Posted on 03/20/2014 9:42:53 AM PDT by cotton1706
It's just a show.
A CBS reporter from Arizona reveals that President Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, receives questions from the press in advance of his daily press briefing. In fact, she says, the reporters often receive the answers in advance of the briefing, too.
According to the reporter, Jay Carney told her this yesterday at the White House:
"It was a very busy day. We started here shortly after 8 o'clock with a coffee with press secretary Jay Carney inside his office in the West Wing," says the reporter.
"And this was the off-the-record so we were able to ask him all about some of the preparation that he does on a regular basis for talking to the press in his daily press briefings. He showed us a very long list of items that he has to be well versed on every single day.
"And then he also mentioned that a lot of times, unless it's something breaking, the questions that the reporters actually ask -- the correspondents -- they are provided to him in advance. So then he knows what he's going to be answering and sometimes those correspondents and reporters also have those answers printed in front of them, because of course it helps when they're producing their reports for later on. So that was very interesting."
The reporter, from a local CBS Arizona affiliate, interviewed President Obama yesterday.
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I think that’s the other way around. The dem gives the moderator the questions in advance.
The Presidency is America’s first and most watched “reality” TV show.
Just another “Reality” TV show. Probably where Hollyweird got the idea, sharing the same bedsheets and all.
Hard to believe this, since I didn’t hear anyone ask what is Barry’s favorite color...
As is our "two-party" system.
LOLZ!!
Which means he ‘didn’t get the memo’........purposely. You don’t think they would let lil’ old Fox News into the club?
The Actors’ Equity labor union should look into this to make certain all the actors are being paid the correct scale.
I swear there hasn’t been a decent WHPS since Tony Snow had to retire.
I still compare how he handled the situations he was faced with as the standard of excellence that no one has even come close to yet.
I’d believe the reporter over Carney, any day. The WH press corps is going to cover for Daddy Obama, duh! Notice Carney is denying it. What a surprise.
“Someone just got fired.”
The women that reported it. That was supposed to be off the cuff. She violated that trust.
Doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
Can you imagine if Bush had demanded questions in advance?????????????????????
Kibuki? ...or Ptotemkin?
To lighten the load somewhat, the truth did not appear on the list.
panem et circenses
Norm was one of the original Freepers: firehat
Tribute thread by Jim Robinson Miss him!
Exactly. Looks like she’s a local reporter who’s never been in that situation before. She was just being honest and excited to report what she’d seen. And look for this to be the end to Jay allowing access to rookies who haven’t been “taken aside” first.
“Presstitutes”
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