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Obama Tries to Manage the Press
In an effort to manage the mainstream media and limit damage control, Barack Obama has largely eschewed the longtime tradition of short question-and-answer sessions with the Press Corps in favor of longer sit-down interviews.
According to Politico, Obama has held just 75 of the shorter pressers, compared to 258 by George Bush and 408 by Bill Clinton at the same point in their presidencies.
Instead, Obama has chosen to make himself available for one-on-one interviews, which he can achieve more control over, with longer more expansive answers thus reducing the chance that he will be embarrassed.
To date, Obama has done about 150 of these types of interviews compared with 43 for Bush; helping to sell his image as a cool, cerebral president rather than be subjected to a series of rapid fire questions and having to think off the top of his head which he has proven to be less than deft at.
The White House Press Corps has remained largely silent on the lack of access to Obama, compared to Bush, which is even more startling since they complained loudly about the number of press conferences that Bush held despite, as the statistics showed, he gave more than three times as many pressers as Obama.
While not all in the media are as firmly behind Obama as they were in 2008 and 2009, their silence on this issue is deafening and a prime example of their bias towards Obama and against Bush.
Maybe they understand that in order to protect Obama, he needs a controlled environment so that he doesn’t go off the reservation. But by doing so they have become pawns in his larger goal of media manipulation.
Beer anyone?
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6 Comments for Obama Tries to Manage the Press
The thing is: No one believes a damned thing that comes out of his mouth any more.The man is a hollow shell filled with whatever is poured in. He cannot debate, nor speak in any venue he does not have control over, and never seems to have an original thought.Neither he or the Wookie have any class,
either in fashion,or on the golf course. And every failed policy, gets blamed
on his predecessor.He disrespects our allies, and sucks up to totaliterrorists.He can’t protect our borders, or our oil supplies.Most believe him to be a closet Muslim because his statement that” when trouble comes,he will stand with Islam”. He surrounds himself with pseudo intellects,and sexual perverts,with a few ex-terrorists and race baiters
thrown into the mix. His administration, should be referred to as “the incapable crew”. If this sucker gets another term,there will be a mass exodus
from this country, or a revolution.
The sheeple voters(who were NOT paying attention), as well as the foolish non-voters (who continue to choose to take their freedoms for granted) managed to elect us a puppet ! And I think that George Soros continues to have his huge Marxist hand up inside Obama’s teleprompter ! And without a teleprompter, Obama continues to be nothing more than a radical Alinsky community organizer, which is the ONLY thing that Obama continues to do well ! And his new press secretary, as well as the one before, are also a couple of “dummies.” I liken watching all of this as to living in The Twilight Zone with these mentally ill characters, as they continue to hypnotize the lame stream media !
LEAVE THE BROTHER ALONE. THERE ARE SO MANY OTHERS TO PICK ON.
CHARLEY RANGLE FOR ONE, JIMMY CLYBURN FOR ANOTHER, THE LIST GOES ON, AND ON, AND ON !!!
Obama is seen as week and in way over his head at home and abroad .
To JTISINSC #4,,,,Did Rangel or Clayburn goe to Harvard Law after Columbia,
(Allegedly for both)??? I’ll bet they did not. They are old school crooked Pols,,,BHO is in the new school of Marxist Pols & does not care what Rangel says or does. Obama’s aid,,Dr Emanuel,Rahm’s brother,wants people like Rangel to die,,,why???,,,he’s OLD. Think BHO cares?? I think not. This Prez can’t speak without his Tele-Prompters. He also can’t make a decision without “Orders from his Handlers above” He is just the PUPPET.
Clayburn’s daughter,,,some mucky-muck in some appointed job said to school kids that she wants to help “Every Nappy-haired-Head in this room”,,clearly
a RACIST remark,,,but it did NOT make the Obamanews stations??? WHY???
Racism is a 2 edged sword,,,but the news media only thinks it is ONE way,,White against Black,,,,NEVER vice-versa. So if we seem to be picking on the SAME RACIST POLITICIANS,,,,it is because THEY are the ones that need to be straightened out,,,,or ,,,VOTED OUT
NOT RACIST,,,NOT VIOLENT,,,just NOT SILENT!!!
We elected a President with absoloutely no qualifying experience: we and the world are paying the penalty for the rank foolishness of the American electorate for Pres. Obama’s sophomorish naievete!