FLASHBACK: Media Hated Partisan Obstruction to Obama in 2009
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Going into his fourth week, President Donald Trump still doesn’t have all his cabinet appointments in place. But despite the Democrats’ stunts to slow down the process in 2017, the liberal media has not portrayed them as obstructionists. This is a far cry from how they treated Republicans during the first few weeks of Barack Obama’s administration.
In 2009 when cabinet appointees Tom Daschle and Bill Richardson were forced to withdraw due to improprieties, then-NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams offered his sympathies to Obama: “You lost two nominees, two appointments today. Did that make you angry, I imagine?…How do you prevent the lesson from being that, no matter how lofty the goals of the new guy coming in, Washington wins, in the end?”
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