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At News Conference, Reporters Skip Past
Gun Control and Face Instant Criticism

New York Times, by Ben Sisario

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Posted By:StormCnter, 12/20/2012 8:25:28 AM

The harshest judges of those in news media are often others in the news media, and, with the benefit of Twitter, that intrajournalistic watchdog role can be performed simultaneously with the journalism being criticized. Case in point was the White House news conference on Wednesday afternoon, when President Obama made a forceful announcement in response to the massacre of children last week in Newtown, Conn. He said he was directing Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to lead an effort “to come up with a set of concrete proposals”

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The nerve of those reporters wanting answers on other subjects! We´ve become the Soviet Union.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: TunnelRat, 12/20/2012 8:48:46 AM     (No. 9075873)

Once we learn that Joe Biden is going to head a ´Blue Ribbon Commission´, we know that nothing further is going to be done. So let´s move on to the next subject.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Pearson365, 12/20/2012 8:54:06 AM     (No. 9075880)

Forceful announcement? Like Obama did in the second debate n the topic of Benghazi (How dare you question how inept I am) or his post-election "bring it on" comment about someone named Susan Rice. The Times reverential treatment of this false messiah is sickening. Obama is a joke, but this joke is on us.



   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: mauiaggie, 12/20/2012 8:55:40 AM     (No. 9075885)

Joe Biden couldn´t win the Blue Ribbon at a 4H hog event. His elevation to V.P. and his long wasted time in the Senate confirms that the "Slouching to Gammorah" of Robert Bork is true.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Davids918, 12/20/2012 9:04:50 AM     (No. 9075901)

Obama doesn´t do very well when he´s off script. Lots of umms and aahhs.

How dare the media have more to inquire about than what the WH propaganda team wants told.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Jethro bo, 12/20/2012 9:08:44 AM     (No. 9075906)

Chances of my taxes going through the roof come Jan 1, 100. Chances of me getting gun down by a maniacal lunatic with a scary looking gun, less than 1/308,000,000. So which one is the most relevant to the ordinary citizen? Obambi is dropping on his knees and thanking the Almighty for dropping this golden distraction in his lazy lap. He can photo-op the Hades out of the massacre while getting a total pass on the real devastation about to hit us.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Rama41, 12/20/2012 9:13:40 AM     (No. 9075915)

For further entertainment, note the comments following the article. Can anyone cite similar responses to the press conferences of ANY previous president? Reagan, Bush (2), Clinton,...Washington?


Reply 7 - Posted by: noproblems, 12/20/2012 9:28:49 AM     (No. 9075936)

the reporters knew that the BS coming from 0bama about gun control is nit a solution to any problem. The $16 trillion debt is an immediate and real problem and they ask real questions for once.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: jeffkinnh, 12/20/2012 10:10:39 AM     (No. 9076021)


Reply 9 - Posted by: jeffkinnh, 12/20/2012 10:13:59 AM     (No. 9076027)

Progressives cannot stand to have their views challenged in any manner. Mostly because their views have no rational basis and cannot be defended. The easiest way around that problem is to shut down questions and debate. This classic totalitarian governance.


Reply 10 - Posted by: RIsailor, 12/20/2012 10:17:20 AM     (No. 9076033)

Ya gotta love Jake Tapper for setting up and asking a tough question of Obama - and for inducing the testier side of the Won.


Reply 11 - Posted by: capt scurvey, 12/20/2012 11:00:53 AM     (No. 9076116)

Gun control is supported by oppressive governments, predatory criminals and leftist bedwetters such as yourself, Ben.

The People, on the other hand, have no interest in laws making it easier for them to be murdered...


Reply 12 - Posted by: Achilles, 12/20/2012 12:03:32 PM     (No. 9076211)

Reporters could stick to the script if there were any news conferences on held on a regular basis. Since Obama is so unavailable to unscripted questions from the media, reporters are bound to take advantage of any news conference to ask the questions they want.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: mickturn, 12/20/2012 12:16:04 PM     (No. 9076230)

The only concrete proposals we need are fitted concrete shoes for those attempting to take our rights away.


Reply 14 - Posted by: roger h. cook,MD, 12/20/2012 12:21:51 PM     (No. 9076242)

Obama controls these "news conferences" like a movie script, big surprise.


Reply 15 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 12/20/2012 12:22:46 PM     (No. 9076243)

Has there ever been a more useless foolhardy Veep than Joe Biden. Seriously, this guy has accomplished n-o-t-h-i-n-g in his life. He`s been a political hack his entire adult life. Nobody in DC can point to a single accomplishment. He is like John Boehner, a climber. Got there by being around forever. Dan Quayle has more knowledge in one fold of his brain than Biden has in his fat head.

Some on the Left call Obama a God. Obama can`t be God because God would have the character to realize he made a mistake when he created Joe Biden and would have cast him aside instantly when his name was considered for such an important position.

We are living through embarrassing time to say the least.


Reply 16 - Posted by: strike3, 12/20/2012 12:27:05 PM     (No. 9076250)

Barry the Babbler knows that he is going to lose the gun control battle, therefore he is quick to pin it on Old Joe and avoid yet another failure. Joe will make a fool of himself (again) but as the saying goes, he doesn´t have all that far to go.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Marzon, 12/20/2012 12:44:08 PM     (No. 9076272)

Has Zippy set up a blue ribbon panel to look into mental health care yet? Of course not and he won´t. It´s the 2nd ammendment he´s after and if the way to get rid of it is to exploit (or perhaps commission, see Fast & Furios) the murder of innocents to do it, he fine with that.


   

 

  


 

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