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.

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?

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?

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

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 

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.

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

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.

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

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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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.