AP
NBC’s David Gregory said Friday President Barack Obama really doesn’t like the Washington media very much, and that the feeling is “mutual.”
Discussing the Bob Woodward-White House “threat” dust up that played itself out this week, Gregory said it’s a “reality” in Washington for administrations to push back against media coverage they don’t like. Woodward said he had a tense exchange with a top White House aide over his reporting that Obama was actually behind the enacted forced federal budget cuts known as sequestration.
“I think there’s a larger issue here, too, and that is that the president does not particularly like the Washington press corps,” Gregory said on NBC’s “Today.” “And I think that feeling is mutual in a lot of respects. And so there’s not a great relationship between that Washington establishment and the president. That, too, by the way, is not unprecedented.”
(h/t Huffington Post)
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reality based lifeform
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:35amCould this be the beginning of the end of the love affair the press has had with Obama ?
The press has been used and played by the President since the 08 election but they were willing participants . Now that Obama has won his second term it seems he has no use for the press (or is because they are at last catching on and asking tougher questions instead of ,”whats your favorite color ,who’s your favorite recording artist?”
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civilwarcometh
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:29amDrudge says 450 billion going to Egypt?? I thought we were BROKE!! http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_KERRY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-03-11-10-44
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smokeysmoke
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:41amboehner did ok, he should have accused obama of protecting loopholes, and using strawmen like BIGBIRD to shut up that repulbicans dont want to end loopholes and corperate welafare…
did any of you guys see the guy after boehner… some of his answers were weird… like one was something like obama would not need another budget disaster if he could get some real tax increases
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smokeysmoke
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:42am450 million…. thats .45 billion
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muffythetuffy
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:48amOBAMA THE MAD
This is a BS story. The drive-by White House Press Clique now backs Hillary since she is now the nominee for President in 2016. Gregory just aged 30 years in the electronically altered photo.
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bigbear_awake
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:49amgoing down 1 at a time what a jock they cant stick by each other for the better of the COUNTRY
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The_Jerk
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:53am“NBC’s David Gregory: Obama & the Washington Press Corps Don’t Like Each Other”
He’s correct. They love each other. The press is to Obama what Obama is to Jeremiah Wright, worshipers. .
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muffythetuffy
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:54amWILL OBAMA THE MAD AND AMERICA LAST FOUR YEARS?
You can clearly hear and see the insanity in his voice and eyes. His eyes have that same look that criminals, the insane and people in mental hospitals have. The Sandy Hook assassin had the same look in his eye that we now see in the eyes of Obama-the-Mad.
Woodward and this commenter were the first to publically state this.
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bigbear_awake
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:54amthey all need to get over the LOVE FEST from the LIER _N_ CHIEF
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Stoic one
Mar. 3, 2013 at 12:06pmCIVIL
“Kerry says the U.S. is providing $190 million immediately as part of a larger pledge of $450 million over time.”
from the article you link to…this is bad enough. Take one half billion and multiply that by 100 and you get 50 billion – OH there are your sequester cuts! CUT ALL FOREIGN AID
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Stoic one
Mar. 3, 2013 at 12:09pmfROM WIKI:
In fiscal year 2011, the U.S. government allocated the following amounts for aid:
Total economic and military assistance: $49.5 billion
Total military assistance: $17.8 billion
Total economic assistance: $31.7 billion
of which, USAID assistance: $14.1 billion.[1]
Category Amount[4]
Total U.S. Private Assistance $71.2 billion
Foundations $3.4 billion
Private and Voluntary Organizations (e.g., NGOs) $9.7 billion
Universities and Colleges $1.7 billion
Religious Organizations $4.5 billion
Corporations $4.9 billion
Remittances from immigrant workers $47.0 billion
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civilwarcometh
Mar. 3, 2013 at 12:10pmSMOKEYSMOKE: Yes Sir it does. My mistake and i apologies. Sorry about that…
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Sargeking
Mar. 3, 2013 at 12:21pmHow did Gregory skate on the gun magazine charge?
