Obama's Pre-approved 'Press List' At Last Getting Notice

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A month ago, I noted a comment by Chicago Sun-Times writer Carol Marin who was mildly complaining that President Obama never goes before the press without having a list of pre-approved journalists upon whom he'll call during a press conference. She offhandedly quipped that in the press corps, "most of us don't even bother raising our hands any more to ask questions because Obama always has before him a list of correspondents who've been advised they will be called upon that day."

I wondered last month how long it would take for anyone else in the press corps to notice Obama's tendency to hand pick from among the free press who he will deign to allow to ask a question? I also wondered if this same "free press" would have meekly allowed president Bush get away with treating the press in such a way? Or would they have raised a hue and cry that would have deafened the world? Drudge. at least, noticed then because within a day my post had wracked up over 200,000 views. But, until February 11, no one in the press has seemed too interested in discussing this issue.

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Well, the Wall Street Journal has now joined me and Carol Marin in wondering what is up with this practice? In an unsigned posting headlined "Obama's Press List," the WSJ raises its collective eyebrow asking the very same questions I asked a month ago about President Obama's special reporter list.

...The White House had decided in advance who would be allowed to question the President and who was left out.

Presidents are free to conduct press conferences however they like, but the decision to preselect questioners is an odd one, especially for a White House famously pledged to openness. We doubt that President Bush, who was notorious for being parsimonious with follow-ups, would have gotten away with prescreening his interlocutors. Mr. Obama can more than handle his own, so our guess is that this is an attempt to discipline reporters who aren't White House favorites.

It's a curious thing, isn't it? Is Obama afraid to take off the cuff questions? Or is this, as the Journal posits, an effort to rein in the press to a controlled place that makes the President comfortable?

And what does it say about a press corps that has allowed this to slide by now for so long without raising but these few whimpers?

The Journal ended with an ominous question:

Few accounts of Monday night's event even mentioned the curious fact that the White House had picked its speakers in advance. We hope that omission wasn't out of fear of being left off the list the next time.

I might tend to imagine this acquiescence by the press to being "handled" by Obama is less a fear of being chastised by the president later and far more an act of cowering before their beloved president. They have accepted the status of lapdog and they like it.

However, this makes the second media outlet to formally notice and mildly complain about Obama's secret press list. Let's hope the press regains its manhood and begins to take exception to The One's exclusionary practices.

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More questions...............

Who co-ordinates this list?
Do the listees know they are on the list?
Are the questions of the listees prescreened?
Is Duh1 informed of the listees prescreened questions?
Are there any preconditions on questions for making the list?

The answers to these extras would draw even more questions, like a stone collecting moss as it rolls downhill.

Do the listees know they are on the list?

(an answer to one of your questions) from Politico:

After getting credentialed, [liberal talk show host, Ed] Schultz was informed that he probably wouldn't get question [sic]. However, if called upon, Schultz said he would have asked about unions and protecting American jobs in the stimulus package.

but it does not say by whom.

Media control should be outrage!

This story should have legs!  So much to cover!  This is where we are headed; an all powerful government that YOU must BOW to to get your rations and healthcare.  Otherwise you will be pronounced unclean and not worthy of attention; like Obama & Nancy have said of the GOP now.

M-B

I'm sure past presidents

I'm sure past presidents have done the same thing.  

The thing is, if those guys are allowed there in the first place as part of the 'corps' then why aren't they good enough to all be called upon at one time or another?

On one hand, turning away this news service or that could cause problems, but on the other hand they can't have every news service in the country represented there...just not enough room for one thing.

It serves these MSM types right though.  Now they can't get to write up and put their names next to analyses of questions that God answered, because they simply aren't being called upon.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

I'm sure past presidents

I'm sure past presidents have done the same thing.  -RR GOP

Really?  Got any evidence?

I know that Presidents know who's sympathetic and who's not, but I haven't seen any indication that they actually plan it ahead of time.  Do you know something I don't know?

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

Hey, don't jump my $hit

Hey, don't jump my $hit about this.  Ari Fleischer said that there was a section President Bush avoided and I believe also that he did have a list of preferred reporters to call upon.  

Look at my signature.

