On the eve of President Barack Obama’s first official press conference since 1972, CBS correspondent and numbers cruncher Mark Knoller has just released a follow-up to his groundbreaking report on Obama’s golf addiction. This time, Knoller and his abacus have come to some Interesting Conclusions about presidential encounters with the press. The numbers not only show but prove — PROVE, ladies and gents — that Obama prefers to “get intimate” with reporters, even more than Bill Clinton did.
Since taking office, Knoller says, “Mr. Obama” has given six “formal, full-scale White House news conferences”; these last about 50 minutes and involve Robert Gibbs serving dinner (usually pot roast) to the White House press corps while Obama answers their questions. Obama has also done more than 40 “press availabilities,” more casual affairs where he comes to the podium wearing his smoking jacket and slippers and tosses out a few Capri Suns and Twizzlers* to the reporters in the front row.
But it’s those up-close-and-personals that make the CBS person very excited:
Besides press conferences, Mr. Obama has also sat for 190 interviews with members of the press, far more than any of his recent predecessors during their first 16 months in office.
The numbers reveal that Mr. Obama finds news conferences less appealing a format for conveying his views than one-on-one interviews.
In private situations, Obama can do the playful, romantic things that win reporters’ hearts forever, like show off his sexy-flexy dumbbell routines or shoot some hoops. But in press conferences, Obama has to put on a fancy suit and look presidential, which is no fun.
Hey Obama-pal, if it was fun they wouldn’t call it work. But they probably didn’t tell you that when you were growing up in Kenya, where people are too poor to afford clever sayings. [CBS News]
* Obama brings special “fantasy cupcakes” for the Washington Post‘s Helen Thomas, who hates all licorice products.
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And yet, they still whine about Obama not answering their stupid questions enough; while Bush gave, like, two press conferences a year and mostly kept interviews to Fox, and they were OK with it.
Perhaps he should stop having sexytime with Helen Thomas get his ass down to the Golf of Mexico.
Since everything now is treated like a sporting event, Barry really needs to seal the deal. Yes I am talking about t-shirt cannons.
plug, baby, plug! (formally and full-scale!)
Mark Knoller – isn’t he the guy from Dire Straits? Pretty obvious Nobama and the Democraps want their money for nuthin and their chicks for free.
Obama, was clearly chagrined at giving a big hug to one of the Salihis dressed in drag as Mr. Magoo without the glasses. And, yes, both of the Salihis are men. They have adams apples just like their third brother, Ann Coltergeist, and were related to Big Brown from last years Triple Crown. When asked about their horse faced resemblence, they all denied that their dad had a Brokeback relationship with the ’71 Preakness winner, War Criminal. “Neigh, neigh, its just coincidence.” When asked how many times a day she gets asked that question, Mr/s Coltergiest stomped the ground three times, lifted her tail, and crapped.
To “get intimate” with reporters is just the lamestream media’s typical obfuscating jive-talk. What the liberal titty-babies at Pravda, or wherever, fail to tell us in common Merkinese, is that “get intimate” is elitist code for “molesting the crippled olds in nursing homes while simultaneously stealing their souls and social security checks for Muslin Jesus.” I am an informed citizen as I listen to BOTH Beck and Savage(I pre-ordered former Sen. Thompson’s down home folksy word heap “Learn Your Pig How To Do The Foxtrot[Instead Of The Mexican Tango]). I mean, shitfire, you have to get up pretty early to pull one over on me, buddy! As Honest Abe wrote down in the Bill of Rights, you can fool some of the people, so forth and so on. Words to live hippies! Don’t tread on me, also.
[re=586475]Ye Olde Fap-Smith[/re]:
Did you apply for Newell’s gig?
[re=586474]Baby who ate the Dingo[/re]: [re=586475]Ye Olde Fap-Smith[/re]: Why was I not informed that today was stoned free-association day at Wonkette?
[re=586494]JMP[/re]: When is it NOT stoned free-association dat at Wonkette? Snark doesn’t write itself, it requires a THC-laden muse.
its stoned free-association day!
Hooray! again, i say Hooray!
[re=586505]Heywood Jablome[/re]: Perhaps that’s my problem.
The best THC is at teh Gawker probably.
Just finished my one pound bag of breakfast Doritos, and some of that special “inscence” that I got at the BP down the street with its “One Atom Off Legal THC,” which is ok for the brainy-part stuff, but keeps burning my lips when I hit the lit part of the little cone. Its a better buzz than toad licking, which is actually a great buzz, but I can never remember which kind of toad to lick, or which part.
[re=586505]Heywood Jablome[/re]: Hey, some of us can’t be stoned because we’re at work.
And, you know, have no way to buy pot.
Ugh, the residues from last nights volunteer work and church pot luck(titty bars and dens of iniquitous whatnots)must have eated the editing part of my brain glob. OH WELL, some of us are just doomed to be Trig Palin/Helen Keller dunces of commenting. OTOH, fuck brevity and its uptight school maarm jack-booted enforcers anyway, brevity, like cake, is a lie! It’s now after noon, and respectable folks can start getting loaded without fear of being labeled a carnie. BESIDES I have better things to do than type on the internets … … very important productive chicken soup for the soul shit. GOOD DAY!
There’s no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
[re=586534]Baby who ate the Dingo[/re]: Here you go, you’re welcome.
Remember those first eight or nine months of his administration when Fox was screaming that Barry did too many press conferences and interviews and needed to spend less time on TV and more time fixing the country’s problems? Ha ha, why do I ever pay attention to anything those retards say?
Excuse me, what’s this about “boning free ass”? And is Helen Thomas spoken for yet?
[re=586540]JMP[/re]: You should move to my neighborhood, where you don’t HAVE to buy to be stoned; you only have to walk outside and breathe.
[re=586474]Baby who ate the Dingo[/re]: Then her staff rolled out the crap into paper thin sheets and observed the patterns made by the undigested oats. These patterns become her column for the day.
He should catch flies more often; that was a crowd pleaser.
[re=586540]JMP[/re]: But on the bright side, it is National Grape Popsicle Day!
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