Not that the White House cares. Or do most of the people reading this, except in a theoretical, pass-the-popcorn sense, I suppose:
The White House today posted on its website a video allowing Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to speak “in her own words” about her personal history and perspective.
In the interview, conducted by a White House staffer who produces videos for the administration, Kagan discusses her childhood, parents and professional career. At one point she jokes that people get confused between her job as solicitor general arguing cases before the Supreme Court and the attorney general, who puts “the labels on the cigarette packages.”
While the White House seems to believe the American people deserve to hear from Kagan, it has not made her available to reporters. That prompted some consternation at today’s White House briefing.
As most folks involved with the VRWC will happily tell you, this is a totally-expected and unsurprising gambit in the administration’s ongoing move to turn the media’s 2008 infatuation with the President into whole-scale neutering. The White House’s logic is compelling, in its way: they know what they want Kagan to say, they have no intention of letting her say anything to the media that is off-message, so why even bother with the formality of an outside interview? There are plenty of people in the Executive branch of government who know how to operate a video camera, so get one of those, do the interview, hand it to the media, and tell them to get it on the nightly news. That’s how it worked in the campaign, right? Doing it this nakedly is just more… efficient.
It will be fascinating to see whether this ends up being the Obama administration’s War of Jenkins’ Ear moment. Particularly if the White House ends up playing the part of the Spanish…
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Sort of a lack of geographic diversity
oldgeezerguy Wednesday, May 12th at 9:09AM EST (link)If she is confirmed ,not only will it mean three ladies on the bench, but also it will mean we have all three originally from different sections of NYC.
The video should use music from
Greg (Diary) Wednesday, May 12th at 9:14AM EST (link)Alice Cooper “Welcome to my nightmare”
Therapy for liberals
wilfranc Wednesday, May 12th at 9:20AM EST (link)It’s no wonder liberals dominate social sciences and humanities.
This pretty much follows their idea that America needs or is more attuned to therapuetic messages prescribed by the chief of psychiatry who calls himself the President.
By the way, has Kagan confused the attorney general with the surgeon general? I thought the surgeon general put the warnings on the cigarette packs. Obama should not have made such a simple mistake as a smoker.
Yes, that is the Surgeon General
WarEagle01 (Diary) Wednesday, May 12th at 9:41AM EST (link)I know it’s a joke, but does she really think that is a responsibility of the AG? Obama has probably seen that warning a thousand times (although he obviously never gave it much thought), and should have caught that mistake.
“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg
“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)
Gilligan's Island - Extreme Makeover
sdeakins Wednesday, May 12th at 9:39AM EST (link)With Joe Biden as the silly and irresponsible Gilligan.
David Axelrod as the portly and slightly pathetic Skipper
Valerie Jarrett as the perky and dingy Mary Ann
Michelle Obama as the hairy-legged wide-bottomed sexpot Ginger
George Soros and Arianna Huffington as the buffoonish billionaires Mr/Mrs Howell
And starring as Da Perfesser, Barack Obama.
Casting for a new wierdly androgynous character has either Elena Kagan or Janet Napolitano vying for the role of Buster.
The first episode has Da Perfesser inventing a device made from a coconut and a broken transitor radio called the iNutpod. Ginger puts everyone on a diet of seaweed and coconut fiber and organizes a feeding intervention for the portly Skipper. Mary Ann socializes with the Howells. Gilligan drops the f-bomb. And Buster builds a fence around the island and comes out of a closet.
Sam B Deakins
Soros is the "Little Dictator"
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Wednesday, May 12th at 9:49AM EST (link)he treats the press like he treats Congress
bk (Diary) Wednesday, May 12th at 9:43AM EST (link)He demands what they need to provide, but when it comes to things like Constitutional separations of duties, he blows off Congress by appointing czars and blows off the press repeatedly, then sends Gibbs out every day to talk down to them.
And both groups continue to worship his feet at the end of the day.
Don't ask don't tell for me but not for thee.
NeoKong (Diary) Wednesday, May 12th at 10:25AM EST (link)For the military…no way.
For Kagan…absolutely.
Why all the secrecy…?
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I'm guessing it won't be too much longer before we start to see negative stories about BamBam in the MSM outlets
Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (Diary) Wednesday, May 12th at 11:17AM EST (link)They’re really PISSED about all of this…..
Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride…..
2 or 3 more Friedman Units
clintonformccain Wednesday, May 12th at 1:42PM EST (link)Nah, I think the press will give him at least two or three more Friedman Units before they raise anything more than a perfunctory and obedient objection.
I'll Raise You - The Establishment Media Will *Never* Turn on Obama
IJB Wednesday, May 12th at 1:54PM EST (link)No matter how bad they’re treated. I’m pretty sure Obama could throw half of them in jail for not being flattering enough, and the other half would respond by writing even more flattering stories about Obama.
They’re incapable of turning their back on their failed ideology and its failed leader…
Exactly, they will take it like the prison ho's that they are. -nt
Leopard1996 (Diary) Wednesday, May 12th at 2:00PM EST (link)“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
true, true
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, May 12th at 2:01PM EST (link)I hate the national (NOT mainstream) media almost as much as I hate unions. They are a one-trick pony. All left, all the time.
Kill the Terrorists
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What a doofus a Kagan Makes!
eaglewingz Wednesday, May 12th at 5:21PM EST (link)So Elena doesn’t know the difference between the Solicitor General, the Surgeon General and the Attorney General. That’s a big confidence booster. Just like a liberal to have her mind fly the Koop.
And just imagine if Sarah Palin had made the same observation, she would have been hooted and exiled to Alaska.