[Admin Moderator]

From the beginning of the administration, the White House has asked news outlets not to report on or photograph the Obama children when they are not with their parents and there is no vital news interest.

FR has a long standing-policy of a hands-off approach to personal comments posted about the children of politicians. Too bad the Obamas will use their kids as political props when they see fit while simulataneously demanding privacy for them.

But FR will still adhere to our own standards even if the Obamas cannot and will not do so consistently.

[hope]

"Too bad the Obamas will use their kids as political props when they see fit while simulataneously demanding privacy for them."

Well said!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

It is completely appropriate to maintain a hands off policy on Obama’s kids. Nevertheless, the adjunct story— the cost associated with the necessity of sending 25 agents for protection— in a time of belt-tightening for most Americans, is, in fact, newsworthy.

[tomkat]

Agreed

+1

[tomkat]

(but that ignorant McCain cow is still fair game, right ? ;-)

[no-to-illegals]

Thank You!

[NormsRevenge]

How does a public forum operate in an age when the occupants of the WH are nothing less than leeches , ideologically-driven control freaks, corrupt beyond comparison by historical standards and have no discernible standards themselves?

Vey carefully. 8-]

Good job. In due time, God willing, the WH will have patriots back as the occupants, and the Obama children will mature, hopefully beyond their parents levels of tolerance and guile.

[darrellmaurina]

7 posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:42:23 AM by Admin Moderator: “FR has a long standing-policy of a hands-off approach to personal comments posted about the children of politicians. Too bad the Obamas will use their kids as political props when they see fit while simulataneously demanding privacy for them. But FR will still adhere to our own standards even if the Obamas cannot and will not do so consistently.”

36 posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:00:39 AM by Admin Moderator: “The FR mods are only pulling posts that make it personal about the kids, and pulling threads where such posts are just getting too pervasive. There is no Eric Holder batphone to the mod lounge tell us what to do, we had this standard back in the Clinton Admin years with posts about Chelsea.”

Thank you.

Could you consider posting this to the other two threads in which this subject is being discussed. The allegations being made by some that FR is somehow caving in to pressure need to be clarified for the benefit of those who aren't aware that this has been policy back to Chelsea Clinton's days in the White House.

Malia in Mexico story vanishing from the Web
Times247 ^ | 3/19/12 | Eric Ritz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2861195/posts

Media Scrubs Malia Obama Vacation Story (Ignoring a Travel Advisory is not “vital news”)
Fox News ^ | 3/20/2012 | DYLAN BYERS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2861406/posts

[Absolutely Nobama]

“FR has a long standing-policy of a hands-off approach to personal comments posted about the children of politicians. Too bad the Obamas will use their kids as political props when they see fit while simulataneously demanding privacy for them.

But FR will still adhere to our own standards even if the Obamas cannot and will not do so consistently.”

Agreed wholeheartedly.

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