Posted on 01/09/2010 2:11:26 PM PST by Zakeet
In the past, I have claimed that the mainstream media is in bed with the Obama Administration. This time, I mean it literally.
According to the New York Post, Obama budget boss Peter Orszag is engaged to ABC correspondent Bianna Golodryga. Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend Claire Milonas, gave birth to his illegitimate child on November 17. Orszag is already a two-time father by his first wife (they are divorced, naturally).
The media is treating this whole story as a seedy morality play starring an incredibly nerdy Director of OMB. But even though it now appears that Orszag was spreading his seed just as profligately as taxpayer money, that isn’t the real story.
The real story here is actually Bianna Golodryga and the extremely cozy relationship that sometimes develops between reporters and their sources.
Golodryga, according to her profile at ABCNews.com, covers “the economy and business beat for all of the network’s programs, including World News Tonight, Good Morning America Weekend, and Nightline… Golodryga reported extensively on the housing and credit crisis as well as the collapse of Bear Stearns.”
Now, it would be unseemly for a reporter on Afghanistan policy to be sleeping with General David Petraeus. It is just as unseemly for the main economic reporter for ABC News to be sleeping with the Director of the OMB. Golodryga also covered Orszag when Orszag was running the Congressional Budget Office. Reportedly, they did not meet in person until the White House Correspondents Dinner in May 2009. They immediately began going out, even though the week they met, Orszag was featured together with Milonas in an article in The New Yorker.
Golodryga, it should be mentioned, is just as liberal as her fiancée. In a May 2008 Nightline report, she participated in open class warfare, stating, “As many Americans watch personal investments like their homes go belly up, many of the super rich have seen their fortunes only grow.” She’s also a water carrier for the Obama administration. “One year ago,” she said on Good Morning America in November while defending treasury secretary Tim Geithner, “the stock market was in a nose-dive. Major banks were going under. And the economy suffered its biggest quarterly contraction in seven years. Now, all of that has significantly improved today, except for when it comes to jobs.”
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Psychologists are not supposed to sleep with their clients. Neither are lawyers. Bosses aren’t supposed to sleep with their secretaries. Professors are generally not allowed to sleep with their students. Yet reporters are somehow supposed to be immune from the implicit biases associated with having sex with the people they’re covering.
Golodryga is sleeping with the nerdiest elephant in the circus. And she happens to be one of the lead reporters on the circus. Which makes her a clown rather than a reporter. Golodryga never should have gotten involved with Orszag. Now that she is, ABC News should move her to another division of their news bureau.
tsk tsk tsk
When it’s a great story, maybe...
just another in a long line of liars, cheats,commies,enemys of the state.
Question: How can a NERD like him get it on with so many women?
just a bunch of whores.
I’d say both of these scumbags represent so much of what is wrong with this government and the MSM. The guy is a high level employee of the government and less than two months ago his former girlfriend gave birth to his illegitimate son? He has children from a prior marriage. Now he is involved with a reporter. Exactly what sort of good judgment has this guy shown? How exactly is he planning on managing his own personal budget in this tricky scenario? Is he independently wealthy? If not, he’s the sort of guy we should be watching like a hawk. These two deserve each other, but the rest of us should never have to take any advice or information from either one of them. They are tainted and tarnished and trash. Both should be thrown out.
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Professors are generally not allowed to sleep with their students.
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Rules exist to be broken.
I suppose it’s amazing this rule isn’t broken more often.
Unless he's rich, I'd surmise it's his power and access. Of course, power and access can be lost, just as youthful good looks can fade.
Power politics. Helping ugly people get laid since time immemorial.
That’s one strange looking fellow.
Perfect, I guess, for the current line-up of bizarre administration officials.
Hey, it was ok when Helen Thomas was humping Bill Clinton...... ooops, that was her fantasy life in the WH press room! A troll with a snake, how is that even possible?
No biggie. Democrats and mediots have exempted themselves from all laws, regulations, rules, guidelines, ethics, morals and self control. Because they can.
Never heard of her.
Of course, FReepers had to explain to me who Kelly Rippa is too.
Expected behavior of media whores.
OMG, is that for REAL? It’s not Photo Shopped? AAAUUUGGGHHH!
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