Doesn't mean that I'm going to be like the Communists and ignore stuff that really happened just so I can whine more about the other guy.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

BS

"Past presidents" have NOT done any such thing. Past presidents may have had reporters they didn't want to call on and may have had favorites, but no past president ever had a list at the podium of names upon whom he'll call.

Karl Rove said the other night on O'Reilly

something about Bush using a list to make sure he rotated through everyone, giving everyone a chance to speak. I am not sure of his exact wording, maybe we can get a clip.

 

All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden?  P.J. O' Rourke

Sorry, not Rove, Fleisher. I forgot they were both on.

All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden?  P.J. O' Rourke

someone tried to slip in a

someone tried to slip in a conservative journalist a couple of years ago - and he was allowed to ask a question - and then later on the press found out who he was - and then....the rest is mushroom cloud history...

"if those guys are allowed

"if those guys are allowed there in the first place as part of the 'corps' then why aren't they good enough to all be called upon at one time or another?"

Because if they were all called upon with this president, press briefings would run on for 86 1/2 hours. :-)

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31

~Brad

'Truer words were never spoken'.

Why say in one sentence what can be said in 4 paragraphs?
-Obama's motto

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Small correction, cl

Why say in one sentence what can be alluded to incoherently, rambled and twisted, or just plain lied about in 4 paragraphs?
-Obama's motto

~Thank You, Sefton

Now it's PERFECT.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Sefton - you beat me to it ;-) Not only does he ramble

on incoherently, at the end of his spiel, no one has ANY IDEA what he said!  One thing is for sure, he did NOT answer the question! 

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

As I understand it,

As I understand it, President Omessiah intends to end this practice as soon as he can implement a "discipline squad."  This will consist of numerous ominous looking fellows scattered around the press room, dressend in pajamas and ski masks, holding AK-47s, and babbling in foreign tongues.  Any journalist that asks an unwanted question, Mr. O looks over at the head disciplinarian and gives a "thumbs down" signal.  The offending journalist will be yanked from his seat, made to sit down on a rug between two pajama-wearing AK-wielding thugs, they will turn on a camera, and then they will behead the poor oaf with a rusty kitchen knife.

Who said President O was prescreening at his press conferences?

Chicago Thuggery

WSJ: "We hope that omission wasn't out of fear of being left off the list the next time"

And who says Obama doesn't have any experience?

___________________________________ 

The challenge is to follow a consistent plan despite inconsistent prices - Sarah Palin, State of the State of Alaska speech

Slow Press

Guess the press was a little slow to pick up on this and they were in the same room as BO. Makes you wonder, doesn't it...?

You're not kidding Red

Hell, I remember watching his first news conference in Chicago as president elect and I'm saying to myself "What's with going down a pre-selected list of reporters he's going to call on?"

I figured (wrong, obviously) that the egos which consume our media today wouldn't let that pass muster - but, ooops, this is the anointed One we're talking about.

Press Conferences

So, they're just like 'townhall meetings', fake?

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

THE MSM'S OBAMA LOVEFEST WILL END...

We have heard that the Obama campaign treated the media poorly leading up the election, but the MSM did'nt care. Now he's in office, & he is still treating the media like crap. This will only get worse. He will continue to dump on them, & it will only be a matter of time before the MSM breaks into factions.

My prediction...We will see the @$$kiss MSM defending the MSM that is sick of being pissed on. It will be interesting to see where these lines are drawn & to see who is on what side. FoxNews & talk radio will not be involved in this catfight. Obama's biggest headaches will come from the left, not his right. This includes the media, not just loons in the Dems leadership.

I can't wait to see it go down.

 

 

"...it's still We The People, Right?"  Megadeth 

Sure looks to me like the orgy pigpile

has no look of being over anytime soon.

When we had a good thing going and moving to the left screwed up, why is it logical to think moving further to the left will fix it? Socialism hasn't worked almost anywhere it's been tried in the past, why does anyone think it would work now? Some Scandivavian countries made it work in a vacuum for decades but their recent influx of non-productive immigrants has shown the tragic flaw in socialism, those damned pesky lazy people. Without incentive to succeed too many are willing to accept the bare minimum if it's for "free". Of course nothing is free unless you steal it. Hmmm, I see! Promise them "free" stuff and you can buy their votes.

Turn off your TV news, cancel your newspapers...AND THINK FOR YOURSELF!

Open message to "Newsweek"

"We are all Socialist now"  ?

