{"id":5001,"date":"2023-08-18T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:52:12","slug":"biden-admins-revolving-door-into-media-spins-heavily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5001","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin\u2019s Revolving Door Into Media Spins Heavily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-92-1024x492.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-5002\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-92-1024x492.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-92-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-92-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-92-770x370.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-92-293x141.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-92-390x187.png 390w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-92.png 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>No one among the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the \u201cobjective media\u201d and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NBC News announced on air that legal correspondent Laura Jarrett was going to be a co-host of the \u201cToday\u201d news program on Saturdays. She is the daughter of Valerie Jarrett, the closest White House aide to Barack and Michelle Obama and now a senior adviser to the Obama Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Jarrett is also the daughter-in-law of Bas Balkissoon, a former Liberal Party member of the Canadian Parliament. She first revolved into the \u201cobjective media\u201d at CNN in 2016, and transferred to NBC this past January. She has routinely appeared on \u201cToday\u201d and \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d to opine on Trump scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jarrett is replacing White House correspondent Kristen Welker on Saturday mornings because Welker is moving to Sundays and hosting \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d Welker registered as a Democrat in Rhode Island and then Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welker\u2019s mother and father, Julie and Harvey Welker, have donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates. It\u2019s close to $20,000 to Barack Obama alone. They also donated $3,300 to Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 campaign and $2,100 to Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 run against Donald Trump. Her mother unsuccessfully ran in the Democrat primary for Philadelphia City Council in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current \u201cMeet the Press\u201d host Chuck Todd came to NBC through Tim Russert, who worked for New York Democrats Mario Cuomo and Daniel Moynihan before joining NBC. Todd worked for Tom Harkin\u2019s 1992 presidential campaign in his college years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Todd\u2019s wife, Kristian Denny Todd, is a direct-mail fundraiser and strategist for Democrat candidates. Her firm earned about $2 million from the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign in 2016, but Todd never mentions that when Sanders sits down with him on Sundays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MSNBC is becoming the home of former Biden-Harris spokespeople. Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki hosts a show on Sunday and former Kamala Harris spokeswoman Symone Sanders has a show on Saturday. Alicia Menendez, the daughter of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., has a show on both weekend days. The Rev. Al Sharpton never actually revolved; he keeps his racial ambulance-chasing job on weekdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CNN must be jealous. It just hired Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield right out of the Biden White House and also picked up Jamal Simmons from the Kamala Harris press shop. CNN reported in February that Bedingfield was \u201cexpected to be a consultant to Biden\u2019s anticipated reelection campaign,\u201d but they talked her into a different kind of public relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republicans do this, too, but differently. Bush White House press secretary Dana Perino joined Fox News, but after the younger Bush left office. Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also joined Fox News, after her president left office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these newly arriving Bidenites are salted in cable news to share the Democrat talking points while their Biden-Harris team runs for reelection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We could ask whether current White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will be dumped for poor performance so she can immediately join MSNBC\u2019s weekend lineup. But competence isn\u2019t really an issue there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only real question is whether the former Biden publicists sound any more like Biden publicists than the \u201cobjective\u201d folks who came up the ranks in an \u201cold school\u201d way, with a decade or three inside the \u201cnews\u201d business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s often hard to tell the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/18\/biden-admins-revolving-door-into-media-spins-heavily\/\">https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/18\/biden-admins-revolving-door-into-media-spins-heavily\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one among the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the \u201cobjective media\u201d and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification. NBC News announced on air that legal correspondent Laura Jarrett was going to be a co-host of the \u201cToday\u201d news program on Saturdays. She is the daughter of Valerie Jarrett, the closest White House aide to Barack and Michelle Obama and now a senior adviser to the Obama Foundation. 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