Bill Press Becomes Intern For Bernie Sanders

[cali]

Radio talk show host Bill Press has become an intern for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-V.T.), the liberal commentator told the Huffington Post on Tuesday.

The move is not some impulsive late-career change on Press's part. Rather, it is an effort to make it easier for him to report from Capitol Hill.

On December 8, Press was denied a request for media credentials from the Congressional Radio-Television Galleries, effectively limiting the type of on-the-ground journalism he was hoping to do on the Hill. Soon thereafter, the radio host petitioned Sanders for an internship with his staff in hopes of circumventing the red tape.

"I am officially a Senate intern of Bernie Sanders'," Press told HuffPost. "I am his in-house Senate reporter. Basically, I'm reporting on news from Capitol Hill."

Press, who moved to Washington D.C. in 1996 to take over the liberal post of the now-defunct CNN program "Crossfire," says that he will cover news conferences and hearings for Sanders staff. Naturally, the material will also be used for his morning radio program. "There is more than one way to skin a cat," said Press.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/22/bill-press-becomes-intern_n_400744.html

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Ha! That's one way to skin a Capitol cat...

:rofl:

[mmonk]

2. Good for him.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

[madokie]

3. I had to give that a rec

True that theres more than one way to skin a cat but only one way to skin a squirrel and we have lots of squirrels in our congress for Mr. Press to skin

[PuraVidaDreamin]

4. Brilliant!

Of course it will likely be copy catted for the more unscrupulous neo-con, extreme right wing unethical reporters.

[Mika]

5. RW hookers are given press creds, no need for moves like this for them. n/t

[mod mom]

6. I always thought Press was a DLC type when listening to him. He supported Hillary

when almost all other Air America hosts supported Obama.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

7. Why was he denied credentials in the first place? nt

[Liberal In Texas]

9. He was denied because of his opposition to some of the stuff in the HCR

bill in comments on his show and elsewhere - by the Obama administration.

[tularetom]

8. Skinning cats is barbaric

I applaud Press's ingenuity for getting inside the inner sanctum, even though I cringe at his metaphor.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

10. I've always wondered about that metaphor...

Right up there with killing two birds with one stone. Sure, you could do it. But why?