Prior to Barack Obama's Town Hall meeting yesterday on the topic of health care, two normally very cooperative White House correspondents gave Obama's Press Secretary Robert Gibbs some grilling over the town hall's phony set up for citizens to raise questions.
Last week, a blogger from the liberal Huffington Post was called the night before a White House press briefing to be told they would be called upon to ask a question about the Iranian protests. That, plus the way Obama's town halls are programmed beforehand has upset veteran journalists like Chip Reid and Helen Thomas. Gibbs visibly was shaken and the red shade of his face indicated he was not prepared for the grilling.
Watch it for yourself here, and tell us -- was this the beginning of the MSM turning on Obama? Have they seen the light? Are they getting pressure from their editors to ask tougher questions? What do you think is really going on here, was it a fluke, or is the honeymoon over? Or is this just a lovers' spat?
The honeymoon is over.
People are opening their eyes.
You can't fool all the people all the time.
Posted by: Jim Caldwell | Thursday, July 02, 2009 at 07:02 PM
it is designed to fool people into thinking that hey, maybe the ol' media is not so biased as we thought. their ratings are plummeting, so they have to try to reel us back in somehow.
when push comes to shove, they will line up to support obama and destroy his opponent, just as they did in 2008.
Posted by: stargirl | Friday, July 03, 2009 at 08:10 AM