Posted on 07/03/2013 7:17:59 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
In the summer of 2010, with Republicans poised to take over the House and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) in line to lead the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the White House started urging reporters to write negative stories about the congressman’s past, a new book says.
New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich describes what he says were the anti-Issa efforts in “This Town,” a condemnation of Washington self-obsession and self-promotion, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Post.
According to Leibovich, former Obama deputy press secretary Bill Burton and suggested the reporter look into Issa’s past.
Other highlights from the book: Secretary of State John Kerry is not popular, according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when told the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner might conflict with the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, responded, “[Expletive] the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.”
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This is JUST NOW coming out?
Can you just imagine the media hue and cry had Bush done something like this??
Friggin’ hypocrites.
Team Obamugabe is ALL ABOUT the politics of personal destruction.
They hate Christianity, the Constitution, and capitalism.
Hey let’s all send it to Drudge
They love the three M's: Mexicans, Muslims and Marxists.
Obamaism in one easy lesson.
At least Issa has a BIRTH CERTIFICATE!
Keep in mind that Socialists don’t need to have real dirt.
They will just make it up. Like the guy who asserted that he had Romney’s income tax returns, or Reid who said someone told him something bad about Romney’s income taxes.
You can’t prove a negative. With 5 kids and a beaming wife, they wouldn’t have had much luck pushing the “in bed with a dead girl or a live boy” line.
The reality is Leftists want power to kill people. Lies are little things to them, just another tool, like a hammer, a wrench, a newspaper, or a blog.
I wonder if the book names names of those friendly reporters? I doubt it.
I doubt the MSM's capable of shame - so I wonder what's up with the admission...
I’m stealing that!
No need to steal. It is yours, gratis, if you can use it to open minds. Good luck.
I don’t know how many minds it will open, but it is a very succinct statement about Obama!
However....I’m thinking Issa Is of the Glenn Beck ilk...lot of noise..shirt on results.
The HAUGHTY John Kerry is not LIKEABLE??? I had NO idea!!! He doesn’t have one friend other than his brother.
If Issa has been compromised all this time and didn’t stand down and let someone else do his job....
Demand his head and plug in Trey Gowdy. Today.
In the summer of 2010, with Republicans poised to take over the House... the White House started urging reporters to write negative stories about the congressman’s past... New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich describes what he says were the anti-Issa efforts in "This Town"...
Yep.
I’ll tell you what, if I was John Roberts, and this administration did to me what is rumored to have been done to him, I would expose it, who is doing it, and let the truth come out regardless.
I would not destroy my country in an effort to keep my skeletons in the closet, because doing so would make me just as evil as them.
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