"What goes around, comes around, you phoney journalists!"
Posted on 10/27/2014 5:27:53 PM PDT by Beave Meister
At some point, a compendium of condemnations against the Obama administration’s record of media transparency (actually, opacity) must be assembled. Notable quotations in this vein come from former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who said, “It is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering”; New York Times reporter James Risen, who said, “I think Obama hates the press”; and CBS News’s Bob Schieffer, who said, “This administration exercises more control than George W. Bush’s did, and his before that.”
USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page has added a sharper edge to this set of knives. Speaking Saturday at a White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) seminar, Page called the current White House not only “more restrictive” but also “more dangerous” to the press than any other in history, a clear reference to the Obama administration’s leak investigations and its naming of Fox News’s James Rosen as a possible “co-conspirator” in a violation of the Espionage Act.
The WHCA convened the event both to strategize over how to open up the byways of the self-proclaimed most transparent administration in history, as well as to compare war stories on the many ways in which it is not. Peter Baker, the veteran Washington reporter from the New York Times, provided perhaps the best instance of White House-administered madness. In covering a breaking story recently, Baker received a note from a White House handler indicating that President Obama had been briefed on the matter in question.
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"What goes around, comes around, you phoney journalists!"
“It is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering”
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“It is the most America-hating, criminal, corrupt, Muslim-pandering, anti-Constitutional White House that I have ever been involved in covering...”
There. Fixed it.
Too little too late.
People remember how the media feigned an outrage long ago when it was confirmed that the White House had operatives listening and spying on reporters. Then shortly after, silence.
Yet the media continues to cover for him. Curious. You’d think they would’ve turned on him by now.
Anita Dunn (former Obama Communications Director) ‘the smartest thing we did in the run-up to the 2008 election was to MANAGE THE MEDIA’. Big Media was well aware of the hypocrisy and ran with the Obama Machine anyway. I hope this has damaged Big Media permanently! They deserve it for foisting this disaster on America!
Sorry MSM - 7 years too late.
Traitors and whores are never respected by there benefactors. In selling out this country and getting on its knees for Obama, the press has been both.
But nary a peep about incessant and orchestrated lying; almost nothing about potential criminalizing of investigative reporting.
I.e., the press is ore concerned with their privilege than with any actual wrongdoing by this administration.
But, Ms. Paltrow says Obama should have all the power he needs to do whatever he wanta to do. She’s a hollywood actress so she knows. /s
Yet the media still licks B.O.’s boots clean every time he steps in it.
Crony media.
Crony media.
Crony media.
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