Fox interviews Obama

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Here's a Fox interview about this. You can see obviously it was a minor mistake that was immediately rectified and then blown out of proportion for partisan reasons.

As an aside, it's interesting to witness whodey going on and on and on about how he dislikes the 'nature of the political discourse' in the U.S. and how people who want to see the 'nature of political discourse' changed to something better should band together, how whodey and these people want to replace it with a 'nature of political discourse' that they think is more decent and honest. And then... we see the 'nature of political discourse' that whodey actually offers here at RHP. Something to behold.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Here's a Fox interview about this. You can see obviously it was a minor mistake that was immediately rectified and then blown out of proportion for partisan reasons.

http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=3722114

A minor mistake? According to the source you provided Fox was granted an interview ONLY because the other networks ganged up and made them grant the interview. For your reading pleasure, let me introduce the rage produced by Obama trying to control the press. Helen Thomas, who has been covering the White House for about 50 years said that not even Nixon tried to strong arm the press as much as the Obama administration, and she is a democrat!!

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/50445

Originally posted by whodey
A minor mistake? According to the source you provided Fox was granted an interview ONLY because the other networks ganged up and made them grant the interview. For your reading pleasure, let me introduce the rage produced by Obama trying to control the press. Helen Thomas, who has been covering the White House for about 50 years said that not even Nixon tr ...[text shortened]... s the Obama administration, and she is a democrat!!

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/50445

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“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”

Thomas said she was especially concerned about the arrangement between the Obama Administration and a writer from the liberal Huffington Post Web site. The writer was invited by the White House to President Obama’s press conference last week on the understanding that he would ask Obama a question about Iran from among questions that had been sent to him by people in Iran.

“When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you,” Thomas said.

“I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well--for the town halls, for the press conferences,” she said. “It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame.”

During today’s briefing, Thomas interrupted a back-and-forth between Gibbs and Chip Reid, the White House correspondent for CBS News, when Reid was questioning Gibbs about who was going to decide what questions would be asked of President Obama in a townhall meeting that was scheduled to take place in Annandale, Va., today.

Gibbs then had an exchange involving Reid and Thomas that went as follows:

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Originally posted by zeeblebot
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“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”

Thomas said she was especially concerned about the arrangement between the Obama Administration and a writer from the liberal Huffington Post Web site. The writer was invited by the White House to ...[text shortened]... Va., today.

Gibbs then had an exchange involving Reid and Thomas that went as follows:

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Helen is obviously a right winged double agent. How else can this be xplained? 😛

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704207504575129650173760756.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular

* MARCH 18, 2010

Smart President, Foolish Choices

By JAMES TARANTO

When President Obama gives TV interviews, the treatment he gets is typically soft, if not reverential. This is not because of the interviewers' respect for the presidency--they were much tougher on George W. Bush--but because of ideological and personal sympathy for the man who now holds the office. Yesterday was an exception--perhaps the first time Obama has ever faced a tough interview. The interviewer was Bret Baier of Fox News Channel, and the president was clearly unprepared, coming across as petulant and evasive. (You can watch it online: Part 1 and Part 2.)

If the rest of the so-called adversary press had been doing its job for the past few years, Obama might not be in the political trouble he is. Then again, he might not have withstood the scrutiny and become president either.

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