Kudos to Jake Tapper. 

gotta love republican “journalists” trying to get a rile out of carney

Jake is the man!

Tapper (ABC) is hardly Republican.

Oh boy Jake you are in trouble now. Liberals will target you and probably force ABC to fire you.

Jake just has his panties in a bunch because he got passed over 2 times for the ABC Sunday morning show….he wants to create some press for himself…He’s kind of creepy…

 You DO realize that Tapper IS a liberal, though fair, journalist for ABC news, don’t you?

Read transcripts of his reporting, BEFORE making such asinine comments!

The man is calling this administration out BECAUSE they are stifling free speech in our country!

Vote: Flush & Disinfect 2012.

 thats a blatant lie…

It sounds like a legitimate line of questioning, although Tapper loaded his question with opinions and conclusions that are simply not supported. Carney’s response was correct.

 he deserves it…he needs to have more respect

Despite being an Obama supporter, I agree with Tapper on this 100%.

The irony, of course, is that right wingers will jump all over this as proof of the Obama administration’s efforts to silence its critics, when it is really the critics of the Bush administration who are being silenced.

Republicans will be outraged by this, but they will gladly hang a NYTimes reporter who uses the information from the CIA agent in order to write his article.

 your comments suck.

What is Jake Tapper thinking? Is he really trying to accuse the White House of muzzling journalists and trampling on the Constitution? If the administration really wanted to send a message to journalists and squash “aggressive” reporting, they’d never let a joker like Tapper into the briefing room in the first place. This is a dangerous and reckless charge by a glory-seeking reporter with a history of unfair treatment of this president. Tapper needs to apologize immediately. http://www.sunstateactivist.org

Jake stands alone as a reporter among Obama press agents.
Obama trying his new comedy material on Hispanic radio .

“President Barack Obama made no bones about his chances of reelection in an interview with America’s largest Hispanic radio service, saying: “I’ve got another five years coming up.”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.72ca66ee1a4afc263528e0bb35442cac.3c1&show_article=1

You are such a dunce.  Let’s play poker.

 Remember, it’s puff-puff give!  You have been holding on to it for too long.

Who are you, one of Obama’s brown shirts?  See liberals.  This is what you ave given us.  My conscience is clean.

Look at the freeze frames above.  The other reporters are looking down in embarrassment.  Tapper is embarrassing them all and they know it.

I don’t blame him.  I would be pissed if I were at his level and got passed over for the likes of George Stephanopolous and Christiane Amanpour.

Half the WH press (stenographer) pool will some day be working for the regime so they don’t want to rock the boat and ask any pertinent questions about the Dear Leader. Ed Henry and Tapper are the only two with any curiosity about the on going corruption of the regime.

Agree 100%. This is about wikileaks and Bradley manning.

Way to go Tapper, nail them on this. The adminstration shows such hypocrisy on the issue.

 Can u elaborate? The rest of the room happen to be on obamas payroll.

Tapper is actually a liberal by the way.  He just seems to have an “objective” gene that most other journalists are missing.

exactly right, its just another selective memory for them., Dont get me wrong, I think the questioning was fine, its the fact how the repugs get all huffy and puffy, yet were silent from 2000-2008. 

Taper is not a liberal, nor a conservative. But he is just trying to make a name for himself, as the guy who asks the hard questions, regardless of the party affiliation. . I’m all for that, as long as they are relevant, and not just parroting GOP points. I am all for accountability, and keeping Obama in check. Unlike many of the hypocrites who come to this site, and talk crap, but where silent from 2000-2008. 

you sure know a lot about smoking huh? 

true, that got to see a real journalist in action

The questioning power, the “charges” of reporters, are not dangerous.  That is the societal role of a free press.

Stuff your totalitarian rationalities.

Tapper is one of the VERY few among the Press Pool who dares ask questions the WH would prefer not be asked.  Most everyone else wants to ask Obama what he likes for breakfast or what kind of tree he would be if he were a tree or if he wears out his shorts due to the sunshine coming out of his behind…

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The “repugs” were silent only if you were stoned or got your news from Daily Kos, Huffington Post, or MSDNC.    Funny how most of us can recall clearly Republican griping of a whole swath of issues, especially those concerning inappropriate or excessive spending.

