Your tax dollars at work controlling the media

More irony from Team Obama. They’re using our tax dollars, to the tune of more than$80,000 a week, to keep us in the dark!

Barack Obama’s White House is spending more than $80,000 a week to staff its old and new media offices. Add the price of speechwriters and the White House communications tab reaches nearly $100,000 a week, or nearly $5 million a year-and that is for salaries alone.

Based on the coverage the President has garnered so far, it is money well spent.

Accuracy In Media gathered the data from the White House’s annual salary report to Congress, which was released last week. AIM identified a total of 66 staffers with some connection to Obama’s messaging machine-press secretaries and assistants, communications directors, new media specialists, speechwriters, and the staff of the new Office of Public Engagement.

The latter group, which employs 13 people at a cost of $1,090,200 a year, organizes events like last week’s online healthcare forum in Virginia to take the White House’s message directly to the public. Valerie Jarrett, who earns the top White House rate of $172,200 a year as assistant to the president for public engagement, hosted the event.

The White House billed the healthcare discussion as a virtual town hall, but both the mainstream media and bloggers from the left and the right have maligned it as stagecraft.

You know they’re up to no good when they feel the need to control the media that’s nothing more than a bunch of lap dogs.