Politico: No Conflict for MSNBC Host To Marry Exec. Dir. of Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move'

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

To imitate the inimitable James Taranto: HA HA HA HA. Politico has cleared MSNBC host Alex Wagner of any conflict of interest stemming from her impending marriage to Sam Kaas, the Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let’s Move!" initiative.

According to Politico's Dylan Byers [emphasis added], "We won't call this a conflict of interest because who doesn't love a man who can cook, and really, the White House Chef and Let's Move! role is arguably rather apolitical. Many a White House chef has served multiple administrations from either side of the spectrum." Uh, yeah, but Kaas is a former White House chef. He now works directly for the First Lady on her signature initiative. Is there anyone out there naive enough to believe that Wagner won't be even less apt than previously to criticize anything relating to her husband's boss—or her husband's boss's husband?

More here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

The Politico reporter who cleared Alex Wagner of conflict of interest attended Bard College. A place so liberal it has a chaired professorship honoring Commie spy Alger Hiss! Ping to Today show list.

[Izzy Dunne]

And we all know that POLITICO is the arbiter of what’s right and good.

[Pollster1]

Why would anyone think there was a conflict? MSNBC and Let’s Move have the same mission. There has never even been friction, let alone an actual conflict, between the official and unofficial branches of Obama’s massive political machine.

[lbryce]

Conflict is reserved for conservatives/Republicans.

[popdonnelly]

Why would you want to keep two partisan members of the same party apart?

[Tupelo]

Whew. I am certainly relieved to know there is no conflict of interest with at lest one of the MSNBC hostesses. I may have missed it, but did Politico mentioned if this was just Alex Wagner they cleared or did they also clear all of the MSNBC hosts and hostesses

[Paine in the Neck]

More bolshevik nomenclatura living the high life at our expense.

[Venturer]

If it was any other faux news service other than MSNBC I might see a conflict, but MSNBC is a Democrat National Committee function anyway. What difference can it make to them. They are not a legitimate news source.

I see no conflict with MSNBC’s message.

[Amagi]

There is the revolving door of at least 21 former journalists who have transitioned into official Obama Administration gigs.

Then there is this listing of some of the other Obama-Officials/Media romantic or familial ties:
Washington Post: Family Relations Between Media, Obama Officials Does Not Affect Coverage

• ABC News President Ben Sherwood, who is the brother of Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a top national-security adviser to President Obama.
• His counterpart at CBS, news division president David Rhodes, is the brother of Benjamin Rhodes, a key foreign-policy specialist.
• CNN’s deputy Washington bureau chief, Virginia Moseley, is married to Tom Nides, who until earlier this year was deputy secretary of state under Hillary Rodham Clinton.
• White House press secretary Jay Carney’s wife is Claire Shipman, a veteran reporter for ABC.
• NPR’s White House correspondent, Ari Shapiro, is married to a lawyer, Michael Gottlieb, who joined the White House counsel’s office in April.
• The Post’s Justice Department reporter, Sari Horwitz, is married to William B. Schultz, the general counsel of the Department of Human Services.
• [VP] Biden’s current communications director, Shailagh Murray (a former Post congressional reporter), is married to Neil King, one of the Wall Street Journal’s top political reporters.

... to which we can now add MSNBC host Alex Wagner and her impending marriage to Sam Kaas, the Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let’s Move!" initiative.

The Lame Stream Media has two objectives:

• Maintain the ignorance of the Obama electorate.
• Queue up to lick the crap from Obama's boots each time he steps in it.

[bray]

Isn’t Marxism wonderful?

Pray America is waking up

[ken5050]

We should at least be grateful that it's a heterosexual mariage

[TheGipperWasRight]

There really isn’t a conflict because MSNBC is in the bag for Obama, anyway. Michelle Obama wouldn’t be criticized by MSNBC if this marriage took place or not. MSNBC is a collection of socialists, idiots, race-pimps, gays, and misfits.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Why would anyone think there was a conflict? MSNBC and Let’s Move have the same mission.

Precisely what I was thinking.