Posted on 07/01/2009 12:09:06 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Phony, that is, in the sense that the White House knows in advance the questions that’ll be asked, which makes the questioners de facto plants of the most transparent administration evah. I have no big problem with The One putting on a pageant — that’s standard presidential stagecraft in a television age — but I do have a problem with the NYT taking care to note the “orchestration” when Bush pulled this while neglecting to mention it this time.
It’s in keeping with the media’s narratives about Dubya and Obama, though, the former shifty and stupid and therefore dependent on softballs, the latter “open” and ingenious and no longer required to prove his ability to handle tough questions.
Also, and needless to say, while Thomas’s and Chip Reid’s effort is appreciated, O doesn’t need to shut out the press in order to “control” it. That’s what Rahm’s mad manipulation skillz are for, and what Rahm (and Axelrod) can’t control, old-fashioned liberal bias can be trusted to take care of. As lefty rag Vanity Fair admitted early last month:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Oh my goodness.... will wonders never cease?
Dear Lord, Thank You,
for the tiny glimmer of hope, that the ideal this great nation was founded upon, still perseveres,
even in the most unlikely of places.
Tatt
I want to see the "cool" Obortion in the hot seat.
Video of the event:
Maybe when an insane person gets dementia they become sane?
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