Obama Camp Defends Giving Interviews to People & Entertainment Tonight Over WH Press Corps: ‘Equally Important…That‘s Where a Lot of Americans Get Their News’
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President Barack Obama‘s deputy campaign manager on Sunday defended Obama’s slew of softball interviews this week even as he hasn’t faced the White House press corps in two months, saying outlets like People magazine and Entertainment Tonight are “equally important.”
“The president was talking to reporters on the ground in Iowa,” Stephanie Cutter said on CNN’s “State of the Union.“ ”Do you think that that’s less important than talking to somebody like you?”
Asked when the press corps could expect a formal news conference, Cutter replied: “He’s traveling the country, we’re running for re-election. Iowa is a critical state. We’re going to spend our time talking to media all over this country.”
Asked whether Entertainment Tonight or People are more important than the White House press, Cutter said they have equal value.
“I don’t think that they’re more important, but I think they’re equally important,” she said. “I think that’s where a lot of Americans get their news. And I think the president’s going to continue doing that.”
Cutter said that while Romney may have held two news conferences in the last week, “he‘s not being transparent about his own policies and distorting the president’s.”
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jujubeebee
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:36pmObama campaign has been courting the ignorant vote all along. He can’t handle any press outlets that are not in the tank for him and now he is ducking even those that have liberal bias without a teleprompter. He gets on the stump and lies and anyone with intelligence knows he is lying. All those people standing behind him clapping are morons. Let him repeat the BS on what he did to seniors with obamacare. He stole over $7 billion, gave them a panel to make decisions over their doctor, will be cutting reimbursements to providers which in turn will lead to even more doctors excluding medicare patients alltogether. The reimbursements now are already doing that. Robert Gibbs was dancing around it with Chris Wallace but seniors are not dumb people. The Obama camp lied to everyone to get Obamacare passed, closing doors, juggling figures and double counting, bribing members of their own party~why would any senior believe the sales job now?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:55pmThe President of the Mob!
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:31pmSurely you jest.
Report Post »Aside from FOX (not) news Romney avoids the press all together.
On The Bayou
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:34pmI am looking forward to the day I don`t have to see these two people in the news.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:54pmThis guy is really President Kardishian. I listened to Rush call this guy president Kardishian, and think Rush is just trying to poke the bear, but Obama really is a Kardishian.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 2:11pm“I think that’s where a lot of Americans get their news.”
Yeah, doesn’t anyone see an issue with that? People get their news from entertainment sites and channels. “News” is a joke. And it’s not just the left; FOX was split recently into their News section and their Entertainment section. The Wall Street Journal went to news… guess where Fox News went? Yep; entertainment.
Welcome to Idiocracy, America.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 2:22pmOMG! Get the news out for those who like softball questions. ie: what’s your favorite color?
Mitt is smart to stay away from those type programs. Don’t watch them anyway.
Mitt should stay with the true news programs, like FOX News and not even bother with those lowbrow ignorant type programs who pretend they understand what NEWS really is, not the stupid, asinine questions they ask. I don‘t care what color is anyone’s favorite, and that type of nonsense. I want to know who and what that person believes, and I don’t trust obama any way, anyhow. Look what‘s he’s done to our economy is 3 years, and 6 trillion in debt.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 2:22pm@Mwhaley
“This guy is really President Kardishian. I listened to Rush call this guy president Kardishian, and think Rush is just trying to poke the bear, but Obama really is a Kardishian.”
Is a Kardishian anything like a Kardashian?
Report Post »SharonIsCaring
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 2:51pmFind all video in RESTORING LOVE comments in “faith” section
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 3:39pmOnly a little more than a third of eligible voters vote a) If you vote for Obozo then your a liberal b) and if Obozo‘s base weren’t so Mis/Dis/ and Uninformed by the Idiot box commie news lapdog Obamunist media c) Then nobody would vote for Obozo but true diseased loon box left
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 3:58pmI love it, he gives em the middle finger, ****** in their breakfast cereal,,,,,and they sill worship this Marxist moron…….and they really hit him with riveting press corp questions, like “ what is the most enchanting thing about being president ” what a freakin joke the so called media has become…”..”
