Are the Leftie Newz Hacks really PLAYERS? or just TOOLS?

 

Zeke Miller, who is one of the "scoop generators" working for Obama -- er, with Ben Smith at BuzzFeed -- writes under the headline, "How Mitt Romney's Campaign Put a Damper on Obama's Big Day."

Makes you wanna cry, doesn't it? Life is so unfair.

 

More pithy than Miller's story - of how Romney operatives dared to steal into Obama's campaign event and surreptitiously take unworshipful photos like the one up top - is this astute comment from one "Bob Wise."

An empty suit playing to empty seats. How appropriate.

 

'Nuff said.

Except for one thing:

In addition to Zeke Miller, Ben Smith has added Michael Hastings to his team of Scoop-Generating Newz Hacks for Obama over at BuzzFeed.

You may remember that Hastings was the "rat in an eagle's nest" who "changed history" when he ambushed four-star General Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone Magazine. It's more obvious in retrospect than it was at the time that Hastings was doing Obama's bidding... whether he realized it or not.

Obama wanted an excuse to get rid of McChrystal, as they had been at odds for some time over the way "forward" in Afghanistan.

October 2009:

.... McChrystal has spent much of the past two weeks putting enormous pressure on the Obama administration to back his calls for as many as 40,000 additional troops. The general's classified assessment of the war was obtained last month by The Washington Post and has freed him to advocate for it publicly.

In his speech in London, hours before meeting with Obama, McChrystal warned that refusing to accede to the request for more troops would be unwise.

Asked whether a scaled-back U.S. effort in Afghanistan -- an option favored by Vice President Biden and some of Obama's top political advisers -- would work in practice, McChrystal said, "The short answer is: No."

"You have to navigate from where you are, not from where you wish to be," McChrystal said after the speech. "A strategy that does not leave Afghanistan in a stable position is probably a short-sighted strategy."

 

And then... what happened (from the same link, Oct. 2009).

A brief meeting between President Obama and his top general in Afghanistan on Friday offered the commander in chief an opportunity to question directly the dire assessment of the war effort there, officials said.

The previously unannounced meeting between Obama and Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal took place aboard Air Force One after it landed in Copenhagen Friday morning. McChrystal, who had been in London for a speech, was whisked to Denmark at Obama's request, White House aides said.

The relationship between the two men is increasingly under scrutiny as Obama weighs whether to accept McChrystal's recommendations for a major increase in U.S. troops in Afghanistan. National security officials say Obama will decide this month, after a series of top-level briefings that began last week.

Until Friday, Obama had talked with McChrystal only from a distance, and had met him only once.

 

 

 

For more background, you may want to see this Guardian piece about the "man who brought down Stanley McChrystal," as well as Yours Truly at the time: "Our Unbearable Anti-President and Chastiser-in Chief."

 

 

   

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

I suppose some of the Leftie news hacks are mere tools -- wily opportunists who will write anything that'll pay off. In the early days -- before reporters got upgraded to "journalists" -- these guys were called "word-sellers" or "penny-a-liners" -- mercenaries with a typewriter, hirelings who were always available to the highest bidder. But I think most of today's media myrmidons are players -- guys and gals who have always believed -- and still do -- that Obama is The One who will lead us into the socialist Promised Land, where we shall all abide in Edenic felicity. And why wouldn't they believe this dreck? They are part of the worst-educated generation in American history -- the warped end-products of years of indoctrination in progressive schools and Leftist universities, where all they really learned is that the world is filled with victims and that America is the cause of the victimhood. But, they also learned, all of this can be rectified in a twinkling if we are only Compassionate -- and entrust our lives to the ministrations of Big Government. This is all they know, all they believe, and all they are capable of thinking about. These are Obama's version of the Ottoman janissaries -- the non-Muslim boys abducted by the Turks, converted to Islam, brainwashed in the most fanatic Islamic beliefs, who became the sinew and bone of Ottoman power. Our mainstream-media major-domos are modern-day janissaries -- the truest of true believers. I wish I were kidding -- but I am not.

[justin bieber shoes]

I find it hard to believe the only alternative for survival is to chase down a bear or cat with dogs in order to supply your family with food.