Midknight Review -- new and revised: Obama bans another newspaper

The White House Press Office has refused to give the Boston Herald full access to President Obama’s Boston fund-raiser today, in e-mails objecting to the newspaper’s front page placement of a Mitt Romney op-ed, saying pool reporters are chosen based on whether they cover the news “fairly,” and who makes that decision? Why, Obama, of course.

“I tend to consider the degree to which papers have demonstrated to covering the White House regularly and fairly in determining local pool reporters,” Obama said, via his spokesman. “My point about the op-ed was not that you ran it but that it was the full front page, which excluded any coverage of the visit of a sitting US President to Boston. I think that raises a fair question about whether the paper is unbiased in its coverage of the President’s visits."

We have written much about the White House's policy of controlling the media. And Obama has done more in this line of endeavor than any president in modern history -- without exception.

Here is Anita Dunn, Obama's friend and press agent, talking about the policy of "media control," in late 2009. Just another reason why Obama cannot get his approval numbers above 50%.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

2 comments:

WilliamMay 18, 2011 at 9:13 PM
Perfect example of the integrity of the so-called 'liberal media;' MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell BLASTED the Obama administration for this.

You know damn well if the situation were reversed, Fox News would sweep it under the carpet, the way they never mentioned the staged nature of the Bush video conferences and townhalls.

One side lies, one side has integrity.
John SmithsonMay 19, 2011 at 3:45 AM
Apparently you have never listened to Shepard Smith. He does the news in the afternoon on two different one hour programs and he is as liberal a nutcase and you can find.

But to your point: Chris Matthews has never mentioned my criticism; neither has Maddow or Shultz.

And who watches MSNBC, anyway. They are the laughing stock of cable TV -- next to Current.

And finally, I am assuming that you agree with my criticism of Obama. If it were not for the 1st Amendment, we would never get the truth out of the Obama Administration.