Report Post »I truly believe thereal story of these four years, is the great demise of the so called media……they have always been a wing of the socialist movement in this country, but before they actually tried to hide it……irrelevant jokes is what the media is, everyone knows it except them, and that’s what is so funny.
HKS
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:10pmObama writes his own questions for his interviews. It’s the only interview he will give.
Report Post »Cappy1437
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:53pmSpot on. This is all about the dumbing down of America. This is the segment of society Obama is appealing to and courting. How sad this is. He likes Hollywood. The lifestyle appeals to him and obviously there’s money to be had there and he is desperate. You can see it on both of their faces in the picture. Hopefully he will be a one term president and our country can once again get back on course and become great like it once was.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:05pmVerseoftreason’s fav news channel is the cartoon network. What a putz.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:13pmIf Obama went on real news he will just get nailed over what he has promised since 2007. I’d like for someone to ask him about the new Android APP that tells you when your Chevy Volt is on fire.
Report Post »lbk
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:43pmI watched that interview. I didn’t think one person could stammer so much. Looked like he was having a lot of trouble keeping all his lies straight.
Report Post »Treaty
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:48pmI‘m sure we’ll be seeing an interview on FOX any day now…
Report Post »screw
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 7:34pm.
Wanted to watch The Nightly News on NBC with Brian Williams on Sunday evening.
What important event did they show the American people.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . GOLF
At least it wasn’t their usual enlightening FLUFF.
The ignorant, I’m sure, are pleased.
Including the NBC executives.
Report Post »john
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:50pmHey, tor Obama to compare Entertainment Tonight to the WH Press Corp is like telling someone that if they want to know how the Navy Seals train, just go down to a Boy Scout Camp and watch the rigors they endure to earn a Merit Badge.
If Obama really believes it is reasonable to compare what Entertainment Tonight does with what the White Press Corps does, then he probably sees no difference between what Joe Biden does and what any on the road comedian does, which explains why Biden still has a job.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:08amSo now People magazine is a news magazine? Scratching my head on that one.
Report Post »pdw
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 1:32pmHe is catering to the let me entertain you group that would care less about this country even at their own enslavement. Do not bother me unless you piss me off group.
Report Post »dlivelli
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:34pmHe can’t handle a REAL interview….only the drooling starry eyed imbeciles that worship the ground he walks on, like Chris Mathews…..gettin any more tingles lately Chris?…. get ready to exchange that tingle for a rather large pain come November….all those ‘racists’ are going to give your boy his well deserved PINK SLIP! If obama talks about real issues he loses…that‘s why he keeps harping on Romney’s taxes. Romney should release his taxes, maybe, if and when obama lets an independent party check on his college records and the other multitude of info he and his buddies have sealed. This guy is simply a cheat, thief and liar….rotten to the core, and dangerous to the whole world.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:00pmActually, what he has done in previous interviews is to take them over and burn up the interviewer’s time while he gets away at making the whole thing his very own soliloquy. He knows if the interviewer interrupts, or calls him on something that the rest of the media will pound that guy. But, right now he does just seem to shooting for the shallow minded pop crowd.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:07pmHe is a COWARD!
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:31pmYou mean like Mitt?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 2:43pmWe HUMANs have a Serious Problem: When people speak to us… the information is received Unfiltered… thereby we assume the speaker to be Honest and Telling the Truth!
Report Post »jackact
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:30pmWhen ‘Entertainment Tonight’ takes precedence over the White House press corps as a valued news source for the Obama campaign team we can see two important facts:
Report Post »Obama has written off every single white working class vote in America and has revealed, for the country to witness, the educational prowess of the remaining Obama constituents. U
Anyone ever seen the movie “Idiocracy”?
