AM (aOKEC)
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Posted by: Ed Schultz at September 29, 2010 10:12 AM (pfStM)
Until they need us, Robin.
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Posted by: Comrade Usage Fascist at September 29, 2010 10:13 AM (MTnNh)
If this administration is supposed to have moved beyond partisanship, I hate to see what they would be like if they were partisan.
Posted by: Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz at September 29, 2010 10:15 AM (Bs34i)
Posted by: Wikitorix at September 29, 2010 10:25 AM (0BezK)
"Obama Spokesman: Maddow And Olbermann"Provide An Invaluable Service"
Hey, Big O, that's pretty kinky. Don't want the details.
Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at September 29, 2010 10:38 AM (epBek)
Posted by: Obi-Won's Swabbed Knob at September 29, 2010 10:43 AM (UzjcV)
Posted by: salt water enemas at September 29, 2010 02:05 PM (oLT/p)
We insist on pointing out that we have nothing in common with those guys. Well, except for salt water ... but other than that, nothing!
Posted by: salt water taffy at September 29, 2010 10:46 AM (UzjcV)
Barry: If you kiss my ass and agree with me then you provide a valuable service. If you disagree with me. It's off to the gulags. Now where's my 9 iron?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 29, 2010 10:54 AM (1Jaio)
His take: I must impart wisdom to these unknowing so that they understand what's good and what's bad.
The voting class: This guy's so far off in the trees there's just no sense in paying any attention to what he says.
Posted by: JEM at September 29, 2010 11:08 AM (o+SC1)
Bill Burton clearly meant to say that the MSNBC pair provide an "evaluating service." They are the Antiques Roadshow of politics, you know. Keith and the fetching Ms. Maddow estimate the cost of political rhetoric and legislation and warning potential buyers.
Don't presume to argue with me. If I weren't always right, important interweb blogs wouldn't publicize my ponderous musings. Not everyone can be as brilliant a communicator as I.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be getting back to my big-deal important lifestyle full of cabernet sauvignon, krugerrands, and fawning admirers.
Posted by: David Weigel at September 29, 2010 11:25 AM (dUunI)
FIFY
Posted by: Reiver at September 29, 2010 11:46 AM (oBAOc)
I wonder how Juan Williams, Mara Liasson, Ellis Henican, Kirsten Powers, Judith Miller and all the other libs who regularly appear on Fox News regard this calumny leveled against the network?
How about lib hosts like Shemp Smith, Geraldo and Chris Wallace?
Posted by: effinayright at September 29, 2010 11:51 AM (jSs4d)
From now on I doesn't want anyone using words around me that I do not understand.
Posted by: Sam Gerard at September 29, 2010 12:39 PM (TcaE8)
They truly see themselves as working together for "the Cause."
Isn't that sweet, in a sort of Pravda/Politburo, Gulag/Pogrom, Soviet Purges and Comintern sort of way.
What I wouldn't give for an actual independent MFM.
Posted by: Merovign, Strong on His Mountain at September 29, 2010 01:20 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Wikitorix at September 29, 2010 02:25 PM (0BezK)
No, seriously, don't tell him.
Posted by: Merovign, Strong on His Mountain at September 29, 2010 01:21 PM (bxiXv)
"If you're on the left, if you're somebody like Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow or one of the folks who helps to keep our government honest and pushes and prods to make sure that folks are true to progressive values, "
OK. So can the rest of the MFM stop bitching about how they are not biased now? I mean, the White Fricking House just announced to the whole world they're not.
Ooopsie!
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