Yet Another Journalist Joins Obama Team

I reckon about 90% of journalists are already unpaid members of his team.

McCain has lost his ‘base’, it seems …
LOSER REPUBS!!!
HOWZ THE WILDERNESS TREATING YA?
LOLOLOLOLOLOL

jpt writes:
“former Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Gosselin who is now a speechwriter for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner,”
Hahaha: so HE’s the one! Who’dda thunk a speech so stupid was constructed ON PURPOSE …
Note: anybody who missed Andy Rooney Sunday night take on Geithner’s speech missed a really good piece. Look for it on video at Another Network.
As for Zuckman’s pointless burble, public employees at ALL levels should be barred, on pain of death, from EVER saying “I’m excited about … ” ANYthing having to do with his/her paid “work”.
Tapper’s left out Lynn Sweet of the Sun-Times, who’s morphed into a hastily-rearranged talking head on behalf of Da Organization.

jpt quotes the burbling Zuckman:
“the administration that’s going to play a huge role in hopefully putting people back to work,”
Ah: “HOPEfully” … maybe her next excited utterance on behalf of one the Obama organization’s remaining recycled Republicans — “LaHood” haahaha — will deal with ‘change’.
Under the flim-flam Gibbs/Obama “save-r-create jobs” doctrine, as long as there are still three or four million people who HAVE “jobs”, Porkulus is working.

“every form of print media is shedding jobs right now…”
And yet you can still read about David Axelrod’s “research” non-profit (headliner “news” celebrity du jour: Tom Brokaw) in Parade Magazine. Amazing.
Literacy’s sooo yesterday.

“Who wouldn’t want to work for Obama after slaving away for years for their corporate media tycoons?”
Anybody who didn’t actually want to further smiley-face fascism, maybe?

Transportation? Is Zuckman even qualified for this?
Just more ammo for the Hannity’s of the world and their crusade against the MSM and Obama…

Now maybe we can get some fresh blood in, some reporters who wont be afraid to report on George Bush’s rape rooms at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Especially now since we have Brandon Neely confirming what the detainees have been saying for years.

Hannity Is no Journalist he is a Right wing Rag, The Man is so Biased its Pathetic Garbage what a waste of Good Air time

The late Tony Snow of FOX was a strong advocate for invading Iraq who became White House Press Secretary under GW Bush.
But then relatively fewer people seriously consider FOX objective.
I bet there’s many more examples of journalists becoming political pr people (and vice versa).

There’s no end to the people Obama owes.
He’ll need a second pork bill to pay them all back–with our money, our children and grandchildren’s money.
What a great guy…

They got him elected. They won’t skip a beat.

FRIEDA
Typical Republican BS,Why when Republicans lose they blame the Media?

Flash Override, Yeah Fox News is the MSM and ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN, and all the rest are the Obama Media.

Since journalists are frequently experts in politics, have amassed great knowledge and education to get their posts, possess critical verbal, writing and social skills, it doesn’t surprise me that Obama would find worthy people among the journalist profession.
It sure is different than giving the job of head guy at FEMA to a horse show director! We all know how that swell decision worked out for Katrina victims.

In my opinion the media bias was in the opposite direction–in favor of McCain.
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Absolutely. Of course, Obama would have never gotten away with the foibles of McCain. They would have been assigned an amplified, 24/7 coverage like the blueberry picked Wright videos.

“The people want national health care, the media doesn’t [etc.]”
There’s a class-obedience thing in play here: it’s the corporate elite, not the mere hirelings of “the media”, who REALLY call the tune.
The daily interplay of coercion by which “the media” is played, and through the media, “the people”, is about as close to untrammeled evil as you’d want to get.
As for McCain’s “campaign”, there wasn’t any. It was a two-party fix from the elite right: few “Republicans” OR “Democrats” have any party principles left, after rolling over for fascism under the Bush regime. To roll over for fascism NOW, under a celebrity figurehead, isn’t much of a stretch for the political class.

Hey, if you did enough good for our Smartest PB0 to get him selected, he will help you out as well, as long as you do not ask his COS for a dollar amount while you are being listened.

wow,i am laughing and just really amazed at how many people actually believed the media had nothing todo with Obama winning, and was in fact very much in favor in having him win. anyone catch Brian williams “so how are you feeling tonight?you must be thinking about your parents” meanwhile the economy is tanking and brian williams is concerned that Obama is not happy! whenever he messed up, the media was quick to fix and quick to blame the republicans for it. during the primaries the media attacked Hillary and gave Obama numerous of passes. i mean everyone became afraid to actually challenge Obama on his very thin resume and experience for fear of the media attack on them (we all saw Joe the plumber didnt we). how ironic,the media says Joe is a fraud cuz he had a 2k tax lien yet Hilda Solis hubby has a tax lien for 16 years and far more than Joe had and the media looked the other way.
the media elected Obama and now they have to do their part to make sure that his policies are passed. their teasers “how dare the republicans obstruct Obama’s stimulus!!!” how about the media actually reporting “well Obama promised transparency and so far we are not seeing it! people urge congress to hold off on signing the bill until the president reviews it with us like he promised!” there was none of that! in fact, i think the fairness doctrine ought to be applied to them!

