My ears are just getting too heavy
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?
Excuse me for saying “NWO”, I should have said Luciferian.
What’s that old saying? “Birds of a feather flock together”
Who’s this guy?
I heard that Nico Pitney worked his way through college as gay prostitute.
Did they also stipulate no questions on North Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq and where’s your birth certificate?
Well, they are his media now, so why can’t he pick winners and losers. He is doing that with the rest of the country.
How’s this for a fantasy. I would LOVE to see ozero be subjected to a media frenzy that GWBush was subjected to everytime he got in front of the media. He would cry like a 4 year old girl.
I was gonna post a metrosexual comment but your Pat comparison is beyond perfect!
” wrote Nico Pitney, a little-known reporter to the mainstream political media but not likely a Washington outsider: Before coming to the Huffington Post, he was the deputy research director at the Center for American Progress, of which John Podesta, the head of the Obama transition team, is founder, president and chief executive.
http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/11/19/Foggy_Bottom_4415.html
“” wrote Nico Pitney, a little-known reporter to the mainstream political media but not likely a Washington outsider: Before coming to the Huffington Post, he was the deputy research director at the Center for American Progress, of which John Podesta, the head of the Obama transition team, is founder, president and chief executive.
http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/11/19/Foggy_Bottom_4415.html";
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So....does the White House run the Huffington Post??
>>Let me be the first to once again say: Thanks America for voting this thug into office. You will go too your graves with this mark on your foreheads. Electing America’s first communist president who was probably not really an American in the first place. Thanks a lot. Thanks to all blacks who voted for him, simply because he was a brother. No other reason, he was a bro. Don’t give a cat’s ass his politics and what he is, does, etc., simply cause he was a bro. Thanks America. Love ya!!! /severe, scalding sarcasm still on.<<
RetiredArmy
I know that you are really frustrated at this point, but i still have to correct you.
he is not “America’s first communist president”
He is America’s first Fascist who was elected to occupy the White House.
Also there were a lot of whites who voted for him, because it was making up for all that guilt that has been laid on them for something that their ancestors had nothing to do with.
It was blacks who sold other blacks.
I am sorry to disagree with you while you are so agitated, but the record has to be kept straight.
the guy on his right is definitely not straight.
Look below that picture and you will see another one of his “friends”.
Also, what’s up with all of the newspapers in those photos?
Don't be naive. They support and encourage this. Although each outlet prefers that they be the plant.
Anything for the affirmative action President.
Go figure...(eye roll). I bet most of them were set ups!! Just wait until tonight’s ABC Obama infomercial! It will be sickening.
Now THAT is an understatement and the reason my TV will be turned off tonight. I will be following the FR thread instead. Will you tune in?
it is sickening.
I might if we have a live thread where we can yuck it up and catch them in lie after lie after lie...lol. Otherwise..no.
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