Obama bans SF reporter, now gets bent over

[ElKabong]

read at lunch that a SF reporter was banned for using a phone to record a mini demonstration against Oprah's pet POTUS....Tonite I start reading more links, and "the most transparent administration ever" is lying thru its teefers and being called out for it....by a SF paper no less

Delicious

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?entry_id=87978
The hip, transparent and social media-loving Obama administration is showing its analog roots. And maybe even some hypocrisy highlights.

White House officials have banished one of the best political reporters in the country from the approved pool of journalists covering presidential visits to the Bay Area for using now-standard multimedia tools to gather the news.

The Chronicle's Carla Marinucci - who, like many contemporary reporters, has a phone with video capabilities on her at all times -shot some protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel. -snip
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Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area.

Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib:

Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.

The Chronicle's report is accurate.

If the White House has indeed decided not to ban our reporter, we would like an on-the-record notice that she will remain the San Francisco print pool reporter.

I was on some of those calls and can confirm Ward's statement.

Messy ball now firmly in White House court.

[JustRalph]

The White House lied ? Never!!!

cfu1_Scgyow

[PhantomOnTour]

Gets bent over?

[redshift1]

"Marinucci was covering the event when about a half-dozen protesters who paid a combined $76,000 to attend the breakfast broke into a song chastising Obama for the government’s treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst suspected of illegally passing government secrets to the WikiLeaks website."


Perhaps Carla had a heads up......

[newtothegame]

Marinucci was covering the event when about a half-dozen protesters who paid a combined $76,000 to attend the breakfast broke into a song chastising Obama for the government’s treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst suspected of illegally passing government secrets to the WikiLeaks website.


Perhaps Carla had a heads up......
Perhaps.....but, it doesnt mean a gthing in regards to the story. Unless you are of the belief that this is supposed to be a NON transparent government. I mean after all, didnt Obama and his admin win some award for "most transparent" lol:bang:
And then to ban , bar, whatever took place...well thats just ludicrous. This administration has totally forgotten its about the PEOPLE...not themselves!

[redshift1]

I'm thinking this is more about Manning than Obama at least in CM's mind.

[newtothegame]

Sorry Red.....but based on the below snip from the story....I dont think that was the conclussion being drawn by the SF journalist......

"White House officials have banished one of the best political reporters in the country from the approved pool of journalists covering presidential visits to the Bay Area for using now-standard multimedia tools to gather the news."

[Tom]

Banning the press?
Wuzzp wit dat, Barry?

No balls?

THIS is our CNC?

Disgusting.
More like one his fascist dictators than an American.
When does he break out the brown shirt?

[PaceAdvantage]

Gets bent over?That's one way to look at it.

[mostpost]

read at lunch that a SF reporter was banned for using a phone to record a mini demonstration against Oprah's pet POTUS....Tonite I start reading more links, and "the most transparent administration ever" is lying thru its teefers and being called out for it....by a SF paper no less

Delicious

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?entry_id=87978
The hip, transparent and social media-loving Obama administration is showing its analog roots. And maybe even some hypocrisy highlights.

White House officials have banished one of the best political reporters in the country from the approved pool of journalists covering presidential visits to the Bay Area for using now-standard multimedia tools to gather the news.

The Chronicle's Carla Marinucci - who, like many contemporary reporters, has a phone with video capabilities on her at all times -shot some protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel. -snip
=========================================


Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area.

Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib:

Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.

The Chronicle's report is accurate.

If the White House has indeed decided not to ban our reporter, we would like an on-the-record notice that she will remain the San Francisco print pool reporter.

I was on some of those calls and can confirm Ward's statement.

Messy ball now firmly in White House court.

Sounds like a made up story by the Chronicle, looking to boost circulation.

From what I read the President was not particularly upset by the pro-Manning song.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/22/nation/la-na-bradley-manning-20110422
Excerpt #1
Obama appeared somewhat displeased, as did House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), also in attendance. But the president ultimately seemed to take the disruption in stride.
Excerpt #2
"That was a nice song," Obama said when the protest was over. "Now, where was I?"

