No one in the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the “objective media” and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification.
NBC News announced on air that legal correspondent Laura Jarrett was going to be a co-host of their Saturday “Today” news program. She’s the daughter of Valerie Jarrett, the closest White House aide to Barack and Michelle Obama, and who is now a senior adviser to the Obama Foundation.
Laura Jarrett is also the daughter-in-law of Bas Balkissoon, a former Liberal Party member of the Canadian Parliament. She first revolved into the “objective media” at CNN in 2016, and just transferred to NBC this January. She has routinely appeared on “Today” and “NBC Nightly News” to opine on Trump scandals.
She’s replacing White House correspondent Kristen Welker on Saturday mornings, because Welker is moving to Sundays and hosting “Meet the Press.” Welker registered as a Democrat in Rhode Island and then Washington, D.C., and her mother and father, Julie and Harvey Welker, have donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates. It’s close to $20,000 to Barack Obama alone. They’ve also donated $3,300 for Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and $2,100 for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run against Trump. Her mother unsuccessfully ran in the Democrat primary for Philadelphia City Council in 1999.