You’ve got to be kidding me… “this President faces a much sharper press corps, and operates in a much more chaotic, and transparent, media environment.” Really?! This man hasn’t held a press conference since July of last year. Is this press corp any sharper or more chaotic when Bush was in office? Noooo,… the only thing different is the mutual blowjobs. Bush would be excoriated if he had done what Obama is doing… just another example of hypocrisy.

This is just another example of a lib blogger (Colby) trying to pretend that there is a middle position when there is none. It is BLACK and WHITE. Obama blabs on and on at press conferences to limit questions. He can’t answer without a telepromter. He reveals what he really thinks when it is not written down. He lies all the time. Poor Colby makes excuses for Obama when there is NONE.

“But this White House is no different from any other in its desire to shape its press coverage.”

Uhh…so what was with all that *change and transparency* crap about?

“The big difference is that this President faces a much sharper press corps…”

Seriously? Are we talking about the same press corps? The WH press corps (with one or two exceptions) consists of lap dogs and old timers.

They haven’t acted like journalists for three years now, and Obama is treating them how they have behaved – like Chad Decker.

People, people, people…it’s very simple. Obama, without his teleprompter, is a freakin train wreck. He can’t answer off the cuff questions. he stumbles and bumbles like the previous corporatist -Bush. Obama is a clown, and his handlers know it.

Hold the phone, Tommy defended the whitehouse!? Wow, now that is news. A slobbering lovefest indeed. Here’s a good blog on this:

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/48094

Liberty, you hit the nail on the head. If they can’t control every word out of his mouth, they are scared to death and with very good reason.

Heck, this time last year they were saying he gave too many, now they are crying for more. Right!

“The big difference is that this President faces a much sharper press corps, and operates in a much more chaotic, and transparent, media environment.”

Oh, really? Mediaite, you are totally out of the loop.

Here is what the NYTs says about barry’s “transparency.”

Obama Turns His Back On the Press
By PETER BAKER

At a ceremony to sign a bill promoting press freedom around the world on Monday, President Obama refused to take questions from reporters. “I’m not doing a press conference today,” he told Chip Reid of CBS News, “but we’ll be seeing you guys during the course of the week.”

So when the president hosted a “news conference” in the Rose Garden with the president of Mexico on Wednesday, Mr. Reid thought maybe this time Mr. Obama would take questions. Instead, Mr. Obama allowed only a single question from the American news media, calling on a reporter from Univision, making it unlikely that he would be asked about Tuesday’s anti-incumbent election results.

Sure enough, Mr. Obama was asked about the Arizona law aimed at stopping illegal immigrants, a law he had already denounced in his opening remarks and was happy to denounce again in response to the question. He did not have to offer his thoughts on the loss of an ally, Senator Arlen Specter, in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary, or on any other topic.

Kam Fet says:
May 20, 2010 at 9:57 am
Heck, this time last year they were saying he gave too many, now they are crying for more. Right

Holding a press conference and being on every show out there in a scripted environment are two entirely different things.

Colby: ““The big difference is that this President faces a much sharper press corps…”

Did I miss a mass retirement and realignment of the reporters in the WHPC in the last 16 months? How many reporters were replaced to bring about this new “much sharper” press corps?

Kam what are you smoking? No one has ever complained about TOO many news conferences. They claimed he was on TV all the time making speeches. In case you don’t know, that is different than answering questions.

Right! they said he was on TV too much, that we was being omnipotent. I remember, its amazing when people chose to have amnesia. Now all you jokers are saying, no that’s not what we were talking about, we were on about something else. Year right, and have got some bridge to sell ya, They said he was demeaning the office cause they say his face too much on the box.

By the way from what they are complaining about, MR.Goldberg doesn’t make any sense any more as the ”love” he had written about appeared to have gone. Benny, I think its time to write a new book.

Obama is not a control freak. He doesn’t believe in controlling the border with Mexico, for example.

Kam,
Again, do you not get the difference between him going on say 60 minutes in a controlled environment where he can dictate the terms and a press conference where he doens’t know exactly what will be asked ahead of time? I don’t think it’s that hard to figure out the difference.

MichelleF, if you could only open your biased eyes, you’d see that he has made the same or more press conferences than W. did in his 8 yrs.

