Do You Want Your OTV?

Does anyone in the Press Corp play basketball?
HuskiesFight song, “UConn Husky”
Go Huskies!

As long as he’s holding a public event, it seems the pool should be included.

Isn’t this the same as putting out a Video News Release like GWB got slammed for? The “Revenge of the TelePrompter”

“As long as he’s holding a public event, it seems the pool should be included.”
Agreed.
If the WH wants to do their own video that is fine but to exclude the press is a bad idea.

the Truth | May 20, 2009 6:28:05 PM—why trash the “MSM” and blog freely on its site. why not blog on Limbaugh? oops, you have to pay for that.

What a surprise that the One World Government might not include the media!

Banana Republic TV. Get used to it.

Frankly Jake, I’d be offended.

Transparency, anyone?

Yes, I prefer, getting it from the source and not through media with their own larger than life egos.

IT’s not a good idea for the Government to Manufacture the News. The Media outlets with their different voices are always present to enlighten and inform us of what is going on in our country or around the world. Is up to us to discern, if they are doing a good job or not.. The Journalist shouldn’t be News Beggars or be marginalized. Neither be the source of jokes by the Goverment Press spoke person. Is umbecoming of Power.

Ever growing control from the guy in the White House. Capitol Hill will soon just be the “outhouse” for the White House.

Looks like the MSM is getting the same treatment as so many of O’s supporters have gotten—used until you’re no longer of use. BHO and entourage are from Chicago–get used to it under the bus like so many others that were used and then abused.
If the MSM did their job in vetting BHO during the primaries, they wouldn’t be experiencing this—karma is a b*tch.

Jake, you have every right to be offended by this turn of events. It may seem innocuous enough, just a little photo-op feel-good kind of event that would not be markedly different if filmed by pool participants rather than by the white house. But it is a slippery slope we see here, and you will note that they didn’t just push out some video, they put together a professional-looking piece, as Mr. Tapper noted, with tags and editing just like a news piece. Makes me queasy.
Oh, and Bill, I hope you were trying to be funny when you wrote, “Yes, I prefer, getting it from the source and not through media with their own larger than life egos.” One larger-than-life ego per White House news is enough, huh? Surely you would not suggest that folks like Mr. Tapper have egos any larger than the inflated ego of The Chosen One.

“Do Obama White House officials think their media coverage isn’t flattering enough?”
This ain’t Chicago, Barry. But good try.

This is hilarious.
We have no serious media left in the US, just lazy propaganda outfits….so what’s an additional one going to matter?

One more thing, Jake. What about the fact that these “real reporters” you’re talking about haven’t done their jobs for over ten years (maybe more). Where were you when you were being kept in the dark by the Bush & Cheney gang? Where were you while the economy was going down fast and the stock market was at 14000? Where were you when Bush and friends were ignoring 9/11, and then committing all sorts of vile, illegal acts? Why haven’t we gotten to the truth about Halliburton? Where have you been while Cheney has been all over the news, spouting his garbage without a single serious question from the so-called “real reporters”, demanding serious answers to the serious questions of how this country ended up in such jeopardy? Why haven’t you demanded proof to his claiims of an unsafe nation under this new president? Where was your outrage when the Bush gang were taking this country, the constitution and the reputation of this country and grinding them up into nothing recognizable? You have the audacity to cry about not being allowed to cover a basketball game? Why don’t you start doing your job – the job you should have been doing for the past several years? Start reporting the news, not your version of it! You are a whining, sniveling, bitter little man. Get over the basketball thing. Get over your jealousy of this president, and your dedicated vendetta which seems intent on bringing him down. Start acting like a “real reporter”. When good things are happening, report good news. When bad things are happening, investigate. Simple.

Oh Jake get over it.

State-run television, and now, “preventive” detention…we’re more like the former Soviet Union every day.
Obama Eyes ‘Preventive Detention’ System
During a 90 minute meeting with human rights advocates today, President Barack Obama said that he was considering coming up with some sort of “preventive detention” system which would provide him a legal basis to detain suspects as a threat without having to charge them with any crimes.

“Do You Want Your OTV?”
We already have OTV with MSNBC, NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC (sorry, Jake – your individual reporting is an exception) serving as affiliates!

“IT’s not a good idea for the Government to Manufacture the News.”
There is potentially a conflict under Smith-Mundt act of 1946 for them to even do this.

At least other presidencies have invited the private media in. He shut out the private sector to put his “brand” in front of the people. It’s a permanent campaign for him. This is marketing run amuck just like his “Office of the President Elect.” (That particular stunt reminded me of Junior High where the teacher has to make up a title so the little weakling can fit in.) It is unbecoming to have the President of the United States behaving like a controlling husband that has to put his “brand” on everything the family does so his fragile self-image can stay intact. And THAT is what THIS little stunt felt like.
Now that I’ve ranted, nice to see these gals at the White House.

“This is a silly basketball game with children.”
They are college students. Univserity of Connecticut. Not exactly “children”. Womans national champion in college basketball. It’s in the story above.
And your missing the issue. The white house created and made a media release, complete with a logo. That has legal issues.

Chavez must be proud.
Obama must have decided that he couldn’t even rely on MSNBC to sell his propaganda after they began allowing Rachel Maddow to dare call him out on his lies and backtracking to the gay community.

It’s the same reason Obama won’t throw out a pitch at a MLB game. He’s not the athlete he has been made out to be in the press. He can’t be filmed being beaten on the court by a bunch of girls, or anyone for that matter. If he were to throw a pitch out at a MLB game, he’d be compared to Bush who throws strikes. Obama can’t throw strikes much less get it to the plate from the mound.

THIS IS TOO SCARY! JUST LIKE SOMETHING HUGO CHAVEZ WOULD DO. WHAT IS NEXT? One little chip at a time and we don’t think too much about it. We wake up in four years and it is too late.

Imagine if a republican president had done this.

You asked for it, you got it, narccissist in chief.
2Timothy 3:13 …evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

This is ridiculous. We the public deserve and unbiased media not a Govt run media. Is he that unsatisfied with coverage he has received from the major networks thus far? He is more full of himself than I thought.

I counted at least 6 white women on the team but none made the cut for the ‘Press” release- just seemed odd, don’t you think?

Wow, shades of the USSR days huh?
While the eastern bloc is moving more towards freedom for its citizens we are moving more towards what the soviet union used to be?

I guess I’d care if it was something newsworthy – but shooting hoops with his staff or college athletes doesn’t count as news to me.

The best part of this charade is that it took 3 weeks for this info to come out. As “Journalists”, including the mainstream media, continue to rely on company-produced news releases, rather than actual insightful reporting – apparently many must feel that the chosen one is just helping to make their work easier. This is only the start folks, WAKE UP!

And next week on “El Presedente” O will publicly chastise the Speaker and be seen riding a white horse!

The media, who for the most part have been and still are fawning over this charlatan and dangerous man – had better open their ears and eyes. Yesterday’s speech was full of lies and misstatments. Jihadis started the war against America years ago, well before 9/11. I have never felt so vulnerable as a United States of Amercia citizen as I have since this phony took offic. We need to continue the policies of Bush/Cheney. They kept us safe here at home and our interests abroad! Wake up America.

Hey Media – Wake up and do your job!! Take off your rose colored glasses and see where this administration is leading you – and us. If you did any critical (truthful?) reporting on this guy a year and a half ago he would not be president today. His lack of experience, his ego, his ideas for the country, etc. are in plain view now and we are stuck with that for 3 1/2 more years.
Bipartisanship on his part? – I don’t think so. Transparency – Not seeing it these days. Decisions based on sound science – can anyone say “junk science” (re: Cap-and-Trade)? State run media? – basketball yesterday, major issues tomorrow. Incompetence? – Where do I start … Gibbs, Geitner, the lsit is endless.

Next thing you know, he’ll block reporters from significant news events, so he can give it his own spin. This is just a warm up – unless the MSM and the American public wises up, we’ll eventually have state owned TV only.

What is worse, this is a MODERN president who should know better by learning from history’s mistakes. (Goebbels, Hitler, etc). Or maybe he likes it.
I remember in Obama’s book how he talked at great length how Bush used hand sanitizer… ::GASP:: This is nothing compared.
Obama is one weird apple. I certainly don’t TRUST Obama one little bit.

The more I read the hatred toward the Obama Administration, the more I think about how many people didn’t like the Bush Administration. Nonetheless, I think the venom toward Obama is SIGNIFICANTLY more potent. Well, Obama didn’t lie–we’re getting change. Personally, he can keep it–I’m not interested!

What happened to “complete transparency”??????????

Just WOW. If Bush had done this???

Yea this a bad- but worse is that this idiot is destroying our economy- and nobody seems able (or willing?) to connect the man’s policies and actions to the drawn out recovery… If we ever recover…
Ask a small business owner their opinion of Obama….

Why are tax dollars being used to produce news reports when we have the main stream media firms that have done it free for decades? Another waste of tax dollars. First the banks, then the auto companies, now the media?

is media the 4th branch of govt now?

Can you say REVOLUTION? It’s coming folks…

This is just the beginning, Don’t forget they’re talking about newspaper bailouts, and soon it’ll be television bailouts too.
Read your history people, this is how democracies are taken over, not with wars, inch by inch, freedom by freedom. Vote them all out, starting with your local reps, and work your way to Washington. Go to the tea parties on July 4th, and talk to your fellow Americans. We are ALL Americans, it’s the politicians that insist on splitting us up, it makes it easier to control the masses if you build walls between them.

Just another welcome sign that Obama is connecting with the world community of N. Korea, Russia, Cuba, China, and Venezuela.

