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

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57 Responses to “Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised?”

Citzcom
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:30 pm

Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised?: “Unbelievable,” he says, that the White House press corps is so servile: [Obam… http://t.co/5KT2aOCh0L
Jan4USA
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:33 pm

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rsmccain
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:40 pm

Seriously, @allahpundit You’d find more Republicans in a gay bar IN HARLEM than in the White House press corps. http://t.co/ji5dsRIS4V
exposeliberals
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:40 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…
LibertyUnyieldi
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:41 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…
screwtape1a12
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:44 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…
RhymesWithRight
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:48 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…
conservativelez
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:48 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…
Ivanalaska
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:52 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…
Dandapani
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:53 pm

Breitbart was correct. Enemy isn’t the left but the media rather.
CFLancop
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:53 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…
mjwadeesq
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:54 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…
Colony14
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:55 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…
mmebp
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:56 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…
rmnixondeceased
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:57 pm

To the MSM truth is only what will serve their chosen agenda. Delusion as ‘Truth’ is their speciality …
VectorRector
October 8th, 2013 @ 7:59 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…
CFLancop
October 8th, 2013 @ 8:03 pm

Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised? http://t.co/h6eEovlzz2 By @rsmccain A lesson many still haven’t learned in the age of Obama #tcot #ccot #tlot
thatMrGguy
October 8th, 2013 @ 8:21 pm

Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised? http://t.co/ypswvp5gJ2
811911
October 8th, 2013 @ 8:23 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…
gwvanderleun
October 8th, 2013 @ 8:31 pm

Don’t know what’s happened to this guy. He used to be the sharpest tool in the shed but of late he’s either become a dunce or decided to play one on the web. Maybe he’s angling for the next conservative Jay Carney. Either way he’s getting thick as a brick.
gwvanderleun
October 8th, 2013 @ 8:31 pm

Media like this is why Molotov made his cocktails.
sokeijarhead
October 8th, 2013 @ 8:37 pm

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LeatherPenguin
October 8th, 2013 @ 9:02 pm

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rsmccain
October 8th, 2013 @ 9:04 pm

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NorthShorefam
October 8th, 2013 @ 9:15 pm

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Wombat_socho
October 8th, 2013 @ 9:20 pm

The sense of humor that used to make his blog a must-read has completely vanished as well.
Media Bias | Washington, D.C. | Mainstream Media
October 8th, 2013 @ 9:21 pm

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JeffS
October 8th, 2013 @ 9:51 pm

You can play Eeyore for only so long, and then you become Eeyore. AP reached that point long ago. I like a lot of his analysis, but reading him can be painful.
Lisa Graas
October 8th, 2013 @ 10:10 pm

I’m not a Democratic Party propagandist. Republicans
are treating Obamacare as if it’s Thermopylae, but the debt limit fight
is actually Thermopylae. Obamacare can be repealed. Default can’t be
repealed. In the debt limit fight, Republicans are, sad to say, the Persians, not the Greeks. I hesitate to call the Democrats the Greeks. Obamacare is evil, but to destroy the country to keep Obamacare from destroying the country makes no sense whatsoever.
Lisa Graas
October 8th, 2013 @ 10:11 pm

By the way, I live in a solid red county and I asked a lot of people today what they think of all of this. You don’t want to know what they said.
AF632
October 8th, 2013 @ 10:23 pm

RT @LeatherPenguin: @rsmccain: Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised? http://t.co/aaTrLZqgN4
Cube
October 8th, 2013 @ 11:42 pm

Can’t wait to see their rejection of truth come back to bite them. And you know it will, sooner or later.
chewydog
October 8th, 2013 @ 11:49 pm

Jurnolist students, from Legal Insurrection. We’re doomed:

http://t.co/eGKgGYm6q7
chewydog
October 8th, 2013 @ 11:49 pm

That’s redundant.
Adjoran
October 9th, 2013 @ 12:36 am

Stacy recalls the Old Way, the way in which nearly all reporters were trained, including the early television anchors and reporters, who nearly all came from the newspaper business. Fewer Americans went to college and it was a rare thing for a reporter to have attended at all. More came up through the ranks with perhaps a High School diploma, serving as copy boys or errand boys before being given a chance at reporting.

