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Were Those Obama's SOTU Writers, Or the Oscar Nominees?
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/20/2015 8:45:57 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Tuning into the middle of a Morning Joe segment today, at first I assumed that MSNBC's Ari Melber was chatting with the Oscar nominees. But no, turns out Melber had scored interviews with President Obama's SOTU speechwriting team. You'll excuse my confusion. As you'll see, just like the Oscar hopefuls, the SOTU writers appeared to be a panorama of people of pallor.

Melber had been given special behind-the-scenes White House access this past Friday night to do his piece. As the cameras roamed around, a couple of presumably relatively junior African-American staffers could be seen. But the senior folks, those out front and with whom Melber actually spoke, were, well, "driven snow" comes to mind. And turns out Obama's head speechwriter, Cody Keenan, is a . . . Sigma Chi frat guy.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: msnbc; obamaspeechwriters; politicalcorrectness; sotu

1 posted on 01/20/2015 8:45:57 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Paging Al Sharpton! Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 01/20/2015 8:46:45 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

ahaha PEOPLE of PALOR UNITE!!!


3 posted on 01/20/2015 8:47:05 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I remember when Presidents used to write their own speeches. Now it takes five or more staffers to do it?


4 posted on 01/20/2015 8:47:30 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler

I guess that they need to have people employed, not neccessarily on a balanced budget, but hey, they’re the feds, they are above everyone else’s morals.


5 posted on 01/20/2015 8:51:32 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You could clear that room with: “There’s a Prius outside with the lights on.”


6 posted on 01/20/2015 8:51:48 AM PST by Dagnabitt
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To: Dagnabitt

LOL: post ‘o the day!


7 posted on 01/20/2015 8:52:14 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Trying to wrap up the Soccer Mom vote.


8 posted on 01/20/2015 8:56:25 AM PST by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"The White House needed a pirate, and it turned to speechwriter Cody Keenan."

9 posted on 01/20/2015 8:56:45 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/396717/ben-rhodes-special-guy-jonah-goldberg

The New York Times profiles Cody Keenan...

WASHINGTON — One night last week Cody Keenan, the chief White House speechwriter President Obama has christened “Hemingway,” knew he needed help.

Mr. Keenan had spent 15 days holed up in a hotel room in Honolulu as the president vacationed nearby, and seven more in a windowless office in the basement of the West Wing trying to turn a blank computer screen into a 6,000-word State of the Union first draft. The lonesome process had finally gotten to him.

So the burly 34-year-old former high school quarterback left his White House office and trudged in the freezing rain to the nearby apartment of one of his closest friends in the administration, Benjamin J. Rhodes.

It was after midnight, but Mr. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser and the writer of many of the president’s foreign policy speeches, was up reading “To Kill a Mockingbird” to his 4-week-old daughter. The two men poured two single-malt Scotch whiskies and, with the baby resting quietly, began triage on Mr. Keenan’s prose. By 5 a.m., a more succinct draft was on its way to the president.


10 posted on 01/20/2015 9:00:07 AM PST by maggief
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
What a congress of morons, favoring the white privilege without junk bunch who had nothing else to do to collect a check after grad school!?Gee, I hope nobody had their resumes in a binder?
11 posted on 01/20/2015 9:07:37 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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.....Obama's SOTU writers appeared to be a panorama of people of pallor.......

....people of pallor....good one. LOL....

12 posted on 01/20/2015 9:09:46 AM PST by Liz
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To: Liz

Thanks: I’d love to claim credit for it but it’s been around for awhile.


13 posted on 01/20/2015 9:13:44 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Writers? All he really needs is a copy of Das Kapital and a copier.


14 posted on 01/20/2015 9:15:28 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: maggief; SunkenCiv; narses; Nachum; neverdem; MHGinTN

All of that prose about the hours and hours of “working on the State of the Union Address” in isolation and under pressure ... (ad nauseum, ad nauseum) but ...

We are to believe he wasn’t getting every word and every phrase edited and corrected and changed BY EVERYBODY in the WHY building?


15 posted on 01/20/2015 9:22:09 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
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16 posted on 01/20/2015 10:09:25 AM PST by MtnMan101
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To: MtnMan101

Love it, but I would add “my” to the categories. Obama likes to imagine that the government belongs to him, and will often say things like “I have directed my Secretary of Defense to, etc.”


17 posted on 01/20/2015 10:16:19 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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