Northwest Indiana Discussion

WH tells reporters
what questions to
ask Barack Obama
American Thinker, by Ed Lasky

Now we know why-when President Obama deigns to talk to the media-he chooses local outlets and venues such as Entertainment Tonight and People magazine. He can overawe them by the chance to talk to a President and he can script the questions they will ask him. So not only do we have photo-ops but also phony interviews.

From veteran WH reporter Keith Koffler in a column titled "White House Sets Ground Rules for Local Interviews":

The White House is doing something with its local TV interviews that it could not easily get away with in encounters with the White House press corps, which President Obama has been studiously ignoring: choosing the topic about which President Obama and the reporter will talk.

In interviews with three local TV stations Monday, two from states critical to Obama's reelection effort, Obama held forth on the possibility of "sequestration" if he and Congress fail to reach a budget deal, allowing him to make his favorite political point that Republicans are willing to cause grievous harm to the economy and jobs in order to protect the rich from tax increases...

The reporters mostly made no effort to hide the arrangement. "The president invited me to talk about sequestration," NBC 7 San Diego's reporter told her audience. In the interview, she set Obama up with a perfectly pitched softball the president couldn't have been more eager to take a swing at:


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Leno Mocks Obama Controlling Media:
Jake Tapper Reads Question From
Cue Cards President's Holding
NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard

NewsBusters reported Tuesday Barack Obama is now telling reporters what questions to ask of him.

NBC's Jay Leno must have seen this news for the Tonight Show aired a mock video of ABC's Jake Tapper reading a question at Monday's press conference from cue cards held by the President (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

In the middle of his opening monologue, Leno asked, "Hey, have you heard this? There are accusations now that the White House has been feeding questions to reporters."

"Again, see, I don't know if this is true," he continued, "but I watched the President's press conference yesterday. It looked like maybe -- well, here, you be the judge."

A video was then played showing Tapper reading a question directly from cue cards held by Obama.

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Ever since Obama entered the scene...it's been nothing but false reporting ect. by the mainstream media. Screwballs like edge and chucksmo know damn well whats going on. They engage in it every day. Sheer communism via the media should make any normal, freedom loving american see red. Not the progressives. I'm telling you right now...a**h*** Obama IS going to know the questions before the debates. They're all in kahoots .

Matt O'Brien, associate business editor at The Atlantic, wrote a stinging blog post fact-checking Ferguson's cover story, writing that "we got an exercise in Ferguson's specialty -- counterfactual history."

In an interview with iVillage.com, First Lady Michelle Obama explained that President Obama quit smoking because of his children, not just for his health.

The first lady said that Obama used himself as an example to the girls that as why they shouldn’t start smoking just because “its cool” and explained to them that the habit was hard to break. President Obama quit smoking in 2011.

“It wasn’t the presidency, it wasn’t the pressure from me, it wasn’t even his health, because he wasn’t a big smoker,” Michelle Obama explained, citing their daughters Sasha and Malia as the president’s motivation for quitting.

Michelle Obama, speaking yesterday at a campaign event in Florida:

So that one new voter that you register in your precinct — think about it — that one neighbor that you get to the polls on November the 2 I want you to understand, that could be the one that makes the difference. That one conversation, that one new volunteer you recruit, that could be the one that puts this over the top.