Posted on 09/14/2014 5:13:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Barack Obama met with over a dozen prominent columnists and magazine writers Wednesday afternoon before calling for an escalation of the war against the Islamic State, or ISIS, in a primetime address that same night.
The group, which met in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in an off-the-record session, included New York Times columnists David Brooks, Tom Friedman and Frank Bruni and editorial writer Carol Giacomo; The Washington Post's David Ignatius, Eugene Robinson and Ruth Marcus; The New Yorker's Dexter Filkins and George Packer; The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Beinart; The New Republic's Julia Ioffe; Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll; The Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib; and The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky, a source familiar with the meeting told The Huffington Post.
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He is a Joke I don’t care who he meets with ISIS speech is a World Joke.
The Pravda editorial board...
The a##clowns propaganda machine
...marching orders.
He’s a jug eared dufus. But he is smart enough to appoint commies and America haters who do maximum damage and sabotage
Wow, I wonder what trade off he got for them to give the story a sweet spin. Do we still have a free press in the USA? Or are they compromised. Sounds a lot like a totalitarian state that controls the media. Obama is definitely trying to control the criticism. Wow.
Wonder what they all wrote AFTER the speech??? Still slobbering??? Only Newt and David Brooks thought it was a good speech, I think. David Brooks has a LOVE AFFAIR with Obama.
‘Top Journalists”, eh? Lots of names that sure wouldn’t be on my list....
This - of course - was within the bounds of Journalistic Ethics because it helped The First Black President, who also happens to be a hard left-winger, just like these "Prominent Columnists and Magazine Writers."
Can you imagine the howling if Bush had met with Limbaugh, Drudge, Hannity, etc before a major speech.
Newt liked 0bola's ISis speech? Good gawsh.
I think more and more people are beginning to realize just how much BS has been put out by the MSM. Even the staunch left is starting to crumble. Along with that is a declining purchase of the crap the MSM is trying to sell. Barely a week goes by that some newspaper or magazine bites the dust. When are these idiots going to realize that news requires an objective point of view where the reader makes their own decisions. True journalism is pretty much dead in this country. The good news is that the market works and they are dropping like flies. In my mind, it can't happen fast enough...
Rush played a series of blurbs from reporters , about 25 different reporters.
The obvious post-speech talking point that the White House wanted promulgated was..
‘Reluctant Warrior’.
We heard that phrase over and over.
The correct phrase is ‘Incompetent Dunce’.
Is that the same Newt that had his picture taken with Nancy
Pelosi-both sitting on a couch in front of the Capitol?
Remember the good old days when we used say that the MSM slanted the news. Now these monsters are the information gods who will give us mortals what they, and only they, deem worthy of dissemination. Truth or not.
I was watching CNN to hear reaction to the confused oratory called a speech. I almost puked when Newt said it was a good speech. And to think that at one time he was a great thinker. It is because of Newt that I don’t trust any politicians.
DITTO Pravda...took the words right out of my mouth!
Obama Met Privately with Top Journalists the Usual Boot Lickers Before ISIS Not At War War Speech
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