Posted on 07/10/2009 1:55:00 AM PDT by Zakeet
John Cook of the gossip website Gawker discovered that the White House press elite partied down with President Obama on ahem, Independence Day:
Reporters from roughly 30 television networks, newspapers, magazines, and web sites celebrated the Fourth of July with Barack Obama at the White House last weekend. Why didn't you know that? Because they were sworn to secrecy.We reported yesterday that Politico's Mike Allen was spotted milling about as a guest at the White House's "backyard bash" by the pool reporter, who was allowed into the event for 40 minutes and kept in a pen before being ushered out. When Allen quoted from the pool report in his Playbook column the next day, he deleted a reference to his own name and didn't bother to tell his readers that he was actually at the party.
Well, he wasn't alone. Gawker has learned that the White House gave tickets to virtually every major news organization that covers the president—the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, ABC News, NBC News, CNN, CBS News, and so on, about 30 in all. The reporters were invited to attend on the following condition:
"You are being invited to attend this event as a guest. Blogging, Twittering or otherwise reporting on this event is not permitted. If you feel that you cannot agree to abide by these ground rules, please don't claim a ticket."That's right: Much of the White House press corps spent the Fourth schmoozing with White House staffers, catching performances by the Foo Fighters and Jimmy Fallon, and watching the fireworks from the most exclusive vantage point in the D.C. metro area, all off the record—not to mention off-the-Facebook and off-the-Twitter.
These are the same people who just a week ago were whining in the press briefing about Obama's malicious and dastardly attempts to "control the press." (Well, not the self-same people—we're not sure if Chip Reid and Helen Thomas, the primary antagonists in that exchange, were in attendance.)
Even if you weren't a fan of Obama (or a fan of picnics, or the Foo Fighters), an ambitious reporter might take the tickets just to get some off-the-record schmoozing in with people they'd like to line up as sources. It would be nice to know which ones who daily pledge to uphold the "people's right to know" attended and accepted the pledges of secrecy.
bad to the bone.
No surprise here! The pimps of the election industry attended a BBQ to celebrate their election victory!
And they can rooh' naeesh!!
FWIW, Major Garrett on twitter said he was NOT part of the Hussein festival.
Why didn't you know that? Because they were sworn to secrecy.
OK... I don’t have an actual translator... I just found it on an irish website
One of the reasons the press hated the Bush family in the White House, iirc, was that they did not think the parties would be ‘any good’ compared to the Clintons’. Besides, if the press people “weren’t there” they could not see/report on who else showed up (as if they would).
This is partly because they fear losing their access, but more so because as in the Clinton years, the media see a kindred spirit in the White House. They loved it when a Baby Boomer was President, but now having a hardcore leftist is beyond their wildest dreams and they'll do anything they can to help him and help themselves.
google translator doesn’t have Irish or Gaelic? man!
LOL - it’s Arabic...Iraqi dialect. :)
That did not translate on the google thing
Did someone say that Fox was not there?
I'd get banned for translating it here. :)
Excellent.
That says it all.
Scary, isn’t it?
Thanks.
I thought Zero was in Russia last weekend?
No secret can be kept by that many people. Obama knows that.
It’s an obvious attempt to discredit the press, but why? That is the question. They are already a discredit to themslves. A pack of leeches who spread Obama’s lies as being biblical truth’s.
Why would anyone try to swear this many people who are known for their absolute lack of integrity to any oath of secrecy.
There has to be an ulterior motive.
Not on the 4th.
I’m figuring there was booze. And if there was booze, there was michelle.
The white tent doesn’t hide what its proud of. It hides what it is afraid it might be ashamed of, not to mention its muslim friends around the world seeing and frowning on a drunken michelle. They might insist she be stoned to death...pun intended.
I am thinking of M*A*S*H (the movie) and the shower tent scene.
LLS
You know how this secrecy works don’t you?
As soon as it was discovered that Obama didn’t celebrate the Fourth like every other American President did, all of a sudden there was this super secret fourth of July Press Party by Obama that no one knew about until someone started asking questions about why Obama was nowhere to be seen on the Fourth of July.
Or in other words they still covering his ass.
The treasonous acts of the propaganda press keep piling up.
“(Presstitures caught in bed with Obozo)”
Is anyone in the MSM seriously denying these days they’re not Obamaphiles? It just looks to me like they’re no longer bothering with the charade of pretending to be journalists.
The hell with that...they can ‘bese mi asno’ (swahili)
I well remember John and Cindy McCain celebrating the 4th. with bubba and buubbette.
Once a whore always a whore.
T'is always good to read Gaelic in the morning.
5.56mm
Was Chuck Todd there?
Was Chuck Todd there?”
I agree. WE NEED NAMES! This, on top of WaPoGate, is huge black eye on the MSM.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2287929/posts
When Newspapers Peddle Influence (WaPoGate - Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
Mike Allen needs to come clean.
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Wouldn’t they have to register at the front gate to enter? Would a FoI request obtain the names?
0 is blocking the releasing names of WH visitors. Wonder why?!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31373407/ns/politics-white_house/
This is how you get good press no matter what kind of scumbag you are.
I said a few months ago that I wondered how Independence Day would be celebrated this year.
I'm thinking back to when BO (newly "inaugurated") addressed the American people not as "my fellow Americans" but as "my fellow citizens."
Well, we know at least how real Americans celebrated it.
State Run Media!!! Need I say more!! Giving them their marching orders, and propoganda for the next month!!!!
I wonder what else John Cook could find out? What other “secrets” are waiting to be discovered?
I must really be a nerd. I though it looked like Klingon!
Ping to #33.
I contacted Mike Allen and asked him. I’ll let you know if he responds.
Wonderful!
Yeah. I'd want to par-tay with Helen!
Great. You've just exhausted 100% of the Gaelic I know.
From 0bama?
You jest.
I think you've just identified one of the reasons the Whine House guest register is no longer available.
Transparency? 
pacity!
Nah. She seems too uptight for that.
I'd wager there were some mood altering substances in the mix, though.
We’re not even a full 6 months into this Presidency and this secrecy business is already appalling.
Ministry of Propaganda alert.
Truly, one of the scumbag moments of the millenia.
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