He made a name for himself alright…..ass.

No, they’re just two of those who have already come to a conclusion without knowing all the facts.  There are a great many top secret bits of information the government keeps under wraps in the belief they’re keeping us safer.

Absolutely. Many GOPers have been trained to look at journalists as either hardcore libs or truth tellers (the same goes, to a much lesser degree for Dems), but real journalists are intended to aggressively report on all public figures. Tapper is pretty fair, I think, and the question here was fair. 

Taper already has a name for himself, for he’s a senior member of the WH press corps – which says nothing to the partiality he sometimes exhibits.  Would that he continue to hold the administration to account on other matters with the same level of doggedness he is on this occasion, the administration would be crumbling around Obama’s ears.

March!

 another lie

His questions are fair, I think, but it’s the wrong setting to get a lengthy response. He may be working on a bigger story and just wanted public comments from Carney. The issue is obviously complicated but the administration has set itself up for criticism by touting transparency and then, very likely, discovering that transparency is hard to have for all sorts of practical reasons. 

Tapper’s point that the Obama administration has taken more whistleblowers to court doesn’t account for the fact that leaking information is much, much easier when data is recorded digitally than it was in the past. Still, it’s a good question. 

The list of OBVIOUS contradictions from this admin are astounding.

If I actually listened to the President I’m sure I would know them all.

Really two things notable here.

First, kudos to Tapper for risking access by asking the question. He knows (as do all reporters) that questions like that may cost them down the road when it comes to access to this one and that one. It is the problem that lies at the heart of the crony journalism practiced by both sides these days. Reporters are petrified to ask difficult questions for fear of being shut out.

Second, it is not actually analogous. CIA officers sign a contract that requires them to get agency approval for all media contacts, writings (including books) and public speeches, even after they have left the agency. Note that these are civil cases and not criminal complaints. It is a very fine line, but the CIA officers are in violation of their contracts, which is somewhat different than a whistle blower situation.

I’m on the side of Wikileaks and Manning, but I can see how the government is in a tough position here. There must be the feeling that if the leaks aren’t severely punished it will be inviting more officials to leak info. 

Still, I think Wikileaks has been much more positive than negative on the balance, even if it created some uncomfortable situations for diplomats. Arguably, the leaks helped spur the Arab Spring. And the truth is governments never tell us 1/10th of what’s happening, so the public gets more wrapped up in stupid crap like contraception rather than politically explosive things that never make the news. 

Still bitter he didn’t get This Week gig…

Only a liberal hack would make such a claim. Tapper is the best out there right now.

i wish i could press a dislike button  please go away

are you serious? this is party oriented?  are you saying carney knew he was a republican?

 prove it

 Yep, that is why you voted W outta office half way through his doubling of the debt. 

Oh…wait…

His question also didn’t need to be limited to whistleblowers.  Overall, this White House has been the least accessible and responsive to the press (other than those outfits blowing kisses) than any in modern history.  They were even so arrogant as to COME IN to the White House with an enemies, as opposed to secretly developing one later on.

“Most everyone else wants to ask Obama what he likes for breakfast or what kind of tree he would be…”

Your perceptions are seriously warped. (And it’s even more amusing coming from conservatives who went APESH!T when Sarah Palin was asked what she reads.)

http://youtu.be/3x6DyMHXIcU
http://youtu.be/FsHFDEL6TaI

I agree that they have been less than cooperative, but I think the enemies thing is pretty much standard for all administrations since Nixon and, to be fair, the “enemies” pretty much announced themselves on election night.

That said this White House has clamped down on the leaking and whispering, which also cut down on the information flow.

A hack, a hack…..well I never, well actually I have been previously called a penny a liner, a scribbler and a potboiler.  And if Jack Tripper or Jake Tapper or what ever he calls himself is the best out there maybe it’s way way out there.

Keep it up, Jake, and good on you. I was no more enamored when the press rolled over for the Bush Administration, bordering on complicity in a trumped up fabricated rationale for war, torture, and spying on Americans, than I am now when the Obama Administration has insisted on burnishing their “not a weak Democrat” credentials by cracking down on whistleblowers, continued illegal spying on Americans, and denying habeas corpus.   