We have no media anymore. They’ve all been co-opted my the liberal establishment and have been cheerleaders for the left for years. Now they’re upset that they couldn’t cover this little story? Oh that is soooooo rich, LOL…

Little by little, the curtain is being pulled back on Oz to reveal what many of us feared all along. Granted, a pick-up basketball game isn’t the most newsworthy event in history, but it’s the principle of the matter. This is a dangerous precedent and given Obama’s stand-offish nature with the media thus far, and is clearly a glimpse of things to come. The free pass needs to end (I think the honeymoon time has long since expired) & the media need to realize that this man doesn’t care about them at all (aside from giving him favorable press and softball questions). We are being propagandized DAILY and it’s time for it to end. Kudos to you, Jake Tapper, as you seem to be the ONLY member of the current mainstream press corps willing to actually ask BHO a tough question or put a real magnifying glass up to some of his actions! The rest of the press corps is too busy idolizing him and covering his tracks. Thanks Jake! I beg you: keep it up!

I think this is a step forward in the right direction. Obama’s doing a great job under difficult circumstances!

why were none of the white players interviewed?

Pat,
I agree with you that I want no part of 0bama’s “change”.
But I disagree with you about whether 0bama lied. The man is a fraud, his whole “life story” does not stand up to scrutiny, he has gone back on many of his campaign promises (some of the worst hatred against him in the blogs comes from the left).
His whole life is one big lie.

OMG, the press wasn’t allowed to film a pickup basketball game! Perhaps the President was trying to keep a modicum of privacy in the residential area of the White House, and not allow cameras into a private area? You’re also not allowed into the Oval Office, right? Or into the room when he’s meeting with foreign officials, or members of Congress? Would you also like to see what happens in his bedroom? Frankly this outrage is a little ridiculous.

Established his own media? Isn’t that what Hugo Chavez did?
I confess, no one believes the main stream media as they have given away their creds for the bottom line, but it has come back to haunt them.
The founders gave the media special first amendment right so they could aid the citizens on how to think about modern problems and issues. Unfortunately, media is more interested in telling people what to think. Time to eliminate those special rights.

Maybe its cuz O was afraid he would get his ass kicked by a girl and he didn’t want that on film.

Robert, you’re awesome.

Are all of you – Obama supporters and worshipers included – really comfortable with government control of media and information? Do you understand why the Bill of Rights exists?

This is starting to sound like a dictatorship. BO must resign.

The footage looked like it was shot by an amateur or a university student.

Chavez strikes again. If he weren’t such an idiot, Obama would be dangerous. I am confident the delerium will eventually leave the press corp, and Obama will be recognized as a modern day Mesmer.

I wish more in the media would report on the arrogance and bullying of this administration. And this logo-mania: both narcissistic and orwellian.

@ Oneconservative:
That “Godlike echo over tone” is because he was speaking at the National Archives. The interior is highly polished stone and you can hear a pin drop across the room. The reverberation in that place is off the charts.

I was initially alarmed because it seems so unAmerican to have a news outlet that is totally owned by the Administration. Then I thought, “What’s the difference?”

Given that our current president is a narcissist, a megalomaniac, and surely believes he’s the Chosen One, why should it be any surprise that he wants to create his own television network to glorify himself? After all, the only books he’s ever written were about HIMSELF.

It’s just more of the ‘Change’ that we were told we all wanted. Now even the media has to get used to it. Welcome to ‘The New World Order’.
Wake up – America!

“1984″

Is the Obama Depression over yet???

Cheney in 2012!

Coming soon, Emperor Obama I

now you see how decent Bush was. anyone who voted for obummer is lost.

If its privacy you crave, POTUS is probably not the job for you. We’ve finding that out in several areas, it seems. Maybe tire store worker would be at your pay grade.

I thought ABC was the White House’s own media outlet.

I’m sick of Obama and his bullying tactics….

Uh oh. When the government starts to act as its own media outlet, you should be very concerned. Very Chavez-like, and Castro would be proud of Obama’s movement towards complete control over the media message. This was only a basketball game, but obviously the Administration was testing the waters.
Under Obama, the rich and successful have been demonized (class warfare), the banks have been nationalized, the car companies have been nationalized, he wants health care nationalized and control over your energy use. HE WANTS TO CONTROL YOU.
Read Marxist/Communist Saul Alinski’s book Rules for Radicals and you will realize Obama’s true bible.
This is a dark time in America. Vote out a Democrat in 2010 and start to take your country back. Before it’s too late.

General Electric Corporation,which owns and operates NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, and has a huge pro-government stake in Cap and Trade policy (among many others)has taken Tarp money and has clearly slanted their reporting of Obama to mythical status. Obama placed Jeff Immelt of GE on his “Economic Advisory Board” despite his miserable record as GE CEO (GE stock down 70%).
In my opinion all news outlets should detach themeselves from corporations and that includes Fox (Newscorps), ABC (Disney), CBS (Viacom, Redstone), NBC (GE) , CNN (Time Warner/CBS).
Trading slanted news coverage for government business and contracts is an updated version of the crude Credit Mobiliere Scandal of the 1870s. Plain old dirty corruption but nobody is standing up and saying to both Immelt and Obamanoids “you guys are stark naked!”

Matt gets it.
Hang in there, Matt.

Although this was ‘t an important event, controlling the news sets a dangerous precedent, especially in an administration that is trying to control many other aspects of society, including what we drive, eat, drink, etc. If the press has to accept this once, why not again at a more important event?

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Yes you did, you big dummy…

“I didn’t vote for this!”
Yes you did, you big dummy…

The Alphabets thought they’d be rewarding for their slobbering subservience, but now they are relegated to the journalistic back of the bus when O wants even more fawning (he’ll just do it himself). Too funny.
Cheney/Palin 2012!

Transparency…

The major TV networks and the big newspapers are too big to fail. This is just the first stage in the news bailout. Soon all the big newspapers and network news casts will carry the new logo.

And you actually believed the malarky about transparency?
While I do not care about a basketball game, I do care that the media doesn’t do their job.
Basically, he’ll use you if you’re convenient for HIS agenda, and if he doesn’t need you, you’re toast.
Pretty nasty comment about Obama.
You wanted him, you got him.
Are you sorry yet?

BO has to level the playing field for BET!

OMG, the press wasn’t allowed to film a pickup basketball game! Perhaps the President was trying to keep a modicum of privacy in the residential area of the White House, and not allow cameras into a private area? You’re also not allowed into the Oval Office, right? Or into the room when he’s meeting with foreign officials, or members of Congress? Would you also like to see what happens in his bedroom? Frankly this outrage is a little ridiculous.
Posted by: Coleman | May 22, 2009 8:34:14 AM
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This is only the beginning. Obama did not set up an entire newsroom system for this one event.
He has been hiring loyal comrades from the mainstream media to help him get up and running.
You kool aid dems and Obamedia cannot spin this Chavez/dictator style move into something akin to a one time home movie.

ABC (and Jake Tapper) appear to be the “Ford” of networks – reject the Koolaid and do business – continue on this path and I may just have to become a viewer. What a concept.

Hilarious that the press is complaining about this now. Great to hear the sycophants whine when they don’t get something they want from the messiah!

They need to buy that videographer a tripod or a steadicam

What’s the difference? ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NYT, WP have become the state media anyway. Whether it’s the White House that pushes its propaganda or one of its lackey media organizations, it’s all from the same script anyway.
There used to be a time when the media served the public and had a skeptical eye toward the government. Now the media seeks to disparage those who do not support Our Dear Leader.

It’s not about a basketball game. It’s about freedom of the press. Having the government produce the news is what happens in China and other government controlled media countries. Wake up people, this is what happens in communist countries, not in America!

You should be praying for your kids, Gabe. YOU voted for this chaaaange you cab beleeeeve in. Hope you’re happy (and your kids don’t kill you in your sleep…on second thought,no big loss there).

Jake,
Kudos to you for being one of the few who really gets it, and is not afraid to say it as it is.
John

Hey, hows that hope and change working for you?

During the campaign, the networks were in love with Obama. Unparalleled coverage and fawning over his every word as if it were directly delivered from the “Mount.” Now, as the tinge of this lasciviousness turns pale, so does the access to “His Person.” Control of what people see and hear is the mainstay of Dictators and Tyrants. Oh, Joy! Guess the media is now experiencing what they applied to us.

sounds like he took a page out of Hugo’s playbook.

Good reporting, Jake! For once, d*mn it – DO YOUR JOB.

Scribo said: “Government-controlled media is a major part of a socialistic country”
Barry is bypassing Socialism and taking us straight to Communism. Open your eyes everybody before it is too late.

This President is not qualified or fit for office but Obama reads his speech so well I guess 25% unemployment is just fine.

Gee guess what, this administration doesn’t take people out in lockstep and handcuffs if they happen to ask the president an annoying question.
Or maybe if Obama had them put in jail overnight like bush used to do people would be satisfied…get real people.
The MSM has a gotcha mentality that has nothing to do with news all they want is to cause trouble it makes better copy.

Big Surprise!!! What do you expect from this sleazeball?..It’s ALL about him so of course he has to control the method of coverage of HIM!! Meanwhile, the American people are in some kind of coma..and only the next terrorist attack will awaken them. In the meantime, we have to put up with this crap.

My my…which is this? Change we can believe in? or a more transparent government? The media has only itself to blame. If they don’t start asking questions soon and acting like real reporters and journalists, then they’ll not only be out of a job, but they will have robbed this country of it’s rights to a free press and rights to know! But hey, doesn’t sound like the media cared much about any of that when they swept this Obamanation into office! They covered up Obama’s lies and made up their own about Bush. Well, I guess they can just accept the fact that they were accomplices in shredding our Constitution and stripping citizens of their rights and privileges. Congratulations to the media hacks of this country! This is just as much your own doing as it is the liberal’s push to put a Muslim socialist and foreign national into the White House!

BEFORE YOU COMMENT, WATCH THE FREAKING VIDEO.
THERE IS NO FOOTAGE FROM THE BASKETBALL COURT.
THIS STORY SHOULD BE RETRACTED.

Question for the media. Last week they took your cell phones, this week they produced their own news. What’s in store for you next week?

So that what Obama and Chavez were talking about.

Why do Americans not get offended by this? Are there just not enough Americans left? It’s right out of the socialist playbook. Tell me this is not exactly what Hugo Chavez is doing!

Isn’t government run media propaganda?

