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Journalamism in the age of Obama

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Maybe if you’re a reporter for ABC Radio sitting at a White House press conference you should be prepared to ask a real question.

Ann Compton of ABC News Radio, who admitted to being surprised that Obama called on her (perhaps because he had already called on Jake Tapper, also of ABC), asked the president a question about race. She wondered whether the subject of race was raised often in the White House as he handled his daily duties and whether it affected how he was judged. Obama responded: “I think that the last 64 days has been dominated by me trying to figure out how we’re going to fix the economy, and that affects black, brown and white.”

He said he contemplated the “seering” history of racial division in the U.S. after his election and that “lasted about a day” before he got to the business of trying to save the economy, and added that he was confident that “right now the American people are judging me exactly the way I should be judged” — based on how well he was doing his job, not on his race.

WTF? She was “surprised” at being called upon? This is her freaking job. Everyone should be so lucky. She covers the White House.

I can’t help it, I’m seeing an SNL skit from this. Something like a fake Obama saying—

Why, yes, Ann, while I love my wife and girls dearly, every single day those of us who are African-American contemplate what it would have taken to marry a nice white girl like you.

My only request is that they work Tina Fey and Amy Poehler into the skit.

Comments

  1. 1

    what are u so suprised about. this is the world you wanted. the only thing that matters is race.

  2. 2

    what are u so suprised about. this is the world you wanted. the only thing that matters is race.

  3. 3

    He did not all on any business publications.

    One of the few times he summoned raw emotion came after a reporter demanded to know why it took him so long to express outrage over the AIG executive bonuses.

    “It took a couple of days because I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak.”

    Even better, he likes to have it up on the teleprompter. ”

    I’ve counted 3 days since he’s presented with a problem until it show up in a brain wave.

  6. 6

    “SOURCE: Reporters were told in advance if president was going to call on them. Senior Administration Officials notified reporters from Stars & Stripes, Univision and other news outlets that they should have question ready. Several reporters moved up in assigned seats as result… ”

    We lost a another freedom and promise today.

  7. 7

    Watching Ann Compton fumbling around reminded me of the Top 10 Reasons for favoring a gun over a woman:

    #10. You can trade an old 44 for a new 22.

    # 9. You can keep one gun at home and have another for when
    you’re on the road.

    # 8. If you admire a friend’s gun and tell him so, he will probably
    let you try it out a few times.

    # 7. Your primary gun doesn’t mind if you keep another gun for a backup.

    # 6. Your gun will stay with you even if you run out of ammo.

    # 5. A gun doesn’t take up a lot of closet space.

    # 4. Guns function normally every day of the month.

    # 3. A gun doesn’t ask , ‘Do these new grips make me look fat?’

    # 2. A gun doesn’t mind if you go to sleep after you use it.

    And the number one reason a gun is favored over a woman….

    # 1.. YOU CAN BUY A SILENCER FOR A GUN

    PS:
    Mrs. C wasn’t amused.

  8. 8

    The reporters are still getting over not having their questions written for them by Karl Rove. Eventually, they might even learn to ask intelligent, unloaded questions. Then the R’s get another drunken fratboy appointed, and it all slides again…

  9. 9

    It’s even worse than you think, Jon — the guy who posted this report on Washington Post’s blog doesn’t know how to spell “searing.”

  10. 10

    @8
    are u really saying that in the past the commie media let karl rove dictate to them? thats the dumbest thing i’ve heard yet

  12. 12

    In fact, Generations X and Y pretty much can’t spell. Not even simple words. Not even with spell-check available (we didn’t have that in my day). The literacy level in this country has degenerated to fonetick spelung. My English teachers would have made sausage out of them for that.

  14. 14

    @8
    “Eventually, they might even learn to ask intelligent, unloaded questions”
    LMAO !!!!!

    If your theory pans out who are they going to be asking question too? LOL!!!!

    The teleprompter was asleep tonight. Obama was almost falling asleep too.