Aides later said Obama found the interruption "funny" and that it had energized his morning.


While the leader of the Glee wannabes was escorted out by the Secret Service the rest could have remained. Banning a reporter for covering the story would seem to not be in keeping with the total response.

[PaceAdvantage]

"Sounds like a made up story..."

Man, you are too funny.

I hope nobody goes onto the Obama BC thread and writes "looks like a made up birth certificate." Because you'll be the first to rip that person a new one... :lol:

[GameTheory]

While the leader of the Glee wannabes was escorted out by the Secret Service the rest could have remained. Banning a reporter for covering the story would seem to not be in keeping with the total response.So a two-faced response is just unthinkable, impossible?

[mostpost]

The White House lied ? Never!!!

cfu1_Scgyow

Most of your seven so called lies come under the category of campaign promises which Obama has not yet fulfilled. We could come up with hundreds from every presidential campaign in history.

There is one which I would like to address because it is so typical of what happens on this board.

#2 Obama says "Justice Brandeis once said 'Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant'" The scroll read "That's not what Brandeis said."

What Brandeis said was. "It has been said that sunlight is the best of disinfectants"

It's the same freakin' thing.

[ElKabong]

Gets bent over?

Yes. Bent over

When an admin is called out by a print pub in the most liberal city in America for being dishonest & does so in the most descriptive manner, it's being bent over. I'd also add having his hair tugged on.

No reply from the white house on this = "Bent over and no choice to avoid the pain"

[PaceAdvantage]

I'm going to assume the metaphor being used here is from the world of professional wrestling... :eek:

[ElKabong]

Sounds like a made up story by the Chronicle, looking to boost circulation. .....

While the leader of the Glee wannabes was escorted out by the Secret Service the rest could have remained. Banning a reporter for covering the story would seem to not be in keeping with the total response.

So you believe everything Obama has put out for comment as truth?

Is Getmo shut down?

Has KSM been put on trial?

Did you see the behind the scenes wheeling and dealing on the healthcare bill on CSPAN as he promised?

Anyone on Obo's watch been arrested and convicted for "Wall Street crimes"?

Of course not. Obama says one thing and then does the opposite. He relies on people who can't think for themselves to follow his company line and believe every word he says.....then look like fools when they post on boards

[PaceAdvantage]

But El, he's so DIFFERENT, and SO SMART, and such a GIFTED SPEAKER...we must give him all the passes in the world for these tiny indiscretions that you have pointed out...my word, all this fawning...I think I'm going to faint... :faint:

:lol:

[ElKabong]

different, smart, rock star speaker...And he's such a liar.

Reminds me of an old (comedian) George Wallace comedy skit. How he was always in trouble as a kid, his dad or mom would discipline him all the time for the bad stuff he got into or did........But his grandmother was different. He said "if i burned down a bldg my parents would have killed me on the spot. Grandma was different. She'd says in a loving voice 'But don't you see? That George burns down buildings much more beautifully than the other boys" (waving hands as if to display a masterpiece was viewed)........

Liberals just remind me of the grandmother in this skit, to a tee. No correct perspective, just an emotional tie in that governs their thought

[Steve 'StatMan']

different, smart, rock star speaker...And he's such a liar.

Reminds me of an old (comedian) George Wallace comedy skit. How he was always in trouble as a kid, his dad or mom would discipline him all the time for the bad stuff he got into or did........But his grandmother was different. He said "if i burned down a bldg my parents would have killed me on the spot. Grandma was different. She'd says in a loving voice 'But don't you see? That George burns down buildings much more beautifully than the other boys" (waving hands as if to display a masterpiece was viewed)........

Liberals just remind me of the grandmother in this skit, to a tee. No correct perspective, just an emotional tie in that governs their thought

George Wallace! Fun-nee! "Why just last week I was in New York City" and tells a joke about what happened there. And then later in the act "Why just last week I was in Fairbanks, Alaska." <crowd nickers> "I was." Later again, "Why just last week I was in Cairo, Egypt." <crowd chortles> "I Was!" <crowd busts out laughing>

[The Judge]

if the place is full of reporters and they all saw the same thing, why single out this one reporter.