And it began with garden club banquets and pet parades, then maybe some human interest assignments. Those who did well might get the crime blotter beat. Only those who had learned by experience how to get information and how to impart it concisely ever got near City Hall in those days.

But then came Watergate and the movie about Woodward and Bernstein and suddenly every flower child wanted to be a reporter, but since these were middle class white kids headed to college it created a demand for Journalism classes, which were hastily staffed by the least competent professors in the English Departments. Incidentally, they were virtually all Marxists or close to it, and imparted those values instead of actual journalism because none of them ever worked a day in journalism in their lives. And that became the standard. And the whole news business is dying because of it.
Adjoran
October 9th, 2013 @ 12:40 am

There is no reason for any default. Last year federal revenues were over $2.7 billion and debt service just under $400 billion. Estimates for this year expect interest to total 25% less. It’s down to about 10% of revenue.

Why would you default when the payment is 10% of gross revenue? It makes no sense, and under most readings of the 14th Amendment the President has no authority to default, he has to pay the debt service if the money is there.
lgstarr
October 9th, 2013 @ 3:45 am

Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised? http://t.co/Uj1zT25NPS
JadedByPolitics
October 9th, 2013 @ 5:37 am

Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised? http://t.co/u4A2IUJLpH
Quartermaster
October 9th, 2013 @ 5:51 am

Watch MSNBC all day? Do you really hate AP that much? I realize he’s often clueless (Morrissey is even worse, alas), but wishing that on him can only be seen as unreasoning h8. 🙂
Quartermaster
October 9th, 2013 @ 5:53 am

I find reading Morrissey to be just as bad. Hot Air has sunk like a rock since Malkin sold it to Salem Communications.
ZION'S TRUMPET » No Truth Will Ever Come from The MSM. They are Obama Lap Dogs.
October 9th, 2013 @ 7:17 am

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BlueTexanTweets
October 9th, 2013 @ 7:45 am

Always good for a laugh: right-wing propagandist @rsmccain complaining about propaganda. http://t.co/j8yD5bpFHI
Unix-Jedi
October 9th, 2013 @ 8:42 am

Obamacare can be repealed. Default can’t be repealed.

By the way, Disqus does a really bad job if you cut and paste – as you can note above.

Other than noting you’re cutting and pasting, and presuming you’re just saving some effort, that’s not true.

Once you’ve got people enrolled and getting their health care, it’s stuck. Just like Social Security. Just like Medicare.

The Default can be fixed by paying bills on time. Even if we “default” (and if we do, that’s Obama’s ordering payments to his cronies over job requirements again), the faith in the US word will be established once we pay, on time, on schedule.

In other words, you’ve got it backwards. Additionally, Obamacare leads us to default much faster, as it already has caused a massive loss in GDP, massive loss of jobs, and strangled new “revenue” to the government, while increasing outlays.
Unix-Jedi
October 9th, 2013 @ 8:43 am

No, I probably don’t, it’ll get me angry at the Democrats on the media’s spin.
Rosalie
October 9th, 2013 @ 9:05 am

If they haven’t felt the “bite” by now, they’re hopeless.
Maxicat
October 9th, 2013 @ 10:17 am

Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised? http://t.co/pyW8vfIdwA
Wombat_socho
October 9th, 2013 @ 10:31 am

Ed used to be a good read as well.
Pure Evil: Sherrod Sues Susie Breitbart; Wickedness in the Age of Dishonor : The Other McCain
October 9th, 2013 @ 12:46 pm

[…] Shirley Sherrod resigned. She is not suing Tom Vilsack, nor is Shirley Sherrod suing Vilsack’s boss, Barack Obama. Somebody should ask the President what he thinks about this, but there is not one honest reporter in the White House press corps. […]
PubliusNV
October 9th, 2013 @ 1:19 pm

Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised? http://t.co/W3uBSAWE6E
Quartermaster
October 9th, 2013 @ 1:49 pm

When he was first brought on by Malkin he was OK. I read very little on Captain’s Quarters, so I can’t say if he was any better independent or not. On Hot Air he’s just another Moderate sounding an uncertain Trumpet.