With Obama's Axelrod at NBC, Political Operators Become the President's Press
An editorial at Investor's Business Daily states:
As if media bias weren't troublesome enough, the ascent of President Obama's top strategist to a plum job at NBC creates an even bigger issue: that of the political establishment becoming the press. Where does it end?
. . .Axelrod, remember, isn't just any White House official, but the ultimate political insider, the fixer whose wizardry created Obama. He cooked up the defining "Hope" and "Change" slogans, and the Obama "narrative," enabling a man with far-left ideas to reach the White House. With no Axelrod, there'd be no President Obama. . . .
"Team Obama has declared it has no intention of dismantling its campaign apparatus post re-election," IBD continues. "Put Axelrod in the catbird seat at a news outlet and the 'narrative' continues. Combine that with Team Obama's masterful manipulation of journalists, its command of social media, and an ugly picture emerges of a press indistinguishable from the political establishment."
IBD concludes: "This has happened in banana republics, but never in a Western democracy. . . . The one thing that will stop it is a press that won't cooperate. So where is that press?"
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