White House Emails MSNBC During Broadcast to Correct Them

“The White House did just e-mail saying that interaction with Jake Tapper was not heated.”

White House emails directions to MSNBC…
The Obama White House emailed MSNBC during a live broadcast to “correct” them on their coverage of the administration’s attacks on FOX News.

It was nice of MSNBC to admit that they were taking direction from the White House. It’s not like it was a secret.

So when can we expect the White House to call the Glenn Beck hotline guy sporting the Mao outfit?

#1 October 22, 2009 at 6:40 am
Mike commented:

You can barely see the President’s lips move when Olbermann is speaking.
#3 October 22, 2009 at 6:46 am
olm commented:

OK. The most stunning thing in all this is that they (the WH and MSNBC) see nothing wrong with any of this. That is just sickening.
#4 October 22, 2009 at 6:50 am
Joan of Argghh! commented:

Okay, time for a bit of Conservative activist fun with this concept. The thrill that MSNBC must feel to know that they are “live” with the WH at all times is waaayy too tempting to leave with the amateurs at the WH.

Can’t we all start flooding MSNBC with WH spoof editorial remarks? I nominate Jim Treacher.

#5 October 22, 2009 at 6:53 am
JR commented:

The White House emailed them in real time?

Could they be more unprofessional and desperate? Awaiting the text “dont B a h8r!” from the communications director, next…

I feel like Diogenes, only I’m not waiting for just an honest man, but for the grownups to show up.

It’s like high schoolers are running the country. Sorry, they can’t prosecute the war,they have to make posters for spirit week…
#6 October 22, 2009 at 6:57 am
MagicalPat commented:

You just know they got an immediate follow up email scolding them for mentioning the first email.

The fact that the White house sits around all day watching TV so they can reply instantly to all the gossip is disturbing. Don’t they have a few more important things to tend to?
#7 October 22, 2009 at 7:01 am
squeaky commented:

“Don’t they have a few more important things to tend to?” making big deals of the little things so they won’t have to deal with the big
ones.
and i sure this has been here, but an answer to
obama’s call for taking a mop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKC6PMaTLJo
#8 October 22, 2009 at 7:09 am
drjohn commented:

They’re making comments about Fox News in an understated manner?

Are you kidding me??

Yet, this clip is amazing- it’s not often that irony is visible.
#10 October 22, 2009 at 7:14 am
Opus #6 commented:

Track A Crat is right. Clearly MSNBC is doing UNBIASED reporting of the news. And Fox is the tool, right? {sarcasm off}

So what hands typed the email? Rahm? Axelrod? Probably Axelrod. He is the guy who loves to spam the patriot bloggers. Pretty handy with an email account. Yeah, I vote for Axelrod.
#11 October 22, 2009 at 7:15 am
Kunta Kinte commented:

There’s probably more people in the administration watching MSNBC than the rest of the US.
#12 October 22, 2009 at 7:22 am
Any name will do commented:

In the meantime, take time out of your day today to pray for those that are unemployed. Another 11,000 filed last week, plus 6,000 for last weeks “adjustment”, plus 98,000 fell off the rolls last week. There are about 6 million without work, 9 million if you include those who have given up. That is a lot of hurting people.
#13 October 22, 2009 at 7:24 am
Richard of Oregon commented:

The woman is right. We are the ones freaking out about White House control of MSNBC. Would she release that email? How about showing us all other emails from the White House “advising” them. Would they come on the air and explain when this relationship began? Then, perhaps they could explain to us all why they think this is ok.
#14 October 22, 2009 at 7:45 am
Callipygian1 commented:

I may be the only one, but I believe everything they said is true.

Gotta go, forgot to put my tooth under the pillow.
#15 October 22, 2009 at 7:58 am
KR commented:

Meanwhile, Dick Cheney rips Obama on the war:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/22/video-dick-cheney-rips-obama-on-the-war/
#16 October 22, 2009 at 8:06 am
Just_Saying commented:

So, isn’t Brezinksi’s daughter the co-host on Joe in the Morning? And isn’t Brezinski one of the organizers of the NWO? Of course his daughter would say, “They’re making comments about Fox News in an understated manner?”

I won’t watch even Joe in the Morning anymore…
.
#17 October 22, 2009 at 8:10 am
mj commented:

So, in their professional judgment, MSNBC characterizes it as a “heated” exchange, and the White House retracts? News puppetry!
#19 October 22, 2009 at 8:58 am
Texmom commented:

I guess no one had noticed it before, but the White House often messages Mika at “Morning Joe” during the show; this was not an isolated thing. It must be their favorite morning show:)
#20 October 22, 2009 at 9:13 am
Gem State Mom commented:

I don’t see why MSM continues the charade. The White House should just announce the White House News Bureau, broadcast in-house, and get it over with.

Again, I’m so happy we have these ‘real’ news outlets. /sarc
#22 October 22, 2009 at 9:36 am
Robohobo commented:

I believe the proper term for MSNBC is sock puppet.
#23 October 22, 2009 at 9:44 am
willie the fifth commented:

when keith olberman is beck’s guest host.
#26 October 22, 2009 at 10:43 am
bg commented:

++

via TRBO

Glenn Beck Show October 21, 2009

Obama’s ‘authoritarian media practices’ slammed

[All freedom-loving Americans and independent-minded journalists must be concerned about the authoritarian actions practiced in recent days by Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign, which cut off future interviews to a local news network after its anchor dared to ask legitimate but pressing questions to Democrat vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden.

The boycott move is a direct threat to what little is left of America’s free press, highlighting to reporters the ramifications of questioning the Obama campaign on issues it doesn’t want to talk about.

