Michael Scherer, and Joe Scarborough) are hell bent on making David Axlerod's missstatement about PEOTUS Barack Obama meeting with Governer Rod Blagojevich a major news story and perhaps even a scandal. But excuse me, isn't there a pool reporter going everywhere with Barack Obama these days?
And hasn't that pool reporter generated such riveting news that we now know when and where and how long our President elects gets his pilates on? Or via the jerk Ben Smith, how many times our President elected has declined to attend church since election day? So its simple folks, if the media really want to prove Obama is lying, just produce the pool report where he met with Blago. If not I think we should ALL be handing them a big cup of STFU!
There is one thing that is going unspoken here. Whether this will be or won't be an issue for Barack Obama going forward will lie directly with the press. Either they can choose to cover this non issue relentlessly or they can actually focus on stuff that matters. And thats the point. Jake Tapper/Drudge are trying like hell to make it seem like Obama was lying yesterday when he said he didn't meet with Blagovich because of something David Axlerod said on FoxNews some weeks ago. But if you go to the tape Axlerod himself said he hadn't talked to PEOTUS Obama about the Senate seat and didn't know who he preferred right before he made the comment that Obama had met with Blagojevich. If you want to see the full exchange that Tapper nor Drudge nor FoxNews themselves will show here it is.
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Axlerod on Fox
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Mind you EVERYTHING released Tuesday in reference to the case against Blago shows that he was PISSED that Obama wouldn't pony up. So imagine this for a moment, lets say a GOOD journalist reads the indictment, sees that Blago calls Obama a mutherphucker for not being willing to give him anything but appreciation in exchange for naming Valerie Jarrett to the Senate seat. Subsequently Valerie Jarrett removes her name from consideration and joins Obama's staff in the White House. A reasonable person would take that to mean that Obama said if there was going to be some kind of pay to play scheme he wasn't going to be involved and he would bring her to Washington with him. So lets go REAL worst case scenario. We find out Obama met with Blago, Obama said he wasn't playing ball, to prove it Obama gives Jarrett a job himself. So where would the "he did or he didn't" meet with Blago register on the richter scale in that scenario to the average person? Hell most of them would think he was a HERO for saying no and not playing ball. But instead the triumverate of Drudge Tapper Scherer and I am POSITIVE soon to be Jonathan Martin from Politico, have decided that Axlerod talking on FoxNews is whats MOST important about this story so I guess it is huh?
Now here is the relevant factor when judging if this was good journalism or not, there is a frikkin pool reporter with Obama around the clock these days, thus Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin of Politico fame's running post about Obama not attending church since the election. So how hard do you think it would have been for Tapper to go back and look to see the pool reports? But now because of Drudge to Tapper to of course Scherer this looks like somebody is lying or trying to hide something. Hell Mikey Scherer could have looked up those pool reports too, but he didn't. I mean shit do you think he wanted to kill his own story gifted to him by Tapper? Of course not.
Lets, for a moment, take as truth that Obama met with Blago. Here is what the imperical evidence would show in my opinion.
1. Obama meets with Blago to recommend Valerie Jarrett
2. Blago says he wants Obama to pay to play
3. Obama says thanks but no thanks.
4. Blago starts making threats about naming other people if Obama doesn't pony up
5. Obama says phuck you to Blago and names Valarie Jarrett to his White House Staff.
I mean its Blago's own words that tell us that Obama's people weren't playing ball.
ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated that he is "struggling" financially and does "not want to be Governor for the next two years." ROD BLAGOJEVICH said that the consultants (Advisor B and another consultant are believed to be on the call at that time) are telling him that he has to "suck it up" for two years and do nothing and give this "motherfucker [the President-elect] his senator. Fuck him. For nothing? Fuck him."
And we do know that he was referring to Valerie Jarrett. And we do know that she took her name out of consideration and joined Obama's WhiteHouse team. I am really anxious to see how Sean Hannity can twist those simple facts into a negative light. Its almost impossible. But of course he probably won't touch it because, well, they are FACTS. He and every other two bit talking head will just focus on the bogus "Obama's lying" meme without taking the next step of trying to explain WHY he might lie about talking to a guy when its pretty easy to find out whether he did or didn't and when he obviously refused to bow to Blago's demands.
On the other hand nobody in the media thought the outing of Valerie Plame, pretty much an act off treason if not cowardice, by Dick Cheney and Karl Rove was too much of a big deal. Nor did they think it a big deal that after Scooter Libby was thrown under the bus and was rightly tried and convicted that he never served a day in prison because George Bush decided to commute his sentence. Now people are STILL pissed about Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich because he was selling oil to Iran. But NOBODY is pissed that Bush and his cronies outed a woman who was tasked with helping keeping America safe. So you see the press has the power to decide what is relevant and what isn't and if the last few weeks is any indication all of a sudden the press are going to try to find their inner Sherlock Holmes now. Just like with Whitewater and Gennifer Flowersin the last Democratic presidency.
Now of course Jake Tapper, Joe Scarborough et all are now also trying to make an issue out off Obama campaigning for Blagojevich in 2006. Funny but I don't remember any of them waving their finger at the Republicans who made Tom Delay their leader, or a those Senators who gave, convicted of 7 felonies, Ted "Hulk" Stevens. Of course they also didn't point out that Blago never did any campaign appearance for Obama, nor did he have a speech at the Democratic National Convention, or was he at Grant Park for the celebration after Barack Obama won. And finally of course they didn't point out that John McCain used Blagojevich in an attack ad and so EVERYBODY already knew the guy was under investigation.
Of course not, that would TOTALLY kill their whole guilty by assocication meme!
What I want to know is when any of those bastards will write a story about the many lies of George Bush. But I'm not holding my breath.
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