Posted on 06/11/2013 1:14:26 PM PDT by NoLibZone
WASHINGTON — President Obama held an off-the-record meeting with select reporters from some of the nation’s largest print and online outlets Monday, in the White House’s latest effort to placate an increasingly restive press corps.
White House officials regularly meet with reporters for so-called “background briefing sessions,” where the attendees cannot be mentioned by name nor quoted directly, but Monday’s meeting was different. Initially billed as a conversation with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, the president made a surprise appearance — a very unusual move — and the White House placed the proceedings off the record beforehand. The meeting came amid a series of scandals crashing over the White House that has placed the administration on defense in a way it hasn’t been until now.
Relations between the press and the White House have been especially fraught since last month’s revelation that the Justice Department had covertly collected phone records from Associated Press reporters in pursuit of locating the source of a national security leak. When the Justice Department sought to hold an off-the-record meeting with journalists to discuss its investigation, news outlets pushed back, with the New York Times publicly refusing to attend.
Reporters who attended Monday’s session with the president were loathe to discuss it with BuzzFeed, citing the White House’s stipulation that the meeting remain off the record. But the session came after the White House announced a “travel/photo lid” for the day — White House parlance for no more events, and the signal for the pool reporter to go home — and reporters from the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Time, McClatchy, Politico, Tribune, NPR, Bloomberg, USA Today, AFP, Yahoo and other outlets were milling around the briefing room waiting to be called in.
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“...New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Time, McClatchy, Politico, Tribune, NPR, Bloomberg, USA Today, AFP, Yahoo...”
Just some of the many players of The Enemy Within & The Fifth Column.
And they all lined up to kiss the royal ass.
Holder: “how come the media go to Obamas secret meeting but they wouldn’t go to mine..?”
No doubt they were shown photos of their children walking home from school.
BTW, “if you’re happy and you know it clank your chains” caused an unexpected underwear change. Thanks.
Go ahead and placate he lion. Maybe he will eat you last you stupid reporters.
Known as the nudge-nudge-wink-wink sessions!
They were being shown all the stuff the government has on them.
Actually, the NYT reporter who attended said that if he knew ahead of time that the POTUS was going to be there that the NYT would have reconsidered their decision to attend an OTR meeting.
So, they’re still somewhat upset with the Messiah.
He could have gotten up and left. But instead he stayed to bask in the glory of the Obastard One.
Perfect!
Perhaps. His editor agreed to the invitation. Maybe he wasn’t free to get up and leave without his editor’s permission. I don’t know. I’m not trying to make excuses for the NYT. I just wanted to note their comment.
I want a bumper sticker that says HONK IF YOU GOT A ZEROCARE WAIVER!
reporters from :
New York Times,
Washington Post,
Huffington Post,
Time, McClatchy,
Politico,
Tribune,
NPR,
Bloomberg,
USA Today,
AFP,
Yahoo
and other outlets were milling around the briefing room waiting to be called in.
The “journalists” there likely now have fecal poisoning.
Giving out new marching orders
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