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Posted on 05/03/2011 2:40:41 PM PDT by Nachum
C’mon, no one’s this sensitive to bad press.
Well, almost no one.
In an email to The Daily Caller, Gina Channell-Allen, president of the Pleasanton Weekly in Pleasanton, California, said that her paper “received a call from the White House asking us to take out part of the story because it reflected poorly on the First Lady.”
The story in question was a soft feature about Marine One titled, “Inside Marine One, President Obama’s helicopter,” that ran in the paper on April 20. Pleasanton staffer Amory Gutierrez “didn’t get to ride in ‘Marine One,’” she wrote in her story, “but I did get the VIP tour and took photographs of the otherwise unseen aircraft.”
She also wrote a sentence that the White House thought made FLOTUS look snooty.
“Basically the reporter said that the First Lady didn’t speak to the pilots but acknowledged them by making eye contact,” Allen wrote in her email.
The weirdest part of this, of course, is that the WH ended up increasing the odds that the story would get picked up by bigger media when it decided to contact the publisher to complain. She was probably shocked to find that someone so high up was paying attention to a small paper 3,000 miles away and was itching to tell someone about it. And in fact, according to Daily Caller reporter Mike Riggs, she volunteered the info to the DC after reading their story about the latest White House tantrum over its press coverage.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
I thought it was related to Hillary, because I remember that story. But what does PIAPS mean? Or maybe, on second thought, I don’t want to know?
Sorry, it is not a nice thing — it stands for Pig In A Pantsuit — referring of course to “Old Crusty”.
LLS
LOL! I just found it when I googled it! Too funny! I can’t believe they made an acronym out of it. We all know who it belongs to, but they didn’t dare mention her name!
I’m wondering just how much media oversight is coming out of this Administration?? I see a lot of evidence of meddling. Doesn’t this qualify as propaganda?? It looks like more than just the camel’s nose got in this tent!!
Comrade, your post has been duly logged and you may soon expect visit from KGB to clarify your counterrevolutionary tendencies/s;)
I don't want to unduly alarm anyone, but what may you surmise about an administration that makes software for running armies of simulated/false facebook users?
Also, with the way some AV companies are behaving, with Obamabots/antisemites running their show, will they actually react to a hypothethical Obama-tasked trojan?
“To them, they’re hauling freight...”
If by “freight” you mean “ass”.
Bump.
Now, when I first saw the headline and then saw that the offending article had something to do with Marine One, I jumped to the obvious conclusion that the “unflattering remark” about the First Lady would have been a reference to skimpy seat width on military aircraft.
My bad.
Someone reported them, remember their if you see anything campaign?
You have been here since 1998, and you don’t know who PIAPS is?
Hard to believe!
Puzzling, but you're right.
Probably more people read this forum than they do The Daily Caller, so Googling FLOTUS or Michelle Obama will expose them to apoplexy.
"First Sasquatch" is the mildest one I can think of, off hand.
WookieLeaks
Folks, this is another piece of evidence that Hussein’s Cult looks at EVERYTHING written about him. He listens to Rush, he looks at FR, and he has people taking pictures of Tea Parties.
I’ve seen the Tea Party thing...and the others are obvious.
I can't believe I've been a freeper for 13 years!
Sure do remember it.
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