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October 10, 2013

Obama's iron curtain on the media
— Purple Avenger

This is a very long report, and you should spend some time to read it all. There's a LOT more than just this juicy snip.

...Â“There is no access to the daily business in the Oval Office, who the president meets with, who he gets advice from,Â” said ABC News White House correspondent Ann Compton, who has been covering presidents since Gerald Ford. She said many of ObamaÂ’s important meetings with major figures from outside the administration on issues like health care, immigration, or the economy are not even listed on ObamaÂ’s public schedule. This makes it more difficult for the news media to inform citizens about how the president makes decisions and who is influencing them.
Â“In the past,Â” Compton told me, Â“we would often be called into the Roosevelt Room at the beginning of meetings to hear the presidentÂ’s opening remarks and see whoÂ’s in the meeting, and then we could talk to some of them outside on the driveway afterward. This president has wiped all that coverage off the map. HeÂ’s the least transparent of the seven presidents IÂ’ve covered in terms of how he does his daily business.Â”...

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1 Somehow this fails to surprise me.

Posted by: Grey Fox at October 10, 2013 06:01 PM (lUmQ9)

2 They complain, yet they do not complain.

Posted by: Vendette at October 10, 2013 06:01 PM (DAT/U)

3 So asshole is a secretive asshole. Color me stunned.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 10, 2013 06:01 PM (GEICT)

4 Last to know first to go. Good night all

Posted by: nakoula basseley nakoula at October 10, 2013 06:02 PM (MnSla)

5 Transparency?

Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at October 10, 2013 06:02 PM (A60y+)

6 Opaque. The New Transparency.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 10, 2013 06:02 PM (lVPtV)

7 Me face wot is shocked

:^/

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 10, 2013 06:02 PM (8sCoq)

8 ABC, "Is it raining?"

Jay Carney, "That is a state secret."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 10, 2013 06:02 PM (9sCKW)

9 Of course he's the least transparent.

Him and Valerie have the most to hide.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 10, 2013 06:03 PM (lAZep)

10 So late ONT, or does Purp get stomped? Thanks for the new post, Purp.

Posted by: L, elle at October 10, 2013 06:03 PM (0PiQ4)

11 And you peasants have a problem with this?

Why?

Posted by: Parker at October 10, 2013 06:03 PM (YkW3i)

12 This president has wiped all that coverage off the map. HeÂ’s the least transparent of the seven presidents IÂ’ve covered in terms of how he does his daily business. and later was overheard saying..... ......But I'll still totally vote for him a 3rd time if given the choice.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at October 10, 2013 06:03 PM (HDgX3)

13 This doesn't surprise me - what surprises me (at all) is that a reporter finally is talking about it.

Posted by: Dianna at October 10, 2013 06:03 PM (mKMj1)

14 And of course their arrogance and disrespect of the American People and the office of the Presidency has something to do with it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 10, 2013 06:03 PM (lAZep)

15 So he is alienating his greatest allies. This is good news, no?

Posted by: Tobacco Road at October 10, 2013 06:04 PM (4Mv1T)

16 13- exactly.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at October 10, 2013 06:04 PM (0SmH0)

17 Ironic - the press has to wipe off a lot of stuff, too...

Posted by: Parker at October 10, 2013 06:04 PM (YkW3i)

18 Who was Hitler's propaganda minister? Because I think Carney Barker may edge him out for the most lying mouthpiece for a regime in history.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 10, 2013 06:04 PM (lVPtV)

19 Who sells the WH presscorps their kneepads? I bet they could tell some stories.

Posted by: fastfreefall at October 10, 2013 06:04 PM (Tz35j)

20 He doesn't want them to see that he does very little daily business.And what he does do is crooked deals for. His cronies.

