Question About Iran For Obama From Huffington Post “Reporter” Was Coordinated By White House

Proof • June 24, 2009

Here’s video of Obama calling on a “reporter” from liberal news site The Huffington Post:

Did that exchange seem a bit…choreographed? That’s because it was:

In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran.
“Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we’ve been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran,” Obama said, addressing Pitney. “I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?”
Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said, said: “I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian.” …
CBS Radio’s Mark Knoller, a veteran White House correspondent, said over Twitter it was “very unusual that Obama called on Huffington Post second, appearing to know the issue the reporter would ask about.”

Very unusual indeed. And, when questioned about it, the White House confessed that they had “reached out” to the Huffington Post to ask that very question:

Deputy press secretary Bill Burton responds: “We did reach out to him prior to press conference to tell him that we had been paying attention to what he had been doing on Iran and there was a chance that he’d be called on. And, he ended up asking the toughest question that the President took on Iran. In the absence of an Iranian press corps in Washington, it was an innovative way to get a question directly from an Iranian.”

The toughest question on Iran…that the President knew was coming before hand.
I honestly don’t know what’s worse. That the Obama administration would be choreographing questions from reporters or that they’d be so miserably bad at it that what they were doing would be obvious to even the most casual viewer.

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http://Array pparets

Proof…

Huff Po is almost as big a hack as you Hannitwit, though not nearly as overtly dishonest as you!

This kind of stuff just encourages Hannitized to divert everyone from the topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus Last Best Hope

this Huffington planted question is worthy of derision….but not as worthy as this simple fact:

KRAUTHAMMER on our POTUS:

“For the President of the United States to say on Day 11 what the President of France said a week earlier is a disgrace”

source: SPECIAL REPORT
pparets

Lioncourt… the president’s people don’t gamble when they preselect a reporter to ask him a question. Get real.

“reach out to him” is political double-speak meaning we worked this out – cloaked behind plausible deniability.

Do you really think the White Staff or the Huffington Post reporter would admit to a planted question?

Come on, man, you are way smarter than that.
zappatrust

Alo’ Presidente
The show doesn’t have an official end time–it continues until Chavez is ready to stop, so the program often lasts about five hours.
Imagine you live in a country where each and every Sunday the entirety of all television broadcasts are devoted to your great leader performing narcissistically for hours on end. No other programming is allowed during this time.
June 24th 2009 ABC Turns Programming Over To Obama; News To Be Anchored From Inside White House
Who would have guessed that we are one step closer to that type of government control of the media?
Mickey

Addressing the Huffington Post as a legit news outlet, qualified to be in any presidential press conference, is a big enough joke all by itself.

Communism – Fascism – Marxism – Obamanisim.
pparets

“For the President of the United States to say on Day 11 what the President of France said a week earlier is a disgrace”

Great point by Krauthammer. Thanks for posting it, LBH!!!
Hannitized

There is nothing wrong with Obama choosing what networks he accepts questions from.

There is also nothing wrong with ensuring you get a question that enables you to provide important information to the American public.

The question must be asked; Why do Americans want destructive reporting over informative reporting.

What i think Rob prefers is that Obama constantly put on the spot, so they can play the gotcha game, instead of the public finding out what he thinks about the situation.

Rob, is a kook!!!
pparets

Why isn’t the left condemning this like they did with Bush and Jeff Gannon?

I think you may have answered your own question, Ken.
pparets

Yes.
http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

Who was Jeff Gannon?

Yeah I remember the leftist hypocrites who decried planted questions as the death knell of the Republic and the dawn of the new fascist age.

They are silent about this, of course, and ABC broadcasting the ‘news’ from inside the Kremlin, er, I mean White House of course does not bother them either.

The ends always justify the means, you see.
Bat One

Obama is well on his way to being the most dishonest president in modern American history.
Hannitized

Exactly when did HuffPo become a news organization… much less a “network” as some liberal twits would have us believe?

Off topic nonsense that is designed to get people off the idea that the question was a good one, and that no apparent advanced knowledge of the question within the Obama administration has been found.
Hannitized

You have to be a quack to believe that this was a planted question, when there is no valid evidence.

It’s just more of the same, from our party of conspiracy theorists.
Bat One

Obama is becoming an embarrassment. Not only is this stunt an insult to the integrity, but anyone watching the video can plainly see what is going on. Even with his trusty teleprompter to guide him, Obama still managed to make it obvious this whole exchange was choreographed beforehand. Richard Nixon wasn’t this inept!
Buzz

I honestly don’t know what’s worse. That the Obama administration would be choreographing questions from reporters or that they’d be so miserably bad at it

And bush having a little sit down over at fox was any different? You could see bush reading his answers off cue cards.

I don’t recall the outrage when that happened.
pparets

Lioncourt…

there is nothing here..

Really!!??

Deputy press secretary Bill Burton responds: “We did reach out to him prior to press conference to tell him that we had been paying attention to what he had been doing on Iran and there was a chance that he’d be called on.

Methinks you doth protest too much….
Hannitized

Kenny,

Yet it does. As all three sources admit there was pre-planning.

None of them state that “they reached out to have him ask that very question”. That is a dishonest interpretation, and you are leaping to conclusion based on vague terminology Kenny.

