Commie Obama is Spreading Again!

Carl Herrera · Nov 26, 2008

November 25, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama

Obama press corps guessing game

I've been trying to find out the reasoning behind who which news outlets got questions during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd post-election press conferences, and what protocol is being used. Here's what I've learned.

When President-elect Barack Obama meets the press Wednesday morning for his third news conference in as many days, it’s anyone’s guess which reporters he’ll call on.

Literally.

Before Tuesday’s press conference, incoming Press Secretary Robert Gibbs assigned numbers to CBS, NBC and ABC, then he had an aide select a number from one to three. And that’s how NBC correspondent Savannah Guthrie came to kick off the Q&A with the president-elect.

Fair? Arbitrary? Haphazard? Perhaps. But the press corps has another word for it: Confusing.

A “transition period hybrid,” is how spokesperson Jen Psaki described the method behind the apparent selection madness, which was all the more baffling since traditional White House protocol – based on strict rules and hierarchy — was followed during Obama’s first post-election presser on Nov. 7.

“We’ve tried to keep as many people happy as possible,” Gibbs said. “I have no doubt there are many who have attended one, two or all three [Obama press conferences] who find this system not much to their liking.”

“Our thing has been to try as much as we could to spread it around,” Gibbs added.
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I bet these commie liberal reporters like it, too, when Obama spreads.

SamFisher · Nov 26, 2008

Jen Psaki was pretty hot, i've met her before years ago. Just putting that into the mix.

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