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Valerie Jarrett to Host Netroots Nation Town Meeting
Daily Kos — ... With Valerie Jarrett, scheduled for Saturday morning at 9 a.m., will give progressives across the country a chance to engage in substantive conversation with one of the president's most trusted advisors. In the latest New York Times Sunday Magazine, President Barack Obama said of Jarrett, "She’s family—she combines the closeness of a family member with the savvy and objectivity of a professional businesswoman and public-policy expert." Jarrett serves as Senior Adviser and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public ...

Valerie Jarrett answers questions at Netroots Nation
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... is the moderator. Questions were submitted in advance via blogs, twitter and Facebook (and even email.) In the White House, Jarrett "is Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement." ...

Glenn Beck zeroes in on his latest White House target: Valerie Jarrett
Crooks and Liars — On his Fox News show last night, Glenn Beck launched his latest campaign to unseat a member of the Obama White House: Valerie Jarrett , one of the president's closest advisers and a close friend of Michelle Obama as well. Beck in fact devoted over 20 minutes of his opening segment to attacking Jarrett. He not only puts Jarrett at the center of the controversies Beck has managed to stir up and force resignations, but he says Jarrett is the reason the Obamas are flying to Denmark to lobby for Chicago as the host city for the 2016 Olympics. It's straight out of ...

If Greg Craig Is Leaving Anyway....
The New Republic blogs — ... , why not also pin the Copenhagen-Olympic committee fiasco on him ? No other clear fall guy (or gal ) has yet emerged, after all--but the press certainly wants one. Indeed, it makes Machiavellian sense to hang as many muck-ups on Craig as possible (Van Jones comes to mind) before sacrificing him at the media altar. Just think of Craig as Wee-Bey from "The Wire"--claiming bodies for the crew on his way out. They might not even have to give him a ...