SHUTOUT! - Obama Stiffs TV Reporters Entirely During Press Conference (just added Great pic)

[kpete]

Last edited Tue Oct 8, 2013, 09:18 PM - Edit history (4)

sit down, jon karl

TheObamaDiary.com @TheObamaDiary
Photo of the Day: President Obama ignoring GOP-fake-Benghazi-emails-shill @jonkarl .... delicious:
1:08 PM - 8 Oct 2013
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/387670844261924864/photo/1
Bigger pic HERE:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/08/sit-down-jon-karl/


Oops. Not the President's job to call on Chuck Todd and company. Can you say shutout?

It was like the feeling when a crowd figures out that a pitcher hasn't given up a hit in 5 innings: during President Obama's press conference on Tuesday, everyone suddenly started noticing that he wasn't calling on any television reporters.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/obama-tv-reporters-press-conference_n_4065799.html?utm_hp_ref=media Link


So Mr. Todd. You say it's not your job to do your job? Well, I guess then the President will just have to answer questions from real journalists who thinks that being a journalist is their job.

Oh and stop with this BS the damn shutdown is the fault of everyone. Start reporting that fact correctly.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/08/1245372/-Obama-Sends-the-TV-Media-a-Message-Today


Found this on twitter:

Obama refuses to call on any TV network reporters at press conference, leading to nationwide false equivalence shortage.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/obama-tv-reporters-press-conference_n_4065799.html

Serve the bastids right!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Chuck Todd and Jon Karl after the press conference

Credit to tweet by TheObamaDiary.com?@TheObamaDiary

[TheDebbieDee]

25. Lol ! Too kewl.....

[Jefferson23]

45. lol

[pa28]

2. Good.

I think he's starting to realize the first thing out of Todd's mouth would be "isn't it both sides?" and he's starting to feel as nauseated as the rest of us.

[trublu992]

3. Damn!! He came to play..

[Volaris]

24. hahahah yep...and this aint beanbag anymore...

He may as well have just walked out there and said " I'm your fuckin' huckelberry..."

Why Chuck Todd, you look like someone just...walked over your grave.
Sorry i have Tombstone in my head tonight heehee

[dionysus]

38. "chuck, you're no daisy, no daisy at all!"

poor chuck, he was too high strung. the strain was... more than he could bear.

Kilmers finest role for sure!

[Volaris]

59. Without question.

"I guess he just, ...didn't have it in him."

Related--President Obama to National GOP:
"You gonna do something, or just stand there and bleed? That's what I thought."

[Plucketeer]

44. It's President Obama's devilish twin we're seeing.

It's CAMPAIGN Obama. I sure hope he keeps the president tied up for another two years!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

4. that is some funny shit

[meadowlark5]

5. I think a lot of these "journalists" are not a whole lot better than the rethugs

I truly think they are peeing a little in their pants at the country going into default. It's never happened before and what a GREAT story it will be! They will get to report on a history making event. The coverage could go on for weeks as one domino falls after another.

I think they actually are reporting in such a middle of the road way to keep the heat off the rethugs as a way of keeping this thing going. I think they are looking at their fame and ratings before the good of the country. Seems so many people are seduced by money, fame, power, notoriety. Even at the cost of a lot of other people.

[appacom]

53. And I think you're exactly right!!

[BeyondGeography]

6. Tweet of the day

[kydo]

7. I noticed that when he called on Sam Stein

and I started trying to make a point to see who he called on and where they were from. Chuckie Boy and Ed Scissor Hands Henry looked mad. King looked like he always does a stone.

[Gothmog]

8. Todd deserves to be in the penalty box

It is his job to correct GOP lies on the facts. Reporters are suppose to deal with facts and can not ignore the facts

[elehhhhna]

56. Since he announced he's not actually a reporter, there's no reason

TO FUCKING ACKNOWLEDGE HIM. Yeah.

[madokie]

9. I'm looking for a link with no luck

I went out traipsing through the woods in search of mushrooms today and missed this very important development. I'd sure like to see this if any one has a link.

[Southside]

10. The kids w/ cancer Harry Reid issue was a hatchet job

Does anyone really think Harry Reid is against funding cancer research? Reports like that would turn me off from the media. The newspaper editors are dealing with facts, not partisan talking points. Great job Mr. President.

Lets end this thing now. Obama compromised and agreed to sequestration already. They know Obamacare can be tinkered with, but won't go away. Passing individual bills for political gain as 800,000 people sit at home from work is ridiculous. I don't even think that is a partisan statement. It is time to move on and take the debt ceiling issue off the table forever. GOP you lose that chip.

Media, either support the shutdown like Fox and Limbaugh or report the facts. Cut the crap.

What will it take to reasonably end this thing?

[Nite Owl]

11. Great tweet!

[Cha]

12. Wonder why he didn't call on the likes of chuck todd and jon karl?

From your link, kpete

Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh Obama calls on the reporter from the Australian over the TV networks in the US ....9:01 AM - 8 Oct 2013

3 Retweets Reply

I'm thinking it's b/c PBO as pissed at the fucking corp kochwhores as we are.

Obama refuses to call on any TV network reporters at press conference, leading to nationwide false equivalence shortage.

Brawaaaaa

[UtahLib]

13. Damn, I wish I had seen that. n/t

[Left Coast2020]

14. What about that other putz Ed Henry?

Used to be with CNN, now with Cluster Faux.

Falling right in line with that ol line of Cluster Faux BS.

Saw most of conference while in a waiting room...just before he called Sam.

