Ok; so the media’s integrity is now at stake…let’s see what they report today…

Well….Maddow’s numbers were low yesterday — clearly her audience doesn’t like it when she doesn’t carry HIS water. So look for a change of attitude tonight. My guess, she will give him slack, take Tommy’s tack from his earlier article: turning a bad speech into a mahvelous success. Just my guess, but Tommy and MSNBC seem to be in lock step with their reportage.

So it took 57 days for him to agree to meet with BP and less than 48 hours after the left revolted against him to sit down with them? Glad we know where his prioprities lie!

Didnt Gibbs say.. that the WH doesn’t listen to what cable news or the media says ?

Right .

Wait a minute, didn’t Press Secretary Robert Gibbs say just yesterday.,

“If the President had decided to run for President based on what the pundits were saying in December of 2006 and January of 2007, he’d be in the Senate. The hand on the pulse of America by those that live on cable TV, I don’t actually think that’s where all of real America lives.”

And the very next day the POTUS meets with those very pundits. How embarrassing for Gibbs and the President himself.

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Dare I say it???

This White House is trying to control the media!!!

…guess Beck was right…

So Mediaite discovers RM is a liberal.

How quaint!

Let’s play pretend 

   AP reports 

—George W. Bush meets with Conservative pundits ,meanwhile New Orleans still underwater .

Rush Limbaugh

Sean Hannity

George Will

OMG!

You mean, Obama and his militant Hammer & Sickle Media Guard, aren’t all down on the Gulf, sopping up millions of gallons of oil, with mops and other high tech stuff?!

I’m appalled!

Aside from all the vacation days, golf outings, Democrat fund raising trips, and invitation only White House concert events, didn’t Obama swear to us he was working night and day on the Gulf disaster?

But let’s go ahead and give him the benefit of doubt, and assume Obama was just passing out mops, two dollar haz-mat suits, & tickets for a trip on Air Farce One, so they can all go to the Gulf together in the morning, ready to do “Battle” with all that oil…

There must be some pneumatic tool that can straighten out that crooked face of hers. Or maybe not.

Was it ever verified that Gibbs 3 weeks ago privately scolded WH reporters for asking too many BP/spill questions? I know, I may have opened a can of worms.

Here are the meeting notes:

Obama says: thanks for coming today, I had to cancel a meeting with the prime minister of Israel again and a few other important people that said they can help stop the oil spill to meet with you.

Rachel says: So how can we still blame Bush for all your mistakes and lack of leadership.

Obama says” well, I can have more parties at the whitehouse and get more lame actors and singers to come and kiss my ass that might work on the american public.

Gail Collins says: I dont think that will help the oil spill out but lets just do what we do best… and call everyone a racist and pass the blame to everyone that we can and you can go play golf.

of course Maddow went to lunch at the White House. their online banking system was down and she had to pick up her paycheck in person.

Couple things – I hope they didn’t hold back and I hope he took what they had to say to heart. And to my fellow posters, go back to commenting on World Nut Daily.

…….meanwhile during the luncheon Keith Olbermann remains in bathtub refusing to come out or eat , DailyKos and now, no invite !

Mr. President resign sir !!!!!

RazorsEdge says:
June 17, 2010 at 6:29 pm

“The tension may be reaching new heights. CBS correspondent Chip Reid revealed on air Friday that White House officials called reporters into the West Wing on Friday to scold them for asking too many questions about the Gulf of Mexico spill. One report identified Gibbs as the one doing the scolding. ”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/26/gibbs-cracks-whip-administration-faces-new-criticism/

And to my fellow posters, go back to commenting on World Nut Daily

Sorry, you can’t get rid of us that easily!

Actually MichelleF – I would be disappointed if you did, You see, the more you post, the better it is for us “libs.”

Keep posting…please.

It must be entirely foreign to conservatives to hear ideological “allies” holding each other to account. It’s called intellectual honesty.

Please compare to the slobbering sycophancy delivered daily by the right wing media over the eight years of Cheney/Bush, where even the “mainstream media” scrambled to keep up by peddling Cheney propaganda utterly bereft of fact-checking.

MSNBC the place for White House propaganda!

Point – I’m sure then you would agree that Fox “News” is Tea-bag Central.

Ted, Yeah I see that Shepard Smith at all the tea parties and he even says nice things about the movement on the air.

Jim R says:
June 17, 2010 at 7:22 pm

“……….peddling Cheney propaganda utterly bereft of fact-checking.”

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Speaking of fact checking. On a few different threads today you mentioned that Barton was the recipient of 3.3 million dollars in campaign funding by the oil and gas industry. Do you have a source for those numbers ?

The only numbers that I can find suggest that it is considerably less than you suggest , $1,447,880 since 1989, as reported by the Center for Responsive Politics.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65G42D20100617?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

I sincerely hope that roxsteady isn’t your source or you you might be bereft of more than fact checking.

Okay Point, then you agree than Fox “News” is a tea-bag propaganda machine. So you shouldn’t have a problem with msnbc having an opposing view. Doing so would be, dare I say it, anti-American, yes?

