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1 posted on 02/16/2006 8:42:32 AM PST by george76
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The White House press corps does very little news gathering, if by that we mean beating the bushes to find out things.

Interesting choice of words considering the unmitigated hatred that the left wing MSM has for the Administration.

2 posted on 02/16/2006 8:47:19 AM PST by bassmaner (Let's take the word "liberal" back from the commies!!)
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What a bunch of self-important slugs. Was any reporter actually covering the Vice-president? Hhhmmmmm.


3 posted on 02/16/2006 8:49:38 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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I have spent a lot of time in the briefing room, and I can tell you that the reporters I met were mostly maggots. BIG maggots. Leslie Stahl, Andrea Mitchell(who ,by the way, possesses and enormous head), Helen Thomas, Sam Donaldson, etc. They're all very, very strange people and they also feel very, very entitled.

Note doubt, all of the aforementioned people must be heroes to scumbums like David Gregory.

When President Reagan had his press conferences in the East Room, I used to smile with irony as I watched early arrivals for the conference switch the names on chairs in order to get closer to the president.

The White House Press Corps: Poorly dressed, rude children.

But the press has always been hated in America. That will never change. It's the job of the press to be hated, I reckon. Well, speaking as a soul who used to be one, I can tell you this: They are quite awful and they relish that role.


4 posted on 02/16/2006 8:50:47 AM PST by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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I have spent a lot of time in the briefing room, and I can tell you that the reporters I met were mostly maggots. BIG maggots. Leslie Stahl, Andrea Mitchell(who ,by the way, possesses and enormous head), Helen Thomas, Sam Donaldson, etc. They're all very, very strange people and they also feel very, very entitled.

No doubt, all of the aforementioned people must be heroes to scumbums like David Gregory.

When President Reagan had his press conferences in the East Room, I used to smile with irony as I watched early arrivals for the conference switch the names on chairs in order to get closer to the president.

The White House Press Corps: Poorly dressed, rude children.

But the press has always been hated in America. That will never change. It's the job of the press to be hated, I reckon. Well, speaking as a soul who used to be one, I can tell you this: They are quite awful and they relish that role.


5 posted on 02/16/2006 8:51:31 AM PST by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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"These are, no doubt, among the best reporters in the land — at least when they arrive. But the skills that made them great as reporters in the first place are of little value in the new assignment, and they soon atrophy."


That's right! Because they are required to turn over their worn and stained knee pads to the next reporter / reporterette recruit when they get assigned to the Whitehouse.






6 posted on 02/16/2006 8:54:52 AM PST by G.Mason (Any power grabbing committed (by Congress) would be a hostile act against the people.)
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It all sounds like one happy little inbred family. No wonder their stories are all unremarkable and interchangable.


7 posted on 02/16/2006 8:54:58 AM PST by Owl558 (Pardon my spelling)
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Someone pls fax Mr. Butthead a copy.


8 posted on 02/16/2006 8:56:20 AM PST by TexasCajun
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What a bunch of self-centered, arrogant nobodies.


10 posted on 02/16/2006 8:57:57 AM PST by CodeToad
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Rush had a good one yesterday - the White House should start releasing all it's newsworthy items to small news organizations around the country before these clowns are told.


12 posted on 02/16/2006 8:58:32 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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they can’t find news unless it is forced down their open gullets at a daily press briefing

Lovely line. No pictures of Helen Thomas. Please. I beg you.

13 posted on 02/16/2006 8:59:56 AM PST by hsalaw
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WH press corps=potted plants/libpodpeople


19 posted on 02/16/2006 9:05:31 AM PST by tumblindice
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I was listening to a montage of idiotic questions about the accident (most leveled as near accusations rather than questions) and my head almost exploded when I heard on "reporter" (female) actually ask the following: "Would it have been more serious if he had died?"

I would have paid big money if McClellan had stopped, looked at her and answered, "Uh....DUUUHHHH!"

Somewhere Bill Engvall is shouting "Here's your sign!"

20 posted on 02/16/2006 9:05:34 AM PST by Pablo64 ("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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When the White House press corps begins to behave like professional journalists rather partisan political hacks who live only to serve the DNC, they will have the respect of both political parties. Until then, they desreve nothing less than isolation and distrust from the presidency they're so eager, almost to the point of desperation, to destroy.


22 posted on 02/16/2006 9:10:47 AM PST by Spok (Est omnis de civilitate.)
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Mara Liason, of all people, said she had a friend who had worked in a psych ward as well as the White House press room, and that their were many similarities.

The daily White House press briefing is an idea whose time has come and gone.
25 posted on 02/16/2006 9:19:20 AM PST by Semi Civil Servant (The Main Stream Media: Al-Qaeda's most effective spy network.)
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"Instead, they sit in a comfortable auditorium and wait to be told things. "

Or leaked things...

26 posted on 02/16/2006 9:24:53 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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“Why weren’t we told?” has been the refrain, not “How did we miss that story?”

B I N G O ! The crux of the issue.

27 posted on 02/16/2006 9:27:11 AM PST by pollyannaish
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I do not invite these vermin (or their employers) into my home. It's not news if you already know what they're going to say.


29 posted on 02/16/2006 9:27:50 AM PST by auboy (The press practices free screech. And they're really good at it.)
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The media's complaint that a mere "private citizen" reported the story is teh one that gets me. Since when were private citizens dirt? And they didn't expect Cheney to personally call the story in, they are complaining he didn't have a pr person do it. How does taht make any sense?


30 posted on 02/16/2006 9:28:08 AM PST by Williams
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I used to think it must be very difficult being a member of the MSM. It can't be easy to report illusions of reality on a daily basis, and refer to it as *truth*. Then I realized the problem. They are reporting the truth, as perceived through their altered whowhatwherewhenhowwhy world. That's why they can do it day after day, with no guilt or remorse. They are simply reporting what truth is through the looking glass. Rules don't apply to them. Laws don't apply. Integrity nor honor. Those are reserved for THIS side of the glass.


33 posted on 02/16/2006 9:31:50 AM PST by small voice in the wilderness (Democrats: Striving daily to wrong the rights that have been done.)
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Members of the elite White House press corps this week have acted more like animals that have been kept in captivity for so long that they can’t find news unless it is forced down their open gullets at a daily press briefing.

MMMMMMM!!! That's good writing. :)

49 posted on 02/16/2006 3:18:10 PM PST by Graymatter
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