Obama official Kareem Dale confirms White House's love for MSNBC

(UPDATED: A second video has been added below.)

For some inexplicable reason having to do with who knows what, a widespread impression has grown among many politics fans that MSNBC and its crowd of talkers -- including Chris "Thrill Up My Leg" Matthews, Norah "The GOP Is Doomed to Die" O'Donnell and Ed "It's Time to Grind Them Into the Ground" Schultz -- are somewhat in favor of President Obama.

Well, actually in complete love with the Great Change Agent.

Now, thanks to the ubiquitous cameras of C-SPAN, comes official videoed word from Kareem Dale, special assistant to the president for arts and culture and a key White House advisor on disability policy.

At the 1:51 mark of this video, Dale candidly reveals the new administration's reciprocal feelings. Hint: Apparently the new White House has a popular internal saying involving the words "love" and "MSNBC."

(UPDATE: Courtesy of Washington writer Patrick Gavin we have a new video below showing the remarkably dissimilar treatment the White House press corps afforded George W. Bush and now Obama. Take a peek by scrolling down.)

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Comments

[Scarlett]

Obama is afraid of Fox. Fox is the only place where you can get the REAL news, and its fair and presents both sides. MSNBC is the official Obama (wet in their pants) Network. FOX is my network, and I love all of them. Obama cannot deal with the truth, or a tough question. If anyone ask a real question, its said he gets irritated. Give Obama a microphone and a crowd and he loves getting that applause and adoration. He is not into working...just screwing up our country. He is a nightmare.

[Scarlett]

Fox News is watched by people working and paying taxes. All my friends at NASA watch Fox. Surprisingly NASA engineers are Limbaugh people, and these guys are from CA. Interesting how many from CA are conservatives. I love my country, the flag, and freedom, less taxes, and less Government intervention in my life. I am a Fox News junkie, and its the only news I want. Obama is a looser and a nightmare. I can't wait for the next 1350 days to pass to get this looser out of the white house. Then fumigate it.

[theguineapigisdead]

MSNBC "is loved by the White House".......well, DUH!! There's something I couldn't figure out for myself, what with all the lip prints on obama's butt from the MSNBC network anchors and executives fawning on him .....

What would be unusual would be if the new "government health care plan" (being forced through that collection of idiots known as the democrat majority in Congress) doesn't have a specail clause which includes a "lip-from-bottock removal " benefit for MSNBC employees who get too close to their new GOD!!!

[Doug Gledhill]

It Is ironic that the right wing blogs contained here don't give anybody but their ilk any consideration. FYI, Facists are on the right side of the political spectrum, not the left.
I felt the secret dealings of Bush and his transgressions against the constitution put this country at great risk. Also, all the corporate worship of the right, suggests a willingness to be their pawns.
MSNBC is biased but then, so is FOX. Get over it. Most of you on this blog are on the far right, worshipping the so called "free market", which isn't free and I doubt sustainable.
The freedoms that have been taken from us started with Nixon. Every president has added to the size of the government and it's legal over reach, including the republician presidents, such as Nixon and the Controlled Substance Act: Reagan and his Department of Veterans Affairs, which eliminated health care for veterans promised such under enlistement contracts:"W" for that joke called Homeland Security, which never dealt effectively with ports, nor did it stop the flow of illegal aliens. His concerns were to illegal wiretap citizens. If security were that inportant to bush, why then, didn't he deal with those issues?
I suppose placating bussiness interests came before all else.
I m sure thankful, that this nation has more centralists than the they have clowns on the far right or left.

[Jerry]

A lot of angry losers on here. LOL! Can't blame you realy, your party produces some of the worst leaders in U.S. history, while Obama is clearly going to become one of the greatest of all time. Poor little facists.

[Jess]

MSNBC is the epitome of what is wrong with the media. They are the most anti-jounalistic organization I have ever watched (make that used to watch). Their ideas never change, therefore it is a waste of time and effort to sit and be filled with their biased spew.

[dedalus1]

ms WHO? never heard of them. Paging mr. uberman, Paging mr. uberman. Your tea bag and clownshoes are ready.

[Always Right]

Barf:

I am a New York attorney who graduated with honors. I regularly listen to classical music and read a broad array of interesting books. I am fit. I can cycle 100 miles and I lift weights regularly. I do not drink. I am married to a lovely and equally well educated, intelligent, fit and cosmopolitan woman who is by no means remotely related to me except through our marriage. I am also a huge fan of NASCAR. It is one of the most highly competitive, exciting sports the country has to offer right now. The same teams don't win every week (unlike most other sports), the people running the teams are brilliant engineers and the drivers are finely tuned athletes. (Pick up a book or magazine about the sport sometime and try to learn something.) I also enjoy listening to Rush Limbaugh, who is fiercely independent and beholden to no one, Democrat or Republican (unlike the DNC sycophants at MSNBC).

So stop stereotyping people you stupid, bigoted, left wing moron!