Joe and Jake–
We don’t need to watch the moronic video because it’s irrelevant.
The story is about restricting access to the President and who should be in the business of writing the news–the White House or journalists.
Frankly, I don’t care if Obama’s teleprompter never holds another new conference or allows Obama to talk to reporters. The MSM isn’t going to ask a hard question until it’s way too late anyway.

MARGE!! Awesome comment. Link me to some news, any news that reported GW Bush arresting someone who asked him “an annoying question.” I’m always on the hunt for information like you! I might love you for your mind.

Obama setting up his video press releases bypassing the WH press corps pool, shocked I’m shocked! Hey guys he will continue to behave in this arrogant manner as long as your editors demand you write only sweet nothings about the man. He did this because he KNOWS there will be no price paid by dissing you guys. The you tube video of you jumping up when he entered the press room while you sat on your asses when Bush entered the same room has already seriously damaged your reputations and undermined your credibility and your profession. You will continue to pay the price for your adolation. The US Connstitution gives you protections denied to other private business entities but with those rights come responsiblities which you abandoned in the last election cycle with your biased and fawning coverage and now lower ratings and a slaps in the face by the administration are your just reward.

This Obama fellow is starting to really give me the creeps. He is like a composite of the characters in 1984,Brave New World,and Animal Farm.
Am I the only one thinking this way?

The White House has a basketball court? No wonder nothing is getting done in this county.

Oh, just wait it will undoubtedly get better! The transient wave of the housing and auto market crash has yet to make it all the way through our economy. Get ready for the commercial real estate crash, and unemployment rates in the 20%. Only Government employees will have jobs and how long will that last with no tax base supplementing their pay and benefits? Couple this with double digit inflation, the racial stake now driven through white Americas heart and you have the recipe for some CHANGE! America has forgotten how to apply common sense to Government and when we express the will of the people it is over run by the court system and some liberal ACLU backing judge. When did we quit looking at the substance and accomplishments of our elected officials and start looking at whether they were an IDOL? Obama’s lame stance on National Security will undoubtedly lead to more American deaths!

The mainstream media elected this loser, and now they are being shut out. Too bad. Hey media, how’s that “hope and change” working out for you?

Journalism is cooked! It started going downhill during the Vietnam war when they started a liberal anti-war agenda, then these very demonstrators became the journalism professors in universities to propound the leftwing causes. It came to a perfect storm during the Bush adminstration when they (liberal journalists) had embedded themselves by layers in the major NY/Hollywood media sources…and joined with Obama and the democrats to assure a democrat congress and presidency. It is unlikely soon that journalism will return to the type of investigative and fair reporting that it was once known. It use to be a noble profession but has religated itself to one of contempt and not trustworthy.

When you are an empty suit, with a “hope and change -finger to the wind” platform, pleasing to the extreme, terrorist coddling left, you have to control the media and diss anyone who dares to disagree with the party line.
THIS SO CALLED ADMINISTRATION IS “TRANSPARENT, ALL RIGHT, YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH CROOK INFESTED TAX CHEATIN’ CLINTON HACK POPULATED STAFF.

And the difference is…? The press should be happy as they are in total unison with Uberbama anyway – they report nothing negative and always praise their Dear Leader.
ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/NYT/LA TIMES, et al are simply saving themselves expenses now. I am sure that the White House will simply hand them the tape and they will pass this on, dutifully.

Congratulations “free” press! You may still have some semblance of unbiased reporting. But you see, that’s not acceptable; therefore, you’re no longer needed. The goal is total dependance on government, and you’re in the way. The “O”fficial message is the “O”nly message.

Wow. State-controlled media. This is just a subtle way of introducing this concept to the US, and this will happen more and more. As those of us who weren’t completely smitten by this guy have been saying all along, this is just part of the change that Obama promised. Pretty soon, not only will our banks and auto industry be state-owned/controlled, the media will be as well.
It’s truly sad to watch our country slide into communism, with half of the population burying their heads in the sand.

Hey, maybe now the media will start doing some investigative reporting. You guys remember what that is, right? Start with dual citizenship, ACORN, Fannie and Freddie, or bogus campaign contributions. Take your pick boys, when we tip too far left we can then have a special election for our special president!

This is a violation of freedom of the press is it not? Well not in specific terms however in the spirit of a free press the government should have let em in

I’m not quite sure what’s worse; the fact that the White House is now creating its own news stories or that their videos look like they were produced by a fourth grade media class. Seriously, have they ever heard of the word tripod?

When Obama came after the Banks, the media supported him.
When Obama came after the Car Companies the Media Cheered!
When Obama came after the Oil companies the Media roared their approval.
Now Obama is going after the Media and no one cares! The Left thinks he can do no wrong and that this is no big deal. The Right wrote off the Liberal Media as a Democratic Party Shill long ago.
When Obama comes for YOU or YOUR Company there will be no one left to protest and no free media to appeal to.
WAKE UP!!!!!!
A government big enough to give you everything you want is also powerful enough to take everything you have.
– Thomas Jefferson

LEAVE BARRY ALONE!
*SOB!*

Whats wrong with the president using the Minister of Information (MIS) to report his news his way? So what if Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, Ahmdinijad use the same style of reporting. We need to be more accepting, Obama is a great man and we need to hear the truth that he wants us to hear it, not what that cracker Trapper wants to tell. We need the MIS to tell us the straight story on Chrysler, GM, AIG and all the other big donors, I mean millionaires, I mean greedy corporate executives, I mean poor regular folk, people like us. We need the MIS to tell what we should know. If you look at the clip again there was no advertisements banners or commercial interuptions, hence no evil corporate greed was used to get the real message out.

I didn’t vote for him. I knew he was a Socialist. I’m not surprised. It will probably only get worse as they veer this way on more important stories. The camera work was cheap and awkward. It made me dizzy.

Perfect! Amateur reporters for the amateur president.
China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Syria et al, must be laughing so hard they hardly have time to plan how to take advantage of this rube.
Barry O. is working hard to make King George Bush, II look good.

“…so that at the name of Obama every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Barak Obama is Lord.”

How is what the Whitehouse did much different than what the press does anyway. Axelrod and Emanuel tell the press what they can and cannot report. Jake, did they give you permission to write the blog?

He obviously didn’t want time away from the press, otherwise he wouldn’t have made and released his own version rather than allowing one network team to provide pool footage to the rest. I’m sure he doesn’t play basketball all that often given his career and didn’t want to see some awkward misstep replayed over and over in the national press for years to come. But would the press have stood for this from Bush?

I also find it interesting that they refer to “his basketball court.” I have never heard anything in the White House being referred to as “his” or “hers.” Only “the Lincoln bedroom,” “the west wing,” “the family quarters,” “the bowling alley (oops that’s gone),” “the rose garden,” “the oval office,” etc. I guess now that he has his basketball court and his news service, he doesn’t intend on leaving the place.

I think obama had his daughters front and center w/ the womens basketball team. Perhaps thats why they locked out the media.

How long will it take before people understand how rude these jerks really are?

I will obey.
Long live Big Brother.
Down with all the infidels and non-believers.
Obama Is God,
bow down and worship him sheep.

The obedient mainstream news media has carried Obama’s water for years. Now he does not need them anymore. Too bad.

One of the first actions in a country’s hostile take-over is to lay seige to that country’s media outlets in order to disseminate the propaganda of the hostiles. Maybe this is a test-run for the O-Team for the “Big Brother News Network”? …and all this in just over 100 days! Way to go America!

WHY WOULD OBAMA WANT HIS OWN MEDIA OUTLET?????? HOW MUCH MORE SLOBBERING A LOVE AFFAIR COULD HE GET THAN HE ALREADY HAS FROM THE SLAVISH MEDIA AT CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC, PBS?

The White House already has a 24-hour propaganda network -it’s called MSNBC. Only the truly braindead will be watching this network while thinking they’re getting something valuable.
Comments like that from noted international scholar “A Bunch of C” are indicative of the result of constant huffing at the propaganda pipe of this Administration – catty, defensive, frothing with fake outrage at unseen and imagined enemies and completely divorced from reality. So much for thinking independently of the government and of the party line.
Meanwhile, the US has lost its AAA credit rating on Obama’s watch. Under his unquestionably brilliant, historic, flawless leadership, the US is now being flushed down the financial toilet with no hope of extracting itself.
Way to go, Barry. Bang-up job.

You folks in the media created the situation with your fawning support of Mr. Obama during the campaign. Besides, the Constitution only protects your right to gather and report the news. It doesn’t require the President to give you 24/7/365 access, otherwise the press pool would probably assign Maureen Dowd to sleep at the foot of the Presidential bed in case he talks in his sleep.

Did anyone notice they only interviewed Black players? How politically incorrect!

Donna,
Who do you think ACORN was registering? Hardworking minority families in the suburbs? Nope. They were in the *public housing projects*. If SSI goes away, so does O’s voting block.
Stop being silly.

Donna, I know what socialism is, and everything you listed is indeed socialist in nature. Each was created by a liberal democrat, and each is a bankrupt, bloated bureaucracy. It’s a failed policy, Donna. Free enterprise with limited government is what made this country great; overweening government and heavily regulated industry has ruined this once proud nation.

The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth … and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.
– Mein Kampf
Control the media + control the message = control the people!

Or “illiterate” for that matter…

I can’t believe that GM will be Government owned. I’ll NEVER buy another Chevy as a result.

WOW! Jake, you continue to disappoint, since the days I remember you back at Salon when you actually seemed to have a perspective that was more than “network tool.” You complain that Obama didn’t let the media cover the pick-up basketball game, because they were producing their own coverage of the event. Well, how about the fact that there IS NO COVERAGE of the basketball game in the clip you’ve posted!
Stop inventing controversies to feed a narative you’ve already written and do some real reporting.
Like… making note that no over has ever escaped from a super-max security prison. Whoever says we should be AFRAID of housing terrorists in our prisons on American soil, is playing the politics of fear.

I think Obama is a megalomaniac. He is the POTUS so it’s not like he’s totally bonkers, but the man needs his ego stroked constantly. I find him somewhat creepy. He makes Bill Clinton look like someone with low self esteem.

Heck, I predict by 2012 Obama will have 100% of the vote.

