Obama Ignoring Political Reporters In Favor Of Entertainment Reporters
Like Glenn says, “now that the press has given its all to elect him, he doesn’t need them any more.”
On Oct. 24, 2007, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said that as president he would hold regular press conferences and “not just call on my four favorite reporters.”
But the Democratic presidential nominee hasn’t held a full press conference—submitting himself to more than a handful of questions from his whole press corps—in more than a month, since Sept. 24, 2008, in Clearwater, Fla.
The candidate often bemoans the media asking silly and superficial questions. The media isn’t focused on the important issues facing the nation, he complains.
On Saturday in Nevada, Obama sat for an exclusive interview with Mario Lopez, the actor who played “A.C. Slater” on “Saved by the Bell,” to air on the TV show “EXTRA!”
This isn’t surprising coming on the heels of the Obama campaign shutting down access for the news team at a local television station after an anchor there asked Joe Biden some tough questions.
Barack Obama doesn’t want to talk about anything that’s not convenient for Barack Obama. With questions about his fund raising mounting, and with his buddies at ACORN getting caught red-handed at voter registration fraud all over the country, there’s a lot out there that’s inconvenient for Barack Obama.
So why take the chance on some uppity rogue reporter straying from his/her talking points and asking Obama something he doesn’t have a pat, scripted answer for?
