Imagine that while a slick death spreads across the Gulf of Mexico, a group of respected reporters from America’s best-known media companies attend a pool party hosted by the VP of British Petroleum. Imagine that they take their kids to play with the kids of executives from BP and the oil industry, and that the journalists claim to have had a wonderful time and post pictures, and videos and tweets of their perfectly friendly interactions with the people who are responsible for the greatest environmental catastrophe in a generation.
Rahm and Biden goof off with members of the media
Now imagine those journalists, a few days after the party, claiming that their integrity had not been compromised, and that they are perfectly capable of reporting accurately and aggressively on the doings of BP and the oil industry.
Would you believe them? Hold on to that answer, and consider this: No such meeting happened with BP. But on the grounds of the Naval Observatory last weekend, Vice President Joe Biden and the DNC hosted a pool party for their friends in the Washington journalism industry. It was “a nice way to spend a hot Saturday afternoon,” according to the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder.
It was also a great way for the journalists in attendance —Wolf Blitzer and Ed Henry of CNN, as well as David Sanger of the New York Times — to reveal that their integrity is water soluble.
Read More: By Mike Riggs, The Daily Caller
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These shindigs are merely the administration's way of reminding the media that they have been bought and paid for!!
There hasn't been any integrity since Kennedy was assassinated. The media discovered then that to play politics was where the real money was not in the truth only. Since then, one by one, the hires have been slowly those who support the agenda of a well educated ruling class, of narcissists. Today, the seven deadly sins can be found as social standards fit for a working class whose wealth is confiscated to pay the elitists. Since the dawn of time there has been a struggle between the smart who seek to laze at the expense of the ignorant and the virtuous. Once again they think they have gained the upper hand and once again there will be the foul stench of blood run as they try to avoid being held accountable. Hmmm, seems even altering the teaching of history can't change the fact people resent being shat upon.
Somebody should have dumped a barrel of oil in THEIR pool !
In my opinion Biden is a damn blooming idiot. It does not take a rocket scientist to know that all the news media with the exceptions of FOX NEWS has been bought and paid for!!!!!!!
Does anyone connect with the fact that Rahm Emanuel lived for five years without paying rent with a BP exectutive?? This in Washinton where High rent is the normal condition!!No rent is a large favor. For what!!