Tuesday, February 19, 2013

President finally shows his face after $1m golfing weekend with Tiger Woods that White House didn't want world to see



DRUDGE HEADLINES:
Obama Golf Outing Risks Muddling Messsage - Daily Mail
◼ Obama played at exclusive Florida course on Sunday with Tiger Woods
◼ President refused to say if he had been beaten by the champion golfer
◼ Cost of Air Force One trips to and from Florida, along with hotel rooms, greens fees and exclusive golf lessons comes to $989,207
◼ Tried to mend fraught relationship with traveling press corps by 'hanging out' with them for 10 minutes on the flight back
Historians warn against 'overconfidence' - LA Times
Returns to DC with Reggie Love - Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard
POLITICO: WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS REBEL - Politico
Obama boasted Thursday during a Google+ Hangout from the White House: “This is the most transparent administration in history.” The people who cover him day to day see it very differently.
“The way the president’s availability to the press has shrunk in the last two years is a disgrace,” said ABC News White House reporter Ann Compton, who has covered every president back to Gerald R. Ford. “The president’s day-to-day policy development — on immigration, on guns — is almost totally opaque to the reporters trying to do a responsible job of covering it. There are no readouts from big meetings he has with people from the outside, and many of them aren’t even on his schedule. This is different from every president I covered. This White House goes to extreme lengths to keep the press away.”
GO ON RECORD TO CALL ACCESS 'DISGRACE' - Politico
Press finally gets question, asks 'Did you beat Tiger?' - Daily Caller
Michelle's ski trip (separate vacation) shuts down Aspen air space - NY Post

Politico tries to expunge media bias by playing victim of Obama manipulation - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
...It certainly is true that Obama is good at manipulating the media, but I’m taking Obama’s side on this one. The media has proven itself willing subjects, with tingles and oohs and ahhs running wild since before Obama was elected the first time.

Obama didn’t force the media to run wild for days against Romney over Benghazi while covering up the cover up. Obama didn’t force the media to collude at Romney’s Benghazi press conference to make sure an appropriate gotcha question was asked. Obama didn’t force the media to proclaim Paul Ryan a liar, or to perpetuate the falsehood that Republicans are racist. Obama didn’t force Politico to turn practically its entire home page over to going after Herman Cain.

Don’t blame Obama for your own failings.

Look in the mirror and ask why you are such a bunch of hypocritical sycophants who abandoned all pretense of journalistic integrity in order to get Obama elected twice.

Yes, you are puppets. At least you got that right.


Obama’s obedient lap dog - Michael Goodwin/NY Post
It’s hubris wrapped in a lie, but it serves to distract from a far more important angle than the dispute over mere access. Too many news organizations are shockingly uncurious about Obama’s second- term agenda. They apparently don’t want to know, and certainly don’t think the public does, either.
Discussion at Lucianne
Traveling press clearly furious because they couldn't ask, "What's Reggie Love doing here?" and "Why
are you playing golf with a certified horndog?" Right?