Ok, bear with me please. This is only my 3rd diary ever written.
The Harwood anonymous source quote and a solution after the jump
last night CNBC anchor and NBC weekend reporter John Harwood claimed an anonymous white house source revealed
"If you look at the polling, Barack Obama is doing well with 90% or more of Democrats so the White House views this opposition as really part of the Internet left fringe...For a sign of how seriously the White House does or doesn't take this opposition, one adviser told me today those bloggers need to take off the pajamas, get dressed, and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated and difficult."
Well, at first many in the LGBT community felt like this was a direct attack on them since it followed the 200,000-250,000 equality march of gays on washington that took place yesterday.
The White house has since publicly denied such ....via plum line
"Asked for comment, White House senior communications adviser Dan Pfeiffer emailed: 'That sentiment does not reflect White House thinking at all, we’ve held easily a dozen calls with the progressive online community because we believe the online communities can often keep the focus on how policy will affect the American people rather than just the political back-and-forth.'"
The denial of the supposed anonymous source steers away from gays specifically (damage control) and deals with the supposed quote as false stab at left leaning bloggers in general
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Pam at House blend quoting Jan Hamsher
"The appropriate thing for the White House to do at this point is free Harwood up to reveal his source. Because if they just deny that the statement was accurate without doing so, it'll always be trapped in that nether region of journalistic privilege. And the "anonymous source" will have achieved their desired objective of getting it out there without having to wear it.
And if Harwood is lying, he should have to own that, too. But the only way we'll know for sure is if they free him up to reveal the source and the source contradicts him on the record."
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SOLUTION
The easiest thing is to contact the White House and demand they FREE/ DEMAND Harwood to reveal his source
If he reveals a source then said source should go on the record denying it
Otherwise if Harwood does not reveal a source then one can bet Harwood is lying.........especially with his connection to CNBC. CNBC seems to be where the righties over at NBC universal like to hang out since all the cool lefties are taking over the MSNBC wing of the lunch cafeteria
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The White house if innocent in this can come out smelling like a rose by painting a reporter as a liar ....if he can't reveal a source......or will have some explaining to do if Harwood does reveal the source