Obama calls on HuffPost for Iran question

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June 23, 2009
by Michael Calderone
Politico.com

In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post's Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran.

“Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we've been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran,” Obama said, addressing Pitney. “I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?”

Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said, said: “I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian.”

He then noted that the site had solicited questions from people in the country “who were still courageous enough to be communicating online.”

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1. "Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said..."

huh? sounds like she acknowledged what he said and responded.

politico...sigh...

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2. interesting how that works