[Pete]

Why do most of the comments complaining about Fox News just try to slander the name and demean the individuals? Is a rationale discussion too much to ask? (from Fox News watchers or MSNBC watchers or CNN watchers)

I believe that the most watched portion of Fox News tends to be the editorials. While they usually have people representing Republicans and Democrats*, the hosts tend to be Republicans and this does often skew to the Right. The actual news portion of Fox News (before 6:00 PM) seems relatively balanced. It may have different headlines than CNN or MSNBC, but I think it tends to be more central.

* = I was about to say both sides, but there are often more than 2 sides to an issue. Often the Republicans and Democrats seem very similar (neither one fiscally conservative).

[marty]

I love to watch Keith Olberman if only for the laughs. This guy is an insult to journalism. The first time I watched him I thought it was a spoof. He constantly makes reference to Fox News as if crying out for attention like a brat child. MSNBC is a joke. I cannot however, watch more than a few minutes of this moron.

[David Beasley]

Why don't you go to one of your teabag conventions and watch Faux News while enjoying a good strong teabag. Cheney teabagged Bush and they both teabagged anyone who voted for them. The next time you are teabagging look up thats your reflection.

[Kelly]

I heart MSNBC too!

As for the Press Corps failure to stand, and keep in mind this is coming from a Bush hating liberal, when the President of the United States enters a room, EVERYBODY stands!

[dave]

whats next - we find out FOX isnt fair and balanced??? seriously - get over it - MSNBC is to democrats what FOX is to Republicans

[jeckelmyhyde]

Ayn Rand appears to be the Nostradamus of her day.

[i'm just sayin]

THAT DOES IT!!! (spoken in my best Mona Lisa Vito to Vinny Gambini)

I'm gonna never watch MSNBC even more now.

[Pookie]

Wow. You guys here are a bunch of kool-aid swilling, mental giants, huh? Let me guess ... you encompass the remaining 21% who still call themselves repuglicant's, and you watch FAUXNews.

LMAO - What a incredibly pathetic bunch that reads the rag known as the "LA Times" ... it's right up there with the NY Post!

One can only hope that the 'big one' comes along and California gets dumped into the Pacific ... LOL!!

[Seattle Guy]

Here is what Keith Oldberman is...Single, childless, bitter, Ivy League arrogant...Typical middle-aged, guilt-ridden white male who has nothing to show for his pathetic existence other than giving Dummycrats BJs on television. The guy is insufferable, hence his release from a legitimate network like ESPN and finding a home at a left-wing, march in step, lowly rated propaganda outlet like PMSNBC. He must be the most miserable person in NYC. Good riddance when that day happens.

[Brian]

" I AM A 70 YEAR OLD ITALIAN GUY WHO GREW UP IN NEW JERSEY IN AN ITALIAN NEIGHBORHOOD. IF THIS OLBERMAN GUY WAS TO EVER SHOW UP IN OUR HOOD WE WOULD HAVE KICKED HIS FAIRY ASS DOWN THE STREET OH AT LEASE 2 BLOCKS."

70 years old and still resort to violence to solve your preceived problems. You must have been a real joy iin life.

[DIG]

There's still FNC. If the author of this piece doesn't give us context, what sort of article is it?

Biased.

[DIG]

Another thing. MSNBC is specifically reporting on politics. So it makes sense that the White House would like it.

The FNC on the other hand is all over the map. The one constant being that facts don't matter.

[Snuffy Smifth]

Well if the White House picks MSNBC as the only one for them That gives you and idea of thier level headed thinking. Of couse it really hard to think when you have you head up your on behind!

[patman]

The only chill I get down my leg when I hear Oblama Promptospeakdowntojustplainlie is the cold shiver of the death of our great nation.

[Brock]

Hey, this is America. Last I checked we are free. We have a free press. People are allowed to say what they want, whenever they want. I didn't hear you all complaining when Bush was President and Fox news was the mouth piece of the Republican party (still are). I don't have a problem with it then or now, because I am an American and belive in these freedoms. If MSNBC is shilling for the liberals, so what. You should be happy you live in a society, where these freedoms, paid for by the blood of our service men and women, are allowed.
If you don't like Obama or the liberals or MSNBC, then I suggest you get off your asses and build your pathetic party back up into what it once was. The word Republican used to mean something. Now it is synonimous with fringe and ultra right wing. Certainly there are a lot of old Republicans out there trying to figure out what to do. Bashing the media and the President is not going to get you back into power. I suggest you grow a pair of balls and start working hard at becoming grown ups again, become bi-partisan, work with liberals to help form meaningful policy and organize yourselves back into power. Don't let the Republican party be hi-jacked by a few crazy right wingers.
We need to work together. we don't have to agree on things, but lets not throw rocks either.

[Paul Matthews]

McLean, Virginia -- It's hysterical to hear from all the right wingnuts on this thread. You'd think they had actually won the House, the Senate, and the Presidency recently.

After 10 years of the wingnut hatemongering, it is refreshing to see MSNBC finally taking home better poll numbers.

F*ck the ignorami.

Paul Matthews

[Mike]

Give me a break guys... And Fox is in bed for the Republicans.

