Early April Fools? Obama Gets Anti-Secrecy Award in Secret Mtg.
- Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:31am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Now this is ironic: on Monday, the president got a transparency award…during a closed, undisclosed meeting.
The award came from a group of transparency advocates, but was done in secret during a presentation that was originally supposed to be open to the press two weeks ago. The ceremony was “inexplicably postponed,’ however, says Politico, and instead happened on Monday “without disclosing the meeting on his public schedule or letting photographers or print reporters into the room.”
“Our understanding going into the meeting was that it would have a pool photographer and a print reporter, and it turned out to be a private meeting,” Gary Bass of OMB Watch, who was present at the clandestine ceremony, told POLITICO. “He was so on point, so on target in the conversation with us, it is baffling why he would not want that message to be more broadly heard by reporters and the public interest community and the public generally.”
But yet no member of the press was allowed in. And despite Press Secretary Jay Carney’s assertions earlier this month that the president “has demonstrated a commitment to transparency and openness,” some aren’t buying it.
“I don’t feel moved today to say ‘thank you, Mr. President,’” Steve Aftergood, the director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told Politico. Instead, he defined the award as “aspirational.”
“And in that sense, one could say it resembles the award at the Nobel Peace Prize,” Aftergood said. “It’s not because Obama brought peace to anyone but because people hoped he would be a force for good in the world, and maybe that’s the way to understand this award.”
Read the rest at Politico.
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Comments (160)
staggerlee32
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:02amROTFLMAO…. now that just sums up everything!
Report Post »fastgunslinger
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:31pmremember the election coming up. Throw big ears out.
Report Post »Geopatriot
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:54amLet’s not forget about the roughly 2,000 Marines that are getting ready to deploy to the Gulf Region.
Report Post »staggerlee32
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:05amyep 2200 Marines…. but only going to the ships offshore of Libya…. maybe to protect the ships from attack….lol
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:53amUmmm.Wow!
The amazing thing is that liberals will be perfectly comfortable with this, think it’s great.
Report Post »BBReggie
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:53amThe next thing we will learn is that Bill Clinton has been presented a “Fidelity” award at a whorehouse in Nevada.
Report Post »Freedom1984
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:20amha ha ha….
Report Post »After all the scary news stories today on this site…
Thanks for making me GRIN!!!!
brntout
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:45amSince he and a few others tarnished what the nobel peace prize represents how relevant is this reward to future recipients?
Report Post »brntout
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:43amThere’s that “halo” special effect again.
Report Post »Freedom1984
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:17amIt creeps me out is what it does. I see more EVIL than anything else… I really can’t stand to look at the picture. I am tired of seeing it…..
Report Post »I can almost picture the horns coming out of BO’s head…..
ick.
emertz8413
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:41amKeep sticking your nose in the air Barry!! You can keep giving him awards, but it’s taking more and more of them to cover the smell of Marxism!!
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:38amHe is transparent alright. You see through every devious plot he has devised.
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:32ammwhaley
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:58am
He is being transparent to someone! Not the American people, but someone!!
Yeah!
Report Post »O M G! Give me a break….
Bushie
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:25amI can see right through this A$$.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:24amUsing THIS logic, I’m waiting for my incredibly handsome award.
Report Post »PavZilla
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:43am(snickerin) thanks for the grin!
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:20amAn “aspirational” award resembling the award at Nobel Peace Prize ?
Well now this is “Change” you can believe in. Give the “Award” then “Hope” the recipient lives up to it. Let award obama with the Distinguished Defender of America and The Constitution award. Gosh! If this works think of the wonderful people and deeds we could Hope for.
What really amazes me is how shameless our leaders are when speaking such nonsense; not even a tiny blush. I bet these buffoons believe they’re invisible when they put their hands over their eyes Not unlike the Emperor with his new Clothes, and too many citizens who swoon of the beauty of them.
Report Post »JoeFriday
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:10amThis idiot cant even make up his mind, Is he going to get us killed or starve us out of exsistance
Report Post »On the Other hand I’ll bet Jimmy Carter is glad he saw the new worst president before he passes
Freedom1984
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:32amGood one!!! lol lol…. need a little laughter today!!!
Report Post »liberalsarealiens
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:09amI am forever amazed at this mans audacity. Has he no honor? How does he shave in the morning knowing the fraud he really is! Keep on digging that hole Obama, keep on digging cause 2012 is looming close!
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:06amHeIS transparent.. I see right through his lies, deception, and bs.. and I see a very hollow person…IOW.. there’s nothing there
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:06amI’m waiting for the definition of “transparent.” Surely he’s got one (up his sleeve perhaps?).
Report Post »PavZilla
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:16amI’m yearning for Rocky and Bullwinkle to appear and pull something out of their hat telling us this has all been a cruel joke. But, all good things in all good time, eh?
Report Post »POIPNE
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:04pm@PAVZILLA
Report Post »Don’t forget, Bullwinkle always got the WRONG hat. “Hokey Smokes!” And, what about Mr Know-it-all?
