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Obama Woos Liberal Journalists With Another Off-The-Record Meeting
Breitbart ^ | 11/21/13 | Ben Shapiro

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; chosenjournalists; ezraklein; foxnews; goosestepjournalists; journalists; juanwilliams; kneepads; lawrenceodonnel; obama; obamacarejournalists; specialed; specialoccasions
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Hey Juan, how does it feel to be busted from Journalist down to Obama marionette?? I am in shock. Obama isn't even trying to hide his manipulations anymore. So sad our country is so naïve/stupid. They will probably believe the 'They aren't cancellations of your plan. They are renewals for a better plan' lies.
1 posted on 11/21/2013 6:16:50 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: originalbuckeye

Bring your own Vaseline?


2 posted on 11/21/2013 6:18:39 PM PST by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: originalbuckeye

Journ-0-list 2014.

The midterm election campaign begins.

And before anybody scoffs, remember what they did in 2012.


3 posted on 11/21/2013 6:20:25 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone you see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: originalbuckeye

Juan was never a Journalist.

He is a token at Fox who doesn’t even realize his tokenism.
He isn’t very bright, but he can spew the racial vomit with the best of them.

Always had this attachment to Obama’s buttocks, it’s like a genome that blacks have, they are connected by this cord that was attached to them at birth, and taught them by parents and acquaintances. A very few can break that cord and be successful, smart, great men and women. But for the majority, they cannot kick it.


4 posted on 11/21/2013 6:24:41 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: originalbuckeye

“What can we do for you, Mr. President?” Yeah, this is real “watchdog” journalism. What a joke.


5 posted on 11/21/2013 6:26:42 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: originalbuckeye
If this is White strategy they are failing. They aren't talking to people with little to no viewers or readers. Juan Williams' audience is probably larger than all of the other attendees combined.


6 posted on 11/21/2013 6:27:43 PM PST by darkwing104 (Do not take my word for it, these are my opinions...Do your own Homework)
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To: originalbuckeye

Barry’s chestnuts have been roasted. He needs his toads of very little intelligence to pull them out of the fire.


7 posted on 11/21/2013 6:28:23 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Repeal ObamaScam NOW!!!)
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To: originalbuckeye

Lay around the shanty, and get a good buzz on.


8 posted on 11/21/2013 6:31:12 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: originalbuckeye

So the White House considers being ‘’in full fight mode’’ to mean talking with Juan Williams and Ed Schultz?! What happens if things really start going bad? Will Whoopie Goldberg and Bill Maher parachute in?


9 posted on 11/21/2013 6:35:35 PM PST by Bluestocking
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To: nascarnation

“Journ-0-list 2014. The midterm election campaign begins. And before anybody scoffs, remember what they did in 2012.”

Damned straight; watch how the ObamaCare fiasco is spun into a greedy capitalist plot (Obama didn’t know the insurance companies would try to cheat Americans like that...). The 2012 election showed how the media absolutely dominates elections in this country, and people shouldn’t assume they can’t do it again.


10 posted on 11/21/2013 6:39:47 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: originalbuckeye

More of a delivery of Marching Orders. Ezra had a stupid article up on the RCP(Real Clear Politics) site this afternoon. Essentially blaming Republicans back in 2009 and saying they’re plan was essentially the same thing as 0bamacare.


11 posted on 11/21/2013 6:51:05 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: originalbuckeye

Here’s Ezra’s spin I referred to in my last post..Link only..

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-21/obamacare-s-failings-undermine-republican-goals.html?alcmpid=view


12 posted on 11/21/2013 6:52:32 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: originalbuckeye

Hugo Chavez used the media in much the same manor. Whores all of them.


13 posted on 11/21/2013 7:04:51 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: SueRae
Then the Pubs better start fighting back with ads that show Obama's OWN words--best way to show how hypocritical he is. And--would the Conservative interest groups PLEASE STOP showing those stupid ads critical of Obamacare that sound like Sham Wow ads or those put on TV by local used car lots!

They INSULT the intelligence of the very audience they are trying to reach, and turn off every one else.

Obama has given Conservatives plenty of ammunition to use against him and his party--but the only anti-Obama ads I've seen are AWFUL!!!!

14 posted on 11/21/2013 7:07:32 PM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement.)
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To: originalbuckeye
Obama Knee Pads photo ObamaKneePads_zps7c6e8717.jpg

15 posted on 11/21/2013 7:23:51 PM PST by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: originalbuckeye

They are NOT Journalists if it’s off the Record , they are Collaborators


16 posted on 11/21/2013 7:27:21 PM PST by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: milagro

Lets start with the midterms..Pelosi and Reid have some zingers in their time in office. A short clip of a string of Republican attempts at participation in government and a short clip of Reid’s collective “NO”, “Dead on arrival” “Non-starter” after each one would/should scare everyone to the pols to make sure he loses his job as Majority Leader. And remind everyone of Pelosi the cuckoo clock, finish with her march up those Capitol steps with that #$$#$*Q&* mallet. Finish with the question: “Is this really what you want?” or “Pelosi, part deux” or something clever. “If you don’t then keep so and so in place or say no to whoever the Dem candidate is.” There’s soooo much material in their abysmal records to work with out there, the commercials would never have to repeat. There’s some good social media folks on our side, too..they could do this easily. Just a suggestion and my own $.02


17 posted on 11/21/2013 7:39:21 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: originalbuckeye

He’s always been 0’s buttboy.....


18 posted on 11/21/2013 7:44:46 PM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: Bluestocking

LOL @ these fools.


19 posted on 11/21/2013 7:51:29 PM PST by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: originalbuckeye

I honestly want to know why such a despicable person as Ed Schultz is allowed in the White House? If memory serves Jay-Z has also been a personal guest. Is Obama really that low class? This is troubling in the extreme. Schultz called Laura Ingraham a “talk slut” and Jay-Z refers to women as bitches and hos. And Obama and his sycophantic lickspittles have the temerity to speak of the Republican war on women.


20 posted on 11/21/2013 7:51:33 PM PST by donaldo
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