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When reporters attack: White House press rebels over Gibbs’ gibberish
So-called Town Hall meetings have always been a farce. Same with Obama’s idea of “transparency.” Now reporters are even starting to complain.
So-called Town Hall meetings have always been a farce. Same with Obama’s idea of “transparency.” Now reporters are even starting to complain.
Absent the pretense of a campaign “debate” platform, Town Hall meetings are now merely infomercials. Pure propaganda. Filled with hack partisan activists and axe-grinders who have nothing better to do than ask pre-approved questions. Unless it’s your job to report on these charades, you shouldn’t be watching them.
But it seems the media lapdogs are growing restless. Some in the White House press corps are no longer content to be the Obama administration’s public relations pep squad.
Helen Thomas has covered every president since Lincoln, er… Kennedy. Anyway, she’s old enough to know better and to resent the spoon-feeding. We don’t agree with Thomas on muchof anything, but we can’t help but cheer for her in this video. Watch as she teams up with CBS’ Chip Reid to confront smarmy spokes-tool Robert Gibbs about the White House’s manipulative question-planting techniques and his insulting non-answers.
Then imagine the outcry if the Bush team had been as “transparent” as this bunch.
Source: RealClearPolitics.com
President Obama and the press laugh at the thought of Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys failing
Hollywood hates conservatives. The press hates conservatives. And the worst conservative on earth is Rush Limbaugh. And President Obama loves all that. Put all these ingredients together and what do you get? Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes at the the White House Press Corps dinner last night saying she hope Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys fail, to the delight and laughter of our free press, and of course, our tolerant and very sensitive president.
Oh we know, she was just kidding. The press crops were just a little tipsy. And the president was just politely smiling along with the joke. Can’t we conservatives just lighten up?
Another rough weekend in the headlines for President Obama
Ouch. It’s getting rough out there. The fawning press seems to be doing less fawning and a little more…uh..reporting. Yeah, that’s a good word. Reporting.
• Orlando ‘Tea Party’ rally draws thousands
• CITI, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chiefs Criticize Limits on Bonuses
• Alarm over US moves for punitive taxes
• Venezuela’s Chavez calls Obama ‘ignoramus’
• Biden pokes fun at his boss during Gridiron
• Dollar Posts Largest Weekly Drop Since 1985
• Senator Gregg: Obama Budget Will Bankrupt USA
• Resistance grows to Obama’s bigger government; mistrust of central control
• Obama Administration Regroups After Rough Couple of Weeks
• Geithner on ‘Shaky Grounds’
• Obama Insults Special Olympics
• AIG Scandal May Be Last Straw for Chris Dodd’s Career
• Iran’s Supreme Leader Dismisses Obama Overtures
• Senator Shelby Losing Confidence in Geithner
Obama gets newspaper publishers award, closes ceremony to the press
This one is nutty even in the twisted world of Washington, DC.
The LA Times reports that our Fearless Leader set to receive the “Newsmaker of the Year” award this afternoon from the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a group of black publishers from across the nation. They’ll all get together at the White House, shake hands, and pose for all the photographers.
Oh, wait. They won’t pose for the photographers because the event has been closed to the press.
That’s right, the guy who claimed he was going to head up the most transparent administration in history is shutting the press out of the ceremony in which he’s being honored by the press.
The teleprompter must have called in sick today.
Source: LA Times, NewsBusters
