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.
This means that were probably 50-100+ email or texts that no one is reporting about.
Stewart’s a mouthpiece. Propaganda. Period.
It’s a double edged sword, using entertainment for politics.
Now Trump is doing the same thing, for a (hopefully) different end.
Is Jon Stewart, er, you know, “funny” that way?
As I’ve said on FR many times.
In 2008 the MSM transitioned from strong liberal bias to vital regime operatives.
> The Daily Show is th Number One way to get memes out the Low-Infos, especially millenials.
Who can’t find a job so they sit at home in their parent’s basements and watch that crap. Perfect strategy to get the millenial’s votes.
LOL!
Sunday Washington Post Magazine’s Date Lab had a woman who listed Jon Stewart as her favorite political figure.
;>)
The Government-Media Complex at work.
Jarrett is biologically female. There are just some duties she cannot perform so well as, say, a jon like Stewart.
Stewart is a piece of liberal crap. He willingly used his “show” to promote leftist ideas.
leibowitz.
Fake news, fake Jew.
Obama had an incestuous relationship with a media-bot?
NO!
Thank you for bringing out the latest example.
Pretty sure Stewart won’t be working for Obama or one of his friends.
Probably back to stand-up and trying to direct another film.
The mainstream media has been democratic operatives from way back in the 1960s. They just hid it better then. Now it’s pretty blatant.
Why do some here care about Stewart’s real last name?
ROFL
I wonder if Stewart asked Monica Lewinsky for pointers.
Bingo
It’s a Mark Levin thing.
They were stunned that their boy Kerry lost in 2004, and when they did their failure analysis they decided they needed to ramp up the "stars" component, tell bigger lies, and coordinate better.
It worked.
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