My item of earlier this afternoon notwithstanding, not everyone at ABC is in the Obama tank.  During the course of the campaign, Jake Tapper distinguished himself among his MSM colleagues by asking tough questions regarding candidate Obama.   He did so both on the air, and notably in postings at his Political Punch blog.

Recently named ABC’s Senior White House Correspondent, Tapper has served notice of a persistent independence of spirit. Readers will recall my item of yesterday describing how CBS’s Early Show weekend anchors apparently thought it was a good idea to have themselves posterized  in the iconic Obama style Shepard Fairey made famous.  Using the resources of a new website, Obamicon.me, Chris Wragge and Erica Hill arranged for their images to appear over the Obama campaign’s theme word of Hope.

Now Tapper has weighed in with an Obamicon.me poster of his own.  But rather than plastering his image over “Change,” Tapper designed a poster pointing out the Obama administration’s failure to abide by its own policy precluding former lobbyists within the administration from working for a period of two years on issues related to their former employer or clients.   Tapper’s poster, seen here and  discussed  in his Political Punch column, displays an image of  William J. Lynn II over the word “LOBBYIST.”  Pres. Obama has appointed Lynn as deputy secretary of the Defense Department.   According to the Washington Post, Lynn ” spent the better part of the past two years lobbying for defense contractor Raytheon.”  That would have precluded him from working on a host of issues in his new job . . . except that the Obama administration granted him a waiver from its ethics rules. Speaking of rules, when we launched FinkelBlog just a week ago, we said we wouldn’t hesitate to hand out kudos when the MSM does something to merit them.  So let the record show some poster-sized kudos headed Tapper’s way.