Obama's disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit

washingtonpost.com ^ | April 14, 2010 | Dana Milbank

[Berlin_Freeper]

World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow.

They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.

In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.

The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news conference, that was visible to the public was Obama's eight-minute opening statement, which ended with the words: "I'm going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session."

[henkster]

He doesn’t want the press to see real world leaders humiliate him before he gives away the store.

[major-pelham]

The fawning Milbank finally gets mad at the O and its for dissing him ? Not the other 299,999,999 of the rest of us ?

[tet68]

Everyone, get used to it, it’s the future, at least till
November.

[NativeNewYorker]

The author is a Democrat boot-licker. If *he* is starting to snipe at Zero....

[ChocChipCookie]

FWIW, a long, long-time law enforcement friend, who now runs an intelligence collecting business with many LE agencies as clients, says the #1 thing LE fears is an assassination. It could be that all these precautions are the choice of various LE agencies.

[littleharbour]

Looks good on the MSM. They’ve spent years kissing his royal butt and he’s now showing them the contempt they’ve earned through their slavish drooling. Obama has no respect for the media because he knows they’re all neutered lap dogs.

[Newton]

uh.... is this a scattered shower of journalism? From the WaPo? Actual criticism of dear leader????

I think I just aw a pig fly my my window....

[choctaw man]

“We were there for around 30 seconds, not enough even to notice the color of tie of both presidents. I think blue for the king.”

Obama looks good in blue...../s

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[Blood of Tyrants]

The Washington POST publishes this? Obastard is really starting to make liberals angry.

[lawdvd]

Bush used to get grief for not holding regular press conferences. I think his longest stint was 215 days between them. For Obama, it has been about 265 days. He seems to be afraid of the exposure to unscripted questions.

[Regulator]

Funny that this is in the WaPo rag.

But now that he doesn't need them, he's gonna kick em to the side of the road - thugs always do that.

The communique's from the junta begin next.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

"Let me say it as simply as I can: transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency."

-Barack Hussein Obama

[mware]

My sincere apologies to our Canadian neighbors. The man has no class.

[relictele]

At the Post egos come first, then politics. It’s a little different at the NYT where ideology is king.

Tweak the Post’s position on the social ladder and there will be hell to pay.

[swarthyguy]

Reporters, even those on the White House beat for two decades, said it was the most restrictive set of meetings they had ever seen in Washington.

LOL!

How in the world did that cyclist get run over. Remember the brouhaha when a motorbike cop ran over someone where Cheney was visiting.

[Tarpon]

Isn’t this the same lame stream media who thought the closed door back room deals with health care were fine with them?

What goes around comes around.

[JerseyDvl]

Everyone should disregard the media.

[Drill Thrawl]

Ooooh, Dana the girlie-man has a hissy fit.