Why don’t they pass out duck tape to reporters and let them at least watch Obama while he is being paid with our tax money.

One more thing about not giving into intimidation: this goes for white and black both. White people don’t let them call you a racist if you dare to criticize. My african-american brothers don’t let them call you an Uncle Tom. Stand up and be strong, black and white, do what’s right, and realize America is a great country and that equality is a mindset, nobody can tell me I’m not an equal because that’s their problem not mine. I am too strong for their point of view. Don’t be intimidated or afraid to criticize. Ask hard questions. Demand answers. People want change, well what kind of change? We already live in a country with fantastic opportunity. Don’t kill our economy and take those opportunities away. A poor man never gave anyone a job. And that’s nothin but the stone cold truth. Government needs to get the hell out of the way and let the people prosper, create, and achieve.

Hey, you guys put him in the office and now your complaining? The media crowned him king and now when they behave like the royal family you gripe. It is your own monster that you created. Now live with it.

I find it funny that the token white chicks on the team didn’t get interviewed?????? Serioulsy where are all the white women at??????

What is wrong? Did the mass media get it’s toes stepped on? WAAAH! WAAAH! Did it get it’s little feelings hurt? The old saying is to be careful of what you wish for, you just might get it!
They wanted their little darling in the White House, now their little darling isn’t letting them play. They wanted change and they got it.

AAAWWWW, how cute! I think i’m gonna cry. BO scripting his legend as a phony.

Obama is just following in the footsteps of the State-run media in the Soviet Union.
Just call it – ObamaPravda.

LOL you ain’t seen or felt nothing yet. Wait until the inflation starts, wait until the dollar drops and the world rejects the USA. Just wait we were once a super power with unlimited potential, it is the fall of the USA that will be the Obama legacy.

For those that know a little history, it seems like Obama has a DR. Goebbels on his staff. The ancient Minister of Propaganda would be proud of Obama.

When are the Obama supporters going to start realizing that they created a monster? I think many will not, as long as the gravy train keeps rolling along, paying out checks to them. Our governemnt is the mafia and they are buying the votes of the people to keep them in office. I say that if one does not pay taxes, they should not be allowed to vote.

Whatabout this thread makes you think conservatives are making a arguments to the issues…seem like alot of nasty insults toward liberal thinkers.

Since you all have a need to voice your opinions one way or the other, what are you doing today to change what ever it is you don’t agree with. Pick one thing that needs to be changed and get off your duff and do something constructive. Complaining is not helpful.

Why would anyone be surprised that The One will control media, if the idiots do not continue to follow with their tongues drooling? Tut, tut, a few cracks lately and The Royal We will not allow that. Remember the groupie children flicks?

Looks like John Kerry taught Obama how to create his own legend. Either that or he took a page out of Hitlers propaganda manual.
This must be the transparency he was promising.

Jake, as always a good report. What bothers me most is that we do not have an “official” news agency like Tass. I would like to think that this is just a one-shot by team O. However, taking Obama’s measure I worry about this being a new policy which will have unintended consequences.

Seriously? You guys are just now figuring out that the White House produces its own propaganda pieces? This has been going on forever, in every administration. And this particular one that you are so outraged about is a puff piece! Usually it’s to push some aspect of the agenda, and it is presented through the networks as if it is real news. This isn’t unique to President Obama. Sheesh, you people are such children! It’s pathetic.

How funny for the press corp to be crying, they should have known when Papa Doc was elected they were buying into 1984′s “Department of Truth” also, wait until ACORN drag’s them off to room 101 for some thought adjustment. Don’t mess with Papa Doc.

This is only the beginning. I guess the MSM’s slavish devotion to Barry isn’t enough. Too bad Herr Goebbels isn’t around to help the Messiah shut down Fox News. Is this the hope and change you moonbats wanted? Are you enjoying Marxism, racism and entitlement attitudes that Barry encourages? I agree w/ another poster. It will take another 9/11 for people to awaken, and get a clue. This is a dangerous time In America, I am worried. I wish many others were, as well. Wake up America!

What? ABC News dares speak out against the great Obama?! Maybe this news reporter is beginning to see what 47.3 million Americans saw, understood, and voted against in November. Too bad it comes just 7 months too late.

Jake,
Time for YOU to organize your colleagues and do some real reporting. Press for the truth and press for both sides of each issue.
you were all silent when the government takeover of companies started.
Ask, why the unions got to go first. Press to find out why he got a free pass on extorting the bond holders into being quiet and going along with the illegal takeover and pay outs.
Press them on everything!!! They WILL lie but then be a man and find the truth and expose it.
THAT IS YOUR JOB!!

This is exactly how Hitler began his takeover of Germany. Read your history.
He told the people what they wante to hear, couched in terms skillfully stated as hard to argue with. He picked out a group of people to blame (Jews) for everything that was wrong. Then he took over the press, the banks, and tried to take over the world. Ans lest you forget he went after the youth, anyone remember the Hitler Youth??
He will begin be recruiting young blacks, as they are easier to persuade.
He will tell them to turn in their parents for anything they can. Obama is a liar, and a traitor to this country.

I guess some do not know Jake Tapper is the only one who actually asks pertinent questions to this WH. Complain about the others but I am impressed time and time again by Tapper – keep up the good work.

But the White House has NBC. They give GE government contracts in exchange for propaganda you see on their news and comedy shows (notice how SNL still can’t make fun of all of Obama’s blunders?) I think America, conservatives and liberals alike, are pretty shocked at how much Gov’t control the Democrat party wants to inflict on the public. Fascism is sneaking up on us, and it coming up on the left.

Obama is a liar. Remember when he cut muslims out of photos during the campaign? as soon as elected he went on a muslim apology tour. let him show his birth cert -

Jake,
Judge Says Detainees Can Be Held Indefinitely; KBR Paid Millions in Bonuses In Spite of Deaths; Republicans Pick Up Coleman’s $750k Legal Tab; Poll Shows Republicans Clueless on the Issues.
…howabout some of these PRESSING issues Jake? This report seem more like a critique than reporting.

like his talks on torture, and everything else – he’s a liar, empty and only concerned with image, while he GUTS what is important to America.
MSM withheld the facts, Obamas on 17 covers of time. idol worship masks reality of decline. shame on you all

The end of American Exceptionalism. A third rate president will ultimately lead a third rate nation. ACORN, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayres, Tony Rezko, a half-wit press secretary, a billion US tax dollars for Hamas, endless apologies for everything this nation has ever done…Sad day for this country and a dangerous time for the entire world…Oh, and did I mention a projected 10 trillion dollar deficit. Change we can “believe” in? Obama is the greatest con in U.S. history.

The media is upset that they did not get to cover a pickup game of basketball….yet turn a blind eye to a denied Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to helpful intel gleaned from enhanced interrogation. Nice.

do not question the Ministry of Truth’s efforts to provide us with around-the-clock HOPE and CHANGE

Yeah not allowing the press to cover this event and having OTV instead is creepy.
Gov’t run media just like Chavez, nothing more than good old fashioned propaganda!

ps – anyone notice the ‘brilliant’ obama outsourced the economy to be dealt with by other falls guys/girls – he dont care about USA not one bit.
maybe people should read about him????

This is change we can believe in? It looks more like TNB to me! Wait a minute, there are guys in black sunglasses knocking at my door…

Wonderful to see the mindless Obamites like J. English drinking the daily koolaid from this administration. And he calls stuff mindless

It’s all about the ‘Obama and Michelle’ brand now, it has nothing to do with what is best for the US. People are starting to question things like ‘ummm…if the economy is starting to come around, why do we need to spend all that money’. He needs to make sure his image is as squeaky clean as it can be so he can deflect any possible questions of what is right. After all, he is the President, as he has reminded his detractors so many times, and will get his way.

I wonder also if he would of not let them into the White House if the were 10 mins late like the 5 and 6 year olds were for their tour of the White House???? I just don’t get it… Since when is the President’s Office private???? Like Obama’s kids, with President Bush the press were all over his daughters just waiting for them to screw up… and I don’t think Bush would be getting off so easily if he was telling the press what they could do… There is such a double standard!

Mr. Jake Trapper…
As much as I want to dislike you, due to the fact that you are part of the media that has gone wholesale ‘Obamedia’ I can’t because of stories like this. Your-’Just the facts’ reporting on stories like this, highlighting the obsessive desire of our favorite ‘Community Organizer’ and his crypto-Stalnist procivility to ‘uber control’ the news; eventhough the media love him. Jake your colleagues must be feeling a disquiet, over your refusal to join in their chorus of praise for ‘TheOne’
This reader thanks you for it…

Is there now any doubt that the ‘Fairness Doctrine” is coming? Also, a bail out and control of the newspapers?
This is straight out of the communist and/or fascist playbook. Control the media and control the message. How about a constitutional convention led by these anarchist next?

“The White House – like every corporation, non-profit and local government does – recorded their own record of events for public relations purposes”
W/o just resorting to insults lets look at your point. You are comparing the WH to business? These are elected officials not PR departments. Oh wait my bad that is what they are PR outfits. Do not judge us on our actions but on our words,correction, do not judge us on our words from the media, trust us on our words that our PR department distributes. Not sure how many companies and municipalities have PR deprtments that do this. I have traveled the world in a business capacity and other than communist countries and Venezula they don’t generate their own video coverage of events. Even better the in this case the tax payers get to pay for it. Does that sound prudent to you Rod. Tax payer funded propoaganda departments for the WH? Not that they do not already exist but this is taking it to a whole new level.

Further proof that the Bama is not human.
He absolutely cannot speak extemporaneously. He is always looking at his notes or a teleprompter! For crying out loud…is he passionate about anything???
Wonder if he has to have notes when talking to his own family?
This guy is not only a danger to our country (no wonder since he cannot even produce legitimate birth certificate) he is a mindless boob!!!
Where is the REAL Obama?????

