A.P. talkes Helen THOMAS's seat. Faux moves to front row. Gawker skewers them all.

[UTUSN]

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http://gawker.com/5601949/fox-news-gets-front+row-seat-at-white-house

Fox News Gets Front-Row Seat at White House

.... Anyway, Thomas' front-and-center seat in the White House Briefing Room became vacant, and the mysterious White House Correspondents Association held a month-long contest of strength on a hidden Greek isle between NPR, Bloomberg, and Fox News, all of whom wanted the seat. In the end, a mysterious traveler with a scar on this thigh—later revealed to be former AP Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier—emerged victorious after stringing the royal bow and shooting an arrow through 12 axeheads.

Well, kind of. The AP will take Thomas' old front-and-center seat, mostly because that's what the WHCA voted to do, but partly because of the axe thing, and partly because they usually get the first question at Presidential press briefings, and partly to calm all the liberals down, since... Fox News took the AP's old seat! And Bloomberg and NPR will stay in the back, with the losers.

Also changing spots: Sister publications Politico and American Urban Radio Networks will move to the third row, while The Washington Times moves to the fourth row (same row they had at the mass wedding, am I right?). The Financial Times will get a regular seat, which will be colored pink, and U.S. News & World Report loses its seat, probably due to the conflict of interest of publisher Mort Zuckerman writing Obama's speeches.

So, everyone went home happy, having confirmed the spots from which they will be allowed to write down the things that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says, and every once in a while ask a question that Robert Gibbs will refuse to answer.

(Yahoo)

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[ChiciB1]

1. Heard That This AM And My Head Is STILL SPINNING!! How Much More

are we "the base" supposed to take????

[peekaloo]

2. Bring back Jeff Gannon!

:hurts:

[Scurrilous]

3. LOL

:thumbsup:

[derby378]

4. We reward FOX News instead of punishing them for the Sherrod incident?!?

Not happy. Not happy at all.

[tom_paine]

5. It's not "we". Not even close.

Sadly. How many times do the Democrats have to play washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters before we figure out the game is fixed?

The Democratic Leadership is either as scared, stupid, and intimidated as the 1933 German Social Democrats, or part or all of them are complicit in the rigged game.

We'll never know for sure, and the results to all the rest of us indicate it doesn;t really matter WHY, just that it IS.

In either case, it is a mistake to think of ANY of our 0.01% Aristicratic Elite (by dint of wealth or power) as "we".

[derby378]

6. Good point

Thanks for sharing!