Obama Cancels Site Visit & WH Press Briefing; So What’s Up?

Huh RT @toddstarnes: POTUS cancels visit to moving company today — WH also cancels today’s press briefing.

about 2 hours ago   from TweetDeck

 

 

 

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ABC News Fears Obama is Creating a “State Run Media”; Ya Think??!!

It‘s a shocking question from one of the country’s main news outlets: Is the Obama White House replacing the traditional press with its own “state run” media machine?

According to ABC, it seems the answer might be “yes.“ The news outlet points out ”the White House Press Office now not only produces a website, blog, YouTube channel, Flickr photo stream, and Facebook and Twitter profiles, but also a mix of daily video programming, including live coverage of the president’s appearances and news-like shows that highlight his accomplishments.”

ABC’s story goes on to cite examples:

But while these innovative communications tools ostensibly offer greater transparency and openness, critics say they have come at a troublesome expense: less accountability of the administration by the independent, mainstream press.

Over the past few months, as White House cameras have been granted free reign behind the scenes, officials have blocked broadcast news outlets from events traditionally open to coverage and limited opportunities to publicly question the president himself.

Obama’s recent signing of the historic New START treaty with Russia and his post-State of the Union cabinet meeting, for example, were both closed to reporters in a break with tradition. And during a recent question and answer session with the president and visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the White House imposed an unusual limit of just one question each from the U.S. and Canadian press corps.

“The administration has narrowed access by the mainstream media to an unprecedented extent,” says veteran ABC News White House correspondent Ann Compton, who has covered seven administrations. “Access here has shriveled.”

For article: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shocker-abc-news-wonders-if-obama-is-creating-state-run-media/

Obama’s Disappearance Saturday: “Non-existent” Soccer Game?

from American Thinker:

 Reading the story about President Obama breaking tradition and ditching the presidential press pool over the weekend to watch one of his daughter’s soccer games, it appears harmless, right? Not so. It is rather disturbing when you dissect it. So let’s do just that. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the press pool was to assemble at 11:30AM.for full article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/04/obama_attends_nonexistent_socc.html

 

However, Time reported:

 

The president left the White House at approximately 9:20 to attend one of his daughter’s soccer games at 40th and Chesapeake NW. A pool was hastily called at around 9:35 and drove north at 9:43 to catch the president before the game ended. We didn’t make it. The President returned to the White House at 10:17. The pool returned at 10:30.  We now return you to your regularly scheduled pool call time.

 

Seems simple enough. But the story has several problems. The first one is a biggie in that there were no scheduled soccer games for Sidwell Friends April 10, as evidenced here. The second is that the area reported that the game was played at appears to be one of high crime, as documented here and here. Additionally, this is a picture of the field via Google Maps, where Obama went to watch the game.

 

From comments::

 just checked Sidwell’s website in the Athletics section. The only athletic events listed for Saturday 4/10/2010 are:

Apr 10
Crew – Club (Girls) – Baltimore Invitational at Glass Beach
Track & Field – Boys Varsity – Woodward Relays
Time: 8:30am
Track & Field – Girls Varsity – Woodward Relays
Time: 8:30am
Baseball – Varsity at Bullis
Time: 1:30pm
Baseball – Varsity at Bullis

Not one soccer game. If you check the soccer schedule it’s all in the fall that goes for Varsity through Girls 7-8B

Robert Gibbs: Condescending and Arrogant

“Condescending, arrogant, and sexist”. Would he have said the same thing the same way to Chip Reid or Major Garrett?

WH Press Sec’y Robert Gibbs Spars with FOXNews’ Major Garrett