May 22, 2010
Transparent Administration? Obama? Nahhhh!
Chuck here.
I saw this column earlier, by David Limbaugh, and thought “Remember when Obama said…?”
The “most open and transparent” president in American history is still playing hide-and-seek with the press, and even the liberal New York Times has begun to notice it, as indicated by this headline: “Obama Turns His Back On the Press.”
If the mainstream media were not so ideologically wedded to Obama’s big-government agenda, they would be doing more than pointing out his secrecy and hypocrisy with the occasional headline. They’d be skewering him daily for his marked inaccessibility.
Not having a genuine news conference since July would be remarkable for the least transparent administration, let alone one that made openness a signature campaign issue.
Yes, didn’t Mr. O have a lot of stuff to say, during his campaign, about how Dubya’s administration wasn’t transparent enough, and if he was elected, his would be a virtual open book?
…A case could be made that Obama’s never had a news conference that he hasn’t largely controlled. He and his handlers, from David Axelrod to Rahm Emanuel, understand the importance of managing the press to control the message in the interest of advancing the leftist agenda.
Jumping a bit here:
In one of his extemporaneous moments at Hampton University, he unwittingly disclosed the administration’s MO, not that discerning observers didn’t already know it. He openly lamented the advent of the “24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank that high on the truth meter.”
He might as well have just directly said it: “I don’t like the free flow of information in the new media, which tends to impede the advancement of my agenda, which depends on keeping the public in the dark.”
Yeah, that’s pretty cut and dried, worthy of any wannabe chief leftist.
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May 23rd, 2010 at 8:51 am
Sounds like Tony Blair has been giving him lessons - or at least Blair’s Media Gauleiter, Alastair Campbell, has. All Blair’s “Press Conferences” were carefully orchestrated and the media mokeys knew that asking an awkward question or stepping off message would get their Press Pass revoked instanto.
I’m not at all surprised that Obama is not transparent. No socialist ever is, they wouldn’t be electable if they were!
May 23rd, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Gray Monk,
No socialist ever is, they wouldn’t be electable if they were!
This is true.
The media here has helped Obama in the past, naive arse creepers of the socialist ilk that they are, by asking easy questions of him and his cohorts while saving the tough ones for his opposition.
I can understand why he’s hunkering down at the moment, too: Because the American people are asking the tough questions of him, his administration and his political allies. He knows his agendas have gone beyond the pale and that the voters are wise to his game, that of wiping his feet on the Constitution, which he swore to protect and defend, and that we are demanding an accounting which he knows he cannot give with any kind of mollifying explanation, hence his avoidance of the media.
Well, he can run, but he can’t hide.
This is an excellent example of our political process at work, though something of an Eleventh Hour performance: We, the People allowed the politicians, especially the Democrats, to run amok by not ensuring that they were following the rules, and now We, the People are stepping in to try and fix the mess they’ve made of things.
It is working, to judge by various primaries and one special election result, and this November, when the American people go to the poles, the Democrats will have a sampling of Waterloo of their very own.
Needless to say, Obama will receive his walking papers two years later.