President Obama held an off-the-record meeting with five conservative journalists on Tuesday afternoon.
Present at the meeting were Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor; Paul Gigot, the Wall Street Journal editorial page editor; Robert Costa, the National Review's Washington editor; syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker; and Washington Examiner columnist Byron York, according to a source with knowledge of the meeting.
He called them to the White House to do what? Listen to his Billy Joel albums? No wonder this President, and Speaker Boehner for that matter, have so much trouble communicating with the American public. They don't know what time it is. Attention, Mr President, no one reads the newspapers anymore. Conservatives get their news and opinions from Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge and Glenn Reynolds.
Much of the antipathy the Tea Party harbors for NPR is rooted in its petulant insistence on being irreverent to most peoples lives. They are full sick and tired of hearing the Beltway provincialism that is pawned of as being cutting edge commentary. If the President has a message he wants to send to true conservatives he should go where Rand Paul and Ted Cruz go when they have a message they want to get out-the internet and Fox News.
I can't believe these five would agree to an off the record meeting. I have lost respect for York and Krauthammer. I already lost respect for Gigot when he lead cheers for a Syrian war.
ReplyDeleteHell, I forgot who Kathleen Parker is. Any debt limit deal should require Ann Coulter and Michael Savage to host NPR's All Things Considered
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