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Team Swampland’s petty Obama strategy
Balloon Juice —
Michael Scherer is at it again:
Team Obama’s Petty Limbaugh Strategy
President Obama won the presidency by promising to be a different, more substantive, less gimmicky leader. He said he would not waste our time on “phony outrage,” like fulminations on the meaning of “lipstick on a pig,” or silly characters like “Joe The Plumber,” a guy who was actually named Samuel and was not even a licensed plumber. No, Obama said he was going to solve problems instead. Now that he is in the ...
Gibbs "Pleads Guilty" To Feeding "Counterproductive" Cable News Chatter
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Time's Michael Sherer, meanwhile, offered a gloomier and more critical interpretation of the White House's "petty" Limbaugh strategy. ...
Gibbs "Pleads Guilty" To Feeding "Counterproductive" Cable News Chatter
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Time's Michael Sherer, meanwhile, offered a gloomier and more critical interpretation of the White House's "petty" Limbaugh strategy. ...
Blaming the White House for the Limbaugh flap?
Political Animal —
BLAMING THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THE LIMBAUGH FLAP?.... Time 's Michael Scherer has a provocative piece today, arguing that the White House is not only wrong to criticize Rush Limbaugh, it's also largely responsible for the recent controversy surrounding the right-wing radio host. President Obama won the presidency by promising to be a different, more substantive, less gimmicky leader. He said he would not waste our time on "phony outrage," like fulminations on the meaning of "lipstick on a pig," or silly characters like "Joe The Plumber," a guy who was actually named Samuel and ...
Show Me
Balloon Juice —
In the comments section of the Swampland post DougJ linked earlier, Michael Scherer says the following:
greenlyfe, I don’t see anything wrong with saying you do not want any political leader to succeed in his policy goals. It happens all the time, and is the basis of a free democracy.
Let’s put aside the absurd notion that the very existence of “free democracy” hangs in the balance. What intrigues me is the assertion that this happens all the time.
I remember 2000 and 2001 pretty ...
Things That Make My Head Explode
Talking Points Memo —
... in Politico on how happy the Dems are to let the GOP brand themselves as the party of Rush and concludes, incredibly, "this entire controversy has been cooked up and force fed to the American people by Obama's advisers." ...
Gibbs: Squabbling with Rush may, perhaps, be “counterproductive”
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... to provoke Limbaugh in place since last year? The whole point , supposedly, is that Rush-baiting is very productive indeed. Anyone? Tapper? Bueller? As for why he’s suddenly climbing down, credit Drudge with a screaming banner about “enemies lists” and some grumbling in the media about pettiness and hypocrisy. Michael Scherer at Time : If you believed what Obama said during the campaign, then Carville is dead wrong. Republicans in Congress are not the only losers. The American people also lose. At a time of unprecedented threats to the United States, a time of financial ...
Ahhh, The Evil Plan!
Talking Points Memo —
... in The Politico. And Michael Scherer picks it up in Time in a sort of broad-ranging homage to the greatness of David Broder. ...
Remainders: Sir Ted
Ben Smith's Blog —
Clinton's in Brussels.
Sir Ted gets knighted.
Congressional Democrats worry that Obama's budget could hurt charities.
Michelle Obama hair mist hits the market.
DCCC crafts a handy form for your next apology to Limbaugh.
Scherer finds all the Limbaugh talk is petty.
Iowa gets its own Drudge Report.
American Family Association does robo-calls.
Ruffini spots the key gap in the online conservative infrastructure.
Bloggers aren't enough.
Nick ...
Just think
Rising Hegemon —
If McCain had been elected, li'l Mikey Scherer and Liz Sidoti and crew could be in the White House backyard right now, eating their hero's dry-rubbed Costco beef ribs, swinging on that tire swing and belting out "Takin' Care of Business" and other BTO semi-classics. And they'd be doing it too, if it wasn't for those meddling voters. (Holly Bailey of Newsweek ridin' the tire swing via Wonkette)
Eight plus minutes of truth
Firedoglake —
... This early morning I could write about Rush Limbaugh again but those insurance companies that are not insolvent have mortality tables which say it's likely we've got another 4 years, 1 month to make fun of Rush Limbaugh. So let's pace ourselves. But here's a bonus Star Wars-less photoshop.
Or I could write about the Obamas buying a swing set for the White House -- with tire swing -- no wonder Michael Scherer is so angry, if McCain had been elected he'd be swingin' on that sucker right now with a beef rib caked in Kirkland brand dry rub ...
Who Will Slay the Limbaugh Dragon?
Firedoglake —
... The GOP built Limbaugh up, and now they're stuck with him -- left to lob dirt bombs of faint hypocrisy at Barack Obama and Robert Gibbs who, much like the rest of us, are guilty of little more than an inability to control their laughter. Pundits are sputtering and pearl-clutching about the unseemly efforts of Carville, Begala and Greenberg to make the Republicans wear Limbaugh around their necks, but it rings pretty hollow after years of fawning praise for "boy genius" Karl Rove running skunk works out of the White House. As the country wakes up to how truly ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... ). The Cornyn e-mail echoes Michael Scherer's tut-tutting Time blog post from yesterday; both of them begin by quoting the same Obama statement on the campaign trail. The line that Obama and other Democrats are practicing nasty, lowball, hypocritical politics isn't limited to Scherer's post and Cornyn's e-mail and ...
The self-anointed president
Balloon Juice —
... just yet, or who the winners and losers will be. But if Thursday’s Health Care Reform summit at the White House is any indication, there is no doubt who will be standing at the middle of the scrum: The nation’s self-anointed Mediator-in-Chief, President Barack Obama.
Was Bush ever referred to as the “self-anointed Commander-in-Chief”?
I guess I should just be happy the article wasn’t titled “Obama’s petty health care strategy“.
The Heckler in Chief and Venezuela's Media Mauler
American Thinker —
... . Time Magazine blogger Michael Scherer calls it " Team Obama's Petty Limbaugh Strategy ." No doubt, the media faithful are confident that Obama will never turn on his own. It's one more reason why the American people distrust them to report accurately and objectively on Obama and his policies, and are turning instead to alternative media, such as talk radio. There's nothing "petty" about the threat to the1 st Amendment posed by a heckler in chief who gets to pick the person in charge of broadcast licensing and "media diversity." Jan LaRue is Senior Legal Analyst with the ...
Obama Honeymoon Ending as Former Backers and Media Realize WHO He Really Is
Flopping Aces —
... Disappointment between what Obama said during the campaign and his actions now is very troubling to the “news” media that drunk the Hopey-Changey Kool Aid. Michael Scherer writing at Time Magazine’s blog Swampland: ...
Rush Rammed -- By: The Editors
Articles on National Review Online —
... The partisanship and dishonesty of the American media is a familiar story and a slightly pathetic one. What makes the ongoing assault on Rush disturbing is that the White House is a participant in it. As Time magazine and others have reported, a small group of Democratic operatives and media figures -- Stanley Greenberg, Paul Begala, and James Carville -- have colluded with members of the Obama administration -- Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs -- in a ...
