CNN Tries to Contain Damage from Spitzer Outing Zakaria’s Consultations for Obama

Newsbusters ^ | 5-16-2011 | Brent Baker

[Mozilla]

Two days after liberal Democratic politician/CNN host Eliot Spitzer told fellow CNN host Fareed Zakaria it “brought a smile to my face” and “makes my heart warm” to learn President Obama “calls you for wisdom and advice about issues around the world,” Zakaria took to CNN’s Web site for his Sunday show, Fareed Zakaria GPS, to issue a “clarification on my conversations with the President” in which Zakaria, an in unusual late Saturday afternoon posting, declared: “The characterization that I have been ‘advising’ President Obama is inaccurate.”

Zakaria maintained that all he’s done is “had a couple of conversations with the President, off-the-record. At no point did President Obama ask me for advice on a specific policy.” Apparently, “conversations” that are “off-the-record” do not constitute “advising.”

The next day, on Sunday’s Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz accepted Zakaria’s explanation and only offered a gentle reprimand for not making the meetings known. Kurtz relayed how Zakaria claimed “that the two meetings he's had with Obama in recent months give him a sense of the President's thinking, and that he used to have the same kinds of meetings with, for example, Condi Rice.”

[Mozilla]

The media works with Obama. Nothing new, but now they are admitting it.

[Olog-hai]

Why does Zakaria even have a job. Him and his “The US should fear the ‘rise of the rest’” . . . you mean “the rest” that resent us and whose own sovereign “government” is utterly anti-freedom?

[Mr. Jeeves]

It’s a step up from Obama’s usual advisor “Ask the Imam”. :)

[Mr. Jeeves]

It’s a step up from Obama’s usual advisor “Ask the Imam”. :)

[Rome2000]

Hussein the muslim communist impostor needs to talk occasionally with people who pronounce "Pah-kis-taan" the same way he does.

This communist son of a whore sat on OBL for a year and a half and only took him out because Trump was on his tail.

Not natural born, and continues to occupy the WH.

Amazing.

[Michael.SF.]

“conversations” that are “off-the-record” do not constitute “advising.”

[laweeks]

liberal Democratic politician/CNN host Eliot Spitzer

Ya' mean "Client 99, the whore-monger? Must be great to get praise from such a dude.

[muawiyah]

First time I read it I took it Zakaria was advising OSAMA! So, it's OBAMA.

Same advice in either case i am sure.

[sheana]

That would be Pockyston. ;)

[balls]

Great post!

[Rome2000]

Har!

No rest until this communist moslem freak and his marxist crook comrades are sent back underground.

[JPG]

I propose a contest between Zakaria and Amanpour as to who has the most annoying accent.

[FlyVet]

Old news. Remember the conference calls between Emmanuel, Begala, Carville, and ABC News Independent Honest Journalist George Stephanopoulos?

Emanuel and 3 Pals Never Miss Their Morning Calls

They're all in the same incestuous bed.

[JimBianchi11]

If this guys backpedals any faster he is going to pull a groin muscle!

[Olog-hai]

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I propose a contest between Zakaria and Amanpour as to who has the most annoying accent.

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That one could be a coin toss.

BTW, I erred with my quote earlier; Zakaria said that the USA shouldn't fear the "rise of the (so-called) rest". This is the naïve piece he wrote; either he's ignorant as to their leaders' agenda or he doesn't care. Bad enough that it was the liberals in this country that helped it along so much . . .

[thirst4truth]

And when he goes rogue/dictator, the press corps are the first to disappear, then the professors at the universities and third the Hollywood stars.

They are a shoe in for the "fema camps" as these groups (groupie's) for a certainty, have no guns.

[lentulusgracchus]

....ABC News Independent Honest Journalist George Stephanopoulos?

Oh, I'm sorry, you've misspelt his name.

That's George Clintonopoulos, FRiend. ;)

Same great guy, though. I'm sure he'll call Election 2012 up the middle. </s, /sneer, /barf, /puke>

[ErnBatavia]

Mika, over at MSNBC, is feeling slighted....again.

[Mozilla]

Chris Matthews wants his leg tingles back too.