Posted on 06/27/2010 8:02:39 AM PDT by kagoots
Holed up with seven other global leaders in the woods of Muskoka, Canada, President Barack Obama gave the White House press corps the slip last night. The president is attending the G-8 and G-20 summits with his global counterparts this weekend. The G-8 began yesterday in Muskoka in Huntsville, Ont., and ends today. The G-20 is in Toronto, about 150 miles away, and starts this afternoon. Last night, the White House sent the press corps — which by agreement stays close to the president in order to report on any incident — back to Toronto, leaving the president 150 miles behind. In the wee hours of this morning, the crew of a dozen or so reporters and photographers in the press corps got back on a bus and returned to Muskoka for the day’s events. It is highly unusual for the president to shun his permanent media detail that way, particularly at a high-profile event in a remote location. One White House aide speculated that it was due to scarce accommodations in Muskoka — which is a resort area. But Mr. Obama, who’s been quite vocal in his disdain for the press at times, has blown off his press corps in the past. The White House Correspondents’ Association complained to press secretary Robert Gibbs recently when the president left the White House on a Saturday, avoided the waiting press corps, and attended his daughter’s soccer game in Northwest D.C. This is a far more significant offense than that one, and is likely to draw another complaint.
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I’m still waiting to see the flight manifest from Air Force One’s joy ride down the Hudson River last year. Who was on that plane?
The White House sent the press back? Just goes to show who they work for.
Maybe they’ll take this opportunity to report there was NO SOCCER GAME????
You are correct. There was no soccer game scheduled. Had he been a republican the press would have investigated his whereabouts to death.
Are you SERIOUS??? There was NO SOCCER GAME when he said he went to it?????
I thought it had been determined that he did not attend his daughters soccer match the previous time because there was no soccer match taking place.
As for this episode, I doubt the press will complain too loudly and if they do it won’t be to challenge anything he’s doing politically. It will only be to complain about being left out.
I thought it had been determined that he did not attend his daughters soccer match the previous time because there was no soccer match taking place.
As for this episode, I doubt the press will complain too loudly and if they do it won’t be to challenge anything he’s doing politically. It will only be to complain about being left out.
IF I remember correctly, some people were looking at the wrong grade level for the soccer game. I never heard what the final outcome was, though.
Coward-in-Chief
Hopefully this incident will inspire one real reporter somewhere to revisit the whole “soccer game” thing.
Kal Penn just started shooting his latest movie in Michigan - just sayin’
HUSSEIN doesn't care - he's the boss - he has power - he can do whatever the hell he wants - the press doesn't have the testosterone to ask where he's been or to make an issue out of it - this a$$hat could have been anywhere - doing God knows what, with God knows who, i.e. wheeling and dealing to complete the total destruction of this country.
Because the media is stupid. The more he disses them, the more they love it. They love being made a fool of in front of the entire world. It matches their own feeling of worthlessness.
Bathhouse visit?
This is what REALLY scares me.. I wish the only thing we had to "worry" about was whether he slipped away to do something "personal".... This is VERY UNNACCEPTABLE and the media should be all over this... big time... IMHO
there was no soccer game though and it was all a lie.
so where did he go back then and now?
I wish i could care enough. I hope he gets on a train to Mexico.
nope..no soccer game, as a matter of FACT...the field where said game was suppose to have been play was under repair....BUT...the MSM turn their collective eyes away...
There was no daughters soccer game.
He just needed to get some hashish or something.
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