[kpete]

15. just added BRILLIANT photo

Photo of the Day: President Obama ignoring GOP-fake-Benghazi-emails-shill @jonkarl .... delicious: pic.twitter.com/cZogiVd23O
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/387670844261924864/photo/1

[1StrongBlackMan]

16. Yeah ...

I loved that "leading to nationwide false equivalence shortage" note!

[daleanime]

36. +1

[DeSwiss]

17. Well, he did say......

...that he wouldn't negotiate with Republicans until they passed a clean bill.

- I guess this time he meant the ones in the press too......

K&R



Why?

[IdaBriggs]

37. ^=== This.

[Historic NY]

18. Call them a wambalance.

[riqster]

22. "Serving whiny beotches"! Excellent.

[Jack Rabbit]

19. It has always been a journalist's job to correct a politician spouting BS

Although many seem to have forgotten that long before I first heard of Chuck Todd.

The world would be a lot better place if the Bushies were called on their BS during the run up to the Iraq war in 2002/03. America would be a little more stable if journalists had called impeachment-happy GOP congresscritters on their BS in 1998.

[The Wizard]

42. Nailed it

A media corps that refuses to do what was intended by the First Amendment. A well informed citizenry would be out in the streets with pitchforks torches and rope.

[Cha]

20. hey kpete.. glad you're reading The Obama Diary.. and

catching their great photos of our President.

[Uncle Joe]

21. Good, good and more good!

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[mountain grammy]

23. I'm liking the president's attitude, demeanor, and just about everything.

[bravenak]

26. Notice that Chuck Todd and Jon Karl both have two first names.

It must mean something.

[jaysunb]

29. Yup,, sorta like, "Jim Bob & Billy Ray."

[JDPriestly]

27. The Republicans' refusal to fund the government requires more coverage than just a few catchy

TV phrases. It's a complex story. Print media can do it justice. Most TV cannot. It's not a story that can be told by calling in a Democrat and a Republican and letting them bluster on about their unfounded opinions.

You need a lot of facts and you need to understand those lots of facts to be able to understand why the Republicans are grievously wrong.

Good for Obama. Some stories are right for TV coverage, but given the coverage that TV gives these kinds of stories now, this budget/deficit matter is better for print media. The questions of print media are more likely to be in depth.

[gopiscrap]

28. Excellent

[madrchsod]

30. tv reporters?

wouldn't that be tv news readers or tv personalities?

why would anyone answer questions from people who are paid liars.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

32. Yeah, the Brits

call them "readers."

[lupinella]

31. k&R n/t

[Uncle Joe]

33. Kicked again

just for the hell of it.

[Hekate]

34. Well done, Sir!

I love it. Love love love it.

[whttevrr]

35. I watched this today and...

I was actually surprised at how many questions he took. Then I started noticing a lot of the reporters were unrecognizable faces... except the Sam Stein guy, I've seen him on TV a few times.

What struck me was the completeness of his answers. He was talking as if he actually understood what was going on.

One other thing that caught my attention was the couple of times that he said "This is not me saying this; It's you guys. You know what I'm talking about." And in my mind, I agreed. He was repeating what the TV News Readers were reading out loud on Tee Vee.

[SwankyXomb]

39. Sorry, the President only

takes questions from actual reporters from actual news organizations.

[Wait Wut]

40. The man has style.

I would have flipped them off as I was walking out.

He's pissed. It's gotta be taking every ounce of his patience to not just go freakin' nuts on these assholes.

[Blue Owl]

41. Definitely in the spirit of "drop the mic"

n/t

[Flatpicker]

43. Bout time

If you can't do your job correctly, you don't get to do your job.

Now the TV reporters should not get paid seeing as they aren't doing their jobs either.

Though, I'd like to see Obama do TDS this week. They ask better questions anyway.

[libdem4life]

46. Love the way he deliberately looked at his list each time...no eye contact until the name was

called out. I thought that was unique in itself...now I understand that was a masterful public slapdown...one desperately needed for these egotistical full-of-themselves narcissists. (was that redundant?&quot

[jeanliberty90]

47. Go Mr President !!

I don't know why the President even bothers to have these press gatherings. He dosen't owe any one an explanation for his ideas or actions. What he's doing is for our own good. I wish those twits on the right would wise up and get with the program.

[gopiscrap]

48. Welcome to DU

[jeanliberty90]

50. Thanks. Great to be here :)

[gopiscrap]

51. Hope you have fun, learn from us, teach us what you can and laugh with us!

[Warren DeMontague]

49. Welcome to DU.

[Xyzse]

52. I think this is important

It is important to disabuse reporters of the learned behavior of taking it easy on Republicans while nitpicking on some Democrats:

Republican/Conservatives have used the following tactics for Media to give them a break:
-Attack the Media for being too Liberal, even when they are being objective.
-Force reporters to agree to egregious interview stipulations(otherwise they won't get an interview) (Exempli Gratia - Rush Limbaugh forcing Katie Couric to agree to not being asked certain questions and to allow him to not be interrupted)
-Attack the Media, going after specific reporters and heads to make an example out of them, even when it is done in a Private setting. (E.G. NPR Exec Vivian Schiller getting ousted due to two high profile controversies from Ron Schiller(No Relation) through a "sting" and the firing of Juan Williams which was justified)

Through those kinds of tactics, while still denigrating the media as having a "Liberal Bias", makes me just want to say that they have a lot of nerve.

So they do false equivalencies trying to find the smallest things to get Democrats for, just to show that the problem is both sides.

Even then, you'll notice not as many Democrats go in to the news circuit nowadays.

[hedgehog]

54. Thank you for pointing this out - I listened on the radio and didn't pick up on this!

[rug]

55. Keep it up!

[tosh]

57. nationwide false equivalence shortage...

[myrna minx]

58. K&R n.t