Well, White House schmoozing seems to have worked on Joe and Mika. For the last week they’ve been competing to see who can give more buttkisses to Obama (with a few to Valerie Jarrett thrown in as well) within the three hours their show is on the air. Their aspirations to join the media and political “elite” (gag) are obvious and desperate. Witness Mika proudly announcing that she has received an email “from the White House” three or four times a week. Their desire to protect their precious access to the administration is embarrassing to behold — especially when they’re giving one of their cringeworthy “shout outs” to Valerie Jarrett or Robert Gibbs. Yuck and double yuck.

I expect Rachel Maddow will have more integrity than this.

Then Ted, since so many in the media lean left, you have no problem with Fox leaning right. Yes?

The idea that “so many in the media lean left” is a complete myth; it only exist in your mind and maybe Glenn Becks. But for the sake of argument, I don’t have a problem with Fox “News” being a tea-bag propaganda machine. I just wish that they and people like you would acknowledge the obvious.

Ted, If you knew who Shepard Smith was you would’ve concluded that was engaging in sarcasm. As for the anti american dig it comes with the territory…. When you are president you get called all sorts of stupid things.

Take for example that when Howard Dean was running many of his supporters cried out that they wanted to take their country back and that was all fine.

Now fast forward a couple of years and the famous I want to take country back chant is considered racist. (you can’t make this stuff up.)

Remember all those Bush Nazi signs at liberal rallies? Double Standards indeed!
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Ted says:
June 17, 2010 at 8:09 pm
The idea that “so many in the media lean left” is a complete myth; it only exist in your mind and maybe Glenn Becks. But for the sake of argument, I don’t have a problem with Fox “News” being a tea-bag propaganda machine. I just wish that they and people like you would acknowledge the obvious

Were you able to write that with a straight face, Ted?

Ted says :

The idea that “so many in the media lean left” is a complete myth;

Wow, I will keep you in my thoughts, and hope your that illness gets better soon .

MichelleF – Here’s some of the best advice you’ll ever get. Stop sitting in front of the television listening to Glenn Beck with a Big Gulp and a bag a chips and read. You might actually learn something. Seriously, just try it for a week.

Are you going to deny the fact that the media didn’t make a big deal out of the Nazi symbol’s and the other extreme stuff that was being said about Bush personally?

Point – Your going to have to be more specific. Don’t know what the hell you are talking about.

why do you respond to this Ted guy–or girl (it’s hard to tell)? he/she is just trying to goad you. he/she has zero interest in learning anything, looking at facts, having a discussion that doesn’t include ad hominem attacks on you and Glenn Beck.

fyi, “ted,” pretty much nobody says “teabag” anymore these days. the minute you start with that stuff, you’ve proven that you’re not really interested in conversation, you just want to provoke. what a dumb way to spend your time.

Does ANYONE on this website have a memory lasting longer than a week?

GW Bush did exactly the same thing when he was President, inviting members of the conservative press to the White House often.

Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Mike Gallagher and Michael Medved all had a pow wow at the White House with Bush in 2006.

Here is a picture of them all together.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/18/one-big-happy-family/

Maddow, oddly enough, was not invited.

Obama gets to have his turn now to meet the press.

Turnabout is fair play.

marigrace says:
June 17, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Wait a minute, didn’t Press Secretary Robert Gibbs say just yesterday.,

“If the President had decided to run for President based on what the pundits were saying in December of 2006 and January of 2007, he’d be in the Senate. The hand on the pulse of America by those that live on cable TV, I don’t actually think that’s where all of real America lives.”

And the very next day the POTUS meets with those very pundits. How embarrassing for Gibbs and the President himself.

I was going to say the same thing, so I just reposted your comment.

It’s funny too, that they all wrote negative articles/shows about his oil spill speech. Co-inki-dink? Me thinks not.

Ruth Gretzinger says:
June 17, 2010 at 9:23 pm

I am with you on that one!

Ted,
Run along back to the insane asylum man. They are missing their resident loon.

Obama –

Oil Spill – delay action for 58 days.
Bad press – emergency, crisis-management, must work on immediately.

The Narcissist in Chief.

Ted, reread my post. I did acknowledge that Fox leans right. Now I’m sure you’ll acknowledge that NBC, MSNBC, Katie Couric, etc. lean left. Nah, just kidding. I know you’ll remain off in your own little world.

Someone left this comment on my blog post about the lunch:

I have been watching Rachel Maddow’s show for a while now. While I do not agree with her on most political issues I have to say that her coverage of the BP gulf oil spill has been excellent. She slammed both BP and the Obama administration both as being inefficient and blames them both for the extent of the damage to the coast/animals. She had nothing good to say about either side and was not so keen on Obama’s speech,at least she wasn’t the day after she heard it.

I was quite surprised though when I recently turned on her TV show and saw her practically praising parts of Obama’s speech and slamming governor Jindal’s efforts at sand berns. It was like she did a complete turnaround on her thinking. I didn’t know what apparently changed her mind. I still don’t, but now know, thanks to you, that it was White House related. Everybody can be bought out it seems.

I am glad that the US is finally accepting Dutch and Norwegian help even with those sand bern barriers.

Must have been a good lunch….