LadyIzShy
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:59amoh the irony.. to have ot planned then postponed to a time we dont tell anyone about or allow anyone to see.. my gosh this group of people are soooo arrogant it astounds me
Report Post »dadsrootbeer
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:58amJust another elitist group giving out awards to their own. You can’t make this stuff up.
Report Post »KbJockey
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:54pmThis crap dovetails perfectly with the PC practice of some little league ball orginazations that give awards to a child for something not accomplished in hope that it will some how incourage them to accomplish it. Most kids are smart enough to know that it is bogus. I doubt Pres. Obama is though.
Report Post »Bermuda Onion
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:52amTell you what, this guy has got to be the most unhappy bastard in the world. For him to go through all of this just to be recognized in PRIVATE!? I bet he will put all the up in the home when he leaves so that he could feel important. If we thoughth that the Clintons were dispicable with all the silverware and dinnerware from airforce one and the Whit House wait until they leave! Oi vey.
Report Post »WSBrown
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:36pmWorse…Airforce One will be missing on inauguration Day…
Report Post »diesel49
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:50amever notice the pictures of bo make him look like a dictator, compare pics of bo and hitler giving speechs, scary
Report Post »Freedom1984
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:30amJust a note… CHECK OUT THE NEW DEPARTMENT OF JUSICE WEB PAGE. They totally took off the top the American Flag, put up a black wall, and some strange symbols. They also have a quote up there, and if you research the quote it is something out of a SOCIALIST DOCUMENT.
I am totally 100 % serious about this. I have been trying to find a way to get the word out…
I wish I remembered the direct link to the site…but it’s something like departmentofjustic.gov??
SERIOUSLY PEOPLE LOOK IT UP. something is REALLY REALLY REALLY WRONG… i can feel it in my bones.
Report Post »Edgar Bennet
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:49amJustice.gov – creepy for sure. Silent majority will be standing up in 5,4,3,2 …
Report Post »Freedom1984
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:13am@Edgar
See????????? I bet very few people noticed the CHANGE. In my mind it’s HUGE. It‘s the DEPARTMENT of JUSTICE for pete’s sake….
and before they changed it… the whole top was covered in an AMERICAN FLAG… the SYMBOL of our FREEDOM…………… Now it’s black, empty and has a SOCIALST SENTENCE right on the top of it………………………………………..
THIS IS WRONG.
I WANT TO KNOW………….
Who Allowed this CHANGE??????
Please Media LOOK INTO IT…………………..
At a time when we are talking Sharia Law….
Report Post »The Department of JUSTICE site should not take down our AMERICAN FLAG and put up a SOCIALIST STATMENT………………
VotersOfNY
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:49amAm I in bizarro world? WTF is going on with this clown? Just when I think this dummie has topped his previous stupid stunt, he pulls another one out of the hat. What the heck is a ‘transparency award?’ Do they make these awards up?
Report Post »Freedom1984
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:24amI totally agree with you. EVERYTIME I think, okay this is it… they come out with something MORE STUPID…. One theory I heard on talk radio was that BO is trying to flood the system with all these STUPID MORONIC CRAP, so that we will forget to focus on what their real agenda is.
Makes sense to me…
Because reading this, I got caught up in it as well… and am like WTF?
THIS ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO (what???) Oh, I know, they need a good case of pubic lice, no treatment, and no hands to scratch with…. NOW THAT WOULD BE FUNNY!
Report Post »Bermuda Onion
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:48amThis administration is just like a Farrelly brothers movie. I bet this guy calls these places, tells them to go ahead and make a plaque and says this is going to take place in such and such a place and such and such time.
Report Post »jarheadone
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:44amHas to be a April Fool Joke: how ironic, nothing in this regime is transparent!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:24amThe tea party should give him a award for being the most fiscally responsible president in history
Report Post »staggerlee32
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:05amGood one!
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:43amTo bad the Marx brothers are all dead, they would love to make a movie about this. I have a hard time deciding if the President is dishonest or incompetent. Maybe both?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:57am“transparency award…during a closed, undisclosed meeting” Must be a joke
Report Post »Freedom1984
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:27amHey have you watched DUCK SOUP lately??????? It is pretty right on target with this Administration!!! Really…it’s almost SCARY how accurate the movie is in displaying the stupididy and downright liars of this REGIME……………….
somehow they managed to look into the future and see BO, the country hater president.
Report Post »lgccac
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:37amYou couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:46am********************************************
Press Secretary Jay Carney’s assertions earlier this month that the president “has demonstrated a commitment to transparency and openness,”
********************************************
Cool, when is that going to start?
Report Post »t00nces2
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:55amI can’t wait until the Cohen Bros make this presidency into a movie.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:56amThat sounds about right. Everything is so bizarre with this president. He talks transparency, yet everything is a secret. He always says let me be clear, yet he couldn’t be clear to save his life. This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGMl5TBfepc is awesome. It shows how the Libya war compares to Iraq as it relates to Bush vs. Obama.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 7:58amHe is being transparent to someone! Not the American people, but someone!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:01amHe is transparent to his Saul Alinsky followers and those who have educated themselves, but to the “average Joe”, he just talks in circles, half truths and bold faced lies.
