Posted on 07/28/2015 10:36:50 AM PDT by PoloSec
A 2,500-word piece by Darren Samuelsohn for Politico certainly doesn't bury the lead: President Obama has twice asked Jon Stewart to make, as the story's headline puts it, "secret" visits to the White House to meet with him. The "previously unreported" meetings, which occurred in October 2011 (amid the budget battle) and February 2014 (right before Obama discussed Russia and Ukraine on TV), were confirmed via White House visitor logs and by three former aides to the president, and were used by Obama "as a chance to sell the administration’s ideas," per Samuelsohn, who interprets the meetings as such: "To engage privately with the president in his inner sanctum at two sensitive moments ... speaks volumes about Stewart and his reach." And it wasn't a one-way street. Samuelsohn reports that David Axelrod and Austan Goolsbee were quick to handle any calls or emails from Stewart or his team. As Axelrod put it, "I can’t say that because Jon Stewart was unhappy policy changed. But I can say that he had forceful arguments, they were arguments that we knew would be heard and deserved to be answered." Obama ultimately made seven appearances on the show; most recently last week. Read the piece, which examines the influence Stewart may have had on issues like veterans' care, 9/11 responders, and the Confederate flag, in full.
Reggie not in town???
Did Hitler use humour?
Coax radio hosts to shed a pleasant light on his agenda?
My God.. How far have you sunk ..
If you have to use a comedy Channel show to sell your crap?
TAX PAYER $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ being spent for whatever.....
Hahaha!!!!
Somebody’s knob needed polished?
No it doesn't. . .it speaks volumes about the absurdity of the popular culture and the idiocy of Obama.
Jon Stewart is a tried and true butt buddy so does this really surprise anyone above the age of 25?
I always knew Stewart was a Ho, I just didn’t think he took tricks from such a lowlife as Obama.
Ah yes, the journOlist that has won awards for his “reporting”.
He’ll probably make Stewart an ambassador somewhere nice (not Libya).
Of COURSE he did...
The Daily Show is th Number One way to get memes out the Low-Infos, especially millenials.
Improvda
“My God.. How far have you sunk ..
If you have to use a comedy Channel show to sell your crap?”
The Daily Show is the PRIMARY NEWS SOURCE for males under 30, and has been from well over a decade.
Sadly, lots of young people think Jon Stewart has a real news show. They don’t get that he is a comedian, and a liberal comedian at that. A consequence of how America has been dumbed down.
There seems to be some kind of strange relationship between these two...probably a kinship between two manipulators using each other for political/personal gain.
Leni
So Liebowitz is just an admin shill. Figures....
He needed a white comedian the liberals love to sell his image. I bet he’s met with Maher too. Obama couldn’t reach some so he got white liberals to do it for him.
When Jon Stewart becomes your most trusted “confidant”, then the bench has to be pretty thin.
Does this mean that Valerie Jarrett is losing privy council status?
And who knew that Jon Stewart was a “world-class” advisor?
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