White House Press Corps Outraged at Being Shut Out of Obama’s Entire Weekend
President Barack Obama arrives in Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on February 15, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The White House press corps. is expressing ‘extreme frustration’ at not having seen him since. (Photo: Getty Images)
The White House press corps has been almost entirely shut out of President Obama’s weekend in Florida, and the journalists who make a living recording the president’s every move aren’t happy about it.
The Washington Post relates (all subsequent emphasis added):
[Obama] disappeared late Friday evening behind the gates of the Floridian, a lush golf and residential compound off limits to the public. Neither the public outside those gates, nor the media, has seen him since.
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A photo of Obama on the course with someone as famous as Woods is commonly a moment the “traveling pool” of about a dozen journalists is allowed to witness. White House officials declined to allow that Sunday.
For the long weekend, the pool has been permitted just inside the Floridian gates, where reporters have used as their “filing center” a mirror-ceilinged party bus, the kind used for shouldn’t-be-driving evenings of bacchanalia like bachelor parties.
Because the president’s motorcade has not left the compound, White House officials have explained, there is no reason for the pool to track the president’s activities or to know who he is spending time with on a personal vacation.
White House Correspondents Association’s president Ed Henry released a statement condemning the lack of transparency Sunday:
“Speaking on behalf of the White House Correspondents Association, I can say a broad cross section of our members from print, radio, online and TV have today expressed extreme frustration to me about having absolutely no access to the President of the United States this entire weekend. There is a very simple but important principle we will continue to fight for today and in the days ahead: transparency.”
But White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest maintains:
“The press access granted by the White House today is entirely consistent with the press access offered for previous presidential golf outings. It’s also consistent with the press access promised to the White House Press Corps prior to arrival in Florida on Friday evening.”
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Comments (259)
Todd Decker
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:17pmBah. They may whine some now, but at the end of the day, they’ll still carry Der Führer’s water and toss his salad whenever he wants.
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:16pmAh come ON, think it THROUGH. The “Black” Golden Bear get his big black driver off choking Nordichicks during coitus. Obviously he and Pharaoh BO have some “homie” time planned.
That ain’t the kind of “photo op” Pyongyang on the Potomac had in mind. At least not since Slick Willie Der Rapist in Chief said: “put some ice on that.”
Somebody might want to check the local Blond cocktail waitresses for bruises though.
No, cancel that. I forgot the Secret Service does their Procuring further South these days.
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INTHEBLINKOFAEYE
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:15pmMaybe another Jekyll Island meeting ?
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Jake Dog2
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:37pmMaybe another Jekyll Island meeting ?
Did you mean another K-Y jelly Island meeting
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haras42000
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:14pmlearning from the best,(WOODS) how when the wife away the hubby will PLAY
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:16pmthe finer points of choking and slapping Nordichick beechos, one presumes.
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Jake Dog2
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:14pmNow that he does not have to run anymore he is letting them know what he realy thinks about them.
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Jake Dog2
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:12pmWHAT!!! Who’s You Daddy is not letting them in to play at the party after all they have done for him. Carrying his water, drinking the cool aid. Poor babies. BOOOOO HOOOOOOOO
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krod2516
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:10pmAlone with Tiger woods, nothing immoral could be going on here. Move along nothing to see here.
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:17pmcheck the local blond cocktail waitresses for bruises.
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purple_circles
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:04pmMaybe George Soros is with him and they are talking about personal business.
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Mess23
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:04pmHopefully they realize soon that they are being used to help bring down America…
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:18pm“used” my aszfanny. Ya can’t rape da ho.
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smokey888x2
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:01pmHey Press: You’ve been USED idiots. Useful idiots!! Stalin would be very proud of our American press. America knows and we are ashamed of you!
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crazyrightwingmom
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:57pmGet used to it, press people! You’ll be the first out of a job when the marxist takes over fully.
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jbrote47
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:56pmPoor babies. They carry obummers water, and then have him turnon them like he’s turned on the rest of us. As far as Woods is concerned, it begs the question. Wasn’t Phil available?
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DisgustedinUSA
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:55pmThe idiot press guys and gals dont realize, obama only USED them to get reelected, he doesn’t need them now. They still dont get it, that they are just pawns in his little scheme. Maybe someday they’ll wake up and get out of his bed and start reporting the TRUTH, instead of the koolaid.