As a Mideast reporter, I’ve seen this kind of action before. It’s routinely practiced by Middle East dictators and has resulted in an intimidated press corps which toes the jihadist line, in part out of fear of having their contacts cut off.

[..]

The type of media oppression evidenced by the Obama camp is regularly practiced in the Middle East, where (excluding Israel) independent journalism is virtually nonexistent. Most media outlets in my neck of the woods are state run. [..]

The outlook for the already grim future state of reporting
during an Obama administration just faded to black.]

==
#27 October 22, 2009 at 10:52 am
The Elector of Saxony commented:

We elected a child, and a bunch of people who never grew out of their hippie adolescence. Schoolyard cliques, favoritism, and bullying is to be expected. Next time, maybe we will elect someone who has had a real job at some point in his or her life. If not, we’ll get more tantrums, indecision, and unicorns.
#28 October 22, 2009 at 10:53 am
Ethan commented:

We have to destroy treasonist General Electric for eventually handing our nation to Iran through puppets like these.
#29 October 22, 2009 at 10:56 am
Ken commented:

During the campaign both camps would make calls and emails like this, and hteir comments would be reported on the air. There is nothing wrong with saying “the White House said . . . It’s called reporting the news.
#30 October 22, 2009 at 11:10 am
Solaratov commented:

Didn’t they even stop to think of what it would *look like* to viewers to admit that they get emails during a live broadcast, from the white house, correcting them on what the w.h. wants them to say?

It’s as though they just don’t care that the people know that they’re controlled by the white house – and that the leash is pretty short.
#31 October 22, 2009 at 11:11 am
public commented:

How can they feel joy from being controlled and told to behave or they will get cut off like Fox…. Bad Parenting on behalf of White House, Oh wait a minute the Fed Govt. not suppost to be our Parents. what happen to them protecting our freedom , like the WAR
#32 October 22, 2009 at 11:21 am
Christinewjc commented:

“Interaction with Jake Tapper was not heated.” That’s what the White House just HAD to correct via an email to the lapdogs at MSNBullCrap???

Hilarious!!! Yes – I can’t wait to hear the commentary about this on Glenn’s show!

P.S. – This must also mean that everything Glenn has reported on his show has been accurate because the assigned Maoist-loving, Fox News watching czar Commie Anita Dunn, has not called in (or used a carrier pigeon – HA!) to correct what Glenn is presenting on his show!
#33 October 22, 2009 at 12:14 pm
chuck rainey commented:

Glen I remember a movie from the 60′s or 70′s that reminds me of Obama care. The movie starts out with financial and health care problems for the government. The people running the government come to the conclusion that anyone over the age of 70 was of no use due to their high cost of their living and of no use financialy. They were killed for that reason, and then the 50 year old kill those over 60 for the same reason this progresses until the preteen say the same thing about the teenagers and plot their death. The movie gave me the chills then and still does but no one can remember when I tell them about it. Was this amovie or did I just dream about today?
#35 October 22, 2009 at 1:02 pm
JoeKonu commented:

I’ve never done it, but I understand that spoofing email headers isn’t too difficult…

I wonder how long it will be before some enterprising hacker emails MSNBC a ‘correction’ during a live broadcast that DOESN’T really come from the White House which MSNBC blindly puts on air.

“This just in. The White House has informed us that Obama just ate 39 hot dogs in 7 minutes breaking President Carter’s record.”
#36 October 22, 2009 at 2:30 pm
aallen commented:

Go Wingnuts! Go Wingnuts! Its your b-day! Wooo!
#37 October 22, 2009 at 3:34 pm
bg commented:

++

chuck rainey @ 12:14 pm #33

don’t remember the plot, but do recall seeing a
movie about the youth eventually taking over..

albeit wasn’t a big hit, sounds
like the same movie to me..

also sounds like Obama is trying
for a non-fiction retake.. *sigh*

==
#38 October 22, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Randomness commented:

I think the movie you’re thinking of might be ‘Logan’s Run’…but I could be wrong.
#39 October 22, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Ken commented:

I don’t know who the blonde bimbo with the Brit accent was, but she said something about Fox hurting itself with the independent voters. Uh! HULLO! Since this whole broughaha began, Fox has been picking up more moderate and independent voters. A recent survery showed that 50% of Fox viewers are moderates and independents. Who watches MSNBC? Only the brain-dead and Democrats. (— with my apologies for the redundancy.)
#40 October 22, 2009 at 5:50 pm
LarryK12309 commented:

E-mail shmemail!

PSMSNBC and the WH have their
own private chat room!
#42 October 22, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Bill B. commented:

The White House will never call the Glenn Beck show, because they know that He is right in his accusations of the Czars. This is why obama will never be on Fox News, they ask the hard questions that he can’t answer and won’t answer without his teleprompter or memorized speech.
#43 October 22, 2009 at 6:32 pm
komori76 commented:

The movie was Logans Run. I think Gattaca was also similar.

Buck Ofama!
#46 October 23, 2009 at 1:53 am
BK commented:

When is somebody going to scream conspiracy, OUR FOUNDING FATHERS wouldn’t have expressed this as selling us down the river it would have been TREASON
#47 October 23, 2009 at 4:19 pm
lavoce commented:

Is the White House full of alcoholics or drug addicts? So many co-dependent behaviors…

good grief… what nonsense… what absurdity

what next…
#48 October 23, 2009 at 4:25 pm
lavoce commented:

Until now, I held the Office of the President of the United States of AMERICA in high esteem.

What a mockery Barry Soetoro aka/alias Barack Hussein Obama, and his Administration, have made of it.