I know it must be frustrating for Obama to govern as a center right moderate Republican and be “smeared” as a liberal soft on everything socialist, but I hope he discovers in his second term that there is no compromise between sane and crazy or right and wrong.

Republicans have been wrong about basically everything since their Republican Great Depression Version I, proven by the Republican Great Recession Version II. It’s time you own what works, President Obama, whether the misinformed and hateful like it or not.

You’ll get further in the long run, as the wrong about everything right wing Wurlitzer has lost it’s luster with average Americans.
 

Hey we all put up with dummies like you, the least you could do is put up with dummies like tolstoy77.

 You haven’t seen anything yet. The only aggressive journalism going on is msm supporting a Obama’s phony American economic recovery and anything republican or a democrat being thrown under the bus by the party. You’re views are such rags.

I would say you misunderstood the man’s post. His point was that no one was or is quashing anything. Rather, Jake is reacting to the Press Secretary standing up and responding to the non-stop Obama bashing by the republican candidates. That is not quashing.

The odds favor re-election of an incumbant anyway, and given the craziness on the right, his confidence is justified. Even you have to admit that.

The most Transparent Administration – Bald-Faced LIE # 26.
Welcome the Junta!

Media Matters IS the “mainstream media”.
There’s a chair with a big fat salary waiting for Tapper at the FOX!

 Yeah, now tapper is a repub.

Hey Korean Trevor, you are still a whack job.

Now Tapper will be labeled a racist.

 You sir, are a “Blatant Idiot!”

Do some research and STOP spewing your daily liberal talking points!

Do liberals/progressives EVER think for themselves? Or only what’s spoon fed by MMFA, Daily Kos, The Nation, Democracy Now, etc. etc. etc???

 Get back in your tent Occutard.

 I didn’t realize Mediate had a site during 2000-2008!

Hard to comment, when these discussion boards weren’t invented yet!

Did this site exist in 2000?

Why’s Tapper asking Carney? – Shouldn’t he be asking Brock?

Oh….wait….the alternative was John Kerry.

“trumped up fabricated rationale for war, torture, and spying on Americans” do you mean 9/11?

Really?  Because of your four frontrunners for the Republican nomination, the only one who doesn’t want to add TRILLIONS to the debt is the one with zero chance of winning.

I’m waiting for the griping…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/report-debt-will-swell-under-top-gop-hopefuls-tax-plans/2012/02/22/gIQAzAJvUR_story.html

And thats just on the surface, with everything accepted at face value. The media matters expose suggests a little more than that and so does the compete disconnect from reality at msnbc

You should listen sometimes, when I got stuck watching FOX(my faather became ill) I insisted we listen to the words straight from the presidents mouth so I could show hiw how FOX misrepresents him at every turn, boy did I lose that battle.

Given the amount of sleeze, propaganda, and corruption the odds doo favor it. I wouldnt be surprised if George Washington himself makes it to the polls a couple times this year.

Of course the candidates are bashing him, his policies are destructive and the cronyism and corruption is everywhere.

At least W bought stuff with his spending, Obama just makes it disappear.

It might also be about Tucker, the daily caller, media matters and valerie jarrett.

I feel for the private they are nailing to the wall, hes going to jail forever wheras no one of course did anything illegal in fast and furious.

Hes a frikkin racist pig and a homophobe and thinks women should be vaginall probe against there will. Isnt that what you meant?

There are some liberals who aren’t evil, but the whole party has been coopted by the scumsucking communist labor unions who are Obamas real base

Words as the reference poster needs no mitigation or misinterpretation by the likes of you.  They need understanding by the likes of you, that you may begin to recognize the fetid ideological waters in which some of you swim and see your immediate need to cleanse yourself.

Man you know it shouldnt matter his views, hes a journalist. Shepard Smith and Greta seem to be Democrats, you just cant really tell. Thats good journalism.

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/23/alinsky-tied-group-awarded-56-million-federal-loan-for-health-insurance-project/?test=latestnews

This is what’s wrong with Crony Capitalism!

Yeah I think Obama should just shut up  about journalism and go back to smearing the pope and playing golf.

On the other hand america there seem to be fewer anti american liberal asswipes out there every day. At least on the internet.

Now if we could get all the “hes a Keeeeennnnnyaaaaaannnn” guys to shut up, we could get on with saving this country.

