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President Obama Receives Transparency Honor In Closed-Door Ceremony

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President Obama received an award from a group of transparency advocates for making the government more open to the public. However, since the ceremony itself was closed to the press, some may wonder whether the honor was awarded a bit premature? Supporters of the decision to honor Obama suggest it is similar to the rationale behind the Nobel Peace Prize, in that it is aspirational in hoping that Obama will continue to be transparent in the future.

The Huffington Post reports:

The award was given by open-government advocates including the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to recognize Obama’s work toward encouraging agencies to release information to the public – and to encourage him to do more. The group’s executive director, Lucy Dalglish, says she was flabbergasted that the White House didn’t allow coverage of the event Monday.

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  • cjd ohio 1

    lol

  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    And once again, the administration proves it is tone deaf.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Seriously? This is a joke right? RIGHT!
    Did Obama actually except it?
    WTH is wrong with these people..including Obama for excepting these laugh out loud ridiculous awards?

    Which Nobel peace prize recipient that has dropped the most cruise missiles on another country?

  • andthehorseyourodeinon

    The only thing TRANSPARENT about Obama is that he is full of BS

  • felixw

    Under the Obama administration, everything that should be kept secret was made public (on Wikileaks), and everything that should be made public (e.g., the writing of the healthcare bill) was kept secret.

  • Hunk

    Keeva said:
    And once again, the administration proves it is tone deaf.

    You’re way too kind. He’s becoming a laughing stock.

  • captaingrumpy

    I couldn’t add anything because I was laughing so much.

  • LOGICandREASON

    ROTFALMAO!

  • LOGICandREASON

    Hey Mediaite, April Fool jokes can’t begin until the clock rings 00:00 April 1 2011

  • Judge Mental

    Supporters of the decision to honor Obama suggest it is similar to the rationale behind the Nobel Peace Prize, in that it is aspirational in hoping that Obama will continue to be transparent in the future.

    Will continue to be transparent? More like will become transparent.

    [T]he Associated Press reported:

    People requested information 544,360 times last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act from the 35 largest agencies, up nearly 41,000 more than the previous year, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of new federal data. But the government responded to nearly 12,400 fewer requests.
    Weirdly the administration even censored e-mails about its openness:

    The Obama administration censored 194 pages of internal e-mails about its Open Government Directive that the AP requested more than one year ago.
    The December 2009 directive requires every agency to take immediate, specific steps to open their operations up to the public. But the White House Office of Management and Budget blacked-out entire pages of some e-mails between federal employees discussing how to apply the new openness rules, and it blacked-out one e-mail discussing how to respond to AP’s request for information about the transparency directive.

    Read more at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/03/obama-ncaa-japan-foia-transparency-golf.html

  • OxyCon

    I wonder if someday Obama will grow tired of collecting awards and titles he doesn’t deserve.

  • Hunk

    Can you imagine looking at an award hanging on your wall that you honestly know you didn’t deserve? What kind of a person would even accept an award they didn’t deserve? I know for a fact I couldn’t. No way.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Supporters of the decision to honor Obama suggest it is similar to the rationale behind the Nobel Peace Prize, in that it is aspirational in hoping that Obama will continue to be transparent in the future.

    This is a joke right, Matty? You didn’t really mean to say “continue” to be transparent, right?

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Hunk says:

    What kind of a person would even accept an award they didn’t deserve?

    A narcissist.

  • X-3

    “President Obama Receives Transparency Honor In Closed-Door Ceremony”

    I guess, at some point, even -0bama has a modicum of shame.

  • Barack Must Go

    Hey maybe if we through him a premature retirement dinner he’ll go away and leave us alone. It’s worth a try anyway.

  • Alz

    It’s just more liberals working to dupe the inattentive portion of the public. The fact that Obama received the award will be weaved into things for a long time.

    Some time from now, the goofy liberals who post here will cite the award as evidence of Obama’s greatness.

  • slickerwick

    The headline sounds like something from the Onion. Truth is stranger than satire.

  • More Liberty5

    I hear the next award he’s going to get is for debt and deficit reduction.

  • Alz

    More Liberty5 said:
    I hear the next award he’s going to get is for debt and deficit reduction.

    …and the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Harry Flashman

    I’m wondering where the usual lefty Obama defenders are today…….

    This truly has to be a facepalm moment for them,.

  • More Liberty5

    Obviously Mediaite won’t report it, but it’s now just coming out that investigators have found a hidden bailout in the sum of $2 billion in Obamacare.

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/03/uncovered-new-2-billion-bailout-obamacare

    “Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have discovered that a little-known provision in the national health care law has allowed the federal government to pay nearly $2 billion to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations to subsidize health coverage costs for early retirees.”

    So far the money has went to the” United Auto Workers, which has so far received $206,798,086. Other big recipients include AT&T, which received $140,022,949, and Verizon, which received $91,702,538. GENERAL ELECTRIC(my emphasis added), in the news recently for not paying any U.S. taxes last year, received $36,607,818. General Motors, recipient of a massive government bailout, received $19,002,669.”

    So General Electric paid no taxes to the USA, yet they received tax payer dollars. This is corruption. I’m not solely blaming Obama – he didn’t write it – I’m blaming these corrupt politicians.

  • Davo

    Our resident Dim ones will be joining us in this discussion any moment now. Yeah, I think I’ll just wait right here for ‘um.

  • Alz

    Davo said:
    Our resident Dim ones will be joining us in this discussion any moment now. Yeah, I think I’ll just wait right here for ‘um.

    Yea, it’s an echo chamber here. I’ll bet a few liberals will feel the need to comment now after being cajoled, but they will be saying that Bush did the same thing somehow and ignore the substance of the issue.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Hubble/100001340708758 caconservative

    Has any group considered a crown of thorns, or perhaps a cross he could hang around on as suitable awards for his-ego-ness? Or, maybe something he richly deserves like, the “door”, he has his ass kicked out of!

  • captaingrumpy

    This Lucy women needs more medication,quick.

  • X-3

    These awards–for “transparency” and the Nobel Peace Prize–along with the fawning support of the LMS and every liberal in the US–serve to prove the danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.

    It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.

    The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.

  • fishchef

    Alz said:
    Yea, it’s an echo chamber here. I’ll bet a few liberals will feel the need to comment now after being cajoled, but they will be saying that Bush did the same thing somehow and ignore the substance of the issue.

    Here I am, sorry I’m late, just got home from work. Was busy ‘ignoring’ the ‘substance of the issue’. Actually, this is an issue? Hmm.. thought you conservatives only concerned yourself with important things. I guess Obama got himself another award. What was he thinking? The thumbs down is the little red one up there. I’m kinda late to the thread, so I’ll take a shot and go with 8 thumbs down. What’s the over/under?

  • fishchef

    X-3 said:
    These awards–for “transparency” and the Nobel Peace Prize–along with the fawning support of the LMS and every liberal in the US–serve to prove the danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.

    A different point of view does not a fool make. The fool is the one who thinks his point of view is the only point of view.

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