President Obama during his press conference Friday called only on women reporters. Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on CNN that this was probably planned in advance and that it was a good idea.
I’m not sure, in the annals of the struggle for women’s rights, that this is exactly the most courageous act or the most significant, given the prevalence of women within journalism, at least at the reporter level. Maybe he just thought they would ask the best questions.
I can only, regrettably, say, its a good thing he didn’t decide to only call on African Americans.
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He chose them because they all want to drink his bath water, like Paltrow. They fawn and giggle…to them, he is their ideal fantasy black man.
Rod’s not black, but I heard this song in my head when I read your post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hphwfq1wLJs
Hah, I used to like that song. It reminded me of a male dog we had. I can envision Obama singing that to himself as he looks in the mirror.
Or, this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk
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Perfect.
Oh yes, I spy one African-American reporter in the sea of faces…..kind of like his Chicago campaign headquarter photo.
I see two more. One is a woman in a maroon cardigan in the upper right of the photograph and another is a woman in a black top in the upper left.
Forced and dumb.
Pillow fluffers. I swear every question was planned and answers rehearsed to make Obama shine enough so we can toss him the keys to Air Force One.
He’s afraid of the likes of Ed Henry, Major Garrett, and Johnathan Karl.
Someone said they didn’t like Ed Henry and Major the other day–I do–at least they try to get a reaction…
Jonathan Karl is also pretty good. He can be pretty dogged when he has to.
Yes, Jon Karl is better than Major, I think. Major was stronger when he worked for Fox….I expect CNN reigns him in.
Ed Henry really is a bulldog at keeping on digging. Gosh Earnest can’t stand him.
Ed was very gracious last night about no men or major news outlets being called on….Obama probably hoped he would complain.
I think Fox is grooming him for anther step up at some point. He is filling in for Bret Baier through the holidays.
Also, Fox is having some retirements, Wendell Goler and Jim Angle, both of whom are really good.
I think Goler is good too. Is it because he wants to retire? We need all the black conservatives we have.
O’Reilly really gives Rosen “some jazz,” as he puts it–the other nite, karma was mentioned and Rosen quipped that Bill would be in for some some–and Bill said oh, no, he was a good guy–adding this would be Rosen’s last appearance…Bill did laugh, though. Those two are a stitch.
Bill was also shocked and aggrieved that he was only No 10 on the Most Annoying People on Cable list–even Dr Phil was worse. He wanted to be No 1, he sniveled. I dunno–maybe it’s me, but Bill can be amusing at times… He has a big ego but also a sense of humor and even of the absurd.
He belongs closer to the top of the list imho too.
I agree.
James Rosen is one of my favorites…his sense of humor is so dry…I think he does stand-up comedy occasionally…maybe just for fun.
Yes, Bill could be closer to the top. I don’t think he’d mind…
And when they answer and talk in circles they keep digging.
Ed Henry is supreme….he never lets it go!
A distraction gimmick like so many of his presidential actions. Presidents with help from the media promote distractions to take the public’s mind off serious issue. Then the Grubers can step in and claim how stupid we Americans are. Obama isn’t the first. I can at least trace the pattern back to Bush Sr. and his preference for pork rinds over broccoli, but maybe someone can remember even further back.
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After I heard that it was Earnest’s idea it became clearer that it was just a “change the narrative” cover for the petulant child to payback the networks for refusing to interrupt their prime-time show schedules to broadcast his illegal immigrant power grab decree.
I could care less if they were all women reporters, my problem was that half of them asked questions not even worthy of a 6th grade facebook “journalist”.
Right…”What are your New Year’s resolutions?’…could have asked for today’s tee time too…and tonight’s dinner plans…or when to take the girls for shaved ice.
It’s really a put down of women whom only the Democrats respect and value (sarc). They aren’t going to call on a Sharyl Attkisson even if there were any in the WH Press Corpse.
Did his campaign in 2012 continue to pay women less than it did men in the same job?
I don’t know, but I think the story still holds that women staffers in the WH and Annex make less than their male counterparts.
Sharyl is going to be on Howard Kurtz’s show tomorrow. I don’t care for him but I am always on the lookout for her. She is one of the best journalists I can remember….and that goes back a long, long time. She has such dignity.
x2 and she’s brilliant to have survived all they’ve thrown at her.
Kurtz should be on the Most Annoying List!!!
Sharyl is experiencing what Sarah Palin did.
As the left tries to take you down, they only become stronger.
FCMABBHO has freed four more from Gitmo. They’ve been flown back to their native Afghanistan against the wishes of our top general there.