February 5, 2010 | 6:12 PM ET
No Obama Press Conference Since July; Brief Encounters With WH Beat Reporters Rare, Too
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Kumar’s data shows Obama’s 47 exchanges with reporters in short question and answer sessions pale next to the 147 George W. Bush held in the first year of his presidency and the 252 Bill Clinton conducted in his first year.

“What that means is that he’s taking few questions from individual reporters in a setting where has to respond to the issues that reporters want to talk about,” Kumar said. “Instead, he can focus on interviews where he can talk about subjects he wants to talk about.”

Deputy White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it’s “all about message discipline.”
Obama prefers interviews and has granted far more than Bush or Clinton in their first years in office. Between Jan. 20, 2009 and Jan. 20, 2010, Obama’s given 161 interviews, according to Kumar. Bush gave 50, Clinton 53

For the record, Kumar’s numbers show Obama in the middle of Bush and Clinton as far as holding press conferences in the first year of a presidency. Obama’s held 27 (11 solo, 16 joint); Bush held 19 (4 solo, 15 joint); Clinton held 45 (14 solo, 31 joint).

Obama tops Bush at ducking reporters
The Washington Times
No formal press conference in 215 days
Monday, February 22, 2010

President Obama, who pledged to establish the most open and transparent administration in history, on Monday surpasses his predecessor’s record for avoiding a full-fledged question-and-answer session with White House reporters in a formal press conference.

President George W. Bush’s longest stretch between prime-time, nationally televised press conferences was 214 days, from April 4 to Nov. 4, 2004. Mr. Obama tops that record on Monday, going 215 days – stretching back to July 22, according to records kept by CBS Radio’s veteran reporter Mark Knoller.

We are up to about about 241 days now?

Kam,
To avoid further embarrassment, please do some research before speaking:

George W. Bush held 39 in his first two years of office

Obama has held 5 press conferences in the his first six months in office: AND NONE SINCE THEN.

Kam Fet says:
May 20, 2010 at 9:57 am

False! The problem was he was giving a bunch of campaign speeches, billed as press conferences. He’d talk for half an hour, then take a few questions which would ramble on for another hour… and then walk away. There’s a difference in being willing to talk to the press… and pitching a program, and then babbling long enough to fill the rest of the time.

Kam Fet says:
May 20, 2010 at 11:15 am

MichelleF, if you could only open your biased eyes, you’d see that he has made the same or more press conferences than W. did in his 8 yrs.

And here, I would have pegged you as someone who thought what Bush did was “bad” or “wrong,” not “acceptable when my guy does it.” Although, when Obama blamed a bunch on Bush, and said his administration would be different… was he lying?

Oh yeah, it’s just some of that overt hypocrisy that doesn’t seem to matter because we’re talking about a Democrat. Not to mention factually inaccurate.

Look look look http://www.tnta.us/index.asp

I don’t know why you want to hear from someone you despised anyway. You’r already against him before he opens his mouth, so he’s damn weather he does or doesn’t. You probably want to as k him about his BIRTH CERTIFICATE! don’t ya? lol

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Kam Fet says:
May 20, 2010 at 1:42 pm
I don’t know why you want to hear from someone you despised anyway. You’r already against him before he opens his mouth, so he’s damn weather he does or doesn’t. You probably want to as k him about his BIRTH CERTIFICATE! don’t ya? lol

So to be clear, you are admitting you were totally wrong in your previous posts, right?

Don’t bother with Kam, he, she or it is an idiot. Kam’s first three posts were all wrong on the facts. It has no idea what it is talking about.

Kam Fet says:
May 20, 2010 at 1:42 pm

I don’t know why you want to hear from someone you despised anyway.

Because he’s the President.

You’r already against him before he opens his mouth,

Evidence? But either way, that would be different than how you treat Republicans, how?

…so he’s damn weather he does or doesn’t.

So you think it’s only the right who wants to know what he’s up to? You’re content not knowing? And you think that’s a good thing?

You probably want to as k him about his BIRTH CERTIFICATE! don’t ya? lol

No… not really. Do you have any evidence we do?

Wow… you’re pretty out there, aren’t you? Got nothing to say, no answers for the questions, no facts to back yourself up… so you just attack with this nonsense. Hmm. Sad.

you can apologize all day long for the President, but the fact remains that this administration is much more Orwellian then Bush’s was in so far as less openness and much more weird newspeak used to confuse the electorate…

Before his ratings plummetted, Mr. -0bama couldn’t get enough face time. Now it’s different, he’s hiding behind Bob Gibbs and refuses any questions about his failing policies.

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