Obama admin’s story and reporters story don’t jive…not the first time.

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Dusty, hells most vocal bitch

From E&P via theSanFranChron:

Amid the mounting sycophancy, the Obamas are beginning to forget they still live in a republic.

The San Francisco Chronicle has accused the White House of lying about a recent spat with one of its reporters. Last week, the Chronicle reported that the White House had threatened to ban Chronicle reporter Carla Marinucci from participating in the White House pool after Marinucci, a member of the print pool, used her cell phone to record a group of Bradley Manning supporters heckling Pres. Obama at a recent San Francisco fundraiser.

According to the Chronicle’s first write-up of the spat, the White House press office threatened to ban Marinucci from the print pool during San Francisco events for using her cell phone, and forbade the paper from discussing the incident. A day later, the White House told reporters that the Chronicle’s allegations were “not true.”

Chronicle editor Ward Bushee wasted no time hitting back at the White House.

“Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday,” Bushee wrote on Saturday. “It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.”

I am calling Bullshit on this one Obama…this isn’t the first time you all have threatened a reporter w/cutting them off. Does the Orlando Sentinel story about reporter Scott Powers, who was made to wait in a closet, remind you all in the White House of anything?? Anything at all?? What a Bush-league move…as in George W. Bush.

If you can’t take the hecklers and the daily bullshit, get another job dude. It goes with the territory.

About Dusty, hells most vocal bitch

A sports-minded, political being. I wish to become a major league baseball club owner, or President of the United States, and I don’t care which comes first.

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3 Responses to Obama admin’s story and reporters story don’t jive…not the first time.

• Norman says:
  May 3, 2011 at 2:10 pm
  KUDO’S to you Dusty, I thought that I was the only one who saw that article. As with everything this administration seems to do, this is no surprise. Another item is the wiping of the photos of bin Laden from the internet. The photo[s] may have been gruesome, but it sure would go a long ways in the conformation dept. But that’s to be expected from this bunch of clowns. Talk about not being able to shoot straight. We need a complete overhaul in that there capitol of the people. Love the cartoon, very to the point. 

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• Gwendolyn H. Barry says:
  May 3, 2011 at 2:47 pm
  It’s about re-election. And the confusion laid out for those of us who would search for the fuller story…. that’s just as you say, Bush-league. Right on Dusty. 

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• jackjodell53 says:
  May 3, 2011 at 3:03 pm
  Well done, Dusty. This President, like his predecessors, needs to remember that heckling and differing viewpoints DO indeed come with the territory! 

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