Posted by: steevy at October 10, 2013 06:04 PM (9XBK2)

21 Tobacco Road, or in his hubris he no longer things he needs them. Or he has a roll of quarters in his hand and about to smack the US into being a tyranny. One or the other.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 10, 2013 06:05 PM (9sCKW)

22 They've talked about it,and complained somewhat,from the beginning.Hasn't stopped them from sucking his dick 24/7.

Posted by: steevy at October 10, 2013 06:05 PM (9XBK2)

23 They say exactly the opposite of what they do. Brazenly. Without care.

Posted by: Mare at October 10, 2013 06:05 PM (A98Xu)

24 He only hits us because he loves us so much.

Posted by: Neal Marx, Newsman at October 10, 2013 06:05 PM (SzAZ7)

25 All those rules about transparency and stuff are for bad people--you know Republicans. Democrats are loving virtuous people so no worries.

Posted by: yujin at October 10, 2013 06:05 PM (uNd+K)

26 If I was one of them cynics , I'd think he was hiding something ...... .. or lots of somethings .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at October 10, 2013 06:05 PM (1jQhu)

27 Consider this, from the Radio Free NJ blog:

But here's the thing. That's going to happen anyway, no matter when you pull the plug. It can either be now, when the state still has the resources available to suppress the violence, or later, when the rest of the government is already falling apart too. It will take a lot to suppress open rioting. But it would take a lot more to suppress the rioting if it's your unpaid soldiers that are doing the rioting. That's the real choice we should be thinking about.

Huh.

Posted by: Felt Wrapper at October 10, 2013 06:06 PM (ecmD4)

28 Translucent

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 10, 2013 06:06 PM (E0/Ok)

29 Obama beats the MFM because he loves them. And they love him for it.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 10, 2013 06:06 PM (lVPtV)

30 When, exactly, does this batch of hypocritical retards decide that they made this monster, they have to put it down?

Posted by: Brother Cavil and his Flying Toaster Circus at October 10, 2013 06:06 PM (m9V0o)

31 Come on you know who he is meeting with. Her initials are VJ and that's not Victory over Japan.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 10, 2013 06:06 PM (1RQeV)

32 HeÂ’s the least transparent of the seven presidents IÂ’ve covered in terms of how he does his daily business.

*cough*racist*cough

You do know he's half-transparent, right? Bitch.

Posted by: mugiwara at October 10, 2013 06:06 PM (hpYnL)

33 He only beats you b/c he loves you Joe Newsie.....

Posted by: sven10077 at October 10, 2013 06:06 PM (9jfyN)

34 He's not transparent, he's transcendent - so sayeth all his groupies.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 10, 2013 06:06 PM (9sCKW)

35 #14 - Yeah. But why has it taken until his second term for this to be remarked upon publicly?

It's not like the press corps hasn't noticed this and discussed it among themselves! There have been hints of it, if you have to read as much as I do, but it hasn't been laid out for the public. If it were Bush, we'd have heard caterwauling from the housetops within a month of the inauguration!

Posted by: Dianna at October 10, 2013 06:06 PM (mKMj1)

36 Well, this was already kinda sidebar'd and I think Ace already mentioned the Guardian piece about it, so if the ONT stops, no biggie.

My link was back to the actual report rather than someone's distillation.

Its been sitting in draft all day, so it was fast becoming a use it or lose it deal

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 10, 2013 06:07 PM (l5zzX)

37 That is not suspicious at all. I love secret government by arbitrary decree.

Posted by: Battered Republican Syndrome at October 10, 2013 06:07 PM (sOtz/)

38 Most transparent(ly evil) administration in history.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 10, 2013 06:07 PM (ZPrif)

39 So ABC reported this? Huh. I was told the msm would never start dishing on Obama.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2013 06:07 PM (g1DWB)

40 22 They've talked about it,and complained somewhat,from the beginning.Hasn't stopped them from sucking his dick 24/7.

Posted by: steevy at October 10, 2013 10:05 PM (9XBK2)

See NBC/WSJ new poll.

