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Obama’s WH Chief of Staff Holds Daily, Secret Calls With Pals in Media
Publius' Forum ^ | 1/30/09 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 01/30/2009 6:05:19 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus

Politico reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel holds daily chit chat sessions with several Old Media pals every morning to start his day. Apparently Emanuel has for years been involved with daily bull sessions to plan media coverage and ideological strategy with CNN's James Carville and Paul Begala, as well as ABC's George Stephanopoulos, with the occasional participation of pollster Stan Greenberg. But there is one little problem with this daily palling around with mediots these days: Emanuel now works for the White House.

As Politico's John Harris notes, "in any given news cycle, it is quite likely that Washington’s prevailing political and media interpretation -- at least on the Democratic side -- is being hatched on these calls." In light of this early morning scheming, one has to wonder where the supposed autonomy of the media is if they are being programed by the Obama White House in off the record, secret and daily conversations? Where is their objectivity if these media mavens are all assisting Emanuel mould and shape the news to further a specific ideological goal?

Even worse, where are the people that would normally decry a chummy, personal and secretive relationship between Emanuel, a partisan government operative recently called the second most powerful man in Washington, and major members of the Old Media? Where's the outrage that the Obama administration is secretly programing media coverage?

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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: barackobama; mediabias
One more example of media sold out to Obama.
1 posted on 01/30/2009 6:05:19 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Dupe of:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174099/posts
(copied material)


2 posted on 01/30/2009 6:10:09 AM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Talking points directly from the White House chief of staff, and who was accused of getting talking points from the Bush WH? And by whom? Hmmmm


3 posted on 01/30/2009 6:11:30 AM PST by dblshot
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To: dblshot

Nothing new. In 2000 Al Gore had all the heads of the network news divisions except for FOC meet at his residence to discuss how to cover the eletion. Common Night Walkers.


4 posted on 01/30/2009 6:29:53 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

See my tagline....


5 posted on 01/30/2009 6:58:45 AM PST by devane617 (Republican's first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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