”
Funny how most of us can recall clearly Republican griping of a whole swath of issues, especially those concerning inappropriate or excessive spending. ” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you are so full of shit! 

 Iraq war, Afghan War, Medicare Plan D, Bush Tax cut for Rich, etc, etc. 

When a repug is on office, you douche bags are happy to spend and become uber patriotic, it really is the pinnacle of hypocrisy!  I stopped listening or believing a word you have to say a while back Chucky, not sure why you even bother responding to me., all i see when I see your name is : crap, crap, crap and more crap!  Not to mention, i dont really care what you have to say, you are obviously brainwashed and have drunk way to much of the GOP haterade. 

 We used to have that here, pre-Disqus. Ah, the good old days.

It would seem that you did not listen to the clip…  Tapper bought up the number of prosecutions of whistle blowers under this administration, …. twice as many as have been prosecuted in our countries history…  What’s up with that?

Obama hates it when people hate on him, don’t worry Chris Matthews has a tingling feeling and will make everything all better for him. Chris likes doing special favors in the oral office department.

 Paper in a Sociology class.

I bet your brain is no larger than that of a common garden lizard !

@davidfromaustin:disqus , sure!!!!  I bet you didn’t inhale either….

That’s true, it’s much easier to be lazy and stupid.

Good one. Extra points for creative use of the word “fetid”. But really, I think you misunderstood, as I said. Either way, with the state of the right these days I can see why you are upset, like Jake.  

Don’t be silly. Election fraud on any kind of large scale is impossible. I mean, Bozo the clown can register to vote, so what, let’s see that Bozo the clown ID the first time they vote.  Alleged election fraud is just a smoke screen for republican efforts to make it harder for likely democratic voters to vote. Its an old game that Patrick Buchanan will confirm is coming to an end, since the barbarians are so at the gate.

As you know Cindy, there are both dittoheads and independent-thinkers on both sides. (And in the middle.) Looks like you fell into a trap here.

You notice how no one is responding to you? Even those on the right? You are being ignored. Bring something to the table. Not talking points, not essays, and be polite. There are those on the opposite side of me that I enjoy debating. Jack, Chuck, Tat, even Pablo and WCinWI. If you want to join them, bring something too the table.

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Jake must be getting embarrassed by his colleagues who are doing nothing but kissing butt to this administration.  The news media is NOW reporting that rising gas prices are NOT the fault of the Presidnet..- oh for some balance….just think how they hated W and made him guilty on every front, and now they excuse this lame president for his inability and incompetence.

Journalism is dead.

Obamas pay roll? more verbal diarrhea with no proof huh? wow, you have no idea the harm you cause to your movement, by saying such stupid things. But please., do continue, your only helping us. BTW, who do you think you are fooling with your description on your screen name? Rocket Scientist? You couldn’t build a model rocket with instructions… 

Manning ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent because his document dump, born out of the motivations of one who couldn’t reconcile loyalty to country with personal, proclivities-derived politics (and because that personal divide so consumed him that his grip on reality became tenuous), was accomplished with intention to do widespread harm.

Whistleblowers, on the other hand, do what they do out of a legitimate concern that it is morally wrong and/or injurious to good governance to sit on whatever truth they’ve been charged with.

People who reflexively stand with Manning do so out of an inculcated distrust and hatred for their own country – for the reason that they cannot distinguish between an honest critic of their country’s policies and actual, internet-(or campus)-based enemies of our country, its people and their way of life.

True though that may be, “republican candidates” was brought into the discussion as a red herring and it’s diverting to long dwell on it.  They have nothing to do with Tapper’s questioning the administration’s prosecution of whistle-blowers.

Not until the feds shut down FOX!

Obamas payroll? The recent expose from the daily caller gives that a lot of credence. Tucker is on TV evry day naming names not just media matters and msnbc but white house officials too. Two weeks of “no comment” instead of lawsuits seems to reinforce that….

The really sad thing is he doesn’t just order them to spin or lie about policy, but instead orders them too destroy anyone who disagrees with him via nasty racial attacks and fake video..

Wait democrats dont have IDs?

 No..It didn’t come into existence until mid 2009. Learn to Google.

