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Friday, July 10, 2009
Not Just the President -- He's Our Pal!
Posted by: Carol Platt Liebau at 5:44 PM
Gawker has reported on a story left conveniently uncovered by the MSM -- dozens of journalists partied with the President at The White House on Independence Day . . . off the record.

Obviously, access is power, especially in Washington, D.C.  It's no surprise that the Obama administration would make this offer, and it's no surprise that those invited would take him up on it.  "Relationships" forged at such events  help journalists get other stories, and help politicians to get themselves portrayed in the most favorable light.

What's a little creepy is the almost-total blackout until now of the fact that the event even took place, and the dearth of knowledge about who was there.  After all, an event can maintain its off-the-record status even if a reporter acknowledges the existence of such an event (and his/her presence there).

In the end, it strikes me that the chief problem is that most reporters don't just want to report on the Obama administration: They want to be the President's pal.  They think he's the hippest, coolest, smartest thing since sliced bread. 

The only downside for you and me?  That means that the reporters are ignoring their most sacred obligations: To report without fear or favor, and to consider informing the public -- not pleasing the President, and not aggrandizing themselves -- as their top priority.

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Cicero writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 5:57 PM
The MSM are the new Pravda
Thank God we've broken their monopoly.
NOTW writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 6:03 PM
Is it any surprise?
These "journalists" were all dancing and partying on the floor of the Dem Convention last year. Even NPR was appalled by their behavior.

They certainly aren't considered the "press" anymore. More like the "yesmen"
Kaboom writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 6:06 PM
Carol
still p'o'd that you didn't get his job at the law review?
Tea Party writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 6:39 PM
There was a time
when journalism was an honest and worthy profession however what has occured during the last 9 years or longer, culminating in this idolatry of Barry is tantamount to their being
nothing more than 'ladies and gentlemen of the evening'..they just don't stand under red lights.

There should be an amendment to the Constitution, that will define the role of media and clarify unbiased. Otherwise, those Constitutional protections they have traded on as they turned the newsroom into a brothel should be curtailed. Well I can dream can't I?
NeoConScum writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 9:22 PM
Raffy Baby Booby...Balance That Lithium,
Girl! What drooling pap. The pressie lapdawgs are 'Hos. But, they're particularly Lefturd 'Hos.

The astonishing fact that, beyond ALL evidence, you believe the contrary is a true hoot.
BK writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 9:43 PM
raffaella writes:
We all KNOW that the press was in Bush's pocket for YEARS, which explains why they gave him a pass when he claimed that a clown named "Curveball" implicated Iraq as our mortal enemy and through torture deduced that our only recourse for 9/11 was to take out aggression against the Iraqi people
______________________________________________

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat psoed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program".........
President Bill Clinton, Feb 17, 1998

"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction"....
Madeline Albright, Feb 01, 1998

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983"........
Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor, Feb 18, 1998

Somebody should have informed the previous administration that all this talk of weapons was just a sham! Bwahahahahahaha!
Kaboom writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 10:16 PM
Bush OWNED MSNBC
He gave Keith Olbermann his job and told Dan Rather to put those fake stories about the Air National Guard out there. Bush also asked Colin Powell to lie about the WMD in Iraq and he did!!!
This is Bush's failed economy, you know? Did I mention that already? Obama inherited this mess. This is not Obama's failed economy. This is not Obama's failed economy. This is not Obama's failed economy. This is not Obama's failed economy.
THIS IS NOT OBAMA'S FAILED ECONOMY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Riders on the Storm writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 11:05 PM
raffaella scribbles:
"Bush OWNED MSNBC"

Is that why Olbermann called him a fascist on numerous occasions?
N0MAD writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 11:06 PM
raffaella
Ha, ha ... say it as much as you want - Obama owns it now (like 5x the deficit Bushy had - Obama the genius)... and the polls show it ... -8
Dose of Reality writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 11:09 PM
Our Forefathers
Mistakenly left out of the bill of rights the seperation of Media and State....
Riders on the Storm writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 11:22 PM
Dose of Reality
Silly Founders! They thought the First Amendment would enable the press to criticize the government without fear of reprisal. Little did they know that the media would never WANT to criticize the Obamessiah.
BK writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 11:39 PM
Andrea:
In addition, do you think that the founding fathers would have made the OF in bold print and underlined when they said that they wanted "Freedom "OF" Religion if they knew that the current crop of Socialists would somehow interpret this as Freedom "From" Religion?
kayann writes: Friday, July, 10, 2009 11:49 PM
Carol misleads
Considering the exclusive access Fox News enjoyed with the Bush White House, I find this current rightwing outrage to be somewhat laughable.
stalkinghorse writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 12:03 AM
Rather Loved Bush So Much...
his career blew up when he ran that bogus National Guard story.

