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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:46:29 +0000

[...] Even Newsweek Thinks Wolffe’s Book is Weak [...]

By: No-nonsense-Nancy

No-nonsense-Nancy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:05:37 +0000

Very good article. I have a hugh stack of unread Newsweeks that I need to send to recycling. I just can’t stomach them. I last one I tried to read I threw across my bedroom floor.

BTW, is there a way to watch some of these U tube videos without all the pauses? I am not very internet savvy. Sometimes I just can’t watch them at all if they have long pauses.

By: FranSC

FranSC — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:35:26 +0000

Wolffe was on “Reliable Sources” today and Howard the host read from Wolffe’s book how 0 had asked him to write a book about the campaign and how he was promised access. To his credit, Howard did question him rather severely about all of that. Wolffe looked like the dog with his tail between his legs – very uncomfortable.

Hopefully this hack is getting the picture that people are on to him – even Newsweek that has to be on a scale from 1-10, an 11 in their lunatic support of his highness.

And to think each night he said, “Good evening, Kieth” and then proceeded to speak about 0zero and his campaign as though he were some objective observer. If only I had known then that he played basketball with the jerk (0), lingered over coffee and dessert while the other reporters were herded back to the bus, it would have saved some of my sanity.

It appears that Wolffe didn’t look after his job at NW as well as he should have and deserves to be relagated to a blog instead of WH correspondant. But, at the same time, I think NW powers that be are merely green with envey. They all suck!

By: TorchWood

TorchWood — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:48:14 +0000

“It’s true The man has no ass”

Ooooo, SNAP!!!

Score a direct hit for the girl. Ahem, I mean the lady.

By: Chicago Joe

Chicago Joe — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:41:35 +0000

Hmmm. Another “basketball buddy?”

By: jackie

jackie — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:01:14 +0000

Oh Yeah!! Can’t wait.

By: AngryWhitePerson

AngryWhitePerson — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:31:50 +0000

Countdown to when Newsweek prints its last edition.

By: Sonic Ninja Kitty

Sonic Ninja Kitty — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:17:20 +0000

Yes, and I’m thinking of subscribing to the National Enquirer–it’s got much better journalism than NewsWeak!

Great article, LisaB.

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:42:56 +0000

a lot of us did.

By: Tricia Spiegel

Tricia Spiegel — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:19:11 +0000

Excellent article, Lisa!!!!!

By: bullmoosegal

bullmoosegal — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:11:34 +0000

Wasn’t it the Newsweek ed. who said that Obama is ‘kind of like God?’

By: shannon

shannon — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:42:32 +0000

from his slithery “Hello Keith”…to his obnoxious drivel about the Hillary Clinton campaign (and anyone not on board with Baby Jeezus)….right down to a spectacularly bizarre book title: RENEGADE…

think about that for a second:

Barry Obama: Renegade!! (This miserable attempt at inspiring awe has been approved by the Democratic Leadership Council).

through it all Richard Wolffe, I’ll call him Dick, has been nothing if not the essence of stereotypical, effete, brown-nosing, sycophantic leach.

Now we all know who’s second in line for Robert Gibbs’ job. The difference is if Dick doesn’t like the tone of a Jake Tapper question, Dick can hurtle his caffe latte at him.

Can’t you just see Richard Wolffe giving Press Secretary spiels with a ceramic cup of Starbucks in hand?

By: georgiapeach

georgiapeach — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:34:58 +0000

They shared a piece of carrot cake while the rest of the press was ushered back to the bus? Sounds more like a date than standard issue “media access”.

By: H Towell

H Towell — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:19:41 +0000

Wolffie and KO drool at each other still?Turned msnbc off a year ago.

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:22:21 +0000

Another nail in the MSM’s coffin, Lisa. Your mention of “heavy-weight journalists” should make us all grieve because they are nearly an extinct breed.

But this says it all:

“At a book party at Washington’s Café Atlantico Monday night, there were quail eggs and caviar . . .”

This is what the seduction is all about. Gone are the days of beer and oyster crackers, when the nitty-gritty work, the hard-nosed investigation and the quality of the end product–the story–was the be all.

These faux-jounalists are all about the perks, the limelight and the aura of power and money.

They were the first to fall for the Big Lie. At the expense of the people they serve, the American public.

Call me a romantic but I still believe in honor. And this ain’t it!

Thanks for the piece, Lisa. And inconvenient reminder: the press has been in bed with power for a long time now. And what better way to control public opinion than to control the message.

Sickening!