  16. 16

    @3 Do you wingnuts have something against thinking something through before shooting from the lip? Yes, of course you do! You’re the fools who put ignorance on a pedestal and worship stupidity! It’s to be expected that you’d mock Obama for thinking before speaking.

    P.S., that’s why he’s president and you’re not.

  17. 17

    When the phone rings at wh at 3am I wished it was Hillary giving the order of YES or NO, not call me back in 3 days.

    If you haven’t realized it yet it takes days from questions to flow through his ears and end in the brain then mouth.

  18. 18

    I’ve counted 3 days since he’s presented with a problem until it show up in a brain wave.

    Wow. The Fool can count. Wonders never cease.

    3 days must be too fast compared to the chimp The Fool voted for twice.

    Not a sentient thought in 8 years.

  19. 19

    I took her question differently than some people did. I thought it was a pretty dumb question too, but I thought she basically asked:

    “In the day to day interactions with the staff of the White House, has race been a factor?”

    Asking if people who work in the White House are refusing to do what he asks because he’s part african-american.

  21. 21

    @3 “I’ve counted 3 days since he’s presented with a problem until it show up in a brain wave.”

    It’s very doubtful that Bush ever spent more than 3 seconds getting any of his brainwaves. And it shows.

  22. 22

    re 7: “# 5. A gun doesn’t take up a lot of closet space.”

    Leaves more room for your #15 floppy clown shoes. How do you all get in those tiny cars?

  24. 24

    Ed Henry, the president cut your testicles off so cleanly that the doctors may have hope of sewing them back on.

    Good luck with that.

  25. 25

    17. The Truth spews:

    When the phone rings at wh at 3am I wished it was Hillary giving the order of YES or NO, not call me back in 3 days.

    Ain’t that the Truth, The Truth!!
    Obama may soon qualify for the Speical Olympics at the rate he is going.

  26. 26

    19. DavidD spews:

    I took her question differently than some people did. I thought it was a pretty dumb question too, but I thought she basically asked:

    “In the day to day interactions with the staff of the White House, has race been a factor?”

    Asking if people who work in the White House are refusing to do what he asks because he’s part african-american.

    DavidD…your interpretation, if correct, makes it even more idiotic.
    A good friend of ours worked the past 8 years for VP Cheney. She loved the guy…but when given direct orders, you do it.
    If ANYONE is refusing to do something Obama orders because he is half-Black…or for any other reason, they would be fired in a heartbeat.
    PS–There was an almost complete transition of personnel when Bush left. They were under strict ORDERS to cooperate & assist to the fullest. Our friend even left her coffee mug filled with pens and other personal stuff…along with lots of notes to assist her successor.

    PSS–No one would still be at the White House if they had a problem with Obama being half-white and half-white. If they are there, it’s because OBAMA’s staff hired them. Period.

  27. 27

    22. headless lucy spews:

    re 7: “# 5. A gun doesn’t take up a lot of closet space.”

    Leaves more room for your #15 floppy clown shoes. How do you all get in those tiny cars?

    Plagarism is the highest form of flattery.
    You are merely copying my past quotes.
    I didn’t know you cared so much.

  28. 28

    Today is another VERY bad day for the right wing traitors who hope for America’s failure. The markets are up AGAIN in response to the great job done by our fine PRESIDENT OBAMA on TV last night. I love it when the traitors and the cowards on the right are forced to face their demise.

  29. 29

    Here is AP’s “fact-check” on Obama’s boring, lying press conference last night:

    THE CLAIM: “We will recover from this recession. But it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all work together, when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of obligations we have to each other, that’s when we succeed.”

    THE FACTS: No one really knows when the recession will end. But Obama’s own budget forecasts the recession will continue through this year but with a relatively shallow 1.2 percent decline in the gross domestic product.

    Then, the budget predicts solid 3.2 percent growth for 2010, followed by three years of more than 4 percent growth each year.

    Christina Romer, head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said this week she was “incredibly confident” the U.S. economy will recover within a year.

    Congressional Republicans and some Democratic budget hawks have suggested the Obama budget projections are unduly optimistic to make the math to pay for the president’s programs work. The higher the GDP growth, the more tax revenues come in.