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The-Monk
Mar. 3, 2013 at 12:45pmSargeking
Yep….
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Todd Decker
Mar. 3, 2013 at 7:14pm>Could this be the beginning of the end of the love affair the press has had with Obama ?
Hardly. The progressive-liberal agenda trumps any other considerations, including dislike. Look at how the press turned on Woodward for daring to challenge Der Führer.
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FightingBear
Mar. 4, 2013 at 7:14amIf the Washington Press corps doesn’t like Obama then they are all racist. I thought that fact had been established even during his initial presidential campaign. If you don’t agree with this man’s politics and vision…well then…you are a racist. If your world view happens to differ from his…., you are obviously a racist.
As far as their love affair with Obama….it is not so much about him as it is the agenda. The liberal media has a love affair with the leftists agenda. I really doesn’t matter who you put in there with a “D” behind their name…the media will be carrying their water for them. The more liberal that person….the louder the media will cheer.
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starman70
Mar. 4, 2013 at 7:52amIf the Washington press corps doesn’t like Obama, can anyone tell me why they go around sniffing his bicycle seat like a bunch of lapdogs?
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geeman
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:26amdave is trying to make us think they are realy tuff on obama,and not his lap dogs.woof woof.forget it dave we all know better.exsept for other obamatron like you!
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takie
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:53amWe as the American people don’t like the press corp either. They are nothing more than a bunch of lollypops that Obummer has for his licking. The throw nothing but softball questions and fawn over him like he is their star struck lover. It is sickening. If they would do their job, maybe we would know what really happened to 4 Americans in Benghazi.
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13th Imam
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:16amBernie G said it best
A slobbering love affair for the vast majority of the MSM. A one way love affair. You NEVER see the stats on real crimes committed by any ethnic groups on other groups, or even on their own group. You NEVER see voter fraud stats, in any comprehensive way. The MSM is like a beaten wife who won’t squeal on the abusive husband.
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fastgen1
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:28amI have to agree, the mainstream press is a pack of nazis, do not believe, this is mis-direction…..
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dewardo
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:25amThey are unhappy with him , but not about him. Not unhappy about the irreversible damage he has done to our nation , but unhappy obama took them out of the LOOP.
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M13
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:38amNot being able to go out and cover the big story of Tiger Woods and Obama on the golf course must have them all upset.
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IndyGuy
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:22am“Obama & the Washington Press Corps Don’t Like Each Other”
States the Prez leg humper David Gregory…
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civilwarcometh
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:27amNow you know why MSM has a 9% approval rating. No one buy’s this crap but die hard commies.. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/world/middleeast/seized-arms-off-yemen-raise-alarm-over-iran.html?_r=1&
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CatB
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:48amI went on Amazon Prime last night to find a movie to watch … one of the ones that came up as people are watching was 1976′s ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN. Looks to me like people want to see what the press looks like when they are doing their job. I watched it again …. it had been a long time … and I lived through the event also … I really think the lamestream media is afraid of Bob Woodward and not only what he might do to Barry but how he could expose their lapdog agenda.
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CatB
Mar. 3, 2013 at 12:00pmAlso in watching it I see where Woodward may be having some flashbacks to the same type of corruption we see now with the Obama regime from his time exposing the Nixon White House. If you have never watched or it has been a long time please see ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN. It is free to watch on Amazon Prime and I am certain other places have it also available to rent.
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justangry
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:20amYeah, you expect me to believe that ****? If the media were doing half it’s job the populace would have already picked up their torches and pitchforks and sent these statists swimming back to Europe.
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Fubared
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:28amWell said Angry.
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:51amAgree!
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Walkabout
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:41amSocialists were forced or induced to leave Europe in the 19th century by passage of laws like Bismarck’s Anti-Socialist Law cause many German socialists to emigrate to America from 1878 to 1890.
So they come to the U.S. & bring their politics with them.
