Posted on 06/24/2009 8:54:04 AM PDT by kristinn
It turns out the Obama White House planted two questioners at yesterday's press conference by Barack Obama, a move that further cements the reputation of the media as being complicit with the Obama administration.
The incident also raises uncomfortable questions for liberals who falsely accused the Bush administration of the same practice. The news media's tolerance and complicity
One of the plants acknowledged Obama's staff chose the topic of his question for him.
Huffington Post blogger Nico Pitney and Spanish language EFE reporter Macarena Vidal were invited by the White House to the press conference and given special access. Obama called on them from a list of questioners prepared by his staff.
While the planting of the Huffington Post shill was much remarked upon yesterday, the planting of the EFE reporter was not noticed until The Washington Post's Dana Milbank reported on it in his column filed yesterday evening. However, he buried the bombshell at the end of his column and the media has ignored this:
Pitney said the White House, though not aware of the question's wording, asked him to come up with a question about Iran proposed by an Iranian. And, as it turned out, he was not the only prearranged questioner at yesterday's show. Later, Obama passed over the usual suspects to call on Macarena Vidal of the Spanish-language EFE news agency. The White House called Vidal in advance to see whether she was coming and arranged for her to sit in a seat usually assigned to a financial trade publication. She asked about Chile and Colombia.
Liberals went nuclear when an Internet-based reporter was unexpectedly called on by President Bush at a press conference in 2005. The reporter, Jeff Gannon, was set upon and had his life turned inside out and family members threatened because liberals, including Democrat members of Congress, falsely accused him of being a Bush administration plant.
Gannon eventually took and passed a lie detector on the subject and exhaustive investigations by mainstream reporters and liberal bloggers failed to come up with any evidence that he was connected to the Bush administration.
Now that the Obama administration has been caught red-handed planting two questioners at the same press conference, what will the response from the media and liberal bloggers be?
“President Obama, the vast majority of our readers are hard-core leftist crack addicts and flaming homosexuals. Will you be championing these classic American values as you destroy the United States over the next 8 years?”
Agreed !!
No need...they are already on the team. Detecting a plant among that crowd would be finding a needle in a stack of needles.
Let me be the first to echo that sentiment - it’s STILL hard for me to believe that this country was low enough to elect THAT.
Why is he sitting so close to his Pakistani “friend” in that photo??
Not surprised the questions are planted. His whole rise to power has been orchestrated by the MSM.
I keep wondering when the media are going to get tired of being whores for Obama ... ok, not really. They’re willingly complicit.
the big lie. you nailed it spot on.
Being a liberal is like the movie Groundhog Day. You get to begin each day completely absolved of all past actions. For example, Democrats are neck deep in everything that went wrong with the economy. Their lack of oversight and pie-in-the-sky lending programs lead directly to the housing crisis and the Ginnie Mae and Freddie Mac meltdown. Dodd and Frank, among others, should be criminally charged. Yet, in their world they are completely innocent and are allowed to put others on the stand to be persecuted. All the while the press is silent.
Libby, Cheney and Rumsfeld, on the other hand, are continually referred to as war criminals for enacting policies that were judged to be legal, had the consent of Congress and were for the betterment of the country as a whole.
“Why is he sitting so close to his Pakistani “friend” in that photo??”
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Your guess is as good as mine but the Sinclair stories come to my mind.
You have to enlarge the picture to get the real details of it. Look at his right hand “close up” what is he trying to hide under his right leg???
I think a guy named Chip and Dick won’t be called on anytime soon. They may as well find a new a “beat”. And I’d be willing to bet the so called “mainstream” press are being fed questions, too. Plus, O is being fed answers by Axelrod and Ayers, among others.
Your photo comparison says so much! Sad but true..........
The picture enlarged is even creepier. Looks like a tv remote in his hand. I found the rumpled pillows on the couch next to them more “interesting.”
If Obama is so great why the need to PLANT ‘reporters’ with questions in advance?!
What a cowardly fool who is way over his head!
” This guy is a real scumbag and so is ‘his’ press and any of these people that go along with this “
Agree.
This episode is an example of Barry looking like he can answer a question, even without a teleprompter, but the reality is that it’s a fake............
Sad part is that the MSM is enabling him along the way
Did you see his “friend”?
ping
Pretty boy. I like the curls.
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