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Home Front: Politix
Obama Meets With Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow
2009-10-23
A day after key White House officials declared the Fox News Channel wasn't a news organization, President Obama met with MSNBC personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.

Talk about your delicious hypocrisy.

Fittingly, the news was broken by FNC's Bret Baier during Tuesday's "Special Report" :
BRET BAIER, HOST: And finally, during this morning's off-camera White House briefing with reporters, ABC's Jake Tapper asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about the ongoing White House attacks on FOX News Channel.

After being asked about the charge that FOX isn't a real news organization, Gibbs answered, quote "We render opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness of that coverage."

Tapper: "That's a sweeping declaration that they're not a news organization. How are they different from say, ABC, MSNBC, Univision?"

Gibbs: "You and I should watch around 9:00 tonight or 5:00 this afternoon."

Tapper: "I'm not talking about the opinion programs or issues you have with certain reports. I'm talking about saying that thousands of individuals who work for a media organization do not work for a news organization. Why is that appropriate for the White House to say?"

Gibbs: "That is our opinion."
Well, the White House's strong opinions about our opinion shows - - Glenn Beck runs at 5:00 p.m. and Sean Hannity at 9:00 p.m. -- apparently do not extend to similar shows on other networks.

A White House official confirms to us that the audience for Monday's off the record briefing with President Obama included MSNBC personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.

Hmmm. So the White House thinks Fox isn't a news organization because it has a perspective, and specifically points fingers at Beck and Hannity.

What does the Adminstration think Olbermann and Maddow have?

I guess it's not a problem for a new organization and its members to have a perspective so long as it's one the White House shares.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Keeping your friends close and your enemies at arms length.
Posted by: Skunky Glins****   2009-10-23 21:53  

#6  It would be nice to ask Maddow and Olbermann what strategy they worked out with the President. Good possibility that their rsponses would either be a fumble or an attack on their perceived opposition. Either way would be entertaining and informative.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-10-23 15:23  

#5  Smells like panic.

More mush from the wimp, 2009 version.
Posted by: lex   2009-10-23 12:00  

#4  Obama and his team live in an echo chamber. Meetings like this reinforce it.

The administration's behavior will get increasingly out of touch and bizarre until there is a complete turnover of Obama's inner circle.
Posted by: DoDo   2009-10-23 11:40  

#3  Skinimax is now a news organization and will be airing the briefing at 2 in the morning.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2009-10-23 11:39  

#2  Whitehouse meets with state media Pravda representatives?
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-10-23 09:33  

#1  The communist party has only accepted press they control all through history.
Posted by: 3dc   2009-10-23 01:03  

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