Posted by: NWConservative at October 10, 2013 06:07 PM (M1gmo)

41 As I often point out to liberal family members and acquaintances, when the goddamned _San Francisco Chronicle_, one of the most consistently far-left dailies in the entire country, describes Obama's secrecy as being Nixonian, you have to figure that there really is a problem.

They continue not to see it. The Black Democratium deflector shield is operating at full power.

Of course, the instant a Republican president is elected (if ever), you be be assured those same people will spring to alert and will describe even the smallest incidents of official opacity as a Grave Threat To Democracy As We Know It.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 10, 2013 06:07 PM (gqT4g)

42 It seems to be working. The media slaves want some meat. Starving them makes them docile and hungry. Obama has figure it out. He's Black, and criticism of him is RACIST. So do what you are told and he might "grant" you an interview.

Posted by: John Smith at October 10, 2013 06:07 PM (wR+pz)

43 Try to fill in the blank.

Any criticism of Obama's administration is ___________.

Spoiler: Answer begins with an "r."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 10, 2013 06:08 PM (lVPtV)

44 Try to fill in the blank. Any criticism of Obama's administration is ___________. Spoiler: Answer begins with an "r." Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 10, 2013 10:08 PM (lVPtV) Retarded?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 10, 2013 06:08 PM (1RQeV)

45 Why do media not just have camera at the entrance to the white house filming everyone who goes in and out and using facial recognition to see who is who? Are people snuck in underground in secret?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 10, 2013 06:08 PM (ZPrif)

46 I think I know who next to get prime Siberian beat.

Posted by: Joseph Stalin at October 10, 2013 06:08 PM (Pr6hk)

47 The skeptic in me says, hmm, are they really concerned about not knowing what's going on behind the closed doors for the sake of the public, or are they pissed 'cause they are left out of the loop and could be of better service to Dear Leader by spinning what he is up to?

Posted by: non-essential commenter #27791629 at October 10, 2013 06:08 PM (A60y+)

48 And let's face it,he's way worse than Nixon.

Posted by: steevy at October 10, 2013 06:08 PM (9XBK2)

49 Â“This is the most closed, control freak administration IÂ’ve ever covered,Â” said David E. Sanger, veteran chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times. ]/b]

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 10, 2013 06:09 PM (bCEmE)

50 So ABC reported this?

No, it was an ABC reporter interviewed.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 10, 2013 06:09 PM (l5zzX)

51 Retarded?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 10, 2013 10:08 PM (1RQeV)

I'll have to put this to the Horde. Good choice.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 10, 2013 06:09 PM (lVPtV)

52 so these reports about the press not getting access to the Precedent, and how the JEF regime is so hard on leakers... it's all BS

the press will still slobber all over his tiny little knob-like protrusion

they'll still have to wipe their chins after every 'news' 'conference'

fuck 'em all sideways

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 10, 2013 06:09 PM (8sCoq)

53 39 So ABC reported this? Huh. I was told the msm would never start dishing on Obama. Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2013 10:07 PM (g1DWB) This is their version of "Why? Why do you keep hitting me darling?"-cry of an abused wife.

Posted by: nnptcgrad at October 10, 2013 06:09 PM (Opyrm)

54 The asshole who hides his birth certificate, his college transcripts, his medical records, his golf score, his whereabouts during bengahzi, during the shutdi=own of national parks and denial of death benefits to KIA heros families doesn't let the Presstitutes know what he's up to?

Well hell did they even ask, did they threaten did they investigate, litigate, castigate or just let the Lyin kINg fornicate them?

Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at October 10, 2013 06:09 PM (uUXp6)

55 44 Try to fill in the blank. Any criticism of Obama's administration is ___________. Spoiler: Answer begins with an "r." Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 10, 2013 10:08 PM (lVPtV) Retarded? Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 10, 2013 10:08 PM (1RQeV) No silly, it's RUDE.