    Meanwhile, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office last week predicted that the Obama budget would produce deficits averaging nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.

    ___

    OBAMA: “In this budget, we have made the tough choices necessary to cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term even under the most pessimistic estimates.”

    THE FACTS: Not all credible estimates foresee a deficit halved in that time.

    Obama’s budget forecast a deficit of $530 billion by the end of 2013. That would cut by half the deficit he inherited at the start of his term. To succeed, Obama is counting on a recovered economy, a tax boost for the rich and success in easing foreign entanglements. But his assertion that he can accomplish that “even under the most pessimistic estimates” flies in the face of an answer he gave moments later.

    The Congressional Budget Office forecasts that Obama’s spending plan would leave a deficit of $672 billion by the end of 2013. Explaining the differences between his projections and CBO’s, Obama said his administration projects a higher growth rate.

    ___

    THE CLAIM: “Our assumptions are perfectly consistent with what blue-chip forecasters out there are saying.”

    THE FACTS: The Obama administration’s economic growth projections are more optimistic over the next five years than those of the Blue Chip Consensus, a monthly average of 50 economic forecasts from the private sector.

    The Blue Chip projection is for a deeper contraction this year than is foreseen by the administration –1.9 percent versus 1.2 percent. Then it foresees growth of only 2.1 percent next year, instead of 3.2 percent, and less than 3 percent in each of the next three years, when the administration’s forecasts are for 4 percent or better.

    After 2015, the blue chip forecast is a little brighter than the administration’s.

    ___

    THE CLAIM: Obama repeated his assertion that his housing bailout will help “stabilize the housing market and help responsible homeowners stay in their homes.”

    THE FACTS: Even officials in his administration, many supporters of the plan in Congress and the Federal Reserve chairman have said some of the bailout money is bound to go to those who acted irresponsibly.

    Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has said it’s important for the nation to go ahead with the plan even though it means assistance will go to some who should have known better than to get in over their heads.

    Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., made a similar point when she said it’s “simply impractical” to examine every delinquent loan and weed out those taken by people who overstated their income or assets to get a mortgage they couldn’t afford.

    ___

    THE CLAIM: Responding to Republican critics in Congress who say his proposed budget carries an irresponsible deficit, Obama said, “I suspect that some of those Republican critics have a short memory, because, as I recall, I’m inheriting a $1.3 trillion deficit, annual deficit, from them.”

    FACT: The Congress, which authorizes spending and is not blameless in driving up deficits, was controlled by Democrats in the last two years of Bush’s presidency.

    The concern for me is the lack of media follow-up questions on issues like this. They seemed to just let the guy spew lies & misrepresentations with no challenge.
    Look for things to get tougher next Press Conference.

  30. 30

    @27 Why should you Repubs have a monopoly on stealing? What did you guys ever do to deserve a monopoly on anything?

  31. 31

    @29 Awwwww … is the rightwing-biased media treating Obama too gently for your taste? Do you like your rightwing yellow journalism even yellower? As in pee-colored? They’re probably too busy filling out the Chapter 11 forms to bother right now.

  32. 32

    Hey KLOWNS–

    Hate to pop your balloon about the AIG debacle but:

    1) No Republicans were present in the negotiations in the Speaker’s office. Both Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, who served as a conference manager on the bill, barred Republicans from the negotiation table. This explodes the worthless rants of just about every LEFTIST PINHEADED KLOWN.

    2) So the mystery remains: who had final sign-off on the Dodd language insertion on AIG’s retention bonuses? One thing seems certain, Rahm Emanuel isn’t talking, and neither are Pelosi or Reid, who were also in the room with Emanuel, Orszag, and Summers when the final language was worked out.

    3) Rahm “the partisan slickster” Emanuel tells us Never let a serious crisis go to waste.

    Wake up you idiots! You are tanking. You are failing. You are worse than what you claim to abhor.

  33. 33

    32 – It’s a non-issue except for Limbaugh/Insanity Hannity, right wing shitheads on the blogs and their readers like the Cynical right wing bozo.