Are people going to start waking up now? Probably not….but I agree with most of the posters here. This is a bad, bad road we’ve been taken on, and the main stream media is to blame for a lot of this. History is indeed repeating itself, and the reason so many can’t see it is that my generation hasn’t LEARNED that history! The public school education we’ve gotten didn’t cover this, so, the left which quietly and slowly infiltrated the minds of our students are now reaping the benefits from labors. Grab the minds of the children and you win. They’re winning, and I’m sad.
WAKE UP you fools and see this administration for what it truly is: he’s a black Hilter. God help the new minority: white men and their kin.

“While the act prohibits the Executive Branch from distributing propaganda at home, it also means that the US taxpayer is not permitted to know how the VOA (and its successor agencies) operate or what their programming content was. The act both protected the American public from government-sponsored information and broadcasting…”
Smith-Mundt act, 1948

That little logo is hilarious.
And Letterman (D) said that this administration is just tooo competent to make fun of.
I heard that Obama is going to appoint him to a post in the regime.
Court Jester I think. Or wait, Janet Napolitano is Court Jester. Never mind.

For all for those who think that the Terrorist suspects are getting the short end of the stick with water boarding and such “JOSEPH” maybe you should read what the Geneva actually says… In time of war if you caught someone you suspect of spying or commenting terrorist plots you can shoot them on sight… and the Geneva only applies to countries that has signed it…

Maybe now the media will believe what’s coming. They’re the one that wanted him. I can proudly say I didn’t vote for this individual.

@ dryuprightwingers,
I like the way you think! Spot on…

And, exactly, how is this any different than when Baby Bush had a press conference with his own people in the audience asking questions?
I think it is so funny how short everyone’s memory is or should I say, how skewed? I am not a Obama supporter but I do find it hilarious how people seem to forget all of the same behaviors as Obama does. Big difference is, Baby Bush hid his actions behind safety and the flag.

This is why they are called “Useful Idiots”. They still have tingles running up their legs as they lay on the ground looking up at the bottom of the bus. Study left wing revolutions. They use the media to gain power then lock them up, or worse, once they have the power. It is like finding out your wife is cheating on you. First there is disbelief followed by rage and revenge. Let’s hope the liberal press is capable of disbelief. I rather doube it.

It will take more than one or two non biased stories for me to trust ABC news…. but agreed…. this is a very good start.
Our government (the whole lot of them) is out of control – punch drunk on their power, running spending billions and billions and billions of dollars that doesn’t belong to them.
Maybe next time a tea party gets scheduled, EVERYONE will use it as an opportunity to stand up against the nonsense….

Mr. Tapper is apparently the only reporter that feels like he has a job to do. The others don’t seem to mind that they are being used like a rented mule.

The IS no “Real” Barack Hussein Obama. The one we see is made by the media and forced down our throats. He is a purveyor of socialistic ideas and a fore-runner to the take over of our government by socialism.
This man who is the President is as phony as a three dollar bill.
RightWingDog

WOW!! What ‘transparency’!!
How much longer will the ‘smugness’ last??
Sadly, feel that we collectively made a huge error in November!

HA! you clowns are responsible for the biased reporting that helped vote this socialist propagandist in and now are crying that he’s even turned on and dissed you!
Poetic

Honestly, is this really that newsworthy? It’s a pickup game with a women’s basketball team. Now say avoiding a person’s past statements, voting record, job titles (politician is the only one I can find. Does anyone else find it a little scary that we’ve got lawyers conducting our business/economic policies?), birth status, legitimacy of promises/anecdotes/recollections (cough-Joe Biden)….. Point being, I hope what these people do on the domestic front doesn’t cause too much future damage, like say runaway inflation or losing our credit staus abroad. Does it make a difference if they report their own news? The “real” media doesn’t care anyway.

This is so like 1984, it’s spooky. Controlling the media, buying up businesses, eliminating dissent. What’s next?

Doesn’t Hugo Chavez control the media in Venezuala? Hmm…. just a thought.

I don’t know what is more sad-that this is happening, or that anyone is surprised. You folks elected a socialist!
Simply Amazing, what would you have said if Bush pulled a stunt like this? “WHAH! Bush is dismantling the Constitution!”
Everyone, stop questioning our Great Leader (think I’m being silly? Were you in Chicago the day after the election?). We have no need for a free press. The state will tell us what we need to know. Anything else is contrary to the collective good.

Just like many dictators before him, Obama wants to control the media. Now that the US media is starting to catch on to him,he has created his own News agnecy, so he can put out what he wants and when and ignore the US press. Did any of you really expect less from him. He will do exactly like his friend Hugo and in 2011 state that he and only he can solve the problems of today and he will need to do away with term limits. The average American will not understand what he will be up to because he will use his personal TV new shows to talk to us.

Thank you Mr. Tapper for doing your job and keeping us informed of what is really going on.
The rest of the media are just kiss ups to this fake of a man.

Today I read that the libs want to indoctrinate kids with LGBT education. I never thought that it would go this far but they have the money that prostitutes our govt. And with the hate crime bill on the verge of becoming law; it will send all pastors running for cover and the beginning of the dissolution of traditional faiths opening the door for some utopian world religion.
They are indoctrinating our kids-destroying the middle class-about to check mate the economy with a zero value dollar and high inflation. And soon no news due to newspaper closures or pay for news plans. Who will pay for lib b.s. news anyway!
The end game is when they allow illegals to become citizens making our elections watered down by those who need socialist hand outs.
Libs have been snake bitten, it is about those left to stand up and be Americans and save what ever chance we have left to fight our enemies that want this country and our constitution in history books only.
Anybody read Ann Frank story lately?

“I thought this administration was supposed to be the most transparent ever? What gives?” Oh, it’s transparent all right. And some of us realized that BEFORE the election.

i went to china in 1996 and the communist government had a station like this where they would filter out what they wanted people to see and not see. if we keep this up otv will be up there with north korea, iran, china, and other media controlling nations.
but then again i’m sure this is just a small part of the bigger socialist agenda he has planned. he’s already made moves to controll the banks/financial system, auto industry, government controlled health care, and the media would be a logical step.
for me, having gone through the cold war i’ve never supported socialism for the USA but it seems to be quite “trendy” with this administration.

Obama produced his own version of what happened with the Kindergarten class as well. Welcome to the USSA.

Video doesn’t show them playing basketball. Pretty much pointless “report” it would seem.
And I don’t think you know what a Chyron is.
WH probably didn’t want people putting together snarky video of POTUS getting beat by girls.

Obama is the first affirmative action president which means he is not very bright. I don’t think he is stupid but he is OBVIOUSLY not too bright. This guy is a piece of work that is the MOST secretive president we have ever had. I predict that he will go down in history as one of the worst presidents ever.

Well, well… here we go an “official state news” media outlet. Isn’t that just Mao.
Hope your happy now.

There are no telepromters on basketball courts.

The man has always been a radical Marxist, why is this surprising? The only thing that is surprising about it is the fact that Obama appears to actually be receiving criticism from someone besides Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. But Obama looks good in a suit, smiles at the right times and makes good speeches, with minimal substance…so all will be forgiven, and his poll numbers will remain very high because America wants to like this president.

I think Obama is the biggest mistake in American history, but I also think we can let this one slide. It was basketball. The White House press corps would complain if they weren’t allowed to be in the room when Obama gets his next colonoscopy. (But don’t be surprised if you see Obama’s colon on the cover of Time Magazine on a news stand near you.

Does that mean that the President is hiring directors for his OTV? Gosh, how much money to get these “events”
perfect for Obama. How much money does he use for these renditions that his directors are perfecting? The most vain President ever. How much money does this fool spend events like this.
Is the the public paying for this? Or does he use his campaign money for perfect renditions? It better be the latter.

Can you say Hugo Chavez?

Well, you can’t have the ACTUAL FACTS coming out of O-ineligible’s White House. That would make this administration look like idiots! I’m sure you’re not surprised at this, Jake. It’s the next logical step in the Animal House White House.

and Sara… you think he “looks good in a suit”??? Of anybody looking good in a suit, he is the LAST one I would think of. He is as ugly as a fence post. I cannot figure out why anybody would think he looks good. I cannot even begin to describe how I DO NOT think he looks good, in anything…. Now, Denzel, or Colin Powell, THOSE guys look good in a suit and I have a feeling either would have made a fantastically better president than this one is going to turn out.

Wow, how much did this cost us? Reporters, photographers, editors, you might as well just quit now so you can all work for the government. That is what this is leading toward.

Our open society is getting smaller and smaller. I’m so sad to see the country I grew up in disappearing. Obama is the most dangerous president ever! Who does he think he is?!! Oh, I forgot. He believes he is the second coming. And while I am venting, he fist bumps instead of shaking hands. What is that about!? It may be hip but it diminishes the dignity of the office of the president.

hey Jake, it isn’t “news”. it’s a girls basketball team. who gives a crap?.
i saw an adult film star at local gentleman’s establishment @ 15 years ago. she had a wrangler with her who took a $10 photo of you with the headliner on your lap, tongue in your ear, licking your face, playfully tugging on your junk, etc. (pick one.) the polaroid film was pre-printed with the star’s signature on the bottom to maximize efficiency. that’s pretty much what the white house is doing.
Drudge loonies: it’s a beautiful day. turn off the computer and go outside. maybe shoot stuff or something.

Did you catch his speech yesterday? 28 times he blamed Bush for things. Did you EVER hear Bush blame the Clinton admin for 9-11, though he knew that admin had decimated our intelligence gathering abilities? Compare and contrast his speech with Cheney’s – the adult vs the man-child. One realistic, one drunk on power.
Obama is thin-skinned. I hope and pray the media wakes up and starts asking the hard questions before it’s too late. It would only take one really hard press conference to see this man blow his stack. We need to see the real Obama, not the carefully constructed facade we’re seeing now. Please, media types – join Jake Tapper and start acting like journalists instead of lap dogs.
1984 is upon us.

Hubris and arrogance. How could the media coverage be more flattering to him?

The socialist have a term for this: It’s called controlling the media, starts with something stupied like this game and always gets worse.

Are there only African-American girls on that team? They were the only ones interviewed. Wow, now that is interesting. Talk about diversity!

