“Valerie is someone here who other people inside the building know they can trust. (need examples.)” As reported in the forthcoming book This Town.
Andrew Kaczynski
BuzzFeed
7/3/2013
A soon-to-be-released book by Mark Leibovich reveals in excruciating detail the White House’s efforts to defend longtime Obama friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett in the run-up to a New York Times profile that ran in September 2012.
Leibovich, himself a reporter for the New York Times, got ahold of a White House memo titled “The Magic of Valerie” that included 33 talking points circulated throughout the administration.
Here are the talking points excerpted in Leibovich’s forthcoming book, This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America’s Gilded Capital…
…This Town doesn’t come out until July 16, but BuzzFeed picked up a copy at a Hudson Books bookstore in the Newark Airport, where it was already being sold.
Read the complete article at BuzzFeed.
Update: Top 5 Things Michelle Obama Has Complained About (So Far) at Big Government. This is one angry woman.