Posted by: NY Times Editors at October 10, 2013 06:09 PM (wR+pz)

56 You look lovely today Ms. Plame.

(crosses fingers behind back)

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at October 10, 2013 06:09 PM (Pr6hk)

57 30 When, exactly, does this batch of hypocritical retards decide that they made this monster, they have to put it down? Posted by: Brother Cavil and his Flying Toaster Circus

About the time they're being lined up in front of the wall with all the bloodstains and bullet-holes.

Viva la revolucion!

Posted by: Dianna at October 10, 2013 06:10 PM (mKMj1)

58 Aww.. c'mon.. I think Ann Compton means the MOST transparent.. right? right? What the HELL is going on here? Is the whole world turning upside down???

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 10, 2013 06:10 PM (b/lt+)

59 And let's face it,he's way worse than Nixon.

Posted by: steevy at October 10, 2013 10:08 PM (9XBK2)

Far as I know, no one died over Watergate.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 10, 2013 06:10 PM (lAZep)

60 I swear to God if Boehner and the rest of the nitwits cave on this goddamned shutdown I will choke a bitch. They were putting out crap about the debt ceiling, fine. But now they are getting pounced on by the Senate Republicans YET AGAIN to pass the clean CR with short debt ceiling hike. FOR GODDAMNED NOTHING.

Posted by: NWConservative at October 10, 2013 06:11 PM (M1gmo)

61 A lot of this is because Obama isn't doing the daily business - Valerie Jarrett is. Obama's hanging out in his private office watching ESPN.

Posted by: ChicagoRefugee,what supports Sam Clovis, Iowa Senate candidate and his tasty garbage. at October 10, 2013 06:12 PM (ruk3B)

62 "See NBC/WSJ new poll."

I had National Propaganda Radio briefly turned on in the car and they couldn't stop talking about that one. They were elated.

I suspect the internals will be as typically skewed as they usually are, but I also figure that the absolutely horrible message discipline by the GOP is helping to erode their public standing in the polls.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 10, 2013 06:12 PM (gqT4g)

63 >>No, it was an ABC reporter interviewed. Hair splitting. An ABC reporter gave this up. This is after Wolf said the Republicans had a point about Obamacare not being ready for prime time. After Tapper said the msm is biased. After one of the most liberal papers in the country, the San Jose Mercury did a piece about Obama supporters being shocked that Obama flat out lied about lowering health insurance costs. And on and on. The fever is breaking.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2013 06:12 PM (g1DWB)

64 When Putin holds a press conference, there's like 1,000 reporters and its a freewheeling 3+ hour event where 70 or more questions get asked and there's hundreds of foreign press present...

...just saying. Compare/contrast.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 10, 2013 06:12 PM (l5zzX)

65 Is the ABC trying to wipe the cum off their bodies so when the truckers drag the Lyin kINg outta the hut and before the courts they can say they wasn't there for the clusterf.ck?

Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at October 10, 2013 06:12 PM (uUXp6)

66 I swear to God if Boehner and the rest of the nitwits cave on this goddamned shutdown I will choke a bitch. They were putting out crap about the debt ceiling, fine. But now they are getting pounced on by the Senate Republicans YET AGAIN to pass the clean CR with short debt ceiling hike. FOR GODDAMNED NOTHING. Posted by: NWConservative at October 10, 2013 10:11 PM (M1gmo) No doubt they are, but where are you reading that?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 10, 2013 06:12 PM (1RQeV)

67 Cronyism? Here in MN too. In the healthcare business no less. Gov Dayton is too stoopid to think. http://tinyurl.com/kf52m4k

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at October 10, 2013 06:12 PM (l0lja)

68 "But he's so dreamy!"

Posted by: Knob-polishing journos at October 10, 2013 06:12 PM (5H6zj)

69 Boo Fucking Hoo. Ann Compton and her ilk have spent the last 6 years with Obama's schwantz in their mouths & sporting custom Hope-n-Change kneepads. Now they will live with the result of this disgraceful but entirely predictable sycophancy.

