"Posted on 07/25/2008 11:09:42 AM PDT by bamahead
The mood among the US media pack that joined Barack Obama's overseas tour on Monday was grumpy and rebellious.
The 40-odd journalists boarding the campaign's Boeing 757, dubbed Obama One, in Jordan had paid thousands of dollars to accompany him but missed the first four days of a trip that took him to Afghanistan and Iraq and information was in short supply.
The press corps was appeased when Obama, who prefers to sit on plane journeys with his iPod and a pile of press cuttings or a book, ignoring staff as well as journalists, made a rare trip to the back of the Boeing en route from Israel to banter with reporters.
His Republican rival John McCain, struggling to compete for media coverage, acknowledged Obama's success when he joked during a speech in Columbus, Ohio, alongside the Tour de France champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong last night: "Tomorrow his tour takes him to France. In a scene Lance would recognise, a throng of adoring fans awaits Senator Obama in Paris - and that's just the American press."
Obama's team offered an off-the-record account of a meeting between him and King Abdullah of Jordan: the reporters wanted it on the record, arguing it was presumptive of Obama to expect White House rules on anonymity to apply while he was still just a candidate.
The Obama team walked away.
No journalist had accompanied Obama on one of the most newsworthy parts of the trip, Afghanistan and Iraq, and the television and print journalists had to rely on camera footage shot by the US military and a Senate aide on his mobile phone, raising questions about the ethics of using such material.
Obama was able to get pictures of himself in the war zones on US domestic television while retaining total control.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
...we need more of this from McCain.
Yeah that was funny.
This article must be cheeky British humor.
The press was upset, the Obama laid hands on them and everything was OK.
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The press corps was appeased when Obama, who prefers to sit on plane journeys with his iPod and a pile of press cuttings or a book, ignoring staff as well as journalists, made a rare trip to the back of the Boeing en route from Israel to banter with reporters.
It's like a lover's quarrel - the make-up editorials were exquisite. Did Obama stay to cuddle afterward?
“The press corps was appeased when Obama, who prefers to sit on plane journeys with his iPod and a pile of press cuttings or a book, ignoring staff as well as journalists, made a rare trip to the back of the Boeing en route from Israel to banter with reporters.”
ha ha ha! Obama knows he’s his own largest liability when he speaks on his own. My oh my - he’s so busy with that iPod and doing his scrap booking! We musn’t bother him with inane questions - it wouldn’t be polite!!!
The MSM has done a very good job of praising and gushing over Obama, but if he becomes POTUS, it’s going to have to get used to not asking alot of questions. That’s a lesson Sam Donaldson learned the hard way with Bill Clinton. The MSM is there to fawn and support only; actual acts of journalism will not be tolerated.
Interesting that he has the support of Lance Armstrong..
No wonder Lance and Sheryl are no longer an item....LOL.
"It doesn’t take much to placate these slobbering morons, does it?
The tarnish is growing on his halo...
The media and Obama will have make up sex, and all will be fine in the morning. Nothing like biscuits-n-gravy with your coffee & morning cigarette, after a steaming session. It just brings a shiver up my leg.
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