White House asked California paper to take out unflattering remark about First Lady

Daily Caller ^ | 5-3-11 | Mike Riggs

[Justaham]

A small weekly paper in California claims that a White House official asked it to remove a sentence from a “benign” feature about Marine One because it reflected poorly on first lady Michelle Obama.

In an email to The Daily Caller, Gina Channell-Allen, president of the Pleasanton Weekly in Pleasanton, California, said that her paper “received a call from the White House asking us to take out part of the story because it reflected poorly on the First Lady.”

The story in question was a soft feature about Marine One titled, “Inside Marine One, President Obama’s helicopter,” that ran in the paper on April 20. Pleasanton staffer Amory Gutierrez “didn’t get to ride in ‘Marine One,’” she wrote in her story, “but I did get the VIP tour and took photographs of the otherwise unseen aircraft.”

She also wrote a sentence that the White House thought made FLOTUS look snooty.

“Basically the reporter said that the First Lady didn’t speak to the pilots but acknowledged them by making eye contact,” Allen wrote in her email.

Allen says she “complied” with the White House’s request “because it was not worth making a fuss over.”

She added, “I thought it was interesting, though, that the [White House] was concerned enough about image to contact a little weekly paper in Pleasanton.”

The White House communications office did not return requests for comment.

Allen said she emailed TheDC after reading about the San Francisco Chronicle’s recent spat with the White House communications office.

[dsc]

“Beware.”

Beware, hell. Stockpile.

[rhoda_penmark]

the White House needs to read the Bill of Rights. Starting right at #1.

[sportutegrl]

If she hadn’t complied, the no eye contact comment would have been seen by only a smaller local paper readership. Now the much bigger story about the WH editing even the smallest critism is getting much bigger play. Sometimes I wonder how stupid this WH is.

[SkyPilot]

Oh brother.

So, let me get this straight:

Basically, the Obama Regime has scores of little tattle tale "agents" out there, preening the Internet, desperately looking for any scrap of news, blog posting, or picture that might be derogatory to the Community Organizer and his male/female disbarred Chicago lawyer?

Well, I believe it. Look how the Obama Regime freaked out when the liberal San Francisco reporter DARED to show her camera phone video of left wing protesters at an Obama fundraiser.

How long are the Presstitues going to tolerate being forced down on all fours before these losers?

Well, since the Regime hates anything that might make Moochelle angry, her ya go.