Posted on 07/01/2009 10:10:10 AM PDT by ianschwartz
CBS' Chip Reid and Helen Thomas double teamed Robert Gibbs today at the daily press briefing on the "tightly controlled" town hall meeting President Obama will hold on health care. Gibbs kept saying lets have this discussion AFTER the meeting. Helen Thomas accused the White House of "controlling the press." She said almost all White House/Obama events are "prepackaged." She accused the White House of not "having any answers."
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Hmmm. This may be the first probing question a reporter has asked Obama. Ever.
I doubt they would have asked him had they not felt slighted. They’ve been licking his boots for a year; I’m sure they think they deserve all the limelight in press conferences.
(Sorry about using the word “probing” in a post about Hellen.)
It was actually pretty cool to watch a couple of reporters dance on Gibbs’ head. Classic!
Helen Thomas is way pass the age of having any ‘HOTS’
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