"Politics is downstream from popular culture".
Posted on 08/16/2012 9:45:15 AM PDT by Hojczyk
President Obama hasn’t formally taken questions from the White House press corps in more than two months, while on the campaign trail in Iowa yesterday he made time for reporters from People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight.
His last news conference was at the G20 in June, when he answered six questions from three reporters on the European debt crisis, the conflict in Syria, and the notion of politics stopping at the water’s edge.
The White House press corps has not formally been given the opportunity to ask questions of the president on U.S. soil since his appearance in the Briefing Room on June 8 ( “the private sector is doing fine.“)
His last formal White House news conference was on March 6.
Tapper asked Jay Carney when Obama plans to get around to talking with reporters from actual news agencies. Carney’s answer? “I don’t have any scheduling announcements to make.”
Actually, I’m mystified by the distance that Obama has put between himself and the White House press corps. They’ve treated Obama with a lot more deference than George W. Bush got. Even the tough questions don’t usually get follow-ups, and Obama has more or less mastered the art of filibustering to limit the number of questions asked at these events. Why not do more press avails and pressers? Why not arrange an interview with at least a more sympathetic member of the non-entertainment media, such as Brian Williams of NBC, if not a member of the press corps?
It seems like an odd time to antagonize the media closest to the White House — and if Jake Tapper is a measure of the resentment building within the briefing room, the incumbent struggling to make a case for a second term might find more skepticism for those arguments than ever.
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...actually, he’ll do interviews ONLY with Al Jazeera!!!
How respectful does he need to be to people he owns??
My sense is if the polls show His Excellency in some kind of death spiral, they will jump off the CCCP and really go after him. They don’t want to be on the wrong side of history. Right now, they are just useless appendages of the Obama press office.
"Politics is downstream from popular culture".
95% of the WH press has been acting as Obamas b*tch, and now they wonder why they aren’t getting any respect?
So, when will the honeymoon end?
Like Rush says, he is President Kardashian.
He is merely a celebrity.
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With the celebrity press, never. I'm beginning to wonder about some of the usual throne-kissers, though, CNN for one. Rumblings of discontent. They figure he owes them - he does - but he figures it another way. Not smart. When your entire campaign consists of smoke and mirrors it isn't a good idea to piss off the guys running the fan.
Time to get some cajones MSM. Richard Nixon only wished he could have had such a complicit press.
Bottom line....He can treat the media in any manner he wishes. They’re not going to quit supporting him regardless and he knows it.
Great line!
Here’s a message for Tapper:
Obama has no respect for the WH Press Corps. Most of you sit there and swallow any and all crap that the WH spews at you. Carney and he see you as weak and owned by them.
And most of America sees it the same way. You have have failed the U.S. because of your total sell-out to a socialist movement.
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