LIKE HELL WE ARE!

DUCK...

I agree with you about moving to the left being a mistake & socialism sucking where it has been tried. I also agree you on Sandanavian socialism, it worked as long as the population is hard working & RESPONSABLE. Too many lazy @$$ welfare dependents are in the mix there now.

However, I never said te left will fix it, because they will make it worse. Jim Quinn(radio's Quinn & Rose) has said that liberals never think what they have done has failed, they just don't think they have done enough of whatever it is that has failed up to that point. Kinda like the "porkulus" package. 

 

"...it's still We The People, Right?"  Megadeth 

You guys have it all

You guys have it all wrong.

Socialism hasn't worked anywhere before because the "right" people haven't been  in charge.

If the right people are running things, (as it would  be now) then things will be both hunky and dorey!!

\sarc

And dany, I agree with Quinn.  Look at what they have done with public education.  And no matter how much they spend and it still stinks, they always think that the problem is that we haven't spent enough!

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

MOTHERBELT...

Public Education...The more we spend, the dumber they come out.

Jim Quinn can be found at warroom.com from 6am-9am eastern time. I listen on XM, I guess you can find an affiliate to stream it for a listen. Very good, very informative, & very funny. Great update theme music as well. Quinn & Rose kick @$$, have a listen.

 

"...it's still We The People, Right?"  Megadeth 

I've listenened to him since the early......

90's.  Free Republic has a daily thread on the show.  Great stuff.  Based in Pittsburgh.  The following is a link to the War Room.......

http://www.warroom.c...

I wonder if anyone has

I wonder if anyone has looked into the probability that these questioners have been given a pre-approved questions to ask. One's that have been answered in the White House staff room the night before and memorized by the mess-iah. 

I think the press is largely on board with this.

The MSM has been blatantly stonewalling on behalf of Obama for the last couple years. They understand the necessity and reasons for concealing the truth about him and his agenda.

Now Obama's simply taking over the process.

They'll have no problem learning to ask only 'softball' questions once they understand his plan.  They'll get their bylines and Obama will get to pretend he's open to 'questions'.

I wouldn't expect a major press revolt.

 NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

Pre-approved news conference questions? Nonsense...

I only saw snippets of the conference, but I noticed Major Garrett of Fox News was one of the questioners.  If the questions were the subject of prior approval by the administration, that network, as well as other media outlets, would be raising hell.

Jer

really Jer?

So Chicago Tribune and Wall Street Journal are spreading nasty rumors about Obama...and your proof of this is that he called on one reporter from Fox? 

 

 

But acts of kindness and generosity must be free and voluntary; no man has a right to compel another to follow his conscience. This is a concern which lies between a man and his God.

-Richard Fuhrman, pro slave advocate, 1823

Jer is stupid

Come on! There's no reason to suspect, given the Obama administration's behavior and that of liberals in general, that this is a possibility. Calling on ONE reporter from FNC hardly debunks the theory. Pre-approved? As though, given the behavior of the MSM (with exception of FNC), it's unlikely that they would ask a question that they would not approve! Give me a break! 

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

Apparently, candance... I

Apparently, candance...

I missed the section of the Tribune and WSJ articles which averred the actual questions to be asked Obama were required to be--and had been--submitted for approval prior to the news conference.

Can you please point to that claim for me?  Thanks.

Jer

Hey Jer

Calling on Major is one thing, answering his question though, has yet to happen.

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

If he memorizes his answers, I wonder if he throws in

all the errrrrs and ummmmms and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs during his practice session or just saves them for the public's amusement ;-) 

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

Socialism is a great idea....

and a poor reality. That goes for just about everything the left espouses these days.

Getting rid of children, before they're a burden? Great idea (poor reality!)!  

Pre-approved questioners of the great and wonderful leaders, in an effort to keep the country on the 'right track'? Great idea (poor reality!)!

Keeping your blackberry so you can chat with your recovering-terrorist buddy back home? Great idea (poor reality!)!

Trying to get out of a debt-inspired financial crisis by going deeper into debt? Great idea (poor reality!)! *(ok, so it's not really a great idea, but all of the 'work' it is supposed to create, we'll count that as a great idea, even though the only 'work' that is envisioned over the next three months is the 'work' done by 'congress' trying to figure out who gets the 'work'. )

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."   - Winston Churchill

I doubt it Dany

They are way to vested in him to admit they are wrong. They are not about to admit they have been duped, they are to much the elitist. they will carry on getting pi$$ed on, while making excuses as to why it's raining. 

