Hey, why not? It’s not as if most of the MSM is any less biased anyway. In fact, Obama might be making a mistake if he think he’ll only receive positive coverage from the liberal blog. If you’re not far-left enough even with plenty of lib cred already, the nutroots tend to go nuclear.

While the Obama administration engages in an ongoing battle with Fox News over its conservative ideological leanings, self-described “progressive” media outlets are increasing their presence at the White House.

Which is a good point to note. This shows just how disingenuous the White House’s supposed war on partisan media has been. The Huffington Post was allowed to ask a question during a prime time presser for The One and now liberal blogs are allowed in the pool. The Obama Administration has nothing against partisan media, just the wrong type of partisan media.

The latest evidence was the announcement Friday that Talking Points Memo will become part of the White House press pool, taking its place with The Washington Post, New York Times and established newspaper companies like Scripps Howard and Tribune in ensuring a constant media presence whenever President Barack Obama goes somewhere.

Look at it this way: At least TPM admits its partisan leanings. The New York Times, meanwhile, continues to parade as anything other than what it really is: A newsletter for the DNC. So does the Washington Post, which did its best to destroy Republican Bob McDonnell in Virginia with anything and everything it could throw at him.

TPM just opened a Washington bureau this month, and its editor, Josh Marshall, told POLITICO that the decision to join the pool was “pretty straightforward.” The decision to include it in the pool was made not by the White House but by the White House Correspondents’ Association, the reporters’ group which runs the pools.

“We wanted to be one of the news organizations covering the White House,” Marshall said. “It just seemed like the appropriate thing to do to have access to the pool reports.”

Both Salon, another progressive website, based in San Francisco, and Ebony, the black-oriented magazine that endorsed a presidential candidate — Obama — for the first time in its 64-year history in 2008, joined the White House in-town press pool this year. The Huffington Post, which announced its presence in Washington when Obama twice called on its reporters at press conferences, also has plans to join the pool, according to a spokesperson for the website.

Let’s imagine for a second that Pajamas Media, RedState, Breitbart, and Hot Air suddenly were allowed to join the pool during a Republican administration. It wouldn’t happen, but let’s assume it did. Can you imagine the screeching we’d hear from the left? It’d be deafening. But the fact that left-wingers are hypocritical is nothing new.

Via Hot Air.