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Maddow, Olbermann Invited to White House Chat with Obama
Posted: Oct 22, 2009
Here's a curious turn in the White House vs. Fox News fight.
On Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow were among several people who attended an off-the-record briefing with Pres. Obama at the White House. Sources tell us other attendees at the two-and-a-half hour chat included Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Gwen Ifill of PBS and Gloria Borger of CNN. Perhaps not surprisingly, no one from Fox News was in the room.
This fact quickly turned into ammunition for the folks at FOX. Last night on "Special Report," Bret Baier revealed the information pointing out that opinion hosts from one channel were being invited to a briefing with the Commander-in-Chief, all the while Fox was declared not a news organization.
And it continued on Fox & Friends this morning, as the troika talked about the back-and-forth ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper had with press secretary Robert Gibbs in the morning off-camera gaggle yesterday.
[However, co-anchor Gretchen Carlson didn't have her facts correct when she said, "in this reporter gaggle was Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann who are opinion people over at MSNBC." Maddow and Olbermann were in the off-the-record briefing on Monday not the on-the-record gaggle on Tuesday.]
(h/t HotAir & JohnnyDollar)
Update: The White House has sent TVNewser the complete list of those who attended the off-the-record briefing Monday: Eugene Robinson, E.J. Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib, Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifill. Several members of the staff also attended.
Dear But Fox Isn't a News Organization - NJ
[ In Reply To ..]I agree with your nick!
NJ
I get a picture of Caesar fiddling while Rome was burning.... - watcher
[ In Reply To ..]Hard to take you seriously when you apply freedom of speech selectively, and you know darned well this has nothing to do with whether or not something is a news organization. It is not the function of the government to thwart free speech because it is something it does not want to hear. And the fact that you condone and support such behavior by an administration speaks volumes about you.
And I would be saying the same thing if they were shutting out MSNBC.
Guess that makes me more liberal and caring more about the constitution and our freedoms than YOU. Now that's RICH. Sigh.
Am I missing something? - question
[ In Reply To ..]Seriously. What does this have to do with the right to freedom of speech? Is the constitution being violated?
Didn't you know? The liberal's freedom and civil rights battle cry only applies to themse - Lu
[ In Reply To ..]those who think like them. And Obama has been trying to control the news media since his campaign. It's sickening and anti-American!
I think he is channeling Hugo Chavez. nm - watcher
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Yes it is. Just like O, you cant handle the truth, so you - discredit Fox, but millions disagree.nm
[ In Reply To ..]nm
The millions who watch Fox News would disagree with you. - Cherise
[ In Reply To ..]Yes, they have "opinion" programming, but the majority of the day is devoted to news. Real news, I mean - not the junk served up by the liberal media. And...almost every news segment that involves interviews includes people from both (or all) sides of the issue, including dyed-in-the-wool liberals.
50% of Fox News' viewing audience identify themselves as "independent" or "liberal", incidentally. You might, one day when you have nothing else to do, ask yourself why.
I guess all those reports I've been watching - jm
[ In Reply To ..]about the missing little girl whose body was just recovered is not real news. And the balloon boy?...I guess that wasn't real news. And the story about the hit and run isn't real news. And all those reports about things congress is voting on, etc. I guess all those must be made up fake stories. Even though they are showing the same news (oops...I mean fake) stories on CNN, MSNBC, and the local news. I guess they are real if they are on those stations, but fake if they are on Fox.
Get a grip people!
got that right - BadHorse
[ In Reply To ..]I agree - It *isn't* a news organization, at least not a reputable one. May as well invite TMZ.
Besides, they probably wouldn't have shown up anyway even if they *were* invited.
They don't have to be invited...This is still a free country..for a minute! - nm
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