Lets look at Obama's list.
This guy worked for different publications.
This guy worked at a different publication than Frantz.
Different publication than the first two, and in a position that makes sense.
A journalist at communications director? Say it ain't so!
This one is a lawyer who now works for Trump...
Again, a journalist as a speechwriter? That makes sense.
Again, communications adviser and a different news organization than the last ones.
Director of speechwriting...
An education writer for some random publication and was on the communications team at the education department.
Shocker.
We have our first CNN
producer who became a spokesperson.
Another new publication comes into the mix. Again, became a communications director.
This guy worked for a public policy research center before he got his communications position and the "Senior policy strategist" probably had to do with that.
CBS and ABC - new ones. Worked for the campaign and then as communications director. Hm.
This guy works in public affairs. Makes sense.
Different publication than the previous ones, and another journalist who worked in public affairs/communications.
We have our second CNN (Middle East correspondant) who worked as a speechwriter!
A national security correspondant as chief of staff in a country that national security focuses on? That seems fishy. Especially since he majored in Chinese Studies at Yale.
Another new publication joins us! It's the EPA. It is public affairs.
Worked for the
U.S. News & World Report,
The Boston Globe,
The Economist, and
The New Republic. More newcomers. Then she won a Pulitzer. Then she worked for the Carr Center for Human Rights and at taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Then she was named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world. She's also a lawyer, by the way. All of this before she worked for Obama when he was a Senator...
The only publication that is repeatedly where these individuals came from is the Washington Post and 3 were from CNN. Otherwise, pretty diverse. Those with more important positions than speechwriter or communications director of an agency had experienced war firsthand, had a JD, had gone to school for something special, had worked for think tanks, etc.
How does Fox and Friends' Heather Nauert experience compare to Samantha Power's?