LOL. "Tutor," obviously. "Stealth," hardly.
Posted on 05/03/2011 2:40:41 PM PDT by Nachum
C’mon, no one’s this sensitive to bad press.
Well, almost no one.
In an email to The Daily Caller, Gina Channell-Allen, president of the Pleasanton Weekly in Pleasanton, California, said that her paper “received a call from the White House asking us to take out part of the story because it reflected poorly on the First Lady.”
The story in question was a soft feature about Marine One titled, “Inside Marine One, President Obama’s helicopter,” that ran in the paper on April 20. Pleasanton staffer Amory Gutierrez “didn’t get to ride in ‘Marine One,’” she wrote in her story, “but I did get the VIP tour and took photographs of the otherwise unseen aircraft.”
She also wrote a sentence that the White House thought made FLOTUS look snooty.
“Basically the reporter said that the First Lady didn’t speak to the pilots but acknowledged them by making eye contact,” Allen wrote in her email.
The weirdest part of this, of course, is that the WH ended up increasing the odds that the story would get picked up by bigger media when it decided to contact the publisher to complain. She was probably shocked to find that someone so high up was paying attention to a small paper 3,000 miles away and was itching to tell someone about it. And in fact, according to Daily Caller reporter Mike Riggs, she volunteered the info to the DC after reading their story about the latest White House tantrum over its press coverage.
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The WH sure is intent on controlling the media. I bet FR really drives them bonkers.
Drat. I thought the pilots call sign for Me-chelle was Chewbacca and the newspaper reported it.
“Basically the reporter said that the First Lady didn’t speak to the pilots but acknowledged them by making eye contact,” Allen wrote in her email.
Seems rather minor, HOWEVER, since they made such a big deal about Newt’s situation on the aircraft a number of years ago.....fair is fair.
Michelle is like a delicate flower, a sensitive plant. She feels these slights intensely.
I think that is reprehensible. How dare OBAMA think he controls the press in this country. Just who does he think he is? Did he threaten that jihadists would riot in the streets? What’s the fine for running it? You are black-listed?
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, Mr. President. and please go home now.
This is her scientific name
Amorphophallus titanum
Yup. A bloomin idiot.
How about instead of white-washing the press, the WH instead tries a little behavior modification? Say hello, Michelle, ask about their kids. Thank them for a nice flight.
LOL. "Tutor," obviously. "Stealth," hardly.
For heaven’s sake, how did they even find the article?
Ya just can’t be overly sensitive if your in gonna be in the WH. Get over Michelle, or better yet leave.
What’s PIAPS?
NewsMax.com
>
> Monday, Jan. 22, 2001 12:18 p.m. EST
>
> Ex-First Lady Hillary Keeps No-Eye-Contact Rule
>
> She may no longer be first lady. But even as a senator, Hillary
> Clinton is apparently determined to keep her royal distance from us
> commoners.
>
> A leading conservative columnist has now corroborated earlier
> reports of Mrs. Clinton’s reluctance to make eye contact with her
> associates - and reveals that the behavior is ongoing. In October
> NewsMax.com cited a report from WABC Talk Radio’s Steve
> Malzberg, who said a friend at another New York radio station
> claimed that when Hillary dropped by for an interview, strict orders
> were issued.
>
> “No one is to make eye contact with the first lady,” the source said
> station employees were told.
>
> In his book “Unlimited Access,” former White House FBI agent
> Gary Aldrich reported that a similar edict had been issued to White
> House staff.
>
> When one admiring aide who didn’t get the word rushed up to meet
> her Hillaryness, he was immediately rebuffed with an ice-cold stare
> that let him know he was way out of line.
>
> A friend, says Aldrich, explained the new rule to the crestfallen
> staffer:
>
> “When ‘Queen Hillary’ walks down the hall, you’re not supposed to
> look at her. You’re actually supposed to go into an office if there is
> one nearby. She doesn’t want staff ‘seeing’ her.”
>
> Now, renowned conservative columnist Robert Novak reports that
> Queen Hillary’s Senate colleagues are getting the same treatment.
> “At the first session of the Senate Environment and Public Works
> Committee attended by Sen. Hillary Clinton, a senior Republican
> senator Wednesday tested the report that it is impossible to make
> eye contact with her.”
>
> “He said the report turned out to be true,” Novak wrote in his
> Sunday column.
I’m sure the attitude of the pilots of that helicopter have mutual feelings.
To them, they’re hauling freight, and don’t give a smelly Obama whether or not the piece of wifely excrement in the back even breathes.
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