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Obama chides press for Trump coverage, ‘reality show’ campaign
The Washingt Times ^ | May 6, 2016 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 05/06/2016 10:06:21 AM PDT by jazusamo

President Obama said it’s up to the press to try to expose Donald Trump’s policies, saying Friday that the White House is too serious for a reality television approach to the campaign.

“I just want to emphasize the degree to which we are in serious times and this is a serious job,” Mr. Obama said in a brief press conference at the White House, where he was asked about Mr. Trump becoming the GOP’s presumptive nominee. “This is not entertainment, this is not a reality show, this is a contest for presidency of the United States. What that means is every candidate, every nominee, needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny. It means you’ve got to make sure their budgets add up. It means if they say they’ve got an answer to a problem it is actually plausible, and they have details to how it.”

Mr. Obama took to the lectern to talk about the slumping job creation numbers, insisting the U.S. economy is strong and any ailments are due to a slowdown elsewhere around the globe.

But when he took questions, the White House press corps wanted to talk politics, asking him to weigh in on a race where he’s not on the ballot.

The president turned the scrutiny back on reporters, saying they need to press the candidates for specifics.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; obama; obamapresser; obamatrump; pressconference; trump
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To: jazusamo

Um...excuse me? Reality Show? Why was Mooch on NCIS this week? Good Lord, I just about barfed when I saw that!

How RIDICULOUS! A sitting FLOTUS ‘guest staring’ on a frigging TV Crime Show?

Secondly - if anyone in Washington had been listening, We The People have been SCREAMING our REALITY in their FACES for the past 10 years! Grrrrrrr!


21 posted on 05/06/2016 10:19:16 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: jazusamo
Just trying to think back to some other primary races. I do not recall a sitting president taking shots at the other, or his own party for that matter, candidates. This POS does it 24/7. He is an insecure mental light weight with feelings of grandeur. Kind of reminds me of Hitler telling his general staff how to conduct the war. The only thing this asshat is competent at is being an a hole.
22 posted on 05/06/2016 10:21:23 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

BUMP!

She cool, she cool. :)


23 posted on 05/06/2016 10:22:51 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

You should have posted the video of he and Mooch dancing with the Star Wars storm troopers. What an embarassment!!


24 posted on 05/06/2016 10:24:05 AM PDT by mothball
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To: Mouton

Agreed, him involving himself in this election is juvenile.


25 posted on 05/06/2016 10:25:19 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Methinks he doth protest too much. to Quote the Bard. They fear this guy Trump and now will do all they can to stop him. Look to see SNL, the Late Night comics, the Liberal press and pundits to toss everything at Trump they have. I also fear they might resort to Violence and perhaps Assassination. Hillary (and the DNC) will stop at nothing to make sure their rule is secure—and the Progressive dream is on track to bring about a Soviet United States.


26 posted on 05/06/2016 10:25:27 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: jazusamo

I not going to miss these friday dump and run Obama “press conferences”.


27 posted on 05/06/2016 10:26:14 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: jazusamo

%#*@+%* enemy islamist ^”&#%@><*# bastard!


28 posted on 05/06/2016 10:27:51 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: jazusamo

I always thought that a Communist community organizer would be a much better President than a businessman who built a private company and employed 10’s of thousands of people. /sarc

Wow, the irony of Obama’s speech.


29 posted on 05/06/2016 10:27:57 AM PDT by GeaugaRepublican (Social Issues....not falling for it, folks. Immigration and Trade to save the country.)
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To: jazusamo

This guy is never going to go away...is he? He’s going to constantly seek attention for years.


30 posted on 05/06/2016 10:29:59 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: jazusamo

All the libs keep complaining about the “free publicity” that the media have supposedly handed to Trump, but we now have TV dramas incorporating transparently anti-Trump themes into their shows, we have Hillary schmoozing with Ellen, we have Moochelle appearing in TV shows, we have late-night comics who are mouthpieces for progressivism, we have Rolling Stone constantly promoting Democrat politicians, we have Oprah, we have ESPN turned into a progressive social-warrior mouthpiece, all the liberal women’s magazines, we have NPR, the NYT, Mother Jones, The New Yorker all solidly progressive, and on and on.


31 posted on 05/06/2016 10:32:12 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: jazusamo

When Trump wins and Obama says anything about what Trump is up to ,Trump can say , “Shut Up I Won”


32 posted on 05/06/2016 10:36:27 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Steve_Seattle

Well stated, there’s been far more anti-Trump coverage in the media.


33 posted on 05/06/2016 10:36:28 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

Never saw Trump using a Selfie Stick.


34 posted on 05/06/2016 10:36:53 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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To: jazusamo

The most unqualified candidate evah is still under the misconception that he was elected to the office because of his skillz or intellect...


35 posted on 05/06/2016 10:39:00 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Biggirl

More like a freak show...


36 posted on 05/06/2016 10:39:23 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: jazusamo

Obama doesn’t have an original thought in that little brain.


37 posted on 05/06/2016 10:40:06 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: jazusamo

The press has spent the last several months unabashedly attacking Trump with everything they have to make him stumble, and Trump turned it right back around on them and used it to make himself even more popular. Now Bammy and the media, ever the revisionist historian, are trying to paint a different picture.


38 posted on 05/06/2016 10:41:43 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: jazusamo

Incoming. Trump returning fire in 3....2.....1.....


39 posted on 05/06/2016 10:47:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jazusamo

Too bad Trump wasn’t a NYC Community Organizer


40 posted on 05/06/2016 10:49:10 AM PDT by uncbob
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