Thanks to President Kardashian, we are currently living it.
Holla!
beckwill
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:59pmWater? You mean like from the toilet?
Report Post »jackact
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 2:30pmBeckwill…..exactly!
Report Post »702TruthSeeker
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:40pmhe’s probably using Nielsen viewership numbers, according to them E.T. is very popular
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/nielsen-sued-billions-manipulated-ratings-355829
Report Post »Viper1
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:30pmIt seems kind of funny that this person has such a self imposing personallity that I am surprised he can get a shirt over his head. His ego must be the size of a watermellon. I am not making a joke about watermellons. If there is a group of Americans that only get their news off of Entertainment tonight then that is exactly what they deserve. If any body checked though, they might probably figure out that this is not a voting group
Report Post »Mike Benton
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 2:30pmWoops, you can’t mention “watermelon” in the same sentence with a Black guy…you racist!
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:29pmAnother example of Barry, a coddled, coward of a President, running away from the tough questions.
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:34pmExactly! Michelle is a COW and Obama is a COWard!
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:42pmgood one Randy! Moochelle the cow and Obama the coward!
Report Post »NoUseForLogic
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:52pmYeah COWard! That’s hilarious!! I get it!
He’s reaching millions of women sitting at home watching this. But you know that already.
Unlike Republicans, Obama goes on all networks and sits down with anyone. Unlike the right, who stays on Fox News where the entire act is scripted to the highest bidder.
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:51pmDumbo is not only a COWard he is a silly and stupid coward who needs a teleprompter to even speak. Bidon needs one too, but he might sound as stupid as NObama then.
Report Post »62A
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:58pmCorrect regarding Barry, but that’s no cow next to him, looks more like Tarzan’s Cheeta.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:23pmThe white house press corp / entertainment tonight………they both throw softball questions, so what’s the dif…….?
Report Post »simply one voice
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:25pmActually, it’s T-Ball questions and comments.
Report Post »dave88
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:20pmThat’s were they get their new over whether he wears boxers or briefs and not on Medicare, unemployment and the economy.
Report Post »Isaiah52021
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:20pmSince when is “what is your favorite color”, news? Beck hit the nail on the head, this man is Coward, an evil coward, but a coward no less. I looked at his highest donators almost all of them are Hollywood insiders that is why he only does entertainment “news”.
Report Post »usernametaken
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:19pmI use like Leno, Letterman, Fallon, Springsteen etc.etc. until they became extreme
Obamao pole smokers, but I do believe Romney/Ryan are going to beat the liberal
media and the commie pimp in chief.
DO NOT BELIEVE THE LIBERAL MEDIA
R&R 2012 ! , how ironic…. Ronald Reagan’s initials ??
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:23pmYes. And some “ rest and relaxation ” from when the Comrade Obama crowd Occupied the White House !
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:17pmEntertainment networks is where a lot of ignorant and gullible Americans get their indoctrination and agitprop!
Report Post »Aiser
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:16pmYou know… that’s 100% accurate and a good point he makes. It is also a smart move to campaign this way. What do you expect when most Americans actually believe that comedians like Jon Stewart and Colbert are valid and “informative” news sources and to say so is a badge of honor. Meanwhile if you get your news from let‘s say Drudge Report or anything that is not main stream then it’s invalid and subject to laughter and derision? The irony…
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:15pmActually this might be a smart move by Obama. People with 2 brain cells have already made up their minds about who to vote for. What’s left are the dumbest of the dumb. These are the people that know more about American Idol than anything else; and these are the same people who read “People” magazine, and watch stupid shows about Hollywood entertainers. Hey, Obama is the “Entertainer in Chief” after all!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:23pmThey just need to revive the Arsenio Hall Show so that “0” can pantomime Clinton playing his sax.
