Oooooh I'll bet Randi's pissed. Obama meets with "liberal pundits" today..

[XOKCowboy]

and she wasn't among them. I was listening to her in the car today and she was really whining about Obama meeting with Will, Kristol, Asshammer, et al and not with HER! It was a huge pity party. I'll be out driving around tomorrow when she comes on. I can't wait to hear how she takes it.

To be honest her show did get interesting right after that when the neanderthal came on complaining about Osambo the Jungle Boy taking office. To her credit she did cut him off immediately and spent 10 minutes gutting him on air.

http://www.americablog.com/2009/01/obama-meets-with-liberal-media.html

[madfloridian]

1. Who did he meet with?

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[onehandle]

3. Here...

9:45 a.m., in the transition office, President-elect Obama, meeting with: the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, CNN's Roland Martin, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, the Washington Post's Gene Robinson, the Boston Globe's Derrick Z. Jackson, the one and only Maureen Dowd, the New York Times's Frank Rich, the Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib, Atlantic political director Ron Brownstein, USA Today's DeWayne Wickham and columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.

The Times's Paul Krugman was invited, but did not attend.

David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs were also present.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/obama_meets_with_the_centerlef.php

[JI7]

10. Maddow and Dionne are the only ones i would consider liberal

i don't know some of the names.

[XOKCowboy]

12. Well in the MSM those are "liberals"

Now if he has dinner with Amy Goodman, Katrina Van Den Huevel, Glenn Greenwald, David Sirota, Michael Moore and Greg Palast I'll feel a lot better.

[keroro gunsou]

20. good start...

but i'd feel pretty good if he'd swing by my place for dinner. a nice normal dinner with me, him, and his security detail.

who knows, might be fun.

[Raineyb]

34. Now that's a list of actual liberals

Although I seriously doubt that Amy Goodman would go to such a meeting out of principle. But hearing those names would make me feel better.

Regards

[XOKCowboy]

5. Sorry OP edited with link

The group included the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne and Eugene Robinson, the Wall Street Journal's Gerry Seib, National Journal's Ron Brownstein, the New York Times Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd, The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, among others.... CNN's Roland Martin, The Boston Globe's Derrick Z. Jackson, and USA Today's DeWayne Wickham. Paul Krugman, who Obama's willing to hear out on economic issues, was invited, but didn't attend.

I'm wish that Katrina Van Den Heuvel had been invited. Amy Goodman also. Perhaps that's next?

[Cleita]

2. I think Randi's show yesterday was stellar when she, item by item,

recounted the Bush administration. It was one of the best she has done. It was so much better than when she was trashing Al Franken, which almost made me turn her off, and I'm a fan. Today she had to make a snarky remark about sitting between Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann so they wouldn't make out, but at least that was funny and she didn't dwell on it. She is so much better when she's not wielding her vendetta knife.

[XOKCowboy]

9. I know that I shouldn't be snarky..

I used to be a big fan but her rants ran me off. She really does have an incredible grasp of the specifics of all things Progressive but now there are too many :eyes: moments. It hurts her credibility. If she'd just expressed her displeasure with Obama meeting with those Repugs it would have been OK. To put it in the perspective as a personal snubbed to her was just a little too much.

[Cleita]

13. I agree. She hasn't figured out why Rachel has out shined her.

She needs to meditate on that.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

29. I dunno, I get the sense she would be miserable if she had Rachel's position.

She is at her best where she is. I think she relishes her role as "unappreciated underdog". It's part of her whole schtick.

[WillowTree]

4. Ms. Rhodes has a seriously lofty opinion of her own importance.

[Thrill]

6. She's an idiot. She rambled on and on about Obama meeting with the Conservatives today but

refused to mention that he also met with the Liberals as well

[PM Martin]

7. She's an idiot

just like Bush.

[NOW tense]

14. I can't listen to her.

I feel like she came from the whiny wing of the left.

[Thrill]

16. I use to really love her show. I still listen when I can

But she is over the top, sometimes.

[tritsofme]

8. She must be delusional

if she thinks she is any more deserving of an audience with the President-Elect than you or I.

[baldguy]

11. The daily Randi bashing thread is off to a late start.

What's that matter? Didn't get your cold mug of poison this morning?

[XOKCowboy]

17. My only two sources of Progressive Radio from 1P-4P both run Randi

As I have said before I used to listen to her religiously and even lobbied XM to get her back on the air. Now I don't have much choice in the afternoon. Today I gave her another chance because like I have said she has good information a lot of the time. What I got was what I posted in the OP.