Read your history. This is the traditional role of media. Newspapers used to be openly partisan. It is no different today. People on the left watch MSNBC for a bias they agree with and people in the right watch FOX for a bias they agree with. Both are equally bias just in the opposite directions. FOX, CNN, MSBNC are all forms of infotainment and platforms for opinion. Fox was in the bag for Bush just as they were the main sponsors of the Teabaggers. Let's stop kidding ourselves here...

[Adam Smith]

So THAT'S where MSNBC's ratings are coming from -- the White House and NAMBLA headquarters accounts for 96% of their viewership.

[SPENCER]

I'm with Andy on this; what a useless, trivial item; FOX news was so obviously pro-Bush that many of their articles linked to the Repub Party website.
THANK GOD YOU AND THE BLOGGER ARE THE LOUD MINORITY!

[jimmy]

Oh, it's so funny to see the right-wingers crawl out to comment on this story! You people have NOTHING left to cling to.
Face it. You lost, your party is lost, and you can't deal with it!
We had to deal with bush for years. Epic Fail.
MSNBC is an excellent network with intelligent people at the helm. Now, go back to your talking points, and continue to attack. Nobody really cares what you think any more (some of us NEVER cared).

[theGhostPony]

If MSNBC and Keith Olbermann are as irrelevant as the tighty-righties would have us to believe, then why pray tell are they here raising such a fuss.

I say hand them a broom, dustpan and mop and make the tighty-righties clean up the mess they made during the eight year reign of their savior King George of W.

[Ravishingr]

I think everyone on this board is missing the bigger issue here. I'm a little surprised that no one pointed out that the special assistant to the president for arts and culture is seemingly blind and has a hearing impairment.

[John]

Who is John Galt...very good comment. Very good.

[Jack Neidlinger]

PMSNBC

The "Messiah's" Monica Lewinsky

[GeorgeA]

MSNBC could lose 50% of their audience in a second if Michelle would walk out of the room.

[Jack]

It's MSDNC

[John Wendell]

Go away Drudge Trolls!

[bd]

Where were all the posters when the election was going on?
We are in deep trouble

[cg]

So the Obama White House likes MSNBC, big surprise. Just like Cheney/Bush preferred Fox. Boo-hoo, Republicans are out of power. Tough stuff, deal with it - we sane people had to. It may be a while though, look at the demographics. Hey, democracy works!

[Styggbjorn Eriksson]

He leers, he sears, he smears, he lies about his education, never worn any of his country's military uniforms, he is an appeaser, a cowardly, ranting, sophomoric, one of the most sickening faces on Newton Minow's "vast wasteland". He is a disrespectful, polarizing, cowardly, pontificating, self-centered personality who should be fired forthwith. With the Taliban and other nuts of the world, including people who watch and believe his puffed up, meaningless rants, he is living proof that human-beings are truly a dead-end species.

[pedro the migrant]

if anyone is under the illusion that msnbc will be allowed to fail due to their own incompetence, just take a quick look at all of obamy's supporters getting our cash hand over fist. same for ny times and the rest of the pravda establishment. we're a small step away from government controlled media.

[alphalib]

have any of you sanctimonious, brain cell deficient twits ever heard of Fox News?

[Wise Old Lady]

There was a "Sex And The City" episode which had teabag jokes. An edited version was aired on network TV...after 11 PM. I wonder if the FCC would have let it air during primetime. And, I can't resist making this joke...Shouldn't it be called Anderson Cooper 180?

[jemimah]

even more disconcerting is the complaint that 'for far too long art programs are the first programs cut when things get difficult'! what should it be? defense spending? this admin is twisted!

[adam smith]

The unprofessionals have arrived in the White House.

[George R.Fowler]

Who Is John Gault? It's the name of a ficticious person in '1984' It is the name of a personwho did not exist!

[Melissa]

Sorry, but there is still Morning Joe on in the morning that is hardly Obama friendly. Fox News negates all criticism. Right wingers have Fox. Left wingers have MSNBC and whoever is left can watch CNN.

[elmer]

To all who express your messages in CAPITAL LETTERS...why? I understand your frustration and anger ... but it is really hard to have empathy for you when your venting message is sooooo hard to read. Calm down and write in lower caps!

[Edgeoforever]

It's not just MSNBC. See what Obama "joked" to all the press - except - for some strange reason Fox
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/you-all-covered-me-you-all-voted-for-me/

[mike]

Well there is a reason reporters are as hated as lawyers.
So they stand for a man who has done nothing but destroy our
nation and show disrespect for Bush who at least tried to do the
right thing. Obviously they hated Bush because they feel they were more intelligent and feel Obama is as smart as Einstein

[Hunter]

Jeez, Conservatives are sooooo stupid. Dale is doing nothing that musicians, for instance, do every day - a shout-out to the host/host-city/emcee. FYI, the guy who introduced him, Joe Scarborough, is a Republican and host of a show, wait for it, on MSNBC.

And only you idiot Republicans would think an advisor on disability policy (!) is in a position to speak for the WH. Really? Is that all you people have?