Posted on 10/09/2012 10:16:45 PM PDT by george76
Barack Obama was a guest at the 1991 wedding of ABC senior foreign correspondent and vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz, The Daily Caller has learned. Obama and groom Julius Genachowski, whom Obama would later tap to head the Federal Communications Commission, were Harvard Law School classmates at the time and members of the Harvard Law Review.
After TheDC made preliminary inquiries Monday to confirm Obama’s attendance at the wedding, ABC leaked a pre-emptive statement to liberal-leaning news outlets including Politico and The Daily Beast Tuesday, revealing what may have been internal network pressure felt just days before Raddatz was scheduled to moderate the one and only vice-presidential debate Thursday night.
Both Politico and The Daily Beast jumped to ABC and Raddatz’s defense. The Huffington Post, another liberal news outlet, joined them shortly thereafter, while calling “unusual” ABC’s attempt to kill the story before it gained wide circulation.
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On Monday evening ABC spokesman David Ford grudgingly confirmed Obama’s attendance at the wedding, after shielding Raddatz in August
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
ABC News has all the dignity and respectability of an old street whore. No one's gonna pull out...
I'll bet Biden and Obama are provided with questions in advance... questions submitted by dem PR firms...
This makes Ifill seem not so bad.
The Obama-Raddatz Connection
By Carol Platt Liebau
10/10/2012
Josh Peterson of the Daily Caller has a story on ABC’s efforts to shut down discussion of veep-debate moderator Martha Raddatz’s connections to the Obama administration, including the President’s probably presence at Raddatz’s marriage to Julius Genachowski, now Chairman of the FCC and an old law school friend of Obama’s.
I am quoted correctly in they story, but wanted to adjust one of my previous posts, when I wrote that “Raddatz visited Boston frequently.” In fact, on further recollection, I believe she lived in Boston at the time.
One other item of note: Her first marriage, which ended in divorce, was to Ben Bradlee Sr. (of the Washington Post)’s son, Ben, Jr. There is more about Ms. Raddatz here in a New York Times piece from the Style section.
It seems that — with her jobs as an NPR correspondent and ABC TV journalist, and her marriages to Ben Bradlee, Jr. (with whom she has a daughter); FCC Commissioner Julius Genachowski (with whom she has a son); and now an NPR journalist — she is very much a creature of the Washington establishment.
Maybe she will be fair to Paul Ryan. We will see. Given her past and connections, however, one cannot help suspecting where her sympathies lie — and it’s difficult to imagine her doing anything that would upset the NY-DC liberal elite cocktail circuit. I’d love to be wrong on that.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2012/10/10/the_obamaraddatz_connection/print
Josh Peterson of the Daily Caller has a story on ABC’s efforts to shut down discussion of veep-debate moderator Martha Raddatz’s connections to the Obama administration, including the President’s probably presence at Raddatz’s marriage to Julius Genachowski, now Chairman of the FCC and an old law school friend of Obama’s.
I am quoted correctly in they story, but wanted to adjust one of my previous posts, when I wrote that “Raddatz visited Boston frequently.” In fact, on further recollection, I believe she lived in Boston at the time.
One other item of note: Her first marriage, which ended in divorce, was to Ben Bradlee Sr. (of the Washington Post)’s son, Ben, Jr. There is more about Ms. Raddatz here in a New York Times piece from the Style section.
It seems that — with her jobs as an NPR correspondent and ABC TV journalist, and her marriages to Ben Bradlee, Jr. (with whom she has a daughter); FCC Commissioner Julius Genachowski (with whom she has a son); and now an NPR journalist — she is very much a creature of the Washington establishment.
Maybe she will be fair to Paul Ryan. We will see. Given her past and connections, however, one cannot help suspecting where her sympathies lie — and it’s difficult to imagine her doing anything that would upset the NY-DC liberal elite cocktail circuit. I’d love to be wrong on that.
When Mark Shields immediately threw cold water on Romney’s acceptance speech at the convention, Gwen interrupted him and said she was having a great time, and the convention was a lot of fun. She seemed to be going out of her way to provide some balanced coverage.
I don’t doubt for a minute that the deck will be stacked against Romney and Ryan.
And cartoons have more credibility
Yeah, he did a good job for the most part. Asked impartial questions instead of the gotcha questions they usually try to do. A debate should be about issues.
But, I am sure the others will be “Mr. Ryan, you said on this date you opposed this and now you say this. Explain your difference?”
Nonsense like that intended to get the Republican....
LOL
” I’ll bet Biden and Obama are provided with questions in advance”
Guaranteed.
Maybe O’Reilly will cover this. Personally, I don’t like him much, but he has a huge viewership. The more people who know this, the better.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208130/posts
http://knowledgecreatespower.blogspot.com/2010/05/shore-bank-obamas-mother-and-geithners.html
Lehrer’s leftism is simply more nuanced and understated.
Liberal elites think we can't see who they really are... we can.
These damn evil Marxists make me sick.
GO PAUL RYAN!
Its not us they think are stupid. They know we are not. It’s their constituency that they Think are stupid and id have to agree with them on that point. Stuck on stupid and brainwashed is what their people are.
They DO disdain all of us, every single American.
Paul Ryan will do GREAT..just let Joe keep talking..the more he talks, the more idiotic he sounds..it wont take much for him to say something stupid
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