The mainstream press is more and more having to deal with the ironic fact that the candidate they shilled for so shamelessly makes the so-called "secretive" Bush/Cheney administration look like a veritable colander in comparison:
"Reporters, even those on the White House beat for two decades, said these were the most restricted such meetings they had ever seen. They complained to both the administration and White House Correspondents' Association, which will discuss the matter Thursday with White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
The restrictions have become a common practice for the Obama White House. When Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came to the White House a couple of weeks ago, reporters were kept away. Soon after that, Obama signed an executive order on abortion, again without any coverage.
Over the weekend, Obama broke with years of protocol and slipped off to a soccer game without the "protective" pool that is always in the vicinity of the president in case the unthinkable occurs. Obama joked about it later to Pakistan's prime minister, saying reporters 'were very upset.'"
We wonder if the fawning media types of the sort who felt a "tingle going up their leg" when their heroic champion of "transparency" spoke, seemingly even while reading the contents of a menu out loud, were given so much as a good-night kiss after their ignorant usefulness came to an end?
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