Pillow Talk

corinne's picture

A quick post as I have one foot out the door.

The SNL sketch, "Does He Want a Pillow," which mocked Obama's cozy relationship with the press, will likely make a comeback:

Linda Douglass, an award-winning television and print journalist who currently serves as a contributing editor to National Journal, will join Barack Obama's presidential campaign as a senior strategist and as a senior campaign spokesperson on the roadshow, a newly created position.

Marc Ambinder says he got the scoop by walking upstairs and asking Douglass. She says she's taking the job because

"I see this as a moment of transformational change in the country and I have spent my lifetime sitting on the sidelines watching people attempt to make change. I just decided that I can't sit on the sidelines anymore."

Douglass sounds like a good fit. She's clearly waiting for her Unity Pony:

Douglass retired from ABC News in 2006 to work on a project at New York University that was looking into how partisanship had paralyzed Congress. She joined the National Journal group as a contributing editor in 2007, writing for the magazine and hosting a weekly radio show on XM Satellite radio.

Douglass declined to discuss the terms of her new job or how the offer was broached. An Obama spokesman [uncharacteristically] had no comment.

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myiq2xu's picture

You mean there was someone in the media that wasn't

already part of His campaign?

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corinne's picture

Shocking, I know

But she has known him for a few years.

amberglow's picture

it's too bad the country isn't crying for

"transformational change"--they're crying for solutions to tangible problems, a government that works for regular people, and an end to GOP crimes and horrors.

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