It would be better that they group together with only true believers try their hardest to accomplish socialism and either fail or succeed or they will never get it out of their system. They just repeat the mantra “It hasn’t been tried right.”
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ItsAllCrap
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:51amAWWWW the stupid b @st@ rds are angry. I am too and so is most of America! If they would just do their jobs and report the truth, it shouldn’t matter who likes then. “F” the POTUS POS pi $$ him off! Get him off the teleprompters let him tell us who he really is! Let him reveal his true vision of the fundamental transformation of the USA. Then it is lights out for the administration!
Give us our voices back!
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h20sue
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:19amSnowleopard, you’re ‘DEAD ON’. Obama doesn’t like the press because he ‘hasn’t the answers’. He lives in his own little oppressed world. He wants to reign as ‘the king’ and he wants to rule ‘the airways, as well as the world.’ I loved the last “breaking news” where he said…”I’m not a dictator.”
Oh yeah, well, Mr. President, you sure have us fooled.
If Obama want stop spending, then we have to do something to keep the debt from putting all of us in the grave. This means people have to suffer. So…who do you thank? You thank our loving and budget minded president. I thought it was against the “law” for any president not have a “budget”? Excuse me, but why hasn’t our Congress pressed this? Why hasn’t the good Speaker of the House done something about it? Why are they scared?
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theBru
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:42amBecause they are on the same team, maybe???
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ChiefGeorge
Mar. 3, 2013 at 12:08pmI remember Nixon saying “He was not a crook”. But he was and so is Dear Leader.
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riseandshine
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:14amThanks Blaze…another important piece of information.
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civilwarcometh
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:14amIs this guy on the bundlers list??? http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/obama-fundraiser-pleads-guilty-to-swindling-millions/?cat_orig=politics
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Walkabout
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:50amNo, Osoiro is not on the list of the top donors.
http://www.obamabiden.com/volunteer-fundraisers-q4.html
He is still a donor. And he lives in a very swanky Miami neighborhood, Star Island.
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riseandshine
Mar. 3, 2013 at 1:11pm*sarc*
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Jim in Houston
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:13amThe vast majority of those who produce and pay taxes can’t stand BO and his administartion either.
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jungle J
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:13amThe progressives are playing you so called conservatives/libertarians like a cheap set of spoons. Listening to your comments is better than watching stupid people play chess.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:23amMust be tough to swing from a tree and type at the same time. You’re not a progressive, Conservative or Libertarian I gather JUNGLEJ? So where does that put you in the grand scheme of things? Just swinging?
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Wakeup Maggie
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:24amYeah…we’re the ones being played–LOL
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woodyee
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:12amYou want to know what gave David Gregory his ounce of courage?
Bob Woodward. Without Woodward speaking up, David Gregory would still be sucking Obammy’s arse.
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Xanderson
Mar. 3, 2013 at 11:54amMaybe that’s the case, but I think it’s more likely that it’s NBC’s way to downplay/discredit Woodward’s claim. Gregory is saying “Don’t give that senile has-been old guy’s words any credence because that’s how we are ALL treated by the administration”. Not buying it, David– not for one second!
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ChiefGeorge
Mar. 3, 2013 at 12:10pmYes but he is scared sssshitless that the WH will come after him and or he will not be welcome at the WH for the next foew years.
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jungle J
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:10amhe is a liar and a progressive operative…a pot stirrer to keep the mentally ill and ignorant confused and wanting more dope.
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woodyee
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:10amObama may not like the Washington Press Corp, but judging them by the way they continue to cover his arse, they sure do love him!!!
David Gregory is a liar.
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Noonien_Soong
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:08amAll David Gregory is stating is he and the rest of their MSM are late to the party. Their party or so-called party is trying to make a half hearted attempt to make amends. This attempt is just a clouded form of misleading the real agenda of a cover up to save their collective arses.
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FlagWavingPatriot
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:06amAll smoke and mirrors, as usual.
The state-run media adores the state, and vice versa.
