The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz has let the cat out of the bag in the Post’s April 27 issue about a regularly scheduled secret media dinner attended by some of the top left-wing journalists in the country. But it isn’t just the lefty scribblers that have attended these secret, off-the-record dinners for these gatherings have each featured a guest. Rahm Emanuel, Sec. of the Treasury Tim Geithner, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have all recently had their chance to schmooze the press and guide them with the spin desired by the White House.
So, not only does Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have secret daily phone calls with which to program the media’s coverage of the White House, now it is revealed that Emanuel and other Obama staffers have been attending secret dinners to help the press “understand” what the White House wants reported? As Kurtz says, it all sounds “rather cozy,” doesn’t it?
Change you can believe in and certainly not the ‘politics of old’.
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Every modern White House has cultivated media relationships. It is universally known that administration officials communicate with the media constantly. There is nothing sinister about it. Is there some concern here?
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Posted by The Center Square | April 29, 2009, 9:43 pmThere’s nothing sinister if these sub rosa meetings with the press was bi-partian but they are not! so one has to believe that the drive by media is the personl Obama press machine.
Posted by Dominick | May 2, 2009, 2:44 am“Secretly” cultivating media relationships with only left leaning liberal journalists…nah, nothing wrong with that! Put down the kool aid and get a clue.
Posted by resistnet | April 29, 2009, 10:00 pm