Revelations that ABC's George Stephanopoulos conducts a teleconference each morning with Democratic strategists have erupted in charges that the journalist is colluding with the Obama administration to manipulate public opinion.
The charges follow a Politico report last week that Stephanopoulos has been speaking with Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, CNN commentator Paul Begala and Bill Clinton strategist and pundit James Carville every morning for the past 17 years, ever since Stephanopoulos served in President Clinton's campaign and staff. One paragraph of the report in particular caught the attention of Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, a media watchdog group that seeks to expose liberal bias in reporting. The Politico report reads, "Still, the line between journalism and politics is not always bright. Begala said he often can't remember the originator of any particular insight: 'We talk so much – was this my idea that James changed, or was this George's observation that Rahm tweaked?'" Bozell challenged Stephanopoulos, host of ABC's Sunday morning news show This Week, to explain how he can strategize daily with Emanuel and then pass himself off as an unbiased journalist. "What's worse than the liberal media's sycophantic coverage of President Barack Obama?" Bozell asks on the MRC website. "ABC's George Stephanopoulos actively helping design and deliver the administration's strategy and message - which he is then charged with reporting. "Will Stephanopoulos be critical of the White House's plans when he spends every morning helping to craft them? Not likely," Bozell continues. "He must from this point forward recuse himself from any reporting involving the Obama administration." http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88196 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
