VIDEO: INGRAHAM ON STEPHANOPOLOUS

John Podesta and Laura Ingraham on the same panel? Interesting to say the least. The former runs Media Matters and is president of the Center for American Progress (CAP). That would be the same CAP that hired Van Jones back after he resigned from his job as Green Jobs czar. Not only that but Mark Lloyd (FCC Diversity czar) was a senior fellow at CAP as well.

It was obvious that Podesta wanted to play nice. He hasn't a leg to stand on when it comes to ACORN, considering that he was on-hand for their recent 40 year anniversary celebration. Moreover, Media Matters recently defended ACORN's story that James O'Keefe was thrown out of the Philadelphia office when the recently released video shows that is a lie.

Best part of this clip though, comes at about the 2:30 mark when Ingraham singles out Charlie Gibson for not knowing anything about the Acorn scandal. Stephanopolous actually defends Gibson by pointing to how many years he's been in the business.

Uh, George, that's the problem. May I refer you to Dan Rather?

Ingraham does well.



h/t to BREITBART

BREITBART SLAMS PODESTA IN OP ED

I found this one particularly interesting in light of Bill Clinton's contention that the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" that Obama is supposedly facing is nothing like what Bubba had to deal with. Breitbart points out that Obama and Clinton had lunch in New York on the very day(s) that the ACORN video exposing the Brooklyn office was making the rounds.

Does anyone think the president and the former president were unaware that the city in which they were dining was mesmerized by the ACORN scandal - especially since ACORN had bragged that its employees had kicked Mr. O'Keefe and Ms. Giles out of their New York office?

Then, a few paragraphs later.....

No one in the morally superior media world has asked, why did Mr. Obama have lunch with Mr. Clinton that day? So let me take a guess, and it seems like an obvious answer. Mr. Obama, under siege by a video-a-day expose that was exposing the Democratic Party to an avalanche of consequences (ACORN defunded in the House and Senate, ACORN delinked from the census, etc.), needed advice from the last president to navigate through a major political scandal.

If any president has experience in dealing with scandals, it would be #42. Who said Barack lacked good judgment?

The real point of BREITBART'S PIECE is to shed light on former Clinton Chief of Staff and Chairman of Obama's Presidential transition team, John Podesta. Podesta, who heads the Center for American Progress has been tasked with leading an investigation into ACORN, which doesn't seem to be going the way most would expect according to Breitbart:

Since Mr. Podesta was appointed to investigate ACORN, the only thing investigated has been the investigators, Mr. O'Keefe, Ms. Giles and the publisher of the journalism behind it, yours truly.

And for those of you who at times grow weary of the fight....

The left is betting that 2009 is 1998 again and that the media will help them out like last time. Mr. Obama is betting that Mr. Clinton's 1998 strategy and his resources can extricate him from this growing mess. But 2009 has a new set of circumstances, new technologies and new citizen journalists that can now hold the mainstream media in check for its naked partisanship.

Breitbart's point that Podesta is consciously leading the media to make the story about O'Keefe, Giles, and himself is well taken considering that Podesta attended ACORN's 39th anniversary party.

Here is Podesta entering ACORN'S 39th anniversary party this past June. Also in attendance was Chuck Schumer.

CLINTONITE JOHN PODESTA HIRES VAN JONES

Former Bill Clinton Chief of Staff and chairman of Barack Obama's presidential transition team, John Podesta, has welcomed former Green Jobs Czar back to his old job as a Senior Fellow at Podesta's Center for American Progress.

NY DAILY NEWS reports:

For fallen White House aides, the rallying cry apparently is John Podesta to the rescue! The Obama administration’s former green jobs czar Van Jones is headed back to Podesta’s Center for American Progress after stepping down from his White House post four days ago amid controversy over his leftist affiliations, the Daily News has learned.

The brashness with which the left is operating never seems to disappoint. This means that at best Podesta didn't know about Jones' past before but would have had no problem with it even if he did. At worst (and most likely), he knew about Jones' past then and approved.

Either way, this means that the man Barack Obama put in charge of his transition team has no problem with the views of an AVOWED COMMUNIST, TRUTHER, and supporter of COP KILLER Mumia Abu Jamal.

Guess who else has experience as a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. None other than FCC Diversity Czar, MARK LLOYD.

Lloyd is on record (and video) praising the way Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez managed to successfully shut down media outlets that aired opposing views. He also wants to implement a plan that would ultimately bankrupt private broadcasters by requiring them to DOUBLE THEIR EXPENSES in the form of licensing fees.

h/t to HOT AIR