The next Republican president can and just might say with a straight face:

"Well MSM, you never once held Obama to any standard of accountability and in fact went out of your way for years to protect him at every turn and skew your coverage to his favor and against Republicans on every single issue time after time after infuriating time.

The country suffered from it and I wont make the mistake of trusting you or sharing one piece of important info with you. Therefore I (the next GOP Potus) plan to be equally contemptuous of you.

Hope you enjoyed the Age of Obama. Don't bother calling anyone on my staff for a story. To me you are to be treated as mushrooms: fed shit and kept in the dark. Now hand in your Blue Room passes and gtfo of the White House."

Posted by: miked at October 10, 2013 06:12 PM (iZiIb)

70 Politically, they were proponents of the 'positive side' of Kamuzuism, "the ideology that Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, as Father and Founder of the Malawi nation, was the fount of all wisdom and always knew what was best for the nation"

Obamaism...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawi_Young_Pioneers

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at October 10, 2013 06:12 PM (0It32)

71 "HeÂ’s the least transparent of the seven presidents IÂ’ve covered in terms of how he does his daily business." Yet we are still told: MOST TRANSPARENT Administration ever! Here's a thought, do a few stories about hos that is a total LIE and ah use the word 'lie'.

Posted by: Rodney C. Johnson at October 10, 2013 06:13 PM (nL5y5)

72 43 Try to fill in the blank.

Any criticism of Obama's administration is ___________.

Spoiler: Answer begins with an "r."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 10, 2013 10:08 PM (lVPtV)

I would've gone with "redacted."

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's solid gold diaphragm at October 10, 2013 06:13 PM (TCWb5)

73 He has no meetings. There is nothing to report. Urgent action in the situation room? He leaves to go play cards with his "body" man. Everything is delegated. Ask for Jarrett's meetings and visitor logs.

Posted by: Bob at October 10, 2013 06:13 PM (qTsuK)

74 newd

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 10, 2013 06:13 PM (8sCoq)

75 I suspect the internals will be as typically skewed as they usually are, but I also figure that the absolutely horrible message discipline by the GOP is helping to erode their public standing in the polls. Posted by: torquewrench at October 10, 2013 10:12 PM (gqT4g) 20% of respondents were either fed/state/local gov't. employees. We were talking about it on the last thread.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami - GO CARDS!!! at October 10, 2013 06:13 PM (bCEmE)

76 When you have creases like Obama, you can't risk the secret getting out.

Posted by: David Brooks at October 10, 2013 06:13 PM (Pr6hk)

77 Clinton was said to be the first Black President.

So maybe Obama is our first Female President?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at October 10, 2013 06:13 PM (lAZep)

78 He's been treating the media like this for five years and still the blow him like his jizz tastes like chocolate sprinkled cupcakes. And some actually think that the disaster of the obsmacare website is going to be the final straw that makes them turn on him? Please.

Posted by: Buzzion at October 10, 2013 06:13 PM (G687R)

79 O/T: I am so upset over the Boehner olive branch move! Should I be? Is he smarter than I think? Where is Cruz in all of this?! By the way, this Administration could roast a person live on TV and its approval poll would rise. Unbelievable..

Posted by: Jmel at October 10, 2013 06:14 PM (cfFqn)

80 Baghdad Bob was more transparent than Carney Barker. Plus, he was fun and had a quirky personality.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 10, 2013 06:14 PM (lVPtV)

81 question remains, what can we do?

Posted by: spypeach at October 10, 2013 06:14 PM (10H0T)

82 pls don't let me be over on the ont just talkin' to myself, ya fuckin' morons

Posted by: Peaches at October 10, 2013 06:14 PM (8lmkt)

83 The fever is breaking. Needs moar cowbell .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at October 10, 2013 06:14 PM (1jQhu)

84 You Tea Baggers should just read the WH press releases. All of the info is there. You're just whining , racist, h8ters.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 10, 2013 06:14 PM (nch4c)

85 These pricks - and prickettes - gave us Obama. F them all.

Posted by: Y-not at October 10, 2013 06:14 PM (5H6zj)

86 He's so sexy when he's bad. Maybe he'll call me.

Posted by: A. Compton at October 10, 2013 06:14 PM (yY/3g)

87 upcoming MFM re-write:

Obama administration ~~least transparent~~ most transcendent administration evah!

