Obama clears out press before he takes questions from Governors

Newsbusters caught this earlier today:

At his media blog for The Washington Post, Erik Wemple expressed amazement at how “President Obama finished an address to members of the the National Governors Association at the White House by saying, ‘What I want to do is clear out the press so we can take some questions.’”

This is the latest example of how Team Obama has utterly failed to live up to its promise of being the most transparent administration in American history, which the president still asserts. Wemple added:

Seems there’s a contest of sorts going on within the White House: Who can fashion the most Orwellian quote regarding open government? Here’s the quote that Obama had to beat, from White House counterterrorism chief John O. Brennan at his confirmation hearing to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency: “What we need to do is optimize transparency on these issues, but at the same time, optimize secrecy and the protection of our national security.”

Weekly Standard found the video:

Obama doesn’t even care about the media any more and he’s now pushing them around at his pleasure. He’s gotten what he needs from them (reelection) and now he’ll only use them when he sees fit. Just like a dictator.


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