31 Replies to “"White House adds media position to combat unfavorable stories"”

1. Jeff G. says:

   May 23, 2011 at 8:08 pm

   I think the new position should be called “Minister of Fuck You, Mr Soon-to-be-audited”

2. Seth says:

   May 23, 2011 at 8:19 pm

   Also known by its PC name “The Ministry of Truth”.

3. newrouter says:

   May 23, 2011 at 8:20 pm

   protein wisdom : enemy of the state : OUTLAW

4. cranky-d says:

   May 23, 2011 at 8:25 pm

   Obama is creating new jobs, winguts! Get with the program!

   Seriously, I can’t even work up a mild surprise over this. I figured he already had a whole team of people working on combating criticism from the right hate speech from un-American people.

   Chicago politics, baybee. He’ll have a whole machine in place before you know it, if he doesn’t already.

5. cranky-d says:

   May 23, 2011 at 8:43 pm

   OT: you know why they put out that ad about Ryan wanting to kill grandma? It’s because that’s their own plan and they know it. Lots of grandmas will die for the progressive cause of “free” health care for all.

   You are obsolete! *key twilight zone piano thingy*

6. SteveG says:

   May 23, 2011 at 8:55 pm

   My IRS audit just got expanded from 2008 SCH E and charitable donations (which were all documented) to 2008, 2009 and 2010.
   Evidently they noticed that my credit card was besmirched by a gift to some guy in CO.

   So… if everyone gives Jeff some money, my…. indiscretion… as it were won’t stand out quite so much

7. newrouter says:

   May 23, 2011 at 8:57 pm

   “Evidently they noticed that my credit card was besmirched by a gift to some guy in CO.”

   me i act like a true american these days. an illegal alien.

8. Patrick Chester says:

   May 23, 2011 at 8:58 pm

   Other than I guess we should be glad he didn’t appoint a “czar” for going after official enemies critics of the regime.

   “Commissar” is probably a better term. (Uh-oh!)

9. Bob Reed says:

   May 23, 2011 at 9:21 pm

   Other than I guess we should be glad he didn’t appoint a “czar” for going after official enemies critics of the regime.

   That’s what I thought this position was. Just like Nixon, he’s got a little list…

   Seriously though, Obama has more “Czar’s” than imperial Russia did!

10. dicentra says:

    May 23, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    Boy, there’s a big opportunity for I Am Spartacus here.

    As if there weren’t already plenty of critical stuff on the internet.

11. newrouter says:

    May 23, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    et for years, Samantha Power, a prominent advocate of humanitarian intervention and a key backer of our action in Libya, has been a powerful member of Obama’s foreign policy team. In 2005, Obama contacted Power after reading her book on genocide. There followed a long conversation, after which Power left Harvard to work for Obama, quic‘kly emerging as his senior foreign policy advisor.

    It seems reasonable to conclude from his long-term relationship with Power that Obama shares her interest in making humanitarian military interventions more common. Yet the president has said little about this, and the obvious policy implications of his ties with Power are rarely drawn. In his biography of Obama, David Remnick describes the beginnings of the Power-Obama relationship thus: “Obama did not strike Power as a liberal interventionist or a Kissingerian realist or any other kind of ideological ‘ist’ except maybe a ‘consequentialist.’ In foreign policy, Obama said, he was for what worked.”

    Here we have the classic protective presentation of Obama. The future president reads a book by a passionately ideological humanitarian interventionist and quickly hires her as his key foreign policy advisor. Yet the obvious ideological implications of this are left entirely unexplored. Instead we are quickly reassured that Obama is nothing but a pragmatist.

    link

12. serr8d says:

    May 23, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    An independent media would rebuff this Barky asshole every chance it gets. Not ours, their being but a tool helping craft this ideologically developing Socialist Republic.

13. serr8d says:

    May 23, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    Bloggers will be next. Can’t have all of this…complaining going on, when we’ve a nation to CHANGE.

14. Sean M. says:

    May 23, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    I guess it would look sort of tacky if they just let Media Matters open their own office in the White House.

    (Plus, this way, they don’t have to task staff with cleaning up Oliver Willis’ grease stains.)

15. Joe says:

    May 23, 2011 at 11:48 pm

    Nattering nabobs of negativism, don’t you dare criticize Obama.

16. guinsPen says:

    May 24, 2011 at 3:49 am

    Lee launched his political career as the author of a one-page anti-Iraq war leaflet distributed in cafeterias, coffee shops and libraries across the country. That’s a strange beginning for someone who is best-known for helping push the Democratic Party into the Internet age. But Lee doesn’t see this as a contradiction. “I view my role as part of a progressive movement … to make ordinary people feel invested in their democracy again,” he said in 2008.(1)

    Lee got his start in politics running a popular Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) blog in 2003. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) snatched him up in 2006 to run The Gavel, the representative’s YouTube generation-friendly blog. In the months leading up to the 2008 presidential campaign, he ran the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) rapid-response team.

    Now, as the online guru of the Obama White House, he is tasked with mending the occasionally contentious relationship between left-wing bloggers and Beltway politicians, harnessing the netroots reach and passion to spread the administration’s message.

    Profiles in Scourge

17. B. Moe says:

    May 24, 2011 at 5:58 am

    Has he assembled his Committee to Re-Elect the President, yet?

18. geoffb says:

    May 24, 2011 at 6:02 am

    So he is the head of the internet troll squad. Maybe he can now get some better ones. We all need that.

19. Darleen says:

    May 24, 2011 at 6:13 am

    Lee is also expected to deal favorably with the “progressive media,” according to the memo.

    Just another version of ObamaCare waivers …

    Crimeny, talk about your Imperial Presidencies.

20. Carin says:

    May 24, 2011 at 6:17 am

    So he’s got his Joseph Goebbels. All he needs now is a Leni Riefenstahl.

21. Carin says:

    May 24, 2011 at 6:21 am

    I guess it would look sort of tacky if they just let Media Matters open their own office in the White House.

    Ha. But true.

22. Squid says:

    May 24, 2011 at 7:43 am

    If I were a good Christian, I’d almost feel sorry for the guy. I can only imagine the taunting he’s going to get in the coming weeks and months.

23. richard mcenroe says:

    May 24, 2011 at 8:06 am

    He better have bought a whole shitload of Red Bull. I’m just saying.

24. charlesaustin says:

    May 24, 2011 at 8:12 am

    There are so many czars Obama will soon need to appoint a czar czar.

25. LTC John says:

    May 24, 2011 at 8:28 am

    Professional Left(ist)?

26. cranky-d says:

    May 24, 2011 at 9:44 am

    Czar Czar Binks?

27. Diana says:

    May 24, 2011 at 10:48 am

    @26 “Forgive him Father” … that was a low blow.

28. charlesaustin says:

    May 24, 2011 at 11:19 am

    Let’s call him the Gainsay Czar.

29. Squid says:

    May 24, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    Let’s not!

30. mojo says:

    May 24, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    “Mouthpiece” is traditional.

31. Spiny Norman says:

    May 24, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    LTC John

    Professional Left(ist)?

    Now, Professional Internet Troll.

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