Posted by: non-essential commenter #27791629 at October 10, 2013 06:15 PM (A60y+)

88 Law firm Kirkland and Ellis (5th largest in the US) is trying to fuck over Breitbart's widow and kids. And they are doing it pro bono. Cause fucking over Breitbart's family buys them good will on the Left.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 10, 2013 06:15 PM (ZPrif)

89 The fever is breaking.

the micro-fractures started showing quite a while ago. Curiously, McClatchy who "speaks truth to power" was one of the first to show some minor cracks. That wandering off script occasionally with McClatchy has persisted for quite a while now.

This is not to say they're pro R, but they've started questioning the imperial decrees a bit

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 10, 2013 06:15 PM (l5zzX)

90 If I was still active, I would tell Mr. Soetoro to 'Tamp 'em up solid'

Posted by: Dan Rather at October 10, 2013 06:15 PM (Pr6hk)

91 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 10, 2013 10:08 PM (ZPrif)

SUVs with tinted windows!

Posted by: Hrothgar at October 10, 2013 06:16 PM (XdnQT)

92 Peaches - Ha! I know better..., you're quietly crouched over the refresh button, waiting to score no.1 spot by creating a diversion here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at October 10, 2013 06:16 PM (nch4c)

93 62 "See NBC/WSJ new poll."

I had National Propaganda Radio briefly turned on in the car and they couldn't stop talking about that one. They were elated.

I suspect the internals will be as typically skewed as they usually are, but I also figure that the absolutely horrible message discipline by the GOP is helping to erode their public standing in the polls.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 10, 2013 10:12 PM (gqT4g)

They are. NBC always uses a 43% Democrat sample with a 30-33% Republican sample. Even in 2012 they couldn't reach as high as this sample is saying. More opinion massaging.

I said it in the last thread too that they also measured government workers here too. of the 800 people polled, 20% of them were government workers. 9% of the 800 were Federal workers which only represent 1.2% of the actual population. Who exactly may have strong opinions about the shutdown? Oh YEAH, government workers, especially federal.

Then you look at another number apparently 31% of them are affected by the shutdown. In 1995/1996 shutdowns both times only 18% were affected AND there were more government workers at the time.

Posted by: NWConservative at October 10, 2013 06:17 PM (M1gmo)

94 Someone should challenge him and outright ask him if what he speaks is his idea or Valerie Jarrett's speak. She prevents him for speaking to a republican so I'm sure his mouth is moving but she has her fingers up to his vocal cords. No other president in history has allowed someone to control his mouth!

Posted by: 3niaj3 at October 10, 2013 06:18 PM (KuoX7)

95 No new news here. Whatever he says about his administration, you know the opposite is true. Whatever he accuses his opponents of doing, you know he's doing the exact same thing. Teleprompter Jesus is becoming predictable.

Posted by: Titanium at October 10, 2013 06:18 PM (IgOQg)

96 88 Law firm Kirkland and Ellis (5th largest in the US) is trying to fuck over Breitbart's widow and kids. And they are doing it pro bono. Cause fucking over Breitbart's family buys them good will on the Left.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 10, 2013 10:15 PM (ZPrif)

You need to get ace or one of the cob-loggers to get on this.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 10, 2013 06:19 PM (lVPtV)

97 Obama administration performs transcendental meditation.

Posted by: Swami Whatshisname at October 10, 2013 06:19 PM (E0/Ok)

98 No other president in history has allowed someone to control his mouth!
Posted by: 3niaj3 at October 10, 2013 10:18 PM (KuoX7)
Oh, yeah? What about Bush and Rove.