Why did she have to use a cell phone to get her pictures? Why not a regular camera?

[mostpost]

"Sounds like a made up story..."

Man, you are too funny.

I hope nobody goes onto the Obama BC thread and writes "looks like a made up birth certificate." Because you'll be the first to rip that person a new one... :lol:

They have and I did. If you want to be literal, no one actually wrote "Looks like a made up birth certificate" but the thought was there.

[mostpost]

if the place is full of reporters and they all saw the same thing, why single out this one reporter.

Why did she have to use a cell phone to get her pictures? Why not a regular camera?

Why would they (Obama's people) care?

The one thing I could think of is that cameras were embargoed for this event. This is just conjecture. This was a private fund raising event. If cameras were banned then the Chronicle reporter violated the rule. I doubt that the punishment would be to permanently ban her from covering all Presidential events.

[ArlJim78]

I'm with Steve and Elkabong, this thread needs more George Wallace.

MjzCkIiTLws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjzCkIiTLws&feature=related

[ElKabong]

Sounds like a made up story by the Chronicle, looking to boost circulation.
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I was going to ask for an explanation of this sentence, but there's no need. It's your normal deflection.

It's far from made up. The point is, this administration told the paper their writer was banned from a Pool coverage for recording something that might not be viewed as a friendly event for obama..... Then when SFGate went public on it, the admin backtracked. Now the admin's shorts are pulled down b/c SFGate isn't backing down like Obama's minions want them to.

Deflection declined.

[mostpost]

So you believe everything Obama has put out for comment as truth?
I think what he has said was accurate to the best of his ability at the time he said it. I don't think everything he said was correct in his assessment of the situation. I think nobody tells the truth all the time and if you say you do you are lying

Is Getmo shut down?
Where is "Getmo"?
When Obama said he would shut down Gitmo there were screams from the right . "He's coddling terrorists." He's putting us all in danger." If he puts them in regular prisons, Al Qaeda will be roaming the streets of our cities"
There was all sorts of criticism. Now he is being criticized for not shutting it down. You can't do both.

Has KSM been put on trial?
KSM was captured in 2003 (march I believe). Why was he not put on trial during the Bush Administration? Why weren't you flappin' your gums about it then. Why was there all the uproar when Holder announced he would be put on trial? Do you want him on trial or don't you? :confused:

Did you see the behind the scenes wheeling and dealing on the healthcare bill on CSPAN as he promised?

Do you expect cameras to follow congressmen into the cloakroom? Do you think they will be filming lunches between lobbyists and congressional staffers? Meetings will be televised. That means meetings. It doesn't mean encounters in the hallway. It doesn't mean dinners or breakfasts. There will be no cameras in a Senator's bedroom. No matter how many lobbyists he is sleeping with.

Anyone on Obo's watch been arrested and convicted for "Wall Street crimes"?
I doubt you would understand what a "Wall Street Crime' is.

Of course not. Obama says one thing and then does the opposite. He relies on people who can't think for themselves to follow his company line and believe every word he says.....then look like fools when they post on boards
The ones who look like fools are the ones who latch onto everything they read in every email, blog or radio broadcast and lap it up like a starving dog.

[PaceAdvantage]

When Obama said he would shut down Gitmo there were screams from the right . "He's coddling terrorists." He's putting us all in danger." If he puts them in regular prisons, Al Qaeda will be roaming the streets of our cities"
There was all sorts of criticism. Now he is being criticized for not shutting it down. You can't do both.This is a favorite tactic of yours, and one that you should be embarrassed employing on a regular basis.

Elkabong is not passing judgement on whether or not Gitmo closing down is the right or wrong course of action. He is passing judgement on Obama's character, and the fact that he told the American people he was going to do certain things, or act certain ways, and has failed to deliver, such as with Gitmo.

