9:26 Politico's Mike Allen serves as spokesman for Rick Warren -VIDEO

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/30197335#30197335

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1. Yet another illustration as to why

Politico is a kinder gentler Drudge and need not be taken as a legitimate news source.

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2. Politico is simply a conduit to get Drudge nonsense onto the MSM

Glenn Greenwald has chronicled this thoroughly

The MSM is fully compliant in the whole thing

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3. I saw that tonight.

I was so pissed I about threw my laptop across the room. What is his background? That tongue bath of Warren was appalling.

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4. He started at my local rag paper the Richmond Times-Dispatch

This is a good list of his rightwing stances
http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/tags/mike_allen


Mike Allen is the chief political correspondent for Politico. He comes to us from Time magazine where he was their White House correspondent. Prior to that, Allen spent six years at The Washington Post, where he covered President Bush's first term, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, and the Bush, Gore and Bradley campaigns of 2000. Before turning to national politics, he covered schools and local governments in rural counties outside Fredericksburg, Va., for The Free Lance-Star, then wrote about Doug Wilder, Oliver North, Chuck Robb and the Bobbitts for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he nurtured police sources on overnight ride-alongs through housing projects. Allen also covered Mayor Giuliani, the Connecticut statehouse and the wacky rich of Greenwich for The New York Times. Before moving to The Times, he did stints in the Richmond and Alexandria bureaus of The Washington Post. Allen grew up in Orange County, Calif., and has a B.A. from Washington and Lee University, where he majored in politics and journalism.
http://www.politico.com/reporters/MikeAllen.html

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5. Thank you!

That's a big help. I wonder how he got into being a Warren apologist. That just smells funny to me.