Report Post »rosegrower
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:35amI don’t know about a “smart” move, but perhaps the only one that was available. I expect next to see Obama schmoozing it up on Wendy Williams’ daytime talk show – she’s Oprah for those who read the National Enquirer, believe the stories and call those 900-psychic lines advertised in the back. “What’s your favorite color” would be deep for this crowd.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:15pm…
To be honest, I didn’t even realize that “mind-rotting” People magazine and Entertainment Tonight still even existed. I don’t read crap or watch crap.
Educated, informed, productive citizens, sure as H*LL don’t get their real news from those sources. The uneducated, misinformed, welfare citizens, are Obama’s target voters. They are his only hope for re-election, and he knows it.
Report Post »illegalPresident
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:19pmSCYTL is Obama’s Hope and Change for the upcoming election..It’s Not who Votes that count, it’s who Counts the vote…
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:28pmThe one good thing I can say for all the crappy tv shows and movies It has me reading more.
Report Post »My kindle kicks ass. lol
kickagrandma
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:15pmBull!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:15pmA Shallow minded potus talking to shallow minded people on shallow minded ENTERTAINMENT shows.
Report Post »FOX NEWS is where REAL Americas gets both sided of sides of news worthy stories!
Tigress1
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:25pmNot really. Fox News is going downhill fast. The only way to get full coverage anymore is to channel surf. Fox News spends more time showing how to grill salmon than they do anything else. They must not realize that if people wanted to watch a cooking show they would turn to a cooking channel. That gives me an idea… are they showing the news on the cooking channels now? I better check…
Report Post »FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:02pmTigress I watch fox every day and have never once seen any cooking at all on fox.
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 3:34pmFREEDOMOVERFEAR: Actually FOX has cooking segments on FOX & FRIENDS and I’m tired of watching it as the show is getting too liberal for me.
Report Post »TXGal
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 10:43amI use to be a FOX News junkie but had to give the network up. I was screaming at the TV too much. I can not stand listening to the paid-liberals they have, all spouting the same lies. I think Soros took over when Beck left. Can’t t tell you how many emails I have sent to FOX calling them Entertainment TV.
Report Post »bTeri
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:13pmOK, so by Stephanie Cutter’s logic if the Washington press corps and outlets like Entertainment Tonight and People magazine deserve equal consideration, doing elementary school math, just from these two interviews Obama owes two real, hard hitting interview opportunities to the Washington press corp — right Stephanie? Or do you really think the AMerican people are so stupid that they really get their real news from Entertainment Tonight and People magazine?
Report Post »ricckky
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:13pmTHIS GUY IS UNREAL—DOESN’T HAVE CLUE—OR TOO MUCH OF A CLUE–When will the media take him to task? ever?
Report Post »DoyleHargraves
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:04pm@ phhhyssco I sincererrrly hop uyr liffe is compleete noww
Report Post »pdw
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 1:46pmThe Media will only take him to task when they find they are going broke supporting a lost cause and the pockets that pay their salaries.
Report Post »NoUseForLogic
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:11pmOh boy. The Obama campaign utilizes all markets. What a shocker. Keep up the stallar reporting Glenn. You’re backwards audience deserves nothing less.
The Blaze. The only website that exists where the headline completely dictates each and every comment.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:34pmthe word is STELLAR
and we all know you have issues
doesnt media splatters teach you how to use spell check????
Report Post »NoUseForLogic
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:45pmOh you got me there! Wow! I mispelled a word!! Another shocker. Way to waste a comment on it…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:51pmWell, you just proved that you don’t bother to read the posts on these stories. A massive number of the regulars as well as trolls like you go way off topic when posting. As far as I am concerned many of them are so off topic to the point that they should be on other stories. But, that is just my opinion. Then you cast silly little insults where you try to lift yourself above the fray. Childish.