Everyday the media reaches new lows of lies, deceit, and plain old story telling, all in the name of propping up the left and giving their lies cover. No it isnt going to stop, not until respectable people start holding them responsible for their actions. The media give the crooks cover, and the crooks benifit from the lies.

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

GENERAL COMPANY...

 Maybe you will be right, I just made a prediction, time will tell who is right. Even though I agree with you about the so called elitists in the MSM, & they have everything invested in Obama & the Dems. But even some in the MSM will get sick of being pissed on. Nobody outside of someone who pays someone to do that to them (fetish sexual needs...see golden shower) likes to be treated like dirt. Even if one agrees with the politics, people will get personally offended & turn on someone when treated poorly. If they don't, I will have less repsect for them then I thought I could.

Like I said, time will tell. I would love to see the MSM split over being trashed by the very President that they got elected when he fails. That is the part I know will happen, Obama will stink on ice.

 

"...it's still We The People, Right?"  Megadeth 

Well I only hope

You are right. 

  I will have less repsect for them then I thought I could.

I already do. They are even worst then the crooks in DC, because they are complicit.

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Danybhoy

  I kindof see the press as the homely girl in class who wants to be popular and relevant and Obama as the class president. She will continue to follow him around starry eyed no matter how much he ignores her, and if she starts getting discouraged or disillusioned he will just give her a little wink and she will be right back to following him around.

They are all hoping that ONE DAY they might be lucky enough to get asked to go to the prom... er be on the list.  They are all delusional enough to think that if they just do the right things for long enough they might have a chance.  That chance makes it worth all the dirt they have to eat in the meantime.

THE MSM'S OBAMA LOVEFEST WILL END...

You got to check this out.....sooo true!

 

http://boortz.com/ne...

THE MSM'S OBAMA LOVEFEST WILL END...

You got to check this out...so true!

 

http://boortz.com/ne...

Media types deserve Obama's scorn

Even Obama realizes that the media consists of sniveling, sycophantic, slobbering, suck-up, subservient lapdogs who deserve no respect. They deserve to have the Messiah look down on them and treat them like the dirt that they are.

Nothing odd about

Propaganda and lies. It fits the rest of Obammunism.

Come to think of it, our PRAVDA modeled media has it down pat, print nothing but lies, who will know.

That woman was sure a good swimmer wasn't she. I hope she didn't run into any melting icebergs out in her short swim across the Atlantic. Probably not, since global warming has already melted them.

You know this summer the Artic will be ice free, and it's your fault. Yeah I know we told you it was going to melt last summer, but we were really shocked when the Artci sea ice grew so fast, but thought you didn't care it broke all records for speed of growth.

Never mind that there are ancient trees that used to stand about 100 Km north of today's northern tree line. I think that is what they now call peat or tundra. But that wasn't due to global warming, we checked it out for you, and found it was a non-story so why bother telling you about non-stories.

In 10 years we will have reached the point of no return for the man caused CO2 problem, as Al Gore will have completed his world hot air tour.

And polar bear habitat is being destroyed, never mind that polar bears have only been around for only 220,000 years and are nothing more than brown bears that live way up north and eat seals. I guess because they like their taste. The brown bears migrated north and turned white to be better camouflaged when hunting pesky sharp eyed seals. But hey, who cares, so we passed on that story too.  Oh yeah, they migrated when the trees grew by the Arctic Ocean, but so what.

And now Antarctica is warming, well at least in our made up data and imaginary computer estimations it is.we thought you needed to know this.

The Australian fires are  due to global warming but were set by men, who seemed to be of a certain type, but we are not sure what terror group they are with, so we wouldn't know if they were Muslims who lit the fires. So global warming it is, that is what set the fires. Move along, the war on terror is over, didn't you get the blast email?

Oh yeah, and don't worry we checked, and Barry isn't a Communist, so we were told. His father was, and he did like the Indonesian Junta style of government, but that shouldn't matter, so we passed on that story, why bother with more useless stuff to worry about.