Yea, the press went real easy on W.

Geez raffa, are ya that stupid?
Riders on the Storm writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 12:09 AM
BK
You mean it wasn't just a printing press error? They really intended to say freedom OF religion? :)
arch writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 12:18 AM
Arch nails Vlad in filthy lie
arch writes:
Vlad/Lucky Pozzo. I have nailed you committing a lie right here on townhall. Here it is for everyone to see. Vlad claims everyone is lying about him. Well let us see who the actual liar really is Hmmmmmm!

vladimir estragon writes: Tuesday, June, 23, 2009 10:14 AM
Arch
"You got pegged for that by the impeccable Roy Rogers and then admitted it."

Lucky Pozzo is an internet buddy of mine. We hooked up years ago, with a shared taste for right-wing lunacy. He went off to a right-wing site and I went over to Powerline, and we would share stories. When Powerline kicked me out, he created his own Samuel Beckett moniker there. He wasn't a sock puppet, he wasn't "pegged" for anything by the child molesting Roy Rogers, and neither he nor I admitted anything.

Lucky and I even had a falling out when I found out he had identified my son's unit when he was posted to Afghanistan. I learned long ago not to reveal any personal information on sites populated by half-civilized right-wing knuckle draggers. That's probably where you and the onanist Roy Rogers got the idea that I didn't know about things that a Marine's father should know, because I won't play your stupid little swinging Richard games.

Arch says now read this thread
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:ZNOLZQt1WR8J:www.plnews forum.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/47510/P225/+But+Skips ailing+wasn%E2%80%99t+referring+to+a+neighbor%E2%80%99s+son +killed+by+a+roadside+bomb+in+Iraq,+and+Vlad+was.&cd=2&hl=e n&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Vlad is posting under the moniker of Lucky Pozzo and stupidly refers to a 2 1/2 year old post by valdimir estrogan as his. Roy Rogers nails him for it. Vlad is a liar out and out.
Come on now Vlad. Explain your lie. How do you claim a post by Vlad is yours when posting as Lucky Pozzo? Explain that lie for us all!!
arch writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 12:24 AM
Arch says Vlad is a liar!!
Every member of this forum should always remember that when the libtard Vladimir Estrogan calls you a liar, that he himself has been nailed right here on townhall in a colossal lie by good old Arch walking in the footsteps of a veteran genius named Roy Rogers. You cannot believe anything Vlad posts
kayann writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 12:30 AM
Arch
Are you for real? Only the seriously deranged talk in the third person.
arch writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 12:46 AM
kayann
kayann writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 12:30 AM
Arch
Are you for real? Only the seriously deranged talk in the third person.

Arch says

kayann. I am real and married to the truth.
I post in third person because I am third. God, Family, Me. I am third!
I suggest you try living your life in that order once before labeling someone who does, as deranged!!
BK writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 7:26 AM
Andrea asks:
You mean it wasn't just a printing press error? They really intended to say freedom OF religion? :)
______________________________________________

Well they did have that one drinking party but I'm not exactly sure when that took place. LOL
Corndog writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 7:32 AM
What's the big deal?

The MSM getting cozy with obambi isn't any different that Goebbels hanging with Hitler. They both serve the same purpose...spread the propoganda lie.
NOTW writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 10:51 AM
OMG
That would be Obama Media Group.

He could learn from Berlusconi and take it one step further. Own half the big newspapers and 2 TV stations...
Cuban Pete writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 11:50 AM
NOTW, OBM actually stands for....
..."Obama My God". See the blog above about Newspeak (Newsweek) proclaiming that pres. B. Hussein OMG is better for the catholics than the Pope. OMG has become the defacto god and manifestation of that god to the lefty lib extremists (pretty much all the lefty libs). By their behaviors and their words they portray themselves as the ugliest manifestations of extremist religionists in the history of humanity.

That's right lefties, you resemble that which you despise the most.
Retired Lady writes: Saturday, July, 11, 2009 1:57 PM
Tea Party, well said!
raffaella have you gone off your meds again?
eddie too writes: Monday, July, 13, 2009 10:30 AM
There are very few professional

journalists in America today.
Exeye writes: Monday, July, 13, 2009 11:09 AM
Journalists
Failed student council presidents, beset by various peccadillos rendering them unfit for public office, possessed of an oversized self-righteousness and a burning desire to tell everyone else what to do- and you're surprised they worship Obama?
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