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Obama Appoints Anthony to Bureau of Maternal and Child Health

February 7, 2009 Washington DC

President Barack Obama appointed Casey Anthony today to the position of Director of the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health in a well-attended ceremony in the White House.

“This is another of Obama’s brilliant appointments,” commented Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Clearly Ms. Anthony knows that it takes a village to raise a child. We look forward to working with her on international programs for population control.”

House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi seconded Secretary Clinton’s enthusiam: “It is not only important that we have appointed the first female head of the Bureau, but we have appointed someone who understands the crucial importance of fully funding retroactive reproductive choice services. Our health care professionals face serious unemployment and fully funding these services will put Americans back to work, as well as help us with cost containment in education and other social service budgets.”

In an article on “Obama’s New Feminism,” in this Sunday’s “New York Times” magazine, long-time observor of the Washington social scene Sally Quinn praised the Casey Anthony appointment for its practicality. “For too long Republicans from Bush to McCain have pursued a wild west, laissez-faire approach to their female cabinet and other appointments, selecting women like Karen Hughs and Sarah Palin without regard to whether they had family responsibilities. President Obama returns us to the Democratic wisdom of Clinton appointees like Janet Reno and Donna Shalala who are unencumbered by family obligations, and can truly be examples for young women. From Governor Napolitano to the more maverick case of Casey Anthony, by hook or by crook, these women will do what needs to be done to make sure that they can devote their entire energies to the public weal.”

Asked at the subsequent press conference whether Ms. Anthony’s legal difficulties might prove an embarassment to the Obama administration, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said: “Republicans are, um, trying to make, um, something of Ms. Anthony’s, um, innocent mistake of confusing chloroform, um, with the mosquito repellent “Off!” This is, um, a shameless, um, distraction from our, um, important stimulus bill. And it, um, won’t work. We won!” Mr. Gibbs added that an Obama council of advisors including Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, and Doc, Sneezy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, and Dopey disputed recent figures cited by House Republicans on infant mortality from the Congressional Budget Office.

Mr. Gibbs then ended the press conference abruptly, referring further questions to Assistant Press Secretary Moe Locke.

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Copyright 2009 by Bruce P.Majors

Regarding the changes in the media you may be interested in the latest series of the Money Programme where Janet Street-Porter is giving her overview (as only she can!!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hglw6/Money_Programme_Media_Revolution_Stop_Press/

A written piece on the same subject is at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7872154.stm

What fascinated me was the (wholesale?) movement of newspapers to on-line services and the suggested readership of 7 million pairs of eyeballs in the US for the Guardian which Rusbridger was aiming to monetized somehow in the near future.