One thing you find out pretty quickly when dealing with beltway press is that Rahm Emanuel is a source for most of them, and that they're generally unwilling to criticize him lest they blow up one of their best sources of White House spin. So, it's rare that a journalist (in this case the Wall Street Journal's Peter Wallsten, recently arrived from the LA Times) runs a non-lapdog profile.
Most amusing to me was the fact that he finally got the goods about Rahm's famous Veal Pen tirade, when Rahm showed up at the Common Purpose meeting and lambasted the liberal interest groups because MoveOn was running radio ads against Blue Dogs. Previously it had been reported that Rahm called them "f*#king stupid," even though the scuttlebut was that Rahm said they were "f*#king retards." It's a tight-lipped crowd to penetrate, and nobody wants to get zapped from the meetings for talking to the press. But Wallsten managed to get the story:
Looks like he may have tangled with the Common Purpose Crowd, possibly the CBC. Is it under the bus time for Rahm? |