Compliments to the POTUS for one more of a long list of controls that help him shape what we want to see. Regular focus groups, teleprompters, no-photography sessions, the list goes on.
And yet it is so funny how the media essentially bent over backward with so much trust in him, and now they’re getting so little in return. Wake up media…report what you see…not just what others want you to see…After all you did it so well with the last administration.

All America wants and needs is some unbiased reporting on Obama and his Administration. How about some quid-pro-quo of what the media did to the Bush Administration? All you liberals out there in Obama land, watching Obama debate Cheney would be like watching Alfred E. Neuman debate Albert Einstein, respectively of course. Watch how quickly your ideological views turn when you figure out it is your wealth being redistributed or it is your City that gets hit with a terror attack!

You reap what you sow America…
How’s that hope and change nonsense workin out for ya?

BTW, didn’t Iraq have something like this? That told people all was well while they were getting bombed to hell?
Congrats, complicit media. I’m sure I don’t know how you can sleep at night. Oh, wait, your heads rest lightly on goosedown pillows and 700 threadcount sheets, i. e., it’s all a profit deal.
What’s your soul worth, anyway?
When are we getting our country back? When the people who tell everyone what the news is start telling the actual truth.
Whenever you’re ready, boys and girls.

Only 1,339 days left until a new president will be inaugurated. I am counting down the days on my prison wall that is slowly becoming America. Wait till he redistributes my and other American’s pension plans and 401k’s that we have actually worked for… we’ll see how many hard working Americans take a stand against this buffoon. Probably use my money to pay for his propagandist network. BS.

I guess I’m not the only who noticed that none of the white players were interviewed. That’s a great statement for the President to make.

The Ministry of Truth.
Sure it starts with insignificant sports stories but pretty soon the White House will be covering its own policy under the guise of ‘broadcasting’

Worst. President. Ever.

2012 With the majority of the country either working for, or being subsidized by the government, Obama easily wins re-election.
2016 Obama declares himself President for life. Who’s going to stop him??

LEAVE BRITNEY… UGH… OBAMA ALONE!!!!!

“So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause.”

Umm, doesn’t Obama already own NBC?

C’mon ABC, tighten up your newly issued jackboots and fall in line. What kind of propagandists are you, criticizing the White House’s new restrictions on freedom of the press? Remember, in the words of the big O himself, “You all voted for me [so you have no one to blame but yourselves].”
But, to be fair to Jake Tapper – he’s at least criticizing this latest power grab. Good luck with that, Jake!

At least the Obama people let you know you are watching a White House production. The Bush people used to fake news stories and pass them off as real.

Does Obama’s ego hold no bounds?
Hmmmmmm
Hang on people…its gonna be a bumpy 4- 8 years.

There goes the freedom of the press. How many more constitutional rights is Obama going trample on before he destroys this country? Everyday this man is trampling the laws of the country and its citizens. Martial law is coming soon, just wait. Democrats you wanted him and now you have him.

Someone please tell me this developing, Hugo style socialist dictatorship is not happening in America! Why are the liberitarians and the moral majority so silent these days? They should know that the polls for this prez are also manipulated and there’s nothing to fear for speaking our! The majority of voters who voted for this guy are now having buyers remorse. Obama will ruin any chance for a quick economic growth. Business job losses are speaking volumes about the dismal future that’s ahead, as a result of so many anti business policies that are piling up! Obama’s Cap-and-Trade is designed to spread the wealth and will kille millions of jobs in America. The developing countries will rise at America’s expense. America’s standard of living is falling off a cliff, thanks to liberal/socialist policies being passed in the out-of-control Washington.

To compare this to the concerted media blackout and lawlessness of the previous administration is laughable. A BASKETBALL GAME? Okay, then, let’s talk about Cheney’s energy policy meetings, where we still can’t figure out what happened (but which decent authority holds saw the carving up of Iraqi oil fields long before 9-11)!

Have any of the dopey Obama voters come to their senses yet??
After injection of funds into all those “shovel ready” projects – unemployment is still rising – and after our idiot Congress passed excessive spending bills (without studying any of the ramifications) – US bond ratings might be reduced.
We the People are “we the guinea pigs” -of the far left radical agenda of one Barack H. Obama. As history has proven – and current results confirm – it can’t work – it ain’t working – Obama, Biden, Pelosi – unbelievable mess – thanks to a large segment of our population – brain dead voters – WAKE UP EVERYONE!!

Sounds like something Chavez would do. Typical of a budding tyrant!

Why not just change the name of the White House Press Office to the White House Public Relations Office?

This is what the Propaganda outlets we call Major Media wanted isn’t it? Didn’t they expect to be taken over just like the banks, car companies, energy producers, and health care? They should try to get hired by OTV before their outlets are Nationalized and downsized. Welcome to the United Socialist States of America Comrades.

Funny how the partisan media howled when the previous administration created similar “propaganda” programming. No bias here!

Just one question to the Obamatons still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. How many of you are paid shills from ACORN, SEIU …?

It is bold for this so-called journalist question the motives of our President. Is this an American journalist?
Obama was duly elected by the people. This is like questioning the will of the people! Do you realize we live in a democracy? The people matter. Look it up.
If the White House excludes the press corps it may be for reasons ranging from operational efficiency of government to national security for all we know. If journalists don’t like the White House beat, they are free to report on matters elsewhere.
Perhaps if fewer members of the press corps liked to hear themselves tirelessly recite long-winded questions in front of the President, this kind of separation wouldn’t be necessary. The President has the power to decide whom he speaks to, what he speaks about, when he speaks publicly, where he will allow people to see him speaking, how that speaking will be covered. Do you remember that from grade school, ABC? Who, what, when, where, why, how?
Time for some remedial education, apparently.

Taxpayer money is going to this?
There is something wrong with this new President.
This daily display of attempting to debase the prior Administration, and other political opposition, is a sign of a deep seated partisan insecurity. Very much like ‘Nixonian’ or ‘Clintonian’ weakness that lead to disaster.
The campaign is over…
Yet, even today, Mr. Obama and his Administration decided to politicize an address at the U.S. Naval Academy Graduation Celebration on Friday.
President Obama’s own Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and his Vice President, Joe Biden, voted to use force in Iraq. There certainly must have been cause, right?
This is getting really ugly, as every where we turn, Mr. Obama seems desperate to bash the prior offering. But, the hypocrisy is growing, as Mr. Obama and his Administration has adopted nearly all of their policies in the GWOT.
It is regretful, but Mr. Obama is not being honest with anyone it seems. It is a constant flow of Partisan dribble, revealed as nonsense, while the Bush Policies are embraced.
President Obama suggests the USA lost it’s way, by fighting for the liberation over 25 Million brutally oppressed human beings in Iraq? From a Monster who funded PLO Suicide Bombers?
That is nonsense.
There is something deeply misguided about what is going on with this new President.
Long ago, the Clintons were so insecure, they overtly obsessed – (still do), about their image and the opposition. It created horrid policy, like the one that lied about Genocide in Rwanda.
Nixon was the same … focusing on meaningless political opposition, instead of the job at hand. He ended up being a joke of a criminal.
Mr. Obama’s release of a select amount of information from secret CIA Memos, regarding enhanced interrogation techniques that saved human lives, was entirely ‘Nixonian’ in context. It was a mindless political stunt, which seems based on pure insecurity.
Today’s vapid politicizing of the Ceremonies at the U.S. Naval Academy, was just icing on a very concerning cake.
The Obama Administration’s preempting of the former Vice President’s speech the other day, smells of paranoia. The wrapping of the President in imagery, hiding behind Flags and the Constitution, was simply sophomoric.
Where did we get such vapid Leadership?
Where is the unifying effort?
Mr. Obama is looking like an insecure, dishonest, disaster.
He has lied about earmarks, lobbyists, presidential signing statements, bows to Kings, the expression of Caterpillar CEO’s, rendition, etc.
Nearly everyday, this Administration seems eager to condescend, demean, even criminalize, the previous efforts before him. It is ugly.

How fitting: this, on the same day we learn that Venezuela police have raided the country’s only opposition broadcaster. BHO is taking lessons from his buddy, Hugo. First, decide what the official story is; then eliminate the competition. Complete control.

HOW LONG BEFORE YOU ALL REALIZE WHO OBAMA IS? PAY ATTENTION TO ACTIONS NOT WORDS. LITTLE THINGS LIKE THIS JUST WARM YOU UP FOR WHAT’S NEXT, HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF, ONLY THIS IS ANOTHER COUNTRY’S HISTORY, NOT THE UNITED STATES’!

Ah – a state run Propaganda Machine, must have learned that from his buddy Hugo Chavez. Birds of a feather.

The press made themselves irrelevant by not covering the elections fairly and now they are going to complain they do not have access to something as silly as this. Give me a break. Do some real reporting (objective). Ask some tough questions of these leaders whom you help elect as king.

Obama wearing a charity bracelet!?
Isn’t that like wearing an American Flag on your lapel?

Did’t Bush get hammered by Olberman and his son Rachel Maddow for doing this? Bet he does not mention this on his show tonight!!!!!!

Freedomintheus, I think you have misunderstood what I was stating. I am not for the way Obama is running things. I used the Gestapo or SS as a comparison as to the way things seem to be going with this administration. I think it sucks!! This country is in bad shape and is getting worse in more ways then one. It seems like anyone worthwhile having as a President does not have a chance. The Democrats are like puppets. Their leader pulls the strings and they jump. The Republicans party has let down their followers by becoming like the liberal Democrats. It is really a frustrating situation. The liberal mass media has the general populace dumbed down and brainwashed.

Congradulations Mr. Tapper,
You recognized the birth of the new, unjuried, propoganda arm of the Whitehouse.
Do you care to hazard a guess when the Whitehouse Press Corps will be excluded from important meetings?
It probably won’t happen till after ya’ll are accustomed to being excluded from innocuous events, when you have to get the report from the White House news room.
Anyway, welcome to the real world of the Obamanation.

So then, did he really outshoot them, or was that just “the story”? Could it be that the ego is so large that he didn’t want to be filmed getting beat by a girl? Was he concerned that he didn’t have the teleprompter do tell him how to adjust his shot? Anyone who believes that O doesn’t want control over his own propaganda has been missing all of the articles lately about his ongoing hiring of media staff.

