Shorter the Republican-Funded, Right-Leaning Politico
Shorter Michael Calderone: "Nico Pitney asked the hardest question at a press conference and Dan Froomkin has been one of the loudest voices calling out Obama for flip-flopping on his campaign promises. Ergo, the HuffPo must be in the tank for Obama."
Liberal bloggers came to a quick verdict on the Huffington Post’s announcement Tuesday that it was hiring Dan Froomkin, the recently fired Washington Post blogger who made a name for himself criticizing former president George W. Bush: Old media’s loss is new media’s gain.
Coming after the recent Beltway debate over coordination between Huffington Post’s senior news editor, Nico Pitney, and the White House over a question about Iran at a recent presidential news conference as well as President Obama’s decision to call on another Huffington Post reporter at his first White House press conference, the choice of Froomkin to oversee reporters as Washington bureau chief seemed to solidify the site’s identity as a progressive voice heavily invested in Obama’s success.
They’ve got some really funny mirrors over at the Politico, because they apparently can’t see themselves very clearly over there.
Boys can’t see their reflection in the pool either.
Whoa, good one, bmaz!
Was wondering if anybody would get the Pool Boy reference.
Other Shorter Politico: “Honest, we’re not Dirty F-ing Hippies! We’re Responsible Villagers and know what questions never ever ever to ask!!!!!”
Which Obama are they talking about? The “bring-us-together-for-change” Obama or the “bipartisan fetishist” Obama?
or the “move forward, turn the page, we don’t want to be about revenge or the blame game” Obama and Holder
Maybe the key phrase is “heavily invested in Obama’s success”. Depending on one’s understanding of the word “success”, the article could be on the mark or wide of the mark….
Is it conceivable that Politico tried to hire Froomkin? I don’t think it’s inconceivable, given the man’s success. What I can’t understand is the WaPo’s readiness to fire him–a self-destructive act in every way. I think someone must have been working hard to get him out of there–someone high on hatred and low on newspapers.
When the hell are they going to invite Ew into those press conferences?
Wondering when Seymour will hit the front pages with his inside view
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was thinking about what Seymour Hersh had announced a while back
http://www.minnpost.com/ericbl…..ation_ring
At the end of one answer by Hersh about how these things tend to happen, Jacobs asked: “And do they continue to happen to this day?”
Replied Hersh:
“Yuh. After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen.
“Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command — JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. …
“Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.
“Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.
“It’s complicated because the guys doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would normally call murder. It’s a very complicated issue. Because they are young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces you’ve heard about. Navy Seal teams. Highly specialized.
“In many cases, they were the best and the brightest. Really, no exaggerations. Really fine guys that went in to do the kind of necessary jobs that they think you need to do to protect America. And then they find themselves torturing people.
“I’ve had people say to me — five years ago, I had one say: ‘What do you call it when you interrogate somebody and you leave them bleeding and they don’t get any medical committee and two days later he dies. Is that murder? What happens if I get before a committee?’
“But they’re not gonna get before a committee.”
Hersh, the best-known investigative reporter of his generation, writes about these kinds of issues for The New Yorker. He has written often about JSOC, including, last July that:
As opposed to politico’s identity as a reich wing voice heavily invested in Obama’s failure?
I loathe that rag and its drudge V.2 content! :-(((
Politico is entitled to their own opinions. As for HuffPo being in the tank for Obama, we’ll see. I wouldn’t rule that out, but my bet is that Obama and HuffPo will be on opposite sides of several issues. Wiretapping. Executive power. That sort of thing.
Boxturtle (And in any case, it won’t be a “Fox worshipping the Right” situtation)
Politico seems to be full of conservative country club types. They know nothing outside of their guarded confines.
And the Politico writers read that and say, “What does she mean? See what?”
lol. I think that’s exactly right, klynn. What a wonderful image. lol all over again.
is there a link to politico in that fookin article ???
I can understand why the yahoos at yahoo would want to hide the freak show, cuz I figure that the comments attached to this politico article are a real hoot
and a fine representation of the ”civil” discourse at politico
I don’t even read the articles anyway
I just skip straight to the freak show
ao what’s the deal with these yahoos
and does anybody think they know what a yahoo is ???
I was wrong
the comments on politico’s Huffpo article are not a fair representation of the freak show
it’s even BETTER than it usually gets
btw, “better” to me means “worse” to you
normalregularsane peopleI do loves me some good train wreck …
BREAKING: House overwhelmingly rejects Obama’s signing statement – Linky – from thehill
It’s all about a few white Ivy League men falsely claiming to be victimized by a society and government in which they dominate. A couple of months formally out of power, but with a conservative Democrat at the helm, and they fall apart.
If the Politico’s writers were as frail as their arguments, they wouldn’t last a day weeding in a field, or changing beds in a nursing home or oil at a fast lube shop.
Does Politico not recall a fawning President Bush calling on Mike Allen the first day of Politico’s existence, making a big deal about this new media business that had been created just that very day? Because if there was ever a planted question, it was that one.
And I love how there is no apparent room for Obama to be criticized from the progressive left, in Politico-world.
Finally, how about a compare-and-contrast between the source of HuffPost’s money and the source of your own, Politico? Banker to dictators and despots, BCCI enabler, bankrupt banker: the Albrittons are nothing to write home about.
phoenix woman @2
yeah!