Finally, there's an administration in the White House that Joseph Goebbels can be proud of! The media propaganda from the Obama administration is at a level never before seen, which the liberal media regurgitates, thanks in part to the bed wetters at Media Matters. It's been an interesting three years, as the White House has proven time and again that telling the truth is far from their objective - what's more important is controlling their message through the media. And since the media is in the White House's back pocket, asking questions isn't part of the game. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that a record 19 reporters and media executives have joined Team Obama, bringing a new meaning to the word propaganda.
Former Obama senior advisor David Axelrod and current campaign strategist, with his mustache that's straight out of 1930's Germany, is where it all starts. Axelrod used to write political articles for the Chicago Tribune. This connection has proven invaluable, as it's how Team Obama was able to get sealed divorce records from California unsealed of his Senate opponent back in 2004. This was how Obama got elected to the Senate. It always comes back to the Chicago Political Machine.
Besides Axelrod, there's the creepy elitist Jay Carney, spokesidiot and chief propagandist for the White House. Everyday he talks down to reporters and the American people, making it clear how little the Obama administration thinks of the country's citizens. His former job? He was TIME magazine's Washington bureau chief and was supposedly an objective journalist. Go ahead and place anything that comes out of TIME magazine as directly from the mouth of the White House.
From the Washington Examiner:
For some Washington reporters and media execs, cheering their team from the sidelines just isn’t good enough: Tugging on a red, white and blue Team Obama jersey is the answer.That’s the case for a whopping 19 journalists and media executives, including five from the Washington Post and three each from ABC and CNN, who’ve gone into the administration or center-left groups supporting the president.
Those inside the administration hit 14 this month when the Post’s Stephen Barr joined the Labor Department. That’s a record, say some revolving door watchers, and could even be much higher: The Post reports that “dozens” of former journalists have joined the administration, although Washington Secrets couldn’t verify that tally.
Many are in communications and speech writing offices, most prominently Jay Carney, the president’s spokesman who ran Time’s Washington bureau, and husband to ABC’s Claire Shipman. Some joined as the news business collapsed, many to finally voice their politics, and others, notably former Transportation spokeswoman Jill Zuckman, because she liked her future boss, Secretary Ray LaHood, a rare Republican in the administration. That relationship rocked: LaHood broke through the lower-tier Cabinet P.R. ceiling to become one of the most well-known Transportation secretaries ever. She had worked for the Chicago Tribune.
The revolving door isn’t a surprise to critics of the media and Obama. “The number of reporters going into the Obama administration merely confirms what I knew and what most conservatives long believed,” said Noam Neusner, himself one of the few reporters hired as a Bush speech writer. “There is a vast supply of liberals in newsrooms, they are very happy to support Obama administration policies if they can get hired and they barely hide their ideology in the way they cover the news.” Neusner, who I worked with at U.S. News, said that he too might have been guilty of a pro-Bush bias, but said correctly: “My editors and colleagues were surprised to hear that I was a Republican.”
Pointing out that there is a strong liberal media bias is pointless because it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. However, it certainly sheds a new light on the constant propaganda Americans are fed everyday that comes directly from the White House, even though it's packaged as impartial journalism.
Controlling the message and communications is the most important activity for any White House, outside of legislative accomplishments. With there being nothing popular accomplished by the Obama administration - unless you're an anti-American liberal - controlling the message is essential, as it's a way of politely lying to the country. Again, Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
Cliff Levine is a contributing editor for Habledash.
