The Obama administration’s downhill PR trajectory may have been a fait accompli from the moment Secretary Sebelius’s handlers scheduled her to appear on Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central program October 7, 2013. She cleared a spot in her tight schedule for the political comedy show after refusing Congress’s “invitation” to testify because she supposedly didn’t have time. It’s a classic Obama administration move: bypass the traditional news media. Circumvent Congress, if you can. Go straight to the popular media. There you’ll get friendly banter with no tough questions and no serious follow-up.
