Posted on 04/13/2010 6:01:57 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow.
They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.
In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.
The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news conference, that was visible to the public was Obama's eight-minute opening statement, which ended with the words: "I'm going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session."
Reporters for foreign outlets, admitted for the first time to the White House press pool, got the impression that the vaunted American freedoms are not all they're cracked up to be.
Reporters, even those on the White House beat for two decades, said it was the most restricted set of meetings they had ever seen in Washington.
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Striving for the Prison Planet. I used to think it was Kookie. No longer.
MSM finally figuring out that they’ve been “PUNKED”...
So? They’re still on their knees for him, as far as I can tell.
No sh*t Milbank, you craven douchebag. They have been starting to "get it" for awhile. What's your major malfunction?
Alex Jones ain't all bad by any means
This was posted earlier, and the one interesting thing I found out was that Dana is a “he” and not a “she.” With the groveling attitude, I’d always assumed Dana was a star-struck female Obama groupie.
So I’d say if Bambi is losing Dana, he may have pushed things a bit too far. Will he go apologize? But the question is whether he even needs the press anymore.
The Media will go down in history as the Benedict Arnold of American Democracy.
I think Soviet-era Moscow is the wrong metaphor though.
Washington under The Regime actually reminds me more of some places I’ve visited in Latin America.
Not a word about this from Brian Williams on Nightly tonight...
Amen.
Cry me a river Milbank - it’s you in the MSM who didn’t say a word about the “cone of silence” about Obama’s background and who decided it was better to savage Joe the Plumber rather than report the implications of somebody who wants to “spread the wealth”. Now you complain about a lack of information and realize the Soviet/Marxist impulse? Eat me!!
At what point do the liberal jourbalists admit they were punked?
Milbank has taken that very important first step toward enlightenment - he has discovered that something he believed fervently turned out to be a lie. He’ll be a basket case by the time he figures out that nearly everything he believed was a lie. I feel for you, Dana, but I just can’t reach you.
ABC radio news was in full sycophant/cheerleader mode today. O what a wonderful thing Dear Leader had done in getting the Chinese on board! For some reason they didn't mention the equivocation part.
You mean it wasn’t on CSpan? I am shocked, I tell you shocked. /sarc
Thrown under the bus.
Gettin’ crowded under there...
So am I to understand that the usual practice is to let the media attend our high level summits on nuclear security policy?
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