Posted on 05/12/2011 12:55:14 PM PDT by markomalley
The White House said it is ending its long-running practice of having presidents re-enact televised speeches for news photographers following major addresses to the country, a little-known arrangement that fed suggestions of fakery when Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden.
After Obama's live, late-evening address from the East Room of the White House on May 1, five photographers were ushered in to shoot pictures as the president stood at the podium and re-read a few lines of his speech — a practice that news organizations have protested for years.
Even though The Associated Press and other news outlets said in captions to the photos that they were taken after the president delivered his address, many people who saw them may have assumed they depicted the speech itself. That raised questions of whether news organizations were staging an event.
The issue also drew attention when Jason Reed of Reuters, one of the photographers who took part, blogged about the assignment, saying the president "re-enacted the walkout and first 30 seconds of the statement for us."
This week, the White House stepped in.
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With President Bush, using pictures from the video were probably preferred by AP, CNN, ABC, etc. They would be of a lesser quality and could show him saying a word like "Choose." I wondered by still pics of Clinton never seemed to have a fishmouth look, but GWB's had that and worse. Dems and their protectors in the enemedia are all about fakery.
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Good start, White House idiots.
Now, what are you gonna do about those two obviously altered laughable Obamaloon birth certificates? Can you not hire even one person who has a computer IQ that is measurable?
While you’re at it, you might also look for a president with a measurable IQ.
No President involved, but you could add MacArthur’s wade to that list. The famous Iowa Jima pic was the second flag raising that day, too.
Then, of course, we have John Kerry’s reenactment.
NAME NAMES PLEASE!!!!!! What “long running practice”??? WHO?? W?? doubt it.....GHW???? Doubt it also....then WHO?? Democrat Presidents??
They said that Truman reenacted his radio addresses for newsreels, and that Reagan stood at the podium after speeches to let photographers take pictures so that the camera sounds wouldn't be a distraction during the speeches. I don't think the story said that Reagan reenacted entering the room, or reread lines of the speeches for the cameras.
And I wouldn't put Truman recording a newsreel of a radio address as the same thing, either. That's just smart for a president to give the address in many forms of media to reach different target audiences.
-PJ
-PJ
Truman maybe, but what Reagan did is NOT Re-enactment!! ONLY OBAMA HAS DONE IT!!!!
WTF is that? Please tell me that is a joke.
I think that his chief of staff is what is making Obama fake like he has some non radical sense. It sure isn’t MO or Jarrett telling him to at least fake being a non partisan radical hack all of the time.
LOL I see you were talking about the Obama GI JOE.
I hope it is a joke and not real LOL but how sad.
Real, apparently:
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/politics/Fierce-Obama-SEAL-Doll-Released-121637754.html
When was this?
Kind of funny they get caught doing this after Osama is killed and mysteriously dumped in the ocean and no pictures are released, and they wonder why people distrust them?
No, it was just an excuse to have yet another story about the Bin Laden thing.
Someone needs to add that idiot Alec Baldwin in there. He SO belongs in that grouping.
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