    Who in their right mind would let Republicans in the room?

    The Republicans are not serious save for one thing – lining Republican pockets.

  34. 34

    Cynical: like the last 4 years, you have totally failed. It’s been a total downward spiral for you. You’ve been Mr. Irrelevant all that time.

    Your troll contract is up at the end of the current State legislative session. Right wing idiot money is flowing – after all the Pooper seems to have a job.

    Will your contract be renewed for more trolling?

    Will you fritter you life away on more right wing bullshit?

    You don’t seem to have too much else going for you so I guess the answer is yes.

  35. 35

    YLB–
    You are completely insane.
    Get a life.
    I cannot imagine anyone paying anything for someone to post comments on HorsesAss.org.
    Seems like your PINHEADED has exploded with a misguided sense of self-worth.

    I’m doing just fine…far away from any big city lunacy. I participate in these yap sessions out of sheer joy & pleasure of making klueless idiots like you have your PINHEAD gyrate at warp speed.
    I have learned a lot about how the fringe lunatic left thinks (or more appropriately, fails to think).
    Your ideology is so flawed…it’s comical.

    I have plenty going on.
    I post my thoughts & leave.
    I rarely read any of yours any more with a couple exceptions.

    Your President has alienated Investors…the key component to his flawed Budget scheme.
    Obama overstates GDP to try & justify his overspending…then tries to pretend that economists agree with him.
    Hysterical.
    You are as sick as he is YLB.

  36. 36

    25 – You fool! You’ve totally failed!

    – 2005 Election contest – failed!
    – I-912 (Revenge of the nutjobs) – failed!
    – Woman-abuser Irons – failed!
    – Nov 2006 – Utter repudiation!
    – Nov 2008 – Complete meltdown and the second repudiation of the BIAW tool Rossi!

    Investors? The kind that said oh there’s no problem, buy Bear Stearns?

    And now? Stock Market is down. It’s all Obama’s fault. Stock market is up? That’s the “Bush bounce”?

    How insane are you and your silly crowd?

    You’re here practically every day and three times on Wednesday. Stop kidding yourself – you have no life and wishing away right wing failures is no substitute.

  37. 37

    @33 – It’s a non-issue

    How to kill Americans and get away with it. They could and have gotten away with murder past.

    Pick any story about a Democrat controlled congress.
    It’s a amazing how one Democrat Senator carrying a fully loaded 45 cal. can kill an unarmed Republican Senator on the Senate floor with all the cameras rolling capturing every angle of the kill and when it is all said and done he’s found not guilty.

  38. 38

    Loser is getting a lot of jokes and is feeling the heat about his lack of ability to speak.
    Shortly the Teleprompters will be removed. (Last night it was one big monitor about 15′ in front of him.)
    Loser will be taught lip sinking all audio will be feed directly into ears of reporters and National feeds.

  39. 39

    The Stock Market has had a chance to digest Obama’s double-speak BS from last night…and is now DOWN!

    How can anyone with half a brain expect Investors to Invest money with all the chest-thumping and craziness from the likes of Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Dodd and Obama??
    The whole 90% tax idea sent chills up and down the spine of investors.
    Obama knows Investors are the key to a sustained recovery. Yet he is scaring the shit out of them. WHY??
    Because Obama is a Socialist and is creating the environment he can push Investors aside and create more & more Big Government solutions!

    Watch for Obama to say something like, gee, I tried to rally the private sector but for some reason they wouldn’t participate…now Big Government is the last resort.

  40. 40

    @26, I agree my interpretation made the question even more idiotic. It was probably one of the dumbest questions I’ve seen asked, which is saying a lot.

    Just goes to show that the reporter was unprepared or all she could think about was race.

  41. 41

    DavidD–
    It is one of those moments Ann Compton will likely never live down.
    Here she has an opportunity to ask the most powerful man in the world a probing question and what does she do??
    She shits all over herself in front of the whole world!

    Obama loves these kinds of questions as it takes the focus off the things that really matters that he is fumbling with.

