Obama WH: Maddow and Olbermann are "Invaluable"

[Soul Crusher]

   
   
White House Praises MSNBC's Olbermann & Maddow: 'Invaluable'
www.huffingtonpost.com
First Posted: 09-29-10 01:05 PM   |   Updated: 09-29-10 01:05 PM
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 On the heels of President Obama's criticism of Fox News in an interview with Rolling Stone, his Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton has gone out of his way to praise rival network MSNBC.

The Upshot's Michael Calderone reports that Burton was talking to a group of reporters on Air Force One when he was asked if Obama felt that people didn't appreciate or recognize his achievements. Burton said the president didn't spend time thinking about it, but that he wants people to know that his administration has "done a lot."

Then Burton praised MSNBC:


"And if you're on the left, if you're somebody like Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow or one of the folks who helps to keep our government honest and pushes and prods to make sure that folks are true to progressive values," Burton continued, "then he thinks that those folks provide an invaluable service. But at the same time, we need to focus our energy and our efforts on the choice that Americans have this fall."

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Unreal. 

[Kazan]

What do you expect? Maybe they will get their own ball washing station over at MSNBC

[Soul Crusher]

What do you expect? Maybe they will get their own ball washing station over at MSNBC

Post of the day! ! ! ! !

[Soul Crusher]

I never ever remember Bush ever saying anything like this about Fox. 

[Dos Equis]

What do you expect? Maybe they will get their own ball washing station over at MSNBC

LOL! 

Still trying to manipulate the media. 

[Option D]

I never ever remember Bush ever saying anything like this about Fox. 

Jesus H Christ ...im speechless

[Soul Crusher]

Jesus H Christ ...im speechless

Please find me anything remotely close and I will take back my statement.

 

[Option D]

Please find me anything remotely close and I will take back my statement.

 

He didnt have to say that Fox news was the media leg of the Bush Administration to the white house...it was common knowledge...Am i correct?

[Soul Crusher]

He didnt have to say that Fox news was the media leg of the Bush Administration to the white house...it was common knowledge...Am i correct?

Maybe so, but did they ever overtly admit it like this? 

[Option D]

Maybe so, but did they ever overtly admit it like this? 

There is no Maybe...

They didnt have to "admit it" Its like admitting the sun is hot

[Soul Crusher]

There is no Maybe...

They didnt have to "admit it" Its like admitting the sun is hot

Yes, but having a POTUS admit to stuff like this is really moving the ball down the court in the wrong direction IMHO. 

[Option D]

Yes, but having a POTUS admit to stuff like this is really moving the ball down the court in the wrong direction IMHO. 

But does it really matter or warrant any kind of discussion...like really

[Soul Crusher]

But does it really matter or warrant any kind of discussion...like really

Yes it does!   Of course it does.


Its wrong when Fox kneepads and its equally wrong when MSNBC kneepads. 

All media should always be going after all of these bums in govt all of the time, not giving them cover for their horrific policies and lies.   

[George Whorewell]

But does it really matter or warrant any kind of discussion...like really

Of course it does. This is unbelievable on a few levels. First of all, regardless of whether or not you think it was "common knowledge" that Fox was an offshoot of the Bush White House (which is absurd), did anyone in Bush's cabinet call out Fox's principal rival in the media and praise any of the Fox network hosts by name? This most recent admission makes Obama look weak, scared and completely incapable of handling criticism or formulating a viable rebuttal to the GOP on any of the hot button issues during the upcoming elections. Fox is the only network that hasn't lined up to kiss his ass, so he feels the need to address Fox by name? What a spineless pussy and what a joke of a Commander and Chief. Bush took 100000000000x the criticism from every major MSM outlet in the world for 8 years, was mocked day and night on The Daily Show, Colbert Report, SNL, and a million other shows and never bitched like a 6 year old girl who got sent to bed without desert. This fucking douchebag has a sense of entitlement which suggests he isn't fit to be a dog catcher, let alone leader of the free world. I seriously think that he stays up at night reading Glenn Becks blog and compiling an enemies list instead of running the country (when he's not playing golf, shooting hoops, or giving interviews to Rolling Stone). 

