Posted on 11/21/2013 6:16:49 PM PST by originalbuckeye
On Thursday, Fox News’ Ed Henry tweeted that MSNBC hosts Ed Schultz and Lawrence O’Donnell, as well as Ezra Klein of the Washington Post and Fox News’ Juan Williams, had been invited for a private off-the-record chat with President Obama. Obama’s signature program, Obamacare, has been flailing in the press for weeks, and Obama apparently believes that it is about time to reshift the narrative: Juan Williams refused to describe what Obama himself said, but he did state that the White House is in “full fight mode over the Affordable Healthcare Act right now.” He added, “They feel as if they had a major systems failure, a major management failure, and they’re trying to get back on track.” Williams said that the biggest messaging issue has related to President Obama’s lie that if Americans wanted to keep their health insurance plans, they could. “There is frustration, that’s clear from everybody who I was talking to this morning at the White House,” Williams concluded. This is not the first time that the White House has wooed specific groups of journalists. In October, as Breitbart News reported, Obama met with The Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer, the Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot, National Review’s Washington editor Robert Costa, former CNN co-host Kathleen Parker, and Byron York of the Washington Examiner. In May, the White House held a session on Benghazi on “deep background.” In September, Obama met with select reporters to discuss the situation in Syria.
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>> Juan was never a Journalist.
NO ONE in that list is a journalist.
Any more than Josef Goebbels was a journalist.
>> Is Obama really that low class?
Rhetorical question, yes?
Of course the blue lipped Kenyan monkey is that low class.
The fact that they’re commissioning the most left wing hacks with the new messaging campaign means they are catching a lot of flack from even their most rabid left wing base.
I mean, how many people actually watch O’Donnell and Schultz - a few thousand a night?
"“full fight mode over the Affordable Healthcare Act right now.”
The word has gone out, stop calling it ObamaCare, it's embarrassing.
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