NBC's Today picked up Jenna (Bush) Hager to be an occasional correspondent on education for the morning show. If the Bushes instead of the Kennedys were the "royal family" of American politics, it would be like NBC's use of Princess Diana's brother years ago. Get a load of how Justin Moyer of the Washington Post cattily greeted the news in the Style section:
The bar-hopping and boozing are a distant memory: Jenna Hager, nee Bush, is headed to NBC's "Today" show, AP reports. The 27-year-old former first daughter will contribute education stories to the popular morning program about once a month while continuing to work in Baltimore as a schoolteacher.
UPDATE: Moyer actually performs as a musician under the name "Edie Sedgwick." A Post music critic explained: "Sedgwick is actually Antelope singer-guitarist (and Washington Post employee) Justin Moyer, recording under the name of the 1960s Andy Warhol 'superstar.' He's still singing about movie actors, but his latest songs include ones named for President Bush and 'March of the Penguins.'"
That would be the song "Bambi/George W. Bush." The Edie Sedgwick website suggests these lyrics:
Learning to be human again by learning to be subhuman again.
Learning to be Messianic again by learning to be archaic again.
Learning to live your whole life again by learning to sharpen your knives again.
Learning to be reflexive again by learning to be reflective again.
Wow, there's a profile in journalistic objectivity.
AP reporter David Bauder's story reports Today executive producer Jim Bell thought she showed a comfort on camera, and insisted she won't be like Maria Shriver:
Bell said Hager won't be covering politics. He said he didn't consider the job as a down payment for a future interview with her father, who has been living quietly in Texas since leaving office earlier this year. Attacks on NBC News by conservatives for the liberal bent of MSNBC also had nothing to do with it, he said.
Let's have fun imagining Justin Moyer and his editors at the Washington Post Style section never engaged in drinking at bars or clubs before they hit legal drinking age, not to mention what other teenaged hi-jinks they engaged in. It's almost as imaginable as having them tease the Gore children if they drew an NBC paycheck. Imbalance reminder here.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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No class, all A$$
August 31, 2009 - 08:12 ET by motherbeltNo class, all A$$
Teddy had Redemed Himself
August 31, 2009 - 08:37 ET by allanfIt was as if he had never touched a bottle of alcohol last week.
Or left...
August 31, 2009 - 10:15 ET by retroconOr left even one single girl for dead in his car.
Wa Po REPORTERS ONLY STUDIED WHILE IN COLLEGE
August 31, 2009 - 08:28 ET by SgthulkaDon't you remember all those tie-dyed nerds who never went to any of your college footbal and basketball games? The ones who studied on Friday nights, attended various campus protests and drank only Evian?
Well guess what.
They all went on to become MSM writers and reporters. And their college lifestyles have uniquely qualified them for their current jobs.
Peronally, I drank myself blind.
Justin Moyer has probably
August 31, 2009 - 10:17 ET by kgJustin Moyer has probably put his tea-bagging, parting days behind him too.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Maybe if she had driven her
August 31, 2009 - 08:32 ET by G. MayMaybe if she had driven her car off a bridge in a drunken binge and killed her husband she might receive praise.
Exactly what I was thinking
August 31, 2009 - 14:15 ET by mattmExactly what I was thinking - then, she'd qualify for a Democrat senate seat in Taxachussetts.
Bias much?
August 31, 2009 - 08:41 ET by needleThat odd; MSNBC did a much better job of avoiding such topics in all the blather they put out America’s most notorious boozer, the late Teddy Kennedy.
Not only is MSNBC biased; they want the world to know it implicitly.
- Relying upon the State Run Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.
→ Tru Dat needle
August 31, 2009 - 08:48 ET by Cool ArrowI don't remember any remarks from the MSM about the antics of Chelsea Abzug Clinton either.
We will Barry you! - Russian prophecy
No kidding....I realize one
August 31, 2009 - 08:56 ET by motherbeltNo kidding....I realize one shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but not even a whisper of the "hard-drinking" or "hard-partying" Kennedy of younger years.
And yet they manage to toss in this "aside": (emphasis mine)
After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 -- where she racked up two underage drinking citations --
Can you imagine them mentioning Al Gore III, who has racked up several arrests for possession of illegal drugs....
Yeah, right.
I PRESENT JUSTIN MOYER: TRANSVESTITE/WaPo JOURNALIST
August 31, 2009 - 09:00 ET by SickofLibsThis is him, folks...
http://www.undergrou...
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/author/jmoyer/
Sick
August 31, 2009 - 09:03 ET by FeynmanFanJust think of how proud his parents must be...
"I support the President but not his policies" - Blonde
Uncle Fred: "So what's Justin up to these days?"
August 31, 2009 - 10:25 ET by SickofLibsUncle Fred: "So what's Justin up to these days?"
Pops Moyer: "Homina, homina, homina..."
Re Moyer
August 31, 2009 - 11:37 ET by slickwillie2001Good catch poster. I don't know why Jenna would do this, she should be smart enough to realize that there's no way on Earth she is going to be given a fair shake by the liberal media.
Moyer...
August 31, 2009 - 09:42 ET by ConservativeClarkMoyer is a piece of crap. Only really hateful people put in a jab in the headline of the title. He must have saw this story and thought "yes, i can punch back to make up for all those mean kids that didnt pick me for baseball when i was a kid, and for my chronic bedwetting" /sarc off. Does this guy think hes the moral authority of whats right and wrong?
Look at my post above. I'm
August 31, 2009 - 10:23 ET by SickofLibsLook at my post above. I'm pretty sure Justin never came within 500 feet of a baseball diamond.
I'm just surprised a
August 31, 2009 - 10:35 ET by Kat Outta the BagI'm just surprised a Bush would agree to work for NBC of all networks. What's up with that?
Hopefully Not Like Meaghan
August 31, 2009 - 11:00 ET by BW222Let's hope she doesn't become another Meghan McCain.
Ron Reagan Jr., Meaghan McCain, Jenna Bush, RFK, Jr. - who would have heard of any of them without their parents?
BW222
what the heck?
August 31, 2009 - 11:52 ET by katainkentI suppose it would have been to cliche to start at FOX but MSNBC?! A lot of kids mess up. Heck, look at Biden's daughter. But, if she proves to be a lib at heart like Meghan I am sure all these messier details of her life will magically go away.
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Justin Moyer is a jerk to bring...
August 31, 2009 - 12:06 ET by PrairieSky"bar-hopping and boozing" into his reporting of Jenna's doing these education spots on NBC. It's completely irrelevant, and was just an excuse to get in a dig at her.
That said, I have to admit that I am less than thrilled that she'll be working for NBC, after the continuous trashing that that pathetic excuse for a news division has inflicted (and continues to inflict) on her father. I think Jenna is terrific, and she obviously can make her own decisions, but if I were her, I'd die first before I'd ever work for NBC in any capacity.
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