[Soul Crusher]

Of course it does. This is unbelievable on a few levels. First of all, regardless of whether or not you think it was "common knowledge" that Fox was an offshoot of the Bush White House (which is absurd), did anyone in Bush's cabinet call out Fox's principal rival in the media and praise any of the Fox network hosts by name? This most recent admission makes Obama look weak, scared and completely incapable of handling criticism or formulating a viable rebuttal to the GOP on any of the hot button issues during the upcoming elections. Fox is the only network that hasn't lined up to kiss his ass, so he feels the need to address Fox by name? What a spineless pussy and what a joke of a Commander and Chief. Bush took 100000000000x the criticism from every major MSM outlet in the world for 8 years, was mocked day and night on The Daily Show, Colbert Report, SNL, and a million other shows and never bitched like a 6 year old girl who got sent to bed without desert. This fucking douchebag has a sense of entitlement which suggests he isn't fit to be a dog catcher, let alone leader of the free world. I seriously think that he stays up at night reading Glenn Becks blog and compiling an enemies list instead of running the country (when he's not playing golf, shooting hoops, or giving interviews to Rolling Stone). 

Damn, in that case i hope he never reads this site.  My ass will be in GITMO in no time at all.    

[24KT]

Damn, in that case i hope he never reads this site.  My ass will be in GITMO in no time at all.    

Gitmo?!!! Nah, ...it would be Abu Ghraib or rendition to some secret Syrian site for you.  

[BM OUT]

How are shows that have an audiance smaller then a Michigan home game invaluable?No one watches their shows and soon ,after Comcast takes over,both will be unemployed.

[whork25]

He didnt have to say that Fox news was the media leg of the Bush Administration to the white house...it was common knowledge...Am i correct?

Exactly

[Soul Crusher]

Exactly

Oh freaking please.   Show me one example of the Bush admn doing anythin g like this over 8 years. 

[Option D]

that Fox was an offshoot of the Bush White House (which is absurd),   

off yourself...

[George Whorewell]

Please explain to me how Fox News was an arm of the Bush administration. Because Karl Rove used to watch it and so did Dick Cheney?

Glenn Beck wasn't even on Fox for 95% of Bush's presidency, You had Alan Colmes on Hannity and Colmes, O'Reilly who criticized Bush on numerous occasions-- Palin wasn't on Fox back then either.

You simpletons fail to realize that there is a difference between being ideologically compatible with a cable news network, and openly attempting to use a cable news network as a scapegoat to excuse your pitiful results and poll numbers as POTUS. Fox is the only right of center news network in the entire MSM. The President was a republican. Why the fuck would the cabinet members of a republican president watch MSNBC, CNN, etc. to constantly be mocked and bashed 24/7?> Not once did Bush adress MSNBC by name or openly criticize the network as preventing the progress of America (whatever that means). Not once did Bush applaud Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity or any of the other Hosts on Fox.

If you can't see the difference between those two situations, then you probably aren't bright enough to understand most things that happen in politics or life.

[dario73]

off yourself...

So much for all the other points, good points, that George Whorewell made.

[tu_holmes]

I can't imagine any person on television being "invaluable".

They're just fucking people...

Crackers all want to think they are more important than they are.

[Soul Crusher]

Please explain to me how Fox News was an arm of the Bush administration. Because Karl Rove used to watch it and so did Dick Cheney?

Glenn Beck wasn't even on Fox for 95% of Bush's presidency, You had Alan Colmes on Hannity and Colmes, O'Reilly who criticized Bush on numerous occasions-- Palin wasn't on Fox back then either.

You simpletons fail to realize that there is a difference between being ideologically compatible with a cable news network, and openly attempting to use a cable news network as a scapegoat to excuse your pitiful results and poll numbers as POTUS. Fox is the only right of center news network in the entire MSM. The President was a republican. Why the fuck would the cabinet members of a republican president watch MSNBC, CNN, etc. to constantly be mocked and bashed 24/7?> Not once did Bush adress MSNBC by name or openly criticize the network as preventing the progress of America (whatever that means). Not once did Bush applaud Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity or any of the other Hosts on Fox.

If you can't see the difference between those two situations, then you probably aren't bright enough to understand most things that happen in politics or life.

i was just banned from Huffington Post for pointing out the hypocrisy of the left in this matter as well as them trashing Arianna Huffington for calling out Obama's horrible policies.   

[Soul Crusher]

I can't imagine any person on television being "invaluable".

They're just fucking people...

Crackers all want to think they are more important than they are.

A lot of those chics on the spanish channels are invaluable in my eyes.