Were WH Press Conference Reporters Tossing Obama Softballs?
- Posted on December 22, 2010 at 5:11pm by
Meredith Jessup
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“There weren’t a lot of hard questions in this news conference,” Fox News’ Bret Baier observed Wednesday evening following President Obama’s final press conference before taking off for his Hawaiian holiday family vacation.
Newsbusters‘ Brent Baker also wondered where the hard-hitting questions were after the president’s first press corps question — delivered by Caren Bohan of Reuters — commented on how he’d “racked up a lot of wins in the last few weeks that a lot of people thought would be difficult to come by.”
After the U.S. Congress passed a whole slew of new laws over the past couple weeks, Bohan’s hard-hitting question for the president was a doozy: “Are you ready to call yourself the ‘comeback kid’?
Katie Couric gushed on the CBS Evening News over how “the President isn’t calling himself the ‘comeback kid,’ but some other folks are.” A pleased George Stephanopoulos teased ABC’s World News by yearning for more Obama success in 2011: “The President takes a victory lap. How the Christmas season became what he called a ‘season of progress.’ Will it continue in the new year?”
Even ABC’s Jake Tapper personally offered his “congratulations” to the president on the DADT repeal and asked this surprisingly slanted question: “Is it intellectually consistent to say that gay and lesbians should be able to fight and die for this country, but they should not be able to marry the people they love?”
CBS Radio’s Mark Knoller asked the president to “explain the anger and even outrage many Democrats felt when the tax cut bill extended tax cuts not just for the middle class, but also for the wealthy”.
CNN’s Dan Lothian even inquired for an “update” to Obama’s favorite campaign analogy featuring Democrats, Republicans and a car in a ditch:
Can you give us an update on that car that you talk so much about being in the ditch? Can you give us an update as to where it is today? What kind of highway do you think it will be driving on in 2011? Who will really be behind the wheel given the new makeup in Congress? And what do you think Republicans will be sipping and saying next year?
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sdparker
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 7:39pmDo you even have to ask? I don’t bother listening to a word the man says. His words are worthless and his intentions are worse. His attack on good American People and the most honorable news media network known to America, has a way of telling an un-Godly truth about himself. He is attempting to tell the American People what they want to hear – just like he did during his campaign – now, its about his ‘accountability’. He has failed in every single way possible, don’t fall for his new promise to be held accountable, it will never happen.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:37pmThey asked questions they were allowed to ask. There is no free press anymore. Bunch of cowards. They are so even handed too… they treated Bush the same way, right?
Report Post »AmericanLass
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:42pmThey sold their souls a long time ago, so they are owned by Libs. If they really did their jobs they would be fired. That’s the price of integrity these days.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 6:44amThe damage was done, what was there to ask? Questioning the republicans for allowing all those bills to go forward.
Report Post »AmeriWoman
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 3:17amYes, they were kissing his rear so bad they all smelled like poo. Look at what FOX asked when they got up there! Ridiculous and outrageous. I hope those cushey jobs fall for them all. It’s depressing and sad to sit and listen to them lead him so he could gloat. I’d rather be stuck in a Barbra Streisand corn on the cob eating contest.
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:54amMr. President, are you willing to let Lt. Col. Terry Lakin sit in solitary confinement at Levenworth Prison for six months, be stripped of his military rank and military pension, rather than show that he was wrong by producing documents to prove you have the authority to sit at the Resolute Desk?
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