Posted on 08/06/2012 7:57:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin
President Obama has not taken a serious question from the White House press corps in nearly seven weeks, a remarkable string that points to a campaign-style White House operation that is seeking to insulate the candidate from tough cross examination.
The last substantive question Obama took from a White House reporter was during a June 20 press conference following the G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. Obama allowed only six questions during the event, which was nearly guaranteed to keep him out of political hot water as the focus was on foreign policy.
Since then, Obama has held no press conferences, given no interviews to White House reporters, and taken no questions at the White House events he has held where reporters have been present.
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Obama has done some interviews with local TV reporters during the interim. But, though they occasionally yield some news, these sessions tend to be easy home runs for the president. Obama is facing reporters less versed in national issues and politics than the White House press corps. And they are more likely to be intimidated by the trappings of the White House, where they suddenly find themselves sitting down with the president of the United States.
Obama and Michelle also swatted away mainly softballs during a July 12 interview with “CBS The Morning” anchor Charlie Rose.
Obama did get one feeble question from what appeared to be a White House reporter during his June 29 tour of the fire damage in Colorado Springs. Obama was quizzed, “What do you think when you see just this stuff right here?”
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I would call our miserable presstitutes whores, but that would be an insult to hard-working people who produce real value to society - that is, the whores.
The truth hurts.
and we’d notice the difference how?
Their questions have all the curiosity of a freshman asking for his first date...
No need to question The Won, he’s already transparent...
IIRC Slick went for a year w/o a press conference.
Questions = Obama’s Achilles’ heel
White House Press man Jay carney has not told the truth in 2 years.
Does anyone think Obama would be any better?
Ha ha ha! Right! Like the "news" media would ask Zero tough questions. Say, like, "Where will you vacation this year, sir Obama?", or, "What do you think of this year's Olympics, Mr. President?"
Besides, the "press" is too busy shouting gotcha-type questions about supposed "gaffes" at Romney, hoping for a quote they can take out of context to make him look stupid.
They’re so quiet, they are now known as the PRESS CORPSE.
And we have the Presidential debates coming. Debates where all the moderators will be liberals from the LSM and the audiences will be supplied by liberal organizations. Romney won’t object. Obama will go the whole campaign without one serious question and will stick to his teleprompter when not debating. The only reporters he calls on in any news conference have been pre-screened to ask only certain questions.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
Their questions have all the curiosity of a freshman asking for his first date...
The question needs to be “If Harry Reid is indeed a pedophile as many people are reporting, What did the Whitehouse know and when did they know it?”
Come ON.......I’m SURE they asked him about his girl’s birthday parties!! How harder hitting do you want???? geesh
Bump
Bump
If this were Bush, the story would be very, very different.
I would call our miserable presstitutes whores, but that would be an insult to hard-working people who produce real value to society - that is, the whores.
More like Apparatchiks
Questions = Obama’s Achilles’ heel
Answers = Obama’s Achilles’ heel
Like to spread the wealth around...
You didn’t build that...
The cops acted stupidly...
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