After the Fox!
Well, well, well, just when the Obama administration released its dogs on Fox news (Down, Emanuel! Sit, Jarrett! Heel, Axelrod!), they were having an old-fashioned love-in with members of the media of whom they do approve:
It’s impossible to say definitively that the most transparent administration evah was playing only to its cheerleaders. Even so, while Gloria Borger isn’t particularly ideological as far as I know, there’s little question where Robinson, Dowd, and especially Ifill stand.
On Monday, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow were among several people who attended an off-the-record briefing with Pres. Obama at the White House. Sources tell us other attendees at the two-and-a-half hour chat included Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Gwen Ifill of PBS and Gloria Borger of CNN. Perhaps not surprisingly, no one from Fox News was in the room.
Two and a half hours. Remember, Olbermann complained three years ago when Bush dared waste 90 minutes of taxpayer money chatting up his own ideological allies in the Oval Office. As for Fox News being conspicuously omitted from the guest list, I e-mailed Jake Tapper to see if he’d gotten an invite despite his willingness to pursue stories broken by Fox. Turns out he wasn’t included in the briefing either. Fancy that.
Needless to say, The One’s entitled to talk to whomever he wants, but playing pattycake with MSNBC’s primetime stars does further raise the question of why Beck and Hannity are problematic “opinion” shows while Olbermann and Maddow aren’t.
Two and a half hours: do you suppose any US servicemen were killed in Afghanistan in that time he could have spent making up his mind on what to do over there?
Who do you think pleasured Obama best, by the way? My money’s on Olbermann. As a jock-sniffer of the first order, he’s familiar with the territory down there.
Buck O'Fama said,
October 21, 2009 @ 9:45 pm
>Who do you think pleasured Obama best, by the way? My money’s on
>Olbermann. As a jock-sniffer of the first order, he’s familiar with the territory
>down there.
I guess it’s because his scent is the highest form of patriotism… or something.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
October 22, 2009 @ 5:57 am
Wish I’d said that. I probably will.