But he is an American, because he gave us a xerox copy of his birth certificate, or something. Anyway, don't worry, we checked it out so you don't have to.

Didn't Obama say he was fine with $4 a gallon gas, so when it hits $4 because of his supply side squeeze, he will be happy again. You do know about the peak oil myth don't you? Didn't you remember Jimmy Carter said the world will be out of oil by the year 2,000. Missed it by that much, but we'll be out soon, as Obama has his hand firmly on the tap.

There is no pork or earmarks in the stimulus bill, we checked that out for you, we asked Obama. What, you kidding, right? You didn't actually expect us to read that bill, it's huge and would have definitely cut into our idolatry time at the press' Barrack Obama shows.

And don't give me this crap that the Obama townhall show is modeled
after Opera Winfrey's TV show, we checked and Obama is nowhere near as
good looking as Opera. Weren't the questioners  we picked cool, couldn't you feel their pain, and their fulfillment?

And one last, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Ried believe in America's greatness, freedoms and libertys, they said so once. Oh that thing about losing the war in Iraq, well ya Know. They also said they work for you and respect the Constitution, so it's OK if they have this giant patronage pot of tax payer money to subvert the election process for centuries to come. Who cares anyway, you will have free health care, free gasoline and free homes -- won't you.

I lied, one more -- And don't even think about global warming being caused by the sun, we checked, so you wouldn't have. The sun is asleep now and we didn't want to wake it up.

Thank God for our PRAVDA's fact checkers, and nose for news, where would we be without them.

Feel better?

That was a good rant.

I give it a 9.

Because with a name like Obama... you know it has to be good.

Brilliant! I nominate you for President!

But how do you have the time to write all that??

 

:)

The Audacity....

....of Cowardice.

  Ask not what your

  Ask not what your President can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your President.

The next phase of the plan

Is to have all the pre-selected "journalists" address him as Mr. Commrade President. Next they will pass out the questions that the reporters are authorized to ask. Finally, they will just stop holding the press conferences altogether, and simply release the approved "transcript".

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012

You missed one step...

"Next they will pass out the questions that the reporters are authorized to ask."

...Then, they will replace "reporters" with 15 fourth-grade kids of all racial and ethnic varieties, who will ask the questions that were written for them, such as "Do you like asparagus? I don't like asparagus, but my mother tells me I have to eat it. We can throw my mother in jail for child abuse, can't we?"

 

Ari Fleischer?

I think I heard Ari Fleischer say that he prepared such a list for President Bush...

A list?

Please explain.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

I don't think

I don't think it's true that Bush had any such list at the podium during any press conference. If I am wrong, I will be shocked.

If I heard correctly it was

If I heard correctly it was a chart of where the journalist were sitting not a list of "approved" journalist.  Though with the way Pres. Bush was treated by the press at least 98% of them could be considered hostile.

please ledurchi

Provide proof of that claim or admit you're here to peddle nasty rumors. 

 

 

But acts of kindness and generosity must be free and voluntary; no man has a right to compel another to follow his conscience. This is a concern which lies between a man and his God.

-Richard Fuhrman, pro slave advocate, 1823

Not that I agree with it, but...

I'm just the messanger, please don't shoot me

ThinkProgress caught former press secretary Ari Fleischer telling Bill O'Reilly last night how he kept President Bush from calling on "dot coms and other oddballs" during White House press conferences.

O’REILLY: George Bush came in with a list of guys he was going to call on?

FLEISCHER: Yes, I used to prepare it for him. I would give him a grid, show him where every reporter is seated. And there are some reporters, you know, in that briefing room, you can imagine, Bill, you get a lot of dot coms and other oddballs who come in there. They’re screened.

O’REILLY: Like the Huffington Post. Now it gets called on.

FLEISCHER: And I used to seat them all in one section. I would call it “Siberia.” And I told the president, “Don’t call on Siberia.”

That said, online reporter Jeff Gannon wasn't relegated to "Siberia," ThinkProgress notes.

That's quite a bit different

That's quite a bit different than pre-picking individual journalists that get to ask a question, though, isn't it? In Bush's case, he was given a area of out-of-the-mainstream folks not to call on, but I don't see Fleischer telling the president which mainstream journo he WILL call on!

did you read it?

Look up to the quote from Tuesday's Bill O'Reilly show.  Ari clearly states he picked the people the President would call on. I know, it's hard to believe the WSJ and Newsbusters got this so very wrong.

