The Rahm Pile-On

Rahmbo has nothing to worry about regarding Blago's scandal, but his intense reaction to the media does not bode well for Obama's direct orders for "no drama" from his posse.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

I hate when some douche interrupts my toilet-using with yammering about death threats. Let me work.

?The urgency of this hunt seems a bit overblown...
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Ya think?
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Needless to say if you aren't part of the solution then you are partt of the problem.

I think it's Fitz ability to keep his lip buttoned that have you ALL running around looking like idiots.

And once Obama has compiled this report of all the staff contacts, the media will press him for the results. Just like they pressured Bush on his investigation of the Libby leak, right?

Oh, wait...

But the MSM loooves Obama and can't stop covering for him and his people?

This must be some sort of dark conspiracy. Or maybe a conspiracy within a conspiracy!!!

I can't help but notice as well that all of the actual reporting (as opposed to speculating and tut-tutting) is coming from the local Chicago media and affiliates. (Sun Times, Tribune, Fox)

As MS points out, there is other stuff going on out there in the world. John Cole, as usual, has a smart take.

Michael, thank you for closely following the rantings of the wingnuts and Drudge so that we don't have to. Does it make you feel 'dirty' (like it did to Joe the Plumber)? It must be tough duty immersing yourself in the mud being tossed around by the delusional and the smear artists. Thank you for yet another post that breathlessly (if somewhat reluctantly) announces how Obama and his people did nothing wrong.
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I'm pleased to hear that Obama's people 'talked to Gov. Rod Blagojevich about candidates who would be acceptable to Obama, but that the conversations involved no quid pro quo or dealmaking'. To do less than that would be an irresponsible betrayal of the voters that elected Obama to his senate seat. Obama has a responsibility to attempt to influence the appointment in a way that's good for his constituents. I'm glad to see that he's been doing that (in a legal and ethical manner).

I still await hearing of any actual wrong doing regarding Obama or his people. So far all I am hearing is that Obama had a person he favored to take his Senate seat, but was only willing to offer gratitude for the appointment. Scandal indeed.

In his news conference, Fitzgerald specifically cautioned the press to "not cast aspersions on people for being named or being discussed or if you learn they're being interviewed."

So of course, that's exactly what the press does.

Liberojevich...
Blageraci...
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/04/24/arts/liberace.2.jpg

Apparently, you were not listening.

I've been watching cable news this afternon--I know, get a life!--and you know, Barack Obama comes from the same state as Rod Blagoyevich. That is really suspicious! What did he know and when did he know it? This is the first major scandal of the Obama Administration! He has to explain himself. You notice he hasn't had any press conferences since this thing broke...oh, wait. He's having a press conference tomorrow...And Patrick Fitzgerald said that Obama is no way involved in this? I'll bet! That's not what Sean Hannity thinks! It's a coverup for sure. Will Obama be the first President to be impeached before he's inaugurated?

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/12/10/vacancy/

Good grief. Who cares what freaking Drudge says? and death threats? over what? Oh wait, for being Obama's chief of staff.
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The world has gone nutty.

Apparently Drudge rules Michael's world too.

It's amazing that Obama hasn't even taken the oath of office and the villagers have went back to the Clinton Rules of coverage.

Where the hell was this investigative zeal when Bush was committing illegal acts and sending our soldiers off to a phony war?

Where the hell was this investigative zeal...

You have to differentiate investigative zeal to speculative zeal.

What the lack of examination of the Iraq WMD claims and the "what is he hiding" festival of innuendo both have in common is that they require zero effort at determining the truth.

The number one rule of reporting is that laziness is job 1.

Link to Drudge and call it a day!

You just linked to Drudge. On the Time website. Wow. How do you still have a job?

It's pretty obvious that Barack Obama wants to control the story to the extent that he gets all the facts as he knows them out on the table in one neat package. Obviously, he'll have to do that sooner rather than later so we can dispense with the drip, drip, drip. But what does it hurt to give him a little time to assemble the evidence & squeeze his staff for the facts.

And, hey, it's Friday afternoon! Isn't this the traditional data dump hour?

The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

Newspapers are shutting down, news magazines are shedding staff right and left, and Michael Scherer gets paid to link to Drudge and transcribe Letterman. Whose nephew are you, anyway?

Uh, oh. I wonder if Rahm got nervous because he's hiding Obama's Indonesian birth certificate in said bathroom.

I wonder if the cameraman went through Rahm's medicine cabinet? Hmmm....

I can see the Drudge siren....

"William Ayer's Toothbrush Found in Rahm's Medicine Cabinet. Developing..."

This is not a criticism of anyone, but I confess to being fascinated to the point of obsession by what I see as a huge stylistic/temperamental divide between Obama and Emanuel. I can't help but think that Obama cringed when reading of Emanuel getting short with reporters and not coming into headquarters out of frustration. Again, I'm not judging it. I just think Emanuel's default attitude/behavior is so different than Obama's, and I wonder how that will play out in the key partnership of the land.

This is just like how the media dogged George W Bush when fellow Texan Tom DeLay was indicted, except no, it isn't.

"The urgency of this hunt seems a bit overblown..."
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Yeah, right. Must credit Scherer! Must credit Scherer! Whoopwhoopwhoop!

Watta jerkoff.

Back in the day, Drudge's accuracy rate was about one item out of three - not so hot since most of his 'reporting' came from mainstream folk.
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Nothing I've seen lately suggests he's improved his score.

coffee - But reportedly Emanuel has actually "mellowed" in the last few years, and Obama's known him long enough to know exactly what he's getting. Obama, after all, is the one who roasted Emanuel by saying that when he cut off part of his middle finger it had the effect of rendering him partially mute. Hard to see him cringing over Emanuel getting short with reporters. May even be the work of a prestidigitator.