Report Post »TheePolitinator
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:51pmYes dictator Blaze. I bet your an implant from the Media Matters, your a fool and a sheep. And when all hell breaks loose you will be the first one in the corner crying like a little Biotch.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:20pmPSYC: Don’t bother the dear boy. Apparently in addition to no use for logic, he doesn’t care much about spelling ! Am sure he is just a real Big Picture genius like all of the arrogant, young , “ good job ” Lefties !
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:24pm@ psychosis
When you’re correcting others, you really should make sure that your comment is spelled/punctuated correctly! “doesnt” has an apostrophe in it = doesn’t !
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:15pm@rhymes with louse, you misspelled misspelled!
Report Post »VaWolf
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:09pmEntertainment Tonight, a haven of news coverage for political, economic & US policy news.. no doubt.
More like NO….. PLEASE DOUBT THEM.
I mean how will the world manage with Miley‘s new hair cut and Alec Baldwin’s runny nose.
No that’s news!
!!!GOD!!! Bless America
Report Post »Shalom
Want our country back
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:22pmStephanie, it’s sooooo hard to defend this man-child. You hypocrite….. if this was George Bush or Mitt Romney would you & obama be cool with it?
The American people know that W’s favorite color was NOT red, but was RED, WHITE & BLUE.
Report Post »norbit
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:06pm“Obama Camp Defends Giving Interviews to People & Entertainment Tonight Over WH Press Corps: ‘Equally Important…That‘s Where a Lot of Americans Get Their News’”
Correction – That’s where a lot of THEIR, uneducated, uninformed, easily manipulated VOTERS get their “news”! – and that’s just the way Democrats want to keep it (hence their opposition to school choice!).
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:06pmIf you think these places actually put out the news, you must be a Democrat.
Report Post »Vanguard17
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:05pmThis is perfect! Cutter thinks as many Americans get their news from tabloids and gossip shows than actual news outlets. This perfectly displays just how stupid the Obama campaign thinks average Americans are in comparison to themselves. Its almost as if they don’t take themselves seriously. BY THE WAY… how did a 30 or 40 something year old become the mouthpiece of the Obama campaign? It is obvious from her noticeable emotions she hasn’t cut her teeth in the real world yet.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:13pmVAN- I bet you get you news from the Blaze, which in my mind is a tabloid for a bunch of confused Christians and other cults.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:40pmSTEELYDAN Yet you‘re here daily with us ’hayseeds’. You make the gaffe master Biden look like a mensa member.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:21pmslave – you are always here, always the victim of the government
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 3:53pm@ Steelhead – School 4 u will start very soon so the 12th grade will be a step up 4 u.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:02pmThis is what we get when we have a man child leading us. Surprised he’s not on Spoonge Bob Square Pants.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:15pmSpoonge Bob Square Pants. LOL .. that will be next.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:22pmOr Fox & Friends
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:59amYep, and these same obummer fans who get their news there hate the great American Pit Bull, but love the muslims who are crucifying opponents on trees across from the Egyptian Palace.
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:04pm“who are crucifying opponents on trees across from the Egyptian Palace.”
Cite source please. thank you.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:14pmDo your own research!!!!! In case you don’t know about GOOGLE here are 2 references.
Shock Report: Muslim Brotherhood ‘Crucifies’ Opponents on Trees in Front of Presidential Palace
Report Post »http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-muslim-brotherhood-crucifies-opponents-clamps-down-on-secular-media/
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/08/19/139-Muslim-Brotherhood-crucifying-opponents-of-new-President-attacking-secular-media.htmlhttp://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/08/19/139-Muslim-Brotherhood-crucifying-opponents-of-new-President-attacking-secular-media.html
Psychosis
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:36pmwood obviously gets his news from these same sources
Report Post »Grasshopper42
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:58amAbsolutely true. Thus the reason America is in the pathetic state she’s in . . .
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:59pmI second that
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:15pm[That‘s Where a Lot of Americans Get Their News’]
Report Post »No, that’s where a lot of couch potato welfare recipients get their spoon fed feel good propaganda.