President Sunshine Wins An Award

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TammyBruce.com:

You might not think so reading the headlines but this is Sunshine Week. In accordance, Obama will take time from his hectic schedule of golf and sporting event prognostication to accept an award. At first I thought the award would be for acting as though nothing serious is happening, but no. The award is from a group of journalists promoting government transparency. Are we surprised that accepting this award is the only part of the President’s schedule open to the press today?

Obama flaunts openness award

President Obama’s only event at the White House that isn’t closed to the press on Wednesday is a ceremony in which he’ll accept an award for being open to the press.

According to his public schedule, Obama has four behind-closed-doors meetings from 10 a.m. to 3:05 p.m.: his daily briefing, a talk with the USAID administrator, a session with senior advisers, and a huddle with his defense secretary. All of the meets are in the Oval Office, and all of them are “closed press,” the White House says.

But at 2:55 p.m., Obama will emerge to “accept an award from a coalition of good government groups and transparency advocates to recognize ‘his deep commitment to an open and transparent government—of, by, and for the people’ in conjunction with Sunshine Week,” the White House said in guidance to reporters.

We wonder if he’ll even take a question from the press pool, a practice Obama seems to have grown to hate.

Edited March 16, 2011 by Rheo
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Obama to Receive ‘Transparency’ Award?

 

 

And the lack of media transparency supposedly goes beyond just FOIA requests. Keith Koffler, a former White House reporter at Roll Call who now runs the White House Dossier blog, wrote a post on Monday about the administration’s alleged “bullying” of the press.

 

“President Obama’s conference on bullying Thursday was deeply ironic to some in the White House press corps,” wrote Keffler. “That’s because every reporter who regularly covers the place knows that President Obama’s staff has a policy – an actual, pre-conceived policy – of bullying. … The problem with this kind of intimidation is not that it hurt reporters’ feelings. The problem is that it is an assault on free speech.”

 

 

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He is losing so many supporters he must be feeling the pressure. Pretty soon Michelle will stop feeling pride in this country.