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'Destructive' Fox News And The 'Darker' Parts Of The Tea Party: Obama's Rolling Stone Interview
President Barack Obama
Progressives itching to hear President Obama call out the tea party, take on Fox News and call on his liberal base to step up to the plate in November should head to newsstands and pick up the Oct. 15 issue of Rolling Stone (or just click here). Progressives who want to quibble with Obama and listen to him explain why LGBT rights haven't found their way into the U.S. military yet, why Gitmo's still open and why they have no public health insurance option should pick up a copy, too.
Two years after Obama became the first politician to ever win an endorsement from the magazine, Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the the president that seems directly aimed at his Democratic progressive base. From discussing the hipness of his iPod (L'il Wayne plus a little opera, natch) to coming this close to calling the tea party racist, it's a fun read for his fans. For his left-leaning detractors, the president's probably still got a lot to answer for.
Here now are some juicy morsels from the interview.
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Afghanistan
How A Rolling Stone Profile Wrecked Stanley McChrystal's Reputation
General Stanley McChrystal
It's not every day that a magazine article takes down a four-star general.
The country woke this morning to the news of a profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone with quote after quote of the general and his aides dissing top Obama Administration officials, as well as the president himself. After a day-long media freak-out, McChrystal is set to meet with the president at the White House tomorrow with Robert Gibbs having pointedly left the door open to the general losing his job. All this comes at a time when the Afghan war is not going particularly well.
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Stanley McChrystal
How McChrystal And Co. Blew The Rolling Stone Profile
A general, his aides, and one reporter, stuck on a bus from Paris to Berlin, and drinking case after case of Bud Light Lime ...
That's the movie trailer version of how Gen. Stanley McChrystal ended up with a trainwreck of a profile in Rolling Stone, in which he and his aides ended up on the record trashing President Obama and virtually every other important civilian decision-maker on the Afghan war.
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Stanley McChrystal
Rolling Stone Editor Explains Fact-Checking Of McChrystal Profile
Rolling Stone magazine article on General Stanley McChrystal
Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana told TPM in an interview this morning that the fact-checking process for the magazine's profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal went extremely smoothly and the magazine has "utter confidence and faith in the reporting."
Dana said that, contra a report in Politico, neither McChrystal nor anyone else was shown the article before it ran.
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Stanley McChrystal
Rolling Stone Editor: McChrystal Camp Didn't Take Issue With Our Story (VIDEO)
General Stanley McChrystal
General Stanley McChrystal did not push back or take issue with a Rolling Stone article in which the general's top aides ripped the Obama Administration, the magazine's editor said this morning. McChrystal has reportedly been summoned to the White House to explain himself.
"They knew when we were on the record," Rolling Stone executive editor Eric Bates said on MSNBC this morning.
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