And as I said:

There is also nothing wrong with ensuring you get a question that enables you to provide important information to the American public.

The question must be asked; Why do Americans want destructive reporting over informative reporting.

What i think Rob prefers is that Obama constantly put on the spot, so they can play the gotcha game, instead of the public finding out what he thinks about the situation.
http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

You are quoting dishonest Rob, the propagandist, not the article, which says no such thing.

Yet it does. As all three sources admit there was pre-planning.

Stupid reading! Proving H wrong AGAIN!
Lioncourt

Bush would have never done this. Who was Jeff Gannon?
Bat One

Just this afternoon I was reading where some liberal twit was disparaging World Net Daily as not being a legitimate news source (shoot the messenger!), and here we have the Obama press office coordinating questions and answers with HuffPo.

The hypocrisy of those on the Left is simply astounding. Dr. Joseph Goebbels would be so proud of Obama and Gibbs.
2Hotel9

“Did anyone even notice that the HuffPo guy asked a very good question?”

It asked the “question” it was ordered to ask.
Jim

You can’t allow for this just because it was a good question. You can’t just go through and make excuses for your party even though they may be the same mistakes the last administration made. Grow a backbone and admit it wasn’t really the right thing to do.

http://www.newsy.com/videos/statecraft_vs_stagecraft
Lioncourt

So they told the reporter that they liked his reporting and that he would be called on. Where does it say they knew the question?
Bat One

Exactly when did HuffPo become a news organization… much less a “network” as some liberal twits would have us believe?
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

There is nothing wrong with Obama choosing what networks he accepts questions from.

Unless Bush or Cheney was interviewed on, say, Fox! Then the Leftard Echo Chamber would reverberate with howls!

Huff Po is almost as big a hack as you Hannitwit, though not nearly as overtly dishonest as you!
Lioncourt

Exactly when did HuffPo become a news organization… much less a “network” as some liberal twits would have us believe?

Both Rob and Pilgrim have said that the HuffPo is doing a great job reporting on Iran.
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

Heh!

Your[sic] such a little kid.

Says he of the bunny slippers!
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

You have always been the sensible one here, pp.

Too bad more people didn’t see the question as a valid one.
Hannitized

JimH,

You are quoting dishonest Rob, the propagandist, not the article, which says no such thing.

You are a quack, and a pawn of Rob’s manipulation.

You are small minded.
Ken

Why isn’t the left condemning this like they did with Bush and Jeff Gannon?
sayanything-5371

That was definitely a planted question and a prepared “response”. Pravda could not have done a better job.
JimH

And, when questioned about it, the White House confessed that they had “reached out” to the Huffington Post to ask that very question:

confessed
confessed
confessed
confessed
confessed

You have to be a quack to believe that this was a planted
question, when there is no valid evidence.

confessed
confessed
confessed.

It’s just more of the same, from our party of People who can read.

confessed
confessed
confessed.
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

pparets,

No, he’s not.
Hannitized

PP is acting like the post police. He is a child.

Which has NOTHING to do with whether a president should be coordinating questions & answers with reporters in advance of a press conference.

My remark was totally on topic, because that what he had done. That is what the report says. What it DOES NOT say, is that they coordinated questions that he knew in advance what would be asked.

Your very pathetic attempt to keep the debate narrowed to your fantasy world is very troubling PP.

Lioncourt and I, have you dead to rights, and you know it.

And what’s with you acting like a little monitor? You are coming off like a little geek.

Why isn’t the left condemning this like they did with Bush and Jeff Gannon?

I think you may have answered your own question, Ken.

Isn’t that off topic????

Your such a little kid.
pparets

Off topic, again!

There is nothing wrong with Obama choosing what networks he accepts questions from.

Which has NOTHING to do with whether a president should be coordinating questions & answers with reporters in advance of a press conference.

Bush was roundly criticized for doing so, and so aught Obama.

So much for transparent openness.
http://northerngleaner.blogspot.com/ Gene

Managed news, just another step on the road to totalitarianism.

Stalin, Hitler and Chairman Mao were NEVER surprised at a news conference.
Lioncourt

BTW, there is nothing here that says that Obama knew what the question was. Only that they had seen this reporters work, knew he had questions from Iranians and told him he would be called on.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

Did anyone even notice that the HuffPo guy asked a very good question?
Hannitized

PP is off topic. This post is about the Huffpo and Obama.

There is nothing wrong with Obama choosing what networks he accepts questions from.

There is also nothing wrong with ensuring you get a question that enables you to provide important information to the American public.

The question must be asked; Why do Americans like Pparets want destructive reporting over informative reporting?

What i think Rob prefers is that Obama constantly put on the spot, so they can play the gotcha game, instead of the public finding out what he thinks about the situation.

Rob, is a kook!!!
2Hotel9

Hey, sanni, your boy Barri has admitted it was a prearranged, “planted”, question. Guess that makes you a lying asshole, yet again.
Hannitized

These posts by BatOne and Gene are OFF TOPIC, AND ARE DESIGNED TO DO SO.

DO NOT RESPOND UNTIL THEY RETURN TO THE TOPIC.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Right on schedule for making Carter look like Reagan as I said.

I love this.

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