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The battle is on for control of the White House
In the days of the old Pravda,one could determine who was winning secret Politburo power struggles by just looking at the official Soviet newspaper. Those winning simply got better press.
Perhaps it may be no different here in the United States.
This week two of the heaviest guns in American media,The Washington Post and The New York Times,unloaded their missiles at Obama adviser David Axelrod while heralding White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel as a centrist and pragmatist.
This Sunday’s New York Times,for example,features Axelrod and describes him as the ideological courtier advising the president into darkness as Emanuel remains the level-headed counselor.
Here’s an excerpt from “Message Maven Finds Fingers Pointing at Him”:
“Recent news reports have cast the White House chief of staff,Rahm Emanuel,as the administration’s chief pragmatist,and Mr. Axelrod,by implication,as something of a swooning loyalist. ‘I’ve heard him be called a “Moonie,”’dismissed Mr. Axelrod’s close friend,former Commerce Secretary William Daley. Or as the White House press secretary,Robert Gibbs,joked,‘the guy who walks in front of the president with rose petals.