Revolving Door Keeps Spinning: WaPo Dem Booster Shailagh Murray Leaves for Biden Post
After penning a number of stories toeing the Democratic line on a variety of issues, Washington Post reporter Shailagh Murray decided to make it official: the Post announced Friday that she has taken a job in the office of Vice President Joe Biden.
Murray marks the 18th journalist to move from a reporting position to a post in Democratic politics or vice versa since President Obama took office. The revolving door between journalism and the Democratic Party underscores the extent to which the ideologies of each overlap.
The bias dossier on Murray is thinner than, say, Katie Couric's, but contains a number of telling items. Let's review a few of the highlights.
Just last month Murray labeled GOP budget cuts "drastic" and "painful" - while giving Republicans a single paragraph to defend them, next to six paragraphs of Democrats' attacks - even as WaPo hailed the Obama budget's "cautious trades."
Murray has also been quick to write of the unpopularity of Obama's economic policies to failures in "messaging" - a popular tactic among White House officials and congressional Democrats who simply cannot comprehend that Americans are not fans of their schemes. Murray shares that confusion, apparently. "How can nearly $1 trillion flush through the U.S. economy, with tangible results, and still leave voters dubious?" she wrote of the stimulus.
Vice President Biden has been the administration's point man on touting the supposed successes of various economic policies, so it seems Murray will fit right in.
Murray has done more than simply wonder how various White House policies could be so unpopular; on one occasion she even proactively lauded the president's unpopular stance on school choice, calling his move to kill the popular Washington DC school voucher program a "middle way on a contentious issue."
"Love all these objective journalists signing up to sell Dem agenda," quipped Jonah Goldberg on Twitter after the news of Murray's move broke. But hey, at least now it's official.
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No surprise here
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 3:47pm.
And in two years, she will return to a major newspaper or network news room, or open her own "independent" polling service.Another one ...
Submitted by retrocon on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 4:13pm.
who will be reporting to der Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Go... er, Biden. nevermind.That's kind of like surviving the sinking of the Titanic...
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 4:46pm.
...floating around on a raft for three years, then being rescued by the Lusitania - right before the torpedo hits.
These MSM people are as faceless and interchangeable as government bureaucrats.
You can pull one out over here and plug it in over there, and it makes no difference.
As for Obama failing to get his economic message across, I hate to break it to Murray, but outside of the circles she runs in - Academia, media, and government, communism isn't thought of too highly by people outside of those circles.
That would be real Americans.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Shocked and yes, chagrined......
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 4:58pm.
The real smart one his week was Hillary who already announced she will not be part of a second term.
Funny, how this didn't get more publicity.
My bad, Bacchman messed up and she is farrrrrrrrr more important than the Sec of state.
Or was it that Charlie Sheen is going on tour that overshadowed this?
Maybe she can 'splane things to O'Biden
Submitted by neutron on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 5:01pm.
From the worshipful WaPo: “There are few reporters more skillful than Shailagh when it comes to connecting politics and policy in Washington,” said Post national editor Kevin Merida. “She is a master at explaining complex legislation and the unpredictable twists and turns of Congress...”
Well, maybe she can find the little small words that will clue Joey O'Biden into what is happening in DC, the country, and the world. That is, if she can keep Ole Joe from lusting (hey! Eyes up here!) long enough to follow a sentence.
Hmmm. I would have went with Criss Angel, not her.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 6:06pm.
He's REALLY good with straightjackets and making stuff disappear.Actually the joke is on
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 03/19/2011 - 12:40am.
Actually the joke is on reporter Murray. She thought she was being offered a post as vice president of bidets and instead ended up chief toilet plungerer for Vice President Mortimer Snerd's constant plugs from oral diarrhea.
Just a Different Department Of The DNC
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sat, 03/19/2011 - 12:47am.
It's not a revolving door, she's making a more or less lateral move. It's just a different department of the Public Manipulation Ministry within the Democrat's campaign machine. We need to quit pretending they are separate entities.A job in o'bidens office?
Submitted by Patriot II on Sun, 03/20/2011 - 9:27am.
I would be ashamed to admit it!!!