Posted on 07/13/2011 12:28:47 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A long-running tiff between the White House press corps and the West Wing over presidential access flared anew today when press secretary Jay Carney faced off with reporters over the right to shout questions at the president during debt talks.
Obama chafes at the time-honored practice of answering questions shouted at him during pooled, non-press conference events — and his staff has often opted for “stills sprays,” excluding print reporters or TV cameras who might capture Obama in the less than flattering non-act of snubbing a query.
When asked today why TV crews and print reporters were barred from the pool covering the White House meeting with congressional leaders on the deficit, Carney responded by pointing out that the administration has held two press conferences in the past two weeks and allowed TV cameras into the spray earlier this week.
"People shouted questions at him," Carney added.
The White House Correspondents’ Association has protested exclusion of print and TV from pools — and several reporters in the briefing room took Carney’s comment as an annoyed expression of presidential displeasure with shouted questions.
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This is a continuation of the full-time campaign-mode set by this administration, protecting the weak POTUS from embarassment.
Protect the simpleton at all cots.
His petulance and thin-skinnedness will really be out there to enjoy.
Protect the simpleton at all costs.
Mr. Thin Skinned
I’d never yell at the Obamaloon.
I can communicate my thoughts adequately to him with the use of one finger.
I wonder if they must leave their shoes at the door too.
So we get that he’s not deaf, he’s just dumb.
Obummer cannot speak with TOTUS.
His petulance and thin-skinnedness
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That’s typical of Marxist Muslims.
A lot of kids dream of being president when they grow up. Obama became president, now he needs to grow up.
The nitwit is light on his feet, can’t answer questions without a 10 minute pause, he is a goober.
What a thin-skinned wus.
Yeah, how dare anyone question Dear Reader!
you have to speak to him in a certain way........passive/aggressives are sensitive like that
"...Questions he was not coached in advance on how to answer."
-PJ
protecting the weak POTUS from embarassment.
He is such a little “willy.” We have such a louie XIV acting person in office - dishes it out but can’t take it. One day he’s going to snap!
Not from the wimpy GOP. These jackasses don't know how to fight and King Obama is a communists and not worth respecting.
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