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White House Creates Liberal Damage Control Position
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Posted on 05/24/2011 4:50:35 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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Ah a propaganda minister! Where's Tricky Dick?
1 posted on 05/24/2011 4:50:39 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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“What are you writing, Comrade? Dear Leader wants to know!”


2 posted on 05/24/2011 4:54:06 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Sub-Driver

This isn’t satire????


3 posted on 05/24/2011 4:58:01 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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They will need at least 1/2 of the West wing


4 posted on 05/24/2011 4:58:17 PM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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ahhhh....so many complaints...so little time...


5 posted on 05/24/2011 4:59:02 PM PDT by moovova (Obama...a man, a president, a loser.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is why Free Republic, and especially the Sunday Thread, is so important. We catch the lies and report.


6 posted on 05/24/2011 4:59:17 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver (Democrats: the law of unintended consequences in action.)
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"I hear these people saying he's like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested ... I mean, it's crazy," Gibbs said.

They sure should. George Bush is decent, honorable and truthful, all things Baraq al-Husayn bin Obama is not.

7 posted on 05/24/2011 5:02:28 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("It's hard to take the president seriously." - Jim DeMint)
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To: Sub-Driver

So Talon News was a “scandal” but this is just Stalinist business as usual from Progressives.


8 posted on 05/24/2011 5:03:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("If Eric Holder had his way, O-B-L would still be alive today." Thank you President Bush for Gitmo.)
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Zippy is taking so much heat from the web-based left that I seriously doubt whether one toad in the White Hut press operation can stay on top of it.


9 posted on 05/24/2011 5:03:37 PM PDT by surely_you_jest (Obama has scars going over halfway around the back of his head. What's up with that?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Should we just call him the Joseph Goebbels Czar?


10 posted on 05/24/2011 5:03:52 PM PDT by mnehring
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into a role in the communications department as Director of Progressive Media & Online Response," Pfeiffer writes.

So will the next White House ALSO have to fill this office for dealing with "Progressive Media"?

11 posted on 05/24/2011 5:04:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("If Eric Holder had his way, O-B-L would still be alive today." Thank you President Bush for Gitmo.)
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Since Obama cannot possibly run on or defend his record publicly, the only move he has left is to unleash the attack dogs of political war.

Obama and his team as well as the left wing media will unleash the nastiest ugliest meanest rottenest political hatchet jobs this country has ever seen.

Shades of the Nixon administration at its worst.


12 posted on 05/24/2011 5:07:20 PM PDT by scorchedearther
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This jig is up, I confess, I am Jesse Lee. Now get down on the floor! You’re all under arrest for daring to question the Supreme Potentate!


13 posted on 05/24/2011 5:08:55 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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Should we just call him the Joseph Goebbels Czar?

I vote for Spin Pimp Deluxe.

14 posted on 05/24/2011 5:10:22 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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Should we just call him the Joseph Goebbels Czar?

I vote for Spin Pimp Deluxe.

15 posted on 05/24/2011 5:10:34 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

Give him some street cred.
M.C. Prop A Ganda


16 posted on 05/24/2011 5:14:56 PM PDT by mnehring
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Minister of Truth.

You know, they said that Nixon was paranoid...


17 posted on 05/24/2011 5:19:59 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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From Wikipedia.

Jesse Lee (born 1979) is the White House was named Director of Progressive Media & Online Response on May 23, 2001. This is a newly created position to help maintain the President's online presence as he prepares for his 2012 Presidential reelection bid. The duties of this position, dealing with negative or factually incorrect stories about the President, was formerly handled by the Democratic National Committee's rapid response team.[2] Lee’s first tweet about his new position included a picture of The Terminator.[3]

Lee was formerly the Online Programs Director under the Barack Obama Administration. Lee spent his early life in Takoma Park, Maryland, and graduated with a degree in philosophy from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 2002. He was hired to do Internet work for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in 2003, and worked in their online division from 2004 to 2006.

Lee served as Senior New Media Advisor to Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi during the 110th United States Congress. During the 2008 United States presidential election, Lee performed online response for the Democratic National Committee. He worked in online outreach during the Presidential transition of Barack Obama, in the New Media department. On February 23, 2009, President Barack Obama announced Lee was hired as Online Programs Director for his administration. Contents [hide]

Early life and education

Lee was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland.[1] In 2002, Lee graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.[4] Lee graduated with an academic major in philosophy from Trinity College, and was also close to obtaining a major in politics from the college but was short one thesis.[1] After college, Lee did temporary work as a paralegal.[1] [edit] Political career

Lee was hired in 2003 to do Internet-related work for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).[1] From 2004 to 2006, Lee worked for the online division of the DCCC.[4] Rahm Emanuel became DCCC chair in 2005, and allowed Lee discretion in his online postings.[5] Lee served as the Senior New Media Advisor to Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi during the 110th United States Congress.[4] Lee blogged for Pelosi on the Speaker's official blog called "The Gavel".[6] During the 2008 United States presidential election, Lee performed online rapid response for the Democratic National Committee.[1] Lee worked in the Presidential transition of Barack Obama, in the New Media department, performing online outreach during the transition and work on the website Change.gov.[4][7] The Washington Post noted "Lee is well respected in the blogosphere".[8] Greg Sargent, a blogger with The Washington Post partner WhoRunsGov.com, wrote positively of Obama's choice of Lee for his transition team.[8] "Lee, meanwhile, is highly regarded by liberal bloggers. He wrote the first-ever blog for the House Speaker, and in the closing days of the campaign he did online rapid response for the DNC, helping the Obama camp frame its message outreach to the blogosphere," wrote Sargent on Talking Points Memo.[9]

On February 23, 2009, President Barack Obama announced Lee was hired as Online Programs Director for his administration, in a release from the White House Press Secretary of "key White House staff".[4] Part of Lee's duties as White House Online Programs Director include running Whitehouse.gov, and innovating techniques to engage individuals on the Internet.[1] Lee came up with a program called "Open for Ideas", and this led to a town hall meeting in March 2009 where President Obama answered questions that had been submitted online.[1] "I think the online town hall is the coolest thing I've seen come to fruition. I'd like to get to the point where that kind of stuff replaces the comment forums you typically find on government websites," said Lee to the National Journal.[1] In September 2009, Lee posted to the White House blog defending the Obama Administration against criticism from conservative political commentator, Glenn Beck.[10] Lee criticized Beck for what he asserted to be factual inaccuracies,[11] and recommended the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact.com for further information about "Fox lies ... repeated by Glenn Beck and others on the network".[10] Jim Kuhnhenn of the Associated Press wrote that "calling a news networks' assertions 'lies' is unusually confrontational".[12]

18 posted on 05/24/2011 5:20:10 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: mnehring

LOL

Might I suggest one tweak:

M.C. Poppa Ganda

(I’d be surprised if that isn’t already used)


19 posted on 05/24/2011 5:23:27 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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"I think the online town hall is the coolest thing I've seen come to fruition.

I though it was pretty gay, too.

20 posted on 05/24/2011 5:25:10 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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