When I listen to Thom Hartmann I get the same or more information and none of the rants, vendettas or self-adulation. Unfortuntely Thom isn't carried on my local OTA station and XM delays him till 6PM.

[tularetom]

15. She's a real radio old timer

and I think she was not always as "liberal" as she'd like us to believe. I don't know why but I have this impression that (like Ed Schultz) she saw an opportunity in progressive radio and seized on it.

[XOKCowboy]

18. I can almost tolerate Ed Schultz now but he is forced upon me also

If I had my ideal Progressive Radio line it'd include Thom Hartmann, Sam Seder, Mike Malloy, Cenk Uygur, Laura Flanders, Ring of Fire, etc. Oh and our old friend Rachel Maddow.

[Cleita]

23. You are wrong there I think.

Back in the dark ages, here on DU, Floridians posted about her show and many of us started streaming when she came on stream. Back then she was the only person who openly on the air could talk about the stolen election, so fresh in our minds then and other liberal things, when being liberal was an invitation to be spit upon. There was no Air America, nothing like that. Eventually, Air America was born and almost died, but we found Randi, Mike Malloy, and many others who up until then had no voice. Well AAR changed but they couldn't kill Mike or Randi and I appreciate her for that. I do get upset now that she is turning on our own though. We still have an uphill climb and eating our own isn't going to help. Oh, about Ed Schultz, she tells a story that they were both offered money to do a left type show, but she refused because she felt she was being bought. Ed, however, accepted. It's her story and no one including Ed Schultz has denied it.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

24. So what? I wasn't always as liberal as I am now.

Whether you like Randi or not, and I personally find that I have to take her radio show in small doses, her passion is genuine and she does her homework. I've met her personally on more than one occasion and found her to be the real deal. It's not like she espouses one thing on the air and another off the record.

[cynatnite]

19. Rachel Maddow is more my speed. n/t

[mrreowwr_kittty]

21. I was glad she hung up on that asshole.

As for her not getting to meet with Obama, I can understand why not. Much as the conservatives he met with are major league douchenozzles, the ARE what you'd call "legitimate" journalists, so to speak. It's not like he took a meeting with Rush, Glen Beck, and Michael Savage while snubbing Randi.

[ShortnFiery]

22. What? Some here jealous of Randi? Obama didn't meet with Thom Hartmann either - one of the BEST.

I don't understand all this Randi-hate fests here of late? IMO, it's less than tasteful since many of us are left of center politically and should not go out of our way to disrespect one of "our own."

Because I like her "pushy broad" personality, the fact that Randi is highly-opinionated is part of her charm. She's no cookie-cutter lefty pundit.

However, I can also empathize why her personality would not mesh with some people. What to do? Don't listen to her. However, if you look inward, I believe, those who go out of their way to disrespect her on a public message board are just airing a personality clash and, perhaps, hosting their own personal "pity party?"

[mrreowwr_kittty]

26. He wasn't meeting with "personalities" from either side of the spectrum.

He was meeting with people who are viewed as journalists or respected pundits. It's not like he met with Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage but not Randi and Ed Schultz. I like Thom Hartmann a lot too, but let's face it he's not a regular guest on MTP like George Will and Maureen Dowd are.

I like Randi's personality too. I completely understand why some people are still pissed off at her from the primaries and sometimes I find myself having to turn the dial when she gets into one of her tirades. But thank goodness we have someone on our side speaking truth to power.

[ShortnFiery]

28. Agreed.

You're preaching to the choir. ;) :hi:

[Yukari Yakumo]

33. She's angry 'cause Obama didn't appease her titanic ego. {nt}

[undeterred]

25. So what if she's pissed.

:shrug: She's not the center of the universe just because she thinks she is.

[Occam Bandage]

27. Of course not. She's a marginal, shrill, drunken, useless harpy.

Obama didn't meet with Michael Savage; why should he meet with her? Is she really so delusional as to believe that she is as influential as a Rachel Maddow or a George Will?

[dorkulon]

30. He didn't meet with Limbaugh either.

He's meeting with elite columnists, not radio shouters. It's not a blurry distinction.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

31. I agree.

Whatever one thinks of George Will or Maureen Dowd, they are "respected" columnists and Obama was being consistent.

[thewiseguy]

32. Did Obama meet with any conservative radio talking heads?