INSTAPUNDIT RELATES HOW ALTER IS OBAMA'S #1 POODLE IN THE PRESS. HERE'S WHY ALTER IS...

GLENN:

PETER WEHNER: “It’s stiff competition, but arguably Barack Obama’s chief courtier in the press is Jonathan Alter.” ... Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 6:47 pm

HERE'S WHY: 

Alter's mother was part of the Chicago Machine.

AND THIS: 

Before the 1972 election, Alter went before the late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, and told him it was time he opened the Democratic Party to women. As founder of the Illinois Women's Political Caucus, she offered him a list of 32 qualified women candidates that did not include herself. Daley, moving to defuse the gender issue, responded by slating Alter to run for Trustee of the Metropolitan Sanitary District (now Commissioner of the Water Reclamation District).

SHE DIDN'T TAKE HER FEMINIST CAMPAIGN TO THE STREETS; SHE WAS NOT A GRASSROOTS FEMINIST.

SHE WENT TO DALEY, AND HE HANDED HER A PLUM PATRONAGE JOB IN RETURN FOR HER LANDING THE MACHINE MORE FEMINIST VOTERS.

SHE WORKED FOR THE MACHINE.

JUST LIKE OBAMA.

HER SON JONATHAN WORKS FOR THE MACHINE TOO - IN THE PR DEPARTMENT, AKA THE LEGACY MEDIA.