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:05amMMMMmmmk….Is this a joke? Transparent? Really? This administration is anything but transparent. They go out of their way to misinform the people or outright lie. At this point I think even Obama must feel a little sheepish accepting an award like that. 2012 cannot come soon enough and I can only pray that this country will make it there so we can start to rebuild.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:17amThis administration gives a new definition of twisted and distorted every time I hear something like this going on.
Indeed you just cannot make up stuff such as this; a secretly given award for transparency to the one admin who conceals more than any other and deliberatly makes efforts of finding out stuff so hard as to be impossible.
Report Post »spurjimmy
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:31amIf America is being made to pay for its sins, Obama is its nemesis.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:36amThis makes as much sense as Hugo Chavez getting a journalism award from a university in Brazil.
Report Post »Run Silent
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:39amOwebamma gives me gas!
Report Post »staggerlee32
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:02amROTFLMAO… now that just sums up everything!
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:24amWhy does that picture of Obama with the presidential seal around his head keep showing up. Is it some publicity photo to make him look deified? It makes me want to puke every time I see it.
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:50amI agree! This is absolutely ridiculous! These people are not using the dictionary we use apparently. Transparent not meaning the same to them as it does us normal people. These things are just to further brainwash the followers. We conservatives and normal thinking people know better.
These articles are to “keep the Kool-Aid” down. Hopefully some will start choking on this drink. Ah, the Deception of the Ages!
Report Post »TheLascone
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:21amSpooky Dude probably paid for the award … lol
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pajamash
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:31amAs long as he believes he is transparent what does it matter if he really is?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:44am“Some aren’t BUYING it???
Now we have to pay extra to observe Barry’s Transparency.?? He is about transparent as mud.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:47am“And in that sense, one could say it resembles the award at the Nobel Peace Prize,” Aftergood said. “It’s not because Obama brought peace to anyone but because people hoped he would be a force for good in the world, and maybe that’s the way to understand this award.”
He starts a third war. Does not ask Congress’ approval for the war. Doesn’t speak to the citizens of our country till 10 days after he starts said war. Has shown a propensity for being closed lipped and not speaking with the American people till days, even weeks, after an event has begun (The Gulf Oil Spill) yet he receives the nobel peace prize and now a prize for transperancy. Have I been warped into Bizaroo World?!
Report Post »POIPNE
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:51amHe can put THIS award on the wall right next to his Nobel Peace Prize. I can’t decide if this is a joke or what!
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:15pmAnd the new logo of the Democratic Party shall be the Looney Tunes logo with a grinning Obama wearing Speedy Gonzalez’s sombrero!
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:19pmRUN SILENT
he give you gas —– your lucky
hr give the s//ts and a pain in a$$
Report Post »anutter
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:26pmThis President is about as transparent as a foggy night on a new moon.
Report Post »RJO
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:32pmThe picture above the story says it all……LOOK at the subtlty (must be an Associated Press photo – B.O.’s biggest cheerleader in the LameStream press) used……NOT.
Gosh darn….it’s a halo around the sacred, shallow head of B.O.!!! Wow….I’ve been transformed…..after 2-plus years of resisting, I like drinking the kool-aid!!!!!!
Idiot.
Report Post »kikibirdie
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:44pmWow, this is getting REALLY old…. He should give back both awards but he won’t — too narcissistic and the media just keeps perpetuating the myth that he’s a great thinker, a great President.
As Charles Krauthammer said in 2008, “Watch what Barack Obama does, not what he says”.
Oh, by the way, where are the Dixie Chicks now? And Cindy Sheehan? Yeah, I thought so…..
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:03pmHe is surrounded by smoke, not transparency. The smoke, however, is starting to clear and Americans are getting a look at his real intentions. This award is as meaningless as the Nobel Prize. Neither awards are appropriate or earned.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:17pmWorth as much as his NOBEL PEACE PRIZE… boy he will take ANYTHING.. from ANYONE won’t he..
Report Post »agypsyfoot2
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:15pmYou couldn‘t make this stuff up because it’s transparent! Perhaps the “award” is as well. Not there! Like his birth certificate. Like the prosectuion for “defrauding” the government by obtaining grants and loans for a foreign student – whoops! that’s he who is the foreign studnet!!! what a surprise!
Report Post »rpp
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:57pm@t00nces2
I think the Cohen Brothers already have. It was called “Fargo”. Obama was played by Steve Buscemi.
Report Post »waggie
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:16pmNow here’s something that is no secret: Obama is an idiot!
Report Post »GaryAnderson
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:45pmSection 4: The 25th Amendment, allows for a relief of command, not impeachment, simply a way to try an undo the nightmare he has placed us in because of disorientating capacity. The breakdown of the Obama administration and the internecine political warfare within the Executive Office of the President has gone aloft, allowing for Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to gain power, while giving recognition and prominence to the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas axis, sowing the seeds, for a Holy War.
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