Posted on 06/24/2009 8:54:04 AM PDT by kristinn
It turns out the Obama White House planted two questioners at yesterday's press conference by Barack Obama, a move that further cements the reputation of the media as being complicit with the Obama administration.
The incident also raises uncomfortable questions for liberals who falsely accused the Bush administration of the same practice. The news media's tolerance and complicity
One of the plants acknowledged Obama's staff chose the topic of his question for him.
Huffington Post blogger Nico Pitney and Spanish language EFE reporter Macarena Vidal were invited by the White House to the press conference and given special access. Obama called on them from a list of questioners prepared by his staff.
While the planting of the Huffington Post shill was much remarked upon yesterday, the planting of the EFE reporter was not noticed until The Washington Post's Dana Milbank reported on it in his column filed yesterday evening. However, he buried the bombshell at the end of his column and the media has ignored this:
Pitney said the White House, though not aware of the question's wording, asked him to come up with a question about Iran proposed by an Iranian. And, as it turned out, he was not the only prearranged questioner at yesterday's show. Later, Obama passed over the usual suspects to call on Macarena Vidal of the Spanish-language EFE news agency. The White House called Vidal in advance to see whether she was coming and arranged for her to sit in a seat usually assigned to a financial trade publication. She asked about Chile and Colombia.
Liberals went nuclear when an Internet-based reporter was unexpectedly called on by President Bush at a press conference in 2005. The reporter, Jeff Gannon, was set upon and had his life turned inside out and family members threatened because liberals, including Democrat members of Congress, falsely accused him of being a Bush administration plant.
Gannon eventually took and passed a lie detector on the subject and exhaustive investigations by mainstream reporters and liberal bloggers failed to come up with any evidence that he was connected to the Bush administration.
Now that the Obama administration has been caught red-handed planting two questioners at the same press conference, what will the response from the media and liberal bloggers be?
I agree. The time for a political solution (elections -- ha ha) has dwindled to microseconds. There isn't much time left. The election of Obama is representative of how ignorant of history and politics Americans are and of how corrupted the American populace has become. The stupid Americans that have put the illegal alien Obama and the criminal Democrats and RINOs in power are getting the government they deserve. Unfortunately, roughly half of the American people will be punished and oppressed by it because of their opposition to it.
As for the NWO being the cause, well, I believe the cause is much more fundamental than that and I would be banned from Free Republic for stating them here. My views are not currently popular.
I say he's got 5-10 names-with-topics to help him steer any given appearance, just to synch up with his sense of being Captain of the "ship of state."
HF
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
“The picture enlarged is even creepier. Looks like a tv remote in his hand. I found the rumpled pillows on the couch next to them more “interesting.””
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That was my first thought too....after looking closer it looks like a hand gun to me. His boy friend looks rather cozy sitting there with Barry....much like the MSM...ROTFLMAO.
The whole picture is full of questions, IMO. He also looks STONED!! I believe there is evidence out there of his addiction to drugs....that’s the only reason Bill Ayers mentioned it in Baraka’s book. “Premeditated” damage control?
Obama, that water that’s now up to your ankles is your ship sinking.
I was really worried about Major Garrett while he was covering obama’s campaign and these first few months after the election. He was showing real symptoms of someone spiking his coffee with obama KOOL-aid...however; seems he must have stopped drinking from the White House coffee bar!
Planting questioners on Tuesday and co-opting ABC for a whole day on Wednesday.
What is Friday going to bring???
Looks like he had a gay roommate.
The first one, the guy from the Huffpo, has actually been doing pretty good work on reporting information from Iran, albeit with that usual Huffpo slant on things. So I imagine that a liberal could build a justification for putting him in there, and actually, the guy hit Zero with a question probably more pointed than most all the other MSM there would ask—because the question didn’t come from the reporter, it came from an Iranian wondering why Zero wasn’t speaking out more strongly.
But the second one? There’s no possible justification for planting a SECOND reporter and making sure they get called on aside from total and complete manipulation.
I remember the Gannon incident. The MSM exploded when a mere *blogger* (gasp!), and one from a conservative website no less, invaded their sacrosanct precincts and got to ask the President a question. They destroyed him. They outed him as gay and largely wrecked his career after that. That won’t happen this time. Oh sure, “journalists” like Dana Milbank are in a snit that a “mere blogger” from the Huffpo cut in line ahead of them, but that’s the only outrage they’ll have. Not that Zero is manipulating things, nope. Just that he’s not using THEM to do the manipulation.
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They're ALL plants. It's just a matter of degree.
We didn't elect him. He stole the whole thing beginning with his band of acorns voting in the republican primaries for a man none of us wanted to represent us (McCain) and then stealing the caucuses from Hillary to finally eliminating the military vote while his little band or acorn allies stuffed ballot boxes across the country giving him the election.
Did I mention he isn't even a natural born citizen of the United States of America?
Constitutionally he can't legally serve but please... who's going to stop him? The Bilderberg's Henry Kissinger says Obombanation has the perfect opportunity to create the "New World Order". You can watch the interview >>> HERE <<< if you don't believe me.
The USA has suffered a head shot. All we are seeing at this point are the nervous twitches of a dying country.
MHO
The reporter was a plant. The question was expected. The haloed one still COULD NOT respond in a coherent manner. And this guy thinks he can build cars, provide medical treatment, bring about world peace, and save the Bailey Building and Loan. Did the Greeks have a word stonger than HUBRIS?
Retired Army, WELL SAID, thanks FRiend!
How many of the so-called "You Tube" questions were actually submitted by Democrat party operatives? How many townhall "undecided" questioners later turned out to be affiliated the the DNC in some way, or were past Democrat candidate staffers or volunteers?
-PJ
Whose great-grandson is THAT?
Hmmm....isn’t Wednesday also “party/cocktail” night at the White House? Doesn’t the Obama’s serve their guests $100.00 a pound steaks on Wednesday nights? Looks like this Wed. ABC will be livin high on the HOG at “taxpayers expense!”
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