Obama White House Bars Press from Press Award Ceremony

LA Times ^ | March 20, 2009 | Andrew Malcolm

[aetheraddict]

We are not making this up: [snip] The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers in a White House ceremony this afternoon.

The Obama White House has closed the press award ceremony to the press. [snip]

[Redbob]

"Obama White House Bars White Press from Black Press Award Ceremony"

There.
Fixed.

[aetheraddict]

I actually didn't even notice the.. race element in the story when I posted it, but if it's an award being presented by, well, the press, it seems that those members will have a certain amount of exclusivity over the event. I also couldn't tell if Malcolm was just joking, but it seems like it may not be from the other places that the story popped up.

(Though one thing that did notice is that new lines aren't converted to line breaks when posting a story..)

[Slip18]

Wonder if he’ll have any White Secret Service Agents there? They will stand out like a sore thumb.

[Candor7]

He did the same thing when he had campaign fund raisers with people of color, closed them off to the press and anyone who is white.

Now Obama will get to speak the way Rev. Wright taught him, and the press won;t know what he said?

Sooner or later we will get a video of Obama in Black Power mode, and it will be on the news.

The guy is a rascist, natonalist socialist. A FASCIST!

And still the press lets it slide.

They should be secretly videoing the so called prez.

Obama can't be GONE soon enough to suit me.

HATE speech behind closed doors, and whats more, UNREPORTED.

[Syncro]

A couple of the comments at the stie:

Ah, don't you see? Are you too dense or is the wool over your eyes working?
Mr. and Mrs. Obama are restricting the WHITE press. They don't want too many photos of them with their brothers and sisters while they are acting natural because it would scare the white folks.
And Barry ain't done sticking us up.

Am I the only one who's sick of this garbage? WHO is he recieving his 'award' from? The Federation of 'BLACK' Community Newspapers? Is there a WHITE Federation of Newspapers? And if there was, do you think that this IDIOT would be ACCEPTING AN AWARD FROM THEM?

This double standard is BULL****! For someone who 'CLAIMS' to be 'bi-racial', he sure goes to a lot of " 'BLACK' things. You say the 'PRESS' isn't going to be allowed.
Are you sure that it isn't THE WHITE PRESS, that isn't invited. This IDIOT makes my stomach sick.

As some one mentioned above, this is pretty different than the comments from the liberals that usually support All Things Obama.

[Munz]

he is still trying to convince whites he isn’t a racist or supported by them.

[canaan]

“Doncha just love it when the administration practices integration? LOL”

Don’t forget, he is the “post-racial candidate”. And “words matter”.

(But please, ignore reality, just believe the words. Forget all the race-baiting during the campaign, forget that he has never done anything for minorities, all that matters is what he says, not what he does)