Obama beat reporter: campaign’s terrified of people poking around Obama’s life

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   Obama beat reporter: The campaign’s “terrified of people poking around Obama’s life”
posted at 6:55 pm on July 24, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The quote’s buried near the end of an otherwise silly TNR piece speculating that the media might be about to, ahem, turn on Barack Obama. After reading it, I can’t decide if the takeaway is (1) that the press is a bunch of whiny, self-entitled five-year-olds, per the comically overwrought reactions from Adam Nagourney and the reporters Obama ditched to meet with Hillary, (2) that TNR, which published a similar piece about Hillary last year, has an odd fondness for stories about journalists loathing the politicians they have to cover (“The difference is the Clinton people were hostile for no reason”), or (3) that Obama and his team really are arrogant, secretive jackasses paranoid to a provocative degree about St. Barack’s personal life.

In the interests of partisan advantage, I duly declare number three to be our winner. Money:

    Much of this is certainly the run-of-the-mill complaining of campaign reporters who can’t get enough access. Still, the campaign hasn’t helped itself, approaching reporters with a sense of entitlement. “They’re an arrogant operation. Young and arrogant,” one reporter covering the campaign says. “They don’t believe in transparency with their own campaign,” another says.

    Reporters who have covered Obama’s biography or his problems with certain voter blocs have been challenged the most aggressively. “They’re terrified of people poking around Obama’s life,” one reporter says. “The whole Obama narrative is built around this narrative that Obama and David Axelrod built, and, like all stories, it’s not entirely true. So they have to be protective of the crown jewels.” Another reporter notes that, during the last year, Obama’s old friends and Harvard classmates were requested not to talk to the press without permission.

    As tensions escalate, the risk to Obama, of course, is that reporters will be emboldened to challenge his campaign ever more aggressively.

there is a LOT of personal info on the Barackstar! in the comments there at Hot Air..

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[Jim]

“They don’t believe in transparency with their own campaign,” another says.


change you can believe in ?    yeah, right...

[Chris_]

“They don’t believe in transparency with their own campaign,” another says.


change you can believe in ?    yeah, right...

I have heard that hussein's campaign staff are arrogant and secretive -- even more than mrs. clinton's were!

[Lauri]

i just cant believe that Obama's college classmates arent allowed to talk to the media 'without permission'


... says who??

He doesnt run the world, or even this country .. and he sure as hell cannot block private citizens from speaking to whomever they choose. Hopefully just that portion of the article will piss off some people that knew him and they will start singing about what a blowhard, do nothing kind of guy Barry actually is.

[USA4ME]

Like this is going to matter one wit.  Regardless of the candiate, the whole chronicle of the Dem nominee by the MSM was predictable from day one.  They'll play along just like they always do.

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[Lauri]

Like this is going to matter one wit.  Regardless of the candiate, the whole chronicle of the Dem nominee by the MSM was predictable from day one.  They'll play along just like they always do.

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well possibly... but i think the public is going to show the press just what they think of them and Obama and the press is going to be shocked at what they find.

of course, they wont report the truth; we'll have another 'stolen' election.. 

[Jim]

i just cant believe that Obama's college classmates arent allowed to talk to the media 'without permission'


... says who??

He doesnt run the world, or even this country .. and he sure as hell cannot block private citizens from speaking to whomever they choose. Hopefully just that portion of the article will piss off some people that knew him and they will start singing about what a blowhard, do nothing kind of guy Barry actually is.

hello, Chicago polititian....

its akin to offending a polititian in NY whose last name ends in a vowel

[Peter3_1]

Well, today Obama showed his respect for our wounded warriors by deciding not to visit them. Seems he was told the ONLY reporter/photographer permitted with him would be the military one. No drive by press!!!!!!!!! He cancelled imediately!

Day ONE my impression of this CHUMP was that he's am empty suit, and not rearly as bright as he claims (or others advertize for him).  Where are his Harvard Law Review articles, for instance. Seems he , the editor, never wrote a single one, not one. Where are the pieces of legisklation he, personally, wrote? Are we still at zero? What, exactly, did he do as a "community organizer". Where did he do it? How much was he paid?  How many hours a week did he put in? How is it possible that he became a multi millionair, virtually overnight?: Why was he paid the kind of money he was for his biography for a singularly undistinguished career ?

And so on. NOTHING about this bozo makes  semnse, not the least of which is, why do the DRIVE BY'S LOVE HIM SO? Arn't his pals tired of making excuses for him?

Maybe they thtink that they can get him into the Whitehouse , then, as he's not that bright, manage him? I think, given the power, he'll go wild......

[bijou]

From Hot Air, I like this idea:

Has anyone yet started a website that maps out Obama’s life? Mapping out everything we know, might be a good start to finding holes in his story and where to look.

Dusty on July 24, 2008 at 11:04 PM