Posted on 01/29/2009 4:28:50 AM PST by Prov1322
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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Collusion
We’re gonna need scientific notation to measure the sleeze of the Obamaloons...and this is only the first few weeks.
I suggest units of “Obamaloons” and they’ll soon need the EXXX after them. (Look it up, lib math idiots.)
The media would argue they are being transparent. Arghhhhh
With friends like the Media to talk to... he had better buy a dog.
Starting everyday with Rahm? I don’t think I could get paid enough money.
Honestly, I just don’t see the big problem with this. Its a free country and you can confide in who you want (as long as you’re not talking classified and you’re boss is cool with it). The rest of the MSM might not take kindly to it though.
Same meetings he was having attacking the Bush administration. This has been an ABDNC operation from the start.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Downfall
I prefer engineering notation, and suggest that we will see corruption in the range of Exaobamaloons. :)
Control the message -
I’m tellin ya, this guy (Emanuel) is Goebbels 2
Dio...Thanks for correcting that!
Hope you’re well!
Didn’t hear any complaints when Clinton did it.
Except for us.
These losers due their past and present contacts with all manners of security threats be they persons, concepts, inability to be trusted, activities they can be blackmailed for etc couldn’t get a security clearance to work for the goobermint yet they run it..........what a friggin insult as well as a national security risk !
A goob employee with such access writes a hot check for groceries they get fired yet Obamanistas are writing hot checks for trillions....and they are awash with praise for their leadership and out of the box thinking as they subvert the constitution every day and get PAID FOR IT !
Grrrrrrrrrrr !
Having said that a few of the folks being mentioned are not journalists.
So a White House Chief of Staff can confide in criminals, mass murderers, terrorists, and pedophiles as long as the info is not classified -- which would not include where you live, for whom you work, what medical providers you've seen, and so forth?
confide in criminals, mass murderers, terrorists, and pedophiles as long as the info is not classified
What a shock. Former Clinton war room guys yet again manipulating what the media covers as directed from inside the WH.
Couldn’t see that one coming (sarcasm intended).
The presstitutes are in bed with the political whores.
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