Friday, May 24, 2013

There Is Still A Club


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 President Obama held a private meeting with top national security journalists on Thursday afternoon following his national security policy address at the National Defense University in Washington, POLITICO has learned.

Present at the meeting were Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist; Gerald Seib, the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau chief; Fred Hiatt, the editorial page editor of the Washington Post; David Igantius, the Washington Post columnist; Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic correspondent and Bloomberg View columnist; and Joe Klein, the Time Magazine columnist.

The meeting, which was scheduled to last for one hour but lasted for two, was held in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

President Obama also met earlier this week with a number of progressive journalists, including the Post's Ezra Klein, Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, and MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart.
It is rumored that David Brooks was invited but was too humble to attend.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

The next black president won't be so kind. Why does the president waste his time with those half wits?

Vic78

OBS said...

I'm not sure which is worse, the "top national security journalists" who are all a bunch of useless fucking idiots that couldn't tell "national security" from shinola, or the "progressive" journalists that are all a bunch of middle-of-the-road, centrist/moderate/Reagan Democrat types.

What a swell club.

BlindRobin said...

The POTUS gets to talk to the industry representatives that are mutually approved by his and their handlers. It's not like he has a real choice in the matter.

JerryB said...

The article suggest that the President met with top national security journalists but then it mentions a bunch of dweebs and stenographers. I'm confused. Who were the top national security journalists the President met with?

Anonymous said...

Also,this why we can,t have nice things.

Fritz Strand said...

I have been thinking lately that Obama will go down as another Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was a 'brainiac' who could deliver fine speaches but the closer you looked the more you sensed someone who was instinctually just sort of provincial and small minded.