Posted on 05/19/2013 8:48:46 AM PDT by Nachum
Senior White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer is set to perform the 'full Ginsburg' on Sunday, appearing on all five major Sunday morning news shows in the latest sign that the Obama administration is determined to fight for control of the news cycle following an explosion of major scandals in the past several days.
Pfeiffer will appear on CNN's State of the Union, ABC's This Week, CBS's Face the Nation, NBC's Meet the Press, and Fox News' Fox News Sunday.
The White House began suffering unusual setbacks in the media following the revelation that its edits to "talking points" on the Benghazi terror attack were more extensive and substantial than first admitted, and that it sought to minimize references to terrorism while pushing a false story that the attack was a "protest" against a YouTube video. On May 10, the IRS revealed--and apologized for--targeting conservative groups, triggering both criminal and congressional investigations. And on May 13, the Associated Press protested against a Department of Justice seizure of journalists' telephone records.
Those major scandals created (or, for conservatives, reinforced) an image of an administration willing to abuse its power to manipulate the media, punish its political opponents and discourage whistleblowers. The White House was slow and ineffective in its initial responses.
White House spokesperson Jay Carney gave journalists explanations about the Benghazi emails that were subsequently shown to be false; President Obama did not respond to the IRS scandal until asked a question by a reporter three days later; and the administration irked reporters by defending the AP subpoenas on national security grounds.
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MEDIA MATTERS’ TAX DOCUMENTS EXPOSE GROUP IS TARGETING CHRISTIANITY
Apr. 17, 2012
Media Matters for America has made no bones about its stance on social and political issues. While the organization claims that it is continuously “monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media,” its targets, at least according to official Internal Revenue Service documents, are specific: businesses, wealthy Americans and right-leaning Christians.
In the group’s tax-exempt application, which was requested and acquired by The Daily Caller, progressive non-profit made its intentions clear.
“Media Matters for America (MMA) believes that news reporting and analysis by the American media, with its eye on profit margin and preservation of the status quo, has become biased,” reads the application. “It is common for news and commentary by the press to present viewpoints that tend to overly promote corporate interests, the rights of the wealthy, and a conservative, Christian-influenced ideology.”
Flashback: DOJ Regularly Enlists Media Matters to Spin Press
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 16:43
(Before It’s News)
So, when can we expect the IRS to yank Media Matters’ tax exemption?
Via the Daily Caller:
Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency.
Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers show Schmaler, Holder’s top press defender, working with Media Matters to attack reporters covering DOJ scandals. TheDC obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Source: http://patdollard.com/2013/05/flashback-doj-regularly-enlists-media-matters-to-spin-press/
I find the comparison between Nixon and the Kenyan commie homosexual muslum offensive. Bathhouse barry couldn’t shine Nixon’s shoes. Whatever people may think, Nixon was an American Patriot who loved this country, probably why he’s so reviled in certain circles.
Emails reveal Justice Dept. regularly enlists Media Matters (left wing tax exempt org) to spin press
Emails sent in September and November 2010 show Schmaler working with Media Matters staffer Jeremy Holden on attacking news coverage of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation scandal.
Holden attacked former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky on Sept. 20, 2010 for what he called an attempt “to reignite the phony New Black Panther Party scandal.”
Before Holden posted his article at 7:52 p.m., Schmaler sent him several emails with information helping him attack both former DOJ oficials.
“Here’s one Wolf letter,” read the subject of one email Schmaler sent Holden that contained no text. The email was likely a reference to Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf, a member of Congress who led the Republican charge on the New Black Panther Party scandal involving alleged voter intimidation at a November 2008 polling place in Philadelphia.
In response, Holden told Schmaler that “The response to interog 38 is particularly helpful. Thanks!”
Interrogatory 38 was a reference to a question from Congress that the Justice Department answered, concerning the role of several senior officials in discussing litigation related to that voter intimidation case.
Well, there was a degenerate poet named Ginsberg, and we have a senile scotud judge by the same name, so perhaps a full Ginsberg is degenerate senility?
Yeah, and he resigned rather than tear America apart with an impeachment trial.
Obama would never put any consideration above his own political survival.
Pfeiffer saves the Full Monty for his private meetings with Barry.
Do these idiots even realize that one of the scandals is that they went full Ginsberg with Rice ? So their response to scandals is now to create a new scandal. Probably some brain dead Alinsky tactic.
Thanks Nachum.
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