Posted on 04/29/2011 8:14:14 PM PDT by MindBender26
Update: Chronicle responds after Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia, then claims they didn't
Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area.
Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib:
Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.
The Chronicle's report is accurate.
If the White House has indeed decided not to ban our reporter, we would like an on-the-record notice that she will remain the San Francisco print pool reporter.
I was on some of those calls and can confirm Ward's statement.
Messy ball now firmly in White House court
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Wasn’t it Obama himself who wanted his supporters to become more familiar with, and use the latest technology ?
He said that, but he is really more of a “get in their face!” sort of douchebag.
The comments on that story are priceless!
In the Obama White House if their lips are moving they are lying
Wonder if Nancy had anything to do with this.
The MSM finally figures out Barry is a liar. They are a little tardy to the party on that one.
This is the San Francisco Chronicle calling Obama a liar!
Not Fox News,Wahington Times, Andrew Brietbart, Laura Ingram, Michelle Malkin, Hannity or Rush!
In Bronstein’s case, it was a monitor lizard.
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Aw. A lover’s spat.
When a man puts himself forward for a public trust he forfeits any claims to privacy, for how can the public judge his fitness for that trust except through a knowledge of his private dealings. By the way, what was all that talk about transparency?
"Let me be clear:" Obama's White House hates a free press.
Biden's people put a reporter in a closet. Obama doesn't do press Q&As with the regularity past presidents have. He'll make pronouncements and take one or zero questions. During the campaign reporters for papers that endorsed McCain were expelled from his plane.
Looks like a pattern from here.
In 2008 they said, "The Illinois senator has shown beyond a doubt he is the one to lead the nation in troubled times." I'm sure they'll find a way to still endorse him in 2012.
Fatwa???
Et tu, SF Chronicle?
Heh, heh. Welcome to the VRWC.
The Fuhrer will tolerate no criticism!
Bwaaahahahaha!!
This is another campaign issue Palin can use against him. She’s the only one who brings this to the people’s attention and no wonder why they are afraid of her.
Isn’t the SF Chronicle a Liberal Communist rag?
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