You mean this?

O’REILLY: George Bush came in with a list of guys he was going to call on?

FLEISCHER: Yes, I used to prepare it for him. I would give him a grid, show him where every reporter is seated. And
there are some reporters, you know, in that briefing room, you can
imagine, Bill, you get a lot of dot coms and other oddballs who come in
there.
They’re screened.

O’REILLY: Like the Huffington Post. Now it gets called on.

FLEISCHER: And I used to seat them all in one section. I would call it “Siberia.” And I told the president, “Don’t call on Siberia.”

Or is there more?

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Honest Abe?

<sarc on>

 I heard that President Lincoln might have used a prepared list to call on journalists during his press conferences.

<sarc off>

As long as Helen Thomas got to flap her toothless gums....

...at Bush's press conferences (and yes, she was routinely called upon), the left has no reason to compare him even remotely to Obama's neo-Stalinist iron grip on the press.

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

wow. just wow.

Websites like Huffington Post sent people into the press room, and Fleisher warned Bush that they weren't real journalists - and you're comparing that to the entire MSM being told when to ask questions? 

Here's a good idea then, let's send Michelle Malkin into the press room and demand she be treated the same as a reporter from CNN. By your standard that would be totally reasonable.

 

But acts of kindness and generosity must be free and voluntary; no man has a right to compel another to follow his conscience. This is a concern which lies between a man and his God.

-Richard Fuhrman, pro slave advocate, 1823

I think this is


I think this is Stephanopoulos' job on the morning planning meeting with Emmanuel, picking out "journalists" to ask the preapproved questions that the administration wants to have asked.

George then spends the rest of the morning calling these "journalists" and practicing their questions with them.

Freedom of the press in action.

Socialism

The only place that socialism has been even mildly successful is where the subject nation hides under the protection of the western powers; i.e. The United States of America, NATO, etc. They afford themselves the luxury of not having to spend any money for their own national defense (much like the welfare state in the U S).

Did you ever hear of that "Great Military Power of the State of Scandanavia?". The only smoking guns they have are filled with their drugs.

Take Number

And do you hear the infamous "Obama Press Conference..., Take Number 24"..., "And Cut!"..., "That's a wrap boys"

the media gave BHO a pass-now its his turn

the MSM gave our communist President BHO a pass throughout the entire election cycle. Now its his turn, he was elected, he can do as he wishes, MSM validated his behavior with their past behavior.

you reap what you sow.COMRADE MSM

 

 allow me to Love America

 

This pre-approved list of

This pre-approved list of journalists that will be asked questions sounds like a orchestrated staged press conference and something a fascist regime would do. Or am I just an angry right-wing nut job? In any case it seems like this is meant to hide something, I am suspicious.

Look, no one will ever be able to

convince me that those people at the Townhalls this week were not pre-screened and planted there to ask their specific questions. As for the journos asking questions, if Obama didn't know what they were going to ask, or at least most of them, how was it that they just flowed together in his narrative so well? He is not that talented a speaker, no matter what we are told. And the TelePrompter at the begining? That bit, big time. I don't know if Obama was given the specific question they would ask, more likely the  just the basic subject matter.

 

All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden?  P.J. O' Rourke

tbdi - and doncha wonder why that guy, Julio, hasn't

received a promotion in 4-1/2 years?  I am sick to hear he has been invited to be a guest announcer for some ball team this weekend.  What a TOTAL JERK!   

I want to see the endlessly repeated results of the INDEPTH investigations the press and state will be delivering to the public on the backgrounds of these three "do-nothings, but I want YOU to give me everything" questioners. 

You know, similar to what was done to a man who questioned 'the one' on how he was going to be able to accomplish something himself...not have something DONE FOR HIM!

"...convince me that those people at the Townhalls this week were not pre-screened and planted there to ask their specific questions..." 

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

I wish Obama would had asked

 Julio, hasn't received a promotion in 4-1/2 years?

Him or one of those other idiots, "how much education do you have? "Did you realy think everyone was joking when they were telling you "you want fries with that"?

Some of these folks wont survive with Gov assistance. I mean where did these people come from? I swear they wern't here a while ago?

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

No promotion???

I thought Obama made him an 'economic adviser'?

