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Reporters fire back after ‘most transparent’ president’s lecture on journalism
Personal Liberty ^ | March 29, 2016 | Sam Rolley

Posted on 03/30/2016 5:27:10 PM PDT by Teotwawki

President Barack Obama on Monday lashed out at U.S. reporters for failing to “dig deeper and to demand more” from the current crop of presidential candidates. Members of the press quickly bit back at the leader of the “most transparent” administration in U.S. history.[snip]

The president challenged reporters to ask tougher questions of candidates rather than “feed the beast” with gossip and soft news.

“A job well done is about more than just handing someone a microphone. It’s to probe and to question and to dig deeper and to demand more,” Obama said.

(Excerpt) Read more at personalliberty.com ...


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KEYWORDS: journalism; reporters; transparent
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I wish they would have done that when Obama was running the first time, then we could have avoided this embarrassment of a president.
1 posted on 03/30/2016 5:27:10 PM PDT by Teotwawki
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To: Teotwawki

My view is that in early 2008, the media transitioned from “liberal partisans” to “integrated regime operatives”.


2 posted on 03/30/2016 5:29:18 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Teotwawki

This guy really,really thinks he’s special.

He must be fun to watch——from other countries.

A buffoon.

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3 posted on 03/30/2016 5:29:38 PM PDT by Mears
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I wish they would have done that when Obama was running the first time, then we could have avoided this embarrassment of a president.

Oh, but they couldn't! They were overcome by the crease in his pants!

4 posted on 03/30/2016 5:30:03 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
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To: Teotwawki

That would have been 1)racist and 2)the MSM was deliriously over awed by 0boma and let his history just slide.


5 posted on 03/30/2016 5:30:41 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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Obama’s hypocrisy is staggering,surreal.
6 posted on 03/30/2016 5:31:23 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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That’s why they didn’t.


7 posted on 03/30/2016 5:31:27 PM PDT by dp0622
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You mean like they have asked Obama all these years? Softballs? What a hypocrite.

No way were they going to publish the truth about Obama even if they knew it. They wanted him in office.

8 posted on 03/30/2016 5:33:17 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: Farmer Dean

Lotsa good words in this thread already:

Staggering.

Hypocrisy.

Surreal.

Keep it up.


9 posted on 03/30/2016 5:36:18 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Teotwawki

Obama is STILL POTUS. It isn’t too late to dig into his past hard and deep.

Prove to the entire Solar System he IS and always will be (hopefully) the WORST POTUS EVAH.


10 posted on 03/30/2016 5:36:25 PM PDT by disndat
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That is the most raciss thing I have seen here in FR all day, and most of what is posted here is raciss.

Kidding. FUBO. Stupid bastid has teflon skin, and that ain't got nothing to do with his pigmentations. Trump said he could shoot somebody on live TV and his ratings would go up. Well ... PETA will post up here any time now:


11 posted on 03/30/2016 5:43:56 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (OBAMA: Fundamentally Twerking America)
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But he IS transparent! We can see right through him.


12 posted on 03/30/2016 5:44:59 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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Hypocrite bass turd. If the “media” had “dug deep” and “demended” more when he was running for president, he’d still be a two bit community agitator in Chicago, Indonesia or Kenya.


13 posted on 03/30/2016 5:50:43 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a dump, sewer or "refugee" camp. It's my home.)
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Not really. LOL! Well, he's every bit as effective a journalism teacher as ever he was with the Constitution.

The president challenged reporters to ask tougher questions of candidates rather than “feed the beast” with gossip and soft news.

This from a guy so un-vetted by the press that they still can't tell us how he did in college? That, at least, is as much their fault as his, but it still is killing funny. This is, to be blunt, an industry full of butt-kissing sycophants who are being scolded for dereliction of duty by its chief beneficiary. Color me unsympathetic.

14 posted on 03/30/2016 5:55:45 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: West Texas Chuck

I have 3 doxies...don’t like!


15 posted on 03/30/2016 5:58:59 PM PDT by FES0844
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To: Teotwawki

Isn’t this the same Kenyan Isis sympathizer who claimed Exec. Privilege in a case where the Feds aka ATF/FBI Were running fully automatic and semi auto weapons
to Mexican Drug gangs?

This Jackass can’t go away soon enough for me. Perhaps when he leaves office he decides to do great things In the Turd World he help create only to be brutalized by The ISIS thugs he helped create.


16 posted on 03/30/2016 6:04:33 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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If only thing had been properly reported,
Obola would have been a one termed resident,

BENGAZI !


17 posted on 03/30/2016 6:08:32 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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First President who was ever a genuine enemy of the United States.


18 posted on 03/30/2016 6:12:21 PM PDT by onedoug
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Funny how Soetoro says this when the only interviews he ever gave were to people who sucked his nuts, such as Stewart and Colbert.


19 posted on 03/30/2016 6:13:51 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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Decades from now (if we survive the remainder of B-HO’s term), there will be hundreds of “journalists”, rocking in their chairs, staring at a sunset, and regretting how they wasted their pathetic careers.


20 posted on 03/30/2016 6:18:59 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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