To whom can America turn in these troubled times, as Hope and Change appear to be foundering? We can turn to Obama for answers!
Having explained to us that Fox News cannot be trusted, Obama has taken the additional and important step of endorsing certain pundits, opinion leaders, and "journalists" as President Approved. Who is on the honor roll:
Here's a curious turn in the White House vs. Fox News fight.
On Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow were among several people who attended an off-the-record briefing with Pres. Obama at the White House. Sources tell us other attendees at the two-and-a-half hour chat included Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Gwen Ifill of PBS and Gloria Borger of CNN. Perhaps not surprisingly, no one from Fox News was in the room.
...Update: The White House has sent TVNewser the complete list of those who attended the off-the-record briefing Monday: Eugene Robinson, E.J. Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib, Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifill. Several members of the staff also attended.
There you have it. Now we know where to look for President Approved Punditry.
It must have been exciting for Ron Brownstein to meet heavy journalistic talents like Maddow and Olbermann.
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Posted by: MarkJ | October 23, 2009 at 08:22 AM
Eugene Robinson is reliably liberal, but he is a good journalist and can actually argue his way out of a paper bag. Their side needs more like him and so does ours - steel sharpens steel.
I wonder what he thought of being lumped in with Olbermann....
Posted by: Trouble | October 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Nice to have an official puppet list, though it's not as if the strings weren't already visible. Do they get souvenir "Useful Idiot" badges?
Posted by: Tully | October 23, 2009 at 10:39 AM
...On second thought, two administrations ago had that last one covered.
::spit:: ::sputter:: ::LOL::
You owe me a keyboard!
Posted by: Sue | October 23, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Whenever any approved "journalist" is mentioned by name throughout the conservative and libertarian blogosphere, I would like to see their name followed by a little superscripted "e" with an "O" around it, similar to the copyright symbol, to designate them as "Obama Endorsed". Or perhaps a superscripted "WHA" for "White House Approved". Maybe Tom can start that movement.
Posted by: Paul Schlick | October 23, 2009 at 12:07 PM
helpful list of Obama's house n***ers.
Posted by: papertiger | October 23, 2009 at 01:00 PM
Geez papertiger, we don't need that here.
Posted by: Jane | October 23, 2009 at 01:38 PM
Link to my previous "Obama Approved" graphic. I once again hit the tail end of a dead thread (probably twice, actually).
Posted by: Annoying Old Guy | October 23, 2009 at 06:22 PM
Now we know who is on obama's payroll.
Now I understand why olbermann is against the
Tea Party.
Posted by: Dennis Poulsen | October 24, 2009 at 01:23 AM
You're much appreciated, Valuable Young Guy!
Posted by: BR | October 24, 2009 at 07:58 AM
HA!! "Heavy journalistic talents like Maddow and Olbermann". Now that's funny!
Posted by: Furniture Stores | October 24, 2009 at 01:02 PM
Some of those names are good ones, some of them are not. Honestly, I don't think most of the networks mentioned are legitimate news sources anyway, including FOX. NPR is about the only legitimate news sources anymore, because CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc. are all essentially biased in some way or another, or they flip flop. None of them report "the news." They report political talking points injected with bias and misinformation and misinterpretation.
So, it seems silly to me that this would have happened at all. FOX, to be fair, is wrong almost all of the time, but it's not like the others have amazing track records...
But, we should also not be remotely surprised that any Democrat or Republican would enact political bias. George W. Bush wasn't exactly innocent on this front either. No Presidents are...It just seems like Obama is turning into the Democratic version of George W. Bush.
And as for the whole comment about Obama not getting anything done...that has nothing to do with Obama sucking and everything to do with the fact that the issues he's dealing with are not universally accepted by Democrats and are universally panned by Republicans. He's dealing with a hostile environment. Obama has done a heck of a lot of cross-the-table-hand-shaking, but he's doing it with people who are not as willing to lean as he is...
But that's enough from me.
Posted by: SMD | October 25, 2009 at 01:36 PM