Conservative talk-show hosts and bloggers have been hammering away at the gooey NBC News Inside the White House specials with Brian Williams adoring Obama. But Williams also drew fire from the hard-core left. On Friday’s Bill Moyers Journal, the PBS omnipresence and former LBJ press aide said Williams offered a "candygram" to the president:
BILL MOYERS: Meanwhile, NBC News this week delivered a candygram to the president -- two prime time specials called "Inside the Obama White House." President Obama couldn't have asked for a sweeter salute...
BRIAN WILLIAMS: People react strongly to this president. We've seen people moved to tears after just the briefest encounter with him.
MOYERS: As for an exclusive revelation about your government from behind the White House's closed doors, well, hold your breath, here it comes...
WILLIAMS: There are apples everywhere. Orchards worth of them in bowls throughout the building. They are meant of course to promote healthy eating but what we saw more often is this: the West Wing may lead the western world in candy consumption.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFER: These are official White House M&Ms.
MOYERS: Now, I've been there, done that and got the tie clip. I can tell you this is the kind of Valentine every White House press secretary yearns to hand the boss. And it's not all that hard to achieve, because many of our watchdogs are as housebroken as Bo the White House puppy.
Williams not only offered Obama an hour Tuesday night and an hour Wednesday night, but packaged the two hours together for a Friday night repeat. NBC clearly offered an in-kind contribution to Obama's political fortunes.
Of course, Moyers is one to talk about candygrams. Obama critics would nominate that softball Jeremiah Wright interview last year as a Moyers candygram.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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whoa
June 8, 2009 - 22:52 ET by kangarooOk I am going to be the first one with a great insightful logical comment,
barf bags please and keep them comming LOL
common sense is not common
I just hope we have enough of them for everybody!
June 8, 2009 - 22:57 ET by pahuberSomebody call Weyerhauser Corp.
The whole Brian Williams
June 8, 2009 - 23:01 ET by SnappyThe whole Brian Williams special reminds of a Family Guy episode involving Ipecac.
Oh come on...everyone knows
June 8, 2009 - 23:12 ET by bigtimerOh come on...everyone knows O's the Candy-Man....
Moyers is just green-eyed it wasn't him.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Did you say Candy Man????
June 9, 2009 - 05:33 ET by motherbeltObama Man
All I can say is good thing Morton's black.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Interesting to see how
June 8, 2009 - 23:15 ET by RR GOPInteresting to see how falling poll numbers, lower ratings, a weakening economy and rising unemployment sets the Liberals to fighting amongst themselves.
They always resort to jumping on the weakest rats while the ship is sinking and there's a limited number of exits.
I seem to remember the MSM becoming more 'moderate' as both Carter and Clinton turned out to be incompetents.
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).
Just Doing His Job
June 8, 2009 - 23:34 ET by rammingspeedWe've been informed by another journalist that Obama is a god. Therefore, Williams would have been remiss in his duties as a journalist not to show us all this godliness, and stuff.
When even Bill Moyers tells
June 9, 2009 - 05:24 ET by motherbeltWhen even Bill Moyers tells you you're sick, Brian, it's time to lie down.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
OMG, Brian Williams just
June 9, 2009 - 05:48 ET by jokerboyOMG, Brian Williams just pulled a Lewinski!
Healthy apples ??
June 9, 2009 - 06:23 ET by hal50Great to see the White House is providing healthy fruit to go with your presidential cigarettes.
Well said. I love it!
June 9, 2009 - 10:41 ET by IndyAdamWell said. I love it!
Thrown out the window...
June 9, 2009 - 06:39 ET by Red Jeep...any future claim that Brian Williams might have of impatiality. Maybe he needs to get a motel room and invite BHO over.
How quickly we forget....
June 9, 2009 - 07:19 ET by Bob in TampaPaying for a motel room won't be necessary. Obama could just reserve a corner of the Oval Office for a few minutes. LOL
Republicans are always accused of being sharks; I wish they'd rise to the level of minnows... Ann Coulter
Did Brian Williams have a vasectomy?
June 9, 2009 - 07:24 ET by mom_roxFor the record, that question was rhetorical! I neither need nor want to know the answer.
Moyers was being kind in using the word housebroken. I would have said neutered (as Bo is). alert to Jodi Miller - there's a NewsBusted joke just waiting to be written.
~~save your tea, dump congress~~
Even the leftist MSM is
June 9, 2009 - 10:40 ET by IndyAdamEven the leftist MSM is starting to eat its own. Hope this is a multi-course meal.
Never thought I’d see the
June 9, 2009 - 10:49 ET by maggieqpublicNever thought I’d see the day where I agreed with anything said by Bill Moyers…. can’t decide if I feel joy or betrayal.
Tingle up the leg - moved to tears ??
June 9, 2009 - 18:48 ET by Gary HallMe thinks, you didn't linger long enough on this one, Tim....
Who have you seen? We want names.
I'd suspect that the people "we've seen," would actually imply people that Williams and others in his organization have actually witnessed [seen] being moved to tears (or having tingles, urges or whatever in various body parts) while actually in their presence; in other words - themselves, the NBC and MSNBC anchors, reporters and and their staff. How else would they have actually "seen" this occur?
"We've seen them moved to tears." "He's like God." "I felt a tingle run up my leg." "I see dead people." Somehow I see a parallel here. Somehow, they all got out of their box. They need to be put back in their box and be put back in the ground - deep.
(;~/ Gary
Great points here
June 9, 2009 - 18:57 ET by bigtimerGary...
You've got me laughing....
So true...so true.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Moved to tears...
June 9, 2009 - 22:27 ET by m4ster chief"BRIAN WILLIAMS: People react strongly to this president. We've seen people moved to tears after just the briefest encounter with him."
Tears...happens to me, too, when I'm around a smoker for any length of time.
"Allies to Land at Normandy Tomorrow!" New York Times headline; June 5, 1945
(h/t M. Malkin)
Funny to see all these left
June 10, 2009 - 11:08 ET by rbosqueFunny to see all these left wing media type fighting to see who can kiss Obama's ass the most.