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Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised?

Posted on | October 8, 2013 | 57 Comments

“Unbelievable,” he says, that the White House press corps is so servile:

[Obama’s press conference] ran for one hour and six minutes, with 12 different reporters being called on 00 although, notably, not Ed Henry of Fox News — and between them they couldn’t muster one question about the catastrophe that is Healthcare.gov or the spectacle of National Park Rangers locking senior-citizen tourists out of war memorials and/or inside their hotels.

Try this, Allah: Watch MSNBC all day long and keep in mind that, for the vast majority of the reporters covering politics in Washington, MSNBC is the Gospel Truth. Realize that the ambitious younger journalists in the White House press corps dream of the day when they’ll have their own regular spot on MSNBC or, perhaps, they will be appointed to a job in the Obama administration itself, like their hero and mentor, Jay Carney.

All of these reporters are Democrats. They hate and despise Republicans, and consider it their most important duty as journalists to help elect more Democrats and then to help the Democrats to advance their political and legislative agenda. To these reporters, the superiority of the Democrats is an objective fact, and anyone who says a word in favor of Republicans is therefore a liar or a fool or both.

No reporter in the White House press corps watches Fox News, except for amusement, to laugh at it as crude sport. Nor, for that matter, does any reporter in the White House press corps read conservative blogs or Web sites. Insofar as the Internet has any influence on them, the sites that are most influential among D.C. journalists are such venues as Think Progress, Media Matters, Mother Jones and Salon.

Go read Brian Beutler’s savagery toward Republicans and realize that Beutler therein expresses the sentiments of the White House correspondents for ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today and the Associated Press.

Was it “unbelievable” that Obama faced no tough questions at the press conference? It would have been unbelievable if he had.

The press corps is a constituency of the Democrat Party in the same way that the AFL-CIO, the NAACP and Planned Parenthood are constituencies of the Democrat Party. If any of them have any criticism of Obama, it arises from the feeling that he is not liberal enough.

Our nation’s “mainstream” media are, actually, Democrat Party propagandists. Let’s stop pretending that they are interested in truth.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Brian Beutler, Democrats, Hot Air, Media Bias

Comments

57 Responses to “Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised?”

  1. rvail136
    October 9th, 2013 @ 3:30 pm

    Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised? http://t.co/6dYFeNuB1w

  2. K-Bob
    October 9th, 2013 @ 5:49 pm

    I was a regular reader of Captain’s Quarters. One of my first regular stops after blogging became “a thing.” Hot Air is a total repudiation of Captains’ Quarters. I don’t get it at all.

  3. K-Bob
    October 9th, 2013 @ 5:50 pm

    The Democrat/Media Complex

    He coined it, and he was absolutely correct.

  4. K-Bob
    October 9th, 2013 @ 6:05 pm

    They’ve sunk on the philosophy side, but it’s clear they’ve found a niche among the clueless, mushy “middle.” (Basically Democrats who are disgusted by barack, but refuse to listen to conservatives–The Karl Rove/Frank Luntz audience share).

    I don’t know what the most recent rankings show, but they come in at #15 among conservative sites as of June of this year. It sure as heck isn’t conservatives driving that level of traffic.

    BTW, this explains why you’ll see references to Ed and AP occasionally at ANY conservative site (excluding their personal buds, like Ace).

  5. K-Bob
    October 9th, 2013 @ 8:20 pm

    Most people ask the wrong questions when they get into this.

    I’d ask, “How angry are you that your healthcare just got twice as expensive?”

    Also, “Don’t you think we should do whatever it takes to stop the corrupt lawbreaking and failure-to-enforce laws they do not like by this administration?”

    And, “Are you aware that what they call a ‘shutdown’ is actually only about a 25-percent shutdown, and that nothing barack does will prevent Social Security checks from going out over the next ten years?”

    But the usual pollster questions are always framed like, “Shouldn’t the Republicans be doing everything in their power to avoid a shutdown?”

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  7. LOPlato
    October 10th, 2013 @ 7:03 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Seriously, @allahpundit You’d find more Republicans in a gay bar IN HARLEM than in the White House press corps. http://t.co/j…