    Ann Compton==PINHEAD!

  42. 42

    Dow is still DOWN post-Oblah-blah.
    O-Blah-Blah is probably thrilled as he has successfully scared the Investor Sector out of participating in any solution leaving a clear pathway for his creeping crud called SOcialism.
    Mission accomplished!

  44. 44

    Oh, oh, the DOW is now up. Mr. Klynical’s reality construct collapses like a house of cards. So sad. I’m afraid that Mr. Klynical’s head might blow up any moment now.

  45. 45

    I predict a year from now “The Fool” will be praising Jesus that he’s still here to dribble resentment and nonsense.

  46. 46

    Oops, the DOW goes even higher, Mr. Klynical goes even lower.

    Let’s help Mr. Klynical write a new post.

    @39 “The Stock Market has had a chance to digest Obama’s press conference from last night…and is now UP!”

  47. 47

    Last week the loser told us we can not pass high deficit to future generations.
    CBS asked loser to explain why his deficit over Trillion a year was what he didn’t want to pass on.

  50. 50

    “http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1164771/Im-having-good-crisis-says-hedge-fund-manager-1billion-world-plunged-recession.html”

    ‘I’m having a very good crisis,’ says Soros as hedge fund managers make billions off recession

  51. 51

    its all about race and ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual preference. thats the only thing that matters in this country. those of you who are not jewish, cant you see that the jews have orchestrated this so no one will dare say anything racial or antisemitic. the problem is, not that its a bad thing to hate racism, but they are sacrificing the whole country to the religion of diversity.

  52. 52

    “http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/printthread.php?threadid=153046”

    Who could pull this off? He is from the DARK SIDE and with his friends he could have started this collapsed Soros Friend of Obama.

    $550 BILLION in two hours…..LOL!!!

    Rep. Kanjorski: $550 Billion Disappeared in “Electronic Run On the Banks”

  55. 55

    @21

    No attacks on America soil since 9-11

    If it was not for your losers winning both houses in 2006 and 2009 for POTUS none of this mess you brought on to us would have happen.

  59. 59

    55 – My “idea” or more precisely my conviction is that you are a fool. You also might be Frosty Hardison.

    Whether I keep on going or not is completely up to me as I never take orders from authoritarian minded right wingers.

  60. 60

    @56: The president is taking a protectionism posture and other countries are reacting to it. I heard on NPR Radio last week about a trade dispute occuring between the US and Mexico over Mexican truck drivers driving their trucks in the US. Some economists claim whenever possible, protectionism needs to be avoided. The story said the president will not allow Mexican truck drivers to drive Mexican products from the American-Mexican border only US Teamsters can. Mexico slapped tariffs on US goods into Mexico. NPR said this provision was originally in NAFTA back in 1994.

  61. 61

    Liberals are Scumbags–
    @58

    This story is true.
    For a hundred or so Teamster jobs, we all get to pay higher prices on stuff coming over the border.
    These things keep adding up.
    I wonder what those 100 jobs cost our consumers??
    Scumbags don’t care about consequences.

  63. 63

    Liberals are Scumbags

    @58

    We enter into agreement and Obama backs out.

    After AIG our agreements are worthless just like our money will be.

    The looney’s never thought of character as meaning anything.

  64. 64

    @57,
    My “idea” or more precisely my conviction is that you are a fool

    Your sure stretching your brain to the limits. Your life consisted of HA,liberals, reading 3 days old newspaper and cashing in food stamps (nothing wrong unless you lie). Life is full of surprises perhaps if you did some volunteer work at a food bank or help our brothers recover in Lewis Co. Tomorrow might be a brighter day for you. You need to get out of the house breath the fresh air hear kids playing.

    God Loves you, open your heart to him.

  65. 65

    @57
    Whether I keep on going or not is completely up to me as I never take orders from authoritarian minded right wingers.

    Your one of those…. Thanks for sharing

    No job, doubt if you ever wanted one.

    You hang out at Canyon Rd off ramp in Puyallup?

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