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Thursday, May 14
ABC's Diane Sawyer Frets: Obama 'Caved-in' to Cheney and ...
Talking to co-host Robin Roberts, he offered talking points that could have come straight from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Stephanopoulos generously theorized, "So, by appealing this case right now, even if the White House doesn't win down ...
Tuesday, May 12
Name That Party: Opportunistic Hartmarx-Wells Fargo Dems Aren't ID'd
Phil Hare, D-Ill., who spent 13 years cutting the linings for men's suits at at Hartmarx plant, said he had called White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to try to get President Obama to talk with Wells Fargo's chairman of the board. ...
Tuesday, Apr 28
WaPost Shocker: Obama Staffers Attend Secret Dinners With Lefty Media
Rahm Emanuel, Sec. of the Treasury Tim Geithner, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have all recently had their chance to schmooze the press and guide them with the spin desired by the White House. So, not only does Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have ...
Wednesday, Dec 17
Stephanopoulos on Cabinet: 'Diversity and Competence without Any Tokenism'
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, yesterday, Charlie, the President-elect talked about the blend in the cabinet. It’s all but done now, you see, it had a nod to both governing and politics. In the White House, the President-elect has core Chicago loyalists -- Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, D...
Tuesday, Dec 16
Scarborough Rips MSM: In Wasilla Instead of Investigating Obama-Blago Connection
Rahm Emanuel, a congressman from Chicago and a friend of Obama's, told me that he, Obama, David Wilhelm, who was Blagojevich's campaign co-chair, and another Blagojevich aide were the top strategists of Blagojevich's victory. He and Obama "participated in a small group that met weekly...
Friday, Dec 12
Stoddard: Death Threats Keeping Rahm Away From Pressers
A.B. STODDARD: Well, this is obviously a huge distraction, but I think President-elect Obama is taking steps to be as forthcoming and as open and as transparent as he promised he would be. I would be shocked if Rahm Emanuel had not gotten on the phone with Rod Blagojevich and asked him, I don't...
WaPo: 'Obama Worked to Distance Self From Blagojevich Early On'
Several mainstream media accounts suggest that about the only thing Barack Obama and Rod Blagojevich have in common is they both live in Illinois. Today at the Washington Post's Web site, for example, we learn that "Obama Worked to Distance Self From Blagojevich Early On." The article beg...
Wednesday, Dec 10
Blago: Morning Shows Dance Around D-Word
Let's summarize: One "Chicago Democratic politics" at Today. One "Illinois Democratic politics" at the Early Show. One "Democratic Chicago machine" at GMA. But not once did we hear, or see in a graphic, the classic formulation "Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich."
Wednesday, Dec 3
CBS’s Schieffer: Obama Cabinet ‘Bunch of Flaming Moderates’
In reality, Obama’s pick for secretary of state, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, has a lifetime American Conservative Union voting score of 9. Obama’s pick for commerce secretary, New Mexico Governor and former Congressman Bill Richardson, had an ACU score of 18 while in Congress. Oba...
Tuesday, Nov 25
CBS Highlights Criticism of Obama’s Cabinet ... From Liberals
BARACK OBAMA: We are and always will be the United States of America. PINKSTON: From Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, to Economic Policy Advisor Lawrence Summers, to likely Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Commerce Secretary Bill Richardson, all are veteran Washington hands.
Sunday, Nov 23
Podcast: MRC's Motley on Left-wing Netroots Displeasure at Obama Transition
Appearing on the November 24 "Fox & Friends," MRC Director of Communications Seton Motley reacted to left-wing bloggers critical of President-elect Obama for choosing center-left, rather than far-left staffers for his presidential transition team. [audio available here]:
Thursday, Nov 20
LAT Writer: Obama Defense Picks are 'Centrists'; Peace Activist: You 'Can't Directly Criticize' Obama
Kevin Martin, executive director of the group Peace Action, said that although Obama had campaigned as an agent of change, the president-elect is "a fairly centrist guy" who appears to be choosing from the Democratic foreign policy establishment -- "and nobody from outside it."
Thursday, Nov 13
Politico Celebrates 'Rahmbonics'
Newly coined Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was on his best behavior during his Sunday show debut this weekend – measured, calm, bi-partisan. We have to slam shut the revolving door between drugs and crime," he told The New York Times.
Friday, Nov 7
Media Attacked Bush Over Baseless Conscription Fears, Ignores Conscription Calls From Obama And Other Dems
The news, however, remains silent as President-elect Barack Obama rolls out his own plans for conscripting America’s youth. Obama will have help pushing this agenda from his new chief of staff appointment, Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel proposed conscripting young Americans in his 2006 co-a...
CNN’s Joe Johns: Rush Limbaugh ‘Breathing Fire’
JOHNS: The Republican National Committee pounced on Emanuel saying, ‘Our nation will be ill-served if Obama runs the White House the way "Rahmbo" ran the Democratic Congress.’ So if you were thinking the country is somehow unified, think again. There are still deep divisions. Just becaus...
Truth Leaks Begin: Emanuel Was Director of Freddie Mac
As readers are likely aware, NewsBusters has for months made the case that if Americans knew just how tied to this crisis Democrats were, McCain would have easily won the White House, and the picture in both chambers of Congress would also be much different.
Obama's Already Broken Two Promises, Will Media Report?
The first broken promise was the one where the candidate of "change" was going to bring a new tone to Washington. This one has been broken by Obama's choice for Chief of Staff: Rahm Emanuel. Representative Emanuel (D- Illinois) is a hard-core, far left, liberal as well as being an old Clinton...
Thursday, Nov 6
Opinion: ABC's Claire Shipman Bizarrely Spins Rahm Emanuel as 'Centrist'
In 2006, his rank was only four. In contrast, the House member's average from the liberal group Americans for Democratic Action is a very high 96. And yet, Shipman erroneously asserted, "More than anything, the 48-year-old Illinois representative is a pragmatic, centrist politician wh...
Atlantic's Brownstein Rebukes Boehner for Criticizing Obama Pick of Emanuel
Appearing on MSNBC shortly after 1 p.m. EST, The Atlantic's Ron Brownstein rebuked House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) for drawing a legitimate criticism of President-elect Obama's choice of what he described as the "sharp-elbowed" Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) as his White House c...
Thursday, Oct 16
TV's Take: McCain Too Sarcastic and Conservative, Obama in Center
ANDERSON COOPER: It is interesting to see both men, when they do look at each other -- I mean, John McCain did look at Barack Obama this time around -- Barack Obama seemed to smile a lot more, John McCain kind of shake his head, laugh even some times at some of the attacks. John McCain seemed to se...