You bringing up that "those on the right" didn't want Gitmo closed has no bearing on this discussion. It is a red herring, a deflection, a spin. Very unbecoming to someone like you who likes to lay claim to the title of "right-wing slayer" around here...

This tactic of yours could easily be played against you. Those on the left were SO CRITICAL of troops being in Iraq and of Gitmo and of all the things Bush did that OBAMA CONTINUES TO DO or ALLOW TO HAPPEN. Where is the outcry? It's gone. Where did it go? The situations haven't changed, only the name at the top, and the fact that a (D) now replaces the (R) next to his name.

You're a hypocrite. I get it, we all are. Some of us have an easier time of admitting it than others.

[mostpost]

This is a favorite tactic of yours, and one that you should be embarrassed employing on a regular basis.

Elkabong is not passing judgement on whether or not Gitmo closing down is the right or wrong course of action. He is passing judgement on Obama's character, and the fact that he told the American people he was going to do certain things, or act certain ways, and has failed to deliver, such as with Gitmo.

You bringing up that "those on the right" didn't want Gitmo closed has no bearing on this discussion. It is a red herring, a deflection, a spin. Very unbecoming to someone like you who likes to lay claim to the title of "right-wing slayer" around here...

This tactic of yours could easily be played against you. Those on the left were SO CRITICAL of troops being in Iraq and of Gitmo and of all the things Bush did that OBAMA CONTINUES TO DO or ALLOW TO HAPPEN. Where is the outcry? It's gone. Where did it go? The situations haven't changed, only the name at the top, and the fact that a (D) now replaces the (R) next to his name.

You're a hypocrite. I get it, we all are. Some of us have an easier time of admitting it than others.

Elkabong, or you, or any of your cohorts can not criticize Obama for doing what you wanted him to do. That is where the hypocrisy lies. You are looking for something to criticize him for. Since you can't criticize his actions you use the red herring of criticizing him for changing his policy. The honest thing to do would be to say that you appreciate that he saw your point of view on the subject. Instead you seek desperately for anything to blame on Obama. You, and Elkabong and all the others are hypocrites.

If he had closed Guantanamo, you would be criticizing him for doing that. No matter what he would have done, he would have been criticized; not just criticized, vilified on a very personal level.
I hear plenty of criticism of Obama from the left for not winding down the war faster and for not closing Guantanamo. I don not often express it here because I am too busy responding to the idiocy from you guys.

[Tom]

Do you not read English?

The topic is NOT the closing of Gitmo, but the lying about it.

[riskman]

Anyone on Obo's watch been arrested and convicted for "Wall Street crimes"?
I doubt you would understand what a "Wall Street Crime' is.[mostpost reply]

Please tell us what a Wall Street Crime is? It appears to me that the DOJ and their U.S. Attorneys are telling us that these villians are not prosecutable.
Taking on reckless levels of risk and pushing sketchy credit default swaps on an unsuspecting public may be deplorable but it is not necessarily against the law. The fact is the DOJ is not smart enough to figure out the whole scandal involving the SEC, the credit rating agencies, the banks and other players ie.,AIG, Goldman,Lehman -the list is endless. They can prosecute Martha Stewart but the DOJ does not have the expertise to clean up Wall Street. They have not aggressively pursued the players in the financial meltdown--wonder why.

[toetoe]

The Obamunists want the press to all be like Roger Simon:

"We will stipulate that President Obama is the greatest orator of modern times."

:lol: :lol: :lol:



Greater than Adolf Hitler ? Uh, no.

> Father Coughlin ? Nah.

>Jeremiah Wright ? No.

> John Kennedy ? Oh, sure. :D

> Franklin Roosevelt ? Pish.

> Winston Churchill ? Nev-vah.

> Richard Nixon ? Okay, it's a tie.

> Spiro Agnew ? Not even.

> Nikita Kruschev ? Nyet.

> Martin Luther King ? C'mon.

> Cassius Clay ? Foo'.

> Ronald Reagan ? We-e-e-e-ell ...