heres a little example from this morning MSM rounds on burris situation. another example of Media bias/favorism towards Democrats. watch when they have to report on a corrupt government offical, if it is a democrat they skip that, but if it’s a republcian they blare it and then they go on and on and on the full hour discussing it.
Monday morning show coverage of allegations that Illinois Senator Roland Burris may have perjured himself with respect to connections to impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich minimized calls for investigation or Burris’s resignation. On the CBS Early Show, correspondent Thailia Assuras explained: “State Republican lawmakers are calling for Senator Roland Burris to resign and be investigated for perjury…The U.S. Senate could move to expel Burris, but analysts say that’s unlikely to happen. It’s not the kind of distraction Senate Democrats need as they try to move forward the president’s agenda.”
On NBC’s Today, correspondent Lee Cowan had a similar take: “…some Republican lawmakers here are now calling for Senator Burris to resign. At the very least, some want to see a criminal investigation launched to see whether or not he perjured himself. As for his colleagues in the U.S. Senate, so far they’re reserving judgment.” ABC’s Good Morning America barely mentioned the controversy, only offering one 15-second news brief on the story. In addition to downplaying the issue, none of the three morning shows mentioned that Burris was a Democrat. Only the Early Show featured an on-screen graphic with ‘Illinois (D)’ next to Burris’s name while playing a clip of the Senator.
Early Show coverage almost portrayed Burris as a victim of Republican opponents as fill-in co-host Chris Wragge declared: “Political opponents of Senator Roland Burris, appointed to Barack Obama’s seat, are already calling for Burris to resign.” Thalia Assuras later described how those Republicans: “…allege he lied in January before the Illinois House Impeachment Committee investigating charges that Governor Rod Blagojevich tried to sell the Obama seat for campaign contributions or high-profile jobs.”

I’ll give you a big example of media bias from these very pages. Jake has claimed that Obama’s recovery act is the most costly piece of legislation ever. Yet, it only contains about $480 billion of spending, much less than the $612 billion for the military last October. The modest recovery act only barely qualifies as as among the ‘most costly’ if you include the $280 billion of tax cuts in it. Yet, if you are going to count tax cuts as costs, the bill pales in comparison to the $1.35 trillion tax cut in 2001.

Danny, I agree with you that the media didn’t win the election for Obama. McCain made too many mistakes.
I really admire the mix of people Obama is choosing. He isn’t only picking yes men, so he will get a variety of opinions.
And to Voodoo, I don’t know where you get your information but I don’t recall any main news polls showing Hillary winning all the debates over Obama. Watching Fox doesn’t give very accurate information on certain topics. And Fox sure did want the election to be between Hillary and McCain, figuring dredging up Bill’s past would guarantee a victory for the Repubs.
I can’t imagine why with all the problems we are facing as a nation, that so many people commenting here are either focused on the past or knocking everything Obama does.

Begala: Stimulus foes shouldn’t take the money
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Are you kidding me?
In as much as we love ya guys, and as much as dislike the socialist agendas of PB0, we certainly will not refuse PB0′s money giveaway (actually probably will get 0 like last time). It’s our money any way; we contributed more than those who get more, but contributing not a penny in taxes.

To Flash Override: Have you read your Constitution lately? Do you know the difference between an annual federal budget and a supplemental spending bill? Military spending is part of the annual budget, and in fact is one of the few items that we as taxpayers are constitutionally obligated to provide. We must provide for a common defense and the infrastructure of government ( salaries for Reps, Senator, Judges, buildings, etc.) All other spending is at the discretion of our elected officials so far as we will stand for it. This bill is by far the largest supplemental spending bill ever passed by any government. We will be mortgaging our childrens’ future on a hunch. Are you OK with that?

Most of the media went to work for Obama over a year ago.

The media did NOT get Obama elected. John McCain and his inept campaign did. Unlike many on the right who are so blinded by their morally bankrupt ideology that they can’t see straight, the MAJORITY of the American voters were tired of incompetence in the White House and voted for someone most likely to make us respect the Presidency once again. Here is an analysis of the media coverage of the 2008 election from the Pew Research Center for those of you who want the truth and not spin.

Jake:
You are hands down the best reporter in washington. You know it, we know it….I’m just sad that Barry will likely not include you in any of the reindeer games.
He picks his reporters carefully. This is all a big staged show. Barack thinks we are stupid enough to swallow all of this. Time will tell, I suppose.
Keep up the truth. Just the truth…We desperately need it Jake.

Boy you all give the people who write stories for papers a looooot of credit…i personally don’t pay any attention to most of them…i am beginning to think republicans are the only one hanging on their every word…just hoping they will side with them…republican approval rating sank after the stimulus bill-thats all the information i need to know

That’s 18 MILLION PLUS VOTERS, sorry for the error

The longer President Obama is in office the more I wish for a re-do on the election. A journalism major in the Cabinet. Three years, 11 months and counting. I do believe Mr. Tapper is in the tank for President Obama…or he is incapable of doing investigative/informative reporting.

Yesterday, the new U.S. President played basketball and then watched the NBA all-star game with a friend. He’s been enjoying a vacation in Chicago, seemingly unconcerned that we are in the midst of a financial crisis the like of which we haven’t seen since the 1930s.
As always today Hillary Clinton is not vacationing, nor taking time off. Hillary is hard at work Saving The World.
When the world needs help, when the world sends a call for help like a mythical Batsignal in the night, that S.O.S. morse code message is answered by S.O.S. herself – Hillary Clinton.

the obamedia getting payed their hush-money with taxpayer dollars.
well that certainly is transparency.

I hear Fox News is liberal media now.