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

Extra! Read all About It!

It's about time! The press holds one thing closer to their hearts than Obama; nope, it's not their moms but their own guaranteed right to a story and that means asking questions, getting facts, and being included in the making of a story. Yes, the old days of the "scoop" still beats in the sullied hearts of many in the media, especially those who work for  smaller markets; after all, they have to justify their jobs and their reason for living and a 13 question news conference won't cut  it. Oh, they may slant it to the Master's will but He must recognize them all and give each a fair turn. Our pretend-president hasn't played fair and the press does not turn the other cheek! I love seeing it all play out!

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Knowing this, is it much of

Knowing this, is it much of a stretch to imagine he was given the questions in advance too?

Unsurprising

But it is surprising that the new editors of the WSJ aren't familiar with the process of selecting journalists for questions in the first place. March 6, 2003 Press Conference, Bush admitted during the conference that he was calling on reporters according to his pre-arranged list of names, which his press secretary, Ari Fleischer, later copped to preparing. "This is scripted," Mr. Bush joked." Last Tuesday, Fliescher told O'Reilly that he made the list of reporters to call on and told him never to call on "dot.com" guys -- of course Bush did call on right-wing, gay hooker Jeff Ganon when he worked for a conservative blog, but no word from Fleischer if he put the gay hooker on the list -- although he admitted he let the gay hooker sit down front. By the way, Reagan also used a list and at times even had the press submit the questions before hand.

Apalling

Newsbusters and the WSJ are just plain stupid on this post. Why not ask, what are the reasons for a list (time, mostly) and how is it composed? How did Ari Fleischer choose, or Reagan? I'm sure there are legitimate reasons, but if there's proof that choices have been made unethically, let's talk about that. By the way, it's appalling that 95% of the responses here unquestioningly trusted the new editors at WSJ and Newsbusters that such a list is unethical and only Obama could do such a heinous practice.

So, you have been a member here 49 weeks and you have 1 post

Hmmmmmm, very interesting.

Is the bridge you normally reside under experiencing a flood?

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

R D

Perhaps it's the year of the cicada????

misterb.... LOL... I

misterb....

LOL...

I was hoping nobody would pay attention to ps.

bt,

LOL-Hey, its Thursday night. There is absolutely nothing on TV worth watching, and I'm bored, so I decided it might be fun to stir up a little trouble.  :-^)

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

Dave... Hey....I thought

Dave...

Hey....I thought about it quite awhile back when I first saw the posts...then thought nah...I'm not on the mood today...someone else will come along...

Poof!....Here came Dave   ;-)

bt,

LOL-'sides, I would be derelict in my duties as the Official Assistant Troll Greeter here at NB if I didn't at least say hello.

Its that southern hospitality thang I got goin', doncha know.  :-)

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

Yeah...your turn in the

Yeah...your turn in the barrel Dave.

Carry on...

I may get in the mood later...had my fill yesterday with some back and forths.

My favorite CSI--

-- is on tonight. The only problem I have is wondering if Larry Fishburne is on because someone on Obama's staff called and said the Prez watches and he thought it would be nice if they had some "diversity".

~Did someone say 'trouble'?

You called, Dave?

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

What? Little ol' me involved in trouble here at NB?

LOL-Nahh, I would never get tangled up in that.  :-^)

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

~Nope

Me neither. No tangling here, no siree. *hands behind back, whistling*

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

misterbill,

LOL-Perhaps there was a lab experiment that went hideously awry.

Maybe they were trying to cross a cicada with a grasshopper, and a wayward troll somehow got into the mix.

Bet ol' Dr. Frankenstein was seriously pissed, too. Lab time don't come cheap.  :-)

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

I went thorugh--

 a colonoscopy yeterday. It was more pleasant than reading his posts. And not as big a pain in the ass.......

misterb... ROFL!

misterb...

ROFL!

misterbill,

LMAO!

Dang, y'all is killin' me!

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

psmarc

You are just wrong.

Fliescher was NOT saying he gave Bush THE names he would call on. Flieshcer said he gave him the list of ALL the reporters with the ones he shouldn't let ask questions. Which guys Bush was supposed to call on was up to him. In effect, Fliescher gave Bush a seating chart.

The difference is that Obama has the EXACT journos he will call on and NO OTHER names on the list.