The Obama campaign is all about IMAGE CONTROL these days and GOOD OPTICS, which is why nobody can wear a green Hamas shirt around the candidate. Now Barack Obama is stone cold ignoring the press on his Middle Eastern Hope ‘N Basketball Tour, leaving it to some military nobody to hold the camera while he shoots three-pointers when really such hard-hitting news coverage should be left to trained journalistic professional nobodies.
Is it kinda lame that Obama dragged all these traveling press people halfway around the world only to ignore them while he canoodles with the locals? Absolutely! On the other hand, if he opened every visit to the press they’d be bitching about what a cynical publicity stunt this whole thing was. (Plus, security concerns etc.)
Barack Obama can make this whole problem go away by pencilling in 20 minutes of “balling” with Andrea Mitchell.
Andrea on Obama Trip: ‘What Some Would Call Fake Interviews’ [News Busters]
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Blasts Obama for ‘Fake Interviews’ [Breitbart]
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Andrea’s ta-tas look ginormous in that picture.
Why would he want to dive into where Alan Greenspan’s gone before?
If anyone knows fake interviews, it’s Andrea Mitchell. Good God is she a terrible journalist. And that fucking hair?
Have you ever seen Andrea Mitchell’s idea of “analysis” on MSNBC. She just repeats what some correspondent said on the set up report. That’s hard work and insight Andrea.
Since when is an interview by a journalist “real”??? I thought by definition such things were scripted.
Such integrity and insight. WOW. “I don’t think journalism is the prime thing we recruit them and train them for.”
There hasn’t been a real interview of an American politician since this one:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040625-2.html
If only the media would learn that if hopey does it, it’s good!
Lara Logan got an interview. Maybe if you were a hot, principled babe instead of a erection melting hack, you might get one too.
It’s soooo enjoyable when the Professional Journalistic Persons get in a huff when they aren’t paid what they consider their proper obeisance. How dare Obama talk to the public, or play basketball without us to lend authenticity! We’ll have to bloviate on MSNBC for hours to repair the damage.
Andrea Mitchell’s got balls…she can go bowling.
Andrea is just like Cindy McCain anyways
Nice shot, Barry! Any know if he’s the best outside shooting presumptive presidential candidate ever? I hear Washington couldn’t go left and Lincoln had no hands.
[re=41232]RuperttheBear[/re]: Nice piece, that little interview with Chimpy. Wish our courageous journalists had that kind of temerity.
For Jeebus sake, Andrea! If you want a little one-on-one action, just challenge him to a game of H-O-R-S-E.
[re=41245]Big Al1317[/re]: And I hear Bubba was all hands! (Thanx folks, I’m here all week. Please don’t forget to tip your waitress and bartender!)
passin’ the mic(ophone), shootin’ 3 pointers on the court and passin’ the mic again —
ain’t no place for the white boy press corp.
Without journalistic oversight, who will keep Barry Obama from invading the middle east?
As a Penn-connected type, I have had a chance to see Andrea Mitchell off-camera and out of on-camera makeup.
Believe me when I tell you that the makeup chick for NBC News should get six figures for painting that fence.
[re=41232]RuperttheBear[/re]: Rupert, dead on. Here’s the video if you want to watch how our president performs when a journalist does her job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fze2J2Ve9is
[re=41266]nbawriter[/re]:
A bit lunar landscapey?
[re=41239]Cape Clod[/re]: I read that as ‘election melting hack’. I admit I had to lean back from the screen when it went to her closeup.
“Is it kinda lame that Obama dragged all these traveling press people halfway around the world only to ignore them while he canoodles with the locals?”
Now if we’d just ignore the ones at home, too, maybe we could get some actual journalists.
[re=41267]whiteasasheet[/re]: [re=41232]RuperttheBear[/re]: [re=41251]V572625694[/re]: I remember that one. The White House lodged a formal complaint with the Irish Embassy over it. I don’t think Carole Coleman ever got access to the White House again. It would be hard for any US journalist to replicate that, I suppose. It was a hit-and-run interview.
But wait, I thought the media was in love with Obama? Maybe the press should read “He’s Just Not Into You.”
[re=41280]wheelie[/re]: Any reporting on the complaint? I’d love to see what it said.
[re=41232]RuperttheBear[/re]: OMG, actual questions! The temerity! Remind me to lift a black-and-tan in her honor.
What? Mrs. Greenspan did not get an invitation to Mr. Obamas rockin’ tour?
And neither did little Wallace Jr.?
Ohhh noes! How will they handle being downgraded to the ‘C’ list?
[re=41285]RuperttheBear[/re]: They complained she didn’t let him answer her questions, but kept interrupting, see http://www.independent.ie/national-news/bush-aides-furious-at-interview-481693.html
She said if she’d let him run on, it would’ve been the equivalent of a fillibuster.
Do not watch Andrea in high def. Acne scarring for the loss.
Yeah, everybody knows that Army Public Affairs is totally in the tank for Obama.
If Barry drains a three-pointer and there’s no journalist around to see it, is it still change we can believe in?
[re=41245]Big Al1317[/re]: He’s no Bill Bradley as far as the hoops go, but then Bradley never won a nomination.
Oh, Media! You are simply *darling* when you stamp your little diva foot and pout!
(Well, not Andrea per se. I’m no looker myself, by Ye Gods she’s fugly.)
Barry should give the media more attention. After all, they are the ones who will surely be deciding the vote in November.
Andrea Mitchell? I thought this article was about journalists?
Doesn’t she keep living fossil Alan Greenspan around so that the theory of age-relativity won’t make us suspect that she herself is a centenarian?
Oh Andrea, go fuck Alan Greenspan you vacuous self-aggrandizing twit. I would imagine that her bitterness about Lara Logan’s interview knows no bounds.
bitter trollopy cunt
Elitist Osamabama too hoity-toity to ball Andrea Mitchell….typical.
[re=41265]Noodle Salad[/re]:
yeah, no shit! if only the press had showed as much umbrage over the hastily justified war in Iraq as they do over their exclusion from Obama’s b-ball party…these people should be ashamed of themselves.
btw, I think Andrea’s just cranky that she covered Hillary’s campaign for 9+ months only to watch her lose. that, and the whole ‘married to a troll’ thing.
Mrs. Greenspan has certainly fallen off the edge of any pretense of being a journalist. She needs to go home to assist her husband as a co-chair of the McCain campaign. I thought she was going to bust a blood vessel last night on Chris Matthews whining about not being allowed into the Obama base appearances in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. How stupid would she have looked trying to horse down sausage gravy or spam at breakfast with the troops. I don’t think you need a journalist to explain standing ovations and a rush of troops toward Obama enthusiastically trying to shake his hand or get an autograph. His success so far on this tour is giving Andrea some major mental stress causing her pathetic charade as a reporter to finally fall away in full color.
Is Andrea overlooking that H-O-T interview with Laura Logan? Maybe she’s just jealous.
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