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Mediaite's Christopher asks dumbest question in history of White House press briefings
Daily Caller ^ | October 15, 2013 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 10/15/2013 1:39:14 PM PDT by Rufus2007

On Tuesday, Mediaite White House correspondent Tommy Christopher added another chapter to his ongoing self-promotional crusade masquerading as a career in journalism.

And this time, it didn’t involve a shameless ploy to be an invited guest on whatever incarnation of Chris Hayes’ show MSNBC is currently airing.

During Tuesday’s White House briefing on Tuesday, Christopher, whose name isn’t really “Tommy Christopher,” asked a question about President Barack Obama’s health-care reform law that incorporated his personal experiences with health insurance after his 2010 heart attack.

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TOPICS: Gardening; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: mediabias; mediaite; obamacare; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
This is an extraordinary claim, I know. But I would ask for someone to come up with one better than a year moratorium on heart attacks
1 posted on 10/15/2013 1:39:14 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007
How ‘bout a year moratorium on ‘journalists’ asking stupid questions.
2 posted on 10/15/2013 1:42:07 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Rufus2007

“Listening to all the pressure on the president to negotiate, a lot of it from inside this room, it made me think, is there a chance the president would be willing to delay Obamacare for a year if Republicans were to agree to delay heart attacks for a year?”


3 posted on 10/15/2013 1:43:58 PM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: Rufus2007

I couldn’t find a video link


4 posted on 10/15/2013 1:44:21 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Rufus2007

http://libertyunyielding.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Tommy-Christopher.jpg

Gotta be a first: Reporter live-tweets his own heart attack

September 6, 2010

The patient-journalist (not to be confused with a “patient journalist,” which would be another thing entirely) is Tommy Christopher, who is a media writer and White House correspondent for Mediaite.com, Asylum.com and DailyDose.us.

Late Saturday, Tommy tweeted:

•Ate dinner at the Mos Eisley Cantina. Enjoyed the pasta, but the wookie was chewy.

Very funny.

Sometime around 6 p.m. EDT Sunday, Tommy suddenly tweeted:
•I gotta be me. Livetweeting my heart attack. Beat that!

Followed shortly by…

•Paramedics think I will live.

•Gonna get a cardiac cat. Jeez, I’m old. This is depressing.

•This is not like the movies. Most deadpan heart attack evar.

•Still hurts even after the morphine.

•Ok, taking a break now.

Sometime around 4 a.m. EDT today, Tommy tweeted:
•Awww! Just got phone back from nurse. You guys attacked my heart…with love!

•To everyone who said “are you serious?” I belatedly reply “As a heart attack!”

http://www.charlesapple.com/2010/09/gotta-be-a-first-reporter-live-tweets-his-own-heart-attack/


5 posted on 10/15/2013 1:45:48 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Rufus2007

6 posted on 10/15/2013 1:47:06 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Rufus2007

Mediaite is now a new organization?


7 posted on 10/15/2013 2:01:45 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: mbarker12474

[“Listening to all the pressure on the president to negotiate, a lot of it from inside this room, it made me think, is there a chance the president would be willing to delay Obamacare for a year if Republicans were to agree to delay heart attacks for a year?”]

The question he really wanted to ask was, “If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?


8 posted on 10/15/2013 2:04:43 PM PDT by Islander2
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boxers or briefs?


9 posted on 10/15/2013 2:13:03 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
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To: Islander2

This kind of thing always reminds me of the time Helen Thomas asked Clinton, “why do you think people have been so mean to you?”


10 posted on 10/15/2013 2:34:41 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: kcvl

He’s a homo.


11 posted on 10/15/2013 2:42:39 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Rufus2007.
Tommy Christopher added another chapter to his ongoing self-promotional crusade masquerading as a career in journalism.
As if he's the only one, eh?


12 posted on 10/15/2013 5:21:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Islander2

Ginger? Or Mary Ann?


13 posted on 10/16/2013 6:47:25 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: Rufus2007

Dear Tommy Christopher’s Heart: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.


14 posted on 10/16/2013 7:18:24 AM PDT by Anton.Rutter
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