Posted by: Lefty Dorksen at October 10, 2013 06:21 PM (E0/Ok)

I agree with 61 and 69 (heh) completely. Obama's got time for the photo ops and the Final 4 brackets and showing off his ignorance every chance he gets because he knows it'll be spun into gold. He leaves the day to day stuff to Valerie Jarrett 'cause who's got time for the nitty gritty when you're the Lightbringer? We gots transformin' to do up in here, beyotch!

I do take comfort in knowing that in another year or so, Obama might finally snap and screw the military hard enough to where they snap and walk off the job entirely. Then we're talking coup, and everything gets messy for a while, and (fingers crossed) the military good ol boys from south of the Mason Dixon decide that we need fewer Democrats in DC than there are now. And opt to remove them. Permanently.

A man can dream, can't he?

Posted by: sans_sheriff at October 10, 2013 06:21 PM (lj4x1)

100

You know what?

Screw these media whores.

They wanted the "cool" guy to win, they went out of their way not once, but TWICE to get the guy elected, and now he isn't playing nice with them, and they're complaining about it?

We tried to warn them, but they knew better than we did - we are the knuckle-dragging, cousin-marrying, toothless hicks who are lower than pond scum in their eyes.

I hate what is happening, but perhaps they will learn a lesson from this.

Then again, I kind of doubt it.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at October 10, 2013 06:21 PM (PZ6/M)

101 No doubt they are, but where are you reading that?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 10, 2013 10:12 PM (1RQeV)

Senate Republicans trying to help out the Democrats as freaking usual. Does EVERYONE see why the Senate Conservatives Fund is trying to oust other Senate "Republicans"? Link to rollcall:

http://tinyurl.com/k56olhr

Posted by: NWConservative at October 10, 2013 06:21 PM (M1gmo)

102 Someone should challenge him and outright ask him if what he speaks is his idea or Valerie Jarrett's speak. She prevents him for speaking to a republican so I'm sure his mouth is moving but she has her fingers up to his vocal cords. No other president in history has allowed someone to control his mouth! Posted by: 3niaj3 at October 10, 2013 10:18 PM (KuoX7) ValJay is the one running White House, etc,

Posted by: CarolT at October 10, 2013 06:23 PM (z4WKX)

103 They are suing Bretibart's estate on behalf of Shirley Sherrod -- the Pigford thief.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 10, 2013 06:23 PM (ZPrif)

104 I think I'll bump this over the ONT in the early AM so it get some visibility tomorrow too

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 10, 2013 06:24 PM (l5zzX)

105 "I do take comfort in knowing that in another year or so, Obama might finally snap and screw the military hard enough to where they snap and walk off the job entirely."

Nope. The ones that Hackworth called the "perfumed princes" run the military now, pretty much without exception.

Want to know what the inflection point was?

When Valerie Jarrett was at an official D.C. reception, and wanted her drink refilled, and languidly waved her hand at a uniformed officer with a chest full of ribbons, and told him what she wanted.

And he meekly complied.

What should have happened? He should have said, "M'am, I am an officer in the armed forces of the United States. With all due respect, I am not a waiter and I do not propose to become one," and everyone from the CJCS on down should have backed him up monolithically on that point.

That this did not happen should tell you something very significant. The officer corps are being treated with dismissive contempt _and they're accepting it_.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 10, 2013 06:28 PM (gqT4g)

106 This is a profile of one of the attorneys in the case;

http://tiny.cc/uhqr4w

Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at October 10, 2013 06:29 PM (Jsiw/)

107 The press? Who cares. Really. Who cares what they think?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at October 10, 2013 06:31 PM (l0lja)

108 HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by: navycopjoe at October 10, 2013 06:32 PM (FDSEc)

109 Monkey

Posted by: Tortillapete at October 10, 2013 06:33 PM (Oc+W+)

110 Here's the piece, where the profile comes from;

http://tiny.cc/qtqr4w

Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at October 10, 2013 06:36 PM (Jsiw/)

111

About the time they're being lined up in front of the wall with all the bloodstains and bullet-holes.

