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Press airs grievances to Gibbs [rarely have I sensed such a level of anger......]
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Posted on 04/17/2010 11:45:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Press airs grievances to Gibbs By: Mike Allen April 17, 2010 12:06 PM EDT

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs met with a delegation from the White House press corps for 75 minutes on Thursday in an effort to improve frayed relations between the two sides.

Ed Chen, a White House correspondent for Bloomberg News who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said he asked for the meeting “to clear the air because in my 10-plus years at the White House, rarely have I sensed such a level of anger, which is wide and deep, among members over White House practices and attitude toward the press.”

Chen said he feels “very good about the collegial give and take.”

“We had a very good exchange with Robert,” Chen said. “He stayed overtime, and thus was late for his next meeting.”

Gibbs said the meeting in his West Wing office was “comprehensive and productive.”

“I started by thanking the WHCA on behalf of the president and first lady for protecting the privacy of the Obama children,” Gibbs said. “We discussed and made progress n a number of issues important to both.”

Chen recalled that the two sides agreed on “no immediate global solutions,” but said he came away expecting an “improvement in press access.”

Among the issues discussed:

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Yardstick; All
"I call BS on the Politico. The most transparent administration in history wouldn’t need such a meeting. Therefore this report is false."

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41 posted on 04/17/2010 12:45:25 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Sub-Driver
Among the issues discussed:

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—Internet access on Air Force One is being explored. Currently, the White House staff has access to communications equipment. But except in extraordinary circumstances, such as a presidential trip to Iraq or Afghanistan, the press is not able to file while airborne.


That is insane. I cannot believe the military or the Secret Service would go along with that.

Giving reporters on AF1 Internet access?!?!? Do not do it. If Obama does it, I hope President Palin is wise enough to shut it off the day she's inaugurated.

On a day like 9/11, the reporters can keep the whole world, including our enemies, appraised of the location and approximate altitude of AF1. Or, how about those trips to Baghdad or Kabul (or Tehran the way things are going).

Don't just think, well, we can shut it off if we want. You assume you can shut it off, you assume you can shut it off in such a way that no one could "work around" the blocking. And what if something happens without warning? What gets out before you can shut it off?
42 posted on 04/17/2010 12:47:05 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Sub-Driver

LOL So Gibbs reminded them that they are to tow the line and plant lips firmly on Obama’s behind and they said Yes sir?!


43 posted on 04/17/2010 12:47:19 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: advance_copy

Oh, and what happens when some reporter’s laptop has spyware? Or something that the Chinese managed to cook up and get loaded on his or her laptop, possibly equipped with a camera and microphone, or a GPS device? Sheez!


44 posted on 04/17/2010 12:50:14 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: True Republican Patriot; All
“CHUBBY LITTLE GIRLS” with RUSSIAN NAMES!! Imagine That!"

"Surprize! Surprize! Surprize!"

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45 posted on 04/17/2010 12:55:01 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Republic; All
"WHERE IS THE WHITE HOUSE DOG?"

Obama Media Lap Dog

46 posted on 04/17/2010 12:57:41 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Sub-Driver
This is nothing more than a Lover's quarrel.

The same Media that poured Gasoline on the Bush Presidency is throwing Holy Water on the Obama Presidency.

Spoiled children whining, what a hoot.

47 posted on 04/17/2010 12:59:58 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Obamunism, the fatal cure for Bush Derangement Syndrome.)
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To: Sub-Driver
... in an effort to improve frayed relations between the two sides.

I guess even sycophants can have their feelings hurt.

5.56mm

48 posted on 04/17/2010 1:00:08 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Sub-Driver
So Obimbo cultivates a bad relationship with the press so, should they ever start to tell the truth about the scumbag, the scumbag can claim bias.

Fairly shrewd for an empty headed scumbag.

But I repeat myself.

49 posted on 04/17/2010 1:01:56 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Obama: Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg)
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To: Sub-Driver

How can they lie for him when he doesn’t tell them any lies.

Is that it?


50 posted on 04/17/2010 1:02:57 PM PDT by Carley (I'll keep clinging to the constitution, my guns and my religion, thank you.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Bagh-Boy Bob... is at it again!

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BaghBoy Bob_1

51 posted on 04/17/2010 1:03:00 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hell hath no fury like a rejected media whore.


52 posted on 04/17/2010 1:16:48 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you." - Steinbeck)
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To: Sub-Driver

That is so amusing.


53 posted on 04/17/2010 1:18:57 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: Sub-Driver

What a bunch of whiney weanies.


54 posted on 04/17/2010 1:47:25 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Sub-Driver

The spokesperson for the WHPC listed five major complaints:
(1) inadequate knee pads, (2) bobble heads dolls to assist members of the press corp in nodding their agreement to the administration’s pronouncements, (3) more access to the State Department’s liquor closet, (4) advance copies of Gibb’s prepared statements in order that the press corp can assist in editing and content to make them more acceptable to the public,and (5) limitations on Gibb’s smirky grin.


55 posted on 04/17/2010 2:07:05 PM PDT by DOGEY
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To: cricket

The whitehouse press corpse is nothing but a bunch of dc residents/VA/WVA who travel in the whitehouse press corpse cliche gather and travel only with themselves. I doubt any of them know what the citiizens think, want, or “feel”. They are among the elitist of the elite. Watch the Sam Donaldsons, Cookie Roberts, and one can see the whitehouse press corpse is even snootier than these snoots.


56 posted on 04/17/2010 3:14:17 PM PDT by tillacum ( It is the military, not the press, not the politicians who keep America free.)
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To: musicman

So perfectly True!! COMMIES have COMMIES for Children!
This is a Great Poster! Do You think the RNC will use it?
or that Glenn Beck will have the Courage to Use it on his show? My Bets are NO! and NO!Tyrants Live because of Cowardice...:-(


57 posted on 04/17/2010 4:06:41 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Selmore

Its because he’s black isn’t it?


58 posted on 04/17/2010 4:08:31 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (This nation, of the people, by the people, and for the people has perished from the land.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gibbs IS the problem. He has about as much charisma, style, tact, and INTELLECT as a cow turd.


59 posted on 04/17/2010 4:15:03 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Sub-Driver

Now isn’t this special.

The same media that has been lavishing a degree of affection on Obama that borders on pornography now pouts that Obama and his goons are not treating them nice.

Can I manage to give a damn?

Nope.


60 posted on 04/17/2010 5:05:58 PM PDT by Ronin
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