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Carney said he never shared “the
view that Obama was waging war
on business and lobbyists.” For that
reason, he’s aggressively covered
lobbying and influence during the
Obama years. “Increasingly, conservatives are realizing that Obama’s
willingness to play special interest
politics in big business is a line of
attack, and Solyndra isn’t the only
case of crony capitalism that’s ever
occurred,” he said.
Carney singled out New York
Times reporter Nick Confessore — who recently reported on
an arrangement with the group
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Organizing For America that allows individuals giving or raising $500,000 to attend meetings
with the president — for doing
good work covering money, politics and special interests. More
conservative and mainstream media reporters, he argued, need to
dig into the topic.
Costa interned in conservative
media (The Wall Street Journal
editorial page) and establishment
media outlets (PBS’s Charlie Rose
show and ABC News’ This Week
with George Stephanopoulos).
He joined The National Review
straight after finishing graduate
school at the University of Cambridge, and worked as a magazine
Jonah
Goldberg,
a National
Review Online
contributing
editor.