“The president invited me to talk about sequestration”
The White House is doing something with its local TV interviews that it could not easily get away with in encounters with the White House press corps, which President Obama has been studiously ignoring: choosing the topic about which President Obama and the reporter will talk.
In interviews with three local TV stations Monday, two from states critical to Obama’s reelection effort, Obama held forth on the possibility of “sequestration” if he and Congress fail to reach a budget deal, allowing him to make his favorite political point that Republicans are willing to cause grievous harm to the economy and jobs in order to protect the rich from tax increases…
The reporters mostly made no effort to hide the arrangement. “The president invited me to talk about sequestration,” NBC 7 San Diego’s reporter told her audience. In the interview, she set Obama up with a perfectly pitched softball the president couldn’t have been more eager to take a swing at…
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A “reporter” could really make a name for themselves if they shocked the President and simply asked … “Why did you spend a million dollars to seal your College records? What are you hiding?”
brewcrew67 on August 21, 2012 at 12:01 PM
“I brought my kneepads in case Dear Leader wanted more than just an interview.”
-media jackalope
Bishop on August 21, 2012 at 12:02 PM
One step closer to a banana republic.
Cindy Munford on August 21, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Transparency = a transparently pathetic President.
Flange on August 21, 2012 at 12:03 PM
bho is going to do all he can do to our nation before election with or without congress! If bho isn’t re-elected, God only knows what he will do before the gets the boot in Jan. 2013?
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letget on August 21, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Imagine how viciously the legacy media would treat a Republican president who attempted this.
Kataklysmic on August 21, 2012 at 12:06 PM
It does feel awfully Hugo-like, eh?
CycloneCDB on August 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Stalin has convulsions in his grave.
Schadenfreude on August 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM
I hope Obama left his money on the dresser. Wow, Donna Deegan. I knew she was a ho back when her sportscaster husband found her in the news van with the weatherman.
joekenha on August 21, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Ann Romney’s horse? I keed, I keed…
Fallon on August 21, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Clouds, silver lining, bright side. One day closer to the election.
Oldnuke on August 21, 2012 at 12:26 PM
They truly are the lapdog media.
supernova on August 21, 2012 at 12:28 PM
Schadenfreude on August 21, 2012 at 12:34 PM
Access Trumps Truth
Ben Hur on August 21, 2012 at 12:37 PM
If that reporter was smart, they’d stick to their agreement but ask a really hostile question about Sequestraion. For example,
“Mr. President, since you’ve limited the questions you’ll answered to only sequestration, could you please explain why you think this is a good issue for your politically when your administration has refused to negotiate, and the democratically controlled senate has stonewalled several republican proposals to avoid such a thing?”
WashingtonsWake on August 21, 2012 at 12:39 PM
PRAVDA. POLITIK. DEAR LEADER.
portlandon on August 21, 2012 at 12:40 PM
He knows his media well.
He is their Pimp.
They are his harlots.
He feeds them his sh*t.
They think it’s Beluga caviar.
Suffocate, you fools.
He hates you.
Schadenfreude on August 21, 2012 at 12:40 PM
Pravda, today, has some credibility. Who would have ever thought to witness this?
Schadenfreude on August 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM
Well, it’s not like the WH Press Corps doesn’t do this without even being asked.
Seriously, they finally had him at the podium on Monday and asked him nothing of substance at all. Just softballs for him and no follow-up when he throws out outrageous and easily provable lies.
They may whine about access but they are still deep, deep, deep in his pocket.
Queasy on August 21, 2012 at 12:45 PM
“Why do you want to talk about horses?” – Joe Biden
vcferlita on August 21, 2012 at 12:48 PM