suntimes.com - 1/13/2009
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Barack Obama jogged only slightly ahead of Rod Blagojevich across the news landscape of the past month, the glistening horizon of a new Camelot ahead, perhaps, but the jagged outline of the clouted city not far behind. Obama and Blago are more than the yin and yang of Illinois politics. They ...
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com - 1/14/2009
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Posted by Tribune staff at 11:45 a.m.; last
updated at 3:35 p.m. Rodblagojevich5 SPRINGFIELD---The Illinois Senate took...
an oath today to be sworn in as jurors in the historic impeachment trial of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, hours after he made his first ...
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Senate takes oath as Blagojevich impeachment jurors | ...
salon.com - 1/7/2009
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salon.com —
Jan 6th, 2009 | SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov.
Rod Blagojevich's official calendar shows he met with a...
top union official in his Chicago office the day before Barack Obama was elected president -- just as federal prosecutors say the governor was scheming ...
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AP Exclusive: Calendar shows key Ill. gov meetings
suntimes.com - 1/8/2009
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suntimes.com —
Arya's memo says Blagojevich is good dad, great
guy but ineffective, emotionally unstable chief executive SPRINGFIELD ...
When former Chicago television broadcaster Bob Arya joined Gov. Blagojevich's staff as a senior advisor in November 2006, the ...
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Ex-advisor to panel: Order Blago to get psych ...
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Obama’s White House Press Corps: Jeff Gannons All?
GayPatriot —
... agency? They were upset because this supposedly closeted gay man was excessively deferential when asking questions during White House press briefings.
They just didn’t like he like he tossed softballs at the president. As if no reporters were asking tough questions of the president and his team.
With the election of Barack Obama, it seems the press has become a corps of Jeff Gannons Obama’s news conferences have become “scripted” affairs:
As ferociously as we [the press] march like villagers with torches ...
Sun-Times: Journalists Shut Out by Obama
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... According to Sun-Times columnist and long-time Chicago journalist, Carol Marin, journalists at Barack Obama news conferences have come to realize that Obama has pre-picked those journalists whom he will allow to ask him questions at the conference and many of them now "don't even bother raising" their hands to be called upon. ...
There Will Be No Sharks, Piranha, Barracuda, Or Man-Of-War In The Obama White House Press Pool
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Make no mistakes … Have no doubts, the press/MSM, who have already proven themselves coddlers of this man, will continue as such for the next four years.
Helen Thomas will purr …
Chicago Sun Times:
Obama, Blago flip sides of Bizarro plotline
BY CAROL MARIN
Barack Obama jogged only slightly ahead of Rod Blagojevich across the news landscape of the past month, the glistening horizon of a new Camelot ahead, perhaps, but the jagged outline of the clouted city not far behind. ...
Journalists Being Shut Out by Obama
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... According to Sun-Times columnist and long-time Chicago journalist, Carol Marin, journalists at Barack Obama news conferences have come to realize that Obama has pre-picked those journalists whom he will allow to ask him questions at the conference and many of them now “don’t even bother raising” their hands to be called upon. ...
Journalists Being Shut Out by Obama
Stop The ACLU —
-By Warner Todd Huston [image] According to Sun-Times columnist and long-time Chicago journalist, Carol Marin, journalists at Barack Obama news conferences have come to realize that Obama has pre-picked those journalists whom he will allow to ask him questions at the conference and many of them now “don’t even bother raising” their hands to be called upon. One wonders why journalists are allowing this corralling of the press? Would they have allowed George W. Bush to pre-pick journalists like that? Would they meekly sit by and allow themselves to be systematically ignored, ...
America Held Hostage: Day 2
Six Meat Buffet —
... He’s still not going to call on you if he thinks you have a tough question no matter how much of his guilt is running down your chin. ...
Obama Administration Announces 'New Openness' to Closed Pool of Reporters
Weekly Standard Blog —
... It's reminiscent of the lesson Chicago columnist Carol Marin has learned since Obama took the reins, his 2007 promise to ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/7/2009 —
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The appointment of Burris is a pure impeachment-defense tactic from Blagojevich. First, he’s making a public case that no crime was actually committed. If Burris was ...
Emanuel’s List For Blago
commentarymagazine.com 12/14/2008 — The Chicago Tribune has these rather eye-opening details on Blago-gate:
Obama said Thursday he had never spoken to Blagojevich about the Senate vacancy and was “confident that no representatives” of his had engaged in any dealmaking over ...
How many preachers does one inauguration need? —
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Twice since 2000, atheists have sued the federal government to keep religion out of the presidential inauguration. Both times they lost. They have filed suit again over this year's ceremony, and their case looms especially large: Barack Obama is ...
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