 Sure…The Car bailout, the Wall Street bailout were all Bush.

hahahahaha! Good one Neil! Good one! You should take that act on the road! You could compete with Charlie Sheen for biggest tool doing comedy! really? expose by Daily Caller? fake video? racial attacks? you really do live in a bubble! only rightwing nutjobs believe the vile your spewing. it has no basis in fact , just empty rhetoric parroting what you hear on the radio and FOX. Good try though, you a gold star for effort! but you are just a good trained seal, flapping your fins just like they are telling you to! 

& of course we’ll be treated to the the usual, dems will be calling Taper a republican in journalist clothing and conservatives will have induced short-term memory loss of the fact that they would have torched David Gregory’s car had he dared ask a question of such poignancy to Dana Perino or Ari Fliescher, which Gregory did & against which conservatives reacted indignantly

 he obviously has no respect for obama and an agenda to make him look bad…sounds like a repub to me

 how was that fair…that was a total fox news move

 have some respect for our president

 they dont..the truth hurts

 lets not…

 he just pulled a fox news disrespectful question….sounds like a repub to me

 obviously you believe that….he is a republican

 i totally disagree with you. My views are almost identical to michael moore from his speech at occupy wallstreet, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvN3YyBCX48. Watch it..its insightful.

Any alternative would have been better than W, his second term brought the USA to its knees.

 thank god we have him for another 5 years…this country needs him

Have to give me credit for asking the tough questions.  Sometimes I think Barry’s Boyz pass out the questions to reporters before each Press Conference.

Jay Carney is perhaps the worst Press Secretary in the History of Mankind.

Troll Alert.  Get your facts right Tolstoy.  Jake is blue as they get.

Begone Troll.  Go back under the bridge.

Insults????  Another Troll straight from the Soros School of Social Slaves.

Pablo.  You gotta remember that these drones are all TROLLS with nothing better to due than disrupt.  That is how they are taught.  I just move on to intelligence conversations, elsewhere..

He’s clearly also been Blue

Agree Neil.  The President speeches too much and accoplishes nothing more than dividing the nation.

This President needs a brain enema.

Oh disagree.  Both Shepard and Greta are as bad as Juan Williams

Go away Troll.  Begone.

Yeah, if your views are the same as Michael moore’s, you are a frickin genius. Congrats

How’s that media matters blog job coming, troll?

My point being republicans couldn’t have been criticing president bush on a site that didn’t exist. Learn to follow a conversation googleboy.

Any new voter registrant is required to show an ID at the time of initial voting. That’s standard. Some old lady who has been voting for fifty years, and has no ID, is fine under current law in most states. If you move to a new state and register to vote you will initially be required to show a valid ID. You will find that progressives are quite pragmatic, my friend.

Might I suggest you go back and read the transcripts of the press briefings under Bush, and compare to Obama.  If you don’t see the stark differences you’ll be fooling yourself.

MSM: Jake Tapper vs. Jay Carney

Alyona takes some time out to shine a light on something that happened
yesterday at the White House press briefing which should make everyone
in the mainstream media stop and think. White House press secretary Jay
Carney praised journalists that have been putting themselves into
dangerous situations to bring us the truth. Specifically, he was
referring to the two journalists killed in Syria, Marie Colvin and
Ochlik. Let’s also not forget that Anthony Shadid died in Syria just
last week. These journalists deserve respect and praise. ABC’s senior
White House correspondent Jake Tapper took the opportunity to call out
the administration on its double standard, of praising journalists who
go abroad and yet waging a war on whistleblowers and journalists here at
home

http://youtu.be/oP0amYLnaOU

When will Carney come out of the closet, Claire?

That was a trumped up excuse for a war in Iraq, which had NOTHING to do with 9-11. So yes, trumped up.

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Good grief.  Your thinking is so left-wing bias that you couldn’t understand what the truth of anything was.

im center not a teabagger like yourself

i know thats not a compliment…but i think michael moore is a very smart man and i agree with his views 100%

You never watch the Fox News Channel, do you? Anyone who does would not make such a stupid statement.

i watch their clips on mediamatters.org

Kudos to tapper he isn’t buying into the Obama BS. I can’t remember when the WH has had back to back mealy mouthed press secy’s like carney and Gibbs.

Real transparency means file cabinets opening and conscientious government employees speaking out in the public interest without reprisal or fear of it.

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