Posted on 04/28/2010 10:20:54 AM PDT by mojitojoe
One of the enduring story lines of Barack Obama’s presidency, dating back to the earliest days of his candidacy, is that the press loves him.
“Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me,” Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
But even then, only four months into his presidency, the joke fell flat. Now, a year later, with another correspondents’ dinner Saturday night likely to generate the familiar criticism of the press’s cozy relationship with power, the reality is even more at odds with the public perception.
Obama and the media actually have a surprisingly hostile relationship — as contentious on a day-to-day basis as any between press and president in the past decade, reporters who cover the White House say.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36454.html#ixzz0mPrqoQ9Q
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LOL!!!
One reporter said that after he wrote a story the White House viewed as critical, aides tried to cancel meetings he’d lined up with other administration officials. “I was told very clearly the press office tried to stop those appointments going ahead,” the journalist said.
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many still love him and the media are corrupted to the core
have you seen now Rubio in our state say he is not for or against AZ bill and that when I called him he will not take a stand because he thinks the police can stop and ask immigration status with out cause
I argued with them that it is not the case but it needs more to call I think
hope you don’t mind but here is the number and let us tell Rubio to get a grip and stop illegals
1 786 953 6711
Last year, Times reporter Helene Cooper was the target of a fusillade of complaints from Obama staffers and was for a time essentially frozen out by the administration, several colleagues said. Recently, a story by Sanger and Thom Shanker about an Iran policy memo from Defense Secretary Robert Gates received a public drubbing from Gibbs.
Edward Luce of The Financial Times drew the ire of Obama aides for a couple of articles arguing that decision making in the Obama administration is extremely centralized. Neither piece was a devastating indictment of the White House, but they prompted a furious reaction.
“I was just in awe of the pummeling Ed took from top White House people,” said policy blogger and New America Foundation senior fellow Steve Clemons. He began talking to White House reporters and came away convinced that what he calls an “extremely unhealthy” relationship has developed in which the White House generally cooperates only with reporters who are willing to write source greasers or other fawning articles.
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“Too many of the president’s meetings are ‘no coverage’ for my taste,” said ABC’s Ann Compton. “That is a stark reduction in access for us.”
agreed politico trying to cover for bozo as they know they are so far up bozo’s arse they cannot see daylight
I’ll buy it when they actually report the truth even yesterday they covered the immigration bill with corrupt bias and then when bozo said we want hispanics blacks to vote but never said whites where was the media again?
They’re “down” on Obama because they’re just DYING to write glowing articles about him! But, by refusing to meet with them, he makes it hard for them to prop him up the way they want to.
THAT is why they’re frustrated.
“The ferocity of pushback is intense. A routine press query can draw a string of vitriolic e-mails. A negative story can draw a profane high-decibel phone call or worse. Some reporters feel like they’ve been frozen out after crossing the White House.”
Wow.
A profane high decibel phone call?
Does that mean when Obama doesn’t like a story, he has the minions call and scream curses at the reporter?
It’s becoming cliche, but you know, “If Bush did that...”
While then Sen. Barack Obama was considering running for president, his adviser and friend David Axelrod worried in 2006 that Obama would have to toughen up for a White House campaign. Axelrod told Obama that he was thin skinned and he wondered if Obama could take the punches that would come in a presidential campaign.
"You care far too much what is written and said about you. You don't relish combat when it becomes personal and nasty. When the largely irrelevant Alan Keyes attacked you, you flinched," Axelrod wrote in a memo.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/08/david_axelrod_worried_about_ob.html
I WANT him to keep blowing them off. I want them to get really mad at him. Unless the press stops blindly adoring him, I don’t have much hope for the fall elections.
I can’t wait until their first scandal. The press isn’t going to be to accommodating then.
Let’s see.... Blago.....
Cause he titillates them like Bill did Monica?
Don’t be so sure about that. He may have been their darling, but cutting off access can piss them off.
‘It goes to your willingness and ability to put up with something you have never experienced on a sustained basis: criticism. At the risk of triggering the very reaction that concerns me, I don’t know if you are Muhammad Ali or Floyd Patterson when it comes to taking a punch.’”
Axelrod to Obama
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/08/david_axelrod_worried_about_ob.html
There’s just one thing about being president that has really annoyed him, President Barack Obama says:
The flak he caught for taking his wife to New York City for a Broadway play and dinner, a campaign promise kept.These “date-nights’’ are a tradition for the first couple. But First Lady Michelle Obama, who sat with her husband for the Oval Office interview, says that marriage does not necessarily become easier just because a couple moves into a mansion with servants and security at every turn.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/10/obamas_date_night_criticism_la.html
“Rove hates me,” Barack Obama once confided to adviser Valerie Jarrett
“He looked surprised and began insisting he really wasn’t saying what he had quoted me as saying,” Rove wrote in “Courage,” which will be released Tuesday. “After a few moments, the conversation drew to an awkward and unsatisfactory conclusion; he was unwilling to acknowledge the mistake or apologize. It seemed to me he didn’t much care that he had attributed to me something I had never said and found offensive.”
http://www.thefoxnation.com/karl-roves-courage-and-consequence/2010/03/05/obama-rove-hates-me
The coverage of candidate Obama was like a storybook with a very happy ending. Even during the campaign, there were hints of the thin skin on criticism. He didn’t want Maureen Dowd commenting on his big ears. His “people” tried to silence radio and newspaper voices in Chicago who were negative towards him. He threw reporters from newspapers that didn’t endorse him off “Obama Air” in the waning days of the campaign. He called out Sean Hannity and the Fox News Channel. Interestingly enough, when the Pew Research Center looked at the coverage of the candidates in the general election, Fox News Channel had almost an even split of stories about each candidate — they were indeed balanced.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-lets-media-get-under-his-thin-skin/
The press is mad at the Poseur the same way a disturbed, abused woman is mad at her abuser. She sulks for a while but jumps back into his arms when he winks at her.
I think Blago will talk. He has no intention of going down alone. So his case will probably be dropped, some technicality.... and he will retire somewhere and buy a 20 million dollar home and suddenly become very wealthy.... or end up being another Foster or Young.
Good one, Deb.
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