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rockymtngal
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:05amObama doesn’t like anyone asking him questions he doesn’t want to answer. The only kind of press he wants us to hear is either favorable, or one that gives him an opportunity to blame someone else for his ideas.
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moonlight on the bay
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:38amToo bad his fear of answering tough questions didn’t discourage him from seeking a second term.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:04amThe hypocrite Prima Donnas of the Washington press corps getting fed up with the hypocrite prima donna in the White House? Say it ain’t so.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:03amCould it be that at long last some in the journalistic world of the leftists have seen that Obama does not need them, cares nothing for them, and that they are nothing but pawns within the god-kings cult.
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gyro
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:13ammore lies to fool the stupid
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FSCC
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:03amI now have something in common with the Washington Press Corps.
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progressiveslayer
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:01amHey Dave you got any extra mags? All of you propagandist pigs covered for the sham of a president from day one and one of Barrys puppets screams at Woodward and now all of a sudden you don’t like your master? If you all would’ve done your job back in 07 we wouldn’t be dealing with the worst president this country ever had. All ‘media’ members that covered for the worthless POS are just as bad as the regime.
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Stoic one
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:01amPerhaps the washington media is looking for sympathy from the Main Stream Populace?
CONSERVATIVES?
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ShowMeState314
Mar. 3, 2013 at 1:32pmI’m thinking they’re finally realizing they’re all about to be out of a job. A vast majority of the populace doesn’t pay any attention to them any longer.
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barber2
Mar. 3, 2013 at 4:34pmSHOW: And an even larger majority holds them in complete contempt for droning Obama on the American people by not vetting him or his Chicago radical best buds.
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FeliciaJewel
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:01amI am glad that the Press does not get a long with the Dictator, well at least some of them. If Obama had his way he would never address the Press. He does have 4 years to get rid of them. Are they now the enemy of the State?
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:04amThe latest enemies of the state…
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tommyr
Mar. 3, 2013 at 9:59amDavid should blow smoke us his own arse. He can’t really think he is believable.
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Trigus
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:07amI agree smoke and mirrors – Someone should ask David and the limp noodle crew (washington Press Corp) – Name one tough question that they have ask Barry Obama in the 5 years? Then how does it feel to have his manhood removed by Barry and is told how and what to ask and report?
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Workingthedirt
Mar. 3, 2013 at 4:25pmExactly just another lame attempt to make the public think their doing their job. I bet Obama told them to say that.
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Walkabout
Mar. 3, 2013 at 9:58amTwinks do not actually like the people who peg them. They just think they do. It is a version of the Stockholm Syndrome
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GeorgieJo
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:06amDavid Gregory was filling in for matt Loser on today show and he was cooking with jail matron Martha Stooward….Dave? Your kids are protected at their school (his kids go where the obamas kids go) so why don’t you just zip it? NO ONE CARES what YOU THINK.
The Proggy-Lib Media are stooges and sadly they don’t even know it.
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oriondma05
Mar. 3, 2013 at 9:55amHi I’m David Gregory’s upper lip! I’m about an inch taller than I need to be.
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progressiveslayer
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:03amDave has a simian appearance doesn’t he?
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Walkabout
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:36amI don’t hold Gregory’s genetics (log face) against him although I get angry just seeing him.
What I hold against him is that he is another news anchor “pretty” who is more concerned with his coiffe than learning about economics, history, engineering, science, mathematics or anything else useful.
Sure he thinks he knows a great deal about economics, politics & history, but it has all been received knowledge. So he is just regurgitating what he has been brainwashed into believing from an early age.
The neurons that control his bowel movements process more information that the neurons he uses to analyze current events.
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Walkabout
Mar. 3, 2013 at 10:48amcorrection “long” not “log”
But sadly for Gregory using the word log is apropos. He does not have a log in his eye. His whole face is a log.
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TADTAD
Mar. 3, 2013 at 9:51amBS. They service the Marxist daily.
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