Posted by: Dianna at October 10, 2013 10:10 PM (mKMj1)

These idiots will think that they are there to report on the improvements to society being made through the use of those bullets

Posted by: PMRich at October 10, 2013 06:38 PM (KDUNf)

112
"You cannot hope to bribe or twist
Thank God! The British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's just no reason to."

In other words, why does Obama bother? If anything reflected badly on him, it would go unreported anyway. I guess it's just for the practice.

Posted by: Brown Line at October 10, 2013 06:49 PM (a5bF3)

113 Seems like the media is only doing lip service in protesting their new, wonderful life in velvet handcuffs.....

Posted by: shibumi at October 10, 2013 07:12 PM (25HWz)

114 This is another example of how bad the economy is under Obama. In the Bush years, whistleblowers got book and movie deals and were feted like royalty. Now they only get perp-walked and three square a day in the pen.

Posted by: Brass Bancroft at October 10, 2013 07:16 PM (niuxr)

115 These people are too stupid to keep hogging oxygen.

Posted by: Laura Castellano at October 10, 2013 07:18 PM (luhCM)

116 How do you like me now, media bitches?

Posted by: "Darth" Dick Cheney at October 10, 2013 07:22 PM (niuxr)

117 Having slobbered Obama's knob all these years and gotten him elected twice, it is now safe for the MSM to burnish their "credibility" a bit by appearing to get a bit tougher on him before the next election cycle kicks in. It's all theatrics, they are still true believers.

Posted by: JPS at October 10, 2013 08:19 PM (llFuU)

118 "...HeÂ’s the least transparent of the seven presidents IÂ’ve covered in terms of how he does his daily business.Â”... And yet the media would suck his dick in a New York minute if he told them to...

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 10, 2013 09:10 PM (/IXKu)

119 Hey, you know an honest, upset press/media would, at a minimum, quit covering a SCoaMF. No TV. No video. No print. No phone. No meetings. No nothing. Make him a non-person.

And then, if it was actually angry, could ignore WH releases and instead supply opposition party sound bites.

If we had an honest, upset press/media.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 10, 2013 09:54 PM (eHIJJ)

120 CtPJ? Really? The lobby organization for the corporate media part of the White House press corpse? And Len Downie, total shill sell-out for the FORMER owners of the WaPo? You've been had again, morons.

Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at October 10, 2013 11:00 PM (w45V0)

121 Let's pretend I believe the media cares about this -- why aren't they hammering on this day in, day out? If every news story began with noting the Obama Administration's closed nature, and every news story ended with "what do they have to hide?" maybe we wouldn't BE in this mess.

Sounds way too much like ass-covering well after the fact. If they cared, they would have used a thimbleful of the vitriol they used on GW Bush on this.

They don't. They are as much of an enemy as, if not more than, the dog-eating cokehead in the White House.

Posted by: acethepug at October 11, 2013 03:33 AM (FBhci)

122 And yet the media continues enabling this crap. Why?

Posted by: SamInVA at October 11, 2013 04:29 AM (Q52VH)

123 18 Who was Hitler's propaganda minister? Because I think Carney Barker may edge him out for the most lying mouthpiece for a regime in history.
*
*
Joseph Goebbels. A dark-haired little weasel of a man, very smart as those types went.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 11, 2013 06:02 AM (BDU/a)

124 Too bad most are in full on fellatio with this administration.

Chris Matthews needs to wipe off his chin before he gets on camera.
Jay Carney is so full of shit he smells bad.

Yet they ( MSM ) Still shake the pom-poms as hard as they can.

Most logical reason, courtesy of ed asner, is that they are afraid of the 'Scarlet R' - or in layman's terms being called a racist.

I thought Allan G was a bit radical. He's not.

Burn it down
Scatter the stones
Salt the earth where it stood

It should become a mantra.

Posted by: Everyday Joe at October 11, 2013 07:48 AM (DVC2D)

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