Yes my friends, this is CHANGE! An end to concealing facts and scripted misleading reports! A new ear of openness and honesty with the American people!
And he broke his promise over womens college basketball.

Say what! The president bypasses an already fauning, adoring press corps to take it “directly to the people.” If the mainstream media had done its job maybe we would have a mature adult occupying the White House.

Here is the fine — and controlling — hand (at the end of one of those to die for arms) of Ms. Michelle Obama and her bevy of “image consultants.”

Good Morning Comrade, welcome to today’s Pravda.

Obama manipulating his image? Oh my say it isnt so!
They already have 95% control of the content of MSNBC, guess they want 100%, wonder how they will shut the other broadcasters down?
Obama is a facist thug, the only thing I am confused about is why anyone is surprised

It’s an event for a women’s basketball team, for goodness sake. It’s completely farcical to be relating it to Pravda. Really? The White House is controlling all women’s basketball media! Communism!
This IS a change – the White House is OPENLY SHOWING that it did this media report.
The Bush administration COVERTLY made fake media reports to spin events purely in their favor, and Fox News received talking points memos from White House officials.
If you condemn this administration for controlling a media report for a basketball team’s victory party, you must recognize what the Bush administration did was wholly wrong.

At least the White House used it own logo instead of its normal procedure of using MSNBC, CNN, ABC and CBS. In a weird sort of way….its reporting is more honest in that I do not expect it to be unbiased.

Jake, you just might single-handedly be the reason I would start paying any attention to network news again. 0′s folks may be the weirdest high school musical-like version of a presidential administration ever. I wonder who got the drama class project to mock up a news broadcast complete with hoky logo. Very weird!

So exactly who is the new Reichminister of Propaganda at Das White House? I’m pretty sure Josef Goebbels wasn’t available to fill the position.

Believer – You liberals just don’t get it yet do you? Obama’s Big Government Expansion and Spending = Increased consumption based taxes on everyone, they want to control your behavior through the cost of consumptive goods, like food, gas, cigarettes and alcohol. All in the guise of GREEN and all while giving away your tax dollars to ACORN and defunct industries that have depleted their own by lobbyist payoffs to the politician friends and families program or been regulated out of the market. I don’t expect it to take too much longer now, good luck.

Missing Bush, more and more each day. Starting to miss Clinton. I think I’m missing Carter too…. If we elected Putin, he’d serve Amerika better.

O.K. Craig Edwards let me get this correct. If you didn’t have the government telling you what to do and being your nanny than your pool would just be a mosquito infested puddle of stagnant water in a mud hole? I guess people like you really do need big brother to look out for them.

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I always thought the liberal media was in Obama’s pocket but obviously not enough. Obama must be applying lessons he learned from Marx, Stalin, Hugo Chavez, Castro, etc.

Obamamerika:
Banana Republic!

We have a state controlled auto industry, a state controlled financial system, now a state controlled media. Why is anyone surprised?

Stand up on the forth of July and make some noise. This guy thinks that he has everybody fooled! Can some people be that stupid that they can’t see that this guy is a scam artist. God help us because I noticed when he was talking at ND there was a man that heckled him and the look on obama face looked like Satan and he looked at the guy like Hes going to be sorry for going against him. This guy is evil!

Only way were going to send a message of unity is to boycott all the media that is protecting Obama. Don’t watch NBC CBS ABC. Oprah is the one that should really be boycotted because she handed this guy to us. In numbers we can take him over. Can anyone say Impeach now!

By the way. Did any of you hear that the kindergardners were turned away because the kids were late. What a hippocrite. Obama is never on time for anything.

I love it!
The media has fawned over and protected the fraud Obama and where does it get you? He gave his first interview as president to an Arab news channel and for his first press conference he gave front row seats to his media supporters like Huffington post and Ed Schultz. And now you get shoved out of line so the White House can make its own reports.
The MSM put Obama on a pedestal but the pedestal is beginning to crumble.

President Training-Pants sure looks foolish without the media “COVERAGE,” and I do mean coverage.

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set.

You folks really are the most naive and politically brainwashed people I’ve read. It is kind of amazing that the Repubs writing here never saw a problem with the executive branch control of the “message” and “images” sent back from Iraq and Afghanistan. You do realize that the whole invasion/war/reconstruction was cleaned up by the Bush admin and the press was tightly controlled not for soldier safety as they might have argued but for safety of the admins image control. They continued to do their best to minimize press coverage of the emotional and psychological impact these combat rotations have had on our men and women in service, to the detriment of those soldiers they tried to turn away for services. This current president is controlling the news on a basketball game…?? I agree if it is a sign of things to come…BUT what about things that were already done during the president you all voted for? You allowed this then and the country suffered dearly for your mistakes and you still don’t see what damage you’ve done. A basketball game, please. Looks like he is definitely up there with the Nazi propagandists. Please do your homework and look at Bush’s press control in Iraq.

Obama is operating right out of the play book of the commies from back in the days of the old Soviet Union. The sad thing is the press who shares most of the credit for putting this guy in by not properly vetting him to begin with has to much invested in him to speak up. From trying to shut down talk radio to making the press irrelevant this guy is a dictator in the making. Look for a contrived “crisis” to justify seizing peoples guns, shutting down the internet and talk radio. This administration will take control by inducing fear and panic. Our enemies are sitting back letting this guy run this country into the ground and the press will not speak up other than to bash Bush and blame him for everything now and the future. It is time for people to march en mass to Washington and their state capitols and demand these people resign.

“You do realize that the whole war was cleaned up by the Bush admin and the press was tightly controlled not for soldier safety as they might have argued but for safety of the admins image control.”
Complete crap. Every unit in Iraq had embedded reporters who were allowed to film and photograph nearly everything except wounded or KIA.
If there was any concerted effort to ‘censor’ reporting, I’m not aware of it. I’m sure the media would have made it headlines if it were the case.
Some of their footage, for example a Marine shooting a wounded insurgent in a mosque who was feigning death, raised huge outcries by antiwar activists who forgot how the footage got out in the first place; the US allowed it to be released.
Now if you want to talk about ‘cleanup’ and ‘image control’…all you have to do is talk to CNN’s Baghdad bureau who knowingly refused to report on the atrocities Saddam perpetrated on his own people.
CNN was allowed to remain in Baghdad while other media were kicked out for HONEST reporting.

Is anyone really surprised? This gives Mr. Obama’s handlers the opportunity to edit and retape segments…shaping the image. The man can’t give a speech without reading other’s words…and the power behind politics (I can’t tell you…if I did you’d have to disappear;-) get what they’ve paid for…

It’s the ObamaShow institutionalizing its propaganda arm. If George Bush ever tried this we’d Still be hearing about it now.

I could never understand the reasoning of why somebody should vote for Obama. He’s inexperienced and aside from a few things I agree on, I never saw this guy as a person who could solve the nation’s problems. I know he has a ‘celebrity like appeal’ but I don’t worship the cult of celebrity, many celebrities don’t seem happy despite their sucess, So I had to be fair when thinging about who to vote for. I don’t think he can solve the nation’s problems. I hate it when I’m right about this stuff.

IdahoGal, remember the day after Inauguration Day when he went into the press room and the reporters asked him questions. His reply was, “I didn’t come down here to put up with this” and acted like a spoiled child. He will browbeat the media when they do put the screws to him. It’s only a matter of time before we see it happen. It should be entertaining.

The Prez can’t stand to be criticized or questioned. His arrogance is only matched by his ignorance for the two go hand in hand.
The Prez is here to bring us low but we won’t go so quietly into the night.
We will stand and fight and bring us all into the light.
No more night.

I thought we already had OTV. Isn’t that what I see on CNBC?

He won.

Just let the NBC or MSNBC reporters in, they would report whatever the Messiah wanted

You can’t use a teleprompter while you are shooting hoops.

Leave the guy alone for a couple of hours. Are the news networks that desperate that they need to cover a meeting with the UConn Huskies?? Let him have some leisure time without the press shouting questions and waving cameras in his face. Report on something that has real implications for America instead of this fluff.

ABC or any major network besides FOX who really cares what they think. They are irrelevant in todays world…and Obama knows that and it is the reason he has his own network

This smacks of Big Brother tactics — controlling the news and image of an omnipotent leader — this shouldn’t happen again. Remember, Barak, the same people that voted you in, myself included, can vote you out.

He won the game by kicking the lady husky in the nuts.

Remember when Obama kicked 3 reporters who worked for papers that “coincidentally” endorsed McCain off of his campaign airplane?
Obama doesn’t tolerate opposing views well. Nope Obama is his name, censorship is his game.
If you ask Obama a tough question, it doesn’t matter if you are a private citizen or a reporter, you will be become a target of Obama. You will be ostracized and mocked. Hardly Presidential, he acts very insecure.
Of course the clown ears don’t help.

I wonder if all of the United Auto Workers who voted for Mr. Big realized what they were voting for? He is now their boss. At least at Chrysler and GM. Ford Motor Co. was smart enough to tell them to stuff it.So now we are going to have mini-cars sold to us. They may or may not be manufactured here or in China. The administration is looking out for the American worker. Even though GM has already threatened to send lots of American jobs to China. After all, it is important that we look out for the Chinese. They are kind enough to send us their poison dog food for our pets. Lead filled toys for our children and even toxic sheetrock for our buildings to be built with. When IBM recently laid off about three hundred workers in America and sent those jobs over to either India or Pakistan and the great one was questioned about how he would stop that, he said that those weren’t important jobs. We needed better jobs here. Tell those three hundred American workers that those jobs were not important. He tells us that Nuclear power plants were not to be built over here anymore, yet he is giving the technology to the United Arab Republic for them to use. Huh! Am I missing something here?

“Back in the USSR”, errr the USSA. Wait until the Newspaper bailouts, then all of the WH Press Corps will be government employees, with government pensions and perks. Hmmm – actually I guess they are already practically government apparatchiks! They just don’t have the pensions yet.

