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["All Rise" Update] The White House Finally Reveals Love Affair

By SusanUnPC on May 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM in MSNBC, Media Handling of Story, Obamedia

“All Hail the Chief” UPDATE: Wherein the White House press corps stayed seated when President Bush entered the room, but rose in unison for “The One.” Can’t you feel the love???

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Via Memeorandum, and from the Los Angeles Times blog, “Top of the Ticket” — with the writer’s tongue firmly planted in his cheek in his story, “Obama official Kareem Dale confirms White House’s love for MSNBC“:

For some inexplicable reason having to do with who knows what, a widespread impression has grown among many politics fans that MSNBC and its crowd of talkers — including Chris “Thrill Up My Leg” Matthews, Norah “The GOP Is Doomed to Die” O’Donnell and Ed “It’s Time to Grind Them Into the Ground” Schultz — are somewhat in favor of President Obama.

Well, actually in complete love with the Great Change Agent.

Now, thanks to the ubiquitous cameras of C-SPAN, comes official videoed word from Kareem Dale, special assistant to the president for arts and culture and a key White House advisor on disability policy. …

CHECK OUT the 1:51 point of this video, and listen to the praise for MSNBC from Kareem Dale, “special assistant to the president for arts and culture and a key White House advisor on disability policy”:

Ironically, “Morning Joe” is probably the only MSNBC show that takes Obama to task semi-regularly. DCMediaGirl, who knows Joe Scarborough in “real life,” has praised Joe’s truth-telling abilities many times here. And some of the best segments involve Pat Buchanan and Scarborough “goin’ to town” on Obama and his administration.

As you can easily imagine, plenty of bloggers had some, um, comments about this video. One of the best “riffs” comes from Jules Crittenden in “All You Need Is Love”:

Yesterday we saw mapped out the well from which the president of the United States draws his deep thot on foreign policy. An aging fat whiny Brit of weak vertebral constitution with an unhealthy Palin obsession, also known as Andrew Sullivan. We’ve also seen this week the instruments of his wrath: The attack foo-foo dogs of the White House Press Corps. Today, it’s the object of his affection. Make that “Love.” Yeah, that’s a capital L-o-v-e … Looooooove, as a White House flack admits that’s how the Obama admin feels about MSNBC. via LA Times’ Top of the Ticket, which has the vid of Kareem Dale, special assistant to the president for arts and culture, abashedly admitting feelings … nothing more than feelings … feelings of loooooooooove!

Feeelings! Woah-oh-oh feeeeeeeeeelings! Trying to forget these … Sorry, can’t help myself. All you need is love! O, to be so lighthearted and aglow. It just makes me want to break into song! …

Here’s the amusing part: MSNBC’s ratings are dropping like a stone. If you missed it, be sure to check out PatRacimora’s “Tingle Up My Leg Award for Cable News“:

This week Fox again leads by a large margin its competitors. In primetime (8-11 p.m.), Fox News averaged 551,000 viewers in the target 25-54 year-old demographic, with MSNBC finishing a distant second with 271,000, and CNN third with 248,000. If you want to see this weeks cable news ratings, they are all here, but to save you time, Fox is first for every hour of every day. …

Of course, PatRacimora graced the story with one of her memorable cartoons. Check it out.

… and …

… in my upcoming post, more proof (as if you needed it) that the MSM are in Obama’s pocket.