Posted on 07/01/2009 8:42:05 PM PDT by Justaham
The press corps might be starting to sour on Barack Obama’s administration.
At a press conference today, Helen Thomas and CBS’s Chip Reid got into it with Robert Gibbs over how the administration has been prepackaging media events.
First Reid asked why the questions for Wednesday’s town hall on healthcare were being preselected. After Gibbs tried to dodge that question a few times, Thomas became involved, saying, “We have never had that in the White House. I’m amazed that you people … call for openness and transparency.”
Thomas said that the administration was trying to control the media, and she pointed out how they coordinated questions with the Huffington Post at a press conference. Thomas is not the first journalist to question the White House’s coordination with the Huffington Post. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank also took the White House to task for the coordination.
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In before the Helen Thomas pic.
The media does this from time to time to gain street cred.
If Helen Thomas questions the WH motives, they are in trouble.
Surprise surprise...
Thank God that didn’t happened or I would get nightmares
Ummmm....yeah.
Helen Thomas grilling the Bamster
Cheers!
That pic always seems to be posted within the first ten comments on any Helen Thomas thread without fail.
Obama’s next person to kiss
Somewhere....even Sam Donaldson is smirking....
JJ61
Nobody had a coherent thought in that whole exchange.
OH!
Nice questioning Helen.
I’m now convinced by your newfound, non-partisan objectivity.
I will let the past impressions go.
This is nothing more than the media trying to look like they have objectivity and standards.
I would have to see a really big and long lasting follow through.
POSERS.
Ever?
Helen is going to be found dead. Twenty years ago. ;O)
“We have never had that in the White House. I’m amazed that you people … call for openness and transparency.”
Thomas said that the administration was trying to control the media, and she pointed out how they coordinated questions with the Huffington Post at a press conference.”
We’ve all called the Lefties every name in the book, but have we ever called ‘em THICK HEADED?
What happened to the video that was on their website?
Dang! I knew I should have copied it.
In this thread.
Headline: “Helen Thomas bumps head, and experiences a brief moment of lucidity.”
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