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Shasta
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:54pmO commits treason and the press does not care. O garnishes massive new powers for the executive branch and the press does not care. O declares he can kill anyone without proof of a crime or even a crime, and the press does not care. But have O sneak out for the weekend without them and then they suddenly give a rats a$$?
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GO-FOR-LIBERTY
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 6:03am“This”, says it all.
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KeystoneState
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:53pmSo Press, how’s it feel to have your rights to “A Free Press” infringed upon? Signed, a Gun owner.
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ASE
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:53pmI wish this would open up the eyes of the MSM to the reality that they aren’t bobo’s ‘buddies’, but are actually his tools, his useful idiots, that only get what he is willing to give them, not what they wish to get from him; he has the control not them, and if they get in the way they will be eliminated one way or another.
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neverending
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:51pmToo bad they are too stupid to understand that the message the commie in chief had for putin was really a message for all – THEM INCLUDED! Oh and so now they are going to become the wussie crybabies that they are. I hope he locks them out of everything from here on out because it won’t change a thing except we don’t have to listen to all the bullcrap and maybe crissie matthews can even be healed from his tingly leg condition! They deserve each other.
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dman78
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:48pmFor Narcissistic President to shut out the press, I think the press might want to ask, what is the President up to?
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BeckIgnoresConstitution
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:45pmYou mean their savior, the usurper Obama, is ignoring their Constitutional right for freedom of the press by denying them access? You reap what you sow! Maybe now with all this free time the press will do their job of reporting the truth!
Boycott businesses advertising with the servile lying media that won’t report the truth about Obama’s Article 2, Section 1, ineligibility: http://youtu.be/esiZZ-1R7e8 or his identity fraud: http://youtu.be/alVzyfptF80
Vote out every traitorous politician and judge in both state and federal government refusing to enforce Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution! http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2013/01/barack-obama-de-facto-president-of.html
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KeystoneState
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:43pmThese clowns in the press are no different than the parasites who provide the majority who elect these despots! To them, it’s like rooting for a football team as long as their team wins and ours loses, their happy, unfortunately, they won’t realize this untill they are standing in line with everyone else at the soup kitchen with an armed drone circling overhead waiting to make an example out of them if they dare step out of line! “Go Team” you stupid Libs!
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BeckIgnoresConstitution
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:42pmYou mean usurper Obama is ignoring their Constitutional right for freedom of the press by denying them access? You reap what you sow! Maybe now with all this free time the press will do their job of reporting the truth!
Boycott businesses advertising with the servile lying media that won’t report the truth about Obama’s Article 2, Section 1, ineligibility: http://youtu.be/esiZZ-1R7e8 or his identity fraud: http://youtu.be/alVzyfptF80
Vote out every traitorous politician and judge in both state and federal government refusing to enforce Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution! http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2013/01/barack-obama-de-facto-president-of.html
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sooner12
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:42pmI don’t give a rat’s a$$ about Obama, but as far as the press is concerned, “Cry me a river.”
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kapnkd
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:40pmAs if we give a flying flip to what Obozocommie does or did this weekend anyway! We would much rather find out the TRUTH about what he did and didn’t do during Behghazi.
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neverending
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:52pmamen to that one.
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nonofmybiznez
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:38pmThe press may not realize the power they really have and how they have been used. Obama bullied them from the first month of his first term. This is the result. If they don’t turn on him now, they will be shut out from the important things. They are only given the tabloid photo shoots. I can’t say I feel sorry for them, I feel sorry for the nation.
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kapnkd
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:44pmOhh, THEY know how much power they have sadly enough. Our problem is it is being used to promote the agenda of Obozocommie and his communist minions/drones.
Soft minds are being bent and warped daily by these “Goebbels Propagandists” with the promise of more freebies and lies of how great a leader he is.
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smokeysmoke
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:09pmwhat does that mean “outraged” they are only going to give him a handy tonight, and not give him the full show
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KeystoneState
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:11pmSo I wonder how the “free press” feels to have their rights infringed upon? Signed, a Gun Owner.
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1TrueOne55
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:13pmMust have needed Secrecy for a meeting with the Soros Group and the Rothchilds leadership about how the take down of America is going…
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banjarmon
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:18pmGET that guy OUT OF FLORIDA NOW!!!!
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cemerius
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:38pmSuper secret “liaison” guess it’s not so easy to be meeting up with old choom gang “lovers” as it was when being a community organizer?
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