Someone wrote: “Look for a contrived ‘crisis’ to justify…” …things like curtailing the Freedom to Assemble? Some overblown boondoggle like “swine flu”, maybe? Sure would put a damper on those pesky ‘tea parties”…
The MSM have been Obama’s “useful idiots” all along … He’ll control the press next,(I think he thought he already had them in his pocket, but a couple dared question his omniscience, his perfection), after automobiles, banking & financial services, health care, energy.
I replied to someone’s blog post somewhere last fall that, “you can’t even imagine how bad it’s going to get with this guy in office…” I stand by that.

“You can’t use a teleprompter while you are shooting hoops”
Good point!

Funny. The MSM got this guy elected with their ridiculously biased coverage, and now he’s shutting them out. ABC – you made your bed, now sleep in it. Boo hoo for you.

Wow how about the money spent on this little PR trick. this is ludacris… they could have drawn lots and pooled the footage if they did not want the whole press core like they use to do. everybody talks about how bad MSNBC, and ABC are but the associated press is just as bad if not worse! Its print media so I guess it does not have to resemble real news and good editing!

How entertaining! The President bites the hand that fed him! Enough with your self-righteous whining, Big Media. You get what you deserve.

The press pool as made there own bed, Asking questions out of turn and context at events like this which are designed to be focused on the hard work these ladies put in and not what other global events are happening, the white house has a daily press briefing for a reason, the pool reporters should respect such, and respect the Lady Huskies for the championship and not complain about there congratulatory meeting from the president, and how they were denied the access to ask unrelated questions.

State run TV ,HUM !! Thats new ,oops !!! I thought that wall came down in Berlin ?

Where’s the guy with the mask? You know, from V for Vendetta

Well it isn’t like the alternative choice offered by the Republican party at the election was any better.
We simply need to field more people of character and ability in the political arena.

Paranoia runs rampant….conspiracy is behind every bush and tree. The president is here for the next 7 + years…..get over it and get used to it. He’s doing a damn fine job with the mess left by the Bushies and the Republican congress. If most of you are examples of the opposition, the Dems will be in power for one very long time. Pathetic!

Laughed at the right wingers believing in Bush and now going to laugh at the lefties believing in Obama (he will be gone in 4yrs, bank on it). And the Dems are going to be clobbered at the next election cycle.

On the one hand I’m amused by the network pet doggies of Obama’s regime showing such jealousy of the Obama “news” organ. On the other this portends serious faltering of the role of the press, something they forfeited at any rate long ago. This Obama person possesses an incredible, boundless ego. I pray the nation survives his self-indulgent, Chicago Mafia style and God saves us from his ilk. He is, actually, quite evil, but his master, the Beast, only employs him so far as the American people allow. I’m sad to say that means we are a bad lot as a nation, and perhaps due our coming times of trouble.

I am not going to read all (now 625) comments; the first 5 I read were mind numbing enough. There are so many problems with anyone having a problem with this. A few of them are…
There’s the ABC White House Correspondent who thinks he’s representing just because he’s in the press pool that is allowed to be there at all: He’s a professional and of course unbiased unlike those White House interns or whoever they are that shot and produced the piece. (I have to assume bias is what is being objected to here when the administration gets to tell about the event as they wanted to using their own media.)
Mr. Tapper writes rhetorically about the hoops eclipse: “…but is it right to do so by preventing actual reporters from covering something? (Even something like a pickup basketball game).” This seriously answers itself unless you’ve been drinking Rush Limbaugh’s cool aide. For those of you with a blue mustache the correct answer in this case is A: “Yes. It is right.” This was a woman’s basketball team not Bernie Madoff right?
Then there’s the whining about not being there to be in the Presidents face when he went around the corner to shoot hoops with his guests. It sounds like the press was already there (couldn’t they have taken pictures of they were not supposed to be looking at before the game?) but they just got told to give it a rest for a game of hoops. They were relegated to only hearing some people enjoy for a few brief moments a once in a lifetime moment with the President. Yup, democracy be damned. What has happened to this country when the White House paparazzi can’t get in the presidents face when he is shooting hoops.
So is there a smack of “The Bill of Rights is being trampled on” or is it just about the absurd notion the “real press” could have done a better job of presenting the little get-together?

Apparently there was no need to interview the non-black players on the team.

Hello Pravda… did you really expect anything else? If you are in control of the media (which they are) and can say and do anything they want because they are defining reality. We are all such useful idiots and we deserve this government. Ready for the revolution yet folks?

WOW – he did the Credit Card signing WITHOUT the teleprompter!! He deserves to be the PRESIDENT

This does not look like an isolated case. The great speech in the National Archive building was off limits to the press also. Only the OTV (Obama TV) was allowed to record, edit, and stage this production. One writer above was right, this smacks of a National Government TV station, run by the White House. Those who voted for this man, certainly deserve everything he gives them, or doesn’t give them.

“V” from the “Vendetta” movie seems to have depicted the wrong political party. Instead of Conservatives it’s the leftists trying to control the press. While I’m not surprised since their track record around the world has always been wrought with this, I am surprise so few people seem to have learned from it. After all, Obama was elected.

What’s the big deal? He’s been tired of the media way before he became President, what’s wrong with wanting some personal space – next there’ll be complaints because FOX isn’t allowed in the toilet with him.

Interesting that only the black players were interviewed. Looked like about half the team was white and half black but only the black players were interviewed. Kinda racist especially for a president who was supposed to be above race.

This is just the beginning. The POTUS is starting with just a realitively obscure page 12 story to see if the public picks up on this shift. If not, expect the propaganda machine to crank up an start dishing out the BS.

You just have to give the POTUS credit. He’s on a mission. His mission is to give blacks and other ‘disadvantaged’ people i.e., terrorists etc., a fairer shake in life. It’s now their time to shine, and he’s going to help make that happen. You know, “fundamentals values”.

What, the MSM who NEVER even vetted this
guy, is COMPLAINING? Wow, that’s a good one as you foisted this fraud on the American public. Funny today, that Hugo Chavez shut down his “last oppostion network”. People complained that Bush “was listening to our phone calls, right”? ONLY FOR TERRORISTS FOLKS
Now, you can look at what O has already
taken over by HIS govt’ grab, and sit there and REMEMBER, YOU VOTED HIM IN.

Obama has never been challenged, does not understand challenge and therefore, cannot handle challenge. The Whitehouse is the people’s house…not a personal propaganda tool and apparently, he doesn’t understand that either. But he does, and you can’t challenge him on it.

Why is the MSM complaining? They are already part of the National TV. ABCNBCNPRCBSCNNLATNYT. Does Obama get all the proceeds to the showing of his TV runs?

What we are seeing is the true Obama: a self-absorbed metrosexual fop who hides behind his teleprompters and messages from his Blackberry!
After seeing how Helen Thomas made Robert Gibbs look like a dunce regarding the low level of Obama’s “intestinal fortitude,” it’s clear that “The Mess – iah” needs an additional level of protection from an increasingly incredulous public. [My hunch is that 'Tea Parties' are going to be increasingly well-attended.]
The following quotes from Machiavelli [The Prince] apply to how Obama is performing:
The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible.
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.

All Obama.All the time.

Pigs we get what pigs deserve. This man will be the death of our Republic! Impeach Obama Now!

This is HORRIBLE. It is a Saturday Night Live sketch about a narcissistic dictator taking over America creating his own propaganda machine because the adoring, fawning press wasn’t adoring and fawning enough. It would be very amusing if it weren’t actually happening.
Obama is creating a propaganda machine to go along with the rest of his Marxist program.
REJECT Obama’s propaganda machine. Call the White House. Call your representatives. Let them know this is NOT ACCEPTABLE in America.

President Obama is expressing the will of the people as he nationalizes Wall St., the banks, the auto industry and the healthcare system. When they voted for him they voted for enhanced government control of the greedy capitalist businesses. It is only right and proper that he also nationalize the newspapers, radio and television stations. Doing so will make sure that the truth that Obama speaks with every word from his mouth will make it to the people without the interference and distortion of the racist, white oligarchs who currently control the nation’s news media. We, the people, need and want President Obama to control the news we hear so that our minds will not be polluted by the hateful message of the racist, white, media oligarchs. Power to Obama *means* power to the people! Obama for President forever!!!

Apparently only the black players get interviewed.

On 5/23/09 at 9:51:24 a.m., Barry said “President Obama is expressing the will of the people as he nationalizes Wall St., the banks, the auto industry and the healthcare system.” and so on. Obama for President forever!!!”
In addition to making one of the most idiotic statements I’ve ever seen, he ignores facts. Does he want to live in Zimbabwe where Robert Mugabe keeps a tight rein on the country, controlling businesses (what few exist), the distribution of food (many are starving), health care (for him, his family, and his trusted aides), and the news media (wait a minute, what news media??), and where life expectancy has declined by 10 years or more.
Here are the facts: I just Googled and as the voting age population numbers varied on several sites, I averaged the VAP from data from 2-3 sites:
- 216.35 million voting-age legal US citizens.
- 131,032,799 actually voted.
- 69,297,997 voted for Obama (52.886%) and
- 61,734,802 voted for the other guys
- 32.03% of eligible voters selected B. Obama to be the leader.
- 67.97% chose the other guys (and one idiot female) or didn’t have enough sense/gumption/whatever to vote at all.

Obama is his name, censorship is his game.

Mr. T,
Your colleagues traded their objectivity for ideology with regards to President Obama the second he finished speaking at the Democratic Convention in 2004. If a Republican President tried to pull this nonsense they would be waving copies of 1984 and screaming bloody murder in the briefing room. Face it, for at least the next four years the press has decided to abdicate it’s fourth estate watchdog powers. You are quickly going to find yourself a lone wolf in this area. Did any other outlets even pick up on this story?

This is the only president I can recall with his own logo (almost Napoleanic, the little bees, etc.). And a continuing political campaign. What happened to the saying “All I know is what I see on the news or read in the paper”? Cause there is more to the story, and more ways to find it out.

Jake!! you’re hilarious. I’m glad you guys are still allowed to think for yourselves at ABC.