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I'll decide whose questions I'll take
Topic Started: Jan 13 2009, 03:16 AM (197 Views)
George K
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Obama, Blago flip sides of Bizarro plotline

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...The Obama news conferences tell that story, making one yearn for the return of the always-irritating Sam Donaldson to awaken the slumbering press to the notion that decorum isn't all it's cracked up to be.

The press corps, most of us, don't even bother raising our hands any more to ask questions because Obama always has before him a list of correspondents who've been advised they will be called upon that day....Who are we, after all? The ones rapid-firing at Rod Blagojevich with tough questions until we drive him from the room? Or the Miss Manners crowd, silent until called upon, quietly accepting that only a handful of questions will be taken at a time?


Is this SOP for press conferences?
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QuirtEvans
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I don't like it, but Presidents have always chosen whose questions they will take at press conferences. Deciding in advance is somewhat worse than deciding at the podium, imho, but it's all part and parcel of the same thing.

But, is it really true? I'd like confirmation from some other source.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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VPG
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Slightly different, didn't Mrs Clinton get slammed for planting questions during the campaign? I think they all do it to a certain degree.
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Mikhailoh
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Why would you NOT do that?
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Aqua Letifer
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Jan 13 2009, 06:09 AM
Slightly different, didn't Mrs Clinton get slammed for planting questions during the campaign? I think they all do it to a certain degree.
Perhaps she did.

Despite his other issues, I know Edwards did no such thing. His staff actually got in trouble for trying to screen his crowd during some of his public appearances.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Mikhailoh
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Yes. No one with better hair than his was allowed in.
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Kincaid
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I think it is pretty standard SOP for a president to call on the reporter (frankly, I like that better than the yelling). However, if he is letting them know the day before, someone should do a study to see if reporters end up in Obama's doghouse after asking something particularly pointed.
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Short hand: When Bush does it, its really bad. When Obama does it, it's just the way things are done.
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Mikhailoh
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Yup.
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Aqua Letifer
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ivorythumper
Jan 13 2009, 10:58 AM
Short hand: When Bush does it, its really bad. When Obama does it, it's just the way things are done.
Both are true, regardless of the imbalance of emphasis for both.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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QuirtEvans
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Mikhailoh
Jan 13 2009, 10:59 AM
Yup.
Did you miss this?

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I don't like it, but Presidents have always chosen whose questions they will take at press conferences. Deciding in advance is somewhat worse than deciding at the podium
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
No one missed anything. I have yet to see you raising a cri de coeur against Obama as you habitually do against Bush.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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QuirtEvans
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ivorythumper
Jan 13 2009, 11:38 AM
No one missed anything. I have yet to see you raising a cri de coeur against Obama as you habitually do against Bush.
/ignore
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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ivorythumper
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Oh the irony! :lol2:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Axtremus
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If you want total fairness, you'd have reporters draw random numbers out of a hat.

As it stands, whether Obama will be worse (or better) than Bush depends on whether Obama put any reporter in the dog house for the wrong reasons. Time will tell.
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JBryan
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Obama has already done that.
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Aqua Letifer
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QuirtEvans
Jan 13 2009, 11:47 AM
ivorythumper
Jan 13 2009, 11:38 AM
No one missed anything. I have yet to see you raising a cri de coeur against Obama as you habitually do against Bush.
/ignore
:lol:

/fquit
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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ivorythumper
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Axtremus
Jan 13 2009, 12:25 PM
As it stands, whether Obama will be worse (or better) than Bush depends on whether Obama put any reporter in the dog house for the wrong reasons. Time will tell.
Ask Ryan Lizza from the New Yorker , or The Washington Times, The New York Post and the Dallas Morning News
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