WTF?! I'm Cheering Helen Thomas???!!!

[LiveGoat]

Chip Reid of CBS gives Robert Gibbs the third degree over Obama's short leash policy with the press.

Gibbs hems and haws a bit as Reid presses on, then the unthinkable happens and Helen Thomas, dowager queen of the press corps, jumps in to back up Reid.

http://www.breitbart.tv/white-house-reporters-grill-gibbs-over-selected-questions-for-obama/

[SteamWake]

Heard this today and all I can say is wtf took so long.

I guess only when there 'professional' toes get stepped on and they are personally affected are they willing to ask the questions that need to be asked.

The glossy veneer is beginning to peel away.

[SteamWake]

This of course will go entirely 'un noticed' in fact I'm sure that they will be chastised for it. As was the poor blogger whom bungled the scripted question and put Obama off his game.

Dare to question the methods of the administrations and their staged 'town hall' meetings' the odasity.

[mookiemookie]

I don't see how this anywhere near as bad as creating a fake news agency so you can hire a male prostitute that you can call on to ask loaded questions like Bush did.

[SteamWake]

I don't see how this anywhere near as bad as creating a fake news agency so you can hire a male prostitute that you can call on to ask loaded questions like Bush did.

Wow never heard that one before. Id love to read about it if you could post some links. You would have thought the press would have had a field day with that given their driving desire to destroy and besmirch the Bush admin.

But now a press 'in love' with the current administration is calling him to task.

Anyhow what makes this bad is it is not an isolated or unique incident. It seems that all of the press conferences and 'town hall' meetings are scripted and the attending audiance selected. Which in its nature is contrary to the intent of a town hall meeting.

It all reminds me of some bad Sci Fi movie.

[CastleBravo]

I hope this is the start of the press actually taking up their role as the foil to the president. Their advasarial role is the only thing that can keep the gov't in check on a daily basis and is absolutely neccessary for a healthy democracy.

Up to now the press has been an embarassment to themsselves and the profession. Which is why the press is regarded with the same disdain as lawyers and politicians.

[mookiemookie]

Wow never heard that one before. Id love to read about it if you could post some links. You would have thought the press would have had a field day with that given their driving desire to destroy and besmirch the Bush admin.

But now a press 'in love' with the current administration is calling him to task.

Anyhow what makes this bad is it is not an isolated or unique incident. It seems that all of the press conferences and 'town hall' meetings are scripted and the attending audiance selected. Which in its nature is contrary to the intent of a town hall meeting.

It all reminds me of some bad Sci Fi movie.

Jeff Gannon Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon

And Jeff Gannon is linked to male prostitution: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27730-2005Feb15.html

[SteamWake]

Most recently, Gannon operated JeffGannon.com, a blog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog) where he criticized those who exposed him, the "Old Media" and the "Angry Gay Left", accusing them of promoting a double standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_standard).[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon#cite_note-5) The site has since been taken offline and the domain expired. He recently published a book titled The Great Media War.


LOL the angry Gay left... :rotfl:

Thats rich.

I guess they should have chosen there plant a little more carefully.

[mookiemookie]

LOL the angry Gay left... :rotfl:

Thats rich.

I guess they should have chosen there plant a little more carefully.

I thought the whole thing was funny myself. I'm sure every President going back to when they started having a White House press corps has had their own plants.

[SteamWake]

I thought the whole thing was funny myself. I'm sure every President going back to when they started having a White House press corps has had their own plants.

Yes of course, but dont you find a 'town hall' meeting filled with a selected audiance and scripted questions a tad offensive?

It is a portrayel of something that it isnt.

This is a pattern with the current administration.

That is what distrubs me.