Reporter: Obama Giving Fake Interviews, Generally Trying To Micromanage The Media Overseas
Veteran NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell is not impressed with Barack Obama’s treatment of the press on his trip overseas. Here’s video of Andrea Mitchell discussing the matter on Hardball:
Transcript of the pertinent quote:
MITCHELL: Let me just say something about the message management. He didn’t have reporters with him, he didn’t have a press pool, he didn’t do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or Iraq. What you’re seeing is not reporters brought in. You’re seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questions by the military, and what some would call fake interviews, because they’re not interviews from a journalist. So, there’s a real press issue here. Politically it’s smart as can be. But we’ve not seen a presidential candidate do this, in my recollection, ever before.
The question is: When will the media get around to criticizing Obama for this? If McCain were overseas refusing to talk with foreign journalists and trying to manage the press the New York Times would have all but called him a fascist by now, and Keith Olbermann would have actually called him a fascist.
But the liberal messiah does it and he, so far, gets a pass.
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