{"id":6711,"date":"2009-10-12T13:17:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/10\/wh-to-lefty-bloggers-take-off.html"},"modified":"2009-10-12T13:17:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:17:50","slug":"wh-to-lefty-bloggers-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/10\/wh-to-lefty-bloggers-take-off.html","title":{"rendered":"WH to lefty bloggers: Take off the pajamas, get dressed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And realize how hard it is to govern in the center (or words to that effect :-).  I wonder how the lefty bloggers are going to take this:<\/p>\n<div><iframe height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/33268417#33268417\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">World News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>BTW, I can&#8217;t see how the Obama administration could fault the lefty bloggers for trying to hold him to his campaign promises. BTW, add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/11\/opinion\/11friedman.html?_r=1&#038;em\">Thomas Friedman<\/a> to the list of those who didn&#8217;t agree with the Nobel committees choice.(<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/12\/obama-wh-to-lefty-bloggers-take-off-the-pajamas-and-get-real\/\">via<\/a>)Update: Evidently, <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/political-media\/white-house-disavows-claim-that-gay-critics-bloggers-are-part-of-internet-left-fringe\/\">not everyone in the WH feels this way.<\/a> And<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/10\/12\/bloggers-furious-at-white_n_317424.html\"> Harwood clarified his point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an email to the Huffington Post on Monday, Harwood clarified that the quote was not meant to convey any displeasure on the part of the administration for the gay community&#8217;s public advocacy.&#8221;My comments quoting an Obama adviser about liberal bloggers\/pajamas weren&#8217;t about the LGBT community or the marchers,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;They referred more broadly to those grumbling on the left about an array of issues in addition to gay rights, including the war in Afghanistan and health care and Guantanamo &#8212; and whether all that added up to trouble with Obama&#8217;s liberal base&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And realize how hard it is to govern in the center (or words to that effect :-). I wonder how the lefty bloggers are going to take this: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy BTW, I can&#8217;t see how the Obama administration could fault the lefty bloggers for trying&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[403,399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-2","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WH to lefty bloggers: Take off the pajamas, get dressed... - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/10\/wh-to-lefty-bloggers-take-off.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WH to lefty bloggers: Take off the pajamas, get dressed... - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"And realize how hard it is to govern in the center (or words to that effect :-). 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