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Offline TheSarge

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Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« on: March 24, 2009, 08:52:19 PM »



During President Obama's second East Room news conference, he took questions from 13 reporters over about an hour -- that's the same as during his first presser on Feb. 9.

But in quite a departure from the first presser -- and White House protocol -- Obama skipped over the nation's top newspapers. Indeed, there were no questions from the NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or USA Today. That might not sit well with the already insecure newspaper industry.

In exchange, Obama opened things up to a wider variety of outlets, including  Spanish-language television, a military news outlet, and black-oriented media. It's another example of the White House going over the typical Washington press corps "filter."

Here's the list of reporters in order: Jennifer Loven (AP), Chuck Todd (NBC), Jake Tapper (ABC), Chip Reid (CBS), Lourdes Meluza (Univision), Kevin Baron (Stars and Stripes), Ed Henry (CNN), Major Garrett (Fox News), Mike Allen (POLITICO), Kevin Chappell (Ebony), Ann Compton (ABC Radio), Jon Ward (Washington Times) and Stephen Collinson (AFP).


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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2009, 08:57:03 PM »
Quote from: TxRadioguy on March 24, 2009, 08:52:19 PM
Here's the list of reporters in order: Jennifer Loven (AP), Chuck Todd (NBC), Jake Tapper (ABC), Chip Reid (CBS), Lourdes Meluza (Univision), Kevin Baron (Stars and Stripes), Ed Henry (CNN), Major Garrett (Fox News), Mike Allen (POLITICO), Kevin Chappell (Ebony), Ann Compton (ABC Radio), Jon Ward (Washington Times) and Stephen Collinson (AFP).

Why not?  The Times and the Post's numbers are in the can anyway.  The Times hasn't had any credit with me since they had Jayson Blair on their payroll.  Nothing has changed.

Nice picture, BTW. :-)
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2009, 09:01:57 PM »


And for poor peepullz I haz invisbull meatloaf.
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2009, 09:12:04 PM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on March 24, 2009, 09:01:57 PM


And for poor peepullz I haz invisbull meatloaf.

 :lmao: Good one, Mister Bunny.
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2009, 09:15:38 PM »
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there were no questions from the NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or USA Today.

He's going to pay a price for that rookie mistake.

The 5th column can be pretty unforgiving when shunted asided.
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2009, 09:59:12 PM »
He avoided answering Tapper, and a few others, but what was the deal with the totally idiotic question by Anne Compton? Race? In the middle of a deep Recession and the whole credit market is in the toliet, let's by all means bring this up!   :(
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2009, 12:54:10 AM »
Looks like the President still had a tough time with a couple questions:

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The buzziest moment came about 35 minutes into the press conference when Ed Henry of CNN asked the President why he didn't spew outrage as soon as he learned about the AIG bonuses. Why, Mr. Henry asked, did the president wait several days before speaking out? The president, with an icy stare, responded that he "likes to know what he's talking about" before he speaks. It was a pretty testy exchange that brought about nervous laughter from the other reporters and snarky responses from Twitterers. Boom! Next question.

Another moment that seemed to strike a chord came when Chuck Todd of NBC asked the president what sort of sacrifices he would like to see from the American people during this economic crisis. The president responded that he expects Americans to do what they've always done "which is working hard, looking after their families, making sure that, despite the economic hard times, that they're still contributing to their community..."

Chip Reid asked a tough question about Obama's controversial budget. Reid asked if the budget, which will increase the debt to "$7 trillion over the next 10 years," is a case of passing problems onto the next generation. Obama responded that investments need to be made to "meet our growth targets that put us on a pathway to growth." He then pointed out that the critics of his budget have yet to bring forth an alternative.

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« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2009, 01:43:08 AM »
Not to mention the whole damned thing was STAGED and SCRIPTED.

The reporters had questions provided to them and according to the teleprompter script, the reporter was pointed to to ask the question which the teleprompter already had the answer on it.
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« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2009, 02:13:37 AM »
Quote from: rich_t on March 24, 2009, 09:15:38 PM
He's going to pay a price for that rookie mistake.

The 5th column can be pretty unforgiving when shunted asided.

Nah, they worship their furher
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2009, 08:54:15 AM »
Happy1ga, that question was stupid.  The sound you heard was half the nation (or more) rolling its eyes.   
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2009, 08:58:25 AM »
And it's as if nobody even CARES that TOTUS is sitting right there in the middle of the room, feeing the answers to the prefed questions.
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2009, 09:30:06 AM »
Quote from: happy1ga on March 24, 2009, 09:59:12 PM
He avoided answering Tapper, and a few others, but what was the deal with the totally idiotic question by Anne Compton? Race? In the middle of a deep Recession and the whole credit market is in the toliet, let's by all means bring this up!   :(

Don't you know?  In Liberal Looneyville....EVERYTHING is about race.
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2009, 11:19:13 AM »
That "press conference" yesterday was a trainwreck. Bfd, he used a wide screen instead of a teleprompter, it was even worse when he was staring right at you. ALL of it was staged - "I have a list here".  ::) Ann Compton is a bigger kiss-ass than I'd even thought, and that race question was fluffy and stupid. Then Rahm was standing in the back signaling to his puppet, while O said "investment" over and over and kept whining about "inheiriting the mess", and didn't answer most of the questions. Dull and repetitive, just like him.
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2009, 12:19:34 PM »
....and Bush was the bumbling idiot....... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

They must be so proud of their choice...... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

We should take up a collection and hire some hacker to hack into TOTUS and put "words" into his mouth..... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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Re: Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WaPo, WSJ, USA Today
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2009, 12:32:48 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on March 25, 2009, 12:19:34 PM
....and Bush was the bumbling idiot....... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

They must be so proud of their choice...... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

We should take up a collection and hire some hacker to hack into TOTUS and put "words" into his mouth..... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

Maybe this is why they don't have military guys running the commo gear anymore...

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