Posted on 02/10/2009 5:20:20 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Some reporters were unhappy with their treatment at President Obama’s news conference Monday. Many correspondents from major outlets — who normally have front row seats — did not. A reporter from the liberal Huffington Post and liberal radio host Ed Schultz were on the front row. Two reporters from African-American media were also seated up front, but neither was called on.
Hazel Edney of the National Newspaper Publishers Association says, "We were nothing more than window dressing."
Tiffany Cross of Black Entertainment Television said "I really don't know why I’m up here."
Former correspondent Helen Thomas — who lost her front row perch when she became a columnist — was back in first class and was one of only 13 reporters allowed to ask a question.
President Obama said during the session that the stimulus contained "not a single pet project. Not a single earmark."
Calvin Woodward of the Associated Press concedes that is technically true but writes "some of the projects bear the prime characteristics of pork — tailored to benefit specific interests or to have thinly disguised links to local projects."
He cites $2 billion for hybrid car batteries and $10 million for urban canals... not to mention $198 million for Filipino veterans — two-thirds of whom live outside the U.S.
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I bet Helen wont be up front again...
Like is this important?
What does this woman look like, rules are rules
**Obama said during the session that the stimulus contained “not a single pet project. Not a single earmark.” **
ACORN = pet
Any idea why there was an empty chair in the front row? Was it in case Helen dropped her teeth?
I bet Skinner and Moulitsas were under the lecturn.
What does she look like? If you were wearing the biggest beer goggles in the universe you’d still say, ‘No thanks, I’ll pass..I’d rather dip the wick in sulfuric acid’.
Either that, or in case the old bag dropped dead and they had to quickly stash her someplace in case of early onset rigor. The show must go on, after all.
Remember how the presstitutes howled when Jeff Gannon was asking conservative questions to Pres. W.?
The presstitutes actually INVESTIGATED him! (he was found to be a conservative blogger with a gay online past)
Will they be so inclined to investigate biased LIBERAL reporters?
Reserved for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
“And no, I won’t be posting a picture...” Oh, bless you for that!
1976
Helen will no longer be up front once BO's Excellent Rescue determines her next major medical treatment isn't cost effective.
is there a helen thomas ping list? i’m a glutton for punishment.
This, among a number if misstatements in his hour long dissertation/campaign presentation, was absolutely astonishing to me, an already well seasoned cynic.
Good! I hope he continues to make them mad. They probably have plenty on him at their fingertips. It will just take him making the wrong person mad one too many times.
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