Is the mainstream media the Obama administration’s farm team? With the hiring of the Washington Post‘s Shailagh Murray to be Joe Biden’s new communications director, which happened after the vice president’s old press guy (Jay Carney, formerly of Time magazine) was called up to the major leagues to be the president’s press secretary, that’s certainly the impression one gets. 

Indeed, reading this report from New York magazine, it appears that the press was the only place the Obama administration looked when it needed a new communications director for the gaffe-prone vice president:

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