In local interviews, Jay Carney admitted that he receives the questions in advance during press briefings. These are printed out, along with his answers, which reporters hold while "querying" him about matters of the day.
During local interviews with Obama, reporters are limited to 4 minutes:
According to a local CBS Arizona affiliate, President Obama and his team have 3 tactics to make sure reporters stick to the 4 minutes the White House has allotted them to interview the leader of the world: a countdown clock, a looming aide, and they have to conduct the interview with the president while standing up.We've known for years that Obama's news conferences are highly scripted. Each reporter has to have a question screened in advance and Obama calls on them in the order he is given from his staff.
This procedure is quite unlike anything we've seen previously. Remember the days when reporters actually did their jobs? Yeah, that would be when a Republican was president.
It's not like that haven't planned this carefully choreographed presidency since its inception.
Though Obama campaigned on transparency and fiscal responsibility, as soon as he got into office, his people conjured the phrase "White House equities" in a bid to dilute the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
This procedural move allows them to claim anything is off limits for release to the public or anyone other than themselves, for that matter. The Washington Examiner as the story:
The equities exception is breathtaking in its breadth. As the Greg memo put it, any document request is covered, including "congressional committee requests, GAO requests, judicial subpoenas and FOIA requests."
And it doesn't matter what format the documents happen to be in because, according to Greg, the equities exception "applies to all documents and records, whether in oral, paper, or electronic form, that relate to communications to and from the White House, including preparations for such communications."By now it's pretty apparent that Obama is a figurehead for others who are determining the disastrous direction the country is headed.
How else to explain a visit to The Gap instead of meeting with the national security council last Saturday, a repeat of his behavior when the Ukraine mess first broke out?
How else to explain the daily schedule with nothing on it?
How else to explain the lies about the realities of the health care law which his people have rewritten and rewritten in ways Ted Cruz could only dream?
How else to explain the complete lack of interest in what is going on in the world? In our economy? The complete disconnect with social norms being flouted daily? With the persecution of people of faith?
How else to explain making a spectacle about his "bracket" while the rest of the world burns?
After all, what's important is a White House screening of a movie on a Wednesday afternoon, right? But Obama couldn't stay, so he asked to be given a copy of the "cd" of the movie, to which someone corrected him "dvd." Did you hear about that? Did you hear that Obama responded with a "Whatever. I'm technologically challenged."
Rather than notice Obama's repeated gaffes, the Left continues to repeat the myth that George H.W. Bush was "amazed" by grocery scanners, something that was completely untrue and fabricated to make him look unsympathetic and unconnected to the daily lives of Americans.
The pampered Obama doesn't have to fiddle with such trivialities as dvds; someone does these things for him.
More and more it looks as if Obama has pretty much abnegated his responsibility as the leader of the world.
Just who (Valerie Jarrett of Iran) is pulling the strings of the puppet, who barely has time to do anything other than play golf, go on vacation and have parties at the White House?
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