I’m sure it is, but I haven’t heard if closing and vacating Gitmo is part of the deal with the Castro brothers.
When I think of Cuba, I think of Cubans working with Iranians in Venezuela. I then think of North Korea’s ties with Syria and Iran. I then think of Operation Orchard in which Israel flattened a nuclear reactor in Syria and the reported deaths of North Korean scientists.
I had a question for you the other day you might have missed. Did it turn out that the three spies the US is returning to Cuba include the woman you said was so awful (a murderess?)?
No, she’s still in prison.
However, I want to know if we’re gonna’ get back that cop-killing member of the Black Panther Party, JoAnne Chesimard.
She is not in prison, is she? I think she is on the loose in Cuba….a dangerous woman for sure.
The expression is that “she’s hiding out in the open”.
She can come to America and be in the shadows. And she will be lavished with benefits.
To quote Bill Ayers, she’s guilty as sin, free as a bird.
Gutfeld was asking for her back on THE FIVE… He said sure, go to Cuba, Mr P, but don’t bring me cigars–bring me this woman.
Bo Dietel and Mark Fuhrman both want to go to Cuber (per Dietel), bring her back, and claim the $2 million bounty on her head.
The administration didn’t announce that so I’m assuming that the answer is no. Heaven forbid, they don’t want to bring a black woman back to justice here. BTW, I’ve heard that there are about 70 US fugitives in Cuba.
The FBI put her on its most wanted list in 2013.
Mandy, I expect nothing — no exchanges.
BTW, Ana Montes didn’t kill anyone. She’s a traitor.
I think of the Russian military and navy 90 miles away.
Russia is already docking in Cuban ports.
Another finger in America’s eye.
The middle finger, at that!
He has that little trick of rubbing his face with his middle finger when he’s answering questions he doesn’t like. He really is a child in many respects.
I remember seeing a photograph of him doing that during the 2008 campaign. One of my son’s friends got caught doing something similar in school. He got a paddling.
He also has a little childish trick of pulling on his nose when he is slamming Republicans and thinks it is funny.
Pitiful and childish is not strong enough to describe my feelings..
The nose pulling and rubbing is either a sign of lying, or a clue to his use of cocaine. Or both.
Actually, Obama did only call on an African American (lady) for his final question, which — as I recall — was after what he said would be his last question.
April was kind enough to magically come up with a question which enabled POTUS to pontificate on how America keeps beating up on his people. Looking back, the same type of “extra” question enabled Obama to spout off about Skip Gates and Trayvon Martin (although he claims to have a history of NOT commenting on such cases).
Michelle isn’t the only one in the White House with expertise in plants.
So I wonder how much of the SONY story is a plant. Obama sure comes out looking good and that makes me suspicious.
Me too. Obama’s too A.D.D. with too much shiny stuff on his plate to have an intelligent response on any one topic. ;)
That April Ryan who was ready with her question is a race baiter in the league with Sharpton.
That had to be a plant.
She’s a big “kisser.”
Maybe here he came out looking good. But not at the Sony interview when they made it clear the WH was advised.
As for the MSM and the Obama cult member it is good enough to stand him mute at the podium and then issue blank documents as press releases.
‘Gimicky’ ….if that’s a word
If I had been there not that would be a war on women and I would
find it insulting, and demeaniing not funny. Boy am I grumpy. Good old Daily Mail has great pictures of the family leaving and then arriving in Hawaii boy those two girls looked like 2 spoiled
brats grumpy looks. The entire family needs to go to a ‘finishing’
school for a few simple manners lessons. If somebody was paying for me to spend 3 weeks in Hawaii I could dredge up a
faux smile.
We don’t know what those girls see behind the scenes.
My guess is at that age they are sick of the publicity.
The tiniest of violins.
I love your suggestion of “finishing school” for the entire family…the girls and Mooch need to learn to walk, sit, smile, and dress among other things.
Obama could begin with not chewing gum in public and not walking with a swagger (look at me…am I ever cool).
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Surely the White House employs a protocol officer, or someone, anyone who could teach the entire family how they should act, as representatives of the United States?
HA!
SO JAY CARNEY ADMITTED THESE “Obama press confrences” ARE STAGED PROPAGANDA EVENTS.
This is the kind of b.s. that puts a frisson of thrill up the spines of the ignorant.
To the current crew in the WH, we are all just demographics- male or female, liberal or conservative, jew or gentile, straight or gay, etc…
Slicing and dicing the population into categories with silly stunts like this does nothing to bring us together.
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